World Issues

When I was in grade twelve, I was in an integrated class called World Issues. In theory, this was a social studies class dealing with current events. The students included everyone from the with Down's Syndrome students to the accelerated learning students. ( It was an utter trainwreck. )

People Are Strange

Strange men with dirty clothes and unkempt hair and beards lurk behind my apartment building in the wee hours. As I was biking home from gaming the other night, one spoke to me.

Dirty man with greasy beard: Do you have a flashlight?
Me, biking my way slowly up a hill: Er, no. Sorry.
Dirty man with greasy beard: 'S alright.

I hope they're harmless.

Today I was hit on by a Hispanic man on crutches. At least he wasn't creepy.

I went to Body Step today, and learned that yes, I still hate step class. I felt like such a hamster, running up and down my step, and bopping around back and forth, back and forth. It didn't help that I took a bit of an asthma attack partway through, but I stuck it out, and it fixed itself. Next time, I'll try the cycling class instead.

We have a little Betta fish in the livingroom. He peers out at us from the murk of his green aquarium. If I could see him better, I might try to teach him tricks.

And now for a terrible joke:

Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly tripped and fell into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.

Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.

When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.

When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged because you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness."

"The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."

Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him up there to dry. How soon can I go home?"

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