You have to be joking me.

THERE IS PRACTICALLY NO SNOW ON THE GROUND. We have a family of Orioles who live in a tree by our house, and they're out flying around and having a good time in the almost dry grass. I have no idea why they cancelled school. Worst comes to worst, they can always send kids home early and still not impact the number of days left before they start subtracting from Spring Break. This is pathetic.

Umm...

Will we have school tomorrow? I don't know. There's nothing on the ground now, but here's what weather.com has to say on the topic:

"Tonight: Periods of heavy snow likely after midnight. Low 27F. Winds E at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 80%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected.

Tomorrow: Snow along with gusty winds at times. High 37F. Winds NNE at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 80%. 4 to 7 inches of snow expected."

Sounds pretty good to me. I'm not going to remember anything once we get back to school.

Me: What's your name again.
Someone Else: I dunno. I forgot it over the break.
Me: Yeah. Where are we, anyway?
S.E.: Somwhere. I'm not quite sure, come to think of it. Is this, like a library?
Me: I dunno. I think our school has a library.
S.E.: Yeah...Oh, wait! Is this the school?
Me: I dunno. I forget. I guess so, but...it looks weird.
(gunshot fires over S.E.'s shoulder)
S.E.: Oh, shoot! We're in the wrong school. This is Blair!

What's going on? Not much. Really? No. Well, then what's going on? I got a website. Cool.

Yup, I got my very own free website. Ta-da! You like? I got the idea while looking at all these dumb sites that "satan" and I found. If anyone wants to help out, write a column to be put on the site, or do anything else, just leave a message. If I could figure it out, I would try to put up one of those phpBB message boards, but it looks too complicated for me, so I didn't download it.

Ow...my head hurts again...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7030811/?GT1=6190

Sorry to dig this old expression up again, but:

a> head
a> hit
a> keyboard

No! We broke the chain, man!

Eh. Whatev. That seems less than consequential since I have THREE WHOLE DAYS OF FREEDOM AHEAD OF ME! That's right, three days. And all thanks to our friend H20...and the fickle and nervous officials at MCPS. Truthfully, it doesn't look too bad out there to me. I live at the oft-neglected end of Landon Lane, and our road has been plowed already (!). But, eh...this works too.

I watched all 4 hours and 25 minutes of the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King yesterday. Biiiiiigggg movie (I have the extended edition). But an awesome one. Now I have two discs of special features left. Yay!

Ta-da!!!

I feel like playing Carol of the Bells, but it's not Christmas anymore. Still, it feels like it with all this snow and NO SCHOOL!! Hahahahaha! I told you we should pray for snow, but you didn't believe me, did you? Well, actually, I forgot to pray for snow even though I told you to, but it's still snowing anyway and I'm happy.

;-o ----<

^Emoticon of a guy with something in his eye in the middle of making a snow angel

Please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please...

"Tomorrow: Cloudy with snow. Colder. High 31F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 80%. Snow accumulating 3 to 5 inches.

Tomorrow night: Windy with snow tapering off in the evening but skies will remain cloudy overnight. Low 21F. NNE winds at 20 to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 80%. 1 to 3 inches of snow expected."

Pray for snow!

Don't break the chain! Keep it up!

You know, I just realized something. If people post comments on this post, we'll have a whole page of posts with comments underneath them! Please, people post comments. We can't afford to break the chain! And yes, this time I am authorizing people to post "One comment!", "Two comments!!", etc. etc.

And please, somebody. If you have any influence in the world right now, stop the "Loonatics" show (see link below) before it's too late! I'll take Space Jam over that crap any day!

Ay-ay-ay...

If you'll all direct your attention to the article "satan" posted as a comment in my previous post (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6989380/), I have a three-word response:

a> head
a> hit
a> keyboard

Or, if you prefer:

What the crap?

Or, even better:

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Although that's only one word. What the hell is WB thinking. I also saw a video on this on MSN's homepage, and its clear they have no fucking idea what they're talking about. No kid is going to be interested in this! They're going to murder the Looney Tunes, like they did with Batman in Cartoon Network's numerous crappy Batman and Robin series. Like satan said, spread the word! Stop them now!

