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Due to the fact that I'm freezing cold and starving, I figured now would be a great time to update.
I get the great honor of fasting all day today! Yay! (By the way Ellen, sending me those pictures of chocolate cake and ramen was reaaaallllyyyyy cute. You'll get what's coming to you one day.) But it's all good because In about two hours I get to stuff my face with food. As for the freezing cold part, my dad refuses to turn the heat on until November. Remember last year when it got this cold in like, September? Yeah, he had the same rule then. So I guess this year is an improvment because I only have to freeze in my own house for one month instead of two.
But in the spirit of the holiday (Yom Kippur--hence the fasting and no school) I'm expected to appologize to everyone for all the wrongs I've committed against them and beg them and G-d for forgiveness. It's an interesting holiday, actually. So Rosh hashanah is the Jewish New Year, and you get to pig out and eat lots of good food. But the days between Rosh hashanah and Yom Kippur you're basically supposed to look inside yourself and figure out what wrongs you've comitted against people, yourself and G-d. Once you've done that and appologized to them, you're supposed to figure out how you want to chagne yourself so that you hurt less people and you live a happier, more spiritual life.
This has proved very difficult considering I have lots of schoolwork that needs to be completed. So needless to say, I skipped this aspect of the holiday and did only the pigging out and the fasting. But I didn't realize until the three hours of synagogue this morning while I was starving what a mistake that was. We're only given a certain amount of time here; when are we going to get our priorities straight? Are we oing to waste what little time we have left doing schoolwork so that we can get into college so that we can get a good job so that we can...do what? Be happy? Does money and and a job make us happy? Or maybe I shold be asking should money and a good job make us happy?
We're only kids; we're not supposed to know who we are yet. We're supposed to be confused. But if we don't make an attempt to figure out who we are and who we want to be, won't things just get more confusing later in life? Won't we have even less time to figure it out?
But enough with the spiritual lecture. Swimming rocks. So far I've dropped 20 seconds on my 100 fly from last year, and my 50 free and 50 fly time only differ by 2 seconds. I;m gunna miss all my senoirs this year; swimming won't be the same without them. School's not too shabby, either. I gotta admit, though, classes are dead boring. I mean, can't they find some way to spice up the periodic table of elements?
In other news, I have my brother's old computer in my room! And it works! How cool is that, dawgs. It's pretty cool. I've also been informed that if I don't attend Jen's party in November, my life will be on the line. I think that's good motivation, but I was planning on going anyway so it's all good. And what's all this about going to Friendly's to stalk Jen's lover--Kevin Cool Guy? Actually, I don't think I want to know. Hey, it'd rock if Jen slipped a $20 into "Kevin Cool Guy's" pants. I think I'd support that. Or maybe only a $10.
OMG. I never reviewed MR. A-Z! Well, I don't want to because it's what I consider his worst work. You want good Mraz? Listen to his first album. SO HOT. And thanks for the new layout, Ellen.
Thought for the Day: Okay, so what's everyone being for Halloween? ....and what should I be? And if you aren't going Halloweening, then you're silly.