I know I've written a couple blogs about nursery rhymes, but they raise a lot of questions when you think about them. They also aren't very logical. Maybe Mother Goose is actually a conspiracy designed by the KGB to make the Allies to think illogically and turn into Communists. I just don't think anyone has the courage to come out and say that they are wrong. If it isn't a conspiracy, then what are we trying to do to the next generation of dominate Americans. Are we trying to confuse them? I'm surprised that children just don't sit down and start crying after reading them, because they are so confusing. I think someone should write some rhymes that actually make sense and are educational instead of the confusing rubbish that children read now.

Have you ever sat down and thought about the rhyme about the lady had a lot of children and not much money, so she raised them in a shoe? First of all, how could she have had children without a husband, unless she went out of her way? Maybe that's how she made money. I think I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say that her husband left her. But then the question is raised about how she doesn't have enough money. She could take her husband to court to get child support. There is also many government programs to help unfortunate people. I don't think she would have enough money to afford a shoe to live in. Can you imagine how big of a shoe that would be? I think it would cost more money to build a shoe that size than it would just to buy a little apartment. I think that America is just trying to poison the minds of the same people that are suppose to take over for us. Maybe we are just too prideful to think that any generation could be as great as us, so we try to impair our kids. Who will ever know?

Have you ever wondered about the nursery rhyme about the guy who had a wife, but couldn't keep her, and so he locked her up in a pumpkin? I certainly have. I mean, if he couldn't keep her, why not just let her go? Maybe he was a very controlling man who didn't want to be embarrassed. I think that it'd be more embarrassing for people to know that you locked your wife in a pumpkin shell, but that's just my personal opinion. I think the reason he couldn't keep her is because he probably spent all of his time loving his pumpkins too much. I mean, how else could he grow a pumpkin big enough to force his wife into exile? And I also don't believe that she lived there very well. What did she live off of in the first place? I think it would be pretty boring to live in a pumpkin myself. Also, wouldn't she just have been able to easily dig or eat her way out? Maybe she was mentally unstable, and so that's why he locked her up. I guess we'll never know the why's about Mother Goose and her nursery rhymes.

Reflecting back on my childhood brings back many memories. One of these memories is a rhyme that I had to practice a simple little piano song to a bunch of times. It is, "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" I always wondered who was the stupid person that would even ask such a question. I mean, does any even know what a woodchuck looks like? I've always thought it to look like a beaver. That assumption could be very wrong. If people really wanted to educate young minds as they were painstakingly having to practice a eight measure song over and over about a woodchuck, you would think they would have the courtesy of at least putting a picture of one in the book also. Also, wouldn't a woodchuck be able to chuck wood? If not, why would they call it? If it chucked something else, like it's dinner, then why not call it the dinnerchuck or berrychuck? Maybe it's just me, but usually people name things for a reason. Also, why would a 6-year old being forced to learn to play piano want to know how much wood a woodchuck could chuck? All they care about is finishing their 15 minutes of practicing so that they can go play outside. Anyway, maybe this is a question that no one will ever know the answer too, except for that stupid guy who thought of the question in the first place.

I used to work at a sub shop called Charley's Grilled Subs. It was a pretty fun experience, and I noticed a lot of things working there. One of them was differences between girls and guys on what meat they usually ate. Guys usually ordered one of our steak sandwiches, whereas females usually ordered one of our chicken or turkey sandwiches. I always wondered why that was the case. Maybe male taste buds are different than a female's, therefore they like different kinds of meat. Maybe society has just conformed to the old stereotype that beef is a man's meat, and chicken is a lady's meat. I may never find out exactly why it was, but there certainly is a pattern.

I think that there should be a limit to how much teacher's expect you to spend on projects for school. I recently built a trebuchet for Physics that had to throw a shot put about 100 yards. The whole project probably cost me and my group around $150. People might say, "Well, it is to show that you understand the concepts." But we could've been assigned to build a smaller one that could've cost less than half as much. We would've still be able to show that we understood the concepts. I think that $150 for a single project is really excessive. Maybe if the teachers would just be more realistic. Parents already pay fees for high school at the start of the year that can end up being over $200. That's excluding fees for taking AP and the ACT tests, tours, club fees, etc. But then we're still required to build a project that ends up costing us over $150. I truly believe that the school district should set a limit and the teachers should assign projects that realistically fit within that limit.

Lately, I've been wondering why the end of the term seems so far away, when it really isn't. This past week, I was thinking that the term ended in like a month, but it actually ends in two weeks. Maybe it's because I've been missing some class for a DECA competition or something like that. Maybe it's also because teachers just aren't really saying much about it this term. I think everyone at my school agrees with me also. I mean, when I saw that, I started asking everyone about it. Everyone was really surprised that it ended in two weeks. It seems like midterm was just a couple days ago. I don't know what is floating through the air, but whatever it is, I think it will be gone next term. People count down the days until the end of school. It's crazy. Anyway, I guess I'll just have to deal with it.

This past week has been a pretty stressful week for me. I've been assigned a bunch of projects by my teachers, and I've been trying to do makeup work because I've missed class. I've also been preparing for the State DECA competition that is this week. This made me wonder, "Why do teachers seem to assign big projects at the same time?" I first thought about the time of the year. It is in the middle of the term, which would seem a good time to have a project. Mid-term is definitely better than at the end of the term. Maybe teaching is actually a conspiracy against teenagers. I mean, if you think about it, there are some scary parallels to high school and jail. We are required to be in school by law, and are penalized if we are caught out of school with an excuse. We have a set schedule that we have to follow. There are religious things that we can attend if we want to. Those are just a few. To tell you the truth, I really don't believe that there is a conspiracy. I think it was all coincidence, or it was just because it was in the middle of the term. So, the morale of the story is that when it comes to be the middle of the term again, be prepared.