I was just reading my communication theories book for Wednesday's class and I found a really interesting excerpt. It's pretty self explanatory once you read it...

"As a case in point, Pearce believes the polarization of the electorate in the U.S. is both the cause and the product of communications patterns that he describes as reciprocated diatribe. He claims that what President George W. Bush labeled the "war on terror" is reproduced and sustained by patterns of communication that dismiss and demonize the other. For example, the way President Bush responded to the 9/11 attacks set in motion a sequence of events that have affected us all. In the conflict between al-Qaeda and the U.S., both sides are acting morally according to their own understanding of the universe. Yet it's no surprise that each side calling the other "evil" isn't likely to resolve the conflict. In an attempt to show another way of responding, Pearce wrote an alternative version of the speech that the President made to the nation on the night of the attack. One portion of Pearce's version goes as follows:

'If we are to understand why people hate us so much, we will have to understand how the world looks from their perspective. And if we are to respond effectively to protect ourselves, we must understand those whose sense of history and purpose are not like our own. It is tempting to see this vicious attack as the result of madmen trying to destroy our civilization, and our response as a war of "good" against "evil." But if we are to understand what happened here today, and if we are to act effectively in the days to come, we must develop more sophisticated stories than these about the world, about our place in it, and about the consequences of our actions.
This is a terrorist attack. If we are in a state of war, it is a different kind of war than we have ever fought before. Terrorists are not capable of occupying our country or meeting our armies on the field of battle. They hope to destroy our confidence, to disrupt our way of life. They hope that we will destroy ourselves by the way we respond to the atrocities that they commit. Our first reaction, that of wanting revenge, to lash out at those who have injured us so, is almost surely the wrong response because it makes us accomplices of what they're trying to achieve.'"

1 quick question. How come Pearce isn't our president?
That's what I would like to know.

So I definitely found a "Four for you, Glenn Coco! You go, Glenn Coco!" facebook group (referring to the amazing movie that is Mean Girls.) Unfortunately, I can't join it b/c it's a NYU group. However, they had some of the best quotes from the movie. For example....

::I wish I could bake a cake made out of rainbows and smiles, and we could all eat it and be happy.
::I hear she made-out with a hot dog.
::One time she punched me in the face... it was awesome.
::Boo, you whore.
::You *will* get chlamydia... and die. Okay, chlamydia. K-L-A...
::I don't hate you cuz yo' fat... yo' fat cuz I hate you.
::Oh my god, Karen. You can't just go around asking people why they're white.
::You smell like a baby prostitute.
::Fugly Slut
::Nice wig, Janis. What's it made of? - Your mom's chest hair!
::What are marijuana tablets?
::Yeah, everyone in Africa can read Swedish.
::Sometimes people forget about her because she's such a slut.
::Hell, no. I did *not* leave the South Side for this!
::My stomach felt like it was going to fall out of my butt.
::Four for you Glenn Coco! You go, Glenn Coco!

and the best one of all..
::"I have a nephew named Afronee, and I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Afronee."

i love that movie.

i need to not be confused. haha like that will happen any time soon.

So I was walking out of Albertson's and out of the corner of my eye I saw this month's Cosmo cover and if I saw correctly, Hilary Duff was on the cover of Cosmo. Hell has officially frozen over.

yay! I just got into Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff! So I thought I'd put some pictures together of the 3 places I've gotten into.









Boulder....














Sonoma State...

I gotta start thinking about a senior quote for the yearbook. I came across this one that SJP said on Sex and the City, "I got to thinking today, what if I never met you guys?" or something like that. I dunno. It's pretty cliche to have a Sex and the City quote if you ask me but then again I do like it because its simple but yet says alot and is alot like something I might write or say. So I'll just have to wait and see what I choose.


Such a fun weekend...so much to talk about...I'll save that for when I can actually keep my eyes open.
tata for now my little ones...

Let me just tell you how great the show "There and Back" really is. If you don't know about it, it's about Ashley Parker Angel, the former O-town boy band member. However, his twoooooo minutes of fame are up and he now lives with the girl who he knocked up and later asked to marry's mom and is flat broke. I recently watched an episode and, with the help of tivo's pause live tv option, I was able to capture Ashley at his finest moments.

(All quotes are Ashley's precise words if you can believe it)
----> "Every time I look at my bank account I just get freaked out....So I was wondering if I could join Dan [from O-town] b/c he's starting this concert thing for ex-boy band members"..... 10 mins. later, "oh, well i guess that whole ex boyband member concert thing was canceled."....
---->"ok, so i have this great idea. you know how things are really tight money wise right now? well how about we.... hold a garage sale?"....next morning about 9ish sitting outside in driveway wearing cowboy hat...."mmm...breakfast of champs...[pops open a heineken]" "[trying to sell stuff at garage sale] we got here a brand new unopened Asian edition of our o-town cd...that's me right there [pointing at cover]...what was your name? [arthritic old woman with fanny pack responds: marilyn] [ashley proceeds to autograph Asian cd]" "final count: $154.50... not bad for hanging out not doing anything, drinking beer in the front yard, i told you we could make money. that'll help- right?"
-----> "... [talking to his fiancee's mom/landlord].... we need to have a powwow...[great way to start an apology]"

yeah that pretty much made my day.

grr... ok so LJ was being stupid and just erased my long almost finished entry. So here are the main points...
.Andrea convinced me to use LJ to write in rather than just using it to stalk the Olsen twins. Then I described how it's not as much stalking but rather, is more like trying to figure out why they're so filthy rich and I'm definitely not. I concluded it could not possibly be their acting skills.
.Next, I went on to write about how after school today I went with the Photography Club to a a couple photo galleries (ViewPoint Gallery & Appel Gallery) and how it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It actually turned out to be fun and a bit relaxing after getting through 2 long days of hell aka school. Then I proceeded to explain how the Appel gallery was really cool because it was actually a renovated townhouse/condo/loft thing and how the owner lived above the gallery in the loft area. I then decided that eventually I would love to be able to open up my own gallery but definitely not in Sacramento, probably somewhere more like New York or maybe San Francisco if I turn into a crazy liberal. Following this I compared my dream future to Charlotte from Sex and the City. She lived in NY. I want to live in NY. She owned/worked at (I can't exactly remember) a gallery. I hope to own/work at a gallery for a while. She converted to Judaism for her husband. I will probably end up doing the same because, as you all should know, I am destined to marry a Jew. Oh, and she liked pearls. I love pearls... but only if you wear them with something to balance out the conservative feel.
.Next, I moved on to school. yada, yada, yada, I hate school, yada, yada, yada, I'll do what I please when I please, yada, yada, yada.
.Following this, I moved on to college. [more yada's ensued] [then some super pretty pictures of boulder and sonoma, which ended up destroying my whole entry so therefore, I won't try to redo them]
.Finally, I talked about how I've been doing my annual tradition of watching the State of the Union. Yes, I know, it's dorky, but interesting nonetheless. Anyways, if I leave you guys with one piece of advice, it must be to (when you have a little down time) look up this guy, Senator Barack Obama from Illinois. He is simply an amazing man and I honestly believe he has great potential to be president someday, that is, if our country really is as accepting of people from diverse backgrounds as they say they are.
.Ok, well those were basically the main points. yay for my first entry! -xoxo