DVDs and word counts

And today, in breaking news:

• I got The Last Airbender on DVD! YAAAAAY. The outtakes are completely hilarious. It has a ton of clips of people A) dancing, B) running into things, and C) dancing some more.
• I'm only 11,445 words behind on my NaNo. Ack. o_O
• But that means I'm at 28,545 words and it's only 6:13! WOO!
• If I don't win NaNo, I will fail at life.

No screencap because I'm busy juggling Write or Die (best anti-procrastination site ever, btw) and Skyping my friend. SO! Faretheewell, fellow bloggers.

Quotes of the week

Just wasting time thought you very few readers might enjoy a couple random things I've heard around in the past week or so. :)

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"Good news! I'm getting better at drawing! Bad news! All over my homework."

"If I do this, will it make you feel better, or will it just make it awkward because you're not wearing any pants?"

"Come on! I think you're short enough to ride the tire swing! And if they ask, you're fourteen, okay?"

"Here, hold this. It'll be your man-purse."
"No! It's a SATCHEL!"

"On a scale of one to ten, how awkward would it be if I went over and sat on him right now?"
"THREE POINT ONE FOUR ONE FIVE NINE! Nah, just kidding. More like nine point two zero zero seven eight."

"I went out to go play on the Wii and I was going to play Disney Princess Enchanted Journey, but I ended up playing [Super Smash Brothers] Brawl instead."

"Nathan! I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT!"

"So Robert and Silver are in the kitchen and there's only one cookie left... what happens? DEATH."

"When I grow up, I will have a pet hamster and I will name him Garbanzo so I can call him Garbo for short. Garbo Garbo."

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I just realized that like 60 percent of those are from my Disneyland trip on Friday with two of my friends. I'm pretty sure that was the most interesting time I'll ever have there... unless, of course, Paige comes along and makes it even MORE interesting. Meh heh heh.

VICTORY IS MINE (partially)

YES! YES! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESSSSSSS!!!!

THE HALFWAY MARKER IS MINE! MMMMMIIIIIIIIIINNNNNEEEEEEE!!

If this is spazzy, I don't even want to see what happens if I actually win.

WORD COUNT

OH YEAHHHHHHHH

Stereotypical.

I will never stereotype football players ever again.

Earlier today I helped in the Writing Center after school let out for the day. The Writing Center (which I will not abbreviate to W.C., thankyouverymuch) is this place run by honors English students where people can take their essays and get them revised by one of us.

It was almost time to close it up. A few people were finishing up their revisions and my English teacher was sitting on a desk, talking to a student about his Macbeth essay. A couple other guys had the same teacher/essay prompt, so they all started discussing it (in an epically English-nerdy and awesome way, I may add). Apparently, one of the essay prompts was broad and confusing. My teacher said that the question was basically "Is Macbeth controlled by the witches' fate, or is he responsible for his own actions?" They could argue that it was 1) just the witches' fate, 2) just Macbeth, or 3) a bit of both.

The first guy, who was reading off his essay rubric, said he thought it was a little of both. The second guy, a slightly dorky student who was getting his essay revised by my teacher, asked the third guy what he thought. The third guy was sitting up on the teacher's stool. He was... okay, I don't want to sound racist or judgmental, but he looked like a big African-American football player jock-type.

"I said it was a little of both, too. Actually, I thought that the witches instigated the motivation in him, [then Macbeth was responsible after that]."

Yep, that was his answer. Perfectly casual, completely serious.

Congratulations, dude. You just beat the system without even realizing it.