Hmmm

Let's see what's going on in the wide world of blogging today: oh right, nothing as usual.
Today's writer's block:

If you could change one thing about yourself, except for looks, what would it be?

The fact I don't have a billion dollars I consider my greatest flaw and so logically I'd change that.

I would like to be more intelligent. You can never be too intelligent....

>implying you're at all intelligent
That's pretty funny. "Well I'm already really intelligent but I guess a little more couldn't hurt--"

Then I could beat Ollie at chess & Scrabble.....which annoys me more than anything in the world.

That's what you'd use your intelligence for. Beating your friends at board games.
You wouldn't even become a chess genius or anything, you'd just beat the one guy specifically.
Okay.

I'm still seeing Chace, it's been since 24th December 2010 so a while now I guess!

>December 24th
>a while
Yeah, real fucking long, kid.

I really like him, but it feels different, I feel in control...like not all...paranoid and thinking about things too much....which is really good! I'm really happy at the moment. The only thing that really annoys me is that since I've told Ollie abut Chace, he's been so wierd towards me...I know he hates Chace...and I'm not really sure why. I think that he's not impressed with how I forgave Chace for saying that he 'had to set an alarm to remember to call me'.

Well if Ollie won't forgive Chace then--
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Also where the fuck do you live that your friends are named Ollie and Chace?
Are you some kind of talking dog and these are your dog friends?

But that was one thing...one thing out of a million brilliant things he's done....or how lovely he is towards me. I think he disrespects that...maybe he thought I was different. Either way, I don't like it. Ollie said to me after that incident that I should ignore chace and never speak to him again, he thinks he's a Ollie means a lot to me, and honestly....if thngs were different...I would be with Ollie...I'm sure of it.

Easy there, captain ellipsis.

So today Naomi, Nina, Nicole, and I drove down to Portsea hotel for lunch because it was an absolute PERFECT day (I drove in my new car woo!), around 28 degrees,

Wait, stop. You can drive?
Really?
As in an automobile on a legal road and not one of those Barbie Jeeps 5 year olds drive around their parents' trailer?

I really don't understand men. For example. You know how I told you about Chace having to 'set an alarm'to remember to call me? Well that night, even after saying that, he STILL didn't call me when he said he would.

This is where that website Omegle has a huge advantage over blogging because I can flat-out tell this cunt I don't give a shit about her and her boyfriend troubles and she should quit running her goddamn yap about it.
Then they get all indignant and I can call them more mean names and I even had one girl admit she was crying one time.
I WIELD AN INCREDIBLE POWER.

So I got upset, and I don't even think I was being irrationally upset. So I tried to call him, he didn't answer. I was trying to call him coz I was angry, to say basically 'just forget the whole thing'.

Anytime someone says "I don't think I was being irrational" to me they might as well be saying "LOOK HOW INCREDIBLY UNREASONABLE I AM!"

So a week later (now) apparently I'm a drama queen. He said I am 'playing games and am all about drama'.

So my question is, am I?

...or was it a valid situation to get upset over?

Stop. Yes you are.
Okay, proceed with whatever dumb evidence you have.

I don't think I was even THAT upset over it, as I said, I only sent him that message...now it seems to be just completly blown out of proportion, and there is no way I'm going to be apologising and begging for forgivness...

We're talking about a phone call that was supposed to happen a week ago.
Bro, can't you just call this cunt once so she'll stop running her goddamn mouth about it?
I understand she's not the most pleasant person to talk to but you know, you could show a little consideration towards me.

I really like Chace. I'm really trying to be myself around him, but it's hard...coz that means trying to act like I've never been hurt...without all of my guards and bullshit attitude that comes with it. And jumping to conclusions and looking too much into things. Coz I find that when I'm guarded I act kind of stuck up and ...angry. ..get pissed off at things that I really shouldn't be... Which is not good.

If I have to read another entry about this missed phone call I'm calling this entire entry. This is literally the fourth entry on this.

I want Chace to see the real me, and these days I don't really let people see the real me...coz I'm so fucking scared of them using it against me to hurt me. I know that I have been very guarded with him up until now...I just hope I haven't blown anything with him, coz I think he's pretty special.

Did you know "because" contains more than three letters?
You'd be forgiven for thinking it contained exactly three after this blog but I'm pretty sure it has a couple more.

