Dropping off an extra load

My inner voice is telling me to drop one of my classes. Im currently enrolled in 5, and the huge load of keeping up on the readings is hitting me. There are a few classes i keep up with, but there is one that i struggle with keeping up, and feel that if i drop one, i can keep up, and also do a little more in the others. Dropping one won't hurt in the long run; it will just give me something extra to take next semester, but would give me a huge relief on the load of reading assignments.

Crazy English by Richard Lederer

Crazy English

by Richard Lederer

Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in

hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are

candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can

work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a

pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers

don’t ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So,

one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what

does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send

cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on

parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy

are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day an cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down.

You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault; the silly language doesn’t quite

know whether it’s coming or going.

The Roles Have Changed!

Today, women and men have similar roles. Decades ago, men were viewed as the head of the house hold, and the sole providers, that brought home the money to pay the bills. Women had more of a stay at home role, as far as cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. Keeping the family together, while the man is out working to provide.

In this age women have taken a more dominant role. You’ll see a lot more women taking on both roles, as far as working, paying bills, taking care of the children, and being the sole provider in the household. Their also attending the sporting events also, and some are raising their sons to be men in the process.

Men have also taking different roles also. You’ll see a lot of ’Mr. Moms‘, in this generation. Men that take on the role of being the mother, the stay at home dad, while his wife is working.

. In this generation, men tend to put education off, to find himself, and pursue it later in life, which puts them behind women nowadays. Some men will settle for the great paying job, or a easy route to a career, rather going to college right off the bat, to pursue a higher education.

Being a man myself, I can vouch for that. While coming up on my graduation from high school, my focus was more on having a family, or making more money from my job, at the time. I did have college on my mind, but it wasn’t my main focus.

Many women in this generation pursue education, career, and then starting family. While a woman is pursuing her education, a man is usually working, having his fun finding himself, or not doing anything at all. This puts them ahead of men, while they’re pursuing the education route, when she is already established in life, and wanting to start a family.

As far as marriage wise, there are a lot more woman proposing to men also. While a woman is established, and a man is finding himself, or pursuing a education himself. It prolongs the process of marriage.

Many men would rather propose to a woman, once he is established in life, rather than propose, during his time of finding himself, or pursuing education. It prolongs the marriage process, while her biological lock is ticking. Many men don’t understand, because things move to fast at the time, and it confuses us.

With the way things are going, I do agree that men need to pick it up. We are slacking! Our focus is on the wrong things! I used to work with a civilian named Jerome Morris, while serving in the Marine Corps. He was our Family Readiness Officer, and going to school at Wayland Baptist. He brought this to my attention. If you look at the age differences of women, and men in college today, you’ll see that a majority of men are pursuing education later than women

My thoughts......

As of right now, I'm more focused on my career. If you're willing to work with me and wait on me to get mines, then yeah, we can work something out. But I really don't think that you can handle the amount of attention, that I will give to you while I'm attending school. Nobody has time for simple arguments about how much attention im giving to you. I could take that energy and put it to other use, like studying for a test, or doing my homework. I don't have time for that! Its too much stress, that I don't need. I'm trying to get my stuff together, so that we can have a good future together. You have yours, now let me get mines! I do want everything that I said that I wanted, it's just going to have to be pushed back. I've been very faithful to you, and never had a interest in any other. You are the best thing to ever have came into my life. If you don't want to work with me, then it will never work out. I hope all is well, I do pray for you often.