So, apparently Kidz Bop has made it to 15.  I do not understand how people wanted to buy it the first fourteen times.  I also don't understand why they think that making kids sing ANYTHING by the Pussycat Dolls automatically makes the song kid-friendly.  But, whatever.

Apparently I'm going to prom.  My friend told me yesterday that she's going to find me a date, because her boyfriend's visiting to take her to prom and they don't want me being a third wheel.  Thanks guys, for not asking me if I wanted to go to the fuckin' prom in the first place.

I kinda don't want to be set up, either, it seems like it'd be uber weird.  Plus, they're probably just going to be making out the entire time and I'll be stuck trying to act like I'm not awkward about being there with someone I was set up with.  

Hopefully she'll drop it and the "what the fuck at you" look I gave her was enough to make her reconsider.  If she brings it up again I'm telling her I don't want to go.

Signing up for next year's classes, freaking out over whether or not I'm making the right decisions with them, wanting to calm the fuck down already.  Been over-reacting to everything this week.  Clearly need some icecream and/or chocolate.

Eventually I'll get around to taking pictures of my stuff from art class.  I keep saying I will and I never do.

Got back into the Sims recently.  Eagerly anticipating the Sims 3.  I'm gonna wait at least a week until after it comes out to get it, though, check the forums and make sure that it's not too buggy or anything.  Make sure there's no SecuRom-esque things to worry about.

That's all for today.

So today was my first snow day ever.  It just poured down yesterday, they say it's the worst we've had in thirty years.  Yesterday, I stayed out until it was dark making a snowman of epic proportions because there was finally a snowfall here with enough snow to achieve this. 

Unfortunately, my snowman didn't make it through to the next afternoon, he fell over this morning.  I noticed him leaning backwards when I went outside again and tried to fix it but kinda broke his middle and his head off.  So I tried putting it back the way it was and put some extra snow there.  He was good for another hour before collapsing.  At least he lasted longer than my sister's, and her's wasn't even that large, though I have a theory that my dog may have gone out and knocked it over.  He's not a fan of this snow nonsense.

Yesterday was the first time I was outside while snow was actually falling that I was old enough to remember it.  It's neat.  Today it's mostly melting so I suppose we'll be back in school tomorrow.  It was fun while it lasted.

In other news, I changed the theme to my journal.  Usually I'd like to pick one I can customize the fuck out of, but I had to get this one.  Why?  Because it's got a picture of a phonograph in the header.  <3

It's just so pretty and vintage.

I was gonna try and learn how to make one [a layout] for myself, but apparently you need to know a lot about HTML, I just know some bare basics, otherwise it's like a foreign language to me.  I'd need some sort of step-by-step idiot's guide to making LJ layouts, with idiot's HTML explanations along the way.

I'm going to try to take some pictures of the art I did in class and finish my digital painting maybe this weekend.  I need to upload some sort of art to my deviantart account eventually.

Went home sick today, second time this year.  I guess I must be making up for the good five-year block where I never went home sick at all.  Hopefully this is just a 24-hour thing and I can go back tomorrow.

I always feel so bad about missing school.  I think it's mostly because I don't like doing make-up work and feeling like I'm falling behind (that and I guess I like school, keeping busy and all that).  This is why I never miss.  I tried e-mailing my teachers to get the homework but the school website is all "LOL not letting you sign in to get their e-mail addresses, sucks for you."

I didn't have anything major to do today, I had an art project I was hoping to start and a physics test I'll have to make up but maybe with this extra time I can get around to studying (not likely).  I hope we weren't taking any more notes in Math.

I hate being sick, I feel like I've wasted a day.  It's weird though, I don't feel ill unless I'm sitting still for very long (which is why school just wasn't an option) so hopefully I can make the most out of this.  I'm doing laundry and just cleaned my keyboard, so hopefully today won't be a waste.

Anyway, here's hoping I feel better. D:

So, I've decided I'm a major nerd for several reasons.  These reasons amuse me, see if they amuse you as well.

You Know You're A Nerd When...

