So recently, I have been faced with a choice. When you realize you did something wrong--even completely unintentionally--what do you do? Brush it under the rug, or come forward and right the wrong, even if you could have gotten away with it, and even if other people may be dragged down with you?
It is not really an easy thing to do. But I pray I am doing the right thing. What do you do when you have unintentionally been caught up in academic dishonesty, and you know if you continue to bring the whole thing to light, someone else may get into some serious honor-board trouble--and you may have to look them in the eye when it happens?
I can say it is often easy to speak to a teacher in private, and reveal your part in the whole thing, apologize, and do what you can to redress the wrong. But it is much, much harder for me to do the same thing knowing that the other person may forever after blame me for their getting "caught" or punished for something they don't think was a big deal.
I guess the only thing I can think of is that I want--and am commanded to have--a reputation of highest integrity. Dishonesty that affects others like that should not be ignored when I can do something to address it. Should it?
I think it is *incredibly* presumptuous and arrogant of Obama (and the press!) to be continuously putting out press releases and flaunting his non-existent office of "President-Elect". Someone needs to tell him his term starts on January 20th, and not a second earlier.
and maybe afterwards we can still say stuff. my favorite is Q: "What do alabama fans and maggots have in common?? A: They can all live off a dead bear for years! :) hahaha.
Virginia grows on you. No really, it does. At first, all I can think about is how stinkin' COLD I AM. Because it is pretty freezing up here. But then, you start to realize "Hey, it's actually really pretty up here", and how people aren't RETARDS when they drive (*coughcough*ATLANTA!*cough*), and how much you really do miss your friends you almost never get to see, and how you forgot how much you love your idiosyncratic cat...
And then I realize how conflicted I am. Because I love Alabama, too, with its warm weather, rabid football fans, and general South-ness. Not to mention conversations that aren't allowed north of Huntsville. :) Yeah. You. You know what I mean. lol.
I love it all. I especially love that I got honked at a couple times on the drive up here, for the Auburn sticker on my car. Once by a semi! War Eagle.
awww. Amberly...I miss you! It's so lonely at home. I've been sleeping w my bedroom door locked. It's entirely too quiet. Before the end of the week I can see myself talking to walls.