Ok so I'll tell you about a situation that happened last night and let me know what you think.

I'll be sure to tell you.

So when I was on the phone to Chace last night he said to me 'I'll call you tomorrow'. Then he said 'Wait, can you call me coz I'll forget to call you'. So then I responded with '...ummm I guess ok'. Then I think he picked up on my reaction and he was like 'Wait, no it's ok I'll call you, I'll set an alarm to remember'.

Oh my God are we still talking about this? Really?

So my question is, set an alrm to call me? wtf?! I think about him quite a lot and definitely wouldn't need an alarm to remember to call him!

This is why you bring a brown or yellow girl out of the third world. She'd be thrilled to own a telephone let alone get a call on it.

So should I be worried about that?! Or is that just a boy thing and I'm looking too much into it. I don't think I ask for much but I have to draw the line somewhere....and a comment like that definitely doesn't make me feel special. :(

OH NO, WELL IF YOU DON'T FEEL SPECIAL 24/7 SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY WRONG!

Gosh I wish for guys to suprise me with weekend getaways etc.....when apparently I'm reaching for the stars with that...really I should be wishing for a guy just to think about me enough to remember to call me. So. That is sad huh.

Telling you Chace. Brown girl'd never ever pull this kind of fuck.
Didn't I say I was going to stop writing this if she mentioned that phone thing again?
FUCK IT. ENTRY OVER.

Oh God Fuck Off

I fucking hate today's writer's block question. Not only because of the subject matter but it's a bunch of heavy-handed, dumbass answers of an issue no one responding understands.

How do you feel about standardized tests? Do you think they accurately indicate a student's knowledge or ability?

10000 "THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE AND THE TESTS TEST NONE LOL!!!!" later and I'm fucking angry.
The reason standardized tests fail you morons is because the bar is set so incredibly low and even if you miss the bar the first time you often have three or four chances to recover. It'd be like if I set up a genius test and the only question was "can you zip up your fly without getting your dick caught? You only have 15 attempts to do this" and if you can guess what? You're a genius!
Why bother at that point? It compounds when the schools that are tested the most are often the worst schools so yeah, take away valuable instruction time to see if they can spell the word "hoping" (hint: it's not 'hopeing' and "hopping" is a different word idiots) which they couldn't two days ago so I'm guessing a miracle didn't occur between then and now.
Whew. Anyway, on to our blog.
Her response:

Of course not! There are seven different types of intelligences and standardized tests accurately test none of them. They don't help a student show true understanding of subject matter, only that 1 out of 4 times, he can guess correctly. They are loathsome and I believe I heard somewhere that around the time they were introduced and leaned upon heavily, ADD prescriptions went up.

Wow, you heard somewhere ADD prescriptions went up. I'm sold! Don't bother citing anything just, you know, make up shit as you go along.

But here's the underlying problem with standardized tests: Knowledge, intelligence, education and the learning process are not easy concepts. Taking a person and helping him through the steps to learn new skills, understand parallels in literature or use the scientific method is a highly personal journey. Each person learns a little differently and takes a different amount of time to learn different things.

BECAUSE WE
ARE ALL LIKE SNOWFLAKES.
Oh my God I don't have the stamina today to put up with this.

Standardized tests seek to make us all the same. They take this rich tapestry of life and reduce it to "Do you know this fact? Y/N"

So how would you fix it? Everyone hates these standardized tests but I have yet to hear one plausible alternative to them.
Here's some sort of block of colors that's supposed to tell me about her personality. I have no idea how to read this so I'm just going to assume it's calling her a cunt and move on.
I just took the quiz that generates these blocks of color (I have nothing better to do with my life)
and mine featured more earth tones and grays while hers was just a corona of contradictory color so I guess it nailed something correctly.

Ghosts never seem to have problems walking through walls or people, but why doesn't anyone have issues with floors? If you're so insubstantial that you have literally no effect on your surroundings, why aren't you always falling through the floor?

... Because ghosts fly?
You've never noticed how they float, really?

It occurs to me that some people could be upset by a commonality in video games for the default of the player avatar to be male, as though the gender of the avatar affects the enjoyment of the game.

Most people prefer to play a character that looks like them, yes.
I, on the other hand, can never make a character badass enough to encapsulate how awesome I am so might as well make a girl.

