Earthquake?

Wow, there was an earthquake over here. Well, not here here (NJ), but in Virginia. Virginia is like 8 or 9 hours away from here, but we felt it here in NJ. Even people as north as Rhode Island felt it. It was weird because it was a 5.9 which is something California would be getting. My couch was shaking and I didn’t think anything was going on. Then all of the news stations started covering it and I was like ‘oh my gosh, that was an earthquake!’. Thankfully everything is alright so if there aren’t any aftershocks, we should be safe. But I have to cancel my plans for today (just going to the mall ) because of earthquake safety stuff.

Did you feel the earthquake where you live?

The 90s are not All That

So TeenNick recently started airing old 90s shows at midnight. Everybody else is happy and I should be too, but I’m not. List time. And the second person refers to people on my newsfeed, not you specifically.  

• I saw several people my age (born in 1995) or younger (1996, 1997, etc) last night on my Facebook news feed with ‘yay it’s like my childhood again <3’ and stuff. By 2000, people born in 1995 would be 5 AT MOST and people born in 1996 would be 4 and so on. How much of your childhood do you remember from when you were 5 and younger? Especially what you watched? And a lot of these stuff strike me as older kids/ tween and up stuff. When I was a kid, I watched whatever was on PBS and Kids WB and stuff. I barely watched Nickelodeon, and if I did, it wasn’t Clarrisa Explains it All (which ended before I was born) or Kenan & Kel, but cartoons (Rugrats mostly ). And I know there’s syndication and everything but seriously. And a lot of people didn’t even refer to Clarissa as the show, but literally ‘the blonde girl’. If you can’t name her now, how would you remember watching her over a decade ago?
• The seizurific commercials. I don’t really have vision problems or anything, but there’s this one commercial that has clips of random shows and cartoons in 10 seconds… except they all flash before my eyes while I try to figure out which clip belongs to which show. For some reason the video won’t embed in here, so here’s a link.
• They got rid of Freaks & Geeks and Undeclared, which ironically got cancelled because of low ratings. I don’t care much for Freaks & Geeks but it was pretty good and Undeclared was really funny. They only started airing them in the middle of June, too! I get they both barely have 40 episodes combined but still.
• They’re airing them at the worst time of the day (night?). I get that it’s for teens and up so they could stay up late, but on the forums I visit most people were commenting how they had to TiVo it. Also, once the school year starts nobody will be able to watch it, and they’ll cancel it. They could air it several times a day, like from 12 to 2 PM, 6 to 8 PM, then one more time from 12 AM to 2 AM so more then one crowd could watch it. Okay, so that would be 1/4th of their programming, but still.
• And the worst offender… THEY SHOULD BE DOING THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS ANYWAY. The N used to show All That, Caitlin’s Way and other shows frequently. Now it’s just Dan Schneider’s old shows, including some that currently air on Nickelodeon. I don’t mind how often they show What I Like About You, Drake & Josh, or even Zoey 101 but I get so pissed off when they show iCarly, Victorious or Big Time Rush. We shouldn’t even have to be asking for it. Instead of showing iCarly or Spongebob for 20 hours a day, they could air these shows on Nickelodeon instead.
• Oh, and they’re milking it for all it’s worth. In every commercial, I see a Facebook or Twitter logo telling us to talk about it on Facebook or Tweet about it. During the actual shows, they show the twitter # (hashtag?) telling us to go online as if we forgot. And it worked. Last night most of the trending topics on Twitter related to the 90s are all that. I don’t have a screenshot on the laptop I’m typing on now but I’ll have it up later.

I guess it’s nice that they’re doing this, but I feel like it’s for the wrong reasons. And I’d like some reunions or other special features. I could go on YouTube to watch the same things whenever I want.

