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Mar. 16th, 2006 06:57 pm
an update from the world of kim
I had my 6th Dale Carnegie session yesterday. We practiced speaking "impromptu", which I actually found quite useful. I think I'm finding the public speaking aspect of this class the most helpful. My biggest problem with the two-minute time limit is that I never hit it. I'm always ending my talks way early, and I wonder if that's because I am just a very concise person, or if there is something I'm forgetting that I should add in. Hmm...
I'm making friends with the scientist girl. I wonder if I should invite her and her husband to Korean BBQ? (Which, by the way, anyone else wanna join?) I think she's a few years older than me, but we're both the youngest in the class.
I know people say that money doesn't buy happiness, but you know what it does buy? Freedom from worry. I am so much less stressed out these days now that I know for sure I can take care of myself, and take care of my family if they need it, too.
I watched Black.White. Did they do a search for the "DUMBEST WHITE MAN IN AMERICA" or what? I read an article in the LA Times (I'll dig it up later) and apparently no one learned anything, people questioned the "reality" of the reality show (oh that never happens!), if people did things differently because the cameras were obvious, the staginess of certain things, and the Ice Cube theme really really sucks.
The white guy, Bruno, did not even look like a black guy. He looked Indian to me. And he is the dumbest guy in America - he thinks all black people need to do to defeat racism is "be polite and respectful". (OH MY GOD! WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT?) I think he was the guy on NPR that irritated me. The white woman just looked awful in the black makeup and looked like she was part of a minstrel show. Her daughter, Rose, looked pretty convincing. You know what's funny? So they have her attend this slam poetry class, and have her read a poem that she writes. First of all, she reads her poem from her Mac iBook, which is so weird, when everyone else brought paper. She didn't have a printer?
Second of all, her poetry was really provocative. I kind of wonder what she was thinking, even if I think her writing was actually really good. And how old is she?? She looks fourteen! What do I remember most from her poem? "Sticky fantastic".
Yup, "sticky fantastic".
I'm making friends with the scientist girl. I wonder if I should invite her and her husband to Korean BBQ? (Which, by the way, anyone else wanna join?) I think she's a few years older than me, but we're both the youngest in the class.
I know people say that money doesn't buy happiness, but you know what it does buy? Freedom from worry. I am so much less stressed out these days now that I know for sure I can take care of myself, and take care of my family if they need it, too.
I watched Black.White. Did they do a search for the "DUMBEST WHITE MAN IN AMERICA" or what? I read an article in the LA Times (I'll dig it up later) and apparently no one learned anything, people questioned the "reality" of the reality show (oh that never happens!), if people did things differently because the cameras were obvious, the staginess of certain things, and the Ice Cube theme really really sucks.
The white guy, Bruno, did not even look like a black guy. He looked Indian to me. And he is the dumbest guy in America - he thinks all black people need to do to defeat racism is "be polite and respectful". (OH MY GOD! WHY DIDN'T WE THINK OF THAT?) I think he was the guy on NPR that irritated me. The white woman just looked awful in the black makeup and looked like she was part of a minstrel show. Her daughter, Rose, looked pretty convincing. You know what's funny? So they have her attend this slam poetry class, and have her read a poem that she writes. First of all, she reads her poem from her Mac iBook, which is so weird, when everyone else brought paper. She didn't have a printer?
Second of all, her poetry was really provocative. I kind of wonder what she was thinking, even if I think her writing was actually really good. And how old is she?? She looks fourteen! What do I remember most from her poem? "Sticky fantastic".
Yup, "sticky fantastic".
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