morgan rose on KMCV: "what brings you back [to mt. tapochau]?"
dad (as the voice of the guy on TV): my car.

lol. :P

enchanted redux!

wow! did anyone else see her perform at the oscars? if not, definitely youtube it. i don't know how she managed to pull off "happy working song" alone at an awards ceremony on a bare stage, but it was pretty incredible. she is seriously good. :)

a failed effort

i'm really making an effort to be mature. seriously. i know it's hard to believe, but at this moment, i am really, really, really trying to hold it together. it just doesn't seem to be working.

i am so tired of my music class. it's seriously torture. i used to look forward to it, back when it was a nice break from an entire day of intellectually taxing schoolwork, but now it's just this exercise in holding back my emotions because i get so angry when mrs jang just starts going off on people for no reason and expects them to submit to her like little minions. i'm trying not to be upset, but one of the things that i have an immensely hard time tolerating is arrogance. arrogance can be particularly bad when paired with inability and misconceptions about that inability. it's my firm belief that incompetence should not accompany authority. the fact is, though, that it sometimes does, and it's up to us to deal with it. how do you do that, though? how do you submit to or respect someone who is incompetent? do you have some sort of moral responsibility to help them or defend them, even when they are completely wrong in whatever position they insist on maintaining?

i'm just tired of it. so tired of all of it.

i would've been okay if i had a less flaky friend, i think. i dunno. i know that you are the only person who can determine your actions, your feelings, and your moods, but it feels sometimes like other people have a lot of sway in those decisions. i just have a really hard time dealing with flakiness and immaturity. i don't understand it and i don't appreciate it. is the concept of "yes, i'm having an emotional moment right now, so instead of being mean, you should probably just leave me alone" really that difficult to process? you wouldn't think so, right?

and again about the arrogance. i've been trying to keep from saying this for a long time, but the Church always councils against the dangers of intellectual arrogance, and now i know why. looking down your nose at people who have beliefs is extremely reprehensible. get over yourself. no one is proselytizing to you, so stop being such a jerk about it. arrogance is extremely unattractive, not to mention intellectually belittling.

facebook secrets

i just saw alex bugrov's facebook status.

it reads: "i am sex-)))))<3"

i'm terrified. deeply. but am laughing too hard to worry about that now.

ah, high school. :)

a twitching bard

i'm on sparknotes right now, reading about as i lay dying because i am far too dense to infer the appropriate deeper meanings to the literature that mr. lee requires for his little tests and essays.

the creepy part? there's this picture of shakespeare in one of the adds, and his face keeps twitching. like he's winking, but not really. just a twitch. he's not really smiling. just twitching.

seriously weird.

footprints

i found this great article in vanity fair. enjoy. ;)

"know your jerk footprint"
-"if you answer "yes" to four or more of the questions for your age group, it is incumbent upon you to take urgent measures to reduce your jerk footprint."

For ages 14-25
1. Do you refer to attractive members of the opposite sex as "smokin' hot"?
2. Do you leave vitriolic comments in the "Comments" sections of blogs and Web sites, even if you're commenting on something innocuous, such as an old Linkin Park video?
2a. When leaving such comments, do you use such rote Internet pejoratives as "moron" and "'tard"?
3. Do you write a dating column for your school paper or local weekly?
4. When you are being photographed, do you flash gang signs?
5. Are your birthday parties televised?
6. Is your name Tyler, Taylor, Cat, Bryce, Morgan, Brandon, Braden, Hayden, Jaden, Brianna, or Keegan?

my favorites from the ages 26-39 section:
1. Do you work in an office with a Foosball or Ping-Pong table?
2. Do you run a T-shirt company that specializes in flimsy apparel that runs small and whose designs are essentially appropriations of old advertising and TV logos from the 1960s and 1970s?
3. Does it take more than two words to describe what you do for a living?
7. Do you refer to having young children as "doing the parent thing?"
7a. If you do indeed have young children, have you launched a blog, or, worse, a video blog, about raising them?

How to Reduce Your Jerk Footprint:
1. Read a book to a small child, and not in a "Cool! I read this when I was a kid!" way.
2. Stop gelling, mussing, and spiking your hair. You should part it, and that's that.
3. Refrain from ever using the construction, "Mmm, I want me some ____."
4. Do not ever order a Cosmopolitan again.
5. Do not leave any comments in any "Comments" section, on any occasion, ever. (with the exception, of course, of these blogs.)
6. Give in to the aging process, every step of it.
7. Eat leftovers.
8. Go two entire, consecutive days without using a wireless electronic communication device.
9. Do not ever again refer to an elderly person, to his or her face, as "so cute."

i hope no one sues me for copyright. it did come from vanity fair, but didn't have a author listed.

in my persual of the perfect procrastination method, i too i have stumbled upon youtube covers. they're pretty funny, but a lot of them are really good and make me feel small for not being able to sing that good. very discouraging. it doesn't make the procrastination enjoyable at all.

the guy is doing the howling noises at the end of "the scientist." it's hilarious that he can do it with a straight face.

i'm starting to resent this senior year workload. i mean, aren't we supposed to stop working? isn't that the deal? we're being cheated by the establishment. this requires immediate revolt. which would require action. which i'm set firmly against. oh well. guess i'll have to suck it up. :P

my mom is gone for a week at a conference in the states. yay!!! :D:D:D the house is...relaxed...quiet...joyful...peaceful. thank goodness. it was sucking away my soul. i know it's bad, but it's true! those two don't really cancel out, do they? rats. but still. i needed a break. we all did. do. present tense.

i have to call mr. tessen tomorrow to let me into the school so i can get my constitutional law stuff so i can write the paper the day before it is due, even though it was assigned over a month ago. fantastically typical.

i've been doing my own sort of oscar-catchup. i just can't seem to master the art of downloading movies or tv shows from online, though, so i can only watch what i can rent. i saw "the constant gardener" (rachel weisz, best supporting actress, 2005) and "the queen" (helen mirren, best actress, 2006), both of which were really good. "the constant gardener" wasn't as good as the book, and at the end i felt kind of cheated because everything got wrapped up really quickly and neatly. it was more complicated in the book. "the queen" was fantastic, though. it had the potential to be an incredibly, horribly boring experience, but it was actually really good. i was surprised. i guess helen mirren deserved the oscar after all. i was a little inscensed about that last year. i thought keira knightly should've gotten it. she was really good in "pride and prejudice."

i'm out of writing drive. more will come later, when more energy is present. :D