Dear...

Dear overly immature high school students,

You realize your insane level of obnoxious behavior right? Or maybe you’re just too caught up in the search for brain cells to comprehend surroundings. Oh you know the friend of a guy of a girl’s sister who looked at you. Congratulations, he was probably trying to figure out why there were a bunch of children out roaming around alone. NOT SAFE. Despite your failed attempts at dressing yourself and your pounds of caked on makeup, you don’t look or act any more mature. Your he said, she said bologna isn’t much fun to overhear either. Learn to face a problem face to face. Be civilized but wise. You can start by eliminating “OMG”, “YOLO” and “SWAG” from your vocabulary. If I hear it one more time, you will be smacked into oblivion. It’s not cool to be ignorant. Oh, and liking a band is ok. But you shouldn’t have Harry Styles’ face on your nails and “Mrs. Styles” on your shirt. Be normal. Society begs you..

Oh you’re pants are on the ground, very attractive. Do you remember when wearing a belt actually had a purpose? No? Well I do. Oh, but it’s a song and it looks cool..to have your pants on the ground. Your argument has no effect on the sane people in society. Pull em up buttercup. Foul language isn’t really appreciated Sir Curses a Lot. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth reeking of alcohol and hatred? Language and life are beautiful, don’t ruin it for those who care.  

Take advice,

An annoyed school mate

Say No to Stupid

Never in my life have I heard of creative spelling…ever. Fortunately I am able to say that I grew up in an elementary school that stressed the importance of strong spelling and reading skills. I’ve always thought of myself as a strong speller and I honestly cannot imagine someone allowing me to misspell stuff to avoid hurting my feelings. I’m not even a teacher and I find that insulting to society. Sometimes the amount of ignorance floating around in this world creates this ridiculous fear within me that it might someday become contagious. I hope in all honesty that some concerned parent or community member stands up and calls these people out. I find the whole concept of “creative spelling” utterly stupid.  And the last thing this world needs is more stupid people. I feel like there should be some kind of more rigorous and required list of content (vocabulary and reading skills) that needs to be enforced in primary schools. Without literacy our world would basically fall apart and I’m not sure that I am ok with that. And really, if GOOGLE even disagrees with the educational benefits of inventive spelling…maybe you should just stop. Just say no. Say no to stupid.  

Guilt Trips eh?

Oh guilt trips..they are unfortunately a journey I visit often. My tendency to speak before I think tends to get me into a lot of trouble. And sure, you hear about paternal guilt trips but I seem to screw up everywhere. My attitude and insomnia also seems to be a big contribution. I am known for occasionally and unknowingly taking out my stress on others. And I realize I have a problem and I am working on that by the way and am making steady progress. The article on guilt mentioned food guilt and I can honestly say that when it comes to food, there is no guilt. Yeah sure, that doughnut I had for breakfast was probably like a million and a half calories, but guess whose happy and full?! All the dieters can stick to their cardboard crackers, and I’ll take whatever they reject. Well, with the exception of 19 twinkies in a row. That seems to be a bit much. I feel like part of the issue in modern society is that everyone takes things too seriously. Lighten up, eat, drink and feel however you want. There’s no reason to be so taut. Like Mark Twain said, “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

So Much to Do, So Little Time

This week can’t be over quickly enough. My work schedule is not cooperating with my school schedule and the amount of work I have due in a couple of days is ridiculous. *sigh* Why can’t senior year be done and over with now? In other news, so far Beloved doesn't seem to be so great. I’m pretty bored with it as of now and it’s a little on the strange side. The odd mix of fantasy and realism is strange, something I've never encountered before in a reading. There are times that I feel like maybe there are just periodic earthquakes until the tables go flying at them. Then my opinion changes and I’m not quite sure what to think. The names of the characters (with the exception with a couple) are really odd and it makes the story kind of confusing at times. I’m seriously hoping that this novel starts getting a little more intriguing to me. If not, this is going to be a rough few weeks. The same goes for my second independent reading book. The summary made it seem interesting but the summary on my 1^st book was too. And no, just no.  Well, instead of blabbering on about nonsense I should probably start working on my reading journals for this week. That’s all folks. :)