Log o1 - 12.o5.o5
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a teacher, especially with kids like Rown. But then, I suppose it's because I get to teach and have fun with good kids...and well...MAKE FUN of bad ones. Rown probably offended about...20 thousand people today in about 2 minutes. That's quite the accomplishment, don't you think?
Basicly, we were talking about the Industrial Revolution. We began to discuss how first children would replace men in jobs because of how low they were paid and then woman would replace the space left when there weren't enough children to provide the labor cheaply. He asked "Is that like what the mexicans do to us, coming over the border and stuff?" Diego, sitting across from him, said rather sharply, "That has to be the most ignorant and stupid thing I have ever heard." Rown frowned and looked at me and asked, "Mr. Beech, are you going to let him talk to me like that?" Of course I just had to say, "Actually, Rown, that is probably the most ignorant and stupid thing I have ever heard."
And that was only half of it. Before I began to tell them how woman were paid less because of how our culture was formed originally and everything I asked them why they thought woman would have that problem. Rown just happened to blurt out, "Because they deserve less." Half the class was probably laughing while the other half-the female half- was glaring daggers at him. So, of course, I decided to pick at his statement, "Why do you think that, Rown?" And his reply was clearly without thought, "Cause...they're you know...woman!"
Boy those should be quotes for the ceiling. Along with "Alaska Alaska" and "Is Italy a person?". Yep, sometimes the intellegence of teenagers amazes me. But then, this is why I teach them. Plus it makes outstanding stories.
Oh...what was I writing this for again? Oh yeah. I went down to the beach the other day to meet up with Paul, because he was coming into town for a short time and I wanted to see him. Well...I didn't get to see him, he had something come up, but I did find something interesting. I found a small collection of eggs in a tidle pool. Now, the beaches are supposed to be dead and everything for what happened not long ago, but these sure weren't in davy jones locker.
I took them back home and put them in a tank with my room-mate's fish. Hey, figured if they lived up to this point they deserved to live a little longer, tough little suckers. But...well one hatched today. The others didn't make it, but what came out of that one was surprising enough.
It was a...um...hold on, let me make sure I'm spelling it right...Pikaia gracilens. Yeah, they're kinda not supposed to exist anymore. That'd be like saying a dodo bird was still alive...still don't understand what is with the name dodo but anyway...the Pikaia is a little worm thing. Yeah.
The colors are really weird. It's black with...yellow and purple? Sounds more like abstract art or a neon sign, but...I guess it's kinda cute. It sure seems to like me. Whenever I sit near the tank it swims near me by the glass. However, not matter how cute it might be, it might cause some problems. I have been keeping up with the news and well...apparently lots of other strange creatures are appearing. And they change into humanoids after time. This is like a real sci-fi flick, except without little green people named Yoda and the famous phrase "beam me up Scotty".
No, but seriously, half of society is for the creatures and the other half is well...fearful? Guess that's it. We humans have a history in being afraid of things different from us. I've decided not to tell anyone until I can think of something well...at least semi-safe to do. This log is mainly for the purpose of showing what I see with Lunation-the Pikaia-though I won't promise other stuff won't slip in here now and then.
-Rich
