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Goodbye Blogs... :(

Honestly, in the beginning of this semester when I found out that we had to create our own blog, I really thought that it would be very dumb. Now when I think back on it, I really enjoyed it. IT was great practice for your writing and also it helped me to learn that not all writing has to be a drag. Writing outside of class can actually be very interesting and this taught me that.

Birthday ***

Ok, so within the next 5 days there are 3 significant birthdays coming up: my girlfriend's on Dec 2nd, my mom's on Dec 6th, and mine on Dec 6th. Yikes right.  And by the way, yes i was born on my mom's birthday and yes i was the best present she has ever received, because im an amazing person of course.  So this is going to be a fun week full of presents, cake, ice cream, going out to dinner, and of course we cant forgot the embarrassment you feel while you're at a restaurant and everyone whose working stops what their doing and puts a fake smile on their face to sing you the most awkward song ever!

What’s Cookin’ in Olga’s Kitchen

26308 Ford Rd

Dearborn Heights, MI 48127

(313) 278-5545

Olga’s Kitchen is a chain of Greek-based family restaurants primarily located in the Midwestern United States whose first location opened in Birmingham, Michigan in 1970.  The distinguishing characteristics of an Olga’s Kitchen are that almost everything on their menu in some type of sandwich put in a pita and made spicy, the great wait staff, and also a very nice and clean environment for you to eat in. 

Walking up the the restaurant around lunch time on Black Friday, I noticed that the place was absolutely packed.  Yet within thirty seconds of me walking in, I was greeted by the hostess and asked the standard questions, how many people are in your party and of course smoking or non.  The host sat me without any wait, and shortly after she left the waitress arrived with a smile on her face.  She was very friendly and asked what I would like to drink and if I would like an appetizer.  Now when you go to Olga's, you must order their Snackers, they are deep fried pit chips seasoned in a cayenne pepper based seasoning and come with Swiss almond cheese to dip them in.  They are to die for.  So I ordered a basket of Snackers and a Pepsi.

About five minutes later, the waitress returned with the Snackers and my Pepsi and took my lunch order, I ordered a Philly Cheese Steak with extra steak (the portions are not small, I was just extra hungry) and I saw her immediately go and put my order in.  Considering that the restaurant was jam packed, I thought that was a key aspect that I considered when deciding if it was a good review or a bad one because some waitresses or waiters may have waited a few minutes to put my order in.

Shortly after I finished my plate, the waitress had returned with a Pepsi refill and the bill.  The damage done was $22.61, not a necessarily cheap lunch, but a very delicious one.  I thought that the waitress was very good, so a pulled out six dollars and the debit card to pay for the meal.  The waitress returned shortly and took the bill and my card and she must had noticed my generous tip because when she had returned, I noticed that the price was changed from nearly twenty three dollars to sixteen, and at the top of the revised check is “EMPL DISC”.  This topped of my nearly perfect visit with her great generosity which was greatly appreciated.

The food at Olga’s are made in their unique way, and there is something on the menu for everyone to eat.  This Greek kitchen is a great place to go with your family or friends and you’ll see the excellent food and service first hand.  Overall I give Olga’s Kitchen 4.5 stars out of 5 and I would recommend it to anyone who has not tried it.

You Don't Mess With The Zohan....

Ok so sitting in class today, my dear friend Greg brought up that at his advising meeting they served hummus and donuts, that IMMEDIATELY reminded me of the move You Don't Mess with the Zohan.  But no one around me had ever seen this movie!  If you enjoy a hilarious Adam Sandler movie, then next time you are at the video store i highly recommend seeing this movie!  You will cry laughing!  And you will see will I lmao-ed when he mentioned hummus.

Thanksgiving

Ok this thanksgiving is turning out to be a very stressful one!  I have 4 places that i have to be on Thanksgiving and it is very hard to handle, i still haven't even figured it out yet.  I have to go to my moms house for breakfast, and then somehow i have make it to my girlfriends grandparents house, my grandparents house, and also my step aunts house.  Yikes... well hopefully it all works, but we shall see....

