From the time that i wake up i just wanna spend time with my friends!

Yesterday i went on my third cultural oppurtunity. although i wouldnt call it an oppurtunity. Me jake and Bud went down to the art gallory on the first floor. Most of the art there was not all that great. Most of it was pictures drawn of sticks which is kinda dull. I will admit vsome of the art was pretty good. Blue was one of my favorite because i like blue wmen. Rath was elagent as well. Most of the pictures were if i had to say abstract. They were ok i suppose. the self portraits in there were lopsided and they called it art. idk that wasnt my favorite trip ever but i had to experience something new i guess.

drink up! fall down

I went to Kobe steak house with my lovely lady friend on saturday night. I didnt know where it was so she drove which was decent of her. o not to mention she made me dress like a goon which was undecent of her. but anyway we got there and we had to wait like ten minutees to get to the table. but they had fish in a big ass bowl and i tried to catch one but them lil basterts are quick. i think they threw some blue gill in that bowl too which was shitty of thm. Well we got seated with a group of like six other people which was cool i suppose. they took our order and then gave us shitty ass salad and some goat piss they called soup. So anyway then this lil asian dude came out and burned off my unibrow with his fire. I dont think this guy had a life because he could do some crazy shit with his spactula. I ordered steak and fish and my lil lady friend ordered shrimp and chicken. The guy totally switched plates with my lil lady fried and the guy next to her but its all good we got it figured out. i stole a pencil from there not to mention. anyway i had a blast.

cheese

This weekend I had a bit of trouble from the game warden. I really don’t want to go into great detail on everything that happened but while thinking about it, it gave me a great topic to discuss with the class room. My argument is that hunters should not have to tag deer. Hear me out. The state does not own the deer on these lands. I had this discussion with the game warden and he said what you have to understand Rodney is that the conservation department would have no money if deer were not tagged. He said if the conservation department had no money, then all the trees would be chopped down and there would be no more hunting, the rivers would be polluted and ethics would no longer apply when taking deer. Well he has a point but really tagging deer is a hassle anyway and I have a solution to his argument. I don’t know if everyone knows this but in order to hunt every other type of game certain stamps are needed in order to kill those game. Ducks and geese you must have a Federal and state stamp to shoot birds. I realize that hunters already pay for habitat stamps to shoot deer ad that the deer tags are an extra source of income for the state. But instead of forcing the public to pay for the deer they shoot, why not make the hunters pay more just to be in the woods? If the habitat stamp had a higher cost such as sixty dollars instead of twenty and hunters would not have to tag deer, I strongly believe that this system would work better. Most hunters only bag one or two deer a year anyway and many don’t even shoot one in the first place. The deer on these lands are over populated anyway.

you burnt bitch, i heard the story

This advertisement paper we are writing is my favorite paper we have written so far. Its ovious why. I enjoy completely what im writing about. I can definately relate to what im saying and im not making up whats being said. Most papers take lots of thinking to come together but i already know alot about this topic which makes writing the paper awfully easy. All the information needed for this paper is on one page, and a little bit is knowledge i already had. Im not going to go as far as to say i wrote a good paper. i know im a rather salty writer, but i will say that i enjoyed writing this paper and it didnt seem like such a chore. My writing may never be acceptable in the eyes of my teachers but when i write papers that the topic im writing about is an enjoyable one to me, it makes writing alot easier. Quite possibly when i write a paper that i enjoy the topic, may be some of my best papers. Revision is definately neccesary on this paper which i already did once from my peer response shit. But with a little effort this could be one of my better papers. Only bad part about writing this paper is that i spent alot of time writing it in the a.m hours which turned out ok i suppose becuase like i said above, i enjoyed writing this paper so it wasnt really that bad.

