Ah yes, what Alphonse did in the last few episodes...
Hoo boy.
I vote the Elric Brothers for "Brothers of the Year."

Thanks.
Myna came from the Electric gym.
You have some cute adoptables yourself.

I feel bad for the 31 people who subbed to me on Youtube. Nothing is ever going to be seen from me, so I hope they like random Likes and Favs.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I'm tone deaf while trying and failing to make music?

I prefer listening by a long shot, anyway.

DEFINITELY a bad thing. Unless you're Beethoven-pro, a good ear is needed to make good music. I only got into making music BECAUSE I loved listening to it so much. It just made me happy, so I decided to try my hand at making some sweet tunes. Of course, I stay in the safe uncomplicated land of 8-Bit and Paint Composer, but yeah.

It's December now, whoo! And this is STILL relevant! Now December~ Found the looove that we shared in September, oooh! Only blue talk and love~ Remember, true love was shared todaaaay, heeeeey! Winter just makes me smile hard like no other season, so I'm glad it's here. I should start working on my Christmas picture, I plan to make is special. Maybe even open a thread for art showcasing...

Well, I had to eat my takeout dinner-supper dry. All that gravy went out pouring in a mishap. Yikes. Well, at least it's still good by itself.

Rather quiet, eh?

Things have calmed down, which is good. Now nothing happens. Oh well, it's probably the calm before the storm.

Would that storm possibly be the hysteria that surrounds the 21st?

I think what it could be is people are studying for their finals. I keep hearing about how finals are coming up for a lot of people.

Not at all. The storm may just as well be a stew of events that collide together...

In other words, next year.

I sure hope the world doesn't end next week I just got my driver's license!

12 Days til World ends

The moon has yet to come closer or attain a creepy face. We're still good.

Shame it is meant to happen before Christmas

I wonder how many crazies will be out there come 21...

Who knows.

All I know is I'm going to have so much fun over the next few days. Guess who just got a mini replica Portal Gun from a random store.

Not to mention I got in a beta to play a sequel of a game I absolutely love.....

All of my happy is flowing~

Hmm... now I'm actually afraid to go to school on the 21st. What if someone DOES believe in it and wants to shoot up a bunch of people? :I I gotta look out for myself. Apparently, the craziness has already started as this was the most eventful Monday in my entire life. I can't get into the details, but now I think I live in "the hood." I need moving plans.

Dude, you wouldn't even believe what I'd do with a Portal gun, even if it didn't shoot real portals that really allowed me to travel between two points in space. Still, that's awesome and have fun with it.

Ha. That sucks.. I don't have school on friday. My last day before break is thursday and we get out early the whole week because of Trimester exams that should be an exciting week!

Hey, there is a 12/12/12 Sale at the bookstore today. This is how the line looked like at 9AM already.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...20002758_n.jpg

At least I'm "Black Wednesday" shopping with college students.

Well today has been lovely for me. I have the flu and it's the worst kind too. I hate being sick this late because we're reviewing for tests. D:

I have my first final exam tomorrow. T_T The only final I'm really worried about is the one I have on Friday; AP English. My grade for that class is barely a B right now and I hate feeling that I have to do well on this exam in order to keep that B.

Passed my Economy and Physiology Exams today. And was incredibly surprised at my 92% on my physiology exam too

I don't have exams until after my holiday break, which goes until January 3rd. A little after the break, the semester ends and I'll be half way done with my last year of high school.

I tell ya, the real world is gonna hit me like a bag o' bricks when I graduate.

No exams for me either, but Physics and Business Studies in January...

As for the subject of the supposed world ending, everyone @ my school seems to be cracking jokes about it, surely there must be something more interesting haha...

Well lets see what's new with the wotter...
1. Made new SAI brushes.
2. I am trying to draw Lauta and Mituna but the internet is being evil and is distracting.
3. I have a test tomorrow.
4. I should be studying.

Well, had an 8AM Physics Final and I think I really bombed it. Seems that I need to get my GPA up to declare the Physics major.

Not the best idea to place half the class in a cramped lecture hall though.

Also, my first quarter of college is now over! Now I need to get my laptop fixed.

As for me, vacationing, and fantasising on my dream laptop for now. This is what happens when you have your semester finals done timely, and early enough.

