My rant on teenage literature

You know what really grinds my gears? Have you ever taken a look at the young adult section in borders? And did you notice that more than half the books there are about teens who end up in mental hospitals? No joke. I was there the other day, browsing around, and I read the back of, oh, maybe 20 books, and all of them were like:

Hi. I’m a depressed teenage girl. I’m in a mental hospital. Yay me!!

Or

Hi. I have a huge crush on this guy. But he’s kind of weird. He likes to suck people’s blood. Yay me!!

Or

Hi. I have a huge crush on this guy. But he’s kind of weird. He turns into a giant dog at night. Yay me!!

WTF

 What is this world coming to? I’m seriously concerned about teenage literature. All anyone seems to read about are:

a.    Vampires

b.    Werewolves

c.    Creepy relationships between normal people and not normal people (vampires and werewolves)

d.    Depressed teens

What is this world coming to?

Our summer reading books aren’t much better.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles?

If you haven’t read it **SPOILER ALERT**(kind of, I'm just repeating what Wikipedia told me)

He kills Phineas by pushing him off a tree. AND HE’S NOT EVEN THAT SAD ABOUT IT. WTF.

Not to mention Lord of the Flies or as I prefer to call it The Pig Book. **SPOILER ALERT** (once again this is just what Wikipedia has told me)

The boys eat each other. CANABALISM MUCH???

Ugh. Writers nowadays sicken me.

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50 things to do before summer ends

Hello,

Summer is supposed to be the best time of our lives, right? Think again. Summer is so boring. Like really boring. I have absolutely nothing to do until mid-July. Then I have camp for two weeks. But then I have the rest of July and August. And swim team ends in July. Which means August will be the most boring month ever. At least now I go to swim practice and meets. So I googled 101 things to do during the summer. And I looked through the lists and some of the things were really stupid:

“ask random people to give you piggyback rides.”

WTF

So I decided to compile all the things I thought were worth doing and I added a few things to make my own list of 101 things to do this summer. So here goes:

1. Learn how to ride a bike with no hands

2. Prank call your friends

3. Go to the beach and chill

4. Bake and decorate a cake

5. Eat the cake

6. Submit an FML

7. Make videos 

8. Organize your room

9. Start a lemonade stand

1 how to make a Hostess Twinkie at home on

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp

11. Travel

12. Read

13. Memorize Pi

14. Create your own recipe

15. Read the dictionary cover to cover

16. Have a water fight

17. Two words: diet-coke and mentos

18. Babysit

19. Roast marshmallows over a candle and make s’mores

20. Go for a bike ride every day

21. Buy an ICEE at Wawa

22. Make a five course meal

23. Get a sugar high

24. Go to an amusement park

25. Watch the first season of glee

26. Go to a concert

27. Have a picnic

28. Use a reusable water bottle 

29. Go paintballing

30. Go get a makeover at the mall

31. Make breakfast

32. Go have a fun time at a playground

33. Go out for pizza

34. Look through old yearbooks

35. Go bowling

36. Apply for a summer job

37. Buy a dream book and discover what your dreams mean

38. Blow bubbles

39. Make cookies

40. Create a playlist that includes all the songs that would play if a movie was made of your life

41. Try on clothes you can’t afford

42. Do your hair and makeup for fun

43. Write a story

44. Make ice cream

45. Go to the movies once a week

46. Blog everyday

47. Read 10 books

49. Give yourself the:

Lady Gaga look

Ke$ha look

Drag Queen look etc…

50. Try to make yourself unrecognizable

Okay I could only think of 50 things but I really only need to think of 50 things because if I do one thing a day then I will be set until the end of August. I’ll try to blog about everything I do.