Just 99 days left...

Well, the countdown is officially on until my 200th post. Mark your calendars now, cause I'm sure as hell too lazy to actually figure out the date. I think the laziness may be a side effect of watching my Family Guy DVDs nonstop since Friday night, with breaks for food and video games. Very funny show. There was also a worthless "behind the scenes" thing on the DVD, but it did provide a startling piece of info: Seth Green plays Chris. I never knew that! It's just kind of hard to imagine Dr. Evil's son as an obese retard who likes kitties and fears monkeys. I can't wait until the show (along with American Dad) come back in May. The thing is, I've been thinking (as Brian can vouch, this is never a good thing). The Simpsons really needs to haul ass to catch up with Family Guy, American Dad, and especially Arrested Development. Fox has been adding a number of good shows to their list recently, and unfortunately it's rubbing off on the Simpsons. The show is still funny, but it's not as good in comparison anymore. It used to be that compared to the other junk on Fox, the Simpsons was amazing. It's still good, but Arrested Development is ten times better.

100!

YEEEEHAAAAAAHHH! 100! 100! I actually made it! I thought I would just give up around...32. Hehahahahaha! Here's a little something I wrote for the occasion:

My very own blog
I like to update daily
Brian likes to spam

Haiku a-go-go!

Ah...so many good rememberies of our time together, here at Blogger. Let's see...remember when I started a blog?. How about when I started another blog?. Later, I completed Kit's challenge to post for 31 days. He didn't accept it until the next day, but it's all good. Then, someone in my Spanish class confused Galicia and Galaxian. After I got over that, I had a serious conversation with my brain. I made my way to Fredericksburg at some point with my dad. Just before Christmas, in the true spirit of the season, I designed my own hell. I actually said something serious at one point there, before going absolutely insane over the Orange Bowl, which I am still rubbing in Brian's face (sigh...who's going to replace Norm Chow?). Kit and I engaged in a vicious argument, which ended with me once again airing my complaints about Whitman. Will I ever change? Clearly not. Seriously. Hey, and remember when I made it to 99 posts?

Yeah...good times...

99...

This is my 99th post. You know what that means. PARTY TOMORROW!

But not until tomorrow. I like to keep my readers in suspense.

Unfortunately, my dad's sick. And I'm still sick. Blarg.

And I just returned from the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) convention with my dad. I attended a really cool lecture on internet communications and how they're changing our lives. Here's a list I found of every single emoticon. Seriously. And at the end, they opened it up to questions and comments. One guy had a very interesting piece of information. When you're actually writing out Japanese, the order you perform the strokes matters almost as much as the end result, yet some Japanese teachers (who were raised in Japan) have to re-memorize these patterns, because now they use their cell phones and text everything or type on a computer.

And someone also pointed out that Apple is the only one really prepared for the wave of third-world countries now demanding compatibility for their internet and IMs. Rock, rock on, Apple.

Dun-dun-dun...

Well, my AP US History Teacher is leaving for a few weeks after tomorrow. She says it's for surgery, I think she's just sick of the class. We gripe about grades and dates and changing stuff all the time that I feel sorry for her almost every day. True, I'm as narcissistic and grade-grubbing as the next Whitmanite, but I just got to thinking...is it really worth it?

I mean, we put all this pressure on grades and APs, and obviously a lot of it is worthless. But there's a hierarchy--you take AP classes to get into college, you get into college to impress employers, etc. Should the system be changed? There's a lot of pressure on both students and teachers (and what the heck, parents also--it is Whitman), but is there a better solution? I unfortunately can't think of a practical one. Any ideas? Anyone? Anyone at all?

-end copout that's not really a copout cause it actually has substance, but still isn't much more than a bunch of random ideas, so it kinda sorta qualifies as a copout-

Or...not...whatev...

Ok, if no-one gives a shit about yesterday's post, that's OK. 'Cause neither do I. Today's post isn't going to be much better. You don't get a question or anything. Just a link to A REALLY GREAT WEBSITE IF YOU HAVE AN iPOD:

Project Gutenberg!

