The Topic of Great Randomness

[marina salem]

your "friend" is acting like an idiot, jwiz, (i'm sorry if i offend you) and i agree with your feelings. books are some of my best friends. best of luck on telling your father.

anyway, this isn't a therapy forum. i'm babysitting a couple of kids and we're watching a weird movie that's really a bunch of short Christmas oriented movies. right now it's The Snow Queen, and i get to go to see Eragon with my friends MC and Keri on the 18th, which is the last day of finals so that will be a fun releif while almost every other person in our school pretty enough to get a guy to say "yes" is going to the formal downtown. i don't care, though...who needs to buy expensive clothing and only wear it for one night because wearing it again would be tacky?

[maxxrox]

Yesterday was my sister's birthday, and for her dinner she asked for risotto. So tonight for dinner, we had risotto patties! You just make it into hamburger-sized patties, roll them in breadcrumbs, and saute them in a little oil. Mmmmmmm...

[Cyber Mirage]

*headdesk headdesk headdesk*

What was I thinking offering to pay for that gift... now I need to find something for the rest of my friends... Not that I don't want to give them something... but I wanted to hold off and give it to them after christmas so I would have a little more time to think...

*headdesk headdesk headdesk*

In other news... My art totally sucks

And I can get my Kendo Bogu!

[marina salem]

it's annie t's birthday, and her 50 bajillion friends are making the hugest racket here in the hallway, showering her with baked confections and doughnuts and starbucks and lots of lound noise. i hate it...all of this frivolous stupidity for an idiotic girl. it's always someone's birthday here...

URGH!...i hate being up at this time in the morning. my hair is really damp, since i had to take a shower at 6:00 in the (obscene word) morning...time for class...

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
--Terry Pratchett.

Author of that TIME series or something...i think i read one book from one of my friends (though i should return the book next time i see him...which will be never <laugh guiltily&gt. i would have read more of the books, but i didnt like the writing...and he's a brit author! I just had to say that...and im sorry if i am incorrect about assuming british people should know how to write...okay!

[marina salem]

okay...that's really clear (sarcastic straining of really). anyway, it's lunchtime, with about 6 minutes left before scripture. all we've been doing today in school is "studying" for midterms. i'm listening to a sugarland song, Happy Ending, which is really good. i need to get little christmas gifts for my friends pretty soon, but i'm not sure what... i had a really good ice cream sandwich with my lunch, and i would like another one. oops...it's 12:18, which means lunch ends in two minutes...bye for now.

[Sean L.]

A lot has been happening in the last few days. Just took an exam, not too bad, 24 MC questions, took about 10 minutes. I'll figure other whether I still have that A average in about 20 minutes, when he gives us the answer.

...too bad I'm failing one of my other classes (Motivation and Emotion) and getting a C in another one (Organic Chemistry).

I feel like I should compile a list of my favorite quotes and lyrics, and then draw on them whenever the occasion comes. But the more egotistical part of me just thinks that I should make up my own quotes as I go along.

And I haven't been writing in too long, which I think is pretty bad. On the other hand, I've been reading and re-reading fairly quickly; I finished John Scalzi's The Android's Dream, which is an excellent sci-fi romp, Frank Miller's 300 (which is being turned into a movie), Rick Riordan's Sea of Monsters, and I have Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things

[marina salem]

's all right sean...your "psychophilosophical ramblings" are interesting...

my classmate just asked the general assembled in the cafeteria if anyone stole her $20 bill. like someone would stand up and announce,"oh yeah i took your money and i don't want to give it back." i have to stay here at school until 5:30 CST because my sister is manager for the freshman bball team, which has practice till the above mentioned time. oh well... there's some really dumb show on the TV right now, with silly women screaming hysterically about meeting or seeing some famous person and it's really distracting. i need to study for a final.

[Gryphon]

A little coldplay... <3

All of this school and life and chaos... it's soooo easy to burn out. Which is how I'm feeling right now, all fried and unmotivated. I've been studying biology for what... the last hour and a half since I got home from school? I've got at least an hour left of studying to do, yet I feel like I'm doing the minimum when I've got friends who do this routine every day. I've been trying to brainwash myself into thinking that I like learning, but it gets disheartening when I do all of this, and I still get only Bs or Cs on tests. :/ Ugghh... life sucks. Calculus somes easy in comparison, even when I have to listen to the teach beotch all class period, go home and master what we should have learned, and then forget it all by class the next day when we've got a pop quiz. >< Hah. Life really sucks.

When the weekend comes, I savor every free hour of Friday and Saturday and the homework-free scraps on Sunday by hanging out with friends. I've learned to tune out my parents most of the time too. It's a natural thing. Do this, do that, with the beotching all inbetween, whether I listen to them or not. Maybe I'm spoiled to hate the extra obligations that my parents demand.

cualquiera. I doubt I'm making sense anymore. >< A rant from one fried individual. Sleep-deprived too. Or maybe that's just the stress kicking in.

