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This post will eventaulyl be replaced with an in depth look at my favourite blogs. Or maybe just an in depth look into Gen's blog, and a list of all my favourite blogs. Or maybe just an in depth look at Gen's blog :D. This stub is a reminder to me to expand it so I don't forget what I wanted to blog about

Partying back to the old days

Last night I went and celebrated a friends birthday with a bunch of friends. This party brought back memories of the simpler times. Memories of childhood, and the days when party did not mean a bunch of teenagers drinking till they puke. It was a simple affair, supper at a local restaurant followed by swimming, rock band, junk food, and chatting at somebodies house. It reminded me so much of the parties from when I was young. Home made birthday cake, balloons everywhere, confetti guns, and glows ticks from the dollar store. The only thing missing was the traditional party games. All in all it was a fun night. It reminded me of the simpler days, and that you don't need to get drunk to have fun.

Computers Are Useful

I've never really realised how useful computers can be until now. When I heard a fellow classmate complain about testing his program. I added a super secret simulation mode to my program so I can let the computer run all my tests for me. Sort of like they do in the reall world. I guess he wasn't smart enough to think about something like that, taking the time to play through an entire game just to test if he fixed his error. Me I just press a few buttons and the Computer instantly plays a 30 turn game for me. Instant results. All I have to do is go back through the boards and make sure there are no illegal moves and that all the proper changes have been made. Perfection is great aint it.

To Visa or Not To Visa

So I am getting my first Credit Card soon. It's a TD visa card. Now that brings up the question of to use the Visa or to not use the Visa. When do people use a credit card, when is it smart to use a debit card, or when should you just use cold hard cash. There is some sort of limit though by the fact that I will have a $500 spending limit. And the high 19.75 % interest rate is also something. Anyways these are the questions that the young have to ask.

Plants are not inanimate

So I was randomly singing one of the songs from Little Shop of Horrors yesterday. The "Feed Me" song. I really don't even know if that's the name of the song. But I realized that Seymour says "You're a plant, an inanimate object." Yet by definition, a plant is not an inanimate object since they are living organisms and even have some form of movement (research flowers that tilt into the sun). So in a way, the plant was right to say "Does this look inanimate to you." Creepy.

In other news, I went shoe shopping yesterday. I was looking for new shews to replace my old good shoes. I went to a discount shoes store since its the only place nearby. I originally tried looking for shoes in a 9 1/2 W but they were to big. In the end I had to go all the way down to a size 8. I ended up buying the most darling pair of black heals. They have about a two inch heel, are made of synthetic material, and have these adorable little bows on the front. You might say they look like they were made for little kids but honestly, what little kid wears high heels. Anyways their awesome but I have to wear them around the house before the gala. I don't wear heals to much so it will take some getting used to. I think I'll Post a picture later, since I don't have any pictures right now.

Today the yearbooks were handed out. They increased the price by $3 this year so that the year books could be printed in full color and I must say it was worth it. The photos look so much better in color. However they messed up on my grad writeup. They only printed like half of it. But at least they put the AV team picture in this year and I even got a picture in by myself. One where I am eating in the AV office. Mr. Rocko says that this is the first year they have gotten the name right, calling us the AV team instead of the tech crew. The only bad part is that, because of the timing, Jane is still in the picture even though she quit the team. That might make her think that she is still on the team.

Another bad thing is that we have to clean up the cage sometime soon. It is a disaster. I say leave it until after exams, when Craig and I have graduated. I don't get the point of Mr. Rocko taking the time to organize everything to his liking when he is about to graduate. If you think about it, it might be smarter to let the Orange Hat Boy organize the cage since he is going to be team lead next year. Speaking of OHB, B-rocker to Mr. Rocko that OHB has to set up the sound and lighting for the Athletics banquet all by himself (with supervision) to prove that he can do it. On the bright side, PHead seems to have accepted the fact that OHB will be team leader next year and he (PHead) won't. Although I suspect he is just biding his time to come up with a plan to take power. At the start of the year he tried to take power from Mr. Rocko, even going so far as to say "Do you mind if I sign this as Co team leader." For a guy who wants to go into the military, he sure seems to have a problem with authority. He wouldn't go up to his commander and say "Do you mind if I sign this as Commander Phead". Its just not right.

I don't know why I have been going on for so long. Probably because Mr. Rocko is working on English in the resource room so he is not here to continuously interrupt me. I still have another 45 minutes of spare though. If I had known that Mr. Rocko was working in resource this period, I would have gone home at lunch time.

