Something Else Funny

I laughed uncontrollably the first time I watched the show Bobs Burgers. This show is a hidden gem and the fact that no one else loves it as much as I do is a huge disappointment because it is so good. Me and my family have watched every single episode together. Most shows tend to take a "This character talks no one else does". This show is different and follows a more realistic approach involving certain points where multiple characters talk at the same time. This mimics times that I have laughed with my family or, sometimes, at my family. They tend to all talk at the same time and not take turns when they speak. The way people in the show talk and interact is more realistic however the situations they are in are not, such as owning a burger restaurant and having your daughter tell people the burgers are made out of people to impress her friends. This is in the first episode and I laughed so hard I had to pause the episode to wipe tears out of my eyes. There is a part in the episode where they begin arguing over why the oldest daughter is awkward with the customers which gets me every time. I showed this part to a friend of mine who found it funny but another friend I showed it to just found it awkward and not funny. I was severely disappointed. But when it comes down to it my family loves it like I do. Anytime I am home we watch a couple episodes even having seen them all. The thing that makes this show so funny is very based in reality characters who act like people would act in real life, in situations unlike real life, whose circumstances could never be repeated except in episode.

What did I learn

The answer to the above question is, according to test scores, apparently nothing. However I don't believe that test scores necessarily show how much someone has learned and I can go into a large rant about this however if that was the case this would be titled "Why grades are BS". In organic chemistry we have recently taken on substitution and elimination reactions. These are basically when a molecule loses a molecule or ion of something and in the case of substitution reactions gains another ion or molecule back. If this isn't correct well than it proves something else I learned. O Chem is hard. The average on this test was less than 50%. If anything else in the world was less than 50% it would be considered outdated or incredibly inefficient. Could you imagine if airlines where on time only 50% of the time? Or movies where only good 50% of the time? Your car only starts 50% of the time. this would be criminal, yet it is a normality in O Chem. I'm shocked there's more than 50% of the kids in there. In neuroscience I learned how we see which is one step short from magic. scientists classify light as a particle AND a wave. That is scientists almost saying "ya we have no clue what it is". Instead of saying its a particle and a wave, maybe we should, I don't know, invent a new way of classifying it. Instead of it has particle and wave properties it has.... Light properties. I can feel the Nobel coming my way. In sociology I have learned a great deal of info mainly about how the entire world forms who you are. A person in Japan sneezes and now I don't get married. The amount of jumps they make to how much you are influenced by your world is astoundingly hilarious. However I love Professor Whitworth so that's all that matters. In lit and civ I am learning about humor and blog writing. I can't believe some people get rich having blogs. Mainly because I personally have not read a blog in ever. in my 20 years of being me the first blog I have read turns out to be my own. Irony? Maybe we will have a session all about that in the coming weeks.

Whats Jon been up to?

Jon came over to play more Xbox today because we are men and that's kind of our thing. Today's game was GTAV we obviously we played that until we where desensitized to violence and the F word. Today had a lot more conversation involved than last time mainly because we hadn't seen each other in a while. My bet that if the was a IEP program he would be prom king. He gets a call almost every twenty minutes and about 10% of these are not in English. So proud of him. He asked me what are some good places to eat. I told him about Risceys which is a steakhouse on the Fort Worth Stockyards which if you have a chance go there. I also had the fun task of explaining what calf fries are as well as what some of that vocabulary is. If you do not know calf fries are bull testicles. So this was a fun conversation for both parties involved.
I also believe that that accent gets more ladies than I can fathom. When he is not on the phone talking to his friends about hanging out, he is killing his battery by texting the greater Fort Worth area. I asked him what else is new. He responded by telling me he recently got into K-State university for there Aircraft engineering program. Jonathan has decided that being the coolest man at TCU is not big enough and will be expanding his talents to K-state. He is not going until next semester (or the one after I'm not 100% sure) but has already started looking for houses. I hope that even when he leaves I can stay in contact and i really do wish the best for this guy, who speaks 5 languages lived in 4 continents and will be an aircraft engineer.

A phone call with Jon

On the 28th of September I received a hilarious but learning experience phone call from Jonathan. It was a Saturday so I was busy studying because as previously stated that is all I do. When I looked at my phone I had two missed text messages from Jon that seemed very urgent. large amounts of exclamation marks, some pleases thrown in, you know the thing. I called him back immediately and asked what was up. He said "Ryan, What is the American custom of birthday parties?" Admittedly I was stunned. I had never thought of this as an american custom until i really thought of all the times I've not seen foreign people doing birthday parties. I asked him to clarify in order to better understand the situation. He explained that he had recently been invited to a birthday party and that he did not understand the whole present situation. I explained to him that it is nice to get someone a present when they invite you to there birthday party and get them a card. about an hour later I received a call. "Ryan what should I get her?" Now I am stumped. I have no clue. I am a male and I don't get invited to as many parties as i would like to brag about. I sat down where I was to think. I made a large amount of mmm's and ha's before i admitted that i just didn't know. I asked the girl working the front desk and luckily she saved my life on this one. Starbucks. Girls love Starbucks. Boom. I told him to get her a 25$ gift card to Starbucks and call it a day. the funniest thing I guess would have to be the thought that something as seemingly simple as birthday parties are literally foreign to different people. I wonder if I was to visit France, DR Congo, or India what normal everyday tradition for them would I have a hard time wrapping my head around?