Why You Truly Never Leave High School

Don't you just love it when posts don't post? I logged out before it finished posting apparently and in the process kept it from actually completing the upload. Anyways Here Is my Tuesday In-Class response to "Why You Never Truly leave High School" By Jennifer Senior.

Personal Choice Blog

This weekend Instead of making food I actually went to a fancy restaurant to try food that I aspire to make. On Friday evening I went to a restaurant in Crockett called "The Dead Fish". Their menu contained everything from crab to pasta to steak. I wouldn't necessarily call it a surf and turf restaurant but it had similar qualities. I saw many people order the steak but seeing as the restaurant was known mainly for it's seafood I weighed all of my options. I saw giant plates of fried calamari being brought out to tables. They had many different options for sea food. I had trouble deciding whether I wanted to try pasta (my usual favorite) or some sort of seafood dish that is unique to the menu. I have been wanting to create a seafood dish for quite some time now, but I have had a difficult time figuring out what sort of dish I want to make.
 I finally decided to order crab fettuccini, figuring that pasta with seafood is something that would be practical for me to try and make. My friend ordered the crab lasagna. I got to try a little bit of both dishes my but dish was the favorite of the evening.
Pasta is one of my favorite foods and anything smothered in garlic and butter sounds like a wise choice to me. The crab tasted extremely fresh, the crab meat was cooked to perfection. It was white with just spots of pink. The noodles were thick and when the bites were paired equally with pasta and crab they made an amazing treat. The crab lasagna my friend ordered was equally as delicious as my own plate. It wasn't typical lasagna composition. The lasagna was a square of compacted angel hair noodles, with crab and lobster mixed with garlic and butter. The top of the lasagna was covered in a "pepper-jack" esque cheese.  My experience at the Dead Fish was definitely an enjoyable one. I plan to make crab and lobster fettuccini for my next personal choice. I think it would be a delicious treat for my family and I.

This is the view from the Dining Area

My Friends and I, A Post 9/11 World

I feel that I will never truly understand all of the effects September 11th 2001 had on my generation. I can't talk about my loss of freedom or liberty or the "tight security" the government seems to run on our lives. I will never know how my life was changed by that day because I don't remember life before it. My parents remember walking up to the terminal gate to meet loved ones. They remember taking any size liquid on the plane. My parents remember when it was a rare occurrence to see an individual person pulled out of line at security or at the terminals. I don't remember any of this. Even though I can't compare my life before 9/11 and my life after 9/11, my generation will be some of the last children to remember the tragedy of 9/11. We don't remember life before its effects but we know our parents lives were changed forever. One thing that my generation seems to have, because of 9/11, that our parents do not, is a low tolerance for those different from ourselves. We think its natural to automatically assume someone from Middle Eastern descent could have terrorist relations. The fear and suspicion we have towards those we think may be a national threat has been natural to us our entire lives. For my parents, this feeling of suspicion and vulnerability is brought on by fear of a repeat 9/11 massacre, their feelings post 9/11 unlike ours are not natural. To my generation, and the generations after us, we will have a hereditary fear of terrorism. When my mother was a child her generation worried about nuclear war. My generation fears terrorism. Maybe my generation is de-sensitized to the feelings of others in a way that we can't control. Many of us assume that it should be no inconvenience for a person, suspected of committing a crime that hasn't happened yet, to be pulled out of line for the sake of everyone's safety. My generation looks at profiling as a matter of security and safety and protecting what's ours. Rarely have I seen the people around me stop and consider the feelings of those we so blatantly mistrust. To many of us, national security is of the upmost importance, because we have been raised with the belief that there will always be a hidden enemy. That is the impact that 9/11 has left on us. The belief that we can never trust our government will do their job fully, or that our nation will be safe from those who want to hurt it. My generation will always fear the hidden enemy within our country. My generation will never truly understand the effects of September 11th 2001 even though we were alive during its terror. It is the effect that it had on older generations that has changed our lives forever.