Ok, I’m sort of getting used to Utah…or I think I am, and then I’m confronted by another aspect of Utah’s “uniqueness.” Utah’s alcohol laws have been one of the things I’ve had to get used to. I’m just not used to having to cross the state line to get a beverage of an alcoholic [...]
Today. It. Snowed. It is September 22, people. The last day of summer (I think…apparently I am in need of a calendar). And this morning, it snowed. I made my way to campus in the snow whilst being snowed upon. I would say it was dreadful, but it was actually much nicer than making my [...]
Visual rhetoric teaches us to look critically at images and designs. Well, here’s a great example of a common image that sends an odd, and perhaps oppressive, message to females. Hello Kitty is speechless no longer. I’m a little embarrassed that I never noticed that Hello Kitty lacks an important body part before.
So this morning I decided to quit being a teacher. I was fairly adamant about it; I did NOT want to teach. No sir. I wanted to go down to Smith’s Marketplace and be a sacker. Well, they’re called baggers here. But that was my new career path. Then I got over it by the [...]
I may live in Utah now, but I’m still trying to wrap my mind around this concept. Many times I just want to go home. Of course, in my mind home is Ames, but many of the people who I want to see there are actually not there anymore because they had the gall to [...]