15. AIR FORCE ROTC CAREER DAY
Only 4% of Air Force personnel are pilots, so what does the rest of Air
Force do? Come find out for yourself what the Air Force really is and
discover the opportunities that are yours for the taking as an officer in
the United States Air Force. Air Force ROTC Career Day is an annual
tradition of the UGA Detachment 160 of AFROTC where active duty
officers take their time to present their career fields to us, the students.
Tue, Nov 11, 3:30pm, Location TBA, Pizza & drinks at the end.
We will be hosting the largest and most diverse group of officers the
event has ever seen. Twelve active duty Air Force officers in law,
logistics, intelligence, finance, personnel, and more. There is no
commitment for coming to the meeting. It is purely informational.
Visit and join our Facebook Event "Air Force Career Day 2008"
for more info and updates.
So, that's pretty exciting. I'm definitely going to go to that.
On another note, my roommates have again started pulling more shenanigans. Had I written this entry last night, I probably would have started ranting and raving and going off like a crazy person like my last entry. However, I've decided to take the high road. I've decided to not let it get to me because that's just what they want. As a brief overview of the latest grievances follows:
1. Thursday, Oct. 23 - John and I were sitting the the couch watching The Office, smoking apple flavored hookah and had 4 candles burning. She comes in and sprays Lysol in the air by her door. Then she goes into Paul's room. Then a minute later she comes out again and sprays the aerasol directly in our direction, over the hookah and in front of the TV, in the process, spraying both John and I with mist. Then she went back in her room. Like it even mattered. Like she was even in the living room at all to be bothered. She just went in her room.
2. Friday, Oct. 24 - She puts a plastic trash bag over the hookah in the living room. Even though it wasn't on or anything, it was just sitting on the table. I can understand them moving it to the floor out of the way, but putting a trash bag over it? It's not like the shisha is going to jump out and give her lung cancer. They also pushed the coffee table all the way back and put the old TV on top if it. Now, this could have been for several reasons, so this doesn't really bother me, but the trash bag on the hookah? Juvenile.
In any case, I just don't really care. It's not worth my time, effort, or energy to spend thinking about why or try to reason what the heck her problem is.
I can understand how she might have a problem with smoking in the living room, even though there's just as much evidence against the harms of smoking hookah as there are for the harms of smoking hookah, and wouldn't want to be around it. I can understand how she'd want half of the fridge. However, all of these things she hasn't just come and spoken and asked for a compromise. With the fridge, she just pushed all my things to one side and wrote on the fridge that half was hers. To me, that's not compromise, that's not healthy discussion, that's ultimatum. Writing on the fridge gives no area for any other voice of opinion on the matter. In regards to the hookah, she's only asked that it not be in the room at all, she's not offered a compromise that maybe we only smoke it after 10 after she goes to her room for the night and other times smoke it in our own room during the day, maybe with an exception when we have friends over. People come over specifically to smoke hookah sometimes because it's a social thing, but its not often, and it's usually at night anyway.
She wants people to treat people her the way she treats people, but so far she's been nothing but malicious towards us; the trashcan, the hookah covering, the aerosol spraying, and possibly moving the TV (although there are legit reasons for that other than they just are refusing to use our TV.) She says she wants to voice her problems, but voicing them on the white board leaves no room for discussion or compromise. Like I said, ultimatum.
Anyway, like I said, I am not going to play petty games in return. I did think of a thing or two when I was angry, but I'm going to take the high road. I don't know if I can say the same for John. Anyway, that's about it.
1. Thursday, Oct. 23 - John and I were sitting the the couch watching The Office, smoking apple flavored hookah and had 4 candles burning. She comes in and sprays Lysol in the air by her door. Then she goes into Paul's room. Then a minute later she comes out again and sprays the aerasol directly in our direction, over the hookah and in front of the TV, in the process, spraying both John and I with mist. Then she went back in her room. Like it even mattered. Like she was even in the living room at all to be bothered. She just went in her room.
2. Friday, Oct. 24 - She puts a plastic trash bag over the hookah in the living room. Even though it wasn't on or anything, it was just sitting on the table. I can understand them moving it to the floor out of the way, but putting a trash bag over it? It's not like the shisha is going to jump out and give her lung cancer. They also pushed the coffee table all the way back and put the old TV on top if it. Now, this could have been for several reasons, so this doesn't really bother me, but the trash bag on the hookah? Juvenile.
In any case, I just don't really care. It's not worth my time, effort, or energy to spend thinking about why or try to reason what the heck her problem is.
I can understand how she might have a problem with smoking in the living room, even though there's just as much evidence against the harms of smoking hookah as there are for the harms of smoking hookah, and wouldn't want to be around it. I can understand how she'd want half of the fridge. However, all of these things she hasn't just come and spoken and asked for a compromise. With the fridge, she just pushed all my things to one side and wrote on the fridge that half was hers. To me, that's not compromise, that's not healthy discussion, that's ultimatum. Writing on the fridge gives no area for any other voice of opinion on the matter. In regards to the hookah, she's only asked that it not be in the room at all, she's not offered a compromise that maybe we only smoke it after 10 after she goes to her room for the night and other times smoke it in our own room during the day, maybe with an exception when we have friends over. People come over specifically to smoke hookah sometimes because it's a social thing, but its not often, and it's usually at night anyway.
She wants people to treat people her the way she treats people, but so far she's been nothing but malicious towards us; the trashcan, the hookah covering, the aerosol spraying, and possibly moving the TV (although there are legit reasons for that other than they just are refusing to use our TV.) She says she wants to voice her problems, but voicing them on the white board leaves no room for discussion or compromise. Like I said, ultimatum.
Anyway, like I said, I am not going to play petty games in return. I did think of a thing or two when I was angry, but I'm going to take the high road. I don't know if I can say the same for John. Anyway, that's about it.
2 comments:
Please review the article in this link:
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/02/the-rising-allure--and-danger--of-hookah.html
And from the Mayo Clinic:
Although many believe that the water in the hookah filters out all the "bad stuff" in the tobacco smoke, this isn't true. According to a World Health Organization advisory, a typical one-hour session of hookah smoking exposes the user to 100 to 200 times the volume of smoke inhaled from a single cigarette. Even after passing through water, tobacco smoke still contains high levels of toxic compounds, including carbon monoxide, heavy metals and cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens). Hookah smoking also delivers significant levels of nicotine — the addictive substance in tobacco.
The trend of hookah smoking has doctors and public health experts concerned because — despite claims to the contrary by many users — smoking from a hookah is just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
I am disappointed.
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