Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Thank You, 2009
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-29/what-happened-to-leyli/?cid=hp:justposted7#gallery=1028;page=1
Sunday, December 6, 2009
My Country, My People
This is no longer the country my parents grew up in
This is no longer the country I was born in
This is no longer the country of poetry and prose
This is now the country in which violence and bloodshed arose
How much longer need we fight?
How much longer need we strike?
How much longer until wrong turns right?
This is no longer the country I was born in
This is no longer the country of poetry and prose
This is now the country in which violence and bloodshed arose
How much longer need we fight?
How much longer need we strike?
How much longer until wrong turns right?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Look at your right and left, and then leave...
you know when you are young and your parents tell you how smart you are...well...law school is there to prove them wrong...
first day of orientation, they throw this massive amount of bullshit at you while you are cursing your own damn luck that you didnt have the talent to be a hippie artist..."look at your right, look at your left, the person who is sitting next to you won't be there next year" and you're thinking, besides the fact that you might be the one who is not going to be here to see those people next year, you might actually go blind from reading 200 pages/day... then you meet other law school victims, start thinking that you are all in the same boat...if im drowning, they are obviously coming down with me, right? yea, dream on....they know everything...while you are going through your high school dictionary to understand the words in the first place, they are citing the constitution like a sonnet....besides the fact that all your casebooks look like encyclopedias and you are wishing they had a "law for dummies," you are shooting blanks in class and that 9.50/hour job doesnt look so bad anymore...
although you think that you know your way around the computer, trying to type, read,listen, avoid/be ready for the socratic method requires more than that....even if you manage to hold your laptop, few encyclopedias, a gigantic bag in two hands and your extra large and bold coffee in your mouth, now you are stuck cause there is no one there to open the door for you....
your back hurts, your white tshirt is not white anymore ...coffee stains all over it...you are clueless which building you are supposed to be in...but you are still brave...you make it to the classroom in one piece...just before you realize that they don't spend the first class going over the syllabus, you get called on...and the law school begins...
collector
first day of orientation, they throw this massive amount of bullshit at you while you are cursing your own damn luck that you didnt have the talent to be a hippie artist..."look at your right, look at your left, the person who is sitting next to you won't be there next year" and you're thinking, besides the fact that you might be the one who is not going to be here to see those people next year, you might actually go blind from reading 200 pages/day... then you meet other law school victims, start thinking that you are all in the same boat...if im drowning, they are obviously coming down with me, right? yea, dream on....they know everything...while you are going through your high school dictionary to understand the words in the first place, they are citing the constitution like a sonnet....besides the fact that all your casebooks look like encyclopedias and you are wishing they had a "law for dummies," you are shooting blanks in class and that 9.50/hour job doesnt look so bad anymore...
although you think that you know your way around the computer, trying to type, read,listen, avoid/be ready for the socratic method requires more than that....even if you manage to hold your laptop, few encyclopedias, a gigantic bag in two hands and your extra large and bold coffee in your mouth, now you are stuck cause there is no one there to open the door for you....
your back hurts, your white tshirt is not white anymore ...coffee stains all over it...you are clueless which building you are supposed to be in...but you are still brave...you make it to the classroom in one piece...just before you realize that they don't spend the first class going over the syllabus, you get called on...and the law school begins...
collector
Wait a Minute...
I do realize that recent college graduates aren't the most "grounded" of people out there. We're still young, still restless, and perhaps still nostalgic of the careless 4 years that have passed us by recently...
However, there is a time for everyone, regardless of who you were in college, to get real, and wake up to some serious coffee (preferably, Turkish).
Below are just some of my pet peeves that I have acquired lately, due to the increasing amount of stupidity created by some freshly graduated "young professionals"...
MY TOP 5
1. Not seeing the consequences...when you drink a lot, sleep around a lot, be prepared to deal with the consequences that will quickly ensue (i.e. becoming an alcoholic, nymphomaniac, etc)
2. Don't use big, fancy words when you don't know when to use them. I know the thesaurus is just a quick away honey, but it don't mean shit when you don't use the word or idea in its proper context...you're not fooling anyone, babe, only yourself :)
3. Pretending to know what the hell you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, regardless of what it is, just ask for help...seriously, this could be in fashion, men, who to hang out with, re-analyzing yourself, or even pivotal life decisions...and make sure you don't ask the retard sitting next to you, try to utilize some of your better off friends (if you have or are accessible to any that is).
4. If you're not cool, then stop trying to be. Just because you surround yourself with people who are a hundred times more social, well dressed, intellectual, and wealthier than you, doesn't exactly make you one of them.
5. Don't ever, ever bullshit a bullshitter. We know who you are, what you really are, and what you're not. So, beware.
xoxox
However, there is a time for everyone, regardless of who you were in college, to get real, and wake up to some serious coffee (preferably, Turkish).
Below are just some of my pet peeves that I have acquired lately, due to the increasing amount of stupidity created by some freshly graduated "young professionals"...
MY TOP 5
1. Not seeing the consequences...when you drink a lot, sleep around a lot, be prepared to deal with the consequences that will quickly ensue (i.e. becoming an alcoholic, nymphomaniac, etc)
2. Don't use big, fancy words when you don't know when to use them. I know the thesaurus is just a quick away honey, but it don't mean shit when you don't use the word or idea in its proper context...you're not fooling anyone, babe, only yourself :)
3. Pretending to know what the hell you're doing. If you don't know what you're doing, regardless of what it is, just ask for help...seriously, this could be in fashion, men, who to hang out with, re-analyzing yourself, or even pivotal life decisions...and make sure you don't ask the retard sitting next to you, try to utilize some of your better off friends (if you have or are accessible to any that is).
4. If you're not cool, then stop trying to be. Just because you surround yourself with people who are a hundred times more social, well dressed, intellectual, and wealthier than you, doesn't exactly make you one of them.
5. Don't ever, ever bullshit a bullshitter. We know who you are, what you really are, and what you're not. So, beware.
xoxox
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