Insomnia is Not Fun.

Well, I haven't been able to sleep well for the last few days.  I'm starting to think I shouldn't have watched paranormal activity.

T minus one year before I'm back to normal, me thinks.

Watching other horror movies while this is still bothering me is not such a good idea, either.  But this movie is pretty lame, so lame, in fact, that I can't even remember the title.

Life is boring.

I thought it'd be pretty cool to try out for a voice acting part from funimation.  My dreams were crushed by a checlist.

A) I don't live in texas.
B) I don't have professional live acting/voice acting experience.
C) I am not eighteen and I don't have parental consent. 

And so, life is boring, and there's really not much I can do about it.

SPCA

Well, it's been a while since I posted anything. 

Today I realized that I am much more proficient at French than I thought I was.

I also did nothing but drive people around and play DDR.  It was not the most exciting of all days.  I am really looking forward to getting back to school.

My friends and I tried to find the SPCA, so my friend could adopt a rabbit.  It only took us, ohhh, half an hour to an hour to figure out where it was.  When we finally got there, my friend didn't see a bunny that she liked.  There were some beautiful dogs, though, and some really cute puppies.

It was an adventure at the very least--if not a complete waste of time and gas.

I also went to the library, which is pretty awesome I might add.  It has underground parking. 

That's about it.

Tension in the Household.

My parents are very unimpressed with my brother's marks.  I'm surprised as well, they've dropped quite a bit.

My brother is addicted to video games.  There's no other explaination for it.  Everything in the outside world means jack shit to him.  Usually when I goof around with him he laughs, but now he just gets annoyed, all the time.  He's become a totally different person: moody and depressed.

It's become prevalent in the last year or so, he's definitely not the same.  All he ever does is play that game.  It really sickens me, I want to see him do well, but all he wants to do is play, play, play.

I can kind of see him as a different version of myself.  The world sucks, we both know this, but what makes us different is that I want to change the world to make it suck less, and he just wants to sit on a video game all day to forget about it.

I want to tell him there's more to the world than this.  There's more to the world than just school and angry parents and shitty grades and shitty this and shitty that.  There's more to the box we live in now, you just have to learn to live IN the box before you can live OUT of it.

It's ok to forget about the world, but not as often as he does.

I want to tell him that, the way he's going, he's going to end up out of our box and into an even shittier one.  I want to see him do well, you know, succeed, and eventually move out of the house.  I'd hate to see his dreams crushed because of these stupid video games.

In my opinion, video games should never have been invented.  They should only be used by an individual that plays them with moderation and leaves time set aside for other things.  Video games are evil.

Just a Thought

The world is a beautiful place.  Every moment is a picture.  Each picture is unique and fantastic in its own way.  Just think--there will never be another moment like it.

I think scenery should be enjoyed, even if you live in an incredibly boring city filled with incredibly rude people. 

That's about it.  I'm going swimming tomorrow morning again.  I think finding a friend who actually wanted to go swimming with me was a good idea, I might commit to exercising every morning.

I'm in the mood to write.

How Convenient.

Miscellaneous.

See? I remembered.

Anyway, I was just thinking today that it is SO convenient all of these famous historic people kept diaries about what happened.  We're studying WW1, and I can't remember whose diary we were talking about, but whoever it was didn't want to punish Germany all that severely for the damages done to France.  I remember there were a whole lot of other diaries and letters that these people wrote that helped us look into the war in more detail.

I'm not trying to say "Conspiracy!", but you have to admit, it's pretty convenient.

I guess it's a good thing to keep a diary, that way if anyone in the future needs to know about something that you knew about, they could find out.  I'll consider this a diary.  It's not like I have anything secretive that I'd post on here, but most of my every-day life will be posted here.

Jealousy is a terrible emotion.  I dislike it greatly.  Right now I'm jealous of my friend, who basically has a dream job when she wasn't even looking for one--just because she can draw well.  Either that or she's just super-cute all the time.  I don't know.  It's really irking me, though.

I don't want her to feel bad, because it's not her fault she's just blessed in everything.  (Well, not everything, but a lot of things.  We'll call her "lucky").  *Sigh* As soon as I become a lifeguard I can quit worrying about these things.

Today, someone slipped on the ice at my school outside of the portables and happened to hurt their back.  I was there, and I saw them slip, and I tried to help (because I know first aid), but the thing is...I just kind of froze.  That's when the school-first-aid kid from my class showed up and kind of took over.  I didn't know... well I did know what to do, but it was like "She's the one who's SUPPOSED to help."

I stuck around, but they really didn't need me.

I'm so useless sometimes, I swear. 

Anyway, I've got a bunch of French homework I should be doing. 

I need a desk in my room, because it hurts like a son of a married couple when I sit on my bed stooped over like I am right now. 

GAAAHH.

Homework and Miscellaneousness.

My new project for the future is to remember how to spell miscellaneous off the top of my head.

Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.

It's a terrifically complicated word.

I have French and Social Studies homework.  I'm not really interested in doing it, but I figure the sooner I get 'er done, the sooner I'll be able to... slack off? I don't know.  My Dad is watching a movie right now, so I might join him if afterwards.

It all depends on how long this takes.

An annoying fact: I'm irritated with sentences that start with the letter I.  There are a lot of them in most of my post.  I was told that a good writer can vary their sentence beginnings, but I have a hard time with it.  Not only that, but I tend to ramble a lot and use, a, lot, of, commas.

