Feb
12
2009
Naperville, always winning awards…
Naperville, IL one of top places to live (again)
If you click on the link you can learn more about Naperville. I like the tagline under the photo: “Front yards in Naperville are big enough for a mean game of Slip-n-Slide.” Really? Cause the houses are so crammed together, and giant, I didn’t think you needed a front yard for that. You can just put it in your giant basement that is a pool and a tennis court. It’s kinda sick around here sometimes.
Oh, Happy Birthday Lincoln too!
Something else you guys may be happy to know, so far I know I got into UIC and DePaul, and I am waiting for my packet from Elmhurst. It should be here within a week, if I am lucky. They emailed me to say it was going out, and they had some other questions, and by what they were asking I’m guessing I got in there too. So yay! I have choices! Right now, I would really like to go to Depaul, but there is a full tuition scholarship for Elmhurst that I am going for. If I don’t get it, I will be going to Depaul. But, if I get the free tuition I’m going to Elmhurst. UIC was my back up, assuming I didn’t get into any of the other colleges. SO…. YAY! Chances are high I’m going to be living in the city (Chicago) in August! Or, in the case of Elmhurst, NEAR the city.
That’s all for now. Tell your friends and your friends friends about my blog, because my payment plan went down… I don’t get as much. I get paid only by people visiting my site now!
Feb
11
2009
Dear Darwin,
I know today is February 11, and your birthday isn’t until tomorrow, but I wanted to get a start on celebrating. I just wanted to thank you for bringing into our world your revolutionary theory about evolution. Thank you for traveling to the Galapagos and studying birds and for your studies of fossils. Thanks to you, the religious world (at least here in America) was rocked to its core. You were thought of as blasphemous, a rabble rouser, and a heretic. However, we now know you were a brilliant and free-thinking man, who was immersed in understanding why we came to be instead of just accepting the common religious “we just are because god made us that way”. Thank you for believing in something more.
To this day, your theories are still changing our world, and they are still widely accepted as the current theory. They are also still instigating problems within the Church here in America. While most of the rest of the world’s religions have no problem incorporating the theory of evolution with their religions, here in America we love conflict, and will keep it going until who knows when. We even have prominent political leaders who are obviously not part of your “survival of the fittest” who do not believe in evolution. Or, maybe because they have money they are the “fittest”? Our culture has taken your theory and turned in and twisted it in ways that you couldn’t imagine in your day. The fittest does not mean simply how healthy you are or how beautiful you look to get a mate, but in our day it means how much money you have, if you have diseases that can be cured by our technology, and even how socially acceptable you are. We are pretty “fit” today.
Well Darwin, you were a true revolutionary, and thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for your contribution to our society!
-Kara
