No One Cares

*peers sheepishly from behind my laptop*

Hi guys. I know it's been a while, but I have finally returned to the land of bloggy goodness. However, I have come back with a new attitude, which hopefully will mean that this will be more enjoyable for all of us.

I have always been a very self-conscious person (actually that's not completely true, but that's for another post), so something I've been working on lately has been telling myself three words: no one cares. No one cares if you answer that question wrong, no once cares if you have two big zits, no one cares if you look tired today, etc. I'm extending this into this blog with three things: No one cares if you don't post for a while, no one cares if you don't post every day, and no one cares if you post twice in one day.

All of this is a kind of long-winded way to say that I'm going to be posting what I want when I want to, completely unapologetically. I have some cool things to share with you guys, including an awesome skirt I finished up in time for the last week of school, a t-shirt quilt I'm working on, and a whole bunch of random other things that I'm excited about. Maybe even a little fashion, although I'm not entirely qualified to talk about that. Even better, marching season is coming up, so you'll probably be hearing a lot about that, too. Here's a teaser: our show is freaking fantastic, and despite what our director says, totally Latin.

I have a post that I started back in March, which is sort of continuation of my last post about writing for school. It's a little boring, but it's a rantish thing that I want to have, so I'm going to post it anyway. That will probably be for tomorrow, though, because it needs a little work and it's late here. So you'll probably see that sometime tomorrow morning, assuming I actually get up (ahhh, summer break). Talk to you then!

Oh, one more thing. I'm going to start leaving a little discussion question thing at the bottom, in the hopes of sparking a conversation. Come on guys, it could be fun! No? Too bad. Here's your question for today:

What have you realized lately that has made a change in your life? What words or ideas are you living by? Let me know down below!

Snow, Feels, and My Eyelid

Hello everyone! Today is going to be a little bit random and disjointed, mostly because I'm on a five day weekend (yay, snow!) so I'm not really focusing much, and also because I'm having a lot of feels (yay, fandoms!)

First, snow, I think. This storm brought us what we're calling Winter Break, Part 4. Yeah. 4. I honestly don't remember the last time I had a full five day-week of school. We are going to be so screwed during March, since we won't have any three-day weekends or any chance of snow days. But, I'm just going to enjoy it while it lasts! We got about a foot of snow on Wednesday night, so we got Thursday and Friday off. I've actually spent a while outside, which is unusual for me, since I'm not a fan of being cold and wet. (Although, really, is anyone?) The rest of the time I've spent either doing homework or reading, which is my idea of a perfect weekend.

And now feels, because I am so full of them right now, and my dad has no idea what I'm talking about. It started with rereading Divergent yesterday. I could barely make it three pages without seeing something that made me want to curl up in the corner. Some of it was from the end of the book, some of it was from the end of the series..... just a lot of feels. Then, just a little while ago, I decided it would be a good idea to listen to the soundtrack from Series 3. Seriously?!?! Why did I mot realize that was a bad plan! It's very good, and I did really enjoy it, but some of those tracks.... Mostly the ones from HLV, now that I think about it.

Finally, my eyelid. Yesterday morning I woke up and my left eyelid was folded weirdly. It just had an extra crease under the normal crease, and I don't know why, but it is still like that. It kind of makes me look like half of the really derpy character from Animal Crossing: Wild World, the one that makes you restart your game if you accidentally get him/her.

(Image from Nookipedia.)

Hopefully it will go away before I have to go out in public!

Oh! Also, I had my first thought in French in the shower Tuesday night. This was very exciting, since my teacher said that once you start thinking in a different language, you're on your way to being fluent. And I really want to be fluent! (This is the same teacher who told us that if we get a 5 on our AP exam senior year she'll spend an entire day teaching us every French swear word she knows. I love this teacher!)

I know, not a very interesting post this week. I still have two more days before I have to go back to school, so I'll try to use that time to write a really good one for next week! Talk to you soon!

A Tale of Two Barbers*

So about five minutes ago I was in the shower, just casually rinsing my hair, when I remembered a joke-ish thing my dad told me and thought, "Oh, I should put that in a blog post!" And then I thought, "Oh crap, I really need to write a blog post!" So apparently I will be making a habit of waiting until fifteen minutes before my deadline to post every week...

As I obviously don't have a ton of time, I'm just going to tell you guys that joke-ish thing that actually is not a joke but I laughed about for five minutes. My dad says that this is attributed to Mark Twain, although he may not have actually said this, but this is the Internet so I don't think anyone will mind if I accidentally misquote someone. Here we go....

In a town with only two barbers, should you go to the one with the good haircut or the bad one?

Get it? You should go to the one with the bad haircut! (I'm now realizing that this in no way qualifies as a joke. Forgive me, let me try again.)

A photon arrives at a hotel with only one suitcase. The bellhop comments on his lack of luggage, and the photon replies, "Well yeah, I'm traveling light!"

This joke speaks to me on a deep level. I got it from my sort of homeroom teacher's wall. Thanks, Dr. T! (Although I have been using just first initials to refer to people I know, I would like to state that many of his students actually refer to him as Dr. T in real life. This apparently caused some confusion when he arrived at the school last year because people thought another teacher, referred to as Mr. T because of his horrifyingly unpronounceable last name, had gotten his doctorate.)

So now I have told you a joke random thing, a joke, and an anecdote from my school. What more do you people want from me at 11:54 on a Saturday night?

I swear I'll try to have a proper post this week.... possibly even during the week and not at quarter to 12 next Saturday!


*In case anyone is wondering, I am aware that A Tale of Two Cities isn't by Mark Twain, I just thought it sounded good. Poetic license? Even though I hate poetry?

Sign Here, Please!

Hello everyone! I'm having another crazy week (shocker), so today is going to be sort of random. Today, I am going to be talking about pens.

Yeah, you read that right. I'm going to spend this entire post discussing a writing utensil. Deal with it. First, ten facts you may not have known about pens (with some slightly sarcastic commentary):

1. The idea for the ballpoint pen was patented on October 30, 1888 by John Loudon.
2. 100 people die every year by choking on a ballpoint pen. (Here's a hint: don't put pens in your mouth!)
3. 125 ballpoint pens are sold every second.
4. 95% of the time someone gets a new pen, the first word they write is their name. (Especially if they're in school; we have to write our names on EVERYTHING!)
5. Each pen writes an average of 45,000 words (or at least they would, if we didn't always lose them).
6. The first ballpoint pen was invented by Laszio Biro in 1938.
7. People used quill pens to write for over 1000 years. (Now it's just wizards.)
8. Quill pens usually had to be replaced after about a week. (That's about the rate most people today lose regular pens!)
9. Most quill pens are made from goose feathers.
10. The pens the president of the United States uses to sign bills are never used again. (I have a suggestion for solving the deficit problem.....)

(Source for #1-4, source for #5 and 6, source for #7-10)

So now you know some useless things about pens! I used to be pretty anti-pen, since as a kid they were always associated with wrong answers (teachers corrected tests and such with pens), and I always though they were just messy. However, I am not allowed to write in pencil in science class, so I'm starting to get used to them, and I'm starting to like them a lot more. I especially like that I never have to sharpen them.... And also they come in pretty colors. 

This is probably one of the strangest posts I've ever written, and I have written some weird stuff. What do you think of pens? Have any interesting facts about them, or another writing utensil? Let me know in the comments! (And hopefully I'll have a less strange post sometime soon!)