Hmm...

I was looking through my old comments and saw that I never answered a question B-er, I mean, "satan" asked of me. Maybe it was hypothetical, but he asked what one would do if they could live like Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day. That's an interesting idea. But I'd probably do all the stuff I normally do. Like...steal stuff. And...punch stuff. What about whoever's reading this? What would you do?

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Wow...spammed and trolled by my own friend...

If your name is B***n, start here:
Yes, I know what bloody sunday is, B***n. I was using it for a dumb joke--my roomate over the summer at Brown used the term 'bloody' whenever he meant 'very.' I just needed a non-non-imaginative post title. And your sentence structure is still much worse than mine.

OK, everyone else:
Well, today was Valentine's Day. This is one holiday that I do have a serious problem with the commercialization of. With Christmas, yes, everything is overmarketed and over-commercialized, but at least some people still believe that Jesus Christ was born on that date and still have religous connections to it. Valentine's Day, on the other hand, much like Thanksgiving, now has nothing to do with the event it is based on and is primarily commercial. I think St. Valentine was actually someone who was executed (?) on the 14th and wrote a love letter before they took him away. I'm not too sure if that's right, but that's all the more proof of how obscure this holiday has become.

For English class, we had to write an anti-Valentine's Day sonnet. It seems like a weird assignment, but it's more fun than it appears. Here's mine, written from Benedick to Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing:

Note: PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS AS YOUR OWN OR REPRINT IT WITHOUT MY AGREEMENT. IF YOU STILL HAVE TO DO THE ASSIGNMENT (AS I THINK SOME CLASSES DO), PLEASE DO NOT STEAL THIS.

Sonnet 3.14

Shall I compare thee to a fetid stench?
Quite foul, unpleasant, vile to the core?
When we first met I thought you a foul wench.
I left when I could stand thee nevermore.
I’truth, thy tongue is quick, thy brain is sharp,
But you, milady, just aren’t very nice.
Thy face is flat and ugly, like a carp’s.
The day I met you, I soon thought, “No dice.”
Thy hair is uncombed, thy dress is browned,
Thy hands so dirty, they are more like claws.
I would rather die than to thee be bound,
For this is just the start of all your flaws.
True, in this world, there are some worse, methinks.
But a minute with thee proves that love stinks.

And Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.

Sunday, Bloody Boring Sunday...

Lotta studying, lotta TV. Go away.

The war of the blogs...

Yay! Comments! Arguments! Hatred!

So, Kit and Brian (Anonymous and Satan) are arguing (or at least, were) in the comments section, and I'm loving it. Viewership is now at 3 (at least). Granted, Kit told his friends and his started out at 3 (according to his early posts), but I just like the knowledge that people are visiting. It's...comforting.

So, here's my belated picks for best Super Bowl Adverts of 2005 (note: you will probably have to refresh the page once you get to it for both audio and video)

1. Fed Ex: 10 Elements of A Super Bowl Commercial
2. Budweiser: While You Were Out
3. Ford: Tougher than Bikers
4. Budweiser: Skydiving
5. Ford: Mustang

Enjoy.

Robocop-out

Hehe...two cop-outs this Friday!

How to keep an idiot busy
How to annoy a pizza guy

Enjoy.

Gaaaahhhhh...

I was feeling better yesterday (almost all better today), but I couldn't get on the compy. I had two essays today and a math test (all not too bad) and my mom was dominating the PC with her new favorite bestest best friend in the whole wide world: Ad-Aware. And I gotta say, I like itm too. Very nice program, whoever makes it! But I'm posting today, and that's all that matters. Yup. All that matters. Yessir. Yup.

Blarggity blarg (Don't blarg blarg)

I'm sick. I'm tired. I'm sorry I haven't posted much. I've got tests all this week. My mom won't let me near the computer much while I'm as sick as I am. And Brian is wrong about Groundhog Day. The whole movie is hilarious--and I'm not condemning the suicide scene (I wasn't feeling great the day I responded to your comment) and I'm aware it IS a movie, I'm just saying there are many other funnier moments. Bye.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it...

