what category do i fall under?

you know, humans are kind of funny. we do a lot of strange things. (i'm assuming that everyone who's reading this is human, though perhaps i shouldn't.) one of the strangest things we do is cast illusions.
and no, i'm not talking about pull-a-bunny-out-of-a-hat illusions. i mean we make ourselves think that certain things exist, even though they don't.
for instance, humans like to categorize everything. and by everything, i mean people.
in many minds, all people fall under certain categories. he is cool. she's a nerd. he is emo. she is a genius. he is an idiot. she is bad. he is good.
labels.
do these really exist? or did society just make them up?
i don't think that one word is adequate enough to describe anybody. people are so incredibly complex that it is impossible to completely describe someone with an entire book, let alone a single word. so why do we constantly do it?
why do we look at someone and immediately think, "that kid's a geek," or "that kid is cool"? what does it mean? and why do we feel the need to do this?
and what happens if someone doesn't fit any of the categories? is there a special "miscellaneous" label for him?
are all of us doomed to fit under a label? to be categorised like we're objects and not people?
and is labeling necessarily a bad thing?
what's up with it?

Procrastinators Unite!

...tomorrow.

out of this world

We are aliens to aliens.
isn't that a strange thought? do you think the people who live on Neptune or Pluto have movies and books about Earthling invasions? maybe they're sending ships over here to try to find life forms on earth.
well, they'll find life forms, all right. plenty of them here.
you know, it's pretty cool that we managed to send robots to mars. you'd think that we'd have to be smart to be able to do something like that. but we're not. it's weird. if we're so smart, shouldn't we be able to figure out a way to make world peace, or stop crime, or end hunger? we can't, apparently. so how are we smart enough to figure out how to walk on the moon, but dumb enough to invent bombs capable of blowing a billion fellow humans to bits on the push of a button? it just doesn't make sense to me.
you know, instead of spending so much money putting robots on mars and sending satellites through space and putting men on the moon, i think we should be more concerned with trying to find intelligent life on this planet.

random nonsense

i hate wet water,
i like warm ice,
and i can handle dirt, just as long as
it isn't dirty.


a flea and a fly and a floo
were stuck, so what could they do?
"let us flee," said the fly.
"let us fly" said the flea.
so they flew through a flaw in the floo.


anyone here who isn't funcuzed doesn't really know what's going on.


i am the bestest at grammar and grate att spelling, but the best part about me is that i am incredibly modest, and have no ego whatsoever.


did you understand anything written on this post? if the answer is "no", please stop reading and go on to the next post. if the answer is "yes", please continue on to the sentence below:


wow! you are bad at following directions, aren't you?

the truest thing i've ever heard:

if life made sense, we'd all be bored.

magic

what is magic?
good question, isn't it?
is magic just a bunch of people in funny pointed hats who recited rhyming spells and cook potions of newt eyes and frog tongues?
or is it something much, much deeper? something that's lurking somewhere in the darkest corners of your soul? something that grows with you, changes you?
in my opinion, you don't have to be harry potter to see magic. it's everywhere. the way the sky glows on fire at sunset, that's magical. the smell of rain after a storm, when everything is wet and cool and clean and fresh. that's magical.
magic, i think, is something incredibly beautiful. it's a sensation that you can't quite explain. it's bright and gorgeous, but at the same time dark and mysterious. and sometimes scary.
the feeling that you get sometimes, late at night, when the only sounds are the silence roaring in your ears and a few bumps and creeks that seem to be coming from everywhere at once. there's something magical about that, too.
one of the most magical things of all is music. it seems to come from a different world entirely. there is something about music that touches your soul and pulls at your heart the way nothing else can. music can make you laugh or cry easier than anything else in the world.
music.
sometimes, music is the only way you can express yourself. music seems to be part of a different world, a world much bigger and lighter and more mysterious and much, much more magical than ours.
a beautiful song, with words that are sad and sweet and a melody that touched me. that is magic.

national holiday

i don't know if you are aware of the fact, but tomorrow is Presidents Day. i didn't put in an apostraphe, because i'm not sure if it needs one. is it "The day of the presidents", or "The day belonging to the president"? i'm really not sure. so i decided not to put an apostraphe in, because i thought that if it needed one you would all figure it was a typographical error. except this whole paragraph just gaurenteed that you won't think that. oh, well.
is it just me, or are there a bit too many national holidays in the U.S.? think about it: presidents day, labor day, clolombus day, lincoln's birthday.... Does anyone even think about presidents on presidents day? i know i don't.
it's not that i'm complaining i get off from school for apparently no reason. i'm just wondering, why do presidents need their own special day? i think they have enough cool stuff already- the army, regular appearance on national telivision, a nice white house. so why do presidents get their own day? why don't we have firefighters day? or lawyers day? or stand-up comedians day? or people who blog about random things day?
you know, i like that last one. i think i'm gonna start my own national holiday. it'll be called Griffinrider Blog Day . it has a nice ring to it, don't you think? ok, so now that we have the name, we have to think of a good date for our holiday. any ideas?
and, of course, since it's a national holiday, i get a day off from school. hey, maybe even a whole week off from school! and everyone who celebrates Griffinrider Blog Day also gets off from school. for a national holiday as important as this one, there's no way we can not take a vacation!
of course, i'll have to convince my parents, first.