Interesting, my first blog post outside of TV.com. Apparently there is a new CNet website; FilmSpot. It seems pretty cool- you can choose your own icon, choose your favorite movies and rate them out of 5 stars, post on the forums, etc. What I like the best is the movie trailers. The one thing that sets apart from some of the other CNet sites is how the levels work; I haven't quite figured out how it works yet. I think only blog posts and maybe forum posts level you up. Oh well, it's not important. All in all, though, it's a pretty cool site, definitely worth checking out.

In other news, it's midterm season! If it weren't, I would've posted a Christmas blog by now. I was delighted with my haul this year; a GameCube, four games (SSX Tricky, Soul Calibur 2, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Monkey Ball 2), and an iPod nano (3 gigabytes). Oh, and some toffees. No socks, thank goodness. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play the GameCube much because we have midterms next week. Every day I've been doing at least an hour of studying for each subject. However, a friend of mine is having a party next Saturday to celebrate the end of the midterms. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel, after all (especially because he has a Wii). 

Also, I'm glad TV.com has finally caught up with the other 3 sites and now allows us to customize our own icons. Fun fun! Well, I hope everyone has a good weekend, because I'll be stuck inside studying. Oh well, it'll be worth it to ace them all...hopefully... 

Wow, it's almost Christmas. Time for snow and fires and icicles and stuff like that... right? Because that doesn't really happen when it's almost 70 degrees.

Last year it snowed in the first week of December. It's almost Christmas, and we haven't gotten a single flake. I live in Maryland, so snow shouldn't be a rare occurance. This year, however, it looks like things are changing. If I can walk to the library in a t-shirt and light pants a week before Christmas, what does that mean about the chances of it snowing? I'm almost afraid to know the answer. Also, we've barely had any rain this entire month. Basically, it's either been cloudy enough for it to snow, but too warm, or cold enough for it to snow, but bright and sunny. First the curse of the turkey, and now this? Happy holidays to you too, you ****ing weather!

I know for a fact that this is a true story. Er...mainly because it happened to me.

My sister currently lives in New York, where she works for an online food magazine. On Wednesday, she ate some bad scallops and got food poisoning. She was planning to come home Thursday (Thanksgiving) around 11 in the morning. She called us that morning around 6 to tell us she had, unfortunately, been throwing up all night. She was still planning to come home, though. My dad got out of bed about an hour later because he said the smell of the paint was bothering him (they had their room painted on Wed.). By around 10, he realized he had a bad cold and a sore throat. My sister came home an hour and a half later and promptly went to sleep. My dad did the same. By the time they woke up, it was 2 in the afternoon. We were supposed to leave to go to a family friend's house for dinner in an hour.

It turned out they weren't up to going. Ironically enough, they were the ones that really wanted to go; I would have preferred to have had a family Thanksgiving. So, the moral of the story is that if you eat too much turkey, its' spirit will forever curse you and your predecessors to have a mediocre Thanksgiving. Keep that in mind when you eat your turkey leftovers...

Well, no more playing tennis for me for a while... Today I fell and sprained my ankle and possibly my wrist. On the bright side, though, it makes for something to blog about!

It's amazing how when you're partially crippled (bit of an exxageration there) you notice how difficult ordinary tasks become. For example, even turning the page of a book was labor when you have to do it while keeping your foot elevated and only using one hand. So I guess it'll be an interesting experience, as long as it doesn't drive me insane!!!

I just wonder how I'll go up and down steps...

Aren't the first 2 days of school supposed to be easy? Apparently, English, Science, Algebra, and Spanish beg to differ. I didn't get a lot of homework, but definatly more than normal. That and 3 pretests and a little quiz that wasn't graded. Well, I guess school is finally starting to begin to start to get serious (yes, I wrote the sentence that way on purpose).

I'm just sort of disappointed in my English teacher. Again. Maybe I'm under the "curse of the mediocre English teachers" or something. But this year, the teacher does everything she can to not incite discussion, to force everyone to only have one and the same answer, and to all be the same good little girls and boys. For example, we had to fill out one of those "About Me" sheets, and then share them with the class. One of the questions was "What are you worried about this school year?" and a kid answered that he wasn't worried about anything so far. She told him that he must be worried about something, and he should change his answer immediatly. Then she all but told him exactly what to write.

I wouldn't mind if it was a kid who was just saying that, or who answered a question truly incorrectly, but this kid gets straight A's, and it's the 3rd day of school. If they're not worried, don't force them to be, for the love of God!

Another question was "What goals do you have this school year?" Many people answered that their goal was to get straight A's. She told them flat out that they shouldn't have that as a goal, as it put too much pressure on them, and was utterly unrealistic. I can see the pressure part, but excuse me? Unrealistic? That's not true at all! There are tons of people who get straight A's, that's like telling someone that being an underacheiver was something to strive for. There's nothing wrong with underachieving, but for a teacher, of all people to be encouraging it? Well, I'm ready for high school now, thanks.