Maybe I dwell on things way too much, but I still have much to get off my chest. I cannot believe how many ignorant people make it into college today, and have the nerve to be so confident in their ignorance. Hello! America is not the only existing country in the world!

Today during my Women Studies class discussion, I may have gotten a little more heated than I should’ve.   A lot of times I am very opinionated in class, but this discussion brought something else out of me. A group from the class was doing a presentation on beauty in other cultures. Cool, I thought. I always am fascinated about cultures’ fashions, and was glad a group was reaching out of the boundaries from the United States. 

My friend is dating this guy and she knows its not going anywhere, but she settles and says well it’s not like i am dating anyone else right now.   We are comfortable and I will hang out with him for now. 

This is the most flawed logic ever, I tell her.

I heard a quote from John Mayer on the radio saying that he was considering deleting his Twitter account because he wanted to remove his need for external validation.  Hearing this made me realize that a major purpose of social networking sites, and the reason why they are so popular, is that they fill our need for external validation. Even make it grow, especially in the internet generation where fame is more achievable than ever.

Before Facebook or Twitter, we didn’t have a need to post summaries of our days, our favorite song lyrics, or our deepest secrets on the internet in 140 characters or less and expect a comment or two or ten.

It’s the same reason we blog here on Xanga. If your site is public, it’s likely you crave comments. Even those of you who say you write for yourselves; You could ”write for yourself” just as easily in a journal with a lock and key. The point of a public blog is the comments (and the discussions they create). And those comments give us external validation.

But this brings up another topic: 

Amidst all the ill-privacy bashing and negativity surrounding Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, at least we can say that at the end of the day (will there ever be an end to Facebook’s days?) one good thing came out of the craze: the unification of its users.

Angry Facebook users are uniting against Facebook’s new privacy (or lack there of) settings and this time they’re hoping to poke right through the entire system, jab it all the way down to its final disintegration.

I know many of you are going to stomp and fuss about how they are underpaid, or how there are many that are devoted to their work so let me start off by saying that I agree with both of those statements.   

But that does not negate the fact that there are too many teachers at my children’s schools that are just plain lazy!

I have a child in every school level – one in elementary, one in middle, one in high.  All 3 schools have an “A” rating, which in Florida is as high as you get.

And still so much time is wasted it makes me sick!  Here are just a few excuses I’ve heard this year alone. 

The National Public Radio reported Tuesday that the more than a century-old policy of giving birth certificates to alien babies born in US territory is being challenged by lawmakers, this amidst the growing restrictions on immigration in a country founded by immigrants (News report, here).

Texas state Representative Leo Berman (Republican) said in the report that he believes America is giving away 350,000 birth certificates to babies born to illegal aliens.  Berman said that the 14th Amendment, which clarifies that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States, does not apply to foreigners.  Remember that Texas rejected the 14th Amendment, but was later forced to ratify it so that it could join the Union.

Well, in a way, Rep. Berman has a point.  

Genetic engineering. It seems a little scary if you ask me. Movies like Gattaca, The Island, and I-Robot always make me wonder just how far off this technology is. Not too long ago, the plots in these thought-provoking movies seemed far-fetched. Now it seems like they could actually happen in today’s world. Remember it was only 1997 when Dolly, the first sheep cloned from an adult somatic cell, made a big splash on the international scene. 

Fast forward to 2010, to date, there is not a cloned human in existence (that we know about). Regardless, we’ve made some major progress when it comes to understanding DNA and manipulating an organism’s genes. Have we made too much progress? 

Parents are supposed to love their children unconditionally, no matter what kind of flaws they hold, or what kind of mistakes they’re bound to make in their lifetime of opportunities. I don’t think that there is a single Mother or Father out there who doesn’t swear left, down and diagonally that they will always love and care for their child(ren) through everything.

Honestly, I challenge you to find a parent who tells you that they will not love their child always and unconditionally. It would be almost the same as our Prime Minister telling us everything is going to be all right in the middle of a war. No parents do not in fact love their kids regardless of all things, and no eveyrthing wouldn’t be okay. However, reading and looking through all sorts of xanga posts, and posts elsewhere as well, it looks to me as if a parent’s love is all just a mythical legend.

I guess I’m missing out, but ever heard of non-boyfriends and non-girlfriends? These are not to be confused with friends with benefits. In some cases, it’s the complete opposite.

He’s the guy you go out to dinner with twice a week, she’s the girl you vent to and go to concerts with. Yet the other person isn’t aware that you’ve dubbed him/her your non-whatever, or you guys have been friends for too long to become an actual couple. You’re free to date other people, but you don’t really want to because of your feelings for this person.

I look back on my relationship history and realize that I’ve had quite a few non-boyfriends.

During one summer, a guy friend and I became extremely close.