"Glorious" Marysville

Here is the site of the new high school. It is going to be called Getchell High School (probably because it's on Getchell Road). But according to Google Maps, that road is actually called Marysville-Pilchuck Road. So why aren't they naming the new school Marysville-Pilchuck High School? I guess that wouldn't work too well since we already have one named that. They could always name it MP 2.0. That would be the best!

The Moon (Obviously)

I took this with my mom's Canon PowerShot SX100 IS at 10x optical zoom. It turned out quite nice.

(Take that Polaris B!)

An Oppression of Time

On Sunday, the hour from 2:00 to 3:00 AM didn't exist. It was stolen from us and sent to the future. People like to say that this gives us more time. How can taking away time give us more time?

When I moved the clock forward and obliterated an hour of time, I could almost hear a deep, majestic voice from the cosmos say, "You'll thank me later." Yeah right.

I can't stand it to see my body go through this pain. I have to look myself in the eyes and tell my tired body that it can't wake up when it's used to. It's schedule is just plain disrupted.

Time is one of the few things we have that is constant. But even that has been stripped from us. How can we survive when time itself changes? No more will I put up with this. No more can I sit by while this theft is taking place. The time for action has come! Join with me, and together we will rebel against this atrocity and retrieve what was wrongly taken from us!

On the other hand, it snowed Sunday night, making school start 2 hours late on Monday. I was able to sleep in, and it was such a sweet thing. After all that ranting and raving, a way was made to help me get through this trial. I was understood when I thought that no one did. So maybe the fault is in the government, not anything else.

The Economy is Disintegrationing!

This is a graph of the value of the Dow Jones stock over the last 5 years. See that downward trend? That's bad. We should probably do something about it.

I had a great idea to save the stock market! The government should give everyone $500, but instead of giving it to us in cash, they should give it to us in stock. With 150 billion dollars invested in the market, prices will go way up.

On the other hand, everyone would sell as soon as the stock went up. This could start a vicious cycle of swings from high to low that would be worse than my mom on sugar. Uh-oh! (Sorry mom. :D)

Vowels and Rainbows

Quick, which one of these letters is a vowel?

1. Y

2. B

3. W

If you guessed B, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of A. Just because B comes after A doesn't make it a vowel too.

If you guessed W, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of U. Unfortunately, two vowels do not make a vowel.

If you guessed Y, you're right! Just because Y isn't always a vowel doesn't mean that it's not a vowel at all. That's like someone saying that he doesn't like pizza if he doesn't like anchovies.

Y is often ignored as a vowel because it's overshadowed by the "pure" vowels. That's not fair. Y is a vowel too!

Another thing that gets ignored unfairly is indigo as a color of the rainbow. Haven't you heard of ROYGBIV? What do you think the I stands for? Look at the rainbow. There's two blues in there, blue and indigo.

Originally, it was considered that there was only 5 colors in the rainbow. Orange and indigo weren't included. Then Newton decided to split the rainbow into 7 colors. So if we consider orange a color of the rainbow, why do we ignore indigo?

And what about violet? People use it interchangeably with purple all the time. Violet is a pure wavelength of about 400 nanometers. Purple is a mixture of red and blue wavelengths used to close the gap in the color wheel. That's a big difference!

I don't know why, but I can't stand it when certain objects don't get the rights that they deserve. I guess that I'm the self appointed caretaker of rats and dust bunnies and vegetables and ignored vowels and colors. I am a strong supporter of equality for all inanimate objects. So remember, indigo is a color too.

Anyone can be a poet! (To varying degrees of proficiency)

I'm pretty good at a lot of the things that I do, so I decided to make a list of things that I'm not good at.

Basketball
Jump rope
Swimming
Pogo sticking
Skateboarding
Gargling
Poetry

Now poetry is an interesting subject. I'm not the best writer, and my poetry is always very cheesy. So I decided to write a poem just to see how bad it would be. Here is the result.


The Sky - Joseph Lawrence

The sun rises in the east
Giving tribute to the skies.

The birds fly up toward the air
Screeching out their cries.

The people down on the ground
Try to decide who to be.

But the answers never come because
Only by looking up we can see.


This turned out so hilariously cheesy that I decided to do a dramatic reading of the poem with background music. You can listen to it below.