The sweet things in life:
Nine Black Alps - Everything is (and alt rock CD)
The Like Young - Last Secrets (also alt rock; I've been checking these two out, and if you want some good music, there are great )
Lindt chocolate
Art
Friends to laugh with
Friends to punch -- cuz there's nothing that says "I care" more than a sloppy punch
and Friends to just talk with


Sean... do the lyrics. You've got enough ego as it is. You philosophical peanut butter and fluff sandwhich XD

The last thing I considered myself was a megalomaniac. O.o But yeah, you're right. Sometimes it's a lot easier to want more and more than to see that the best things in life are inexpensive. Or at least money wise. Like friendships, which always take work. Maybe you'll even have to endure bull just to keep a good friend or have rocky relationships. There is no such thing as a perfect friendship. >< But you don't get them with money. I'd want a bigger house, a bigger income, a job, etc, etc, etc, but if I had a bigger house or if my parents got bigger incomes, we would have to move or sacrifice. My best friends are within walking distance. There'd be no visiting each other on a whim or nightly flash light tag games. If I got a job, I'd be earning money, but I'd have no free time. Considering how the only things in life that I love are the people I know, it'd be the lousiest idea you could come up with. :/

That's life.

[Raine~]

Yeah okay I've heard one or two things by The Like Young and they were pretty good. I'll keep a look out for the ones you mentioned there. Thanks for the tip.

I would deffinately consider myself a megalomaniac. ^_^ But like yourself and making more money, my values don't match up with the lifestyle of a world conquerer. Still, I plan on being President one day(probably) and don't see anything wrong with taking the world over if it became possible under the right circumstances.

I was taking a Career Development class this past semester and the teacher did a lot of talking about Values and skills and related things. It's hard to diffrentiate between what you think you want and what you will actually find fulfillment, enjoyment, pleasure, etc. from doing. At least, for me it is.

Life, it's such a fun thing.

Oh, and sorry bout my earlier posts, I was just blown away by the enormous size of this thread. ^_^

[What\'s up, doc?]

(Not for the first time) I'm not exactly envious of the classes you guys have... Oh well, counting the days to January when school starts again...

Been travelling to and fro from different libraries everyday, although I would probably have fared better at home doing the tons of holiday assignments. I think I must have been deprived of books in my previous life. LoL

Serious mood swings these few days... I can't seem to prevent myself from losing my temper at people, especially friends. I've also lasped from hyperactivity to melancholy in a matter of seconds. Sorry, friends (not that they would actually see this)

Hmm... I wonder what it would be like around a circle of megalomaniacs everyday... Think I'll flare - again. Just kidding

[marina salem]

i can't believe that you're out of school...i'm jealous . finals start tomorrow. yay. (the sarcasm in that statement is at 105% saturation) i relate to your mood swings, doc, only i usually get them every day.

right now, i'm sitting on the school library floor with my back against a bookcase, listening to sheryl crow with my sister on her computer. lunch will end soon, then i go to the gym to "study" for the health midterm tomorrow. no one really studies, except maybe my friend sarah. i need to find an outlet before my computer dies...it's at 24%.

well, all im going to say is BE THANKFUL YOURE IN A SEMESTERED SCHOOL. Im inm a nonsemester, and this year they've changed the rules so that I'm having all my exams at the end fo the year. there are student who have eight (i used to have that); but i drop one of my courses because of an evil teacher...and workload. .

da...da...da...going through mental list in head.
1. take bus home
2. eat a big bowl of ice cream
3. tune into 680 to hear business news
4. pull out textbook and start doing homework
5. relax while hearing three days grace sing through every song <sigh>

i want to be home now and must wait 75 minutes...

[marina salem]

i guess i am thankful i'm in a semestered school. if you look at the grand scheme of things, though, i have...12 major tests by the end of the year (6 midterms and 6 finals). i wish i could drop 4 of my courses because of evil teachers, but they're required so that's sorta impossible.

it's my last open lab of my school year, and it makes me sad to think that i don't get a relaxation/get homeowrk done period anymore. oh, well. it had to end sometime.

[jwiz]

I cannot wiat until Saturday. No school, and at the moment, i am tired of school. i have one week(after this week ends) of school. That is a good thing. This weekend, I am going to a birthday party for my best friend jordan and christmas shopping sometime this weekend. Then i am going to go see Eragon with my little sister and maybe my mom. My friend is going to sign up in a minute, so I am wiating as she fills something else out. I missed school yesterday because I got sick, but came today because missing one day here is like missing two. My mom keeps bragging about how she has no school tomorrow. I told her this morning she was making me feel bad because I do have school. She laughed. Well, I am going to halp my friend sign up.
Okay, she is doing so as I type. If anyone ever sees a Flower around here(or anywhere) make her welcome. Tank you all! Buh-bye! Off to Avid.