21 ordinance

So the Iowa City City Council has once again brought up the 21 ordinance, making it so anyone under the age of 21 can't get into the bars...Brilliant...yea not so much

So the first time they tried this 2 years ago it failed miserably... thank goodness because I wasn't 21 yet :)
But if they seriously think it will help decrease binge drinking underage I'm going to go with FALSE.
While watching about 30 minutes of the city council meeting tonight I have come up with the following thoughts:

1) If youre not a good public speaker, you will sound very unprepared and not as persuassive -even if you have a speech written out- compared to someone who is a good public speaker who wings it

2)Older residents bring up very good points ... especially when they are anti the 21 ordinance because they drank once upon a time too :)

3)As an older resident of Iowa city why are you living on the 400 block of South Johnson? of course people are going to make noise at night 21 or not.

4) People should not bring up the point that you dont see surgeons, established lawyers, or flight pilots getting drunk downtown... 1) how many surgeons or lawyers do you know under the age of 25 2) of course theyre not downtown they can afford to buy a real drink ( by that I mean something that costs more than 2 dollars) 3) im sure before they were true professionals they were downtown too

5)Dont tell me how hard biology classes, chemistry classes, and law classes are... I KNOW..you dont especially when you haven't been in college or had any schooling for 50 years ...and dont tell me that we dont go out for fun and we just go to let go of reality ( which may be true at times but still ) reality= no fun  it equals working 8 hour days, studying all night, and all that not so fun stuff we have to do.

6)Why did we ever stop pregaming??? it was so much cheaper when we were underage because we'd be drunk before we got to the bars.

7) Some of the people on the council were anti-21 while they were running for election and now that they are an elected official they are pro the 21 ordinance... government is full of liars (which i already knew)

8) Please don't compare this to seat belt laws...I'm taking a whole class on health transition and health disparities ...keeping kids out of the bar isnt going to keep them from drinking (especially here in IC) so there's going to be no transition what so ever related to health... trust me we talked about it in class my professor also brought up these points ... the only way to change it is to keep them from drinking entirely and to keep us 21-25 year olds from drinking as much also.

9) People have interesting arguments

10) This is just stupid... if it passes I'm moving to Des Moines ;) ... thats for you KSloss(that was too)

Spring Break 2010!

Spring Break 2010 aka my last official spring break of my undergraduate career. So of course this is blog is being written on the sandy beaches of florida  from my bedroom as I avoid putting away my laundry.  Yes I am quite sad that I am not spending my last spring break getting tattoos, getting drunk at a Joes crab shack at 4pm while being underage, attending random Frat parties in Texas, and going clubbing (all a part of last years spring break )

This spring break should be a bit calmer but it has had a good start considering I started it out with the Dashboard Confessional concert Friday night with my friends Kinsey, Abby, and TJ :) 

All in all it was a great concert ... we were mere feet away from the all too wonderful  Chris Carrabba (the lead singer) and we got to listen to some of our favorite songs like vindicated, hands down, and my new favorite song of theirs Belle of the boulevard.  Hopefully the rest of break gets a bit more exciting than last few days but that is yet to be seen :) 

                                                                                    

                

and the nomination goes to ME!

So today I was checking my e-mail and I saw that I had a message from my old mentor and it was an email telling me how they had recently been going over the graduating class to see who they could nominate for a leadership award at the up coming  Multicultural Graduation & Recognition Banquet and I was nominated. :) 


I don't really know what its all about but I think its cool :) Go me!

living for today

So lately i've been thinking a lot of things to come in life and  have been in this sort of transition state  trying to figure out the kind of person I am and want to be. Which could explain my adding of things to my bucket list such as teaching english in Chile next year (given that it will still be a possibility after the recent tragedy there) and working with the unite for sight program which i'll blog about after my training. 

Well today i've been hit with a lot of quotes that deal with living in the present and not in the past, or future. The first being in church, the second being while watching a spanish soap (i do this from time to time when i get home sick and miss my mom) , and the third while reading another friends travel abroad blog.  So even though I am worried about the future and trying to figure things out right now I'm really thinking that maybe I should listen to this advice and ""not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself." ~Matthew 6

Because we all have a type

So most everyone has a type of person they are attracted to , and for me that "type" is your typical everyday skater boy/dirtbiker/ snowboarder/ you get the picture... the type of boys that my friends like to refer to as  "douchebags" although most of them aren't . All it takes to make me go Gaga ( no not lady Gaga just gaga) is a "skater" t-shirt and  backwards matching hat ...throw in some matching skater shoes and i'm basically in love .  

just an example of what i'm talking about

Oh and having an athletic build doesn't hurt either 

Of course not every one can have this bod... thats just unrealistic ...but a girl can dream right?

and although i do like skater boy clothing I also love the white tee with blazer jeans and converse look, which Zac Efron perfected in HSM. Unfortunately there's no good picture of the entire look 

but heres as close as i got 

Any way you may be thinking why i would go into all this detail to describe my perfect boy (look wise)? 

Well as i was walking home today i had a nice little encounter with what from far away looked like my perfect boy. He had on the backwards hat with the matching t-shirt, had a fit body (from what i could tell) , and he was cute too. I was smitten. As this dream boy got closer and closer riding up on his white horse skateboard, I got a surprise... It was a guy i knew... not just any guy either... a guy who I once used to annoy me so much because i thought he was full of himself  (since i've gotten to know him iv'e realized he's a much nicer, cooler,  and less stuck up person than i once thought) but no matter how much i now "like" this guy... in the friend way... it still broke my heart a little to find out that my dream guy , the guy who was totally "MY TYPE" was in fact someone i already knew, someone who will never be my perfect skater boy.