Melodramatic Teen Angst

I feel so blank lately. School ended a month ago (Shit, has it been that fast already?) but I still feel like I just got out of school so I could get away with doing nothing. I’ve just been so lazy lately that everything feels like a chore now. Like I have a summer reading assignment to just talk about my positive/negative reactions, comment on a literary style, talk about 2 short passages and compare and contrast and normally I’d be able to finish that up within a day or two but in the summer it just takes forever to get stuff done. I feel like getting rid of everything, Facebook, this blog, my LiveJournal. I don’t know why. I don’t talk to anybody at all on Facebook besides saying happy birthday so it’s basically useless to me at this point. I barely use this blog anymore because I have nothing to say. I’ve grown out of writing legacies so that makes my LiveJournal a waste of Internet bandwidth.

Okay, so this is probably just a combination of me procrastinating on my summer reading and learning how to drive in addition to watching Freaks and Geeks and knowing myself I’ll probably go under another personality metamorphosis before summer ends.

In other news, Rest in Peace Amy Winehouse. I’m not gonna lie and say I listened to her non-Rehab songs or ignore the druggy-jokes I made about her frequently but yeah, RIP.

Happily Divorced

I watched Fran Drescher’s new sitcom, Happily Divorced, right now. It’s alright. It’s based off of Fran’s real life. Fran’s husband of 18 years came out to her, but they can’t afford to move out so they still live together. Now we have to watch all of their wacky hijinks and shenanigans as Fran is now back into the dating pool and Peter is gay.

I think that based off of the pilot so far, the show feels like one big gay joke. Peter, the ex husband, goes to sing along nights for Sound of Music at bars, grooms himself (Okay, so this isn’t exactly a gay stereotype because I tweeze my eyebrows but I’m straight; but Peter obsesses over his appearance, waxes his chest, has blue contacts [just for his appearance], and dyed his hair blond apparently, so I guess this falls under the feminine stereotype), and he’s into ‘feminine’ things like landscaping the house, watching Glee or Gray’s Anatomy, and so on.

This really surprised me because Fran Drescher seems like a nice, non-homophobic person. She even posed for the N0h8 campaign. And she didn’t make gay jokes on The Nanny, which featured 2 episodes with gay people and a reoccurring joke that Max was gay because he works in Broadway. Then again, I don’t think she’s the writer, so I don’t completely hate her for it, and I guess anybody would be surprised/bitter if their spouse came out after 18 years of marriage. Peter, Fran’s husband in real life, also is working on this show, so as long as he’s okay with it, I guess it’s fine.

It has a good supporting cast. Rita Moreno is playing Fran’s Mom, and the Mom from Everybody Hates Chris is Fran’s best friend. There’s also Ernie from George Lopez who I’m meh about. I didn’t recognize anyone else, though.

I think the show would’ve been better if it was slowed down. Peter comes out to Fran and then there’s a time lapse thing where the show goes 6 months into the future. I thought it was weird. They could’ve have the first episode with Peter coming out or Fran dealing with Peter coming out. Also, when Peter came out, Fran looked completely bored. Her face was literally a type of face. I know she couldn’t be surprised because it’s based off of her real life, she has control over it, and they probably rehearsed it several times, so she had no reaction to it, but still. She’s on a show and she’s expected to act. Then the episode continued with Fran meeting a new guy (Asking if he’s gay, first), then their first date, the morning after, Fran’s parents coming again, and Fran’s second date. I don’t know how to describe it. It just felt really rushed. I really really hope that this was supposed to be a made for TV movie first and it was 90 minutes but they had to chop it down because TV Land liked it so much that they wanted to turn it into a show.

I’d give the show a 76 out of 100, which is surprising because I really love Fran Drescher. I hope the show gets better as it moves along. I remember Melissa and Joey had a bad first episode, but they’re coming back tonight and I’m actually looking forward to it. And Raven’s new show is on tonight as well. And there’s a third episode of Happily Divorced airing tonight, so that’s 3 shows in one night. Then once Degrassi comes back, that’s four shows in one night. Is it sad that my definition of making plans is watching TV? Yes? I thought so.  

 

 

The Jersey Shore

It bothers me when I see articles from ‘professionals’ on Yahoo! complaining about something on the Jersey Shore. A few weeks ago, there was an article about how people are annoyed that there weren’t any bathrooms nearby. And all the comments were cliché jokes like ‘Snooki flooded them’ or something. It’s really ridiculous. I mean, the boardwalk and the Jersey Shore are like the one thing that people like about New Jersey and sort of help us generate money, but ever since the Jersey Shore premiered on MTV, people have been treating us like we’re filthy, backwards people who are useless to society. And only one third of that is true.  

