Silencio

A Study in Textual Silence:

Silence is a general lack of noise. This leaves for a bit of personal interpretation: To some, silence is walking through life without talking or being talked to by anybody. Noise exists in the world around them, but does not affect that individual on a personal level. For others, silence is the cessation of sound altogether, which is difficult to come by these days. Think middle of the Sahara dessert. However, for our purposes, silence can be considered a period of speechlessness.

Silence can be demanded, such as during standardized testing. (ACT/SAT) Breaking such a silence results in, of course, getting brutally beaten by your classmates after the fact, among other more academic consequences farther down the line. Such a silence can be considered a "healthy" one, because any length of time not spent in immense physical pain is a glorious time indeed.

Then there are the more poorly timed silences, or "awkward turtles." These curious creatures seem to show up at the worst times, such as at the dinner table.. But not your dinner table. Like your boy or girlfriend's parent's dinner table. The awkward turtle will then proceed to slowly make a hole in the atmosphere of a delightful homemade meal. NOBODY wants to eat chicken piccata after a turtle has swam through the sauce you had been working on all evening. If the inarticulate abomination is allowed to roam freely throughout the courses, it will no doubt affect the overall quality of the night, and bring up awkward questions like, "So.. when you take off your shoes, do you untie them or just leave them as is?" or "Hey.. where'd that turtle come from?" This is the bad kind of silence.

Finally, we have the normal silence which is a part of most people's everyday lives. Said silence (not of the reptilian variety) shows up at natural break points of a conversation, and is not awkward unless one or both of the parties make it awkward. Worse than making it awkward is when someone just talks to hear the sound of their own voice. Conversations in this style consist mainly of the word, "Like," and tend to be extremely shallow. Talking like that like, makes the, like, world, like. you know, like, the society around, like, us, like, me and like, you, maybe like, Mr. Smith too, like, chicken-waffles, and like, that's what she like said! The sound of my voice is like, offensive in itself! Don't be this person; let silence be. Healthy silence keeps our listening skills keen. Without constant noise filling our heads, it's much easier to listen when someone is actually talking.

I put way too much time into these entries when I don't have the time to give... TT_TT But it definitely is fun to type this stuff up!

Mayhaps an Explanation

Hey guys/gals, you may have noticed my last blog entry didn't make much sense gramatically/Englishly. There's one major reason for that: I didn't use the word "I."

These days, everybody is so caught up with me, Me, ME! Have you noticed that? And when I say "everybody," of course I don't mean that literally. When people are volunteering, it's shocking to hear someone is doing a good deed to "look good for college." Once college starts, is that the end of his or her volunteering days? We live in the top 2% of the world, so why can't we give back to the community to do just that? Is a reward other than that warm, tingly feeling you get inside (without getting high, of course) such a necessity for some individuals? This entry has just about reached the level of crazy old guy ranting.. let's get to the point!

I took out the "I" and found it a lot more difficult to get the point across, and almost impossible to do with proper English. Smith's whole silent treatment he gave us on day one got me thinking of something different I could do with the first blog entry. It took a lot longer than writing down what I wanted to get across without restrictions would have taken, but it was doable, (albeit waaaay slower) and I knew that from the start. The whole taking out the "I's" had nothing to do with that rant earlier on in the post, it was just to do something out of the ordinary. Now that I look back on the entry, I apparently also didn't use the word "a", and have no idea why that is. o.O

There you go, an explanation of my "different" first blog entry. I actually do know English! :D Feel free to comment with any thoughts or ideas you have on the whole ♫Me me me me me me me!!!♫ outlook on life.

The First Day of Sociology

It was interesting. Have Smith for APUSH too. Hand-shake on entry. Guess that's his thing. Smith silent for start of class. Kept drinking "clear liquid" from thermos. Started to freak people out. Thought he was psychoanalyzing whole class, being social-scientist. Found ourselves in awkward silence. Few kids read through Smith's "About me" on back of sheet for clues to end silence. Am pretty quiet myself, so did not feel too out of place. Began talking after 5 minutes. Told us reasoning: Give us something unexpected, not typical of teachers. Daily hand-shakes unexpected even, for most students. However, hand-shake offers student moment of metaphoric solitude with teacher. Solid idea for any professional. Obvious Sociology won't be typical from day one.

Then gave his "webby" lecture. Very funny, even second time. Am only student in APUSH class, not like he can make up new material just for one anomaly. Class has sense of humor, unlike most physics classes. Mostly seniors, but no big deal. Know very few juniors anyways.

Don't know how to end blog. Catchy movie-quote? Sudden outburst of unwarranted profanity? Do you say "goodbye" each time? People don't say "bye" on phone anymore, so probably not..