Eh, it's not too hard. Just do it.

1. Download Snood 3 if you don't already have it (registration not necessary).
2. Go to Preferences -> Select Snood Graphics Set
3. Find the files that I have given you below as you saved them in your computer and use them as your graphics set.
4. Have fun.

Pac-Man Snoods!
Super Mario Snoods!

Enjoy.

It's Friday. Enjoy your excellent cop-out.

Dialectizer.

Everybody hit the decks! It's a RAAAAAAANNNNNNNTTTT!!!!

I just read Ben Brantley's review of the brilliant Broadway play "Good Vibrations" in the New York Times. Holy crap, he hated it. And now, I hate him. That was an amazingly good musical! I liked it ten times as much as the Lion King! And I can disprove many of the points he makes. So you know I'm going to:

1. "The plot, which traces the bumpy romance between a popular bad boy and a nerdy good girl...Loudly echoes that of Grease...The idea of showing a generation dance to adulthood, to an era-defining background of period music, has been shaped to perfection in Movin' Out..." OK. It's A LIGHTHEARTED MUSICAL COMEDY!! No one comes to this sort of play hoping for thrilling drama. They come for the wonderful songs and actors, and regardless of these established facts, the plot isn't too bad, all things considered. There isn't too much you can milk out of the 60's that hasn't already been done (as my teacher says, people began to actively protest while history took a nap). And seriously--Grease is lame. And, according to what I've heard, Movin' Out isn't lame, but it is not perfect by any means.
2. "I'm surprised...by the sloppiness of the staging and dance routines..." What? The dancing was great and varied in style, and the choreography was pretty good. I'm not a constant patron of every single play, but if something were wrong, I would have been able to pick up on it. I saw no problems here. Next fallacy.
3. "The talented Heidi Ettinger's cartoonish, overaccessorized sets (beach balls galore!) are tacky in a way that looks appealing in the campy windows of the Ricky's chain of cosmetics stores but does not benefit from being blown up to Broadway proportions." This comment I just didn't get. Once again, may I point out that this is a lighthearted piece? It's a swinging, cool (and swingingly cool) interpretation of the Beach Boys' songs and flying beach balls are right at home. I couldn't stop laughing when people were bouncing them around at the end, like in a rock concert.
4. "Much of this could be forgiven if the songs sounded any good...A single flat note or a falsetto slip into a screech is enough to make the Wilson-style wall of sound come tumbling down. Suffice it to say that there is an abundance of flat notes, literal and figurative, in 'Good Vibrations.'" Wow. You know, he makes a good point here--one slip can ruin a Beach Boys song. Luckily, that never happened. All of the actors, many of them celebrating their Broadway debut, were excellent singers. With the exception of one or two minor characters within the ensemble, the singing was excellent. Someone needs to put this reporter to sleep for a little bit, because his cranky sophisms are just dumb.

I strongly encourage anyone heading to New York City to see this play. From now on, I intend to approach anything Ben Brantley writes with a wary eye, as it's clear he looks at plays, but does not see (or hear, for that matter).

I swear, if I see my shadow, I'm going back to sleep for six weeks...

That's what I felt like this morning, waking up earlier so I wouldn't have to be rushing through breakfast to get to school on time. Oh, well.

I CAN'T BELIEVE NOT A SINGLE CHANNEL IS SHOWING GROUNDHOG DAY. Not even an off-station! That movie is one hilarious classic, and even though no one really knows nor cares about the stupid "holiday," you can't go without seeing it. Like I said, it's a hilarious classic. If I didn't have to watch it for NSL, I'd boycott tonight's State of the Union address...ugh...too much applause...

Obligatory ebaumsworld link!

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What? Me do something?

GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Why...must...there...be...nothing....going...on??? I'm bored, and so, in turn, you, my half-loyal reader(s?), are probably bored with this blog, as well. Please pray with me that something interesting will happen. Nothing bad, please don't wish bad things upon me. It just seems like NOTHING is going on. I know it's not entirely fair to be saying this in the wake of the hustle and bustle of exams, but really-Gah! Blarg.

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