I read one comment complaining about how the beaches are dirty 24/7. I understand the beach is supposed to maintain everything, but 4 out of 5 cars I see are from other states. And people still think it’s NJ’s fault that we have obnoxious tourists. But anytime someone says something MILDLY negative about NYC, the first thing I hear is ‘it’s the tourists’ faults’. I swear. When I grow up, I want to work for MTV so I can have a reality show about NYC and watch them get crappy articles on Yahoo.

Now I read an article about some jellyfish-like thing washing up at the beach. There have been jellyfish over there forever and they’re only starting to complain now? Gosh. And it’s probably at other beaches, too, but ‘Jellyfish at Delaware’ isn’t as interesting as a title.

This reminds me of how in the ‘80s (I think?) Oprah said she stopped eating meat or whatever during the peak of Mad Cow Disease. Then the beef industry claimed she hurt their business and they sued her. Can’t New Jersey do that to MTV or Viacom? I’d rather have a show about mallrats on TeenNick or something instead, and it could be in the style of Jersey Shore. With people like ‘Orange’ Julius, DJ Mickey D… I swear. One day this is going to be made into a show and they’ll be making millions off of this idea.

Finals are Over

Finals are over at my school. Tomorrow’s my last day of school. I know, what an entertaining post haha. I don’t think I did too well on my finals but I can’t change that so no point in dwelling on the past, right?

That’s it for now. I’ll be spending the rest of today chilling and stuff.

Wish Me Luck!

Finals start tomorrow for me. I’m really nervous this time. I forgot a lot of stuff while I was working on my reviews so that’s not a good sign. And I’m really unmotivated right now. Fun times.

And in honor of finals, I’ll express my feelings with some Sally Forth comic strips I found from this website.

^ How I felt last week. Especially because I had absolutely no homework last week and it was 95 degrees ish.

^ My thoughts while working on my review guides.

^ Hillary’s last line made me chuckle.

 

But yeah. Time to study and stuff. :/ Wish me luck!

There’s Snow Place Like Home

Yesterday was the day Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas. And since I’m an Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Christian, I stayed home from school. I have to admit, there wasn’t really anything worth staying home for, because we just go to Church, but my Dad was busy because of work, so we couldn’t go. So I just tried to catch up on homework. But that didn’t really work.

Now before anyone comments and starts hating me because I’m using my ethnicity to my advantage, let me defend myself. I felt really stressed out and borderline depressed this week, because Holiday Break just ended, so I guess I needed a day off. Besides, I have known several people who have also done some similar things…

• My ‘friend’ (Long story) was absent for a week because of an ear infection. While she was at the doctor’s office, she said she took a few more of those ‘please excuse so and so’ passes. I don’t know if she needed to get them signed, but apparently, her doctor was okay with her taking passes.
• A girl in several of my classes has taken off for her sister’s Bat Mitzvah (Forgive me for any misspellings, I’m not Jewish and I’ll admit I’m ignorant) or something (She just said it was for her sister and then she was talking about the Bat Mitzvah so I’m just assuming they were correlated) and Passover, so I guess my religious holidays should count, too.
• Another boy who always cuts class, never does his homework and so on, took off for Passover. I’m not exactly so sure on how he’d embrace the holiday.
• A boy who was sick one day, came to school the next day, then was absent the next day because of make-up work. Although he claimed to sleep at 2 AM because of homework, so I could understand why he’d be absent.

And nobody went like ‘HEY NO FAIR THAT’S NOT A HOLIDAY, ARMENIANS DON’T EXIST!’. Okay, so that wouldn’t happen, but ignorant people would think that I’m just trying to cheat the system or something. One girl even said ‘Oh yeah! Yesterday was Armenian New Year, right?’. So I’ve done my job.  Even if she got the wrong holiday. I don’t even think there’s an Armenian New Year.

And in New Jersey, there’s another snow storm. So today, we had a half day in school. I don’t like how my district will do anything to avoid closing school.

