Boredom? Spontaneity? You Decide.

REEL BIG FISH

It's a band. Good band. Listen to them if you haven't before.

I'm sitting here with two notebooks on either side of the computer, a textbook to my right, and an empty Capri Sun thing to my left. Behind me is a window to the sunny, 70-degree spring weather that I'm missing out on. I try to ignore that part.

Today was an easy day, but it's seemed pretty long for some reason. I got up at around 10, drove to the mall to get some shorts, went to Chicken Out for lunch, then went to baseball practice. Still, it seems like it's really late. At least later than 4:52. I'm hoping to go outside at least once before it gets too dark and then get to bed relatively early tonight.

Hmm... Usually I attach a picture that relates to the posts to the end of these things; however, this was a completely random post, with absolutely no central theme. Therefore, I'll include this:

Cops and Robbers!

Just got in from playing cops and robbers with the neighborhood kids. If you've played it, you know how great it can be. If you haven't, you have been robbed (no pun intended) of a childhood, my friend. We've played it here in Terra Maria since I moved here in 2001 (the "originals" are in college now), and it's been more or less of a tradition every year. The bases have moved from porch to porch as people grow up and leave, but the game has yet to change: Robbers start at the porch of a house on the west side of the cul-de-sac, go out across the street, cops give them 30 seconds and then go out and chase them. Robbers try to get back to the porch without getting tagged; if they get half of their team in safely, they go back out. If not, the teams are reversed and the new robbers head out into the woods. The routes have been used and reused hundreds of times each, but the excitement of the game never goes away, and I think that's what makes it so great.

Ew. Tomorrow's Sunday. That means that the next day is Monday. You know what's no fun about Mondays? School. Oh well. We get out the 27th of June, I believe. It's not too much longer.

Welcome to (Virtual) Paradise

Today's May 14th. In twenty-five days, Green Day Rock Band comes out. It would be an understatement to say that I can't freaking wait. Problem is, it's only going to be released game-only; that is to say, it won't come with all the instruments as past games have. I'll either try to find a cheap set on eBay, or find a friend who'll be willing to sell me theirs cheap.

So my baseball game got rained out today. It was against the undefeated first-place team in the league, and we were all excited. Beautiful spring day at the start, but then it just started to pour. We were tied, 2-2, at the start of the third inning. I hope we make it up soon. It's sure to be a great game.

I went to Soft Stuff today with some of my best friends from middle school. Since they go to a different school now, we try to get together as much as possible just to stay up-to-date. Half the time, we don't get around to it, but our failures at least let us stay in touch. And when we do get together, it's great.

Random Fact: It's illegal for a monster to enter the corporate limits of Urbana, Illinois.

Woah, It's the 13th Already?

Wow. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been like crazy busy lately. But not to worry. I am still alive and well, even if your blog-post-reliant souls are not.

Well, what's going on in the wondrous life of Ted at the moment? I have an A in math (I know, right?), the Orioles are starting to at least win a few games, I have my permit, and I'm sixteen years old. Seems like a century since I posted last now, doesn't it? Or, at least, ten days. I have a lot of songs by Fun. stuck in my head at the moment, so I'm in more or less of an upbeat mood. And that's always good.

Music I currently like:
Fun.
Allison Weiss
Green Day
Driver F (Thanks Richard)
The Fratellis
Taylor Swift (Don't you dare judge)
State Radio

Music I don't currently like:
Stuff that's overplayed on the radio

DICKE LEUTE AUF ROLLERS

For those of you who don't know German, that means "fat people on scooters." When did I learn this? Spanish class.

In other news, I'm wearing socks.

Droid Does.

Hello people with eyes, and happy May third. It is currently pouring rain outside as I am getting ready for school, but that's okay. Why? Because my birthday is tomorrow AND I got a new phone yesterday. A Droid Eris. It's super nice. I'ce been playing around with it since I got it; in fact, I'm posting this from my phone. Let's hope it works :)

Kiss My Math

It's a perfectly nice day outside today; sunny, clear, and warm. I, however, am inside studying for math. Why? Because I have a big math test tomorrow. Chapter Six. Vectors and junk. They're pretty much rays with an identity crisis. My teacher even said, "They're like rays, only not." Real clear. Or einfach, as they say in Deutschland. One of the few German words I know. Anyways, I'm working on section 3 of 6 right now. I'm waiting for some friends to come over to work on this stuff, because as of now, saying that we have a vague understanding of it would be very generous.

Oh look, the sun just got brighter. Thanks, Mother Nature. I'm free yesterday, but you make it pour.

Spring Broken

Today is Sunday. April eleventh. Two-thousand ten. Which can only mean one thing: the last day of spring break. A day of mourning from kids all over the county. A day where "Crap! I have math homework?!?!?" can be heard from Centennial to Oakland Mills. A day when procrastination is more popular than Nickleback. Wait... bad analogy. It's more popular than the Killers. Much better. Bottom line is, today is a bad day for students all over.

On a brighter note, it's 66° out, sunny, and just beautiful. Great motivation to get that homework done early, right?

...not really. Hopefully I'll be able to get outside at least once today before it gets dark, though. After spending a week in southern Florida where it was 80° almost every day, I started to miss this Maryland spring weather.

While I was in Florida, though, I went to Tampa for two days. We saw that the Orioles were playing the Rays for their opening series, so we went to Tropicana Field to see Thursday night's game (the only game Baltimore has won this year). Tampa and St. Petersburg are some of the strangest places I've been to in a while. In my hotel, they were playing "Here Comes Santa Clause." In April. In Florida. On the way to St. Pete for the baseball game, we stopped at a gas station. Inside, they sold tasers. Okay, so they weren't the huge Taser-brand military-use machines, but they were personal electrocution defense weapons, and that's close enough for me. When we got to the stadium, I was excited because I had never been to an indoor baseball stadium before. We got our tickets, walked in, and all of a sudden, I was thrown back to when I was 6 years old. The entire place looked like a glorified Chuck E. Cheese. I understand they might be trying to be kid-friendly, but when you have flashing lights, game booths, and comic-book drawings of the players as superheroes every ten feet, it gets to be a little much. To add to the matter, Chick-fil-A was giving out cowbells as a promotion that night. There were 16,000 people in a dome raising Hell with Columbia blue cowbells. "More Cowbell!!!" the scoreboard constantly read, taking the quote from the famous SNL skit with Christopher Walken. Please, no more cowbell.