Ode to a Teacher

    I officially love my English teacher.  She let us listen to out iPods this past week (or what little of it there was..) and music is so awesome, especially in school.  I mean, like, outside of school, you can listen to a music device any time you want; it's no big deal!  In school, though, it's like drugs.  You have to keep it hidden, or you're in deep..uh... crap.  The fact that Erin let us listen to our music whilst working in class moved her up a whole hellova lot in my book.  Another thing about her is that she knows what's up.  Know what I mean?  She's not like one of those old-fashioned teachers that's all not with it, and stuff.  Oh no.  No no no no no no no.  She snowboards, she used to work at Cosco, yeah man.  She's B-A.  Another thing is that she has a sense of humor.  Not teacher humor, either.  I'm talkin a genuine bona fide sense of humor.  Now how often do you see that in a teacher nowadays?

She is so awesome she has sparkles.

Bread vs. Shelly

My mother made bread rolls.  I wanted one.  Simple as that.... or so I thought.  I tried simply pulling the roll off of the pan that was in the oven-wrong move.  As soon as I put my hand in the oven, the roll latched itself onto the pan with every fiber of strength in its tiny little bread body.  Which turned out to be a lot.  I had burned myself twice before I opened the oven door more, but even then I couldn't grasp the hot roll adequately enough to take it's bready goodness out of the hot, and might I add evil, oven.  Before my mother came onto the scene, I had broken the roll that I wanted in four different places.  She handeled the situation with a level head and acted quickly.  The pan came out of the oven, the metal spatula got beween the bread and the pan, and I got my brutally mutalated roll.

Oh no, it's not over quite yet.  After I cut the roll in half, I put butter on it.  Why not?  I had to wash the butter knife, so I set the roll on the hand towel that was on the counter, just because it was there and I was too lazy to move it.  My mother then whipped the towel out from under my roll, which then plunged through the air and onto the floor.  I worked way too hard for some dirt, dog hair, and whatever else could possibly be on that floor.  I ate my roll.  (Thankfully my mom had recently cleaned the floor.)

Now it's over.

Not The Same

     Queen is touring again.  They sound terrible without Freddy Mercury.  They shoudn't do that.  I mean, come on, nobody could ever be as good as him in Queen.  He had all four of his wisdom teeth, so his front teeth would stick out way further than they normally would.  He would spend hours practicing forming his words.  He really worked hard on making his mouth perfect so that he could perform on stage perfectly.  You just can't beat that.  This new guy  must feel pretty damn awesome, replacing a musical god.  What the hell were they thinking?!  I would never pay money to see that.  That would be like going to see Aerosmith without Steven Tyler or Joe Perry.  It just isn't right. Joe Perry left the band back in 1979.  Sure, they had some really awesome songs on the album that came out that year (Night in the Ruts), but it just wasn't the same.  Joe Perry makes it.  Know what I mean?  The same goes for Led Zeppelin.  Sure, they still have Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones, but they are missing one key player: John Bonham.  "We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were," the note was simply signed "Led Zeppelin".
     Journey isn't the same without Steve Perry.  Sure, the asian guy sounds just like him, but he isn't him.  Here is why he is so awesome.

(p.s. cick on the picture to get the full effect.)

Wolverines are Evil

     Have you ever seen a real wolverine?  They didn't name the crazy (and super awesome) and strong graphic novel character after one because they just run around all day looking cute and cuddly.  These things are evil little demon monsters filled with hate and malice.  It can and will take on anything that it wants to.  They'll take down anything from small rodents, deer, arctic fox's, musk ox, and even bears.  That's right.  Bears.


Look at the size difference!!  Those little guys will take the huge killer bears DOWN.  They'll like hide and jump on their backs and murder their spinal cords.  Wolverine (the comic character) had an attidude very simmilar to that of a wolverine.  He just didn't give a crap.  I'm saying everything in the past tense, when he is still like that.  Wolverines are still like that, too.  They'll screw you up.  Why?  Becayse they wanted to.  That's why.  There isn't anything else to it.

Ozzy and Slash

   It was awesome.  I mean, obviously Ozzy would be totally awesome to see, but I mean.. Man, I just can't put words to it.  It is beyond words.  Ozzy is this huge iconic figure that has been around during my dad's time, and now I get to see him!  My dad's seen Ozzy five times now.  I got a shirt.  It takes like two dollars to make those shirts (I'm sure it takes more than that, but I'm trying to make a point here) and they sell them for $40.  And that's just the starting price...  As if Ozzy wasn't rich enough!  Oh well, I'm willing to support him.  Slash looks way better than he did a few years ago.  Gus G. was totally awesome, Ozzy has worked with amazingly tallented guitarists.  Tommy Iomi,  Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, and Gus G.  Turns out Gus G's real name is Κωνσταντίνος Καραμητρούδης.  Yeah, he's from Greece.  He left Greece when he was 18.  I would have never guessed.

A Love Note...

This is a note that I found about two years ago...

But wait, there's more.

How crushing.

I have no idea why I have kept it all this time.  Maybe the sheer awesomeness of it is what compelled me.

I drew a unicorn

I drew a unicorn today in Spanish class.  I also played Tetris.
The classes that I played Tetris in:
Psychology
Geometry
U.S. History
Spanish         aaand...
Biology


Classes that I did not play Tetris in (and why)
P.E. - Do you know how difficult it is to play a video game in P.E.?  It is nearly impossible.
English - I like the class.  I really do, it is one of my best subjects.  I would like to stay caught up in that class.  The teacher is really cool, too.  Like, seriously!  She likes Journey.  Journey!!  How awesome is that?


   Majuscule is a word that I have learned recently.  I am still trying to figure out a way to fit it into a sentence....  Commas save lives!  For an example, (notice my majuscule) "Let’s eat, Grandpa!" (du du du DUUUH)  "Let’s eat Grandpa!"  See the difference?
     We need punctuation and grammar in this day and age.  Texting has degraded our spelling and grammar skills.  In a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 64 percent of US teens admitted that some form of texting has crept into their academic writing (Lenhart et al., 2008).  I, personally, cannot see why anyone would want to write/type "2nite" in the place of "tonight" or "How r u?" instead of "How are you?"  I guess I just prefer the correct way of spelling, versus 'text talk,' but I guess that is just my opinion..