Now, I am the first person to flail with glee when the main character is by default a woman instead of a man and doubly so when the game isn't a 'girly game', but I've never been particularly bothered by this occurrence.

>Default female avatar
>not girly
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I've been playing video games for nigh on 18 years, let's see how many examples of that I can come up with.
The Metroid series--
Arguably Final Fantasy 6--
Uhhh-- Bayonetta I guess--
So less than 20 games, great.

I used to poke fun of it when I first had my Pokemon Yellow game, but I was never really offended. Maybe it is just long years of conditioning that I expect myself to default to male in a game, but I think it is more that I am extremely comfortable playing a male character.

You do realize Pokemon Yellow is based on a cartoon with a male main character, yeah?
And that you've been able to pick a female lead since Ruby and Sapphire?

Something that makes me squee with delight is when a female avatar seduces a female NPC in a game that was obviously made for men to play. I'm not sure why, but it makes me happy to see lesbianism (Female homosexuality? Is this the PC term? Do we even have one yet?) in any game. I feel it is highly underrepresented and would love to see more of it about.

Do you play video games? There are lesbians all over the place.
Consider your primary audience~

Maybe I'm a little bit crazy, but hearing a knock at my door is possibly one of the most terrifying noises I ever experience.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'
Yeah when you try to rip off an idea from someone make sure you pick someone a little more obscure than EDGAR ALLAN POE.
People still can't follow basic directions:

How would you describe the last decade in one sentence?

Her response:

Oh. Fuck.

>two periods
>neither word constitutes a sentence

Today has been one of the most frustrating days ever. This morning, it was difficult to wake up Doryen, so I was awake a little longer. Then it took me forever to find a razor that wasn't dull.

... To shave your legs, right?
RIGHT?

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes when you add the word 'my' to a slightly intimate sentence, it suddenly becomes uncomfortably personal? For example:

I always feel like a canary when I wear yellow underpants.

I always feel like a canary when I wear my yellow underpants.

Can't say I even know what you're talking about.

I usually whine about useless drivel on this journal and I'm certain that this will be no different, especially since it's nearly one in the morning as I write this. Let me begin with a qualification: I love my boyfriend. I adore him. He is a perfect gentleman to me, but isn't stupid enough to believe that I can't take the harsh realities of life (though he has yet to learn where my pain tolerance lies).

I'm reading that last part a lot of different ways.

He is exhausted all the time, and I can't blame him because he works overtime all day, then goes to class at night, Monday through Thursday. Normally, this might not be a problem except that he has been living with me for the past three weeks and I'm horny out of my mind. I don't want masturbation, it feels hollow and unsatisfactory, I want his *hands* on my *body*, his heat burning my skin. I want him to *want* me.

I think I suddenly understand what you mean about the whole "my" thing.
Especially considering I'm sure you're both morbidly obese.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Here's a cute story about how she met her boyfriend online.
So cute I can't even be bothered to copy and paste it here, I mean fuck off, goddamn.
Watching movies online together is like 18 levels of pathetic.

Therefore what you need to do, instead of appealing to your demographic's logos (that's Greek for logic and not their corporate symbol)

Oh is it Greek? Thank you for that.

Why is it that when you look at a pair of men together, you instantly believe that they are both fully homosexual and when you see a pair of women together, you think that they're probably closer to bisexual?

Because having spoken to many women and men women are far, far more likely to claim to be bisexual in some sort of petty attempt to attract men than gay men, who are typically gay?
I'd wager if you asked online you could find more people claiming to be bisexual women than heterosexual women.

Attention everyone!

I got my hood pierced =D

Your what?
Oh!
Oh...
Great.
It has a shiney, light blue jewel now.
Yeah, great. Any time I see people with genital piercings (which happens far more often than it should for those of you about to say "well how often does that happen, really?") my immediate thought is "mental illness".

A few thoughts on modern management of big businesses and that really should be done to fix their broken code of morality

>business
>morality
no.
Moving on from this post, in fact~
Now here's a post entitled "statistics and why I think they're bullshit" and this should be interesting.

I take as my primary (and really only) example, Deal or no Deal. Everyone probably knows the premise of the game- the contestant picks one of 30 odd suitcases, each with an amount of money on the inside and for the duration of the game, picks the other suitcases to see what was inside them until he or she finally gets to see which one was theirs.

>everyone knows the premise of this game
>let me explain it to you
Great thanks for this.