I don’t know if you remember my lazy English teacher, but guess what happened? Today, I was just writing an assignment I missed from Thursday, and since my desk is literally right next to his, I just glanced at his laptop from the side of my eye, and guess what I saw? HE WAS PLAYING SPIDER SOLITAIRE. I was so pissed off. Like, OMG. Sure, we were working in groups, but it’s stupid that he expects us to have positive work ethics when he doesn’t.

But in other news, I got a 100 on a jump rope test in gym. Monday I was so inept at jump roping but now I actually got a 100 after taking countless retests! I’m pretty sure my teacher gave it to me out of pity, but who cares. xD

But I have homework in 6 of my classes. Sure, I only have to do 4 of them, and 1 of them is because I didn’t go to school Thursday, but it looks like I’ll be home all weekend, doing homework. Especially with the snow.  Oh well. As long as I can go to the mall once, I think I’ll be okay. xD

…. I’m like the shopping version of an emotional eater. I just go to the mall whenever I’m feeling bored or sad and expect all my problems to be solved. And I buy things I don’t need. In New Jersey, T-Shirt season is from late April, if we’re lucky, to the end of September, if we’re lucky. And I counted how much t shirts I have from Aeropostale in the summer, and I have… 20 something. And I’m pretty sure I’ve bought more since then. Hey, it could be worse. I could be buying EA products.

But I heard we might be having a snow day Wednesday. So yay for new uber snow detecting technology.

:(

So, today during dinner, I found out my Granduncle passed away. :’( Rest in peace. I feel horrible for my Grandmother. She’s in California now, and she never had a chance to say goodbye(He lives in Syria, along with most of my distant relatives) to her brother. :(

 

And I’m starting school again. I can’t go on as much, because whenever school starts or reopens(Like after breaks and stuff), my parents always try making us only allowed to go online on weekends. We eventually always get to go back online during the week, but it might take a while. I have school off Thursday and Friday, and since this is just the first week, my parents might be generous and let me go online(Or at least forget :P). I won’t be online as much. I know this sounds old by now, but I have 1 AP class, 3 honors classes, and my own life outside of the blogosphere. :P I’ll try to do some posts now and then, but don’t expect novel length rants anymore. Maybe this is a good thing? :P

So… um, bye?

Layout Update Makeover Thing

Happy Labor Day, everyone! I updated the blog's layout. And I'm almost done with my summer reading. :) Enjoy the remainder of your long weekend. Oh, and good luck to all my fellow students. :P

*And this is the first time I've posted using the Blogger website. It feels... odd. *

Dysfunction Junction

Since my Grandmother’s visiting California for like three months, my brother and I are watching TV in her room now, instead of just playing Sims in the living room with our parents watching TV. We decided to watch Nick@Nite with…. a George Lopez marathon. Aside from everything SS and I have said about how it’s on so much, now, it’s not that bad! As in, I actually like it! Nick @ Nite didn’t show the same 3 episodes with Jason, and I finally watched the episodes with Veronica, and the cliffhanger episode with Max drinking alcohol, Carmen opening college letters, Angie finding out if she’s pregnant, George and Benni dealing with her crime, and Vic proposing. And even if I knew the ending to those episodes, it was refreshing to see them. I disliked the episode where Ernie was obese and needed to lose weight. He was acting like a stubborn jerk the whole time and acted mad when he found out he had to lose weight. Yet when Benni had to stop smoking, they made her look like a villain. But yeah, besides that, I loved those episodes.

My only real problem with the show now is how ABC was stupid enough to cancel the show, replace it with Cavemen, then cancel Cavemen too. Honestly, it’s one of the only shows where I feel like I’m part of the group, not just a viewer. And there’s continuity, and real issues, not just vanilla-style relationships.

And I also started watching Roseanne because I heard it’s like George Lopez in the ‘90’s. And so far, I like it. The theme song is cool. 

