Saturday, November 24, 2007

FreeRice

Hey guys. I just found out about freerice.com, and I wanted to tell you all about it. When you go to freerice.com, you are asked a vocabulary question. If you answer it correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations charitable efforts. 10 grains of rice doesn't sound like a lot, but it snowballs into a huge amount if you play enough! Clicking on the title of this post should take you to freerice.com, or you can scroll down, and I should have a link to it in my list of sites that I support. Have a great weekend.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Ratatouille

I just wanted to tell you all about what I think of the new Pixar film Ratatouille. I loved it. It's out on DVD, and I would give it a 4.1/5. The plot and animation were very good, however I did not like the way the movie ended.

Friday, November 02, 2007

1 down, 3 to go!

Well, it's official. The first quarter of the 2007-2008 school year ends at 3:05 pm today. I am very excited about the weekend. I desperately need a break. I have been working my ass off all week! I have to admit that I am not too optimistic about my grades for the first quarter, considering all that has happened to me this October. I expect to raise them though.

Teasing

This post is going to be all about teasing and back-stabbing. I have heard so much talk about people behind their backs, that I feel it's my obligation as a Blogger to comment on this disturbing trend. I want to try to dig to see as to why people do this. I won't do research for this, because as you can tell from my previous posts, I am sick of research for a few decades. You'll only get my speculation here. I want to say that I think that people talk about other people behind their backs because the gossipers are really insecure about critical flaws in their character. That's why it really doesn't bother me when people talk about me behind my back. I have better things to do than worry about what random people think of me. It does get under my skin when people talk about certain people to me. I won't mention those people because this journal is not a private one, but it is irritating when people talk to me about these people. I usually break down the feeling in order to get over it. I know that because they are putting other people down, the have flaws that are often related to what they are talking about. For example if a kid calls your brother stupid, it could mean that they feel insecure about their own intelligence. Sticking with this example, I would like to mention that at first it might get you "miffed", but you have to think about why they are saying what they are saying. It always calms me down. Have a great day.

Commitments

Do you guys read the archives??? If you do, you'll notice that when I started this blog, I said that I would update at least once per week. I haven't calculated the average posts per week because I did take a large break after I started writing this blog.

Drugs

I want to talk a bit about drugs now that I have some extra time. I know kids that do drugs, and I just wanted to let all of you readers(all 4 of you! LOL) know that drugs are very bad. They can take over the best of people. I have never done drugs myself, but I see drug addicts at school. It truly saddens me because I want to say that they are good people at heart, but I am too afraid to get to know them. It's kind of hard to explain, the point being that people are completely taken over by drugs. I was reading in our school paper about a few people that used to drugs. It led them into the gang life. One of the people tried to commit suicide, which is when he decided to turn his life around. I know that kid, and before I read that article, I never would have guessed that he even touched drugs. You can never really tell. If someone were to offer me drugs, I would definately say no, because of what I have seen. Even a "quick blunt" can turn out to be deadly. The point of this post is that drugs are bad, and you should avoid them at all costs.

All-Nighter

Hey guys. I have just pulled my first all-nighter! ;) I shouldn't be too proud because it's obviously a bad habit to procrastinate. Anyway, I had this huge paper that I had to do by the end of second hour tomorrow. It feels so good to have it done. All that I have to do is email it back to myself at school, and then during class, I'll run the paper by the teacher before officially turning it in. I feel better about getting it done, even if I had to sacrifice a good night's sleep.