I passed my math final yesterday. , i passed my psychology final today, and i have english later on in the morning..

Today in Newtown, Connecticut, there was a school shooting. A truly horrific event, as we all know how deadly and random these school shootings can be. So far, 27 are confirmed dead.

But...what makes this so senseless...so heart breaking...

18 of them are children.

The school shooting was at an elementary school. I can't imagine the grief and anguish the parents of these families are having to go through right now. It's been confirmed that the shooter took his own life after his rampage...what a coward...and they are still investigating if there was a 2nd shooter or not.

Yeah I myself am feeling pretty depressed about this too, especially since I live in Connecticut I probably know someone who was effected by this, it's just plain sickening.

Now why would a shooter target an elementary school? Maybe he was being bullied by the elementary kids, we all know how serious bullying incidents are.

Adding to this whole Connecticut school shooting
people have now gotten the Idea to Scapegoat video games, and saying that it helped cause it..Logic points:0

When I got home from school today after taking my AP English final, I was told that another shooting took place in Connecticut. My parents had the TV on in the kitchen and this is what the headline said: "Connecticut Elementary School Shooting, 27 dead, mostly children."
I was horrified...not just because it was a shooting, but because children who had a future ahead of them were killed. Seriously, what the heck is wrong with people!? I've seen terrible crimes before, but this is just plain heinous, and I can only imagine how the parents of those children feel right now.

*Facepalm*

I'm trying to find words for that news, and...

And there are bigger... ugh. Some people are just insensitive.

What the @!#!$R!% !$!$!@%! is wrong with people?

Seen on CNN: So many moderated DISQUS comments.

I was informed about the incident, but I don't know any details. Is the shooter a parent, or what exactly is the cause?

You know what I just thought about? The government is going to go crazy over this incident and is going to try to more strictly regulate the purchase of firearms without even realizing most criminals with firearms obtain them by illegal manners.

*sigh* I feel like the average IQ of the average US citizen is dropping as the days go on.

The only way I would have known this happened earlier is if someone close to me was involved. Thank god that didn't happen.

Sorry I have been inactive guys. It's hard when my phone only lets me have one tab at a time.. Stupid Blackberry Curve. Anyways yeah, what the hell. You must be pretty freaking messed up to do something as bad as that. My prayers are with the families that lost lives up in CT.

Does this make me a terrible person?

I have to admit the I am incredibly sick of all the coverage of the shooting that has happened, yes it was terrible, but there's only some much of this depressing tale that I can put up with. I've moved on, I've tried to find out what I can do as a person to make sure this never happens again but it just keeps popping up over and over again like I'm expected to be depressed or upset 24/7 I mean I still feel remorse for the victims but there's just more in the world to care about then just a terrible event we all just have to move on.

Yeah, you're definitely not awful. If anything, I'm more scared than depressed at this point. I've had my moment of silence, grief, and prayed for the families of those who were affected. But now I'm no longer sad, I'm just simply horrified that something like this would happen. I was terrified at the first school shooting I heard about. Then there was another, and another, and now this one. What makes it worse is that it was just elementary school, where the students are just so young. I can't find myself living easy with news like this.
Oh, and the mourning doesn't even stop today. Tomorrow our entire school is required (Not required, but everyone with a heart) to wear blue in memory of the lives lost. I'm considering whether or not wearing my Sonic shirt is inappropriate, because I think it's my only blue shirt.

All this talk about shootings is making me feel a bit uneasy.

I'd like to switch to another topic, if you'd like...

Well, I love talking about myself, and right now I feel like music!

This entire weekend has been very musical for myself. I instantly started it out with playing all 4 of my Rock Band games going over my favorite songs and buying some new ones. And a lot more Queen, because you can never have enough Saturday I wrote the sheet music for "One Night in Neo Kobe" from Snatcher because my friend requested it. It's a very cool jazz song (and the nerd in me must also note that it's written in E Minor.) I might have to convince my band teacher to let us play it, hehe. Today I spent a lot of time on my piano project, which requires me to research the history of the piano. I don't really feel like doing it, so I'm searching for ways around it that'll still get me an A. The other 2 parts are more interesting, I'm composing my own song for a presentation and I'm making a piano out of candy! The rest of my weekend was boring work and competitive Pokémon training.