Summer Reading

This summer, I started summer reading the week after I came back from camp, in the middle of July. I remember it was the day after the World Cup ended. And I’ve been working a lot, even on vacation. And guess what? I still haven’t finished. I only have to read like 3 pages from a history textbook, and read a Civil War book and write an alternate ending on it. The book has 3 copies in my county’s library system, and guess what? 2 of them are checked out. And the website said they were checked out near August 31st. I’m so angry that I have to go across the county to find it, read it, and write an alternate ending, when I could’ve check last week. My Mom’s just going like ‘Well, why did you procrastinate? You never had to work till the last week of summer on this stuff before’ and everything and I’m like ‘UM HELLO? I WAS WORKING SINCE THE MIDDLE OF JULY! That’s before any of your precious nieces even thought about school or anything other than partying and the beach’. It annoys me how adults still would yell at me for being lazy, but I didn’t start last minute, and I’m almost done with this crap. Honestly, it’s only procrastinating if you hold it off until the last minute. I started in the honeymoon stage of summer. :P

This AP stuff is just stressing me out. I’m almost 2/3rds done with the assignment, so I don’t want to leave now, and I’d have to wait until next week to change my schedule, but all the good electives and everything would be full, so I’d get a crappy schedule. But most importantly, I know everyone’s going to BS and suck up to the teacher the whole year, and I’m not ready to deal with that crap yet.

Summer reading in general just pisses me off. They give you such a limited selection of books, and expect you to pull the book out of your @$$ or whatever. Honestly, where the heck do teachers think I could find a book that was most recently printed in the 1990’s? And teachers only say it’s here to help us. Will reading Twilight or the latest Nicholas Sparks book really help me out this year? And I’m in AP and Honors classes. I don’t think a young adult novel will help me this year, especially if I’ll be reading deciphering books from the 1800’s. I believe it only helps people in slower/less advanced classes, because from what I’ve heard at school, they don’t have to read letters and essays from a while back. And in my school, a majority of the slower/less advanced students are in those classes out of laziness, not from learning disabilities, or being weak in the subject. So if those students who are trying to be ‘helped’ are lazy, chances are they’ll just Sparknotes/Wikipedia the book, or just watch the movie, or not do anything at all! So why should people who work hard put up with assignments in our break time because some people are being too lazy to work?

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Blog Makeover

I’m thinking about giving my blog a makeover. I’m not sure what I’ll have on it. I’m probably going to change the color scheme, the banner, and maybe, the layout itself. The nav bar on the right feels cluttered to me, with all the other blogs, tags, comments, and stuff. And now that I have some good male teen sim custom content, I can probably make a somewhat accurate (Or what I want to look like :P) Self-sim. The picture thing I have for my Blogger Icon is what I made in May, but I never played with him, and I never took any pictures other than that, so I’ll probably make a new Self-sim.

In other news, I’m almost done with 1/3rd of my AP US I stuff! :D That gives me till… next Tuesday to finish reading another chapter from another textbook, then a historical fiction novel. Oh, and I need to make my own ending up, too (3 Pages). And I have a test on the outline I’m making right now. D: My parents said that I can’t go online in the school year until I get an A. I’m pretty sure it’s one of those things parents say to scare their kids into getting them to do stuff, but if it isn’t… D:. Like I said before, I have a test on the first day of class, then Wednesday, I don’t have history. Then, my school is closed for Jewish holidays(I think Rosh Hashanah? Forgive me if I’m wrong :P) for the rest of the week, then I have class again Monday. So I’d be going a week without Internet. o.O So I’m really hoping they change their minds. Or I get some randomly pointless ‘Introduce yourself’ assignment in English or whatever in class on the first day, and then I get it back the next day, with an A. :P

I think I deserve something for making such a boring blog post. And you deserve one for reading it. :P

Cookies! Enjoy. :P

And the picture is from Google, as always. :D

Stop Calling, Stop Calling, I Don’t Wanna Talk anymore

Warning: This post is going to be long and me rambling about my lack of social life, so you know where the close tab button is. :P

So, way back in 7th grade, my twin brother and I moved to a new town and started going to a new school.  Fast Forward a few months later, and we made two new friends: ‘Don’ and ‘Mariah’. And things went smooth for the rest of 7th grade, but we had a few fights once in a while.

