Let me set the scene.

Speight Building. Room 129. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:15 PM. Long, Narrow Room with 100 seats.I am the first to sit down in class. I pick the back so I can see what everyone is doing.

Now I dont particularly like taking intro classes because that means that I will be overrun by freshmen. Freshmen, in my humble opinion, should not be able to come to classes without taking and intro to intro class. Stupid comments and questions come out of their small, idiotic mouths. Now you might be saying, “Patrick, you were once a freshman.” To that I say, “Yes, but I wasn’t stupid.” Now my GPA was totally garbage and this was the only college I got in without having to sign on the dotted line and receive a uniform but I had enough common sense not to say the things they say in this class.

So lets get back on track. Got in class and was waiting for the teacher. She comes walking in looking like…well a hippie to best describe it.

No lie. She is about my moms age, 40-50 region. Anyways. She has extreme ADHD along with this hippie outlook on life.

Here’s the actual intro to this class given by her:

“My name is Dr. Rebbecca ———”, Name was disclosed just in case, “Well when I was in elementary school, I couldn’t spell my name so I just called myself Becky. And so all throughout school I was known as Becky, up into college, I changed it to Rebbecca. And well everyone calls me that now…except old friends who call me Becky…Anyways this is Intro to Sociology. How many people came through the front doors?” Half the class raised their hands. “Well go through there cuz thats our emergency evac route…we go out there(opens blinds) OH its nice outside, i might hang out there later, well you can see my office in the building across from this one and they had 4 fires last year, some pyro kept torching the maps in the history department…anyways if we have a tornado, earthquake, flood, um whatelse…VOLCANO, any major disaster we meet outside.”

Now I’m thinking…umm yes lets go outside because a building doesn’t provide decent protection from a tornado like being under a lamp post with the rest of my classmates…

“Well once we all get out there, we get our 2 buddies from here, pick 2 people who look responsible and make them give you their name, number, and place they live. So when we get outside, we will all hold hands and start singing.” She starts actually singing, “Give peace a chance”…

“Anyways, what was I talking about…oh yeah, intro to sociology. Anyone know what that is?” retard in front, obviously freshman. Oh yeah she is blonde too, stereotypes aside. “I have Anthropology and Psychology as well to Sociology, isn’t it basically the same thing since it has ‘ology’ at the end?” Teacher goes, “well..yeah it is sort of…” I drift off because I really don’t think anything else anyone says in this class has anything useful for me.

At the end of the class she asks “How many are freshmen?” about 80% “Sophomores?” about 15%. “Juniors?” Myself and 2 others. “Seniors?” 1 person.

She then asks, “Any more questions before we go?” Kid in the front, “Yeah, uh, well, do we have assigned seats like in high school?” What do you think kid? You just sat through a whole class talking about the syllabus and she didnt say anything about it…and THIS ISN’T HIGH SCHOOL!!!!

INTRO TO INTRO CLASSES - SHOULD BE MANDATORY!! It meets once a day for one week before classes start. Tells you where everything is on campus, what is required, and answers retarded questions like the above, “is all classes ending in ology basically the same?”

Ghost hunters is a show on Scifi, or now lamely named syfy, where they go around to “Haunted” places. They go on a tour of the house, ship, or restaurant and listen to the stories of the owners. They set up cameras and audio to catch ghosts while they walk around trying to find them themselves.

Ghost hunters academy is the same deal only 5 contestants train to become a ghost hunter and in my opinion, fail miserably.

I have beef with the cameramen.

1. Why not, when someone sees something, turn around and point your camera at it? Its not like we want to watch, face hunters…

                       “Tonight on Face Hunters. The team investigates a restaurant where they claim to have (now in a creeper, deeper voice) the best fries ever!” They hear the the claims from the manager and order the food. The manager brings out the fries and we dont see any of it. We see their faces. “OMG do you see these fries? wow these are amazing.” We just see their reactions to the fries. As soon as they are done eating them, the cameraman pans to the empty tray and we start to hear a voice over of the guy who just ate them. “Tonight was pretty successful. The claims that we heard are totally true.”

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yes my jokes are dry. drink some water and keep reading.

    2.   When they use THERMAL, the cameraman walks in front of them… can anyone tell me, does that make sense?

    3.   I know that they need proof of stuff but I dont think that dust counts as proof. OH dont get me started on stupid audio noises, NO ONE CAN HEAR!! they repeat it over and over and sometimes it sounds like either someone putting their hand in their pocket or wind for .025 seconds. They all go wow, yeah thats a ghost! I know, I heard that sound of my windbreaker rubbing when i was walking… I do enjoy steve and tangos little love/hate thing, kind of like a married couple, only more boyish antics.

I think that ghost adventures looks and sounds more real since they all carry cameras and they dont play around or talk a lot. He dubs over the show so he doesnt interfere with his findings, unlike ghost hunters.

I will give GH/GHA 1/10 for findings and professionalism, and 6/10 for entertainment purposes

So I got into the University of New Mexico and decided that since I will be Bajillions of miles away from any friends or family that I would make a blog. Now I am not a wordsmith by any means. So in advance, Sorry. I apologize for any misspellings, punctuation failures, or if I put “i” instead of “I”.

Grammar nazis be warned!!

I am also not liable for when you read this and wet yourself with excitement, intrigue, or if this thought goes through your head, “OMG!!! I. MUST. HAVE. PATRICK. GRANVILLE. BOTTING!!!”

I will be posting pictures of;

• Landscapes
• Pretty things
• School Work: Architecture/City Planning/Landscape Architecture
• Life in general

I will also be posting videos for you guys who haven’t seen my face or heard my voice for sometime. As soon as I pick up a new camera and video camera I will post something. But until then, all you get is boring text.

It is 3 am, so I think I will try to sleep. Feel free to add some comments or ask questions.

PGB