This whole two hour gap thing

has got to go. I don't mind it that much, just I've run out of things to do. I left early this morning and sat in the library for about an hour or more doing all my readings for the next week of COMM 105, and even delved into the readings belonging to the week after that. Probably nothing wrong with reading ahead.

COMM 105 is "Human Values in the Mass Media" and the texts so far seem to be desperate to reach some sort of solution to destroying all forms of stereotyping but also appraising it as something neccisary to use in every day life. Without stereotyping we'd be so concerned with individuality that our heads would explode. It seems to me that there is no solution to the problem, because no matter what you do you're going to offend someone.

Pay too little attention to minoritys, they cry fowl. Pay too much attention to minorities, they cry fowl. Pay too much or too little attention to anyone, and there will always be someone off of the side complaining about it. How can you fix something like that? My main concern with anything regarding racism or stereotyping is that it's easy to see how the minorities would want to keep it around. It gives them something to complain about. You disolve all stereotypes and minorities, and no one gets special treatment. You're breeding stereotyping by making funds specializing disadvantaged minorities as if "majorities" aren't disadvantaged as well. Why not just have funds for disadvantaged "individuals" and not label them the disadvantaged hispanic/negro/asian fund? I guess it would just be too easy.

Sorry, went off on a rant. I could be writing a short one page paper for both my Photoshop and Networking classes but I'd rather sit here and bitch about stereotyping. You can actually hear my head splitting open and the contents spilling across campus if you listen carefully.

My time problem is probably already resolved since I can come in here when I like, it seems, and sit around doing nothing on the computer. This, too, will get boring very fast, but I'll manage. There will always be more reading to do, I'm sure.