I just solved all the world’s problems.

Written on December 28, 2010. Posted in Real World. 4 Comments.

So in 2012, according to CNN (according to another website, according to a coworker of mine) gasoline prices will be hitting at least $5.00 a gallon. The world is obviously in a terrible state of affairs! The time for action is now! Luckily, I have a plan that will save us all from BP and Shell.

Pretty much everyone knows that oil companies gouge their prices kind of a lot, in order to keep more money for themselves. What someone needs to do is start their own oil company, and price their own gasoline at a level that is actually sane, without price gouging. Pretty soon, everyone will catch on, and nobody will be buying oil from BP any more! The person who starts the cheap oil company will be rich, because everyone will be buying their gas. The consumers win, because oil prices will be driven down! It’s a win-win situation!

Now all we need is an oil field and enough money to set up thousands of gas stations across the country. Who’s with me? Once we use reason and logic to tackle and destroy the greed of the oil industry, we can take on Wall Street. There’s nothing you can’t do when you look past yourself and your personal greed!

Oh, by the way, for anyone who would like to use that “cheap oil” idea, I will be requiring at least 25% royalties on all your profits. You’re welcome!

Playing the not-study game

Written on December 13, 2010. Posted in School. 3 Comments.

Three and a half months. That is how long ago I started college. (Probably related to this is the fact that my last blog was posted three and a half months ago.) Tomorrow is my first final- yes, my first college final EVER- and what am I doing? Studying? No, of course not. I’m sitting at my desk, writing my first blog post in three and a half months. Because obviously, the night before your very first college final ever is the best time to try to revive your blog.

I’ve never been a big studier. In high school, I didn’t really need to- the only thing I ever studied for were AP exams, and that only lasted for the last three weeks of the year. Admittedly, though, I’ve needed to do a bit of studying in college- and now is probably when I should be doing the most studying. As in, the night before finals. But I’m not studying, because I’m a product of the modern age and therefore have a severely limited attention span (although the fact that it’s 10:30 at night no doubt makes it much harder to concentrate.) Actually, because I’m trying so hard to avoid studying, it’s become a whole lot easier to concentrate on things I’ve been ignoring for months- like this website. Oops.

It’s not completely my fault. Well, maybe it is. College is stressful. It takes up kind of a lot of my time- and when I factor in riding and the IHSA and my violin and work, I don’t have much time at all. But I found enough time to make a decent layout, and I’ve been planning to re-work the site a bit. It just kept getting pushed back: first I said I’d do it over fall break, then Thanksgiving, and now Christmas… well, it’s almost Christmas break, so I don’t think I can justify putting it off any longer. I’ve been having great post ideas, and the more ideas I have, the more guilty I feel about not using them.

I re-wrote my “About Me” page, so now it’s slightly less bad and embarrassing… at least I hope it is. I also am considering allowing my Facebook friends to read this, even though I haven’t quite decided about that one yet. And I made a new layout. (Edit: You can also check out my brand new portfolio page, because it’s pretty awesome.) And I noticed that my friends seem to be disappearing… but I disappeared too, so I can’t really blame them for that. Maybe they have college too. Or something. I’m typing really fast right now… I think I’m tired, because I feel like I’ve had a lot of caffeine even though I really haven’t had any since that Coke at 5:00 this evening. And I’m pretty sure I’m rambling now, but that’s okay, because it’s keeping me distracted from the fact that I’m not studying.

This is nowhere near the quality of writing that I wanted my big comeback post to have, but that’s okay, because it’s the night before finals and I’m kind of stressed and tired and rambling. So, to the few people who are still out there: How are you? And how often do you play the “not-study” game? (And how many of you have seen that particular episode of the Fairly Oddparents and understand the reference?)