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Swim Team

Hello there,

Well I just got back from England. It was fun. Like really fun. But I don’t wanna bore you out by talking about how much fun I had. Because usually when people do that it gets boring. So I’ll talk about swim team. It’s something I do every summer. I hate swim meets. I am the worst person in my age group. Swim practice is horrible. But I love swim team. I could never go a summer without doing it. It’s one of those things that no matter how much you hate it, if you take a step back you realize you love it. Also I think if I quit my team mates would come to my house and murder me in my sleep. But I still love ‘em. I’ve had the greatest and the worst memories as a result of being on the team. I’ve been embarrassed, cheered on, laughed at, laughed with, and everything you could ever ask of from an unforgettable experience. My summer pretty much revolves around swim team this since I'm only doing two weeks of camp and the rest of the time I’ve basically got nothing to do. Unfortunately I haven’t been to one practice this year, and I have a swim meet tonight. And I'm swimming FOUR events. 50 free (individual), 50 back (individual), 50 free (relay), 50 back (relay). Since freestyle is my stroke I don’t mind doing it, but backstroke is… well… I need to practice it. A lot. And it doesn’t help that our swim meet an away meet at a new team, so I don’t even know what the pool is like. Oh well, this too shall pass. Wish me luck.

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Pet Peeves

A few of my pet peeves, in no particular order:

1.    When you can see people’s gum in a picture. No one wants to see your chewed up trident layers. It’s nasty. And it doesn’t make you cool. It’s just gross.

2.    When toothpaste gets stuck in the cap of the toothpaste bottle. ARGH. It. Is. So. Annoying. When. That. Happens.

3.    Feet. I don’t like feet. Please don’t show me your foot unless its absolutely necessary (going swimming, etc…) It’s weird though because I don’t mind when people wear flip flops, it just bothers me when people are barefoot.

4.    On YouTube when the audio quality of a song sucks. OMG it gets on my nerves so much.

5.    When people complain that they are going to fail a test, when they quite clearly, won’t. People who do this, you know who you are, STOP. It’s really annoying to those of us who are actually nervous!

6.    People. Sometimes people suck.

7.    When people hack your account. This recently happened to my facebook and whoever did it deleted like 30 pictures. ARGH.

8.    When nail polish chips. Really nail polish, really? I spent like an hour trying to get you perfect and a day later you decide to chip? *shaking my head* Not cool.

9.    When a website is down for maintenance. OMG that’s so freaking annoying.

10.  Num lock and Scroll lock. What do they do???

11.  When people don’t text me back. ARGH. REPLY ALREADY!!!

Okay the end.

Wish me luck on science and latin!

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I have a cold.

The title says it all. There are a few things you should know about me and colds though.

1.    I used to get a cold almost every week because when I was a baby I was not given this shot to stop sinus infections (which were what my cold were)

2.    I get BAD post nasal drip.

3.    My lips get really dry when I have a cold.

Having a cold during final exam week is not ideal. At all. First off you have to keep bugging your teachers to bring you tissues. Then once you have the tissues you can’t blow your nose because you don’t want to make any loud noises, and trust me, when I blow my nose it is loud. So you get stuck with a drippy nose. It doesn’t help that your head is facing down so it drips even more. Ew. It’s nasty. Luckily I only have two more exams, and the whole weekend to get over my cold. Also today is my Pappou’s (grandfather’s) 95^th birthday!

Bye Bye (:

more exams

Hello,

So as of today I am halfway through exams! Thank God! Tomorrow is English, as you probably already know. My first three exams went well so I'm confident. I'm still just nervous for Monday. That is going to be one of my most stressful days ever. Legit. I’m terrified. I can’t wait to just get English out if the way. There are going to be a lot of essay questions about themes and stuff so worst case scenario I can make up a whole lot of crap about the theme and still probably get a good grade. It’s just going to hurt my hand. Which is not ideal since it still hurts from the social studies exam and my French exam. And I’ve been practicing baseball (catching, throwing, batting) which has also been hurting my hand. If only I were ambidextrous. My life would be so much better. The nail polish on my right hand wouldn't look like a four year old did it. My hands wouldn't constantly hurt during exams week. Last year on one of my English test I wrote so much that I could barely use my right hand for the next week. I just hope that doesn’t happen again, because my Latin exam will inevitably consist of a lot of writing (synopsis, translations; the whole 9 yards).

Also a little news flash tomorrow is my grandfather’s 95^th birthday!

Um other than that nothing else has happened. O btw I will be away from the 11 to the 21 so don’t expect any posts during that time.

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