Restuarant review

Is it just me, or was it hard to find a professional restaurant review?  It took me about 20 minutes on google.

http://www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/Dining-Guide/index.php/city/Detroit/name/Coach-Insignia/listing/63147/

p.s. while browsing I find this and I think it might help us when writing our reviews...

http://www.ehow.com/how_4480008_write-professional-restaurant-review.html

No Shave November

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No%20Shave%20November

"The month of November in which you don't shave any hair of your body but instead you grow more bestial, brutish, and manly"

Someone last weekend at work asked me if i was doing "No shave November", and i had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.  So i looked it up, and i think that all of us men of comp 105 should do it to create "Unity" as Rick James (aka Dave Chappelle) once put it.

My lady

Today i spent hanging out with my girlfriend Beth, all day long.  We both go to school full time, she goes to School Craft, and we both work part time jobs, so are time is becoming scarce compared to what we became accustomed to this summer.  I feel like i hardly ever get to see her now, so whenever i get that chance i feel so happy for that whole day.  Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like no matter what happens, it can't ruin the day?  That is how i am every time i get to spend a day with her, i feel unstoppable.  We spent the day doing some homework together, watching some movies, talking, making snacks, and doing all the other stuff that perfect couples do.  It was a day that was truly needed, she helps me cope with the stress of school and work, and i do the exact same for her. 

Michigan lost again...

Can you believe it, we lost again!  This season is very quickly turning into 2008 all over again, and i can not stand it.  My whole life i have been a Michigan fan and i can not stand seeing them get their ***** kicked in by teams who we have beaten routinely for the past 40 years.  With every loss this year, it seems like it has it has snapped some kind of winning streak that we have had against that team, and i am getting sick of it very quickly.  Fix this Rich Rod, fix it now!  If we don't make it to a bowl game for a 2nd consecutive year i will not know what i will do!

Just another Wednesday...

Oh Wednesdays, my least favorite day of the week.  Every Wednesday for me is the exact same.  Wake up around 10:30, sit and do nothing until i have to leave for school at 12:35.  If you think that is a great schedule because you get to sleep in, you are wrong i hate it i would so much rather wake up at 9 or 9:30 and immediately get ready for class than just wait around counting down the minutes before you have to leave.  Well then i have my first class at 1:05, Anthropology, yawn.  That class can really be a snoozer and make you feel tired even though you slept in until nearly 11.  That class ends at 2:20, then i go and sit in my car, eat the lunch i packed for myself and listen to music until it's time for our class at 3.  After our class gets out at 4:15, i have to immediately jet home to eat dinner in order to make it to work on time at 5.  I work at Bed Bath and Beyond in Westland (get your laughs out now).  There i do stock work for 6 hours.  This includes carrying 50 - 60 lbs cookware sets up a 10 step latter, and then repeating that about 6 or 7 times.  I usually get off work around 11 pm, sometimes later.  Needless to say, when i get home i am beat!  I hate Wednesdays... 

Ticket!

Guys pay attention when you're driving!  On my way to school yesterday, heading west on Inkster  just past Warren, i was going 42mph and the speed limit is 40 mph, or so i thought.  The road was under construction and they had the right lanes closed going in both directions.  I was driving along, listening to 50 cent, drinking my Gatorade, when i looked in my rearview mirror and i noticed that the close car was about 1/4 mile behind me.  I thought to myself "Huh, that's odd".  As soon as i put my eyes back on the road, i noticed that i was passing a Wayne County Sheriff parked on the side of the road gunning people.  As a natural reaction when you see a cop, i hit the brakes just in case i was excessively speeding.  Well he turned his lights on, and i pulled over.  Turns out the speed limit was 30 mph and i was going 12 over!  He only gave me a ticket for going 5 over because of my clean driving record.  Well this completely f***** up my day because right before i left my house, i  did some hardcore studying for my anthropology test that i had to take about 20 minutes after i got pulled over.  When i finally got to school and had the test and my scrantron in front of me, i had forgotten everything that i had studied.  I couldn't get my mind off of what had happened and I'm pretty sure that i failed that test.  Ahhh what a way to start off the week, all that and then a pop quiz in our class, lets hope today(Tuesday) is a little bit better!

