The past few months in summation
Been down with the flu for the past five days despite having this season's flu shot.
Aaaanyway...
March:
Attended Anime Boston 08, which has been so fondly nicknamed by attendants as "LineCon". I waited four hours in line in a costume that wasn't...well-prepared for standing around all day. Other people waited in line for up to nine hours. Lines were abundant even afterward. I never got to see the masquerade or the pillows concert because the lines wrapped around the entire convention building. But not is all tears and bitching! I met up with TRAViS and Xenon from nightsintodreams.com, whom I knew would be there. I tells ya, there's not quite like the excitement of meeting someone in real life that you met on the internet beforehand...and not, you know, getting raped or anything. Oh...speaking of raped, I got camera raped whenever I went when I was in costume.
http://www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/black/cosplay/artists/narsi/gallery1.htm
April:
Frikkin' allergies, 'nuff said
School in general:
Creative Foods is the SLAVEDRIVER of ALL classes. You wouldn't believe the bullshit we have to do! Stay after school for five hours at the middle school for Taste of Languages. Wake up before school at 4:00 to serve breakfast to the honors kids (of which I am part of, thankyouverymuch). Bake up something special and stay after to show if off after school to show people what FUN we have in this class. Write an essay on how you'd run a bake shop. Rub charcoal on your inner thighs. Oh, extra credit if you do it on your crotch, too. Bullshit. And whenever there's a moment where we have to actually LEARN something, it's time to pass out the photocopied packets and textbooks. um, HELLO? That's the stuff that we're supposed to do when you're absent, lady. The reason we call you TEACHER is because you're supposed to TEACH us. The more appropriate term would be SLAVE-DRIVER, or for those who are politically correct/pussies, MATRON.
English class. UGH. Don't get me wrong, I think the teacher kicks ass. But the half of the class is made up of kids who are total losers, jerks, and/or douchebags. And the curriculum is really grinding my nerves now. We read this book, The Bluest Eye, which was absolute TORTURE to read. Talk about wasted talent! I love Tori Morrison's style but the subject of the book goes from bad to worse to downright disgusting and before you know it you're reading a very detailed two-page-long event in which a father drunkenly rapes his daughter. I just plain stopped reading and just pretended to know the stuff by listening in on classroom discussions. I had rescued myself from reading a passage about a pedophile, a second incest rape, and the daughter's pregnancy and miscarriage. Not to mention all of the sex scenes I had to read to get to that point anyway. It was more porno than novel, honestly. If I had known, I would have never gotten that parental permission sheet signed...I should listen to my gut more often.
I really enjoyed English class when we were talking about wise, intellectual and inventive people during the beginning of the year. The "Transcendentalist" unit, though hell to spell, was particularly enjoyable. These people were not satisfied by the straightforward/misinterpreted answers that the Bible provides. They would much rather think about things logically than be spoonfed the same stuff that everyone else is. My kind of people. But the unit is in the past now, and we must move on to Rye pastures (hint hint). Man, I love this Holden kid so much. He bitches about people like I do. =D
That is all for now.