Ah, April 1st. It’s kind of lost a lot of its appeal to me. The April Fool’s edition of the KTR came out, as well as CHS News Live (not that I can ever hear it, anyway), but they didn’t seem as funny as the ones I’ve heard about/read from previous years. Some websites have done a respectable job in putting out an April Fool’s joke. Google always comes up with a good one. I find it rather annoying the absolutely ridiculous ones, though. The UN shutting down the internet, or the EU banning Macs.

Thursday was the annual talent show at CHS. Again, funny - but could have been better. Obviously, I loved the interpretation on Tunak Tunak Tun, and I also enjoyed “A Whole New World” as sung by Jordan and Mark (in full costume, of course). I was a bit disappointed by the teacher video however. Not only could I not hear most of it (you would think that students would want to heat their teachers make fools of themselves on camera, not talk throughout the whole thing). Oh well.

Just when I thought that website design was the most time consuming and pointless process someone could go through, I discovered the art of being a transcriber (or transcriptionist, for those that like to make their titles as complicated and important sounding as possible). Some people do not have the opportunity to watch certain television shows, so they turn to the web for answers. If they can’t download episodes, the only option becomes transcripts. A transcript is of course simply a typed up version of everything that is said as well as the actions and surroundings. I began the process of transcribing certain shows several weeks ago, but it was only this weekend that I attempted a 45 minute show. The only part about this process that can get tedious is the sheer amount of time it takes. For a 45 minute show, it takes me 5-6 hours. Don’t ask me why someone would go through this, I can’t give you a straight answer. But I nevertheless enjoy the end result of the 34 page, 8172 word transcript that comes out of it all.

In closing, report cards (and grades, for that matter) are pointless, 7 year old laptops are cool, eye liner is evil, and I never want to type another word ever again.

#m

dear michael,

would you care to elaborate on the eyeliner hatred?

How can eyeliner not be despised by those who have to desire to become blind? Not only do I not trust everyone that is entrusted to apply this deadly drug-in-a-pencil (how do we know they aren’t purposefully getting some in our eyes in a desprate effort to get back at all those “stupid actors who can’t put eyeliner on themselves”), but it looks scary. I think most eyes are popped out too much already.

was this a theater-related experience, and if it was- did it have anything remotely to do with skylar attacking any guy she could see with black or brown eyeliner?