loved by some, feared by others, shes immortalized, in young mens eyes

I wanted to blog about the public high school system. My buddy, ethan, and I were talking on the phone Friday on my way to work and all we do is talk bull shit. Well I asked him how college was going for him and it seemed to me that his situation was awfully similar to mine. We continued talk about the situation and picked out that the primary cause of our problems came from going to a public school. In college you must be much disciplined and have excellent work ethic. Well as far as I thought, I have great work ethic and good time management. Both of us do I think. Apparently not though. In high school I held a full time job as a dishwasher, went to school, worked on my moms boyfriends farm, and hunted. The only difference is highschool was a joke. Neither me nor ethan ever studied for tests, or did homework outside of school except major projects. And everything worked out. Here I am attempting to hold a full time job, take care of the crops and animals, and also have a social life while going to school. Its not working. College you actually have to study apparently. College expects you to be more involved which I don’t know if they realize is hard to do with so much other shit going on in life. But what I am saying is that had high school prepared us for college better, it would not have come as such a blow when I walked across the bridge and found out what college is all about. Now that times pressed on I’m getting better at time management, but still need improvement. I blame public high schools for this underestimation of college.

lick it like a lollipop

I wanted to blog about the public high school system. My buddy, ethan, and I were talking on the phone Friday on my way to work and all we do is talk bull shit. Well I asked him how college was going for him and it seemed to me that his situation was awfully similar to mine. We continued talk about the situation and picked out that the primary cause of our problems came from going to a public school. In college you must be much disciplined and have excellent work ethic. Well as far as I thought, I have great work ethic and good time management. Both of us do I think. Apparently not though. In high school I held a full time job as a dishwasher, went to school, worked on my moms boyfriends farm, and hunted. The only difference is highschool was a joke. Neither me nor ethan ever studied for tests, or did homework outside of school except major projects. And everything worked out. Here I am attempting to hold a full time job, take care of the crops and animals, and also have a social life while going to school. Its not working. College you actually have to study apparently. College expects you to be more involved which I don’t know if they realize is hard to do with so much other shit going on in life. But what I am saying is that had high school prepared us for college better, it would not have come as such a blow when I walked across the bridge and found out what college is all about. Now that times pressed on I’m getting better at time management, but still need improvement. I blame public high schools for this underestimation of college.

i wont leave until you die

Ok as i am to understand this is a blog that is open for discussion ya? So dont take this one personal steph when you read this. I noticed you posted something about all our blogs, that we are just starting to rant right? Well i dont know about everyone else but ill tell ya my reasoning. im just flat out runnning out of things to post that is open for discussion. Theres only so much that i have opinions on and really im not that opinionated on things that are going around right now. its hard for me to blog about the economy, school rules, whether or not bararck obama should be president or a whole lot of anything for that matter for several reasons. I dont watch the news or read the news paper or surf the web so i dont know whats going in the world really. I dont really need to follow stuff like the economie and politics because as of right now non of that is affecting me. i have a job, i live with my dad, and i go to school. thats all i need to know. the economy isnt really affecting me. so every other week when you ask us to post something up for discussion its a challenge for me cuz i just dont have anything i would like to discuss. at this point i have just run out of ideas to blog on. right now my heads trying to think of something but ive got nothing. every day ritual involves four things and only four things. School,homewerk, regular werk, and if there is time left over i go hunting. so i have a suggestion, because i have run out of ideas, maybe it can be open for discussion on what we should blog about some time. just saying

