Since this is going to be a habit every day for as long as possible, I'm going to make this enjoyable. Don't expect perfect punctuation, perfect grammar, spelling, etc. This site is for me, but you're my welcome guest, and are free to venture inside of my thoughts.

Let's sum up the current events of my life. I'm a sophomore in Northern California, I have 10 fingers and 10 toes - I'm what one could call "normal", if there is such a thing. I'm a scholar. My school gives us seven periods a day to train ourselves as sheep of society, err, I mean, to educate us - even better, to train us as proficient workers. I'd assume I'm doing a good job, my average grade is an A, so who's to complain.

My goal in life is to achieve complete contentment and to share that contentment with as many people as possible.

Music is probably one of the more important presences in my life - Whether happy or sad, active or mellow (which I usually am), I like to listen to my "vibes". My favorite line from any song at the moment is, "We were different, just like all the other kids." Lyrics tell quite a bit about society, and I wrote an eighteen page essay on them, so if you want a good discussion, I'm your man.

I'm single, and I'd say I'm looking but I wouldn't want to jinx myself because I've got luck equivalent to the shit in my driveway outside.

In this journal I'm not going to be nice, and I'm certainly not going to portray myself as perfect, my goal here is to vent my contemporary thoughts on society - allow me to give you a taste.

This morning we had a substitute teacher in English - to my amazement, he TRIED to teach something. That's something I can really appreciate. Sure, we have different opinions - he's a college graduate major in a topic I probably don't care about, and I'm a teenager in the course of study. He tried giving us a lecture on Holden Caulfield, then we later digressed to Jack from Lord of the Flies, and then even further to Britney Spears. It was so pathetic I could have fallen asleep with one eye tied behind my back. The effort of course was there, and I value that effort, but please - Basically when it comes to analytical interpretations I dominate in Accelerated English - I doubt that I could be bested by many of my classmates, but that certainly doesn't say much. Try sitting back and listening to 35 students attempting to regurgitate a lecture you've already had before by another superior teacher, it almost hurts. You could mold most of these children's brain into one and all you'd amount to is how not to smudge eye shadow and the perfect way to apply lipstick. If you're actually interested though, what I helped to motivate people to thinking about was that the author uses the character's themselves as a symbol - the "mask" of a character an acquired characteristic explaining some detail of mankind in contemporary culture - reflective of the society from which the piece came. In the case of Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye), Salinger illustrates the depression of the character with his diction, words like "anyhow", "anyway", "kind of", "sort of", and more prove the character is uncertain in what he's saying, putting on the mask of denial from some sort of deep and dark secret or depression. In the case of Jack from LOTF, it's a mask that hides him from the constraints of his previous civilization - when he wears the mask he's free from guilt, shame, and immune to public opinion. I don't even want to talk about Britney Spears because I like to differentiate from popular culture, and honestly I dislike judging people.

I've been writing for awhile now, and I'm still working on some parts of this site, so I'm going to get to work.