As I woke up this morning at 7:30ish, I reached for my glasses and instead found a glass, that was full of water when I went to sleep last night, turned over and on its side - all the contents gone. I raced up and discovered that it must have been late last night that I - or someone out to get me - knocked it over because the ground below it was only a tad bit damp and not soaked.

Anyways, back to my observation. Think about what the last few major motion pictures have been. By major I mean known by practically everyone. And by recently I mean as in the past 5 or so years. The 2 big ones that probably come to mind are, of course, the Lord of the Ring series, and (this one is questionable) The Chronicles of Narnia.

Both are fantasy novels, one however is directed towards adults and the other towards children. But, they both revolve around a global conflict (LOTR has Sauron and his rule, and Chronicles has the White Witch and her rule) which, eventually, is resolved for the better. However, a major happening occurs in both, something that our history is familiar with - War.

Why does so much of our culture revolve around war? The media constantly covers it, as seen, major books, television, and movies have revovled around the topic. Perhaps it is because the story of a classic war hero resembles around that of a medivial knight - noble and heroic. I realize this, every boy imagines himself as the one hero that comes to save the day and the ideal man is “a knight in shining armor” to every woman. It’s inevitable.

As I watched The Chronicles of Narnia, I was in shock that it showed the death, killing, and the hate that goes on in the war. To be fair, it was not gruesome or graphic at all, but I still saw sword penetrate flesh and the taker of the sword take their last breath. The Lord of the Ring movie is a little bit more graphic, but it is rated accordingly. Aren’t children taught growing up to solve their differences with their words, not with force? I just found it interesting - not wrong, completely immoral, or detesting. I am not anti-war.

Oh, I am avoiding doing my English and APUSH.

Nothing much happened today. In Art Tina and I were messing around with my Ipod, playing it as loud as it could go. Mrs. H really didn’t notice, oh well, we got to rock out to “Ain’t nothing but a G thang” and “99 Problems” while Tina finished her birthday present to Dr. H.

After art class I was walking to Spanish and I had to use the restroom, so I went into the one by the science hall. I walked in and there was a girl looking at herself in the mirror. My mind kind of went blank/in a state of shock, and I looked to the side. Whew, the urinals were there, so I was safe. I just kind of glanced at her, then to the urinals. Back at her, back to the urinals.

“OH ****! I’M IN THE WRONG BATHROOM!” she exclaimed.

I just kind of smiled and went about my business. We ran into each other a little later after I got out, and started to talk/laugh about the situation. Haha, she was a good sport about it.

I’m starting to get the seasonal allergy sore throat/stuffy nose thing. I hate it, but at least it’s getting it over with? Right? *sigh* By the way, I changed the watercolor in art class today. I cleared it up a bit more with colored pencil, I think it looks better.

architectual - watercolor.

This is somewhere in the school - can you guess?

I'm not good at watercolor

Has anyone else really wished for the winter break to come this year? I have. All the lame shows on television, all the ads in everything. The spirit everyone gets in and all the cool old time movies that I love (i.e. It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, etc.). I love it all. The only thing that I could thing would make this winter break better was snow. Being we are in Texas, and our schools shut down when there *might* be an inch of snow fall the next morning, I sincerely doubt that this would happen. But how cool would that be?

This post is sounding pretty lame and girly right about now, so I better man it up with some totally manly stuff:

The beef jerky idea was taken from Maddox, who is the author of the book that Adam bought on Friday.

More to come later. Possible art picture of this crappy piece I’m trying to finish.

• Operator! Give me the number for 911!
• Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
• Bart, with $10,000, we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love!
• Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.
• I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman.
• Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.
• Well, it’s 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
• Maybe, just once, someone will call me ‘Sir’ without adding, ‘You’re making a scene.’
• Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
• Doughnuts. Is there anything they can’t do?
• You know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.
• Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.
• When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!
• Son, when you participate in sporting events, it’s not whether you win or lose: it’s how drunk you get.
• I’m going to the back seat of my car, with the woman I love, and I won’t be back for ten minutes!
• [Meeting Aliens] Please don’t eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
• What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.
• Marge, you’re as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
• Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
• The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
• When I look at the smiles on all the children’s faces, I just know they’re about to jab me with something.
• I’m having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
• Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn’t, it’s that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
• I’m not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I’m going to Hell?
• Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you’re prejudiced against all races.
• It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
• Lisa, Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
• I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
• Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
• Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman’s bottom? That’s right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harrassing that woman.
• Old people don’t need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
• How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
• Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
• Homer no function beer well without.
• I’ve always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is — and it’s me.
• Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
• If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can’t speak English.
• I’m never going to be disabled. I’m sick of being so healthy.
• I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming.
• [Looking at a globe map…country being Uruguay]
• Hee hee! Look at this country! ‘You-are-gay.’
• All my life I’ve had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
• Dad, you’ve done a lot of great things, but you’re a very old man, and old people are useless.
• But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
• I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.
• Dear Lord.. The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here’s the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won’t ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, deal.
• That’s it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I’m going to clown college!
• Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
• If something’s hard to do, then it’s not worth doing
• I’m in no condition to drive…wait! I shouldn’t listen to myself, I’m drunk!
• ‘To Start Press Any Key’. Where’s the ANY key?

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