So We're Wonder Twins Now

Yeah, we got our class rings on Monday of last week, and I've joked that me and Andrea are the Wonder Twins now. (Read: I say "Wonder Twin powers, activate!" whenever we have our rings touch.)

The point of me making this post was to say something else, but me, suffering from early-for-my-age short-term memory loss, have forgotten.

Celebrate, for the (Nice-ish) Witch Has Exploded!

It's Thanksgiving and I'm at my brother's apartment to eat. I finished a little while ago and stole Sean's computer from the clutches of my sister. It was a gran battle to be sure, but she exploded. So I win. Yay. (Andrea here, I DID NOT EXPLODE. PATRICK IS FULL OF POOP! okie dokie? so I win)

Anyway, today Andrea and I trekked to EPCOT, but we were only able to ride a couple of rides. We walked around the pavilions, and Andrea purchased a new necklace, and we got a magnet with the word GERMANY printed on it. I, for a change, got something, and it was a keychain with FRANCE on it. When I get some car keys, I have something cool to attack them to along with my house key.

On Sunday I once again helped with the eco club habitat thing, and Lauren almost impaled herself on a nail. Luckily for her, it landed in between her toes (if it had actually pierced her, she would have been screaming so, so much louder).

I really wanted to rant about something, but I've forgotten what it was. Oh, well.

Oh, and everone can stop freaking out. Andrea didn't really explode. So no one sue me about horrible maltreatment of my sibling. (Plus, it wouldn't have been my fault. If Andrea just randomly felt like performing some form of spontaneous combustion, it was by no action of mine.)

It's Too Early For Spring Cleaning

The media is being stupid. Lately, local news has been reporting how child predators can use popular teen websites like Myspace to find kids to try and have sex with. Well, duh. They can do that wiith a lot of websites. About five minutes, when I, being the amazing news-watcher I am, was watching the news (oh, the surprise), they were reporting how an area in northern Kentucky was warning parents about sites such as Myspace. If kids are going to be stupid and put a bunch of personal info about themselves on the Internet, then good. We need to clear the gene pool of stupidity.

But really, I blame the parents if they can't monitor their own child's activities with places like Myspace. Whatever.

I'd Be The Best Blue Ranger EVER

Seriously, a group of us are planning to dress up as the Power Rangers (the original generation because everyone knows they're most definitely the best), and I'm gonna be the blue one. We've- e.g. me- decided that Kristen C. is Red, Nik is Black, Breanne is Yellow, Kathleen is Pink, and Lauren is the super-cool sixth White Ranger. However, Kristen has bad leadership skills, but that was only because I was teasing her when we were pouring cement mix into a hole on Sunday.

Speaking of Sunday, I finally got to do something for Ecology Club. We're making an observation deck, an outdoor classroom, and a mini-bridge thing near the wetlands. The wetland area is basically a small slope with a bunch of cat-tails. There are hopes that the cat-tails will be gone eventually so we can see the animals and such better.

The highlight of the morning was when Kurt found a dead rabbit in one of the holes they dug last week. Lauren squealed a lot, but then TJ threw it in a few trees that was away from the holes, so that ended that.

Anyway, the reason I actually crawled back to this place. I'm watching Oprah right now, and she's talking with a bunch of teenagers (64, to be exact). They had those 64 students from Monroe High School in Michigan (I think) participate in Challenge Day. Challenge Day lets students to open up to each other and help stop bullying, whatever.

Yvonne whatever-her-last-name-is, one of the co-founders of Challenge Day. She said that the reasons for stress and such at school are, in addition to the regular causes (alcohol and drug abuse arejust symptoms, you know), people can bully others or something because of stress and crap. My reaction is what: Whaaaaaaaat?

School plays a major role in the stress thing. Because of NCLB, students have to take graduation tests, and even if you're the best student in the school, if you miss passing by just a point, you won't graduate with your class. With rising expectations from parents and colleges, students are selling themselves short trying to accomplish enough to meet these ridiculous demands. I'm happy that Loveland doesn't seem like this so far, but there are several schools where the creativity of learning and the exploration of finding out which career path a student would want to go down. Instead, schools are obsessed with test scores and making sure the government doesn't come and cut their funding.

But other than that, high schools rock.