Driving

Learning to drive takes an immense amount of concentration. On the interstate, and on other roads not only do you have to watch where you are going but you also have to pay attention to all the other drivers on the road too. Driving around large trucks and semi's particularly bothers me, it feels like I am crowded out of space. They roar up next to you while are driving or even better, two come up beside you and sandwich you in between them so you can't move either to the left or the right and you feel trapped. Today, a woman with a little red car was coming up the interstate behind me and my Mom as we were driving to my work. The lady in the red car was in a real hurry. She was moving fast and was zipping in and out of the lines of traffic. I had signaled to turn right to move over into the right hand lane and she was right behind us. She got so close I thought she was going to hit the back bumper of our car. There wasn't any place that we could go to get out and away from her. I signaled to turn left onto Collins road and she did too. She moved next to us in the right hand lane to also turn left. There is a spot coming from the interstate to the Collins road exit where the markings on the road can go into one lane to return back to the interstate or you can choose to go into the left hand lane on Collins road and keep going straight. I turned onto that lane and the lady with the red car was also turning onto that lane too. She laid on her horn and made some obscene gestures and drove around us in a real huff. I felt that I had just as much as a right as she had and that I didn't do anything wrong by turning into that lane; the lines are dotted at that spot, not solid. Sometime I don't understand why people are in such a rush to get places, if they start out a little earlier and find time to be considerate then things would go a little smoother on the roads. Road rage! People all over the road are displaying it all the time and it isn't very nice and it really makes your day start out wrong when it happens to you going to work first thing in the morning.

Music

Some of the best music can be found just by randomly browsing on You tube. Some of the music that I enjoy include: Jesse McCartney, Taylor Swift, Fallout Boy, Cute is What we Aim For, Backseat Goodbye, Number One Gun, Rihanna, Christian music, and so many more. I am not a really big fan of rap because listening to that can sometimes give me a headache. Rap music is also very repetitive in its lyrics and tends to repeat its chorus over and over again. A lot of the genres that are very popular today include: country, rap, rock, disco, soft rock, electronica, hip hop, blues, tribal, heavy metal, and many more. Music is almost like a drug for me. When I am down or having a bad day, I just listen to music and it seems to take a lot of my cares away. A lot of people don't know this about me, but I used to play the harp. Everyone thought it was really unique and it really set me apart from everyone else. The reason I quit playing was because I couldn't commit to the time commitment and I was already doing show choir and choir for music classes. I did enjoy it while I did play it, though. Before I played harp, however, I was required to take two years of piano, so I started playing harp at about 6th grade. My point by telling this was to try to tell you about how much time and effort it takes to be successful. You can’t just wake up one morning and decide that your going to play an instrument, you have to have knowledge about it and have practice. Another thing that kind of held me back from continuing harp lessons was the cost. It takes a lot of money to get involved with music whether its money to buy the instrument, lessons, or equipment for it. Although it costs a lot, being involved with the orchestra was very helpful when considering my social status and grades. It was an easy class, I’m not going to lie. I also made a lot of friends and got to know a lot of upperclassmen that I didn’t know before. In order to be successful at an instrument, you have to be able to perform as well as be good at it. If you don’t convince the audience, they won’t enjoy themselves.

Election 2008

I figured I would put at least one post on here about the election since that has been the top story news for the past few months. I wasn't really rooting for anyone in the sense that none of them really had a lot that I was looking for. or in other words, someone had this thing that was a plus and someone didn't have this thing, and so on. One of the main issues that was irritating for me was the issue of abortion. McCain said that he is anti-abortion and should only be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape, or when the life of the woman is in danger. Obama, on the other hand, strongly supports a woman's rights to have an abortion, and that decision should be totally decided by the woman. Obama also wants to lower taxes for companies that support keeping jobs in the United States, but then McCain wants to lower overall corporate taxes from 35% to 25%. Obama also supports the use of medical marijuana and doesn't see the reason that it shouldn't be legalized everywhere in the United States instead of just for medical use, but McCain is against it all together and doesn't think it should be used even for medical purposes. For me, I think that there should be a legal use of marijuana because people do it anyways, and hospitals could even use it for the patients that need it. When discussing the issue about gun control, I feel that people should have the right to bear arms in their household for security purposes only, therefore I am supporting Obama's side for that issue. McCain thinks that the only people who should have weapons in the United States is the military, the firearms manufacturers, and crime involved with firearms. I also feel as if people can use them for hunting because it is so common in the United States and would be very difficult to ban. Same sex issues is one topic that is somewhat the same between the two candidates. They both think that same sex marriage should be banned but there should be equal rights to a certain point. They also both support amnesty and permanent legalization for illegal aliens and temporary legalization for guest workers. I agree with both of those statements. The issues that I mentioned are a couple of the few issues that I actually understand. It was hard for me to believe that Obama got over twice the amount of electoral votes that McCain received.