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Wow, been a long time since my first post, almost feel sad about writing this. A lot has happend since then and perhaps the most exiting has happened recently. But first a brief self description. Anyone who knows me knows i'm am not outgoing and i'm very shy, i hate this the most about myself, even more than my inability to tan. I wish i could just get over it but i can't, whenever i talk to someone i don't know well (mostly girls) i get really nervous. so in an effort to try to overcome this fear i made it my new years resolution to be more outgoing (talk to girls). That was about 4 months ago i think. So i did, and i had some success. I made friends and all was good. Happy ending? sadly no, as such things with girls seem to go there are great ups, and deep, deep, downs. I currently seem to be at the bottom of a pit, but there is a ladder out i just have to find it. So that has been my life for the week and a half, looking for the ladder. Its been fun writing these blogs, ill miss it.

-andy

School topic: being on a team

I've been on a few teams. The two teams i've been on the most have been my soccer and swimming teams. If i had to chose witch team i liked more i would say swimming. The reason for this is because on the soccer team there are still the clicks and social groups you see at school. This prevents holds back a lot of people including myself. I'm not in the popular crowd, and i don't want to be either (std's, drugs, being a bad person in general) so these people because they are in the popular crowd tend to hold themselves above other people. This is not true at all on the swim team because we are not popular. We don't hang out in the same click but we can still get along because we don't consider ourselves superior.

I'M CALLING YOU OUT TATE!!!!

It has come to my attention some people are under the illusion Tate Tufte is better at Call of Duty than me. So i've challenged Tate to a 1v1. However he has yet to accepet. So i'm giving Tate one week to 1v1 me before i do something. What will i do? Probably nothing. But never the less i callenge Tate Tufte to a 1v1!!!

School Topic: Reputation

It can be hard to define yourself, and your level of reputation. But after much consideration i've classifeid myself as a mild nerd. The reason i don't consider myself an all out nerd is because there are people in this school much more dedicated to video games in general than i. So does this mean i get bullied and picked on for it? No, actually quite to opposite. Within my group of nerd friends i get quite a bit of respect for my talents. Although i've yet to claim my title as king because tate won't 1v1 me. Also as long as i'm on the subject i'd like to challenge anyone who thinks they can beat me to a 1v1 to claim my rightful place as best first person shooter player in the school, because i am. The only person i would be concernd about would be curi, but fortunetly he switched over to PC a long time ago.

My Ego= Charlie Sheen

Plants vs. Zombies

Yesterday was Saturday, and we had a show choir competition in la crosse. It was really long, but to pass the time i brought my moms new ipad. I'm not the biggest fan of ipads, it would be much more practical to just get a net book or something but my mom got one for being of the school board so i'm not complaining. Also the day before i downloaded plants vs. zombies. BEST GAME EVAR!!!!! OH MY GAWD!!!! I played the game every second i could and it is amazing. The game basically is you trying to defend your house against a zombie hoard. In order to do this you use plants that shoot peas, explode, launch cabbages and much much more. Although the game sounds childish it has a lot of depth to it, there is a surprising amount of strategy that goes into it.

In other news the worst song ever made was just released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

School Topic: Spring Time

There are four seasons in Minnesota, almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction. I love that joke (credit goes to JB for telling it to me). Spring is always really nice after the long Minnesotan winter. But it's also really wet, and the weather can never seem to make up its mind. Not that i'm outside a lot anyway, spring is kind of my break from doing anything so i mostly just sit inside, and play xbox or something like that. But it does kind of suck for people who are in track or tennis.

School Topic: Respect

The golden rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated. I've always been a cynic of this rule. And this is because if i could have my perfect world everyone would worship me and give my lots of money. And obviously I don't want to worship anyone, so this rule doesn't really work for me. I'd like to say I treat everyone I know with respect but I don't. I just don't like some people and I treat them how I feel they have treated me. I don't go out of my way to try to put down these people, I mostly try to leave them alone, but they often find a way to annoy me so I treat them with little respect. You disrespect me= I disrespect you. The system works.

