The Last Day

It's finally over. The update-your-blog week has finally come to a close.

Am I free from this voluntary time-wasting curse? Perhaps; however, this new drive to write blog entries has now been ingrained into my subconscious self, and presently I feel as if I need to continue blogging often, if not daily. Whether or not this was your intention Emily, I do not know, but I have a strong hunch that this is what you hoped for...

AND I SHALL RESIST, for as long as I can! Because I simply do not have such time to blog as often as I did this week! My narrow schedule was consistently strained as I went out of the way to satisfy your blog-reading needs! I could ramble forever about the many pros and cons of this whole week-long event, but unfortunately I lack neither the time nor motive to do so. That being said, I'll just end the pain for myself and finish off this entry right now. Expect some scattered entries, but I wouldn't recommend checking back every day; you'll only find yourself disappointed. Maybe once a week, but that's not a promise.

Goodbye, crazy blogging week!

3 Tips When Typing an Assignment...

1. Always, always, ALWAYS ALWAYS NEVER NOT SAVE YOUR WORK PERIODICALLY.
(When I say periodically, I mean every 2 minutes as if you're a paranoid schizophrenic)
2. Make sure that u dont randomly add ch4tsp33k into your essays. Teachers hate it. Not that I would evar do something liek dat...
3. Play Typer Shark. It'll improve your average wpm. (I swear, that's how I got my 120 wpm!)
4. Just kidding about number 3.

So you probably want to know the reason why I'm offering such helpful advice without a request first (as you know, I usually don't readily spew my vast knowledge to just any ol' person... Ahahaha, no. Just kidding, again. Why am I writing this all in parentheses? Oh well, probably just another subconscious effort to make this post longer). Well let's just say I had, oh, an assignment for school in which I had to type an entire email in French. As is obvious, French is not my first language. Heck, it's not even my second or third. (Sarcasm is my third language, obviously) Yes, that means it takes a great deal of effort to type in said language, especially when you want to throw in all the proper accents.

Of course, I spent a good 30 or so minutes working on this email, hoping that my French pen pal would appreciate that I typed more than two sentences, as mostly everyone else in my class did. Proud of my work, I hastily clicked the "send" button... and just as the thought of "Gee, I should really copy and paste this entire email into a word document, just in case..." crossed my mind...


The page refreshed.

And my session timed out.

Meaning I had lost all of my work.

At this point I was ready to smash my desk in half with my forehead. The only place I had written this email was, of course, on my email processor. Naturally they had the "save as draft" function, which again, I was careless enough to not use. So guess what I had to do?

...Yep, type the whole darn thing over again. What a great way to spend another 20 minutes (which according to my schedule, should have been used for math homework).

So the moral of this story is? Always save your work before you do anything else, folks!

P.S. Day *4* of unofficial blogging week. More than halfway there now...! Sorry for such late updates.

A new layout?!

So I've decided that my plain green-themed default blog layout was quite boring, so I'm going to try something NEW! This current one is only temporary, as I am currently searching for one that is more to my liking. However, this one isn't bad, and if it seems that people actually are fine with it then I might just keep it. Keep me updated on any suggestions you might find though!

On a note completely unrelated to the topic title, it is now officially day 2 of my insane friend's unofficial holiday of "Update your blog every day of the week week," and I have yet to blog about something useful and/or interesting. I assure you, I shall find something of moderate interest tomorrow. Really.

...I think.

Once upon a time...

there was a girl named Emily. She was obsessed with reading blog entries, and so demanded an entire week of daily updates, dubbing the week as a holiday: "Update-Your-Blog-Every-Day-of-the-Week week. Here's yours from me today. Cheers.

And don't forget to study for that Odyssey test.

Bubbles and a semi-update.

Well, first of all... It's been a long time since the last update way back in March, and I have some very good reasons for this:



...Wait, no. Actually I don't.
I was just being lazy.

Anyway, that's off the point, because now I'm posting, see, see? And what better to get back on track with than a refreshing ("Refreshing like a spring breeze?" Naah.) article about popping bubbles! They may seem like such an ordinary thing to the naked eye, but with a high-speed camera... your entire point of view is changed.

Here's a preview of it:


Beautiful, isn't it. You can find the entire article about the guy who took these amazing photographs right here.

