It's In the Air You Breathe

And it's also in the water.

It's Friday! Fridays are nice! It's slightly rainy here, but at the same time, it's still pretty cozy outside. I'm content (Whoa, the cynic is happy? What is this!)

Anyhow, I said I'd do a formulaic sort of post on Fridays, and I'm sticking to it. I realize that I skip around about when I post, but that's not exactly on purpose. I took a week off for spring break (can you blame me?), and I went in a downward spiral of downwardness before that.

Onwards!

I use that word quite often, don't I?

I want to touch on another one of my school related issues this week (no, it's not my grades, those are for later). My boredom. And my wandering mind. It ends up making me look like a complete fool sometimes. Thank (insert your diety here, I'm not bringing religion into this) I've perfected having fake coughing fits (that turn real and painful all too often).

It's like this; even if I don't have my laptop, it's hard for me to pay attention. One time, I counted the tiles on the ceiling, then cross-referenced my counting by multiplying the grid, and yada yada yada I think there were 84 or something. My mind wanders, because half the classes I've taken in my life are not exactly interesting to me. And even if I'm interested, I have ADD, so it still wanders (it's also interesting to point out that my notes are extremely funny if I'm interested, as I ad-lib everything the teacher says and say it in my own way). There have been times where I even just start writing a play in class, I get so bored.

The problem with this, writing things in class (really, now that I think about it, this problem exists when I write in public in general), is that I make myself laugh. Sometimes I can't help myself. I just make myself chuckle sometimes (if I don't think I'm funny, who will?). I try not to write comic scripts or scenes from plays, but I get ideas and I need to write them down. One of my best plays was written during English. It was hard to not burst out laughing.

So what if I think I'm funny?

This is not the only problem. When your mind wanders, you start thinking about things you've done during the week. Or over the weekend. If you're in a good mood, you think about the stupid things you and your friends have done recently (if you and your friends don't do stupid things, you are not living, go do something stupid). These things are funny. And when you think of funny things, you giggle. It's like remembering something a comedian said (which happens as well); you can't help but laugh at it.

Also, because I have my computer, I really have a hard time. Never Google "Advice Puppy" during class. Just saying.

The result is me starting to giggle, then realizing that all my classes are small and relatively quiet, and that my giggling like a little girl would be bad for several reasons. This in and of itself is embarrassing (not to mention it reminds the professor that I don't pay attention to them). So what do I do? I fake cough, and this turns into a coughing fit because I have an extremely mild case of Asthma. Which is no worse or better than the giggles, but it manages to make things worse (because now everyone is looking at me for distracting them). It's bad. Because I know my professors have figured out it's because I'm giggling. And I look like a complete moron. Go me.

Sometimes I hate myself (not really, I'm okay with me). Damn my wandering, bored mind. I now understand the root of "bored out of my mind." Because sometimes, the only interesting things are inside my head. Overactive imagination go!

I should point out that I'm writing this in one of those classes I have no interest in. And trying not to giggle because I keep thinking about something ridiculous I did with a comic.

At least I don't care about the class. I'll probably talk about it next week.

List! List! List!

I recently started Twittering (Tweeting? I hate that they call it tweeting), and I've been following a few people that I like. I've noticed a few things about Twitter, most of which I like. So:

Things I Like About Twitter:

1) It's alright to update 7 times in 10 minutes (unlike on your Facebook status)

2) If people follow you, it's easy to share a ton of things with a ton of people, really fast

3) It's fun to talk about me

4) Short. Sweet. To the point.

5) Johnen Vasquez's Twitter is amazing

6) I find out about things bands I like are doing (besides eating, I don't care about that)

7) Some of my friends are entertaining

8) I love using DestroyTwitter as my Twitter client.

8) The tagging system is fun, and it's always fun to click on a weird tag I write to see how many other people thought of it

Things I DON'T Like About Twitter:

1) Too many morons (just like the rest of the world)

2) People can't spell

3) Some people are heavily addicted

4) Weird people follow me sometimes. It's weird.

I realize, though, that my issues with Twitter are issues that I have with the Internet as a whole, and, in the case of 1 and 4, real life as well. So they are null and void, because those are just things that bother me in general.

So many subjects today!

Today's song is by Streetlight Manifesto. They are incredible. I don't care if you don't like Ska, you should still listen to Streetlight (if you are wondering, Ska is punk rock with a horn section, very classy).

Anyway, here's the info:

One Foot on the Gas, One Foot in the Grave by Streetlight Manifesto.

LOOK IT UP NOW!

Happy Friday all.

*The picture used in this blog deserves credit where credit is due. Drew from Left Handed Toons (by Right Handed People) created this. You can find it here.