discerning

So I don't know what's wrong with Brock, but the fire alarms just keep going off!! Get your act together. It went off twice again today. I hope it doesn't happen again in the middle of this post...but it would be funny if it happened in my consumer behaviour class at 5. Our teacher would be soo mad.

Yesterday I was reading a short story by JD Salinger called a perfect day for bananafish. So it starts off with a mother phoning her daughter who is on vacation. Then it transitions to her beau hanging at the beach and a little girl comes and hangs out with him. He then says it's a perfect day for bananafish...I didn't believe these were real things and a search on google I believe confirms it. Then I thought this was going to turn into some weird childhood porn. It didn't thank goodness. So this guy is finished at the beach (you could tell he was a little odd), then goes back up to his room, and shoots himself in the head.

I have never been more confused by a story. I looked it up on wikipedia and that explained nothing better for me except that maybe this guy was an Absurdist...maybe JD salinger was just a little off his rocker.


So other than that I'm real real busy. The interupted quiz got rescheduled to next tuesday, then I have a paper due tuesday that I'm working on now (in between blogging) then a midterm friday and wednesday. I'm really nervous for my friday midterm because it's for strategic management, which is basically bullshit, but really smart bullshit, that I may not exactly be able to do with references to readings that I've done. I guess I'll be locking myself in my room this weekend.

I was reading the book tuesday which is super interesting. The one I was reading was about why rail tracks are that specific distance apart. Because that's how big the roads where in the middle ages, because that's how big roman chariots were and roman chariots were measured that way so that two horses asses could fit between the two. The conclusion is that our technology now is affected by the side of a horses behind. How does it relate to technology...because parts of rockets are transported by train and have to be made to specific standards to go through mountain tunnels. Pretty neat eh?