New background! Does it make my blogs hard to read? Give me a comment if that’s the case. But anyhow, today was a major bummer day. Everything was fine until, oh, around 6th period at the end of the day, when I realized that I had two library books 4 days overdue. And as I was pulling out of the school parking lot, I almost get front-ended (that’s not a phrase, is it?) by some bozo driving through the middle of the parking spaces (okay, so I was too, but at least I was watching where I was going). And then I sit there for 5-10 minutes waiting to get out of the parking lot because there was so much traffic and I had to make a left-hand turn. Being able to drive to school has it’s ups and downs. I get home and immediately–even though I try real hard not to do this–get on the computer and waste a couple hours doing nothing. Then I feel like I just wasted my whole day (which I essentially did) when I realized it was 6:00 and I still hadn’t done anything worthwhile. I hate myself sometimes. Bad habits can really get on one’s nerves. But I did do a few good things and currently, I’m having problems with ICQ. For some strange and inexplicable reason, it won’t let me log in to my ICQ homepage site builder. Only yesterday I was able to, so what’s the deal? Now it’s eight and I still feel like there’s something I didn’t do. No, it couldn’t be my homework. I don’t ever do that and I don’t feel bad. Hmm, it has to be something deeper. Meditate on this I shall.
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Wowzers. Das Boot is a really intense film. Keeps my on my toes trying to figure out all that German. The English subtitles help a lot though. Hehe. Anywho, I changed the oil in my Metro, so it’s practically as good as new. I also had to rig up my CD player with some portable speakers (with Velcro) for a temporary music setup until I can get a stereo. Still have to wash and wax it…just kidding. It does need a wash, though. There are muddy paw prints all over the hood…
Sphere: Related ContentWow. It’s sure been a while since my last post/rant/rave whatever. Eh, you guys survived without me for a few days. Right? Guys? Hello?! I’m all alone!!!! Okay, back to the real world. Anybody reading this (yes, that means you sitting at the keyboard) should go visit Omega Syndrome (future Cody’s note: this site is, unfortunately, no longer in existence). Awesome site. Hilarious webcomic. The dude does all the drawings. You have to admit, once you’ve seen them, that they’re pretty awesome. In other news, I created yet another website. It’s still in the design stage, but I decided to publish it prematurely. So now I have a Star Wars site with a cheesy “welcome” GIF and a weird pic of people holding hands. Gotta work on that later. That is, when Tripod starts acting nice…but in case you wanted to see the site now (funny stuff on it) visit http://grandmoff01.tripod.com. And now for something completely different. Yesterday a Navy rock band (yes, there is such a thing, 11 such things actually) visited my high school and played some Top 40 stuff. They played everything from Hoobastank’s “The Reason” to “Redneck Woman.” Fun times. Today I took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. It’s this test to see what areas of expertise you’re good in and then (I presume) they give you a list of military and civilian careers you’d be good at. They’d better not tell me to be a medical technician like the last time I did something like this…
Sphere: Related ContentToday is a good day. It’s the weekend, I got my letterman’s jacket, and I still can’t drive my car. Wait, that’s not a good thing. Today I learned that even though I may have a pretty fast internet connection, I still can’t play multiplayer games. Every single time I try, I’m either told that the server is for low pings only (pings being something to do with how fast your connection speed is, and apparently mine is off the charts) or, if I do get on, it’s all choppy and overall, not fun. So, I guess I’ll stick with KotOR for now. Hopefully, I can get Sims 2 soon. Unfortunately, it costs $50 and that’s roughly how much money I get in a month. Yes, yes, I should get a job. The truth is…I’ve tried. I’ve tried, tried again, tried until my hand cramped up to the point where I couldn’t fill out applications anymore and I still don’t have a job. I don’t get it. And what’s more, only one of the fifty bazillion places I applied at actually interviewed me and they told me “Too bad, we don’t have a job for you.” Everywhere else simply forgot about me or accidently used my application as a coaster or tissue. But it’s all cool ’cause I have a car (so what that it’s a ‘94 Geo Metro) and a letterman’s jacket (er, it can still be cool if I’m only lettering in Band, right?) and I’m doing all right in school (AP Chem doesn’t count ’cause there’s only been two assignments and I tanked one of them). Speaking of school, I had better get going on my homework. Tschau!
Sphere: Related ContentWhooboy! This was a really, really packed day. And school definitely isn’t getting better as the school year progresses. Yeah, yeah, I know I sound like I really hate school, but it’s only two classes I don’t like. Bordering on three. First there’s German II, which really isn’t German II, only a recap of what we “learned” in our first year of German. I wonder when we’ll ever learn something new…and not only that, but the German teacher is the worst teacher I’ve ever known! I mean, she doesn’t know how to communicate with kids who don’t wanna learn (like the majority of the German class). She’s always going around speaking in German and saying “Well, let’s kinda do this” or “kind of just do that.” It’s never “do this” or “do that” like most teachers. In a different situation it might be okay, but with these kids, that’s just an invitation not to do anything. And then there’s Contemporary Literature. I picked it only because I like reading and I like reading modern books. The other options were British Lit and Shakespeare. I don’t like either, so I picked the class that sounded cool. In retrospect, I should have slapped myself and taken Research Writing. The class sucks! It’s filled with all these slacker kids who don’t wanna do anything! I mean, we went to the library to pick out memoirs to read and the librarian mentioned that she reads about 200 books in a year. One of the kids behind me whispers “I’m never going to read that many books in my life!” Okay, so maybe some people don’t read a lot, but there are kids in there who haven’t even ever picked up a book of their own free will and read it. How can you not ever read a book?? I’m seriously contemplating getting out of that class and into something a little more challenging. And the teacher, Ms. Blake, expects us to always work with a partner and–get this–double-space all of our papers. Double-space everything?! Well, for some people this may be a blessing, but skipping every other line just throws me off. And the whole partner thing? One, there’s no one in there who’d be able to keep up with me; two, there’s no one I know; and three, I hate working with partners. But it’s no use complaining. One way or another I’m not gonna like something. At least it’ll be something I’m used to as opposed to something I’m not used to. Now my mom’s bugging me to get to bed, so I’ll be signing off.
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