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It makes me feel uneasy to think that I’m probably the only kid in the world that turns down an offer for a free plane ticket to California with a free pass to DIsneyland and a free hotel room and a free bus pass to Hollywood.

My school gave me that exact offer if I agreed to work on a 5 minute presentation about effects of the media to present at some conference in California. I refused because I’m not interested and don’t want to work that hard. And the rules and guidelines were pretty tough, things like “All freetime will be monitored” and “Students are allowed only on the floors of members of the same gender.” I don’t think it’s really worth it.

I have a MySpace account now.

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I used to worry about my lack of social life because of my fear of people and big places but I don’t really care anymore. I just noticed that since I spend so much time alone, I get worried if there isn’t any sound because I’m just like that. Most of the time, between 8 AM and 4 PM, my mom and dad are at work and my brother is out doing something and I’m home alone so I usually turn the TV on and mute it just so I can hear the static noise. I don’t know why but I usually leave it on the Spanish channels (mostly Univision because Telemundo sucks) and PBS because when I look at the TV I’ll usually see something interesting.

I’m kind of shocked how I can easily find someone’s journal or MySpace or something if I knew their name. It’s weird and creepy, too. Like looking through someone’s bedroom window.

I watched that Virgin Suicides movie a day or two ago. It was a good movie. But the soundtrack was excellent. I need to get the soundtrack. I love Air.

Things I’ve been working on lately:

Being nice to people because I’ve noticed that I’m an asshole.

Choosing what kind of meat I eat. I don’t know why but I feel guilty when I eat meat. I want to stop eating red meat but really, red meat is the best meat there is. I bet human meat tastes better but I’ve never tried and I don’t think it’s legal yet.

Saving up a lot of money. I have sort of a lot of money but not enough for a Digital Rebel and a printing deck and a new keyboard. Buying the Digital Rebel as opposed to saving it for a car will probably be the biggest mistake I make as a teenager but I don’t care.

Doing homework. I never do homework at home anymore because my schedule is made in a way where all my important classes are in the 2nd half of the day, which means I have time to do my homework before school, during study lab, in advisory, or during lunch.

Watch more Gilmore Girls. I used to watch Gilmore Girls every Tuesday in 8th grade and every day after school on ABC Family since school started but I stopped for some reason.

My life is a complete novelty!

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Q: What did the energy say when it got kicked in the balls?
A: OW MY JOULES!

Get it because energy is measured in joules and joules sound like jewels like he’s referring to his testicles. I drew a comic for it and demanded that the school newspaper staff put it in the newspaper. And by “school newspaper staff” I meant Ben and by “demanded” I meant asked. And he said “I’m in physics and I think that sucks.”

I was eating lunch a few days ago and I realized how mean people were so I decided that I should be an overall better person by eating healthier and not being sarcastic and not make expenseful jokes and not tell everyone how gay their favorite band is in their precious Alternative Press magazine. So I tried it out today and I guess it works. My mom taught me how to properly cut and deseed an avocado today. And after all these years I just cut around the seed.

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I left my Rubik’s cube somewhere during lunch and I went back to look for it and now I don’t think I’ll ever see it again. I assume it’s in the greasy hands of another angry teenager now. I’ve solved it infinity times already and it was getting really loose. I don’t know if I should buy a new one. I don’t know what my next hobby should be. I have enough money for a Roland keyboard but if I buy one then I won’t have enough money for the Canon Digital Rebel. And it’ll be at least a year before I have enough money to buy the Digital Rebel.

I always play Oscar’s acoustic guitar as if it were a bass because I don’t know anything about playing guitar. The guy in dreads said “It’s not a bass, Peter.” I don’t get guitars; what are those two bottom strings for?

I was flipping through my Spanish textbook and these pieces of paper fell out:

It’s hard to read but the left one says
“Jessica Earl
10-24-95 pd5
Raulerson”

and the second one says
“Dustin Duport
10-17 Tues”

I’m probably weird but this is probably the most amazing thing I’ve ever found. Slips of corners torn off from the edge of a piece of looseleaf paper, both almost ten years old. And then I found this:

I tried watching Garden State but I’m not really in the mood for it now. I haven’t been in the mood for anything really.

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(8! × 38-1) × (12! × 212-1)/2 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000

That’s the equation to find out how many possible position combinations the Rubik’s Cube has. I solved it twice today, the first time at school and the second time here at home. But I had to use these notes I made on how to solve it. So now I have the bragging rights to say that I solved the Rubik’s cube.

Everyone at school is a moron. I keep telling them that there are approximately 43 quintillion possible position combinations of the Rubik’s Cube and they think there are only 25 million. I had to argue with everyone for 45 minutes and they still don’t believe even though I solved the cube right in front of them so I officially have more knowledge about the cube than they.

I watched Napoleon Dynamite for the first time. It’s OK but it’s not very good. Oscar finally gave me my watch back after 2 weeks. I still need to finish my Romeo and Juliet essay. Some kids today were looking at the Lanier 03-04 yearbook today. Livejournal gets more boring every day.

The Decemberists
Mary-Jane’s on Friday, April 1st.