I am in a land where eating is considered exercise and the state vegetable is cheese fries . . . can you guess where? If you went with Wisconsin, you are correct. Specifically I am in Milwaukee and as I am finding out it is a cool town. Granted as a passer through all I do the good stuff and see the things worth seeing but as a whole the city is far better than what I thought it was going to be.
One thing they have all over the place here is signs that tell you "Rough Road " that you see just as you are about to drive on some giant potholes. It is as if them putting a sign up telling you that the road ahead sucks is enough and gets them off the hook to actually do anything to fix the road. Down at the the Milwaukee mayors office: "we've been getting complaints about the crap roads we have" "hmmm how can I deal with this so it is not a surprise to people that the roads are terrible, I know put up some signs so people know that we know that the roads are the worst and then no one will call thinking we may not know".
I see where they are coming from it is the whole "let the pot soak" mentality. How much does the soaking of the pot actually help, not much but it does help one get out of cleaning it that second. Or the fact I only do laundry when I am absolutely out of options to wear. Until it hits crisis, avoid.
The elections are big in the news down here and it strikes me that having the presidential elections every four years so everyone knows when the vote is coming up allows for the hype to build for the years in advance that it does so by the time the vote occurs everyone is sick of it. I don't know if Canada is any better which sort of surprises the country with an election, you wake up one morning and you see a sign on your lawn and and listen to a couple hours of CBC radio and hope you make a solid choice. USA voting process takes the aprouch of slowly taking a band-aid off makes it hurt less where Canada just rips it off, maybe more painful but at least you get it over with.
In the end it doesn't matter who you vote for or how you vote, you can't win, the government always gets in.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Who you are is not what you do . . .sometimes
What are you? I have been contemplating the difference between what I am and what I do. What activities do a participate in at a deep enough level that I internalize them to be part of me? I would say I blog, but I am not a blogger. In contrast I would say I am a runner I do not just go for runs. Are you you getting the difference? I am one who has faith in a Deity, I go to church. I am a Rehab Med student, I work at the Glenrose Rehab Hospital. I am bald, I shave my head. I am a LOST watcher, I watch Entourage. I am an outdoors enthusiast, I like to take naps. I am part of some great friendships, I treat other people like friends. I am single, I hope to meet someone that would be fun to date. I am soft spoken, I am more likely to get taken advantage of than to take advantage of someone.
I thought of some things that come to mind when trying to determine what one is but they did not seem to have any tangible meaning to me. Some examples include "I am Canadian", "I am male", "I am white", "I am 6'4ish" . . . All of these descriptions are literally and technically true, however, i do not feel I am these things. It seems to me that it is these sort of labels that people seem to rely on when figuring out someone. Perhaps it is easier to group people into categories with no real validity or many common denominators within them so peoples assumptions of what a white guy, who is sort of tall from Canada is like. I understand the importance of labels as far as meaningful communication goes i think though sometimes labels actually make us lazy and make interactions less meaningful.
I understand that the what I am verses what I do, set up in the first paragraph is faulty as well as people constantly change and what was once a do could become a what I am. I am not getting at much of anything except the fact that people are a lot of things and most of what people are is not what we collectively group them as.
So what are you? Good luck with that, I certainly don't know. I don't know what I am just a ruff idea of who I want to become.
I thought of some things that come to mind when trying to determine what one is but they did not seem to have any tangible meaning to me. Some examples include "I am Canadian", "I am male", "I am white", "I am 6'4ish" . . . All of these descriptions are literally and technically true, however, i do not feel I am these things. It seems to me that it is these sort of labels that people seem to rely on when figuring out someone. Perhaps it is easier to group people into categories with no real validity or many common denominators within them so peoples assumptions of what a white guy, who is sort of tall from Canada is like. I understand the importance of labels as far as meaningful communication goes i think though sometimes labels actually make us lazy and make interactions less meaningful.
I understand that the what I am verses what I do, set up in the first paragraph is faulty as well as people constantly change and what was once a do could become a what I am. I am not getting at much of anything except the fact that people are a lot of things and most of what people are is not what we collectively group them as.
So what are you? Good luck with that, I certainly don't know. I don't know what I am just a ruff idea of who I want to become.
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