Family Weekend

Yes!! Family weekend happened, I haven't seen my family in so long, well 6 weeks but it feels like forever. My mom grandma and step dad came down to see me. During Family weekend we went to the football game, (in the rain), it was good the football boys finally won a game!! My parents got here and I showed them my room and then we went down town and got them a hotle room at the Durango Lodge where Jessica works. Once they got all of their things in we went and ate dinner at the Ore House, it was so good to eat something besides the CUB. We had a good dinner got to talk and catch up on things, oh and Stephanie went to, we kinda do everything together. After dinner we went to the volleyball game against Metro State, It was the best game I have seen all year. It was nice just doing something as a family. After the game we went shopping down at Wal Mart and got me everything I will need until the next time I see my family, because the reality of it is I am a broke college student with no job. Once we finished that my parents went to their room and went to bed. The next morning we all went to breakfast and then had to say our goodbyes. Goodbyes are hard but they help remind me that I am growing up and distance fromm my family is a good thing, even though I miss them.

Movie Ratings

WOW! To me It is so crazy the system that is in place to rate movies. I Never would of thought that was how they came up with ratings and to me some of it is outrageous. Like how they don't want sex in movies but other movies are completely perverted, and to me that is worse then someone having sex on film. Another thing that really stuck out to me was that the people have to be anonymous, because they don't want them to be infuluenced, but i think they are anonymous because they break all of the rules that they tell to the public and they don't want anyone to find out. For example that you can only work for ten years, but the film told us that they have broke that rule. Also that the raters are typical average american parents, but they are older, kids grown, and way out of the age and generation. Which brings me to my next point with the film, I personally thiink that the people who are rating our films should be young educated people. People who are up with the generation, because someone who is 40 years old or older is going to be shocked by things in movies that a younger person would not be. This is because sex is apart of our lives and our time, and sex was not apart of theirs.

War Of The Worlds...

This was such an outrageous broadcast to listen to. Moslty because thinking about peoples reactions is entertaining, the fact that some people took this play so seriously. One part of the braodcast that really stuck out to me was when the people were going to go and fight these "aliens" that were supposed to come and attack them. I mean we all think aliens are cool when we are little then you take a science class and learn that they are not real, so that was crazy to me. Also how angry theses people were when they found out that it was not real and burned down the newstation where it was sent out from. I guess i should say the peoples reactions didn't really impress me but the media did. Learning how powerful the media is in our lives, it can make you believe something crazy that you think you know is not true but at the same time, you ask yourself why would they lie?