Another year has come and gone...

So, Karria is worrying away on MSN about how she's turning 19 in a few minutes, and I can't think of what to do for her.  I guess it's odd, because though we're the same age for most of the year, it's odd that she says she's going to be old soon.  I guess the best thing I can do for her is to remind her that 19 isn't old, and she isn't magically gonna change, she's still gonna be Kar and I'm still gonna be Red and things will go on as they have for the last 6 years.

Happy birthday, my oldest friend, may many more grace your face without the passage of time wearing on you.

-Red

In the land of twilight, under the moon, we dance for the idiots.

So, I was invited to a group on Facebook today, in support of something that was changing our city name into a racial stereotype of our area.  To be frank, they changed it from Whitby to Whiteby.  I was hopeful going in, because I'm not really a fan of my city.  There's nothing bad about it, it's just that there's nothing to really do.  I thought that it may be pointing out some flaws our city could improve on, at the very least poking at the fact that our city is dominantly Caucasian.

As usual, for people my age, and my general hope for humanity, I was sorely mistaken.

It's a guy from my school who is feverishly making an ass outta himself, openly making fun of some other students, making fun of anything he can, in a slow drawl that makes him look educationally and intellectually challenged, resorting to answering critiques with "Fuck you, and suck my mole".

I took a look through his subscribers, and found a few people I was surprised to see, as I thought they had some taste, and upon asking one of them why they were fans of it (While keeping my own opinions shadowed), it was simply because they knew the person in question, and knew that he was happy with his videos.

Wait.

Back up.

Someone likes a video series because the director likes the video series?  This isn't at all how things should work, particularly not if this person wants to get famous.  If his stuff is shit, we should be able to TELL him his stuff is shit.  If he were really up to this, he'd listen to reviews that critique him, not tell them to go fuck themselves.  From what I can see, this guy is playing to a very limited audience, mostly focusing around his friends.  However this is NOT the way to get famous.  You need to know how to pull people into your act, to make them pay attention, and not by making yourself an ass.  That only goes so far.

-Red

H1 Flu... I mean, Swine N1, er... Yeah!

So, I woke up this morning with a pounding in my head, my muscles aching, general confusion as to what was going on, and a very sore throat.  Thinking not much of it, I hopped in the shower, and began to notice just how painful existing was at that point in time.  I got out of the shower and put together some clothes for the day.

A bit of background info here, is that today I was supposed to present a lesson to my Peer Tutoring class, but my supervisor had taken my copy of the lesson plan out of my folder when she gave it back to me on Friday.  I had to reconstruct the lesson with no aid, and no textbook to guide me, so sufficed to say, I was worried.  My supervisor's attendance is worse than a crackhead's within walking distance of a crackhouse, so I wasn't optimistic about getting my lesson plan back from her.  Not that it was a terribly hard lesson, just Unit rates (50 Beats per minute, forty miles per hour, etc).

Now, I'd been sitting next to a sort of kindred spirit in my science class for a while, we have similar ideas about humanity, and generally get along, however he'd sent me a message Sunday saying he was down with Swine Flu, and not to expect him for the rest of the week.  I quickly added my symptoms up, and realized that I probably had it as well.  I'm going to document this in case I need this later.