-You have a nightmare about your computer crashing, and upon waking up must calm yourself down and repeat to yourself "It was just a dream, my computer was working just fine before I went to bed."
-You have a panic attack when it appears something on your computer is not working right.
-You nearly cry when your hard drive is too full to open one of your favorite programs.
-You spend lunch periods discussing bad books, fanfiction, internet n00bs, and reminiscing on the days when you used to be one.
-You have had a friend tell you to shut the fuck up about your computer already.
-You get oddly excited over book references.
-You are extremely frustrated when teachers take too long to return essays.
-You are waiting in extreme anticipation to get an essay back to see what you got on it.
-You get excited over a writing prompt, only to be concerned that all of what you could write on it wouldn't fit in the length restriction.
-You wear a Ministry of Love t-shirt for 80's day at school.
-You have to explain to your friend in a band what his band name means.
-You find external hard drives to be wonderful gifts.
-You use terms like "OTP" and "For the win" in real life conversation.  (Thankfully I haven't started saying "OMG" or "LOL" yet.)
-You are upset when your parents pull you out of school to go out of town because you don't want to miss a day.
-You didn't know where the nurse's office was when you felt sick at school because you never had to go home sick before.
-You get lost on the way to the attendance office because you visit it so rarely.
-You run while everyone else walks after the two-minute warning bell because you've never been late to a class... ever.

I probably forgot some.

Random thoughts for today:

1.  I hate when people misquote things.  Song lyrics, mostly.  I guess I'm OCD about it and always have to make sure I get quotations just right, word for word, when putting them in a signature or a graphic.  What bugs me lately it seems, is probably the most-quoted line from Twilight (surely you've seen this quote, it's everywhere, I didn't even know it was from Twilight until I forced myself to finish it): "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb."  That is the quote, Twilight fans.  It is not "so the lion fell in love with the lamb," it is not "the lion fell in love with the lamb," it is not "and the lion fell in love with the lamb," and it is not "and the lion fell for the lamb."  It is "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb."  I don't even like this fucking book, I find this quote to be creepy, and yet I know the quote.  Something is wrong here, clearly.  

2.  I still do not understand the appeal of the show "John and Kate Plus Eight."  Maybe I'm subconsciously thinking "The Weasleys are better" or something.

3.  My sister slurps her cereal.  Who the FUCK slurps their cereal?  Like, she slurps out all the milk and then eats the cereal part.  Soup makes sense since putting a hot piece of metal in your mouth isn't very desirable, but cereal?  It's distracting.

4.  I want to make a new userpic but I don't know what to make it of.

5.  I really need to get a reference for art tomorrow so I don't spend the third day in a row doing homework and reading Slaughterhouse-Five for two class periods straight.  I miss my prisma colors. </3

6.  Why is today not Friday? D:

I hate politics.

I'm sixteen fucking years old, why do people really expect me to care?  It doesn't matter if I support Obama or McCain, I could support the hell out of either one of them all I want and it doesn't matter because I cannot fucking vote and I will be stuck with one of them for the next four years either way.

And if I do hear something and I bring it up when someone is talking about politics, I suddenly have to defend and back up everything I just said because I'm getting pounced upon and being told I'm completely in the wrong.  I'm not gonna defend some presidential candidate because someone I'm talking to is all for the other guy.  I'm not into this enough to get into some passionate debate.

I don't know much about either candidate and what they stand for and I don't really care.  I'm not gonna go out of my way to read articles about them or look up websites supporting them.  I try to pay attention during the news when they discuss the race, but I lose interest after about two minutes.  Honestly, my father's commentary and arguments with my grandmother about the candidates are far more entertaining than anything else going on in this race as far as I'm concerned.

Then I get these lectures from people, all appalled about how I somehow am not interested about how any of this shit works or about who's going to run our country.  As if I'm the first teenager not to give a shit.  Like I said, it doesn't matter how interested I am or how much I like one or the other, because I'm not old enough to vote.

Yeah, maybe I should care.  Maybe I should take more interest.  But I can't make myself interested in something.  I can't make myself stop being bored when I watch the news and they're talking about the candidates.  I can't force myself to care about something I am so clearly apathetic about.

So please stop expecting me to care.

Eh, I don't really know how to start this out so I guess I'll just bore you with random shit.

I'm into art, taking AP Studio Art this year as well as Drawing II.  I'm quite enjoying the classes but it's only the second week of school so things could change.  I doubt they will though, I'm very passionate about this subject.

We're doing surrealism next in AP Studio Art, I'm excited.  I want to do something with clocks and do have somthing in mind so hopefully I'll be able to go along with it if I can find a decent reference.

What is it about clocks that's so neat?  I can't figure it out, there's something about them.  Maybe "clocks" will be my theme, I think my teacher said we needed a theme for our projects for either this semester or next semester.

All for now, I suppose.  I have to start an essay at some point...

xoxo
Bobbi