As for my life these past months, it has been eventful. I got a job, my mother got arrested twice and went to rehab, I had to repeat a year of school… the list goes on. As for now, I’ll just talk about moving schools.

Did you ever read a book where someone starts out some place, leaves to a far off land that’s much worse than the place he was before and retains the hope that the starting place will be much better and a nice place to return to, and then returns to the starting place only to find the place has been overrun with the same amount of idiots as the other place? That’s how I feel. I’m not saying I’m unhappy about moving, I’m very glad it happened… but the school sort of devovled. Degenerated? Dejiggered? Whatever the word is, that’s what happened.

At least it’s retained the loving teachers I had. Sadly, this whole “soda” dilima is making me angry. It’s the worst idea in the world: removing soda from high schools will make kids less fat. Really? Is that the state’s answer to obesity? Banning soda? Don’t make me laugh. That’s like saying if they stopped making twinkies, no one in the world would be fat. Fat chance. People will be fat no matter what they eat or drink, giving them a fattening choice for a drink might actually help in the long run. Think about it: removing a fattening choice makes someone buy it when it is a choice, by leaving it there, it will help people learn to keep away from those urges. In that sense, they can eventually stay healthy rather than get healthy and then gain back all the weigt due to never learning how to decide what’s best.

I’m just ranting of course, I want my freaking soda. I’m fat and happy with it, there’s no chance that I’ll lose as much weigt as some athelete, but I’m fine with that.

Oh well. As for my new catch phrase, I’ll take a page from Watchmen…

“We’re all puppets, I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

Why can’t anyone curl up with a good book anymore? The other day I was walking around with my hardback version of Prey(I only like hardback books, paperback feels weird to read) and some guy came over to me and said, “You like to read, huh?,” My answer of course was yes… so the guy told me, “Why would you read something for fun, reading’s stupid and boring…”

At this point, I believe what little faith I had in humanity was lost. I want to know why society has abandoned books, I think it might be because television feeds us all the “information” we need. Also, it might be the culture of today… the whole rap or redneck thing, this is one of those things I don’t understand. Why join a culture that awards ignorance? Why would you not want to further your education? And why, for goodness sake, would you not want to read?

Sometimes humanity can be stupid, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. I would like to see the day when the nerds, like me, rebel and create our own world… one where the internet is the premier means to interact(I’m only kidding of course, plus the internet thing already happened).

“We have no past, no future. And even if we did, it wouldn’t truly be ours.”