Right now the topic I've been pondering is relationships. It's no surprise really, I'm 22, male, a BYU student, and single. I know that I'm not the only one either, my sister pointed out something interesting the other day. She said that every movie ever made has some love related element included. Even if its not the main story line, even the most gritty action movie has its moments, even if that moment is just a random NCMO scene with a wildly attractive girl. I tried for the longest time to think of a single movie where that wasn't true because i love proving my sister wrong but, I just couldn't think of one. I'm sure there must be one out there but I don't know what it is. The fact is, we love love. And arguably no college loves it more than BYU, we have the highest marriage rate out of all the universities in the United States. I was over at a friends house and we were discussing the travails of BYU dating. My friend said that it was funny how weird people seemed to get married quickly, not that normal people didn't get married fast as well but that weird people get married quickly in greater percentages. One of her roommates made the comment that she seemed to attract "the weirdies" and how she hoped that didn't make her a weirdie too. We came to the conclusion that weird people get married faster because they have had fewer relationships in life so when they find someone who is willing to put up with their quirks they are much more dedicated to making the relationship work and are more willing to forgive the quirks of the other person as well. Also, some weird people seem to make a move on everyone, so if we have a population of say, 100 and only 5 of them are "weirdies" those few may pursue a large portion of the others in a relatively short amount of time and thus lead everyone to believe that he or she attracts weird people. So its not the attracting weird people, its being attracted to those weird people, that is the better litmus test for your relative weirdness.
Well, thats pretty much it for now. I've got the second round of interviews for this job I applied for coming up on thursday. It's a job with the IT department on campus teaching students and faculty how to use microsoft office and adobe programs. I made it past the first round so thats a good sign I guess. I'm not sure about my chances but I want this job, and not just because I'm currently unemployed and going stir crazy either. Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with some of the adobe programs. It seems like that would be a problem seeing as how I'm trying to get a job teaching how to use them and all, but they say its not that important, I can just learn them and certify in them once I have the job. I'm not worried, I'm pretty good at learning new programs. Its getting the job thats going to be the hard part. I enjoy teaching and this seems like a good one so, fingers crossed.
Dibs on being the first to comment!! And man I feel special for being referenced in your very first blog post. There comes a time in everyone's life to grow up, and Tyler, this time is yours. You're a big kid blogger boy now. hahaha :)
ReplyDeleteA few examples that come to mind: Primer (great movie, check it out), Alice in Wonderland, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and lots of other kids movies, then documentaries, foreign films, war movies, some martial arts movies (i'm thinking of fearless, I can't remember if he had any sort of love interest), Jaws, Wizard of OZ, The Great Escape, 2001 a Space Odyssey.
ReplyDeleteI'll admit i had to google to jog my memory, but then it is 1am. So take that, Sister.
kids movies soooo do not count. thats a whole different ball game. and documentaries are even worse, they dont have a story line like a normal movie, they just, document things. documentaries dont even have to have any characters for crying out loud! And you can't just list other types of movies like that as if its all encompassing. For example, Pearl Harbor is a war movie and its chalk full of love and crap and Hero is a great martial arts movie with several relationship type parts. Try being more specific fool. I will give you the few examples at the end of your comment but note that those are the exception, not the rule, which was my point. AND i aint your sister. jerk.
ReplyDeleteTo add to your theorizing about the more quirky portions of the population getting married first, I submit a slightly different explanation by Cynthia Sun.
ReplyDeleteEvery person is a pot, searching for their lid. If, say you are a normal, roundish pot, it may be difficult. You pick up a lid that looks round, but it isn't quite right. So you have to try a lot of different lids. It takes longer.
Now, say you are a star shaped pot. There probably aren't too many star shaped lids out there. So you find one, and say, "My goodness! A star shaped lid??? Marry me now!"
And there is nothing wrong with this. There are simply different ways and times in which one person meets another.
--Kayla
Get a job boy! And stop arguing with your sister.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Dad
True Grit... No love interest... Win
ReplyDeleteyeah but the whole plot is driven by the girls love for her father! not romantic love but, love none the less
ReplyDeleteWow, I must say, I do feel special for being referenced in your blog post. And I appreciate your reasoning behind the weirdies. If I'm not attracted to the weirdies, that makes me normal, right? Even if by chance some weirdies are attracted to me. Thanks for clearing that up!
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