The name makes sense. Finals are usually the final conclusion of your sanity. The final end to ones life. The final destination, pretty much like the movie. Finals are filled with blood, guts, pain, torture, and suffering. In the past two days, I have studied roughly 16 hours. Today alone, I studied a full 12 hours, with one break to get food, and one to pick a friend up. And the sick part about it is that I completed the studying for half of my spanish final, and about a quarter of my algebra 2 final.

I honestly believe that it’s wrong that schools put students through the pain they go through. And my school has it the worst, and i’m in the worst grade possible. Junior Year. During finals, my whole school turns into drug addicts. Somehow there is enough people with Adderall and other ADHD medications at my school to supply almost all 4500 students with a weeks supply of speed. From little freshman, to big seniors. Everyone is just taking tons of pills, and the school administration is well aware of it.

Let me explain to you what goes on at my school. We finish all of our new material for the semester, and then go on winter break for 2 weeks. First off, what exactly does the school think students are doing over winter break? Going over school work daily? No. Teenagers will get drunk, stoned, trip, and snort random stuff at any chance they can get. I can safely say I didn’t go too crazy over winter break, and I still completely forgot everything I was doing previously to winter break. When we get back after winter break, we have 1 week to review, and receive our study sheets. And then the following week is the dreaded finals. If I had finals right before winter break, I would probably have to do about a quarter of the studying I have done SO FAR. Oh, and on top of that I have to read a book for my Junior Theme. I am on page 75, and there is a little more than 400 pages. The reading is due the first thing after finals.

Where am I at right now? Sitting in bed at 2:20 AM on Monday, patiently awaiting the painful feeling of looking at your alarm clock when it says 6:30 AM, and is making a very sharp, painful noise. Today I woke up at 10:30 AM, got ready for the day, and was in the library wrist deep in notes, text books, and binders. I had such bad hand cramps I thought I wouldn’t be able to continue. I ended up studying from 1:30 AM, and just recently ended my studying about 10 minutes ago. It’s 2:24 AM, and I want to shoot myself, metaphorically speaking of course.

This long, rant-styled blog is dedicated to all high school & college students currently in a world of pain because of finals. Good luck to all, and to all a good night. Good night.

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This question has been on my mind all day, and I feel like I just need to blog about it. I never really have used my blog to write about things like this. The reason for this is because I was on my radio show today, and my friend and I ran into a few troubles regarding swears. Well, the first thing that happened was a few kids thought they were funny and kept calling our show acting as people we knew, and convincing us to put them on air, and swearing repeatedly.

But that’s beside the issue. What I really wanted to talk about was what defines a swear? Is it the history of the words? The context it is used in? Or the way it was expressed? It doesn’t make sense to me. The FCC doesn’t allow a certain list of words on the radio, but what makes a word acceptable, and inappropriate? Where is the line drawn? For example, the word ass. Ass may be viewed as a swear, but it literally is just a donkey.

I was playing the song Empire State of Mind on the show, and all of the sudden, the N bomb popped up. I agree that the word isn’t exactly okay, but what exactly makes it a swear? I am currently reading Frederick Dougless, and I have been hearing the word a lot recently. I agree that it is a terrible word, with terrible history, but what makes it unacceptable? I am Jewish, and I almost feel that the word Jew is a bit edgy. I just don’t understand sometimes how words can be seen as not okay to say.

I remember, I was outside Grant Park over the summer entering Lollapalooza for the second day. And right outside the entrance, there were two people with big signs, and a megaphone, and they were saying we were all going to hell, and god hates our music. This was mostly because of the fact that Tool was headlining that day, but still, that was okay? They were telling my that if I did not turn to Jesus, I was going to burn in hell. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

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Edit: I just got my computer fixed. It was amazing. I had a few hundred viruses, but that is really good for someone. People usually have thousands. My computer is clean now. It’s like off drugs or something. Anyway, say hello to updates again. I can finally search the web. Actually, I am not going to though, because I want to keep it clean.

Sorry. I was just recently very cleverly tricked into downloading Internet Antivirus Pro. Sounds like a useful program, but it’s quite the opposite. It acts as a security center, but just leaves tons of fake annoying messages on your computer saying you have loads of viruses. I went to a forum, and the page was secretly switched to a page advertising the program. It said my computer has a virus, so I must download this certain program to be allowed to enter the website. This was an important web forum, (the one for my new logo job), so I was like, whatever. Let me note that this was also at 3:00 AM, so I wasn’t thinking.

Anyway, now my computer is fucked up, and is pissing me off. I am getting a computer guy in tomorrow to get it off of my computer. I can’t even run photoshop without me getting 100 messages saying, “THIS PROGRAM IS CORRUPTED!” Sometimes it automatically restarts my computer. I should stop saying bad things about the program, because it might read this, and piss me off even more. Just kidding, but seriously.

So that’s all. That has been the delay. I didn’t totally leave my website like last time. This is the first time I have been able to get on the internet without anything happening. So yeah, everything will be fine for tomorrow. My bad, haha.

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