Horror Movies

I am not a big fan of horror movies, they typically have terrible acting and stupid plots, they also scare me. But recently in my media studies class we watched the movie Psycho, and I thought is was great. The acting was superb, the editing was obviously good since its Alfred Hitchcock, and i though the plot was very well done. Although by todays standards the movie probably wouldn't even make most people flinch, i though it was still scary in its own way. For me the scariest part of the movie was the music. In the opening credits the music really got my heart pumping, even though they were just the credits and there was nothing scary i still got a little anxious just from the music. There were really only three scenes in the movie that were meant to really scare you the rest were just build up. The scene that scared me the most was not the famous shower scene were one of the main characters gets stabbed to death, but the stair case scene, were another main character gets stabbed to death. In this scene the detective is poking around the house and he begins his ascent of the stairs. Right before he get to the top a door slowly opens up. The the crazed mother (or who we think is the mother) bursts out from it and stabs him and he falls down the stairs!

School Topic: Blogging

OH THE IRONY!!! I think that a lot of people use blogging a bit like they would a shrink, just talking to them about stuff that they should talk about and get off their chest. Obviously in this class we blog so we don't fail. And other people use blogging like twitter, to keep people updated on their lives. I believe blogging was an early more respectable version of social networking, you might update it once or twice a week and have thought full posts about how your life is going. Nowadays people just get on facebook and say whatever they want to about other people and how much better they are.

Swimming is Over

I feel bad saying it but i'm glad that is it. Its been a very long season, we didn't win any meets. It was still fun but its going to be nice to have more free time after school for homework and stuff. Well i can't think of anything else to say about that so ill move on to a topic i can always say something about, god and religion. I recently got in an argument with a certain individual about this. I've gotten in other argumengts before with ben jones. Usually ben would say a few random facts that were supposed to prove god real (these facts were not always true but he always made some good points about some of the holes still left in disproving god (although even if you could prove he was real i'm not so sure I would want to believe in him). Also i've always respected ben because he has always been able to admit problems with religion and i could admit problems with atheism. But this new person i got in an argument with just infuriated me. First of all i don't pick fights with Christians, they can live in their world of delusion and be happy in ignorance as long as they don't try to force it on me. This invidual tried to force it on me, they tried to "save me". This frustrated me. So I said something along the lines of "how do you explain evolution?". This person responded with something completely unrelated to evolution most likely because they is to ignorant to make any sort of argument against me. They said something like "faith is defined as believing without knowing". Thats not faith it's blind faith! That is not a thing to be proud of! Mabye Christians realized they are incapable of winning an argument. So they have resorted to saying crap like "i believe in god because i have blind faith and i'm proud of it". So why is blind faith bad? Because then you believe in anything like unicorns or dwarfs even though there is no proof! Now i don't mind if people believe in god because it helps you emotionally or you need to believe in a greater power because life is to hard for you or something like that, but you need to accept that not everyone needs god. Even if you could prove that there is a god (this is impossible by the way) i would still choose to not believe in him because i'm my own person.

Sorry but I just needed to vent a bit.....

Stress

I've had a lot of this recently. With accuplacer tests, grades, swimming, show choir, and other stuff I've been having a lot of this recently. I have found that exercise helps with this, like swimming. Also video games help a lot, since i'm awful at multi tasking it's very hard to think about the stuff thats stressing me out when i'm playing video games. The hard thing is falling asleep is when i'm thinking about what i'm stressed about, I've been getting to bed at about 9 and i'm still up at 10. So the more stress i have the less sleep i get and i get more stressed. It never ends.

Psychology

I've developed an interest in this recently. Though i doubt i'll ever career in psychology I find it interesting to try to find out why people do things. The people i have the most trouble with are women, not that I've ever been smooth with the ladies, (more like rocky road...), but they do seem very confused. Maybe it's just the hormones, or my ego but I'm perplexed.

