Last weeks class

Last class kinda hit home for me in a way. Talking about parents. One of my closest friends doesn't know who is father is and he comes to me sometimes and just talks about how he wished he had a father so he had some more guidance in his life and wanted to have memories with his dad. So last class made me think back to all the converstions we had about that. And it makes me realize how luck I am to have great paretns.

Ryan Hiepleh

ps.i'm shannon, not thomas jefferson.

Fancy seeing you here

Hello, I just wanted to show you a quote a found. "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
- Thomas Jefferson

Toronto Maple Leafs Win The Stanley Cup!

Just got this email from my Dad, it made me laugh (mostly because I'm sad it can't happen!) and I wanted to share it with you...

Canada was stunned Monday when it was announced that The Stanley Cup will be awarded to the Toronto Maple Leafs, possibly as early as December 6th. The cup will be stripped from from 2008 playoff champions, the Detroit Red Wings, and be awarded to the Leafs, who didn't even make the playoffs. How is this possible, Canadians ask?

Well, the Leafs have formed a coalition with Eastern conference semi-finalists the Montreal Canadians, and conference quarter finalists the Ottawa Senators, now outnumbering the Red Wings. According to current Leaf coach Ron Wilson, "The Red Wings have lost the confidence of the league and should hand the Cup over immediately to our coalition."

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is cutting short a European trip to try to resolve the unprecedented hockey crisis that could force a second playoff series, or see an opposing team coalition take the Cup.

Today

Hey, just wanted to say that one of your questions today.. do you think there is always a power dynamic associated with being a parent?... I feel that the power dynamic of parents and children does not last forever, i feel like when the child reaches an age where they live independently that power dynamic begins to go away. When I was young I felt much more of a power dynamic with my parents but now that I live away from home and do almost everything for myself that power dynamic has deminished.
However, I see the parental power dynamic in my grandmother and my dad. For Christmas this year my Dad just wanted to hang out at home with just our immediate family and not go to the big family function. My grandmother threw a huge fit about how 'when she is dead my dad can miss christmas but not until then, and that he and the rest of us have to go to the big party because it will really hurt her if we don't ' and just because my dad feels so bad about hurting her feelings ( the power in love? )now we are going to the family function she wants.

Impressed Les? I actually talked about something maybe relevant to power!
P.S im coming to your office tommorrow to get the sheet for that essay, i forgot today.
April

Hey

Looks like I should also make an attempt to blog. Let's talk about today's class. Les, you said we could be honest so.. I thought it was boring. But, that is probably because I have no interest in it. I'm not sure why.. I tried to get into it when you were talking but I just kept feeling myself drifting. Politics just aren't my thing, i don't think. No offence to anyone that enjoys it. And as for voting, I don't vote because I don't pay attention to the government. I don't listen to all this politics stuff, so if I voted, it would be a random vote. Which completely defeats the purpose.

Shannon

Prop 8 Musical

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This is hysterical. Who would have guessed that gay marriage would save the economy?

Down With Prop 8!
-Lauren