Dawgg

Sometimes I wonder if my dog knows what I'm saying when I talk to him. I mean if he's able to sit when I tell him to, who knows if he just recognizes the sound and is eager for a treat or if he really knows what to do. It's probably just the inflection of my voice because I can talk to him and tell him how ugly and dumb he is, but if I sound nice, he gets excited anyway. So I wonder what dogs are really thinking when you talk to them. Just because you don't have a language to communicate, doesn't mean you don't have thoughts, right? I can tell him to go get his ball and he runs and gets it, so maybe he's thinking, "Ooo I get to play!" He really does have some "human" like emotions though. If our other dog does something wrong (she likes chewing things up) he will run and hide until someone finds out. He will sit and cry forever because I think he knows she did something wrong and he doesn't want to get in trouble. He knows something's wrong and it's not anything like a word someone has taught him, so it must be his own thought, right? So my thought is, what are dogs really thinking? Will we ever know?

Google'd out.

You know how its really common to say you googled anything online. Anything you don't know, just google it. I don't even think about saying it anymore, it's just one of those things, it's natural. My parents are the kind of people who aren't really up to date with technology. My mom just figured out how to use the computer. So she's been finding all these people she knows and chatting online (she's on more than I am, I swear) and the other day I asked her a question, she didn't know and then she looked at me very slyly and said she would google it. She was so proud of herself for finally being able to use the phrase, and now she uses it all the time like she invented it. It's kind of sad. I almost don't even want to say it anymore because she uses it so often. Now, I use Wikipedia a lot. In the words of Michael Scott, "Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information." My parents, of course, had no idea what wikipedia is, or what we meant when we said we were going to "wikipedia it". Then the other day, I was talking to my mom when she looked at me and said...."I Wikipedia-d it."

I'm a rebel

I was thinking today about southern accents. I'm from Texas, but in the past couple of years I noticed I don't have much of an accent anymore. However, people still comment occasionally on the words I use. So I found this quiz online, called "Are you a Yankee or a rebel?" It was really cool because it really had more to do with the vocabulary used in different areas of the country, mostly dealing with the southern and New England areas. I like seeing how they had a question asking what I call soda. In Texas, everything, and I mean everything, is called Coke. If you're at a resaurant, you'll order a coke, and thats when the waiter will ask you what kind and you reply with diet coke or rootbeer or whatever. And I still get laughed at sometimes for calling "crayfish" crawdads. I'm probably also the only person with an "ant." I took the quiz and ended up with 100% Dixie, so now I know even though I don't have a strong Texan accent any more, I still use a lot of the words I learned there.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

Ok, so I'm sitting in my room, trying to study when this outburst occurs...I go out in the hallway to see who was making so much noise and I realize it's just two girls in their room. I honestly can't understand why, they're not arguing, just talking. WHY they have to yell so loud when they are five feet apart is what I don't understand. So I keep listening, and notice that one girl would say something and the other would yell "OH MY GOD, no f*ing way, things like that. What I'm wondering is if the volume of their voice really gets the message across any clearer. Obviously they're not deaf. I would understand a little better if it was just something they did every once in a while as a show of emotion, but it's ALL THE TIME. Every word has to be said at an unnatural level. I almost wonder if it's a control thing, whichever girl can talk the loudest obviously has the better subject to talk about.