I have a concert tonight for band and again tomorrow morning. Thursday I have to play the song I've been working on for nearly two months now in front of my piano teacher. The concert tomorrow morning is forcing me out of my first hour, which is my piano class, making me lose an hour of practice.

If anyone's wondering, I'm playing this song on Thursday:

I finally got my In-N-Out burger for the first time in months and I found out that I have all As in my classes. Guess the curve was in my favor.

All this talk about burgers make me want a Whopper.

We don't have In-N-Out Burger in Connecticut but we do have Moe's which is like a Mexican Subway but five times better then them or Taco Bell!

Eh, Moe's is alright. I don't consider it THAT good, we have one in NY. But Oh gosh, IN-N-OUT BURGER IS THE FREAKING BEST<3333

I wish I could have these fancy burgers.

Is it just me or am I seeing mostly the same faces every day in Victory Road?

I am now officially on break! And what better way to start the break than waking up at noon? x3 Going into my exams these are the grades I had:

AP Calc: B (This class is so hard and much more different than Pre Calc ._.)
US History: B+
AP English: B (I'm horrible with this class since I don't particularly like to read...)
College Level Marine Science: A+ (Easiest class ever haha)
AP Spanish: B+
Culture class: B+

Now to find some ways to spend my 2 week break...

Good luck with that Ruen, I have a really short attention span so ever since I've gotten my license I've actually been really good at keeping myself busy.

Don't treat the staff like royalty - treat them like you would any other normal person. After all, we're no different than you, we just have the ability to keep this place nicer, but even you have the ability to do that, so there really is no reason to treat staff any different than your ordinary forum goer.

Those aren't my official grades though, I'll post my final grades for the first semester in the actual thread.

Besides being lazy, I'm starting to get back into playing Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. I don't know if anyone else has played it before, but I love this game~

Huh... That's why it's purgatory there. Never knew.

I've been so busy working earning money so I can buy my wishlist. (Which will never really be specified.)

All I can say is I love my job.

Hey, look, Pokémon reference on xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/1147/

I like the mouse-over text.

Wow it took me a whole minute to remember my Chemistry class in order to get that joke.

I think I ate quite a lot just now.

So I'm thinking about going to the movies sometime soon but I'm not sure what I should see.

We went to the desert today to have a nice desert safari. Everything was smooth, but the amount of flies was unimaginable. I think this time serves as the season for their eggs to hatch, as they were in hundreds, and they disrupted the mood because of how annoying they were.

This has been a really fun Christmas vacation. Oh, how I wish this was how everything always was. And the highlights-

-Getting sick the day of so that I could be treated like a king for a few days. (Not intentionally, of course. Being sick is very painful.)
-"Borrowing" (Stealing) my aunt's guitar so that I could learn it since she didn't know how. I caught on quickly (In just 2 hours) and a couple days later (today) I was already playing songs by ear with chords. I got Paint It Black, Purple Haze, and Celebrate.
-Going to a dine-in theater so that we could see The Hobbit. We bought tickets for the 21+ theater and none of the staff asked for my age, so we got kicked out of our theater. However, my mom used her lawyer skills to get us a full refund, free movie in a different theater, free tickets to another movie, AND free food. I'm so useful~

Although not a highlight of the vacation, I'm going through my own personal Beatlemania. They've been the only source of music for me for the past week or so.

Oh, you kids and your Beatles and your Jay-Zees. Clearly, the best band is The Doors.

I mean, The Doors were a really great gig and their sound was amazing, but The Beatles dominated an entire decade. This'll pass in a few weeks, I'm sure. And the Paint It Black thing was obviously a joke.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fubab_107 I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes. So work today was funny. The heaters for the store we're off since we over-rided the original system so we could close early on the 24th and remain closed on the 25th. Turns out it froze everything inside. Half the freezer drinks blew up when we turned the heat on. Oh it was fun...

Speaking of the hottest thing ever, I wonder how One Direction is faring these days.

Pretty pissed off. I lost two matches in a row today in Wrestling... It's like a pattern with me, I won in the first meet, lost in the second, won in the third, lost in the fourth... I can't stand having this 5-6 losing record, it's driving me absolutely nuts.

Chess is not a sport. It's a strategy game. If Chess is a sport, then Dungeons and Dragons is a sport.

http://listofsports.com/chess

Looks like a sport to me.