8th Grade started, and Don became extremely… different. He started cursing more, and he became more of a jerk. He always was sarcastic, but 8th grade really made him cruel. And Mariah started acting snobbish. She became obsessed with Don, but constantly denied having a crush on him, even though it was completely obvious. Then a few weeks later, we just stopped talking with each other. They replaced us with trashier people who listen to them, and do whatever they say. And since Don was on the very last end of the school food chain, it made us unpopular by association. Basically, school sucked because Don and Mariah decided to be immature little jerks who hate people because they don’t like to curse.

In March of 8th grade, Don and Mariah started going out. The two of them started acting really…. well, let’s just say, you’d find cleaner behavior in the Jersey Shore hot tub. And they were on our bus too, so we couldn’t avoid them at all.

Then… Mariah made a Facebook and started sucking up to EVERYONE for no reason. Literally. I’m talking about 2 wall posts a day to everyone, whether they replied or not, liking every picture you have and commenting about 5 times, and posting a bunch of those applications like ‘Who’s your soulmate?’ to everyone’s wall. So basically, everyone started hating her.

And one day, while Don and Mariah were… uh, intimate, on the bus’s backseat (Found from Google), Mariah’s Dad saw them, as he was driving behind them. And if the picture from above wasn’t clear enough, he saw everything, and she got owned, according to her Facebook status. I posted a snarky comment, which eventually turned into a huge fight between me and her. Guess what? She didn’t show up to school the next day and everyone agreed with me. Sure, it might’ve been a little cruel, but she deserved it. And over the course of a month, she tried starting more fights with me until she won, and she lost. Don tried to fight me for owning him and Mariah, but nothing happened besides a kick and some empty threats.

And that summer. another fight happened, but I’m guessing she stopped after that because of cyber bullying policies.  Oh, and in all of her fights, she’d use curse words and stuff like slut. Like she didn’t really have any real arguments besides being vulgar and cursing.

In 9th grade, Don and Mariah broke up, Don went to another school, and Mariah became depressed. And after my brother and I got a new ‘reputation’ for putting up with Don and Mariah’s crap and telling them off, apparently, Don sent all of his trashy replacements to annoy SS and I. To the point of stalking, sometimes. Honestly. Some ‘highlights’ include… stealing my backpack, prank calling SS’s cell phone late at night, ‘befriending’ me for a group project, then just acting like jerks(I knew what they were up to a lot, but the teacher was assigning groups, so yeah), and so on. But last night….

My parents sleep earlier than SS and I do. Around 2 AM, we were the only ones awake. We were just in the basement, watching TV and playing Sims. Then, at like 2:48 AM, I heard a phone call. I was worried that my parents found out we were still awake and wanted to use the Intercom-thing feature on our home phone to tell us to get up, but by the time we ran up to get it, it was a message. Someone just said ‘Get on Facebook’ and hung up. My Mom woke up and got mad at us for still being awake.

Then, this morning, our parents flipped out on us. They were like ‘Well, you guys always are on Facebook. People know if you’re on’ or something like that. Then they began to talk about how we ‘tell everyone our phone number’. Seriously, WTH? And now, we can’t stay up past 12:00AM, because obviously, our sleeping schedule affects stupid prank calls.

I have a feeling it was the trashy replacements who prank called us. They prank called SS before, so it’s likely they’d do it again. And it sounded a lot like them, and they know about my Internet addiction. Not to mention, I had my phone number written in one of my notebooks, which was in my backpack, so it’s likely that he found my phone number, wrote it down, then called it later. And earlier that night, my cell phone got a call from Restricted, AKA a prank call. It’s likely that it was someone else, but still. And I think I heard other people in the background, which would be likely, because they’re always together. Like at malls, school, Facebook, parks, and so on. And an unhealthy amount too. Like they’ve sat on each other ‘fighting for seats’, they’ve tossed coins, and wrestled each other ‘fighting for the coin’ and so on. And they constantly call anyone who isn’t ‘macho’ like them gay.