feelin like a freak on a leash

I was partying this weekend and i thought about how that would be a great subject to blog about. why is the drinking age twenty one? i believe it should legally be changed to eightteen. let me explain. well very first off i strongly believe that if you can die for your country and legally be considered a man at eightteen then why cant you enjoy a nice cold beer? i will also point out that a twenty one year old and even thirty year olds are just as likely to make stupid deicisions while intoxicated. it is not fair to say that an eight teen year old is more likely to drink and drive then anyone else because from experince, older people drink and drive alot more then younger people. although i know of many teenagers who drink and drive, i know many more forty year olds tht do it. and the fact of the matter is is that its happening anyways. government just needs to back off and let eightteen year olds do their things. i mean hell if your going to expect me to be adult enough to kill another man in combat at age eight teen then you can sure as hell expect me to make the right decisions while drinking. and although there are thsose who do not make the right decision as i said there are just as many olderf people who do this. i just dont understand why this law came around because it werked perfectly well for a couple of years for eightteen year olds to legally drink i dont know why that changed. my theory is government knows eight teen year olds are going to drink, and knowing this they can make it illegal and pass out tickets which generates free revenue. other then that i dont know why the magic number is twenty one. o and did you know that eight teen year olds cant even sell alcohol? this is also a ridiculous law for an eight teen year old can read just as fuckin good as a twenty one year old. you dont have to be a genious to read a drivers liscnce and figure out whether or not someone is legal to drink or not. i werk at kroger as a cashier and it is a pain in the ass to have to call for some to scan your alchohol which on average is one out of every ten orders. just saying

not that anyone cares

but my best friend who lives next door and i went out hunting today. hes not exactly the brightest kid and hes never been good at anything like sports or school. but today he shot his very first buck with his bow and i was so proud of him because he has never werked so hard to earn anything in life as he did this deer. he spent time in the woods before season scouting and he actually got up in the stand this year. finally after four years of attempting to get a deer he arrowed a three point buck. he made a clean shot and i have never seen someone so excited. i may have been just as excieed though. i got to witness him eat a piece of the deers heart then me and him drug it to his truck, drove it home, and me him, my dad and his dad cleaned it while we shared a beer. it was the best time ive had for a while. the only bad part is at the begginging of the season w made a bet who would shoot a deer first this year. the deal was who ever lost had to shave their head. ill be walking into school tomarrow with no hair. ha funny shit

i knew the first time i saw you with her, it was only a matteer of time

I was just thinking about what to write about for this week’s blog. And now that I am thinking about it I decided that I should probably write about one of my most memorable and enjoyable pieces of writing. This piece of writing was quite simple, and was actually written a long ass time ago. This piece of writing was not particularly written well, really not that detailed for that matter. In fact now that I am thinking about the paper when I read it recently, it made absolutely no since at all if someone was to read it that didn’t write it. Anyways getting off track. The other day I was going through a box my mom had saved with old papers and homework and reports cards, that kind of thing in it. What I came across was a book that my sixth grade of poetry that we had made. I opened it up and it just brought back some of the best memorizes. Some of the stuff that was written in there was just some of the funniest shit you will ever read. One of the poems read this, “ I once walked into the zoo, soon I was hit by a shoe.” I think that poem was called a couplet or some shit. I am not sure but the little book was something interesting to read. It reminded me of junior high and how ignorant we were about writing. Reading the poetry book we all made make me feel pretty good about the writing I write now.

i wanna sleep with you forever, and i wanna die in your arms

Today is Monday and I did not have to work at all today. Well after school I went home and did some homework. It was an awfully windy day so I decided the hell with it, I am going to go squirrel hunting with my bow. Thursday starts the beginning of bow season for deer so squirrel hunting with your bow is good practice. Quite a windy day but I figured hell with it, bigger challenge. So I got all dressed up in my camo, walked out there and climbed up in my stand. Point of this blog is to argue that killing animals with a bow is the biggest adrenaline rushes out there. I have been on roller coasters, bungee jumped (at three hundred dollars I don’t think it was worth the money) and been in a car wreck. Although all of those incidents had me shaking like a dog, none of them was quite like shooting game. Anyone who has ever shot game knows this. The feeling starts at your feet and works to your whole body. Today when I was out there and throwing arrows left and right I never full stopped shaking. It is uncontrollable. You should try shooting a deer. That’s the best rush out of anything you can think of. Taking life from a living creature has the same effect on everyone. Roller coasters don’t always affect people the same, but taking life is consistent with the effects on people’s bodies. Try it some time you won’t stop shaking. It’s amazing.

