i aint a politician but these r pretty cool, shout out to Obama!
I know I have been neglecting this blog for a while with no reason other than a lack of inspiration. But I've come back to inform my neighbours, who still post, that I will be goning for university on the 13th September. I'm saying this because the student accommodation I'll be living in is very basic and since I can't afford my own laptop I won't be able to be very active on the internet. If I am able to use the university's computers for personal use (I'm not sure if I am yet) then it's more likely that I'll spend more time updating my Plurk than any of my other accounts. So this is really a goodbye to some of the internets.
Encase your geography of Scotland isn't brilliant I made a little map of the journey I'll be making next Saturday:
I have no idea why Dundee isn't actually marked on the map since it's one of Scotland's five cities but I pointed roughly to where it is.
The rest of this blog will just be a mixture of different things and probably won't flow very well.
My summer roughly consisted of:
- Two camping trips. One with my mum another with my dad.
- The start of my goal to read the entire Bible.
- Some yoga.
- Practising my cooking skills (which I'm getting quite confident at).
- Updating my Flickr like crazy.
- Eating healthily (I'm planning to keep this up).
- Unlike a lot of people my age, my summer consisted of very little alcohol consumption.
- Catching up on my sleep.
And I was going to share pictures of how much shit I've packed for my move but for some reason Vox has decided that it won't accept any of my pictures. I'll probably add them to my Flickr so go there if you want to be nosey.
I'm also contemplating using that red hair dye that I bought during the summer. Mhrrmmm.
Accountability is often something many people are found willing to take only after every other option has seemed to disappear from view.
I was listening to NPR earlier today and chuckling at the response of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to what has been a long, public, humiliating and ridiculous soap opera mayoral drama that one would only hope to see sandwiched between morning talk shows and advertisements for dish soap. The very public event appears on it's slow descent into old news, but the lingering effects of his response reminds me of one of my biggest pet peeves ever.
Accountability, specifically the lack thereof.
Too often, it seems the simplest way to address what appears to be a gross violation of common sense, decency, integrity and ethics is to offer the trite phrase...
"I exercised poor judgment."
I guess what bugs me about it is the implication that somehow...this is aberrant behavior for you. That typically you make good choices but on this one, you managed somehow to reaallly miss the mark. It is smug, and almost reasons away a potential character flaw as a hiccup. I call bullshit. Don't get me wrong, we are not infallible. We are all going to screw things up. Make poor choices. Act sometimes selfishly and purposefully in pursuit of something not all that favorable. Just don't offer up such a trite and nearly condescending semblance of accountability when you are engaged in something knowingly morally corrupt and potentially harmful to a slew of others besides yourself. Do not offer it when what you've actually done is more akin to...heinous, horrid or at the very least impossibly stupid.
I am making no judgments on the case I mentioned above. I'm making a case for accountability.
When you fuckup, have enough character to just call it what it is. Don't wait until I've caught you in a nest of lies. Don't wait until there's no one else in the room to whom you can wave a disdainful finger. Don't wait until you have no one to measure your mistake against to determine the severity of your general fuckedupness. Own your stuff. Hell, you can even be belligerent about it. I'll look the other way for a moment because I know it is sometimes painful to bear witness to your own stink.
But if you're at least willing to do that, then perhaps I can reasonably spend some time working up the ability to actually forgive you for it.
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