Don't Wanna Be Like Cinderella

I know this is my second post today, but I really had to post this before I forgot about it.
Have I ever told you how really, really awful disney princesses are?
Not going to get into it now, but believe me, I'm against Cinderella.



Loving this song.

(If you actually want to know how awful disney princesses are, read this http://my-world-domination.blogspot.com/2012/05/disney-princesses-and-more-importantly.html )

My Yearly Torture

YEARBOOKS.
I hate them.
Why do I hate them? Just like my last post, I have my reasons:

1. My yearbook picture. It's always almost unrecognizable as a picture of me. That picture was taken 9 MONTHS AGO. Not once in my life has my yearbook portrait remotely resembled me by the end of the end of the year.
2. About half of the thing is nothing but a shrine to sports. I have nothing against sports- besides the fact that they are glorified to the point of worship, at least in my school system. 
3. Little cheesy quotes from teachers and "model" students. Thanks, but if I wanted your opinion I'd have you sign my yearbook. Which would of course be impossible for me, because I DON'T WANT A STUPID YEARBOOK!!!!! 
4. The entire idea that we would want a white-washed paper version of our year. The yearbook in no way represents my year. Besides my portrait, the only pictures of me are a group picture of the choir with me scowling at the camera and a picture of me with warpaint smirking at the camera (long, long story that I won't go into.) Although I have to admit that slightly represents my personality, I did not spend my year scowling in choir. I only spend choir scowling in choir. 
5. People are charging me for pictures of myself. I do know how to use a camera, and if I really wanted to remember the school year, I would have taken many pictures of me with a bunch of people I actually like, instead of a couple pictures of me and my friends along with a whole lot of people I don't really even care about. 

For these reasons, I have also never purchased school pictures or gotten any pictures done at a studio. Ever. Any and all pictures of me are my actually doing something or having fun. Experiances I actually want to remember instead of wonderful times spent posing and smiling nicely when I'm actually ready to scream bloody murder and run for my life.
In case you haven't guessed, I don't like getting my picture taken by strangers.

Don't even think about taking that picture. Don't... you took the picture, didn't you?

I take it back, I'm not gonna survive till summer.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRG!
   There has never, ever been a two weeks longer than these in the entire history of the entire freaking world! Ever! It's never going to end. It's going to go on and on and on and on and on and-

*breathes*

    Okay, no longer hyperventilating.
    I did about an entire blog post on how I was going to not die before summer vacation started. I regret that now, because I'm about to die before summer vacation starts. Imminent death from boredom. That really has got to be a new one.
    You know how in the beginning of the school year how you're actually somewhat interested in school because it's  new and you have new classes and new teachers and, you know, new stuff? And then in the middle of the year it's not as interesting but there's all this stuff going on, like extra curricular activities, and it's still sort of interesting. Sort of.
     But then it's the end of the school year, and nothings keeping you there other than you really don't want to repeat the grade because it would actually physically bore you to death. But it's also fun because you don't have to listen the teachers very much because you know that it's almost over and you might survive. Might.
     I'm already past that last one. I'm sort of at the "Oh God, when is it gonna END?" stage of the school year. Actually, I also had that stage in September. And November. And December, January, February, March, and April. And whenever anyone mentions school to me, ever.
    Those educators are really lucky I want to get an education, or I would be hiding from the Department of Education in a cave in Canada by this point. But push it, and boom. I'm rooming with a bunch of Canadian bears, diploma-less.
     But I'm not just being all teenage emotional mess about this, I actually have reasons. Here they are:

1. I can't learn anything at this point of the year. I might get all the questions right on the homework, and I might ace your stupid tests, but that's just because I test really, really well. But I'm not going to remember any of it. Ask me about any of this next year, and I'll just stare at you. Pointedly.
2. In general, I'm an ornery person. When I'm actually angry about something, you should be ducking. Not asking me questions in class because you want to hear my voice before the school year ends. THERE'S A REASON I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU.
3. For most people, the reason they're still going to school is that they want to see their friends. And I do want to see my friends, but I can do that during the summer. I can do that better in the summer. There won't be all this learning stuff in the way.
4. I love my teachers, I really do, but why in the world did you leave all of this material till the end of the year? I really can't say I enjoy learning about pollution in Japan while it's so nice outside, sunny and blue skies and sunny and warm and sunny and there's a nice breeze, and it's so wonderfully sunny... oh man, I love the sun. As awesome as it would be to be a vampire (NON-twilight, thank you), I'd probably have to run into my beautiful sunlight, light on fire, and burn to death (burn, NOT sparkle).

