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Sunday, 26 September 2010

  • Misleading Intentions

    I need something. I will do whatever is necessary to get it.

    Recently, I proposed a new program to Xsus Institute and they adopted it with some conditions attached. One difficult condition was the enrollment numbers. While I did my best to advertise and promote the new program to people, I realized this would be a bigger problem than I anticipated. Following further talks with the Program Coordinator Davis, it seemed like it would be up to me to find the students. Even though I made a strong case for the benefits of the program and the adoption of the program at an early age would benefit Xsus Institute greatly in the long run, there would be no bending the rules for an introductory class.

    Finally, the deadline is here and I have vacant spots to show for it. Unwilling to let prior work go to waste, I put my head down and thought harder of ways I could fulfill the contract conditions. As if I was to be tested on virtue and vice, an evil thought popped in to my mind. "I know what to do!" You see, I've been thinking of how the program can benefit people, whereas I should have been thinking of the people I can benefit from. Instead of promoting the program intensely to strangers, I should have been using the connections I had to support my program. "A-ah!"

    I flipped through my phonebook and made a list of all the individuals, who would say "Yes," before I had been making a list of all the people, who would be interested. To my surprise, this worked much better and I was able to achieve my mission of satisfying the conditions. However, I ended up using misleading intentions to accomplish my task. I don't know whether to be concerned, but I am.

    There is a girl named Lucy, whom flirts quite a bit with me. I mean, boys and girls do it back and forth, mostly in good fun all the time. Now my concern right now, is whether I used her attraction to lure her in to my program (which is good), to obtain my own selfish means.

    I am definitely not looking for a relationship right now. Therefore, is what I did wrong?

    Maybe I'm misreading the whole thing...but if I try to clear it up...I risk embarrassment or being a jerk.


    What am I without ethics and morals?

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About Me

  • My two passion in life at the moment is reading books and writing thoughts. I'm not very good at either yet. As for my social life, well I'm working on that too. Seems like I have my work cut out for me. Also, I tend to get excited a lot, but usually over nothing. I just have the one blog so I tend to post all over the place. If you want variety or inconsistency, then you found it.
Books

[ ] The Way Home by George Pelecanos, a crime thriller based in Washington, D.C.;
[ ] Lush Life by Richard Price, a story of race and class set in New York's Lower East Side;
[ ] Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded, on the benefits to America of an environmental revolution;
[ ] John Adams by David McCullough; [ ] Plainsong by Kent Haruf, a drama about the life of eight different characters living in a Colorado prairie community.
[ ] The Fountainhead & Atlas Shurgged by Ayn Rand
[ ] Domain by Steve Alten
[ ] Bag of Bones by Stephen King
[ ] Dante's Inferno by ?
[ ] Master of the Game & Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
[ ] The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
[ ] Dracula by Bram Stoker
[ ] A Great & Terrible Beauty/ Rebel Angels/ The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
[ ] The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
[ ] Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
[ ] Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
[x] A Midsummer Nights Dream & Othello by Shakespeare
[ ] The House of Night novels by P.C. & Kristin Cast
[ ] Black Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May & Andre Norton
[ ] Blood & Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
[ ] Wicked Lovely/ Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
[ ] Tithe/ Valiant/ Ironside by Holly Black
[ ] Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
[ ] The Bhagavad-Gita
[ ] On Liberty by J. S. Mill
[ ] Confessions by Saint Augustine
[ ] Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
[ ] Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
[ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
[ ] The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
[ ] The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
[ ] The Republic of Plato by Plato
[ ] The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
[ ] The Rules Of Attraction
[ ] The Picture of Dorian Gray
[ ] The Time Traveler's Wife
[ ] The Stranger by Stephen King
[ ] The Glass Castle: A Memoir
[ ] In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel
[ ] A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
[ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
[ ] The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
[ ] Jesus' Son
[ ] Ordinary People
[ ] Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
[x] Life of Pi
[ ] The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
[ ] Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
[ ] War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
[ ] Hamlet by William Shakespeare
[x] The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ ] In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
[ ] Middlemarch by George Eliot
[ ] The Long Walk
[ ] Ishmael
[ ] Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
[ ] Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Foer
[ ] Extremely Lous and Incredibly Close Jonathan Foer
Psychology or Sociology: [ ] Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality
[ ] Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
[ ] Sex and Gender: An Introduction ed. 6
[ ] Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges ed.6
[ ] Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
[ ] A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
[ ] Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
[ ] Symbols of Transformation v.5
[ ] Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
[ ] Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
[ ] Liars, Lovers, and Heroes
[ ] Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice
[ ] A Whole New Mind



Movies

[x] Inglorious Basterds
[ ] Law Abiding Citizen
[ ] Taking Woodstock
[ ] Crimes and Misdemeanors
[ ] Brazil
[ ] Adaptation
[ ] The Weatherman
[ ] Hardcandy
[ ] The Children of Heaven
[ ] 500 Days of Summer
[x] Fighting
[x] I Love You, Man
[ ] Food Inc.
[ ] There Will Be Blood
[ ] Bolt
[ ] Milk
[x] Push
[ ] Eagle Eye
[x] Wall-E
[ ] Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
[x] Public Enemies
[ ] My Sister's Keeper
[ ] Harry Potter/Half-Blood Prince
[ ] G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
[ ] Ponyo
[x] District 9
[ ] Serpico
[ ] Dog Day Afternoon
[ ] Scent of a Woman
[ ] Citizen Kane
[x] The Godfather
[ ] Casablanca
[ ] Raging Bull
[ ] Singin' in the Rain
[ ] Gone with the Wind
[ ] Lawrence of Arabia
[x] Schindler's List
[ ] Vertigo
[ ] The Wizard of Oz
[ ] City Lights
[ ] The Searchers
[x] Star Wars
[ ] Psycho
[ ] 2001: A Space Odyssey
[ ] Sunset Boulevard
[ ] The Graduate
[ ] The General
[ ] On the Waterfront
[ ] It's a Wonderful Life
[ ] Chinatown
[ ] Some Like It Hot
[ ] The Grapes of Wrath
[x] ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
[x] To Kill a Mocking Bird