Add thisisthefuture to your friends lists, this is my new LJ name. Weee.

This is amazing.
This is true.
This...is the future.

With that said, this blog is now defunct. I'll be using it to read other peoples blogs and communities, until I start a new one.

Change is coming.

You know what would be really nice? To be so rich that I could do anything, go anywhere...and not ever do it. So rich that nothing is beyond my means, and do none of it. Ahh...

Today was alright. I spent 2 hours in 6north, reading "American Gods" by Neil Geiman (I have probably spelled that wrong) and listening to The Poastal Service. I'm so...calm right now. You have no idea how nice it feels.

Nihil.

I think the "Cargo Cruise" or wotever it be called is going to turn out much, much better than expected. I really do. We've managed to take a shoddy script and turn it into a pretty funny play, and I do indeed like my part. Most of my lines are down, theres just these damn lines that go "Something something something, something else something else something else." I get stuck on one line of thought and forget the other half of the line. Grrr. Stupid Noah. Shrimpin' is going to be awesome as well, I'm looking forward to seeing the costume with a sort of terrified excitement. :P

My laptop died this weekend. The back-light on the screen went "FZZT" and then everything went dark. The worst part is that this happened during the most awesome (or one of the most awesome) scenes in V for Vendetta and that pissed me off. So now I'm going to be using the family comp for the next...while.

I gotta get a job. Being a T.A. at my synogogue was fun, don't get me wrong, but I'd like a job that feels just a lil' bit more real. Ick, and I still need to get my drivers permit.

Tomorrow is not going to be fun, at least 5th and 7th periods. I really wish Mrs. Lathrop would stop going on and on and on and on and on and on and OH MY GOD on about how we're all dumb because our previous teachers had the skill of a mouse, and, you know, teach! I feel like I'd have a much better understanding of Chemistry if she did that. Maybe had us do stuff on the board, perhaps perform an actual experiment. I hear Goozh does stuff like that. Oh well, so be it.

Web Design..it's just such a boring class. There really isn't anything else I can say about that.

I've got tickets (or at least I assume I do) to the DAILY SHOW! March can't get here any sooner. That is going to be one awesome trip.

Mr. Trapp was talking about how we're "entering the age of the greats" in which everyone seems to be "(Name) the Great." I think if I were as powerful as that, I'd want to be known as Noah The Awesome, Magnificent, Majestic, and So totally cool he makes Zaphod Beeblebrox look like Arthur Dent.

If you didn't get that last bit...nothing but shame.

I realized today, as I was driving (well, being driven) to school...I don't really care about this stuff.

I learn more from wikipedia (like, actual, useful knowledge) than I ever do in school. I'm sure I'll do well on the ACT/SAT and so on and so forth 'cause of Metro...but when it comes to the real world, I don't feel like school prepares me at all. When I want advice on important life things-jobs, money, relationships, etc, I almost always have to go to a parent, friend, or just someone else.

At school we learn facts. We don't really learn, that is, how these facts we're using apply in the real world. If you ask Mr. Ekenga what the math we're learning is used for outside of a classroom, he goes on the defensive and adds you to his shit list. If you ask Mrs. Lathrop, she tells you that chemistry is abstract, that unless you plan to be a chemist, it really serves no point. Most of my teachers this year are like this. Oddly enough, Mr. Trapp is the exception. As much as I don't like him (although now I think it is more of a friendly dislike, not the raw hate it was last year..) he does actually tell us how the stuff we are learning will help us. For example, he will go on for at least 45mins about how latin helps people become greater writers. If you're lucky, he'll tell the story about him and the Italian priest. (3 times over the past 3 semesters) And in history, he doesn't really do that, but he at least points out the really dumb things people did/do.

Other than that, I feel like school is preping me for a test. Sure, we're a college prep school (apparently) but that doesn't mean we can't apply what we are learning. I can't wait for next year and Mr. Nagy again, he at least showed us why we were learning bio. That was one of the more interesting dicussions about evolution I've had in a school setting....

So yeah. I'll still do as I do in school, but I feel really dis-satisfied with it.

Maybe IB will be better. I'm not doing full IB though, as I hear that while the idea is great, a lot of the teachers just do the same ole' same ole', only harder. (or something like that)

Right. In happier news...New 24 on tonight! Time for some Jack Bauer ass-kicking fun.


(See! Why doesn't school teach us how to make movies, or something like that? Sheesh. Education these days, eh?)

Sometimes, I don't even remember how to think, I get so pissed.

Why does it have to be so hard to get anything done?

I fucking hate money. So why do I want to have a lot of it?

Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Tell me: Is it still paranoia if everyone really is out to get you?

I would say no-it's just reality.

A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice

I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice

In ancient rome there was a poem
About a dog who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!

Then if you got it you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
Don't be tricked by what you see
You got two ways to go

I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Freedom of choice

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom of choice!

In ancient rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

Freedom of choice
Is what you got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want

Subjective/Objective Genitive:
Love of God

Subjective: God is the lover.
Objective: God is loved.

Subjective: Doer
Objective: Done to.

FUN


Is it just me or has the LJ user interface changed a bit? All this text seems bigger, or something.

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

--Henny Youngman

I figure it's appropriate for the season.

Finals:
I'm rather looking forward to the American Lit and Math ones.
Latin and Chemistry are going to be the hardest finals. Just so much to re-memorize twenty times over!
Testing English and Desktop Publishing I don't worry about.
World History is just...World History.

Either way, I don't want to go to school tomorrow. I can't wait for winter break, this has been a stressful semester. Next one, though longer, is going to be better. Oh hells yes it is.

Looking forward to Chanukkah. I wonder if I could bring in Gelt and get Mr. Trapp to think its an actual coin? Nah...but it would be interesting anyways.