The player makes two choices, and two choices only: the suitcase he picks at the beginning and at the very end where he decides whether or not to switch cases at the end. All of the crap in the middle? Filler. No, his statistics aren't actually changing because he's not making any new choices.

Oh is that right?
There are 30 cases, the object of the game is to get the case with a million dollars in it. Assuming you do not know what is contained in your case, your odds of initially picking the case with a million dollars are 1:30, the same as picking a case with any discreet amount of money in it.
If you open a case and it does not contain a million dollars your odds increase to 1:29 because you have successfully eliminated a case in the wild, thereby increasing the odds the case you picked is the right one.
The situation you described would require you to never initially pick a case and just eliminate them at random, in which case your odds still increase as you pick successive cases but overall your odds are 1:30.
GIRLS AND STATISTICS, AM I RIGHT GUYS?

But this is my inherent complaint with statistics- I still think it's mostly bullshit. Yes, you can predict fairly accurately what card is going to come up next or, if you talk to a large enough group of people, what someone's preferences are going to be but in the end, it's still a 1 to 52 chance that you're going to pull a 3 of spades out of a pristine deck. Yes, it *is* less likely that after you pull out a spade that you'll pull out another spade, but I think the acknowledged margin of error proves my point just fine.

No it doesn't you stupid cow. A margin of error takes place only over the course of thousands of trial runs.
That'd be like flipping a coin once, getting heads and concluding that coin can only get heads because it happened one time.
Ever heard of a confidence interval?
Jesus Christ.

In conclusion, I would make an awful Deal or no Deal contestant. I would pick my case completely at random and open the rest of the cases in descending order, exhibiting little to no emotion as each was opened.

That would be part of the absolute best strategy, yes, but you came up with it for the entirely wrong reason. Your goal is to pick cases in any discreet pattern and then switch cases at the end when it comes down to 1:2 because of a statistical principle I'm not going to explain because this entry has already gone on too long.

If there are any mathematicians or statisticians, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the matter, but please only address what I've said here because I won't understand much more.

It is actually impossible to fully disprove you with the information you've provided because your knowledge of statistics is so scant I can't even invoke basic Statistics 101 principles.
You're probably someone who thinks the odds of getting tails on a coin flip approaches 1 with each successive flip of "heads".
Uuuuuuuuuuuh fuck. Anyway my head is swimmin' so I'm going to go do something else.

I've been diseased

I contracted some unspecified biological agent thanks to my horrible school.
On top of SHIN SPLINTS HARDCORE and in general having to winnow the horrors of teaching fucking 9th graders (in a shitty school no less) a lesser mortal would have broken by now, but not I.
I endure eternal.
Hooo, so tired.
Also: must be 14, flavor country, gentlemen, etc.
Today's writer's block:

When, if ever, is it okay to snoop on your significant other? Have you ever?

"When the bitch is creeping" is my response.

I don't think it's ever ok to snoop on your significant other. EVER. I would be absolutely livid if my partner were to go through my e-mail, my phone, my facebook, my anything behind my back and without consent.

Yeah, well. Don't give me a reason to think you're blowing some other dude and we're fine.
Also this is how you know I'm an honest person. At least I have the balls to say it. All the other "I WOULD TRUST MY SIGNIFICANT OTHER ALWAYS LOL" are cocksucking liars.

I think they're all nuts. Even if someone gives you reason to suspect that they're up to something sketchy, I don't think it's ok. I think it's the coward's way of not talking through problems and I think it shows a lack of respect.

If she's cheating she's going to lie. Are you fucking stupid or something?

To me, if you don't trust and respect your partner then there's no reason for you to be together. I think it also starts to make you look for problems, look for suspicious information, and give you a reason to start keeping secrets.

A suspicious mind is a healthy mind.

I know that if my partner was looking through my email, I'd start a different email account without telling them. It's a disgusting display of control and mistrust, and I wouldn't ever condone it.

Didn't you just say you didn't condone keeping secrets? So you should show me your email and dispel all doubt instead of acting like you do have something to hide.
See then you could call me an asshole and break up with me instead of acting like a petty, hypocritical cunt I know you are and whoops-- looks like the truth finally came out.
Here's some dumb fucking survey hidden behind a cut and if she thinks I'm reading this she's nuts.