you know i like my chiken fried, cold beer on a friday night, pair of jeans that fit just rigt

i was just thinkin. i was trying to figure out what to blog on and i had a few ideas. i thought about writing about the difference between highschool english and college neglish. that led me to thinking about research papers for some reason. then while i was thinking about research papers, end noting came to my mind. then i realized how stupid i think end noting is. why do we end note? to give credit to the people who wrote that piece. i have several problems with end noting and plagerism. both i find ridiulous concepts. i wonder what people wrote information down that they found out and actually care if you rewrite it word for word. and if their are people like that in the werld wth? they have nothing better to do then to get pissy with someone copying what they had to say? good oviously what they had to say is good enough that someone else wnats to use it isnt that good enough? ican understand if someone tried to take that material and make money off of it. but for kids in highschool and college to get failed grades for not end noting seems a little far stretched to me. see it seems so far stretched because you can take someone elses sentence and manipulate it into being your own sentence simply by changing a few werds. just saying ya i see that if you try and sell someone elses werk thats wrong but if you are just using someone elses werk to support your werk, endnoting should not be neccessary

one sip aint gonna do shit, on the second sip i begin to admit that the third one down is what makes me feel alright

i am an avid deer hunter and there is an issue that has been around for many moons. the question is in fact should bow hunting be allowed during firearm season. for years it has not been allowed but i dont agree with this law.

it has always been, since i started hunting when i was ten, that a bow was not allowed in the woods as long as gun season was taking place. apparently people dont agree with this law for recently house bill 4631 has been introduced. and what that bill if passed says is that bow hunting would be allowed in the woods during gun season.

My confusion is why did the law ever become? What reason can a bow hunter not walk in the woods side by side with the fellow gun hunters? Many argue it is because we already hold a hundred and seven day season why do we need the extra seven days. my response to this? What the hell does it matter whether or not you take a deer with a bow or gun? For one its really hard to take a deer with a bow during bow season let alone gun season. deer are more skittish durinig gun season makin it even more hard to kill one with a bow. This law would also give hunters a chance to shoot four deer during gun season instead of only two. some argue this is wrong and would depleat the deer population. There are eight hundred thousand deer running free in illinois and with only three hundred thousand hunters, many of which are only registered hunters and dont actually get deer, the chances of depleating the deer population down to nothing isnt even a question.

some people dont think bows should be allowed in the woods at the time of gun season but new legislation and many others like my self disagree

im never gonna dance again, the way i danced with you.(case study #1)

I have done many different types of writeing through out my life. Most of my writing done was for school purposes. Boring! I have found that that type of writing is stressful and apparently most of that writing is full of errors. I have over the past couple of months found a new form of writing that is quite enjoyable. When i moved to this area at the begining of this summer, i had no friends. What i found to help to cope with everything is writing in a journal. And although now i have picked up some friends from work, i continue to write in this journal. The time i spend with my journal is just as theoputic as spending times with friends. all of my past memories go in this journal, current feelings, events, and persional accomplishments go in there as well. Most of this writing is done at the end of the night, in my room alone. There are no mistakes in my journal. i cant say anything wrong or offend anyone because its for my eyes only. I find that when i wake up in the morning i feel better with having everything off my chest and if by chance the day gets shitty i hold it in till night when i can jot down whats bothering me. The journal is my counceler and friend all in one. I enjoy this writing most because no one complanis about it, disagrees with it or even knows about it for that matter. Momma always said if you dont have anything good to say dont say anything at all. well fine i wont say it out loud but a journal is the perfect place to let out exactly how your feeling.

