Social Injustices

A long time ago Alanis Morrisette had a song called "Ironic" but it was blasted for not telling of things that were 'ironic.' Rather, they were just really big bummers.

I know this because I'm have excess knowledge of music.

If I were a singer, and I wish I were, I would have a song called "Social Injustices" and I'd like to share some topics with you:

1. For the first Saturday in A LONG TIME, I don't have anywhere to go, anything to do, nothing to study, no pressing matters. Tomorrow is also the first Saturday that there is no College Gameday and no college football on TV. Social injustice.

2. I have watched only two TV shows this semester and they are weekly: The Bachelor and The Office. I have had no time for others. Now that grad school is over for the semester, The Bachelor has ended and The Office is all reruns. I have no choice but to watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Social injustice.

3. I saw this cute boy in a big diesel truck ahead of me on my drive home today. He had an A&M sticker on the back and he looked good through the rear-view mirror. As I passed, he was clearly 35+. Social injustice. (Really, I blame this lack of judgement on my irritation from the traffic and on my dizziness from lack of sustinence at 6:30pm -mind you, lunch at 10:30- and I considered eating my Pei Wei with my fingers because like an IDIOT I told the cashier "no" when he offered "plastic utensils or chopsticks." At that point in the car, I wanted a chopstick to stab at my chicken terryaki rice bowl...or just to impale through my temple.)

4. We are going to see a play at the high school tomorrow - Sleeping Beauty. Today, we watched the 1959 movie version. (Don't worry...we made it educational and we will make a Venn diagram of the similarities and differences after we see the play tomorrow. But PRAISE PRAISE for quietness while the little children were enthralled in the outdated cinemetography of a Disney movie.) Let me just say that when I was young, I watched Cinderella, Mary Poppins, and Snow White countless times. For the life of me, I don't remember Sleeping Beauty and I, too, was riveted! Let me recap it for you: Sleeping Beauty has a spell cast on her by the evil witch that she'll prick her finger on a spindle on her 16th bday and fall asleep for 100 years and can only be awoken by a kiss from her love. (I remember this part, and while watching, I realized that it is SO TRUE that fairy tales engrain into little girls to have unrealistic expectations for the knight on a white horse to prove his love - which all happens in this fairy tale, aka FANTASYLAND. I caught myself saying out loud to the kids, "Oh he's going to rescue her and tell her he loves her! Watch girls!" What was I thinking?) Anyway, Sleeping Beauty, aka Princess Aurora, goes to live in the forest with the three fairies and they rename her Rose. Aka Miss Rose. The Prince comes to find her, they meet in the forest and dance and sing. At this point, a little girl in my class said, "Miss Rose, you look just like the Princess!" I thought that was sweet, because she couldn't differentiate between the lovely Princess and me, their terror of a teacher. Then, all of a sudden, "Rose" asks the Prince what his name was. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS? DO YOU? I'll give you two guesses. No, it wasn't Enrique. Phillip. Prince Phillip.

I hear that and OUT LOUD say, "Well this is going to end poorly." That was my last SOCIAL INJUSTICE.

Perhaps these items are just really big bummers. Regardless, I would like to blame someone or something and I choose to blame the social situations that we call life. Injustice!!