The only evidence against that theory is, that the phone number isn’t from my town(Thanks Google!). But, even that isn’t 100% true. The one who stole my backpack has mentioned that his parents aren’t together, so maybe he was at his Dad’s house or something like that. And he’s like the king of shoddy business schemes. Maybe he knows how to change caller ID stuff? And not to mention, online phone number stuff aren’t always accurate.

And it’s annoying, because what if it continues and my parents get angrier? And I didn’t even add them on Facebook! They wouldn’t know if I was online! And my parents think it’s only because of us. It’s also stupid, because I barely give my phone number out to anyone, and if I do, it’s my cell phone’s number. So my parents give our number more than SS or I do.

So, how do I end this toxic ‘relationship’? D:

Sorry

Sorry for not blogging a lot for the past few days. There isn’t anything to write about in the Sims community, for me, anyway, and I think I covered the heck out of shows and sitcoms. I’ve been trying(KEYWORD: Trying =P) to do my summer reading, well, finish the AP portion, and I have like 2 weeks to do it, so I’m pretty nervous about it. I know, you’re probably thinking ‘You had since the end of June, and you’re doing it at the last minute!’. That… isn’t true. I had since the beginning of June(Around the Alejandro by Lady GaGa video premiere), to work on it, but for the last month, I’ve been nervous about it and thought about switching out. Flash forward 2 or 3 weeks later, and I’m still nervous, but I’m working on the assignment. So, wish me luck!

And, ew, it’s getting cold and rainy again. Pretty soon, I’ll have to wear sweats again, and it’ll be dark around 4 or 5, and… ugh.

Schedules and Signatures

So today, after countless hours of waiting for the mailman, I got my sophomore schedule! Yay! Finally, the suspense is gone and I can see who else is in my classes and what not. I should be happy, right? Except, the guidance counselor people screwed up my schedule a little, and forgot to assign my lunch for one day. And some other schedule conflicts which I dislike…

• My gym classes are in the morning and afternoon. They both aren’t at the same time, but if they let us out late during the afternoon class, then I miss my bus, and need a ride home. Or, I could wait an hour and a half for the late bus, with a bus driver who scares me(I’ll explain later), and come home late and do my homework late and sleep late, and my sleep cycle would be ruined, which would screw me for my morning classes…, and you get the idea. This year, after some point in May, I started sleeping later and later because of homework. Then, I almost fell asleep in a lot of my classes, which sucked. But it’s only for the second quarter/term/marking period, so that’s not so bad. And then, there’s the whole Morning- My hair is ruined, afternoon- I come home sweaty and gross issue, but that can’t be so bad, right?
• 3 Honors classes and 1 AP class. Expect me to be on less.
• The teachers. About two or three of the teachers have a reputation for being tough. One of them doesn’t give out A’s easily. For an elective. And my Spanish teacher was talking about how there was a conflict about who would teach the upper levels of Spanish, and said it was narrowed down to two teachers. And my Spanish teacher is neither of those names, so I’m hoping that one of them just married/divorced/changed their name, and not a last minute girl who just got hired because she was the only one available. And even then, one of the teachers were really strict, and the other one was clueless, to quote my Spanish Teacher.
• Driver’s Ed. The closest thing I’ve done to driving is Mario Kart Wii. What if everyone knows everything and I don’t? What if I don’t pass the test and have to go retake it on my own time? And then, in NJ, we have to drive around with a supervisor for 6 hours. When will that be? During a busy weekday? Or on a weekend? And it’s just weird. Like at first, I use to sleep in the backseat on road trips, pretty soon I’ll be driving. And other drivers…. Yikes.

And this week, on Animal Farm The Sims 3 EA forum, they traded signature space for…. links to their social networking sites! I’m kind of happy and angry. The only good thing is now I don’t have to see people who just embed every video of every song they like or post all of their celebrity crushes in their signatures, so that’s okay, I guess. But that doesn’t make up for all the cropped signatures and how EA is being stupid, selfish, and hypocritical. I don’t mean to make fun of anyone who goes on their pages on those websites, but the Facebook one is seriously…. ugh. I’ve seen people who make Facebook accounts for their Sims and post every picture they take onto their album. And the second EA posts something, it gets millions of likes and comments within a minute. Their YouTube channel has okay videos once in a while, but I don’t go there everytime I’m online. And Twitter. I don’t even check celebrity-twitters that I’m obsessed with. Why would I follow EA?