intro letter

August 26, 2009Dear Stephanie,My name is Rodney Blake Maynor Jr. I lived in Camp Point Illinois up until about two months ago. My new home is in Washburn. My father asked me to come live here as a direct result of my mother moving to Utah. Moving to Utah was less then desirable, despite my strong bond my mother, little sisters, and me share. The large quantity of Mormons that live in Utah contributed to my lack of interest of the state. Not only that, all my family, besides my mom and two younger sisters, lives in Illinois. Not to mention that along with living with my father comes eighty acres of hard wood territory I have free range to. The great out doors is wear my heart lies. When school work is complete and work has given me a break you will most likely find me in the woods. Whether it be hunting, fishing, captioning wild life on film, or just enjoying the sounds of the forest, I am most happy when my activities are out doors with nature. Although killing animals for food interests me highly, so does caring for them. My father and I do not live along. We are accompanied by eleven dogs, seven cats, chickens, guineas, turkeys, a lizard, four parrots, and a fish named Tony. I have not slept alone in my bed since moving here as a direct result of the animals. Not necessarily bad though. Religion interest me at an unexplainably high rate. Although I was raised catholic, most of my time is spent reading up on different religions. Many people defend their religion not knowing anything about other religions. My personal opinion is if one is going to argue with another on their religion, they should at least know the basics concepts to what they are arguing against. Kroger employs me and recently a Mormon walked through my line to purchase goods. When the gentleman approached me, he asked what my preferred religion was. When I replied with catholic he pulled from his pocket The Book of Mormon. He said reading this book my change my life. In order to humor the man, reading this slow read book has become a hobby of mine. Although only a few hundred pages have been read from the book, every time the Mormon gentleman shops in Kroger he comes through my lane just to argue with me. The arguing is actually the only way we call ourselves friends so the arguing is just our own personal way of bonding. Was it mentioned that half a month ago I fell on a machete which cut through all the way to the bone? Some call me prone to accident. Accounting happens to be the career I am pursuing. I intend on keeping up on my school work for not only this, but many more semesters of schooling. In my head, graduating from college is an untouchable goal at times. First semester is a good start to get in the habit of good time management. Along with the responsibility of college comes the responsibility of finances. Hanging on to money, in the past, has been an issue. When I moved here saving more and spending less has become one of my highest priorities. The game plan is not going to change in this first semester either. Hopefully my letter gives you a better understanding of taking a walk in my shoes for the day.
Sincerely, Mr. Rodney Blake Maynor

concealment laws obsurd

As you know, with living in Illinois, we have an exceptionaly irrational outlook on guns. An outlook brought forth by the good citizens of Chicago. Chicago influences the laws on our guns greatly. This passage is to help those people better understand why the NRA exists and why so many people dont agree with the laws created on guns.

There are forty eight states in america that allow some sort of concealment of weapons. the two that dont? Illinois and Wisconsin. That in itself is good enough reason for our state government to pass concealment laws. Hello! Its working for everyone else oviously.

Why does it work for everyone else? Crime rates have fallen in other states as a result of concealment laws. Makes since. A robber is less likely to to rob a store or an indivigual knowing that they might just shoot back. And for that matter any sort of robbery is less likely for a robber knowing that theres a good chance some ones going to shoot back.

As if limiting our gun rights isnt bad enough, some organizations are trying to take away our guns altogether. The people who want that kind of band have never shot a gun in their life. Guns are apart of our culture. Guns arent onlly used for killing people. They are many other fun ways to use guns. I have persionally shot hand guns weekend in and weekend out for the past two years and never once was a man killed at these shoots. People also use guns for trap shooting which is challenging and quite stress relieveing i might ad. Over three thousand deer were killed with firearms last year in illinois alone. Fifty percent lets say were female. Thats fifteen hundred deer that are able to have up to three offspring. If you average two offspring a year, thats an extra thirty thousand deer running around illinois in a ten year stretch. If guns were takin away there would be more lifes lost to deer related accidents as opposed to murders.

Increased gun control laws equals increased car wrecks, increased crime rates, and decreased civilian happiness. End of story