In Unrelated News...

Hello and welcome back to not so serious topics. I'd talk about serious topics, but I've been trying to figure out how to teach Theological Method in one day (instead of, I don't know, an entire semester), so all I see right now is the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. Oh, and my official "nerd card."

Thus, a list!

1. Today, Wikipedia, among many others, is shutting down their site to protest the SOPA/PIP acts. You can certainly click on any of the links those sites have up, but here is an article that goes to great lengths to explain it. Basically, I have to side with the Bloggess when I say I don't support it because I don't think dogs should have weapons. But you can go here to sign the petition to end SOPA/PIP. Do it. It's good for you.

2. I taught my first class yesterday! I mean, my first college class. I have taught other classes before. Anyway, it went well, I think. My students may disagree, but they laughed at my jokes (I'm almost positive at least half were real laughs) and they participated in our mini discussions. Most importantly, no one walked out. At one point, a girl got up to throw something away and I was absolutely convinced she was walking out. I literally stopped mid-sentence and stared at her. It was awkward.

3. Have you all been watching The Bachelor? No? Just me? Well, I'm going to talk about it anyway. Monday night, one of the girls I KID YOU NOT said, "On a scale of one to ten, I'm going to throw up." Now, you may or may not have known me long enough to know the phase I had when I liked to quote Gymclass Heroes when they said, "On a scale of one to awesome, I'm the sh*t." I have these things to say on the topic of comparing the two sayings:
a) On a scale of one to awesome, being the sh*t is completely rational. Because the sh*t may, in fact, be correlated to an 8. Or a 12, even.
2) On a scale of one to ten, throwing up is not completely rational. Throwing up is not another term for 5. Or even 7. I know that 7 eight 9, though I did not know that my third favorite elementary school joke would ever be used in an argument, but I do not think that 9 then threw up 10 and made this saying logical.
III) I am deeply, deeply concerned that a woman who is currently working on her PhD made the decision that she should not only be on the Bachelor, but that she should actually say "a bridge is connecting two opposites." I agree with Knox McCoy when I say I do not believe she should ever be eligible to receive her doctorate.

4. I know this is my second reference to my class, but guys, I made a reference to Dogma. Specifically, this guy


5. On Sunday, I was rollin with Ant and E (those are his words, friends, not mine. Mine would be "I went around Denver with Anthony and Erika. Also, I'm very white.") in Denver. We were doing research for Anthony's book (which is going to be pretty fantastic, so you should read it. You know, when it's done.), and suddenly, Anthony says, "Oh, no!" Because, dear friends, he had just driven over a squirrel. This conversation ensued:
Anthony: I think I just hit that squirrel! Oh, man, I totally did!
Erika: What are you doing?
Anthony: I'm going back to hit it again!
Erika: Why???
Anthony: Because it's not dead! I need to put it out of its misery!
Erika: I'm sure it's dead, Ant. Just keep driving.
Anthony: No! It's not! It's still quivering! Seriously, I think it just got up and performed the monologue from Hamlet. I just don't know where it got that skull from...
Erika: Anthony, you cannot go back to hit it. If you're going to go back, at least kill it so that we can preserve the meat and make squirrel stew later.
Anthony: We don't live in Ohio, E.
Erika: Oh, you're right. Coloradans don't do that. My bad.
Anthony: Okay, I'm going to hit it again...here goes.
Kristy: On a scale of one to ten, I'm going to throw up.

I hope you all have a great Wednesday! I'll be making power point presentations for class. There will definitely be explosions in it, and probably some clips from LOST.