All regular Facebook users must have noticed by now the “Facebook Platform” feature, where companies can develop there own applications for the millions of unsuspecting college and high school students that frequent the site. Sure, some of the applications are useful - but you occasionally find a text ad that’s helpful as well. Doesn’t mean I want them there. Facebook’s revenue was over $50 million last year… they aren’t being forced to expand their marketing. But they want to make more money, and in doing so, they’re turning the website into just another MySpace, riddled with advertising and slowly creeping into dangerous territory where millions of their users might leave them. Facebook is useful enough as it is. Marc Zuckerberg is rick enough as it is.

Leave it be.

Every year at CHS, there’s a Senior Skip Day, typically the last official day of school for Seniors (this year, it was today). At the end of this “Senior Reflection Day,” as it is known as in front of teachers and administrators, there’s a water fight held in the senior parking lot, where a primary goal is to drench underclassmen with as much water as possible. But not this year. The administration walked out to the parking lot before school let out and effectively shut down anyone with a water balloon - thus, the day that many seniors had been waiting for all year went unfulfilled.

Now, I’m not by an means a fan of the administrative team at CHS, but you have to put what they did in perspective. Just earlier this week, I was sitting in a circle with some friends during lunch outside in the courtyard. Out of nowhere, a full Gatorade bottle flies through the air and hits a boy sitting across from me in the head. Next thing you know, there’s a steady stream of blood dripping off his scalp. It’s incidents like those that sometimes force the administration to put stringent policies in place. So in regards to the water fight at least, it’s not the administration we should be mad at - it’s the brainless idiots who think that pelting projectiles into groups of unaware bystanders is funny that we should make us pissed off.

Either way, the Seniors got jipped, and it’s not fair to the majority of them. But then again, when has education been about treating people individually without prejudice based on the actions of others their age?

I recently caught a glimpse of a topic on a blogging forum about whether people “are themselves” when they blog. It’s an interesting topic to think about - even those of us who blog under our own name don’t necessarily blog “as ourselves.” For example, I consider a post like this to be the real me: I talk this way in person, I talk about this type of topic… I try to blog as though I’m having a regular conversation with the reader. But at the same time, this isn’t a soapbox from which I can be completely, utterly honest. There are a lot of topics I’d like to blog about, but can’t for the simple reason that I don’t want everyone to know every detail of my life (especially considering that half of my family reads this thing…). Honestly, I find this a rather disturbing form of self-censorship.

Other bloggers don’t even write under their own names - they create an alias under which they can talk about whatever they want. Some do this to avoid the repercussions of someone they know finding their blog, others do so to avoid the sheer embarrassment they’d encounter writing about certain things. But whenever a bloggers goes anonymous, they’re suddenly able to blog about anything they wish, and thereby writing some of the most interesting posts.

So here’s my question to you about anonymous vs. signatured bloggers: which group is more honest?

What a week. Rehearsals every day for this years’ production of Dessert Theatre from the time school’s out to 9PM. 12 hour days. Every day. And I’m not even thinking about the homework situation right now…

Honestly, I’ve been really worried all week about the show. Just last night I was practically going insane from the sheet amount of running back and forth I’d been doing all day, and the seemingly hopeless prospect that we’d actually be ready in time for opening night at 7PM tomorrow. But then today came - the actor’s pulled it together, the musicians got their parts down, the set was finally finished… It’s gonna be all right!

As music director, I’m not technically responsible for the absolute final quality of the show, but I’ve got a reputation to uphold here! But seriously, I’m really very proud of my musicians and singers, they’re going to sound great tomorrow night. Speaking of which, you want to come see the show, don’t you…

I promise it’ll be fun!

Some observations on the differences between straight and gay individuals on Facebook:

• Straight, conservative males tend to be listed as married to another male.
• Straight females tend to be “married” to other females.
• Gay males tend not to list what gender they are “Interested In,” and are often listed as married to a female.

Do Facebook users even know how to tell the truth?