Mid Term: How I feel about class so fare

To me this class so fare is one of my favorite to attend.  Everyone gets involved in class descussions and everyone gets along.  Its a small class so there is no intimidation when you're there.  Academically, it is by fare my most challeging class whitout a doubt.  We are asked to go above and beyond and step up to the challenge, which is good and bad.  I thing one of the things that me and other students are struggling with is the difference between this and college writting.  In high school it was right about this, interview this person and ask them this questions and then respond to it, basically is was more set arround treating you like a baby.  In highschool they told you everything that expected and wanted.  In college, in our comp 105 class, we are given the topic and then asked to make our own requirements for the most part.  It is something that is very hard to addapt to, but i know that we all can do it.  Now with the 1st paper off of our back, we have a very good idea of what to do and what to contribute.  Overall i really enjoy this class and all of its' challenges.

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Oh the good days at high school, how they will be missed.  I learned many different things that will stick with me throughout my life, like a very descent critical thinking skill.  Some courses that i took that improved these skills are my senior year i took a debate class.  This class was very good in many different ways; it was fun, it was challenging, and also it taught you how to think and produce on the spot infront of the entire class.  When you are in the middle of a debate and youve stated all of your points and then your opponent comes up with a point that blows you out of your seat, what do you do?  You have to think and produce right there at that moment very quickly, you have to come up with a good counterarguement that makes sense.  It is a lot harder than it thinkgs, also it is a lot more fun than you would think.  If you ever get a chance to take a debate class, do it.  Even if you hate speaking infront of the class, just do it.  Look at me, do any of you remember my presentation of the Freedom from Fear?  I was shaking during it like no other.  But debate is more than just presenting, its arguing, who doesn't love to do that?  It will challenge you like you've never been challenged, and you will enjoy it.

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My biggest concern with the U of MD campus is how am i going to relate to the other thousands of students?  How am i like them?  How am i not like them?  What can i do to get recognized by the other students and what can i not do to look like a total idiot?  To me i feel like I'm was in high school yesterday and now today I'm here, somewhere fare fare different from high school.  But i love it, I'm really enjoying being in the position that i am in right.  I never thought that i would say it but i love being somewhere where i have to initiate myself into activities outside the classroom.  On another note, i love the diversity here on campus, it seems that there's a even distribution of ethnicities and races here, which is fare different from my high school which was about 80% caucasion.

My car

I drive a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am, and I simply love my car!  I've had her for over two years and i spoil her, she always gets new accessories and oil changes on time!  Recently though,  she's been making a really weird noise, it's a high pitch squeeky noise coming from underneath the engine, and it's pissing me off!  This started happening on Saturday and then to top it off on Monday my service engine light soon came on.  I'm pretty knowledgable with cars, but i cannot figure this one out and I'm going crazy!  Someone please give me some helpful input...

Detroit Tigers

Oh my lord, what happened to you guys!  You had a seven game lead in September, what more could you of asked for.  Many sports analysts are saying that the Twins never gave up throughout the month and kept fighting, when in my opinion the Tigers looked like they gave up.  They gave the impressions that they had already won the division and didn't play through the season.  Yes the played well lest week against the Twins, but they only split the series.  If they could of won just one more game against them they would be in New York right now.  With that being said, i do believe that they played a hell of a game last night, Porcello was excellent as was Rodney, but why did we pull Porcello in the 5th inning, he had pitched so well, so what he gave up a homerun, he had struck out 8 batters through 5 innings!  He should have stayed in another inning, I think it could of made the difference.  And Fernando Rodney proved why he saved over 30 games this season, he was absolutely phenominal, you can not blame his for this lose, he truely only gave up 1 run, the other run scored through an error of Ryan Rayburn.  And on one final note, INGE WAS HIT BY THAT PITCH, A RUNNER SHOULD HAVE CAME HOME AND WE SHOULD OF HAD THE LEAD!  Oh well, we just have to prove ourselves next season. :(

Justice

In my opinion, Dr. King was saying that all injustices of the world should be and need to be stopped immediately.  He always believed that everyone in the world should be treated equallys with equal rights and equal freedoms.  At that time people in the world thought that he was absoulutely out of his mind.  Now, we look back at what he did and the things that he said and we thing of Dr. King as one of the most influenctial people in the world.  He is a hero.