The thing that sparked my recent interest in this is a personality test that Curi showed me. I took this test and found the results to be almost exact. This got me thinking, maybe it's possible to tell what people are thinking based on actions. I've had some success. But now i must find a new hobby instead of creeping people, probably back to call of duty.

P.S. I don't actually creep people.

School Topic: Loneliness

Never really been effected by this even though i'm an only child. Maybe i'm just an antisocial person but I think I've probably just gotten used to talking to inanimate objects, and my dog. I'm kidding by the way. Recently however if i get sick of talking to walls i can just drive over to a friends house and talk to them. Or i can make a taco bell run, this doesn't help with being lonely but it does taste good. In conclusion i like taco bell.

School Topic: Friendship

Since I've last written about this I learned how to spell it. Friendship has been written about a lot so i'm not sure what to say about it. I have lots of friends, one of them is Tate Tufte he's a swell guy, Tate enjoys video games and women. But mostly video games. This concerns me but he seems content. Tate also enjoys being fashionable, his ultimate goal is the become a hipster, and he may soon reach that goal. Another one of my friends is Kyle Zogg. Kyle likes breaking his fingers on diving boards, and women. But mostly women unlike Tate. Not that not liking women is bad. In conclusion Kyle like women more than Tate.

(sorry about everything above, but i really struggled to come up with something original)

School Topic:Intelligence and why it's Important

Well intelligence is defined as capacity for learning, reason, understanding, etc. So this is important because it is part of what makes us human, the other part being emotion (although other animals show emotion they are not as prominent as in humans). Although one could argue that humans have not done a lot of good to this world, like hurting the environment. And hurting the environment is caused by human "innovation". And that is caused by intelligence. So perhaps the world should be without humans? I think at first it could help a lot, but apes would probably evolve and become human like and the process would begin again. So probably just best if we can use our intelligence to preserve life. Yes, I know i'm a tree hugger

Lazy Sunday

Woke up at noon today, not that impressive on its own. But I did go to bed at ten, so I have a new record of 14 hours asleep. I think that having two away meets this week helped with that.

Today, (Sunday) has been very lazy. I have done nothing productive aside from writing this blog, watching about 4 NCIS episodes and making a tree fort in minecraft.

Also i have a indoor soccer game at 5:30. I haven't made it to the last two games. So I have to make it to this one. Anyway i'm going to go and play some minecraft.

Black Ops

I couldn't think of anything to write about, so I turned to something I always have an opinion on, video games. It seems that after the initial release of black ops every one has gotten sick of it. I can't blame them either so have I. I can't really tell why, I go positive almost every game, but i just seem to get bored of it, maybe i'm growing out of video games, hope not.

In other news i won my first race in swimming since i can remember, this is because i'm one of the oldest people on the team and i'm in tenth grade, and I swim varsity. Which means I swim against seniors. But yesterday I went to an invitational witch means there are a lot of teams. So they judge you be your best time, not by went your coach puts you in. Which means I got to swim against people at my own skill level, although i was seated to win the race it was only by six one hundreds of a second. Also I cut seven seconds of the event and im now one second away from sections.

School Topic: Work Ethic

Not sure what to say about this, do I have good work ethics? Do other people have good work ethics? Should people have good work ethics? Is the holocaust a conspiracy? It would be nice to have a little direction with these topics, or maybe even something that many people disagree about like abortion, religion, or gay marriage. I think it would be interesting to hear other peoples opinions on that.

Anyway, on to the topic, work ethic. I've always had a mediocre work ethic (finishing this blog about an hour before it's due) although i'd like to think it has come a lot farther recently. Well thats about all I've got so i'm going to attempt to tie this topic in with some stupid thing that a conservative did. Sarah Palin has a bad work ethic, she quit her job as Governor. She's a bad mama grizzly.

Best I could do.