Tuesday, January 4, 2005

A major quandry.

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Shin- Yes, but I bet you're still wearing shorts.

Ken- Good old rain.

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I bought a bag of Smarties on impulse the other day, and as I was eating them I looked at the wrapper and saw something that caught my eye: "Now in seven great flavors." This lead me to some very independent film-esque thinking: I've always known that Smarties have had different flavors, but what exactly are the flavors? Unlike most candies, the flavors are very different from each other, but I am unable to distinguish what they exactly are.

They're different kinds of sweetness, seemingly based off of fruits, but the amount of artificial flavoring must be huge, because it tastes almost synthetic.. In a delicious way.

After much half-assed introspective musing (BEST SENTENCE EVER), I came to the conclusion that the Smarties company just uses different brands of sugar for each color.. But I may just send them an email about it, because I'm weird like that.

So there you have it, some food for thought.

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It was cloudy and drizzly all day today, and it rocked. I wish I could have taken a picture as I was walking to the school gate. The sky was a perfect, smooth shade of gray that was not broken up by a patch of sky or an extra layer of cover. It was as if the sky itself was gray instead of blue, and that the green trees and brownish grass were the only colored things in the world. In a very run-down, bland way, it was a beautiful sight.

Every time it rains my mom tries to make me wear this really bulky rain jacket to school, but as I tell her every time, all of my classes are right next to each other and I can seek refuge in the library at lunch. I rubbed the proof of this (my very dry jacket) in her face after school, because I suck.

It seems that it's not allowed to rain during lunch. It never, ever does, so I didn't need to go into the library. Instead we stood in the soggy grass and listened to an assortment of trance and.. I don't know what to call it (screw description), until a yard monitor person came over and said that she would take the CD players away if she had to, because they would get stolen. Not that she wanted to.

..Yeah, they would get stolen by faculty 8,000 times sooner than by a student. Unless it's, like, an expensive 20GB jukebox, nobody would care, and even then we're so far off in the outskirts of the school yard that nobody could even see the earbuds.

At least this school's.. "Security" is more lenient than my elementary school's. I swear, they would accuse anybody of bringing a weapon or something to school unless it was a timid little hispanic girl. That's not me being racist- that's the truth. I remember how one friend of mine brought a lock pick to school one time in sixth grade ("JUST LIKE SPLINTER CELL!1"), and he almost got suspended because it could be considered a weapon.

Like a baseball bat. Or a shoe. Or a puzzle piece.

But this is a really stupid rant, no?

In-class, nothing that great happened, but I did get a 100% on the 1984 AR test. I spent a little while last night going over cliffnotes, and I didn't learn anything. When I enjoy a book, I'll remember every little detail, but when it's boring I zone out. Especially when I have to read it at 7 in the morning.

But yeah, I don't know what I'm going to read next. AR-friendly suggestions, anyone (*cough* Shin)?

I looked through my science notes for no reason today. I always doodle in the margins, as Godel knows, and I am pleased with some of the twisted shit I come up with. Some of it's totally lame things- practically stick figures- but they always have something interesitng to say. To counterbalance that, I also do a bunch of more.. Realistic things, I guess. It's not all that realistic, but I put more time into it.

And I still make them say stupid things. I drew this guy in a World War I German uniform holding up his arm Hitler-style (WWI person + WWII gesture = ??), but to avoid my teacher getting pissy I drew a breakfast pastry flying away from him, and he was trying to catch it.

"Mein strudel!"

..It loses a lot in the way I talk about it. It's really quite something.

Closing Statement: If I were to ever take all of my friends on a big vacation, it would just be on a big yacht. Personally, I wouldn't have much of a desire to go anywhere- who needs sight-seeing when you have friends?

And in international waters, too.
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