Sorry if you were disappointed by the completely random update. Even though it's summertime (and no comments about high school musical please), the amount of work I still have to accomplish before school comes 'round again is enormous, so I just don't have the time to write lengthy rant-like updates. I guess bubbles will have to do for now. Maybe another time I'll decide to do a real update of what's happened in the past 3 and a half months or so...

'Later folks!

My Sister's Pet Hamster...

...ran away.

...Three days ago. For three agonizing days (at least in the eyes of my sister), her "poor" hamster lived as a rogue nomad/wanderer, mingling with the basement spiders and then some. I could imagine it, squeaking with joy, "I'm a FREE hamster now!" (to the tone of Pinnochio's "I'm a REAL boy now!") It met up with the basement mice gang, defeated their leader, and climbed its way to the top of the rodent social ladder.

Just as it was enjoying its freedom, hunger began to gnaw at the pits of its tiny stomach. My sister, being the semi-clever one, left the door to the hamster cage open, attempting to tempt (haha) it with some delectable morsels of dried corn and... stuff. For three nights she waited, observing the slight change in the food level. She knew her precious hamster was alive; just in hiding. Like a refugee. Finally, she could bear it no longer. She hired me, the bounty hunter, to go off in search of this rogue hamster. As I snuck downstairs into the basement, I heard a faint shuffling sound, like tiny rodent paws clawing at the smooth wooden flooring. The corner of my eye caught the glimpse of a tiny shadow, scampering across the floor. Turning on the lights, I dashed after it, snatching the pathetic thing up in my nimble hands then plopping it back into its cage. The rodent squeaked and screeched in protest, but I would not open that cage door again.

Sorry lil' fella, but your life as a free hamster is over.

...and that just about sums up my (non)epic story of how I the bounty hunter successfully caught the rogue hamster and was rewarded... nothing. She didn't even say thanks! -.-

(Yep this is what procrastination does to you)

Phoenix Wright

I needed something to distract myself, so I thought of the one-and-only, amazing Phoenix Wright. Despite first appearances of a rather silly yet strategical game, he, as well as his rivals and allies give amazingly insightful quotes. Again, the only purpose of this post is to steer myself away from my problems in the world outside of games... and for entertainment purposes. Here are some of my favorites. Some may be humorous, others may be serious, and others yet are actually quite insightful and might actually make you think. Without further ado:

• "Just my luck... An assassin with a conscience. Who would've figured...?" --Phoenix Wright
• "And their fate is to live with the knowledge of their guilt on their shoulders." --Shelly De Killer (the assassin with a conscience)
  
• "Sink or swim... The only way through is forward!" --Phoenix Wright
• "Your... precious... UUUUURNNN!!" --Adrian Andrews (oh wow)
  
• "Life doesn't end with the closing of a case." --Lana Skye
• "And even though the weather outside is gorgeous today, it's raining inside my heart..." --Phoenix Wright
• "I am not totally confident here, but I know I must press on, no matter what!" --Phoenix Wright
• "I know the path I have walked. You don't need to tell me." --Miles Edgeworth
• "There's a sad feeling in the air, now that the party's over..." --Phoenix Wright
• "Even if the whole world turns against me, this is one fight I can't give up on!" --Phoenix Wright
• "But have I just run out of luck this time...? Is all our hope for naught...?" --Phoenix Wright
• "Why are you speaking in riddles all of a sudden...?" --Phoenix Wright (to Mia Fey)
  
• "OBJECTION!" --Self explanatory
• "I feel as if... Something inside me has died." --Miles Edgeworth
• "I can't forgive myself for what I've done... And no one else should forgive me either!" --Miles Edgeworth
• "...Zvarri! The truth has once again been elegantly revealed to me!" --Luke Atmey
  
• "I am sorry to learn you are no longer that person." --Judge
• "Why is it... That all I want to do lately is cry?" --Phoenix Wright
• "Why is it... I suddenly feel like I want to scream?" --Phoenix Wright
• "I set my ATM card's number to '0001' because I'm number one!" --Manfred von Karma
• "...and the world just got a whole lot crueler..." --Phoenix Wright
• "...I ate it." --Phoenix Wright
• "I'm such a fool... It took me all this time to realize it." --Lana Skye
• "No one can change the past. The only thing we can do is strive to make up for our mistakes. Why must we make up for our mistakes, you ask? Because in doing so... we can find the way back to our path. And once we've found our path, we can move on from our past mistakes toward a brighter future." --Phoenix Wright (this is my favorite)

I've accumulated a list far longer than this, but these are the highlights and among some of my favorites. Now here comes my testimonial/rant... zomgphoenixwrightisanamazinggameandithinkallofyoushouldgetitandplayit,becauseitwillgiveyourperpectionoftheworldawholedifferentangle, andyoumightstartevenapproachingsituationswithalittlemorerationalitythanbefore, andthinkthingsthroughfirst,asihavelearnedfromthis. SOGOPLAYPHOENIXWRIGHT! [/addiction]

Irony.

