HOW DARE HE
HOW FLIPPING DARE HE
I CAME UP WITH THIS JOKE MONTHS AGO.
He's like some sort of crazy... mind thief.

But that aside, I really need to start adding "no pun intended" to the end of my sentences, at random, just to keep people on their toes. Who knows, maybe someone will actually figure out a pun in what you said, right?

Anyway, I should probably get back to work. ...no pun intended.

I had to analyze some samples of soil in biology, and write up a report. I kept wanting to actually analyze it, though. Like this:

"The garden soil, though it was greatly populated, was not diverse, while the forest soil, though not populated, was very diverse.

The garden soil represents society and civilization: though there are many people, they are all the same. The forest represents nonconformity, and moral wilderness. Though there aren't many people in it, they are each unique unto themselves."

I have been reading a bit too much Hawthorne, maybe?

...maybe?

I actually have a story to tell about my life today! Rare, isn't it?

One of the kids I babysit is four years old, and he really loves playing this "Namco Museum" video game, with a bunch of old Namco games on it. One of the recent times I was babysitting for him, he had been playing Pac-Man, and he had the volume up to the maximum (I swear he has as much fun messing with the volume as he does actually playing the games). He got bored with Pac-Man quickly though, so he switched to a different game. For whatever reason, the music for that game was very quiet. He was sorta confused, and asked me, "This game has no sound?" So, I told him, "No, this game just has a tiny sound." Admittedly, that was a kind of odd way to describe it, and I guess he thought so too, because from then our conversation ran something like this:

Him: A tiny sound?
Me: Yes.
Him: This game has a tiny sound?
Me: It does.
(a few minutes pass)
Him: This game has a tiny sound, right?
Me: Right.
Him: Not a big sound?
Me: Not a big sound.

He asked me about it quite a few times. When we got to a boss battle level, he got all smiley and asked, "Does THIS level have a tiny sound?" because it had gotten louder, so I told him no, this one had a bigger sound. It was all very fun, the way he latched onto the phrase and kept on repeating it. Whenever he thinks something is odd or interesting, he likes to ask about it and repeat it. He did that when I was wearing nail polish one time. I suppose that when I was four, I thought nail polish was a strange concept as well.

Checking my Yahoo mail means I am often linked to lulzy articles such as this one. McCain says that Obama is just a celebrity, not a real candidate.* As we all know, a celebrity cannot possibly be a candidate for political office. Ever.

*All right, McCain didn't say Obama was "not a real candidate," but he made fun of him for being a celebrity and I wanted to have fun making links.

This being said, young Ronald Reagan has so crooked of a smile you'd think it was photoshopped:



Although, McCain may just be a bit jealous because no one has written a song about having a crush on him. There there McCain. It's okay.

Something I have noticed about my LJ: Whenever I say I'm going to write about something "later," the designated "later" is never. Ever. At all. So, if I say I'll write about something later, it means you shall never hear of it again.

That being said, I'm going to postpone writing about the Walk for Hunger until later again. This is actually silly on my part, because I don't really have much of anything else to write about. But words aren't weaving together properly right now, so right now isn't a "write now!" type of time. Hmmm... I hear the Smiths in the back of my mind. When you say it's gonna happen now, when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long, and now my hope is gone. I like that song, though it's really depressing, and I'm in a fairly good mood right now. There's interesting string music in the room next to me.

So, for English class, our teacher told us, "Write a rap for Romeo and Juliet. You can have a beat in the background and everything, but somehow, convey to me Romeo and Juliet through a rap." Someone asked if we could re-write a pre-existing song instead of writing a rap, and she said we could, thank goodness. I suggested to my group that we re-write Bohemian Rhapsody, and while at first I thought it might not work out, we ended up managing to condense the significant parts of the play into the song (and by the significant parts of the play, I mean everything that happens after Tybalt's death). It's kinda dorky in the extreme, as these projects tend to be, and I can't see myself actually being able to sing it without breaking down and laughing, but it was fun to write. For the lulz?

In other news, people who look at the book Twilight as some sort of amazingly romantic and unique story need to read more books. Like, in general. Any book will do.

I want to find a friend with whom I can have witty, Shakespeare-esque banter. They'd say something, and then I'd reply to them, and in my reply, make a play on their words. They'd follow it up with some sort of innuendo, and then I'd best them with an even better one. They'd concede my comment to be wittier than theirs, but in doing so, they'd phrase there concession so cleverly that I'd seem downright silly in comparison. That's one thing which has always gotten me about witty commentary and conversation in movies/novels/dramas: How would anyone ever come up with that naturally and on the spot? I admire anyone who was born with that talent. Whenever I aim to make a witty comment, I have to struggle to think of how to phrase it, and I only have a moment or else its poignant-ness would be lost. I often find myself reflecting over silly things people have said to me, and can think of so many clever responses I might've used.

I ought to make a list of the most common things people say to me with Clever Response Potential (CRP, it's a term now, guys), and come up with clever responses I can use. Most commonly people say things like "Hey, it's the little/mini (my last name)" because everyone knows my older siblings. My last name has a lot of pun potential (people make bad puns/jokes on it fairly often, actually), but unfortunately, in the situation, I can't think of anything clever I could say when being called "mini" or "little" in relation to it.

Instances when people say something that has a severe case of Clever Response Potential are instances when I think of how great it would be if I could pause time. Then, I could think for as long as I needed until I had thought of the absolute BEST response, unpause time, and wham them with it. You just know they'd be totally blown away by it, leaving them downright speechless. Which, unfortunately, would save me the fun of more clever replies, so in the end, I suppose it's all right to just respond with a mediocre level of wit. (Can someone come up with a unit of measurement for wit?)

HAPPY SUPER TUESDAY!

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!

FELIX DIES NATALIS MIHI! Mwuahaha, I'm almost twenty. (well, not really, not at all, but still...)

Anyhow, for your amusement:


A more interesting post about today will come... later.