With yearbooks always comes another thing, yearbook signings. I haven't gotten a lot of signatures since grade 9 but I think I will try to this year, seeing as how I am graduating. I will probably bring my yearbook to Band Practice this morning and get some of my fellow Band members to sign it. It's kind of sad to think about how fast these past four years have gone by. Or that I will be going of to University next year, 7 hours away from home. And that Mr. Rocko won't be an hours bus ride away because he got wait listed at the university he wanted to go to.

In other news, we had the cake auction last Friday I think. Mr. Rocko and I were the representatives for our class. Our class only raised like $11 so we only got one thing. Mr. Rocko was left bidding while I went to get a microphone from the cage and when I came back he told me that he had bid blindly on something. We later found out it was cupcakes. There were not enough for everyone so those who had contributed money got a whole cup cake and I got a whole cupcake because I was a class representative and everyone else had to make do with splitting cupcakes.

I am starting to get worried because I have to by a prom dress soon. I have not worn a dress since I was 12. I don't own any dresses and I have no idea where to go shopping for a prom dress. I don't even know what a prom dress looks like. Any hints would be appreciated.

I had a busy weekend because I had a lot of things to study for, including a biology test, a math test, and a math summative. I am also busy studying computer science since our written test is coming up soon. Basically that's everything in my life right now. How boring!

Dirty Jobs

So my mom has been after me to clean my fish tank again. I sort of said that I would clean it two weeks ago. And she decided that the time has come to offer me "extra incentive" again. My internet stays of until I clean my fish tank. So not fair since I need internet for everything and because, the way I see it, is that everyone gets to enjoy having the fish, but only I have to feed them and clean the tank. And it's such a big job everytime I have to clean the fish tank. It takes like 45 minutes. In my opinion its 45 wasted minutes. Why can't the children pick up their own toys?

Post Secondary Obesity

What is a worse problem, second hand smoking or post secondary obesity. First of all, a lot of people suffer from obesity as children so to fix the problem you're really going to have to stop it at its source. Second of all, as Mr. Rocko pointed out, second hand smoke will kill you but who ever heard of someone dying from second hand fat. But apparently the health people of this city/province/country feel that post secondary obesity is a bigger problem than smoking and are transferring all of the expose funding there. These people have no idea what the hell they are doing. But I think we already new that from the health minister. They were talking about weather or not Medical Marijuana studies are a priority or not. Most teens would say yes but I have to say no, not really. There are plenty of other things out there that will kill you that need attention before medicinal marijuana.

Oops not that way

So I got lost driving home from my friends house today. The people who designed the intersection there were brainless. It is so confusing and it's impossible to see the street signs. It took me 15 minutes to get home since I had to drive all the way around Bridlewood. On top of that, my dad informed me that the car could have stopped at any time on me since he was changing the battery earlier today and hadn't finished tightening one of the rods. Rod coming apart= stopped car. Anyways it annoyed me that it took so long to get home. On the other hand I did get to sigh see a bit. It all sucks in the end. That combined with the fact that I have school tomorrow makes me pissed of. On the bright side the reviews form Little Shop of Horrors were out in the paper today. The full review complemented Mr. Rocko and I.

Community Cleanup day

To be edited later after we clean up the capital and maybe visit Tim Hortons. Sometimes it is kind of gross to see all the garbage in our community. And speaking of gross, Mr. Rocko is discussing sperm count with B-rocker. That is beyond gross. Anyways cleanup starts in ten minutes.

Edit: So comunity cleanup day went fine. We ended up in an area that was actually fairly clean already. We picked up a bit of garbage but not that much. We relaxed in the shade some and then went to Tim Horton's. After we came back and had a barbecue. Mr. Rocko was playing music and got a lot of requests. Especially from the break dancers. A couple of the break dancers actually graduated last year and were coming back to visit. One of them was really fine. When he stood on his head his shirt fell down and I could see his muscles. He had really nice abs. I don't even know his name but he was friends with the Breakdance King. The break dance king was sort of weird and there are rumours going around that he got a teacher fired by sleeping with her. Personally I don't think that is true, especially since the teacher is still in the system. The same people were also talking about what happened to a certain chemistry teacher who had to stop teaching halfway through the semester. So far all of it is just rumours and nothing has been confirmed.