That's about it.  I thought about posting some fun Japanese grammar stuff in here, but I really must do my homework before it's too late.

The Lovely Bones.

The scenery was beautiful, like, really well done.  At least I thought so, anyway. 

All together it was a well done movie, so I don't know what the reviewers are complaining about. 

I had a few quips.  First of all, the book was much more dramatic.  Second of all, the movie was twisting things into reverse for its own ends.  Third of all, they made Lindsey look like a teenage pregnancy.

She was not, by the way. 

I'm trying not to spoiler it.

In a way, I kind of feel like I did when I left Sherlock Holmes.  I was satisfied, but there was really only one thing that stood out to me.  For The Lovely Bones, it was the scenery and the effects, for Sherlock Holmes, it was the soundtrack.

I think I liked them both more than Avatar.  Of course, my opinion of Avatar is tainted--as I tend to adopt other people's opinions on movies as my own--and my friend wasn't all that impressed with it.  I thought the world-building in Avatar was phenomenal, but the story (as my friend tells me) was just "slapped in there because they thought of this great world and they wanted a movie to make out of it."

Looking at it this way, I know it's true, because how many times has that story line been done before?

The answer is a lot.

That's my movie news for now.  The winter movies of '09/'10 greatly surpassed the summer movies of '09. I wanted to cry at every summer movie I went to, and it wasn't because they were heart-warming tear-jerkers.

I Am a Fiendish Driver.

Today's course was sub-par.  It was not only boring, but drawn out, and rather pointless.  After four consecutive hours in the pool, I felt disgusting and kind of depressed.  I'm not sure if it was because I was feeling sick, bathing in other people's dead cells, or if was just overly bored, we may never know.

My hands are still recouperating from their recent wrinkle-y-ness.

As this post's name states, I am indeed a fiendish driver.  I'm one of those people who... how can I explain this? Well, I was at a four way stop, and the person who was after me decided to go before I was finished my turn, and thus continued on their way to ride my bumper.  I slowed down.  Then, when they tried to pass me, I sped up.

I do it all the time, people who want to speed, but can't because you're there, really tick me off. 

I'm going to go see "The Lovely Bones" tonight with my mom.  I'm pretty excited, it's been a while since we've been to a movie together.

For the moment, though, I'm tempted to take a good half hour nap (as that's all the time I have before the movie, at the moment).  My brain just informed me of my fatigue.

Here's hoping tomorrow's course isn't as pain-stakingly boring.  Everybody lost focus, including me.  Usually I'm pretty good at paying attention, but not today. 

I find myself looking forward to blogging.  It's actually kind of fun, even if no one reads it.

I Walk the Line.

I figured it was as good a blog post title as any, Johnny Cash, that is. I'm listening to it right now, and that's what he said when I clicked "New post". So I thought, why not?

Something to note: I clicked the shuffle button on my iPod, and it proceeded by playing the first song on my playlist. Yeah, originality FTW.

I'm pretty proud of myself, I got my marks back for something we did in my English class. It was basically like a forum, except we all got to be characters from the book "Tale of Two Cities". I was the Marquis St. Evremonde, and I was dead. Despite the fact that I wasn't around, I had an awesome time pretending to be watching everything unwravel from my "afterllife". I got fourteen out of fifteen on the assignment and got comments like: "Your voice was good, you were a thoroughly dead aristocrat" and "I never knew a snobby laugh could be spelled out until now"

I lost the sheet, but the point is, it made me laugh.

I had another course day, today. It was unbelievably boring, all we did was go through swim strokes. I'm so close to being done, though, it's exciting. Although it looks like I might need to be looking for a temporary replacement job. I'm thinking about applying at IGA. My friend's sister works there and she gets some awesome shifts, plus their lunch breaks are an hour long, that's enough time to go home!

So if my plan for lifeguarding right away falls through, I've got places I can apply at. I'm just not sure if I'll be able to use Best Buy as a reference, because I think they were hoping I'd reapply :/

Japanese club was fun today. We're making Kana boxes out of wood, and we picked out our boxes and such. When we were planning out how we wanted to make them, though, we couldn't speak English (meaning that every other language but Japanese was out, too). My communication consisted of "Hai, Iie, Kore? Koko? Nani?" A lot of questions, I know, but I don't know many verbs, and if I did, I can't conjugate them worth a darn anyway. Regardless, I was impressed with my skill to interpret what the teacher was saying. I can understand the language pretty well, I just can't speak it.

I did learn a new word, if I got the definition correct when he said it. "Doki" means "Where."

I also know the Kanji for Dog (Inu).

I need to work on my vocabulary for next week, though, I'm tired of not being able to communicate like the teacher and code-name chicken can. Benkyoushimasu o kudasai-yo!

If I spelled that correctly it should say "Study well, please!" If not, it was a learning experience. One always learns more through mistakes than anything else.

So!

So, this is a test, to see how it looks when I've published a blog post. I've decided that perhaps making a blog would be good for me. I've been told I should blog, plus, I think it'd be cool.

The name I chose for my blog "Say Hello to the World" or "Say Salut to the World" was chosen because that's exactly what I want to do, say hello to the world. (I had to use "Salut" in the blog address because "Say Hello to the World" was taken).

Although, whether this will actually happen or not is beyond me, I guess only God knows. It also depends on how long blogging will hold my interest.

I hope it does, I think it'll be interesting to see where this goes.