Enterprise: the place where dreams...

...Die? Come true? I've heard both- with valid arguments on each side. My friend, Adam, always affectionately referred to Enterprise Rent-A-Car as the place where dreams die. He wasn't saying it was a bad place to work- it's just that enterprise likes to recruit fresh college grads- you know, the energetic go-gett'em kids that still dream about saving the world. Enterprise is the place where dreams die because aspiring super heroes  cast aside their dreams, unknowingly at first, to put on a suit and climb the corporate ladder. And the truth is, at almost any ERAC meeting you attend, they'll go around the room introducing everybody and without fail, at least 4 or 5 people will say, "well, it was just a job right out of school. It was just supposed to be temporary... and now it's been 9 years, and I'm still here..." Not that that's a bad thing. Maybe we aren't saving the world- but we've got steady paychecks and good work in an uncertain economical time in the world. So maybe that dream of being a super hero does die. But that other dream- you know, the one where you get to pay your bills and can afford to buy groceries? That one gets to come true. 

I am a HUGE twilight fan. I can admit it. I get totally sucked into the completely unrealistic fantastical love story about teenage vampires. And I LOOOVE it. Here's my thing: I love these books- PEOPLE love these books- BECAUSE they AREN'T realistic. Isn't that why we read novels? To escape the total monotony of our human lives? Seriously, I wake up, work out, go to work, make dinner, go to sleep and do the exact same thing the next day. And I suspect I'm not the only one. This is why we love our escapes- our movies and book and crazy stories! These things make life FUN. So what I don't understand is why I'm reading whiny reviews about Stephenie Meyer's last book, Breaking Dawn. Just take a look at this:

"Disappointed fans say the book is rambling and poorly written, that plot elements are illogical – how can a vampire, the living dead, father a child? – that characters are askew and the book's tone is out of sync with the rest of the series." -SeattlePI.com

DUUHHH. Of course the plot elements are illogical- that's what freaking makes this book amazing! And this person is concerned with whether its logical or not that a vampire can father a child? Well, after the first three books, CLEARLY this is the first unrealistic and illogical thing we've encountered... I mean, sure vegetarian vampires might exist, and I'm sure the werewolves are actually out there too, but Bella getting pregnant?? That is just WAY to unrealistic! Geez! What was Stephenie Meyer thinking??

Blah Blah Blah. The point is they all live happily ever after, we don't have to think to hard about it, and it's just a good read! Give it a break people! How realistic did you expect this thing to get?