I've worn myself out bitching about the extend on our hellatus (fuck you, CW) so moving on to another topic...

Women. Feminism. Empowerment. Ect.

Moving on from something I don't know what it is, some shit no one but dumb cunts care about.

Here's why: we think of feminism and we think of bra burning, women fighting for equality in the work place, the right to vote, ect. Now we've achieved all of that (debatable. Women are still paid less than men for the same jobs but, you know)

Oh what they're not telling you about that shocking statistic: the fact women take off from work to drop spawn they promptly ignore explains the discrepancy in wages.
Work less, make less. WELCOME. WELCOME TO CAPITALISM.

but now we face other kinds of inequality which boils down to basic sexism. Sexism is still alive and thriving today.*

Ok so she has a note where she explains this statement but it's immediately below her previous paragraph in small font so just make a new paragraph, goddamn.

*Note: I'm aware that sexism applies to men too. I think it's terrible the way we raise males to think that they have to be strong, unemotional tyrants who need to put their pride before all else.

Oh no, don't lump me into this butthurt bullshit. You are the one upset about sexism, not me.

Then we raise females to think that it's normal for men to be that way. Be honest, how many women feel awkward when they see a man cry in front of them? Anyways...

Pussies.
But yes, anywayS.

I categorize racism, sexism, and denial of human rights (ie: gay marriage) under the same heading, and that heading is "WRONG." It sickens me that we are still racist, that we still make racist jokes and laugh at them, that we laugh at sexist jokes (no, it is NOT funny when you tell me that women belong in the kitchen),

Actually yes it is funny.
You can say it's not all you want but your opinion isn't actually better than mine so I can just refute it outright.
Deal with it.

and it's not ok that we deny marriage to anyone, regardless of their sexual orientation.

Only a shitty writer deals in absolutes, you know.
TO ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
ANYONE, REGARDLESS.
I bet there are some combinations of sexuality you find objectionable like, say, pedophilia?
In fact I'd wager that exact kind of thinking hurts the gay marriage movement more than it helps because then all conservatives have to do is point and say LOOK PEOPLE WANT TO LEGALIZE MARRYIN' YER DOG and be technically right based on the language people use.
My point is before you say shit make sure you qualify it.

The thing is, we recognize that racism is wrong and to an extent, we recognize that discrimination against gays is wrong too. But we continually advocate sexism and then we (especially men, ironically) claim that there is no need for feminism in 2011.

Stop saying "we". I recognize nothing you recognize categorically just to separate myself from you.

And think about it, men are still seen as sexual and it's ok for them to be sexual. If a woman is openly sexual, she is labeled as: skanky, slutty, or a whore.

Flashing back to pussy sensitivity. Anyway, moving on--

But here's what really upsets me and what made me realize that I've been thinking the wrong things about feminism: genital mutilation. It isn't practiced in the U.S. (anymore, to my knowledge) but it is in the Middle East, in Africa, and I think in Asia, too. Without going into gory detail, it's exactly what it sounds like: women being mutilated sexually (with razor blades or broken glass, my psych teacher has informed me.) It's done because it's "more appealing to men for marriage," or as a rite of passage into women hood.

Oh what do you call circumcision, then? Not genital mutilation?
Fuck you you two-standard bitch.

And don't even get me started on the media. The media is what helps feed all of this. Music and music videos are constantly depicting women as nothing but sexual objects, advertisements and Hollywood keep telling women that they need to be thin and perfect, but they more or less let the men slide. Yes, I acknowledge that the media affects men too, telling them that they need to be ripped and tan, but it's not nearly as prominent as it is with females.

Because men are less affected by such marketing. Stop being gullible twats and it'll go away.
What, you really think companies don't market to men that way just because?
Goddamn, I can't deal with this shit anymore, new entry.

The CW is pushing tomorrow's Supernatural to NEXT FUCKING WEEK.
EXCUSE ME?

WHAT THE EVER LIVING FUCK?!

I don't even know what that means but I get the impression you have a "crisis" every ten minutes.
Never short of things to be OUTRAGED about.

And truly? This is probably not normal. I'm spending an outrageous amount of money on this convention. Who does that? Who flies across an ocean and spends an unspeakable amount of money, just for a TV show convention?

>Probably not
No it definitely isn't.
Whoooa wandered off for a few hours and coughed up a lung.
Time to do something else.