So, lately I've been doing a lot of thinking. When someone is given a long time to think, think harder, and rethink, they start to notice many smaller details of life that they may not have registered before. I've always found a fascination with the stranger half of life, namely, irony in its pure, most ironic form. I would insert some lame pun about iron (Fe) and irony due to our current science unit about the Periodic Table of Elements, but the inspiration is repelling me like same-pole magnets. (Whoops I think I made that one too vague. Fe Co Ni ring any bells? If it doesn't then good... now you know that I'm the only one going insane.)

Anyway, so... about irony. I've began to notice so much of it nowadays that I feel as if it's always been around me; I've just never taken the time to think about it. I don't know the official definition of irony, but it goes something like this: A form of "humor" (humor as some may call it... I personally don't find it funny at all; simply intriguing to notice and quite amus-ing. Ahh stupid science unit.) that occurs as a result of something else that is contrary to that other thing. I really don't know how to explain it... You really have to experience it yourself. Since this is a public blog (that no one reads anyway, but that's off the point), I can't go into my usual violent rants about irony. But I will say the following: Iron[y] is all around you... And if you ever happen to have the time to go searching for it, you don't have to look very far. Just think of what's happened in the past few hours, or days, or weeks... You're bound to find tons of examples.

My final words of nonsense (I've thought of way too many of these lately)-- Take an iron, add a why, and you have irony.

ANYWAY VS. ANYWAYS

Warning: This entry may contain a large amount of ranting. If you were not expecting a rant, it's not too late to turn back and go to some other page... This is your last chance... Okay, here goes:

Why must the human nature be so... stubborn? As you can already infer from this title, this is about how people never change their old ways, either because they are too used to it, or they purposely do it, simply for the pleasure of seeing how others react. Now, before I go off on a tangent and start ranting about cheese or something, I'll steer myself back on topic by saying: just what exactly am I ranting about? Well, there's an easy answer:

One. Simple. Word.

"Anyways."

For those who are going, "What?! 'Anyways' isn't a real word..?! Q.Q" Well, tough luck. It's not a word, and never will be (I hope... -gulp-). Really, in order to be grammatically correct, you must use the real form of this imaginary word, "anyway." NOTICE, THERE IS NO "S." YOU HEAR ME...?!Now, if this is news to you, do not despair! For I too, used to be a fan of the word "anyways." But alas, that was before I found out, that this word, despite its popularity, does not exist! From that point on, I made it my goal to correct those poor souls who still believe that such a word exists! You would not believe how many times I come across such popular usage of this word on a daily basis. I have already made it clear of my intolerance for this word to my friends and acquaintances-- And yet, they instead, have seen it as my main pet peeve, and have now turned it to their advantage! Oh, the horror of it all! (YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING TO...)

So be it. If they choose to use such a nonexistent word, then I shall not give more of a rat's cheese worth of thought on it. My opinion: Continuing to use the nonexistent word "anyways" in everyday life, whether because of old habit or for personal entertainment, shows immaturity and lack of true understanding of such a complicated language as English. Now, I can not say that I know everything there is to such a diverse language, but I do know this:

"ANYWAYS" DOES NOT EXIST.

But whatever. "It's your future."
("itz ur brain." Only a few select people will actually understand the reference... But ANYWAY...)

Disclaimer: No, I usually don't make my rants this short. I wouldn't even call this a "rant..." But it will have to suffice.

Old random... comic.

(click for the full image)

Yeah, I started a comic series back in the good ol' 6th grade days, and then I took it up again for a few months last year, which continued into this year. Here's one of the last ones I drew, and it's probably my favorite too. (Hey that rhymes...! Uh anyway...)

Sorry for the horrible image quality. It's probably the best I can do with such a limited format...

Anyway, I'm probably going to move all of my old comics here, just for the heck of it. After that, I'll probably just start an entirely new series. After all, a green jelly blob and a purple flame? What the heck? ...No, that's just something that I won't keep.