RaWrr

I'm in a bad mood today. I've been in a bad mood since I woke up, mainly because I'm sick of summer. It was awesome the first two weeks when all I did was sleep late and sit around watching tv or playing video games and solitaire until the wee hours of the morning. I enjoyed having so much time with nothing to do after spending ten months of my life slaving away to try to get good grades so I can go to another school just to waste my life some more. But now, after a month straight of down time, I'm ready to get up and do something. If only there were something to do. There isn't, at least nothing I can think of. You can only go to the mall and the movies so many times. (Btw: I saw Space Chimps today. Hiiiiiilarious! But only because I found parallels between the nerds on there and some of my close friends.) I tried being a photographer, but the nature in my neighborhood gets repetitive- bugs, flowers, prettier flowers, more bugs, a little kid, a tree, more bugs- and people just don't like it when you use 48X optical zoom to photograph the insides of their houses or their children and dogs without ever leaving your room. I tried being a deejay, but my mom quickly shut down that idea after I nearly broke eardrums and windows with a high frequency tone that froze the computer. I tried getting all buff and fit with a hardcore workout routine but I decided I liked laying on my fuzzy rug and looking up at paper stars more than crunches. I tried writing a best seller and ended up with seven short stories, three really sucky poems, and two novels, none of which are finished. So with those and a few more attempts at non-boredom, I utterly and completely fail and am left feeling unproductive and jealous of all those people who seem to never have a dull moment. (How do they do it??!)

If I could have any superpower, I think I'd choose the ability to fly. If I could do that, I wouldn't have to suffer through boring driver's ed courses and I wouldn't destroy the environment by consuming large quantities of gasoline and emitting heat and gasses. It'd be faster and safer than driving as long as I avoided airplanes and tall buildings and the feeling of freedom could beat anything. None of the other superpowers seem that great. X-ray vision for example. What would I use that for, unless I wanted to work in a doctor's office? I have no need to see through walls or anything of that sort. Bulletproofness looks cool, but I doubt I'd be shot at by enough bullets to warrant needing that. Super strength...if I couldn't lift something I'd just have to call my best friend and he probably could. Super flexibility...woulda made cheerleading a whole heck of a lot easier but I think I'm sticking to basketball from now on. Nothing I can come up with is better than flying, so I'm hoping that I can find a vat of nuclear waste that only mutates people enough so that they can fly, or I find a wizard willing to get me a broomstick.

One last thing. Starbucks is closing 600 stores this month. Good for them. Somebody finally realized that having two on every corner wasn't very cost efficient.

♥ j.j.