Snails Don't Really Explode, Don't Worry

#5 ~~ October 20, 2015 ~~ Steam Powered Giraffe (Reprise), Steam Powered Giraffe

My legs are stiffer than they've been since I've been in marching band. That's what happens when you run around a ton late at night after having hardly walked, only to go to the other rooms to either eat food or play Assassin's Creed. Yes, I am out of shape, but I'm still skinny and have a high metabolism that keeps me at the same weight, so that's cool. But honestly, my legs are so done. You should see me try to get into my skinny jeans or attempt a squat: a lot of falling over. Although, I do suppose I fall over a lot anyway, clumsy me.

There's not much to talk about involving school except that it's boring as hell--especially my government class. I don't even care about the government or anything. I mean, the class even teaches about the ways people can have opinions, and I'm like, "Why are you teaching people common sense things that they learned in elementary school. Honestly, 'What's an opinion?' Who do you think we are?" Then again, I do suppose there many people without a good deal of common sense. Ah, parenting these days. I think it was Simon & Garfunkel that said, "Teach your children well," or something. Anyway, that's one of the many factors of why I dislike the public and the people stumbling around within it--not to be confused with my stumbling, of course. I'm trying to get my legs working again.

Another class that's really annoying is my College & Career class, that the online school I go to requires us to take to pass the high school. Basically it's teaching me how applications work and how to sign them--but I already applied for college and everything. Speaking of which, I was thinking about that emotional parting the guys had that night I ran around with them. They all got super emotional about that one guy leaving, but I think they've forgotten that we're all going to college incredibly soon anyway, so everyone was bound to move away at some point. It reminds me of how pathetic some people are, with their inability to accept change. For their sake, I hope the tears were just for the one night and that they don't let the fact of him moving eat away at them, so they can get back to their normal lives.

You can't keep depending on other people to make you happy. I'm not saying friends aren't great. They're hard to find in a society such as this one, or in my case they are, I mean. I'd rather surround myself with an incredibly small amount of people that make me feel like I'm enjoying their company instead of a ton of people I call, "friends," who are in fact the bane of my existence. That description is a bit exaggerated, but that's how it feels when all you're surrounded by are people who make you angry, sad, upset, etc. If you're reading this and you have friends that have become people like that and you're still trying to hold a friendship with them--stop it, they aren't worth it. Or if you're trying to become friends with toxic people such as those just for the sake of having more friends--stop, you might was well go kill yourself. If you're trying to create a live that isn't worth living then what's the point of living it? Creating a life like that is the equivalent to commit suicide. You become a living dead person--a zombie. Don't submit yourself to a life as a zombie. Go surround yourself by only the most awesome people and create a great life for yourself. Go go go, do it, do it, do it!

Speaking of death and things of the like, I've been getting frequent nightmares. I haven't had nightmares for years and now I've been getting them almost every night for about a week or so straight. And yeah, they're the kind of nightmares where I die and wake up in the middle of the night, checking to see what time it is and how long I've actually been sleeping and how much more time I still have to sleep before I'm supposed to wake up for school the next day.

Enough of that though. I went over to the high school again and met up with my little sister and our friend. We're hoping that this Friday we can hang out at me and my sister's place and watch Back to the Future. Tomorrow is the day that Marty, his girlfriend, Jeniffer,  and Doctor Emmett Brown from the movie arrive in the flying Delorean time machine! Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time, and the Lord of the Rings series is right behind it--not counting The Hobbit movies. I liked the way they presented all the dwarves with actual personalities, but there was too much that they added and took away that kind of killed it. Especially since the book isn't even long enough to make into three movies. It could be 2, but not three. I think that the first movie was the best and that the second one should have just been the second half of the book. That's just my opinion. Peter Jackson was really cranking out the money with three movies out of a small book--a book much smaller and much less in depth than any of the Lord of the Rings books, which I still have to read. I just know from researching that the Lord of the Rings books are really dark and in depth.

That's my kind of jam--a nice dark book. I also like great British humor, so you can imagine how much I enjoyed Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Another great book with great British humor is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglass Adams. Man, I still have to finish that series. I love British humor. It's so dry and blunt and witty. That explains my love for Monty Python and Professor Elemental as well. Really pushes the giddy limit if you know what I mean (anyone get the Professor Elemental reference? No? Then go listen to it you dingus!)

". . .キリンは上がり故国へと連れ去り子供達たちは喜びドロップを舐めて. . . !"