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, I guess.

A New Kind of… Actually, No

So, last night I went to the mall. Sorry, Melissa Joan Hart! I didn’t watch your show! And ABCFamily decided to retaliate by have Melissa and Joey ads everywhere at the mall. Yikes. So, being the kind person I am, I decided to try watching M&J(Yes, I’m going to abbreviate it as that now.) online, on the ABCFamily website. And I watched the first episode. It was okay. It’s seriously… average. I’d give it a C. I remember watching some episodes of Who’s the Boss when I was 8 or 9 on Nick@Nite, and this feels like a revamp. Seriously. It has references to political scandals! Failing schools! And the economy! And they think they were being clever when at the end of the pilot, Joey tells Boy(I don’t know his name.) ‘Mom’s home’ and it’s some kind of symbolism for them living together with romantic tension. Reeeealllly clever, writers. I did laugh at the part when Lennox(I think?), the daughter, passed out letters about a rhyme for the principal, Ms.Lunt.

I haven’t watched the second episode yet, but that’s more out of laziness. So, do I recommend the show? Eh, it’s alright. Hopefully it gets better.

 

 

And what’s with schools who mail things out late? Schedules, progress reports, report cards, and so on. Yet they ask for the most trivial paperwork within a day or two of it being given, even if it includes 20 pages of forms. Schedules are especially ridiculous, considering most schools start course selecting near February, and I don’t think guidance counselors need 6 months to make schedules. Especially if they push students away after, saying that they are ‘extremely busy’. I’m just happy my guidance counselor helped fix my course selection sheet’s mistakes and typos.

Announcements

Warning: This post is just random Twitter sized statements concerning future stuff that may or may not concern you. So, you know where the ‘Close Tab’ button is. :P

• School: I finished my second summer reading book, and now I have to decide if I want to stay in AP or go to Honors, and then I have to either do 1 assignment and read 1 book for AP, or read 2 books for honors. Advice?
• The Timbersons: Expect a new chapter to be posted tomorrow(Well, it’s like 1 AM over here so I still consider it ‘today’), or rather around 8/12/10. Sidenote: Ewwwww, August is moving by too fast. *Ties Down*
• I made a LiveJournal! Yeah, it’s effortless, and I won’t be going on it a lot, but since a good portion of longer-lasting Sims legacies are over there, and I want to comment and stuff, I just made an account to get an upgrade from a ‘lurker’ status. :P
• And for the Sims, or rather, my Simming habits. In game, we’re almost up to generation 8, and posting wise, generation 4. Posting isn’t as big an issue as playing it, because it takes like an hour to load, which will become quite time consuming in the school year whereas posting doesn’t take as much time, and chapters can be as long or short as we’d like. And I have a huge feeling that Late Night will have a bunch of flirty/party animal reality show(Ahem, Jersey Shore) like stories, or will create a whole new ‘genre’(Could you call Sims stories that?) of it’s own… so be warned. :P

I’m back!

Hi guys! I’m back from vacation. Other than that… nothing new. So, what’s up?

 

And why does the mainstream media focus on back to school stuff… in the middle of July? Yes, in an earlier post, I mentioned they go school-obsessed in August, but really. Walmart, Sears, Yahoo!, ABC News, even MUSIC CHOICE embrace going back to school! And Walmart still has summer commercials for stuff like ice cream and pool equipment and back to school running at the same time! Seriously, Walmart. Learn when to air commercials, please!

Vacation!

Hi guys. I’m on vacation now, and I’ll be back around next Sunday, the 8th. I have Internet access, but it’s kinda suckish, so I won’t be on a lot. I’m just reading blogs and social networking and stuff so don’t expect anything big. :P

 

And eww. It’s August. No offense to anyone born in August, but it’s just ‘Back to School sale!’ month all the time. D: It’s like Sunday nights, except for summer.

So, have fun. And congrats to all you bloggers out there with hit-milestones. :)