Saturday, December 4, 2010

first purple candle down...2 more to go.

I'm sitting at my dining room table once again.....distracted from another final paper. This time, I'm writing about McDonaldization! Yahhooo! After I turn in this paper, I'll be finished with the class...and then I can focus on the rest of my classes. So cool. School's awesome, just really really time-consuming.

Last night I went Christmas carolling with some cool peeps.
It was pretty tight, I miss doing that. Some houses weren't very receptive to it....but honestly Christmas spirit and preparation for the real meaning of Christmas are quite lost in our society so.....they just need to suck it up. ;)

I started doing some applications this week, which has been making me think about my future a lot. It's really cool for me to think about my future...and kinda scary. I'm not ready to be a grown up...I'm too much of a kid at heart. Oh well. I can just be like my dad...who pretty much is a kid that just finished his career and earns money for his kids.

The second purple candle gets lit tomorrow! And it's Saint Nicholas' feast day Monday. Growing up, we've always had a lot of candy and celebrating and Christmas plays and all that junk on Saint Nick's day. I can't wait. I'm making cupcakes tomorrow for it.

~Esa Cita
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  1. Julia-AnneDecember 5, 2010 at 12:23 AM

    YAY ST. NICHOLAS DAY! Haha :)

    And wait, McDonaldism is the theory that two countries that have McDonalds will not go to war with each other? Or?

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  2. ~CitaDecember 5, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    McDonaldization is based upon the concept of rationalization. It focuses on the fast-food way of life and implications: "efficiency," "calculability," "predictability," and "control."

    It's argued that you can find McDonaldization in the invention of the credit card, ATM machine, shopping malls, college education, and pretty much all aspects of society when it comes to consumerism.

    It's also used in the argument that McDonalds is imposing Americanization/Westernization upon other countries where McDonalds are.

    So like in countries where you don't do service with a smile that McDonalds is supposed to do, the McDonalds in that locality imposes the service with the smile and that new aspect is now brought to that society.

    It's sooo fun to talk about!

    :)

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