A male asked me the other day why women wear short shorts, and at first I thought he was just being stupid, but I googled it the other day, finding that many people wonder the same question. So I figured, as a female, I might be one of the most qualified to answer this question. There are very many reasons, but here are my top 5.
1. Tons of Females Wear Them. When one goes out to the beach or just out to a mall in the summer, most of the high school girls and college girls will be wearing short-shorts, so A. peers wearing them would be a reason, but this branches out to more that just one reason. B. You may not know this, but having the ability to make a guy look one's way by wearing shorter shorts brings power. Many females enjoy this power, even if the guys looking are ones a female would never want to get with, it is still a huge compliment. C. This reason goes back to B and A: Many females wear them, so to not wear them would be at a disadvantage.
2. They Look Good. when have you ever seen a female wearing short-shorts and not had your eyes check out her legs and arse? Even if you are a straight female, you will check out the competition.
3. They Draw Attention Away From Other Features. If a female has good legs and arse, she would much rather have someone look at those than stare at a zit on their face.
4. It's Hot Outside. This one is self-explanatory.
5. They Show Less Than Wearing Leggings With Nothing Over Them. Have you ever looked at someone wearing leggings and noticed all the cellulite shown through the fabric? Or noticed how no matter what, the leggings will constantly attempt to ride up their butts? Short shorts allowing for skin to be show is much better than being able to see the basically pants-less person wearing leggings in front of you.
Hope this helps,
Leia Rhyne
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
Comprehensive Sex Education
There is one issue in the USA that irritates me more than the economy or stupidity: the lack of good sex education available in schools. I even wrote an argumentative essay about sex education in USA schools, that will be posted up here soon. Everywhere I find schools that the parents are refusing to let the teens get sex education, and also will not give the talk to their own teenagers(telling teens that they should never have sex does not count). Teenagers should be given information, and given the ability to make decisions with the information they get, how else will they learn? There are too many STDs out there for abstinence-only ideas to be depended on (when everyone knows that teenagers like to rebel).
Here's some more information on this from an essay excerpt:
Here's some more information on this from an essay excerpt:
As for the HIV costs, many people have
no idea that it can cost up to 36.4 billion dollars per lifetime, including the
treatment required and the efficiency costs through being unable to work at
times. Including Antiretroviral therapy
(ART), the costs can increase hugely, considering the amount of money spent on
normal treatment per year is $114,938.00 approximately, while those using ART
can have costs of $230,044.00 per year (“36.4 Billion a Year”). It is a known quote that “an ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure;” however it is worth much more when there is no cure
for HIV, although it may be prevented through the use of contraception. This can make one wonder why another would
argue for abstinence-only teachings when these are the numbers, especially when
the costs of children per year are weighed in.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Closer to The Dream
I am getting closer to the amount of money needed to attend UNCG for the first semester. I am soon-to-be half-way there. I am starting to think I should double major in French and English, but I also want to do something with Romanian, I want to go somewhere in Europe that is a little hole-in-the-wall, somewhere less touched by American Civilization.
I can't wait to finally branch out on my own, but also I have decided I don't like being home alone all the time, I might want to find some sort of roommate. I need to find something out there that is just mine. I want to be near a coffee house, or maybe just a good amount of different gourmet coffee creamers aligned in my fridge. I decided I would like a room with glass as three of the walls, but a tall table in it with a table just big enough for a laptop and a cup of coffee.
Do any of you have dreams like that? What are your dreams?
I can't wait to finally branch out on my own, but also I have decided I don't like being home alone all the time, I might want to find some sort of roommate. I need to find something out there that is just mine. I want to be near a coffee house, or maybe just a good amount of different gourmet coffee creamers aligned in my fridge. I decided I would like a room with glass as three of the walls, but a tall table in it with a table just big enough for a laptop and a cup of coffee.
Do any of you have dreams like that? What are your dreams?
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Inspiring Stories from The Fast-food Line
One of the things about working fast-food is that one has a lot of opportunities to reach out to people. I usually do this by talking to them at the cash register, but sometimes the people come to me or I come to them.
Once, when I was on break, an old man (that looked like he might have ridden a motorcycle) wearing a bandanna came and asked if he could sit down in front of me. I said "sure," thinking that I only had about 5 more minutes on break anyway, so what was the harm in giving an old man some company?
