Audience: American people

Character : man and a woman lost on a country road

Setting: A parking lot

Detail: An old camera full of undeveloped film

A warm summer afternoon was met as unwelcome as it could have ever been. A man and a woman trekked along the dusty road; kicking the dirt as they tiredly dragged their feet. The foreign landscape was dotted with trees just barely in view and not a sign of life in sight. A most barren environment made worse by the sweltering heat that could be seen rising through the air. Realizing how alone they truly were the couple switched their focus to survival. Spending hours searching for any peripheral objects that could possibly help them survive. A few paper cups and a stick later, the man decided that there was no resources worth looking for and gave up his search. The woman came back from her expedition with only an old camera. With little other choice the couple decided to sit down and rest for a while under the shade of some indistinguishable object. As they sat, the man watched as the woman curiously explored the camera. It was obviously lost; because an antique in this condition could never survive out in the elements for long. She played with the camera for a time until one of its compartments surprisingly sprung open. The man and woman spent much of the next couple of hours going through the undeveloped film that was found inside. Using the sun to see the film, the pair found enjoyment and sanctuary from the scorching heat by panning through the photos. The day turned into summer evening and the heat became much more bearable. The sun began to sink beneath the tree line and the environment surrounding the two became ever clearer as it progressed. The dirt road slowly became more visible, and yet more and more dark. As the man observed this new development, he had an epiphany. The couple was not on a dirt road at all. They had stumbled into a Wal-Mart parking lot and got lost in its vast desert.

Hey i would like to apologize for being late on this blog post, but I could not get the 'publish post' to work to save my life last night.

I feel like when at Virginia Tech, I am back in pre school or kindergarten again. Why? Cause once one person in the cubbies we live in gets sick everyone gets sick. My friend down the hall had a cough at the end of last week. Now at least half of my hall is heaving all day from it. Schiffert doesn't help you though. I went there today and they told me to get plenty of sleep, water, food. etc... My mom told me that this morning when I called her I could have just not wasted my time and skipped the visit out in the cold. I at least assumed I would be told I had Swine Flu or something neat.

Another cool site I have heard of a while back but just now checking it out is www. stumbleupon. com. You check some of your interests and this engine radomly generates a website or a picture or video that you may be in to. Some times the results can be odd at best, but other times you will spend a half hour playing a simple game the requires the balance of four things at once wondering where your time went ( the game is called Multi Task 0n notdoppler.com if you really want to check it out). It definitely is the perfect study break/ procrastination tool you could ever want. Why not check out a good lasagna recipe after watching a video with feminine dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
Finally, good job guys with the rhetorical analysis presentations. I thought most of them were actually pretty interesting and everyone knew their topic pretty well. It was definitely the furthest I have been from sleep in English class this semester. Oh and why aren't we ranked in basketball right now? Hopefully after we stick it to Wake Forest we'll get a little recognition on the national scale that we definitely deserve...

I would like to start by saying that I ordered a massive (that's right there's one bigger than extra large) pokey stix last night and it was the worst mistake I have ever made.

I can not stand the Virginia Tech Parking Services. These people have obviously been neglected as children or something and need some kind of professional help. I have never seen such an example of an organization that is just plain out to get you. I got a ticket during the first semester for having my parking permit visibly on my dash instead of hanging in the rear view mirror where the fine print says it is supposed to be. Was I technically in the wrong? Yeah I was. But it wasn't like I was parked on the front steps of Burress, I was about 15 aisles deep in the cage not even close to the front. The so called "attendant" had to have been walking in between the parking spots just looking for someone to give a ticket so they could get their power trip. They are not just out to get me though, they want to screw everyone over. I saw last weekend or so as I was coming back from McComas a mall cop writing a ticket for a van in front of student services. The rear wheels of the van were in the hash marks but were by no means blocking anything that I could see. An older man was unloading an elderly lady on a wheelchair lift and this parking guy is writing them a ticket? That is just shitty. For some reason these people seem to have no soul and could possibly not be human. My roommate attempted to protest a ticket he got and filled out the proper forms and everything. He had not heard anything from parking services four weeks later so he decided to look into it. Apparently they had a hearing they deemed not necessary for him to be aware of and decided the ticket would stand and had already applied the fee to his e bill.

I would like to discuss just how amazing Top Ramen noodles are. I'm writing this after preparing myself a delicious meal that costs less than a quarter to make. The chicken Ramen is unbeatable in flavor and all around feel goodness. I don't understand how something so pivotal to the food pyramid can go without the respect it deserves for so long. Anyway I've come to understand that Virginia Tech is known as the number one on-campus food provider in the nation ( according to a private review ). Compared to other campuses this may be true but after eating it for so long without a break all of it seems to taste the same to me. Owens is probably the biggest culprit of all in this crime. The general tso's (that you get three quarters of a scoop of and then 2 more on top) and the mexican food taste like they're made with the same stuff. Maybe it's the smell of all the foods in one place combining that makes me feel this way. D2, other than sunday brunch which is a staple of my diet, has only one good thing; the grilled sandwiches. I could my personal chef boyardee to cook me up something that tastes better than the italian food there. I will admit that during the first month of school I loved D2 more than anything, but after making three trips to the desert bar after every meal I started to rethink my life. West End's chop house is respectable, but the pizza is worse than out of a box. The fries and burgers and things are okay for a fast food fix but if I eat that I might as well wait til 2:30 a.m. and order pokey stix. My whole grieveance I suppose is that Virginia Tech shouldn't get as much credit for the food as it does. It does get me through my days and I'm stuck eating it it's not that big of a deal. But they must kick it up a notch when these critics from the reviewers come in because as a freshman going to the COLLEGE WITH NUMBER ONE FOOD IN THE NATION, I just expected more.