inspiring song

"Oh these times are hard and they're making us crazy. Don't give up on my baby." That's a line from a little song that'd I'd like for you to hear!

We all know that the economy has been better. This is pretty old news for us right now. But this song just reminds me of how horribly bad things were. It's not that they're not bad now, it's just that there was a time when it was worse; a time when people were saying "I've got a new job now in the unemployment line." I honestly don't really get what the song is saying besides the economic problem, but it feels like a hopeful song. Like if you were to play this song to someone who had recently lost their job, this song might give them hope. "Smiling but we're close to tears, even after all these years, we've just now got the feeling that we're meeting... For the first time." Now doesn't that just stuff you with hope? Well it stuffs me for hope. I'm not saying that listening to this song will get you a job, but it'll make you hopeful that one will come along!

Though, to continue what I was saying in my last paragraph, "hope" is not really a good thing sometimes. It gives a little bit of a false sense of security. It's something that you hold onto when there's really not much left. Saying, "I hope it doesn't rain today," isn't what I mean. I don't know. I feel like I'm going to far into a word. It's just a word right? They're just some letters that are put together. Like when you put the letters s-h-i-t together, you get "this." But then you use words to makes sentences like, "This is a good song," and that's how we as people communicate! Where would we be without words? Would we be stuck with primal hand motions? Would we hold our private parts and squeal to express our needs to use the bathroom? I know that sign language comes along, but it just seems hard to express things without words! Whoever came up with words is a magical being.

Well that paragraph just went all over the place! And unfortunately, I was reminded that there are only five more days of sweet, sweet bliss before I have to return to school. Yes, the italics was necessary. That is a word that I am never able to spell: necessary. Again with the words and the spelling of such words is just unfathomable. See that word! "Unfathomable" is just so much easier to spell than "necessary." Well this shall be my concluding paragraph and with that I say good bye, to you good sir or ma'am.

Oh geezus! I almost forgot! Here's a link to the song "For the First Time" by The Script. Good song. Listen. They have other good songs, too! They're the band that sings "Breakeven," one of their more popular songs.

happy holidays!

Well, it's been quite a while, hasn't it?

So it's finally Winter Break and for the first couple of days, it feel glorious but then, as the days go on, there are less and less things that are available for you to do. I mean I could blog every second of every day or watch sappy movies like The Notebook so that I could waste literally every tissue I have in this house. I could spend quality time with my dad who has so graciously taken two weeks off to spend his vacation time with me. I could read all of the books I said I'd read but hopelessly did not or I could read my textbook and study for the test that we're going to have once we get back to school. But I don't particularly want to do any of these things. I actually don't want to do anything which consequently makes me want to do something. It's sad because once I find something to do, I find it dreadful and boring so I don't want to do it and then the cycle begins.

But it was Christmas this past week and I got something fantastic! Have you ever heard of a Canon EOS 60D? Well I got one! See I'm not a professional photographer or anything even close, but I love photography and my dad does too so he got me one and I've been taking pictures of crap in my house ever since. Of course, it's not literally crap, but useless junk, but that is much to difficult to say all of the time and I'm talking like how I was talking in the last paragraph.

This break has been pretty rainy. My dad became the weatherman on Monday last week talking about the rain and the cold front and all of that stuff that I kind of pretended to listen to. But the good thing about rainy weather is that it's perfect movie watching weather! So recently I've seen "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" starring Cary Elwes. And it's funny because I recognized him from Psych when he played Despereaux, the art thief and I recognized him from Ella Enchanted when he played Edgar, that king dude. And now I'm convinced that I have to figure out why he talks the way he does in all the movies and TV shows that I've seen him in (and no, I didn't see Saw) so I've rented "The Princess Bride" seeing that it's like some sort of classic. But I am wondering why he speaks so theatrically. I mean, I know he's an actor, but not a whole lot of actors talk like that, you know?

I really have no idea what to talk about. This blog is really just a random collection of my thoughts for today. But I guess that's what all of our blogs are. I don't think any of us go all day thinking, "Wow, I wonder what I should blog about today!" Anyway, it feels nice to blog again. I really haven't done it in a long time.

when opportunity cost = procrstination... you know you're in trouble: a mini intro into econ. (according to my brother and his teacher) part two

this is totally funny and i just had to point out. 

in the less than 10 minutes it took me to type that last post up, i typed up 464 words.  <sigh>  if only essay writing could be as easy as writing down random thoughts.  not that i'm complaining an all, i love writing essays, but, it's been a stressful week and weekend, and i need sleep, but, i'm not a slacker.  i will finish my work. 

when opportunity cost = procrstination... you know you're in trouble: a mini intro into econ. (according to my brother and his teacher)

hi world wide web.  i'm back.  gwen the procastinator is back.  and this time, when i should be finishing up my fifth essay for world history class, i'm here, blogging. 

on friday, my brother, who's a senior, is taking an econ. class this trimester and was telling me about opportunity cost and how there was no such this as free.  (this all happened because my dad had a coupon for jack in the box where if you buy the burger you get a small fries and drink for FREE and how i was rambling on about how the world is conspiring against us and all... i've had a stressful weekend and when friday came around, well, it felt like christmas day.)  anyways!  opportunity cost.  at first i didn't remember what it was, though i learned about it in third grade when we had our mini society (we had to partner up with someone and create an item which we could sell to our teachers, parents, and peers on a big market day)  i knew i learned about it, but, it just didn't come to my mind.  anyways!  i finally gave in and asked.  opportunity cost is the value of the second best thing you could have chosen.  if that didn't make sense, think about this:  we all want something, but we can't have everything we want not even with all of the money in the world, because we only have 24 hours in a day, and time's irrelevent (i.e. "time flies when you're having fun"  but moves slower than a snail in the slow lane on the freeway) anways, whenever we do something, we give up what else we could do instead.  take for example now.  i'm blogging.  however, instead of blogging right now, i should really be doing my essay due tomorrow.  though i know i'm making the wrong decision (because i'm just going to have to stay up later therefore allowing me to sleep less) i needed a break from it all.  cost and worth are two very different things (quoted from "confessions of a shopaholic")  but it's true.  the cost of me blogging now is sleeping less, but, the worth of me blogging now is keeping me from going insane.  cost and worth.

but, back to opportunity cost =ing procrastination.  i have to type up about 300 more words for my essay on how women played a role in the feudal structure of japan.  (i've already finished to one about how geography plays a role in establishing a feudal society, can feudalism cross-cultures, is feudalism a medium of exchange, and how does a feudal society influence the establishment of an empire)  hopefully i finish by 1:30am, which is the normal time i (sadly) go to sleep these days.  wish me luck.