Archive for October, 2007
The Many Faces of Meighan
Oct 28th
Take a look up at the top of this page.
Now try hitting Refresh a few times.
See those pretty pictures of me? Want to see more? Go here to see a collection of the Many Faces of Meighan, lovingly drawn by my beloved husband.
They make my page just that much more awesome. Thank you, dearest, thank you. 
Decisions
Oct 22nd
After much thought, I’ve finally come to the decision of what I should do after graduation.
The answer? Graduate school. Getting a free ride with money to boot is something I simply should not pass up. And though I am suffering currently from senioritis, I know from my experiences in high school that the feeling is fleeting and that a summer of freedom may be all I need. I also know that if I don’t go now, I may never get the opportunity again.
The school has actually changed their program recently. While the new information isn’t currently available, from what I saw it gives structure to the previously haphazard program. One of the reasons I was considering other schools instead was because of this school’s unstructured program. Hopefully this will help.
I called the company I’m supposed to be interviewing with on Friday and requested that I be considered for a summer internship instead of a full-time position. While they don’t generally looking for interns until the beginning of the year, they’re going to let me interview now and place me in the pool until that time.
Anger management
Oct 22nd
The other day I was in the Burger King parking lot when one car apparently cut in front of another car in the drive-thru line.
The driver who lost his place started honking angrily, then rolled down his window and began shouting and swearing at the guy who cut in front of him. He argued and screamed and things just kept escalating until he stepped out of his car, stormed over to the other car, and… I don’t really know what happened at that point, since the car was blocking my view, but the other driver backed up in a hurry and allowed The Angry One to pass to his rightful place in line. While this was going on, you could hear in The Angry One’s car a small, frightened voice sobbing, “Dad! Dad, please, don’t!”
What amazes me is that over the centuries, society has found it appropriate and acceptable to sterilize people who are “different”– those who are mentally impaired, of a different race or ethnic background, you name it– but not once has anyone thought to sterilize those who have serious anger and abuse issues. Those who are born from mentally-impaired parents may turn out to be perfectly normal, and in fact those who are mentally impaired can often take care of their young. (Not all cases, of course, but you get my meaning.) And yet those who are born in angry, abusive homes almost always become angry and abusive themselves. There are always exceptions, but overwhelmingly the abused become the abusers.
The best way to approach anger management? How about sterilizing those who are abusive?
Okay, granted, it’s not exactly constitutional. It steps on the rights of others and opens up issues of determining who is and who isn’t fit to be a parent, which could easily go in a very unpleasant direction. Still, it’s no more unconstitutional than those laws and ideas of the past, and it surely is saving at least a few lives.
(Note: I AM NOT ACTUALLY CONDONING FORCED STERILIZATION OF ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE! I’m merely trying to make a point. Not enough is done today about angry and abusive situations, and there is no easy solution overall.)
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