So I have to work on Friday. I have to run the equipment for the school movie night. It's annoying because they are watching "Accepted" and I own that movie. Up until yesterday we asumed the Pig would be running things since his sister was one of the organisers but then she told us that the Pig would be away at camp. And since Mr. Rocko will be working I have to stay and run things. That also means I might not be able to go stargazing with the astronomy club. We haven't been able to go out at night in so long so I'll be really disappointed if we're going out and I can't make it. I couldn't make the last session either because I was away for the weekend at a hockey tournament. I'm looking forward to it even though the spring/early summer sky is not nearly as good as the winter sky. We missed so much this past winter becuase the skies weren't clear or because people couldn't make it out.

Mr. Rocko keeps talking about skiping Computer Science. And the sad part is I think he may actually be serious this time. He keep's leaving me really concerned. At least I know that he has not left yet since his bag is still in the office. But still... he keeps threatning to skip and has said that he has just given up on Computer Science. I don't know why but it makes me so sad I almost want to cry. I'll see what I can do about helping him finish his bit patterns assignment, since the teacher has basically said that we don't have to finish the permutations assignment (even though I already have). Anyways I'll see what I can do for him.

Ouchies and Boardem

There is not really much to say right now. My back is sore and I don't know what to do. I went to Mr. Rocko's yesterday and I had a rehearsal during the day but that was about it. Nothing major happened during rehearsal except that the Pig wasn't there and he never said he wasn't going to be there. I am worried a little bit about school because I have a Computer Science test and a Biology quiz on Tuesday but I haven't studied yet. I'll study Computer Science with Mr. Rocko during spare tomorrow since he is in my class. I will have to study for my Biology quiz tomorrow evening. I got 60 % on the last quiz so I have to study really hard for this one since I need to raise my mark. I also have a Math test approaching and I need to catch up on some Math tomorrow evening. That on top of rehearsal after school. I really don't know what I am supposed to do.

Universities that try to much

The universities that suck the most are the universities that try to much. One university that I applied to has pretty much insured that I would never even consider accepting their offer of admissions. For one they offered way to quick, only a week after I applied. Second of all they have become the annoying fly. They constantly send me e-mails, letters, flyers, even telephone me to ask if I have any questions or to tell me about all the events they have going. I really don't care. It wouldn't bother me so much if they only sent one letter or flyer but it is the mere amount of their communications that puts me off. In my eyes it shows a certain desperateness if they are going to such lengths to attract students. I think that universities that try to much such as this one should take a good long look in the mirror and give themselves time to think. Cub Carson. They might just figure out why they are not attracting many students.

Somebody Quit

So we have had an interesting last couple of days. On the weekend one of the team members, Jane, sent Mr. Rocko a really weird e-mail that left Mr. Rocko severly disturbed. Then said member said on Monday that her younger brother sent the e-mail because she let her little brother reply to her e-mails for her. Mr. Rocko started joking around with her about forwarding the e-mail to all of his contacts and she got severly pissed off, enough that she said she was quitting. Personally I am glad that Jane left since she was a real bitch. Somebody said that they was glad that she quit and the Director will probably be glad that she quit as well. Obviously she wasn't much liked around the team and the cast of the play. Mr. Rocko thinks she flipped because she really sent the e-mail herself and was pissed that Mr. Rocko would invade her privacy by showing it to everyone. Don't know why she thought he would keep it a secret though. Mr. Rocko already told her there was no point in her telling something to just him since he would just tell me anyways. Foolish little witch. With Jane gone and Mat completely unreliable these days, the play could be in trouble.

The Teen Years

The teen years can be some of the most troulbling years. Luckily for me those years are almost over. Midterm report cards come out next week for the final semester of my final year of high school. I don't have much to worry about. I'm getting ok grades and I was accepted into the Computer Science program at the University I wanted to go through. But now I have to worry about getting high enough marks to make an 85% admission average in order to retain my scholorship. Normally that wouldn't be to hard except that I am having trouble with Geometry and Discrete, only a 77%, and that is one of the required courses for my program.
I am also doing lighting as part of the Technical crew for the school play. So far it has been nothing but a disaster. The sound is never good enough, the mics keep cutting out, the light's aren't bright enough, and we are still short two spotlights. Every single day the director complains about something. Mostly because Jane never pays attention and has to be told what to do every single second. Yesterday she had to ask me if she should throw out the garbage that was on the table. And then there is Mat who is consitently unrealiable. I talked to Mat earlier today and he said that he may or may not be able to attend the rehearsal today after school. My friend, Mr. Rocko, is the Technical Director and he is just about ready to either murder the director or just walk. Doing either would leave him in a lot of trouble with somebody. Apparently not only does the director complain about the technical stuff to our faces, but she also complains about the technical stuff behind our backs to other teachers. Mr. Rocko is just about ready to have a melt down.