We started talking and I asked him what had made him want to have a gravy bistcuit today. Nothing could have prepared me for his answer, which was that it was his favorite food before his chemo therapy started, and he was hoping it wouldn't come back up. He explained to me that the doctors had given him an expiration date 2 months from then and he wanted to enjoy life a little before he died. I was almost struck speechless, but I had two more minutes left on break, and said the only thing I could "Everyone has an expiration date, you just might have a vague idea of where yours is, for all I know, I could be hit by a truck tomorrow and you could outlive me." He accepts this and my break is over, but I tell him I am sorry but I have to go back to work. He bids me goodbye, and I'm haunted by this all day.
4 months later I see him at Bojangles again, I ask him "isn't it past your expiration date?" He looks over at me and explains that his last tumor was benign, so no more expiration date. I am overjoyed.
Once, when I was on break, an old man (that looked like he might have ridden a motorcycle) wearing a bandanna came and asked if he could sit down in front of me. I said "sure," thinking that I only had about 5 more minutes on break anyway, so what was the harm in giving an old man some company?
We started talking and I asked him what had made him want to have a gravy bistcuit today. Nothing could have prepared me for his answer, which was that it was his favorite food before his chemo therapy started, and he was hoping it wouldn't come back up. He explained to me that the doctors had given him an expiration date 2 months from then and he wanted to enjoy life a little before he died. I was almost struck speechless, but I had two more minutes left on break, and said the only thing I could "Everyone has an expiration date, you just might have a vague idea of where yours is, for all I know, I could be hit by a truck tomorrow and you could outlive me." He accepts this and my break is over, but I tell him I am sorry but I have to go back to work. He bids me goodbye, and I'm haunted by this all day.
4 months later I see him at Bojangles again, I ask him "isn't it past your expiration date?" He looks over at me and explains that his last tumor was benign, so no more expiration date. I am overjoyed.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Someone Else's Easy Perfection
Yesterday I got to be Cashier fully in the morning, I was so happy I couldn't do anything other than grin all day, I laughed when the power went out at Bojangles for a full 30-40 minutes.
I did pretty well on cash register, making me wonder why I'm not on it more often. I am starting to wonder how to find a way to do that all day instead of lobby all day. I'm mainly just ready to have a job that's almost like a break. I feel like the people at cash register have tons of breaks, while people on lobby definitely don't. Today I did packing for cash register, and I mainly did very well in my main boss' eyes.
I met a new girl who made a Bojangles uniform look beautiful today. I hated her instantly, mainly because she made freckles, blue eyes, and brown hair look better than I did. She had no zits whatsoever, she had no hairs out of place, and she was nice. Making it much worse. Have you ever met someone like that?
I did pretty well on cash register, making me wonder why I'm not on it more often. I am starting to wonder how to find a way to do that all day instead of lobby all day. I'm mainly just ready to have a job that's almost like a break. I feel like the people at cash register have tons of breaks, while people on lobby definitely don't. Today I did packing for cash register, and I mainly did very well in my main boss' eyes.
I met a new girl who made a Bojangles uniform look beautiful today. I hated her instantly, mainly because she made freckles, blue eyes, and brown hair look better than I did. She had no zits whatsoever, she had no hairs out of place, and she was nice. Making it much worse. Have you ever met someone like that?
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Life
Work finally called to give me the hours I need this summer, I now work 5 days a week. I started looking at houses and plots in foreign countries. I really want to just get out of here. I keep having dreams about work, usually something close to nightmares, but sometimes just dreams with the people from work in them.
Speaking of people from work, I have so few shifts with the guy-who-hates-me that I can't really remember our last argument, and whenever he sees me, he acts as if I'm not there. I've gotten to the point where I'm caring less and less though.
The one good thing about the increase in work hours is that I can now have more need to actually look for different things to buy. I keep calculating my paychecks, so I can think about house payments, that, and my savings account is actually starting to look decent for the first time since before I started college.
I found something close to my dream house on pinterest the other day:
The only thing is that I really want a circular house instead, maybe a white house, but I definitely like the fairy garden motif this has going on. What is your dream house?
Speaking of people from work, I have so few shifts with the guy-who-hates-me that I can't really remember our last argument, and whenever he sees me, he acts as if I'm not there. I've gotten to the point where I'm caring less and less though.
The one good thing about the increase in work hours is that I can now have more need to actually look for different things to buy. I keep calculating my paychecks, so I can think about house payments, that, and my savings account is actually starting to look decent for the first time since before I started college.
