writers block...
so for my anthro150 class we're supposed to write our statement of purpose which is the essay your right when you're applying to grad school...in anthro. i definately do NOT plan on wasting money on ANTHROPOLOGICAL grad school...so this is complete bs...but i still can't make up my mind. i think that being a local slug, i have an advantage over everyone (most everyone) else. i see the local side as well as the ucsc side of pretty much every battle between these rivals. i was going to write on ucsc vs. locals and show that they feel off each other but my friend Devon is writing on trannies vs/ locals and i think our topics might be too similar...even though he totally stole my idea...then i was thinking about doing like the overwhelming strong hippy vibe, and how that is just as biased as say Bush, but because I (and the majority of SCers) agree with liberal politics, we ignore the one-sided propaganda. like, how many fucking pack your trash tshirts are made in some Haynes sweatshop in Indonesia? Or perhaps all the forgotten non-hippies. The first stereotype most people think of in SC is some white dude with dreads smoking weed and surfing. Where does everyone else come into play? Like immigrants, republicans, old folks (who aren't retired surfers), UCSC students, commuters with billion dollar homes on West Cliff, Opal Cliffs, up behind Soquel High, etc??? They, too, are a part of SC and why is it that the model dreadlocked citizen excludes them? How would me doing field research help solve any of these problems? I have no fucking clue, that's why I'm as stumped as a chopped down tree. Oh! That reminds me, I could also look into the high rapidity of homes and suburban-type cookie-cutter houses popping up everywhere. Like there is some sort of housing construction going on in the North Harbor entrance off 7th. It's a freakin valley, with a huge slope. How is a neighborhood going to exist there exactly? And will SC turn into a complete commuter town after our economy suffers so much we can't afford to work and live in the same town? Fuck me, I'm confused.