  This might make me sound really ignorant, but I'm SO FREAKING TIRED OF SCHOOL. I'm pretty much beyond all reason. If you have better reasons, tell me. If you're one of people who think we should have school all year, then I really need to have a talk with you. 

   

Here's a video that pretty much makes clear my mood right now. Got this specific video from my friend Tas (Thanks, Tas.) and if you've never heard this song before... I'm not sure that's even possible. If you haven't heard this song before, just pretend you have, 'kay? I mean come on. Tim Burton.



See, scary people have all the fun.
I need fangs.

Comics and Marina What's-Her-Name

1. Went to Ann Arbor for Xavi's B-Day. 

2. Went to Comic Shop (obviously, Xavi was there, after all).

3. Got Guild comics! Tinkerballa and Bladezz.

The Guild comics that I will get (soon, hopefully) but haven't yet:

Also, new song that I'm totally loving. You don't get many songs about girls who don't want boyfriends, but here's a great one:

How the Hunger Games Should Have Ended

   *Spoiler Alert* If you haven't read or even watched Hunger Games, don't watch this. Not only will you not understand how it's funny, but it'll probably ruin Suzanne Collins for you too. And the Hunger Games is amazing, so I couldn't have that on my conscious.

 

 I really like all of the "how it should have ended" videos, so you'll probably see more of those soon.




Bonus Scene!

The Poison Eaters And Other Stories

    It's been a long, long time since I've done a book review. But I loved this one so much that I've actually kept it until it was overdue because I wanted to do a review on it. Which I meant to do about two months ago, and didn't remember to do it until now. I guess that's just how my mind works.
    Anyway, the Poison Eaters is a collection of creepy, creepy short stories written by Holly Black. As a huge fan of creepiness, I loved it. Although I have to say the writing style surprised me. Before this, the only thing I read from Holly Black were the Spiderwick Chronicles, which are kids books. These are scary, obviously, but mostly they're just very, very inappropriate for young children. I'm serious.
     The short stories are as follows:

1. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown (a vampire story, but so un-Twilight)
2. A Reversal of Fortune (a little girl has a eating contest with Satan over a puppy)
3. The Night Market (elves with machetes)
4. The Dog King (I actually still don't know what this story's about)
5. Virgin (you know how I said these weren't appropriate for children?...)
6. In Vodka Veritas (revenge of the mystical latin speaking nerds)
7. The Coat of Stars (modern day twist on the fairy circles)
8. Paper Cuts Scissors (have you ever imagined yourself in a book you were reading? Read this)
9. Going Ironside (proof that drugs are very, very bad for you)
10. The Land of Hearts Desire (fairies may be running your local coffee shop as we speak)
11. The Poison Eaters (the creepiest and the best short story EVER)

BTW, started a new blog, http://my-world-domination.blogspot.com/. Link can also be found in my list of other blogs. 

I think I might survive till summer

      I'm happy to say that, yes, it looks like I'm NOT going to die in screaming agony before this seemingly never ending school year actually ends. This year actually been going on for so long that I can't remember what happened last fall. Hopefully nothing important.
     Of course, while I might not die, I am going to be tortured for about three hours straight at the seventh/eighth grade Collage concert. Collage is where a horrifyingly large group of middle school music students attempt to make music so that their parents can be assured that, yes, their children do look good in the uniform they paid twenty-five dollars for, even though they have only been worn twice.
     Since my parents already know that my uniform was a complete waste of money they said I don't have to go, but when I skipped the last concert my grade mysteriously dropped to C. So if I want to go through life without people reminding me I failed a subject as utterly useless as choir, I'm going to have to go to this one. Unfortunately this means that one of my parents will have to take me. They've both suffered through a concert this year, so I guess they'll have to draw straws on this one or something.
     I'm going to apologize beforehand for the extreme lack of posts that I always have during the summer. I would say that I'll try to be on the computer as much as I can instead of going out and enjoy life this summer, but that sounds so pathetic that I'd rather just apologize.
     Before I end this, I'd like to mention the new MMO that Marvel's releasing. This makes me happy, because the one that they have now, Hero Up, makes me feel so incredibly pathetic that I have to log off immediately. Of course, even that's a step up from what DC has right now: absolutely nothing. Although I actually know nothing about the new MMO besides that my brother said that there was going to be one and it was going to be awesome. But he says that about everything, so this could be just as pathetic-making as Hero Up.
     You know what, I'll tell you if I die before the school year ends.