I found something close to my dream house on pinterest the other day:
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Online Classes and 5 Reasons One Should Not Take Them
I have had a few bad experiences with online classes. Here are a few reasons why I would not recommend them:
1. Deadlines. The deadlines in the online classes are not going to actually pop up in your head very often unless checked on constantly. I would constantly forget deadlines for online classes when they changed at the teacher's whim. I could never figure out when things were due and this created work missed. When in a normal classroom, if the teacher changed the day then they would at least have to tell you about it in the class next time they see you. An online class will normally not afford you the same courtesy with just printing it online for a day, so if you are not an A-type personality you are probably going to just barely get it in on time.
2. Lack of Teacher Involvement. This is a big one because when taking a difficult online class, it is very hard to ask questions or just get answers to questions. If your teacher is horrible at checking their e-mail or answering their phone, then you are basically screwed. I would have questions on projects and the teachers would not get back to me for a week when I handed in the project and they had marked me off for not formatting it in a way they wanted (when they never answered my question on that part of the formatting).
3. Confusing Instructions. When a teacher is in class with you, the teacher is usually demonstrating what they want for you to do, however, many teachers online just assume you know exactly what they want you to do from their written instructions. Most written instructions end up being slightly vague no matter how the teacher puts it, and if they are bad at getting back to you... Let's just say you're screwed over again.
4. Forgetfulness. If you do not create a scheduled routine for checking up on the class, then you will probably at one time or another forget to check for updates on upcoming assignments. This happened to me a lot with my last online class as it was the only online class I was taking at the time, and I was working at the same time. This mainly left me scrambling at the last minute to get work done.
5. Lack of Peer Interaction. I don't know about any of you, but I like meeting friends in college. I just moved to a new city when I started college, so I immediately wanted to get to know some people, but in an online class, none of that happens. In a normal classroom, one is at least forced to say something to someone else in class once in a while for a group project or some other assignment or maybe even just asking someone to move over. These are future connections one can use for job placement later on, so it is smart to network while you have an opportunity to do so.
All of these reasons combined with the fact that most online classes end up not in my memory the second I finish the class. I end up gaining no substance from them as I have taken notes or really done anything hands-on in any classes. I rarely even had anything to remember them by later on except for transcripts.
Hope this helps with your decision,
Leia Rhyne
1. Deadlines. The deadlines in the online classes are not going to actually pop up in your head very often unless checked on constantly. I would constantly forget deadlines for online classes when they changed at the teacher's whim. I could never figure out when things were due and this created work missed. When in a normal classroom, if the teacher changed the day then they would at least have to tell you about it in the class next time they see you. An online class will normally not afford you the same courtesy with just printing it online for a day, so if you are not an A-type personality you are probably going to just barely get it in on time.
2. Lack of Teacher Involvement. This is a big one because when taking a difficult online class, it is very hard to ask questions or just get answers to questions. If your teacher is horrible at checking their e-mail or answering their phone, then you are basically screwed. I would have questions on projects and the teachers would not get back to me for a week when I handed in the project and they had marked me off for not formatting it in a way they wanted (when they never answered my question on that part of the formatting).
3. Confusing Instructions. When a teacher is in class with you, the teacher is usually demonstrating what they want for you to do, however, many teachers online just assume you know exactly what they want you to do from their written instructions. Most written instructions end up being slightly vague no matter how the teacher puts it, and if they are bad at getting back to you... Let's just say you're screwed over again.
4. Forgetfulness. If you do not create a scheduled routine for checking up on the class, then you will probably at one time or another forget to check for updates on upcoming assignments. This happened to me a lot with my last online class as it was the only online class I was taking at the time, and I was working at the same time. This mainly left me scrambling at the last minute to get work done.
5. Lack of Peer Interaction. I don't know about any of you, but I like meeting friends in college. I just moved to a new city when I started college, so I immediately wanted to get to know some people, but in an online class, none of that happens. In a normal classroom, one is at least forced to say something to someone else in class once in a while for a group project or some other assignment or maybe even just asking someone to move over. These are future connections one can use for job placement later on, so it is smart to network while you have an opportunity to do so.
All of these reasons combined with the fact that most online classes end up not in my memory the second I finish the class. I end up gaining no substance from them as I have taken notes or really done anything hands-on in any classes. I rarely even had anything to remember them by later on except for transcripts.
Hope this helps with your decision,
Leia Rhyne
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