rant

This whole post is like my mind threw up on the page and none of it landed in any organized way and most thoughts are not completed.


Star Valley, or maybe all small towns, have such a strange culture. Well maybe I can't make that generalization about the whole culture, but the culture that surrounds manual labor jobs. There is this certain personality that is commonly found in these types of jobs.

First off, they act, or perhaps believe, that everything is a matter of common sense, and they were blessed with more common sense than anyone else. They are very quick to criticize the actions of others, most times because someone did something differently than the way they would have done it, and in their mind their way is the best and what other people did makes no sense to them, so by default they must be unskilled, stupid, etc. They don't even attempt to understand what sort of logic another person may have followed to bring them to that action. It just works like this:

if "their way" ≠ "my way"
then "their way" = faulty

Life has way too much variety for this logic to be worth anything. If anything is faulty, it is this logic.

They know nothing because they (think) they know everything.

Second, to these people anyone from Utah or California is automatically unintelligent.
look up on wikipedia:
bandwagon effect - is the observation that people often do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same.
group attribution error - Group members are more likely to attribute a fellow group member's actions to their arbitrary circumstances, while attributing a non-group member's actions to something in that group's inherent disposition.

Suddenly I just got really sick of writing this. I almost deleted it and then decided to just post what I have.

I find myself getting really annoyed at people who criticize other people because they are different than they are. Let people be dress how they want to dress. Let people do what they want to do. Let people be what they want to be. If it's different from you this doesn't make anyone else weird or gay or whatever ridiculous insults you can come up with. If someone is different from you just realize you have different tastes, and there's nothing wrong with that. So let them go their way and you go yours and then shut up.

Now I'm just rambling.

getting ready for bed

I will never not hate getting ready for bed.

bizarre

This is so weird.

terrible joke

Yesterday on the plane the guy sitting in the seat behind me told a "joke" that had the worst punchline. I don't know if it could even be considered a joke, because it just didn't work as a joke. It was more of a story that he tried to convert to a joke but it didn't really convert that well.

George Washing Gives Speech on "The American Way"!

George Washington (pictured above) explains how in America, "we put boots in people's asses." Afterwards the constitution was amended to include this line, along with a checklistlist of people to "give hell".

growth

If I could grow 6 - 8 inches on my mission I could come back and be a TOTAL BABE.

love my laptop

This morning I had the most noticeable reaction to painkillers than I have in the past few days. Which is weird because right after I was taking two at a time but now I only take one when it starts to hurt. I took one this morning and later I was sitting on the couch with my laptop thinking about how much I loved my laptop and computers and technology. Then I got up and felt dizzy, but the kind of floaty relaxing dizzy. It has wore off now and I sort of have a headache. I still love my laptop, just not as much as before.

wisdom

Tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth out. This will be my first time being put to sleep. And the first time to ever have any pain killers that are more than Tylenol.

To further clarify

That last entry was a joke. That is not what I meant by the Bruce Wayne analogy. Tomorrow I think I'm going to make a Bruce Wayne stencil.

My bladder is the biggest enemy to my sleeping habits.

My man-boobs have become firm pectoral muscles. This is what you get when you carry big rocks as a job. That, and cashmoney!

To clarify...

What I meant by that last entry is that when I leave Wyoming I am going to BURN THE PLACE DOWN!!!!! Hi-yaaa!

dallin begins

Being at home is not so bad anymore. Granted, I miss all of my friends, but it is bearable now. Now I don't feel so much like I'm at boot camp. I feel more like Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins when he goes to the mountains to train at the League of Shadows. When I'm done I'll be back and better than ever.