get it together whenever you're ready...

I was walking out of a class today when I overheard two girls behind me, also in my class. They were talking about the story of King Solomon and the baby and trying to decide who its real mother was by cutting it in half, etc, etc. Anyway, the one girl was telling the other that her brother was in a class in law school with a Jewish professor, and that there's a Jewish version of the King Solomon story. HELLO. The King Solomon story IS a Jewish version. It's in the Old Testament, where everyone followed the law and waited for the Messiah. So whether they were directly descended from Judah or not, they were Jewish. I don't understand how people don't realize these things.

Honestly, saying there's a Jewish version of King Solomon ranks higher on the ignorance charts than not knowing that there's a difference between male and female circumcision. Both are well up there though. And a twenty minute discussion in my humanities of Islam class trying to explain the difference without getting too graphic resulted in a married woman with a child stating that there was no difference. Now, an unmarried girl not knowing is slightly more understandable, but really?

And I just got an email from a Candice Gutierrez, who I don't know personally, but she lost her calculator and emailed the whole class. In a six sentence email she used the word "anyways" four times. Essentially to begin every sentence. I'm not the master of transitions, but there are better words. Especially since "anyways" isn't officially a word.

So I'm done being self-righteous. Have a wonderful night.