Football Season

In my life right now i can not find a single person who is happy that football season is finally back!  It is by fare my favorite season, not summer or spring, but football!  Its the season where everything from a year ago is forgotten and everyteam starts from scratch both at the collegiate level and the professional.  Football is truely a sport like no other it is so unique in everyway and i can not stress enough how excited i am for it to be back, i just hope it doesn't so fast this year like it has in years past!  Go Blue and go Lions, finally won a game for a change now keep it up (yeah right)!

Four Freedoms Posters

While at the library looking at the four freedoms posters, the one that stood out most to me was this one that i have posted here. To me this posters is so interesting because of the way that each freedom illistration is represented with a weapon in it, which to me is reflecting on the way that the United States today is surounded by violence. Citizens in today's world our constantly surounded by violence in everyway, including in our freedoms. Freedom of speech is represented by violence which to me indicates terrorist attacks where violence has been used to send their message. The freedom of want seems to mean that we can get what we want when we could resort to violence. Freedom of fear is shown as a family using weapons to protect themselves from robberies and break ins. And finally the freedom of religion is shown as people praising weapons and war as their savior. To mean the author here has shown the way that most americans today may view these freedoms and to me they seem to be very accurate, which is why this was my favorite poster out of all of them.

The Power of Words

Each and everyday of our lifes we use words whether its to communicate verbally or electronically.  Without our words, we would not be able to communicate with our friends or family, or anyone in general.  However, it is not just our words that help us communicate, we can also use gestures to express our feelings at a certain point of time.

The power or words is so great that it can heel wounds and also it can create them.  With your words you can brake someone's heart, or you can warm it.  You can hurt someone's feelings or you can lift their spirits.  So next time you saw "shut up" or "i hate you", think of the hidden power hidding within those expressions.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."  With so little words, Dr. King was able to send one of the strongests messages that I have ever heard.  In just eleven words he explains that if an individual does not feel passion and love to the extent where one would risk their lives for it, than they are not deserving to live.  It doesn't matter the length and number of words that you say, it's how you put them together and the message that is delivered.

Go blue

  For those of you who don't know, U of M faced the Notre Dame Fighting Irish who were ranked eighteenth in the nation on this past Saturday.  And also if you don't know this, I am an enormous U of M football fan (have student season tickets and have been attending to games for years).  So on Saturday, I called up one of my friends and we headed down to Ann Arbor to the big house.  Once again, for those of you who haven't been to a Michigan game this year but have in past years, everything is completely different this year.  Everyone shows up about an hour early, everyone cheers and screams until they don't have a voice anymore, and everyone is on their feet the ENTIRE game, there was no sitting at Michigan Stadium on Saturday.  Could it have been that everyone was so estatic because their rival Notre Dame was in?  Could be, however the crowd performed in simmular fashion last week against Western Michigan.

  So the game came down to the last play and Michigan won in dramatic fashion, but to me and many other maize and blue fans it felt like much more than just a victory.  It felt like a huge monkey was lifted off of our young team's back, like that 3-9 season last year is finally in the past and that glory days are soon coming back to Michigan.  The victory also showed the rest of the nation that we are for real and that we are worthy to contend for the Big Ten Championship.  Now the big question is "Is it all hype?  Can Michigan continue to grow as the season goes on", and my answer is yes.  Indeed our team is very inexperienced, but that could only help us if anything.  The lack of veterans could bring the team together in away that could surpass them past their other foes of the conference.  My prediction is a 9-3 record, which is a huge step up for the program, its players, and its coaches.

  Whether it was just luck or not this past Saturday, there is definitely a different feel this season when the players takes the field and everyone chants "The Victors".  So hail, hail to Michigan and we will see you soon Eastern Michigan.

First couple days of college

  So fare for me the whole college experience has been simply amazing.  When you're a freshmen and you picture college, you imagine snotty people and mean cold blooded professors.  At UMD, everything is the complete opposite of that, and I love it!  The professors here are very laid back and also they seem to be very understanding, but at the same time they show a little backbone, which is needed in order to succeed.  And the students, who i really do not know yet, also seem to be very cool.  One thing i found very frustrating was the parking lot!  It took me almost 15 minutes to find a parking spot.  I now know how early i need to show up for class in order to even make it there on time.  Well I've got to get going now, have some other homework to get done.