I'm listening to "Wait wait don't tell me" as a podcast. Funny funny show.

Shit, I'm tired.

The new Battlestar Galactica is very, very good...I've never seen the older version, though.

I'm rediscovering a band I like, called Institute. I wish they'd make another CD.

Neurons...shutting...down...

Thursday!

Borat, and other things.
First: A link to the wikipedia description of the movie. This does show that the movie caused bad things to happen to those interviewed. I admit that. While I do have a problem with bribery and such, I think that really, had these people been told what it really was, they would not have appeared...and that could have been a bad thing. Read on to see why.

The comment that started this off went something like this: Lucy is not supporting censorship just because she doesn't like Borat.

( I started thinking about the whole deal...this could be pretty long. Don't read if you don't want to. )
I might add more later. Comments are extremely welcome, I will be fine tuning this and posting it on my locker sometime this week. Thankyou.

Hey guys, who am I to you? How would you describe me, as a person? Be truthful, I want to know. Because I don't.

EDIT: I've just been informed that school is infact off for tomorrow. At 4:30 p.m., everyone has to write "GOAT" in the snow with a stick. Just so you all know. Why? Because we can.

In other news, and I'm ashamed to ask this again, but, what was the name of that song I'm supposed to be singing? "Time after time"?

Is full IB worth it? Sounds pretty nice to me...

They changed the date of the NVC finals to March. I wonder why.


I'm thinkin' theres going to be no school tomorrow. This is a good thing, I need the sleep.

People seem to expect me to be all cocky about the NVC thing...a lot of our famly friends seem to think I should be gloating, and won't stop bringing the whole deal up in front of everyone. Now, it was totally awesome, and I'm really glad I won...but I just don't see the need to brag. Too much effort to do nothing other than piss people off -- If I want to do that I can come up with something much more creative. Heh, heh. So yeah. Even if I win in NYC, I don't think I'm going to brag. Now, if I win and they put me on the Daily Show/Colbert Report...yeah, I'd brag about that. :P

Finals are coming. Look busy.

This week I'm going to: Get my drivers permit, learn my lines for Adrian, start on reese, study for finals, take a quiz, and maybe laugh.

Should I come up with a new LJ username? I need a new icon, anybody know where I can find a cool one? Does anyone actually read this?

LET ME HATE THE SUBJUNCTIVE, FOR IT WILL ANNOY ME MAJORLY.

I have a HUGE new book to read, quite exciting.

I was the Walrus
But now I'm John
and so dear friends
you'll just have to carry on
The Dream is over

Well, I think the shock has worn off. So here we go.

The NVC Competition thing:
Pretty awesome. I still can't believe it, I mean I never get to win things like that. I'm trying to be aggresively humble about it though, after all I had to beat other people from Metro, and I don't want to seem snooty. On the topic of other people from Metro, you all were awesome -- that was some tough competition. I didn't get that last question they asked Molly either, I thought it was "Zeal" apparently the answer was " Alacrity."

Geeze, these people made me do so many promotional bits for GSN/Charter/Everything they could think of...I feel like a propaganda machine. And I was still so "Whaaa..? Whoo...? What..? I did that..?" that I messed up a bunch of times, ah well. The guy from the post dispatch misquoted everyone for that article. And how could he thing that burden is a derivative of the latin whatever that word was? Tssh, fool. Hehe.

But yeah, that was pretty crazy. And now we have to fill out forms and suchlike. I know people want me to use the money for normal things, but I want y'all to understand that I did not get cash, I got a bank account. If my parents let me, I'll probably buy a new computer, 'cause this one is falling the hell apart. But if not, then it allll goes to college.

Yes, I was on the local today show. It was fun, but I got the last question wrong, urghghg. But the channel 5 people were pretty cool. I was coming back from Shnucks yesterday and some old lady stopped me and asked if I was the kid she had seen on TV...that was fun.

Homecoming: Total suckfest. They played NO good music, the only rock songs they played all pretty much sounded the same. I'm thinking that when the spring dance comes around, those of us with actual taste should hold a "People's Party" elsewhere, at which everyone brings their own music.

Well, thats about that. Time to go do some homework.
(Also posting this as a note on facebook.)

OH MY FUCKING GOD.


...more to come later. When my brain returns.

Alrightay, here is a review of all my classes. I know some other people on the 'ole friends list have done this already, but I figure none of them are in any of my classes, so it's alright. :)

1: Testing English-I don't really mind this class...it is just a lot of busy work, in my opinion. Sure, it will prepare me for the SAT/ACT, but I wonder if it might not be a better idea to get someone in who actually works for one of these companies, I'm not sure how that works. So far I'm doing alright, although it most definitly was a mistake to chose "Crime and Punishment" as my outside reading book...

2. Latin 3/4-Same as always, except now I have a B instead of a C. Woot!

3. Free Period: Pretty much what it sounds like.

4. Adv. Algebra: 2 words: "Ya follow?" I like Mr. Ekenga, I just don't feel like I'm learning anything from him. What I learn I learn from the book, and that is not always how he wants it. Le sigh. This is one of my not-so-peachy grades.

5. Chemistry: I still have no idea if I like this class or not, but Lathrop's 10 minute rant about Mr. Trapp was priceless.

6. Amer. Lit: I like this class, Mr. Economon is pretty cool. Probably one of the better lit classes I've had.

7. Desktop Publishing: I like to call this class Bull Shit, because it serves no purpose other than to provide an easy A.

8. AP World History: Oh, god. Is this class actually worth it? Do I really need to suffer through the year with a low grade, because no matter how hard I study for these stupid tests I still seem to be unable of getting anything higher than an 83%, usually much lower. I do alright on the map quizzes, but still...

Well, there you have it, 5 Week Report, by zarquon!