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Yeah, I am. Know why?
Because every year in school we spend an ENTIRE ******** UNIT in English studying the Holocaust. There's only so much to teach about it. It was horrible. Such things should never happen again (even through they have and nobody seems to care. Cambodia and Rwanda, anybody?). WE KNOW. Cut it out. Okay, so they wrote a lot of books about the Holocaust. Exactly what is the difference between all of them? Other than whether the author speaks the truth or not and whether they died or not. But seriously, they're all pretty much the same. So why do we study variations on a theme year after year after year after year?

Because they don't like the thought of studying anything else. Recent events are not usable. That's why. Or at least, that is the message I've gotten.

ADDENDUM:::
And to pile up the overkill, my English teacher is Jewish.

Okay, so yesterday I got my mail. Since I scored a 213 on my PSAT as a sophomore this year, I am getting recruiting mail from colleges on a daily basis. Along with the college mail (one from Ohio college and some more I can't remeber), I got a little letter and a pamphlet from National American Miss. This is the organization that runs the state beauty pageant. Apparently I have been chosen to recieve an application for the 2007 National American Miss Texas Pageants.
How on God's green earth they got my name and adress, I don't know. The address on my envelope was handwritten, too, and didn't just say "Miss Harvey". It actually said Josephine Harvey.
HOW THE ******** DID THEY FIND ME?????
It doesn't say in the letter or the pamphlet. It didn't say on their website about people being nominated or anything. I sent a question to the director asking about that. I detest unsolocited mail.
Not that I'm pageant material, anyway.
This is the only photo of me that you can actually see me in.

See? I look like a dude.

And for the height factor: (I'm second on the left, next to the guy in the witch hat i.e. his royal sexiness Burley whee )

See? I'm a ******** midget. Literally--I'm below Texas' height limit for midgets.

Wait a second... that school thing you get at the beginning of the year about releasing information... that's how they got the information. We checked yes on organizations. Mother underlined colleges and wrote 'only' but I don't think the anministration cares. We checked yes. The details do not matter. Gods in hell, I hate the school admin. The last time I talked to the receptionists, to ask them to deliver something, which is what my teacher had told me to do, they spoke to me like I was a retarded three-year-old and told me to go put it in the recipient's box myself. And the associate principal is an a*****e. I've never had to talk to my counselor but once, and she struck me as more of a schedule specialist than a counselor. If they're paid to do stuff with schedules, why in hell do they call them counselors? Our actual 'we help you if you have issues' counselors are a student organization, the Peacemakers. I think MAPPS is supposed to do that too, but I've never seen anyone go in or come out of there.

This school district considers cold weather a greater threat than a hurricane. When category five Hurricane Rita (it was category five when it looked like it was going to hit us) looked as if it was about to slam into our coast and drive up into Houston, they didn't end school until over HALF of the students had already evacuated. And then, as soon as the weather drops below 32 degrees and it rains a little, school is closed. Idiots.
I really can't elaborate any more on this, becuase it's so... so... blatantly STUPID.

I have this random urge to type, about what ich weiss nicht. So I shall. Let us see, let us pick an appropriate topic for today's rant. Okay, I've thought of one. No, two! Okay, so this shall be either about Superman or high school band. Humm...

I choose you, Pikachu! No, band. Okay, I'm in orchestra. We get NO ******** ATTENTION ********!!!! The band eats it all. Even the choir gets more attention than us. The band is big; we are small. We are only small because everyone wants to be in band becuase most people don't even realize the orchestra exists, despite our best efforts to the contrary. It's a vicious circle.
So why does it happen? I don't know. We don't play a lot of classical music; orchestra teachers are, as a general rule (the exception being Mr. Astwood, Mr. Asswood to his students), a whole lot more willing to tolerate cheekiness. And they tend to perpetrate it themselves, too.
Example: Jake left his phone behind after rehearsal. Mrs. Shackelford (refered to most often as Shack and Shack-attack) finds it, and decides to prank call every girl in his phonebook rofl
Another example: We were playing a piece which involved much plucking and we aren't doing too good. "Don't pluck up!" she yells. I think it has been decided that this shall end up as our t-shirt for this year, as opposed to the proposed one involving shopping carts and moldy cheescake. An explanation may be needed here. Our 'mascot' is a shopping cart, they found it in the parking lot one day, put a rock in it, and they keep it in the practise room. The cheescake... the found a horribly moldy cheesecake in the orchestra closet a few years ago with no reason for it to be there. The orchestra closet is, by the way, the old orchestra room. We got a new one last year; the old one is the size of one of the band hall closets, hence it's name. The new orchestra room is a bit bigger, but still small compared to the band hall, and they STILL insist on using our room and emptying their spit valves on our floor and leaving eveything screwed up and sometimes messing with our instruments. And yeah, like their excuse makes sense: "we don't have enough space!" The band hall is ******** HUGE!!!!!
You may say I'm being too hard on the band. I was 'in' the band for a year. The in was in quote marks becuase technically the colorguard is part of the band but in the spring it is a seperate entity with seperate performances etc.

okay, so not nuff said. i'm the tiny short one in the cloak. The guy on my left in the witches hat and i know you can't see them in the photo (it's off a phone) but he's got nails sticking up out of his shoulders, that's Burley. The guy on my right in the tiny shirt and the hat would be Gustav, odd and not matching the rest of the group as usual. To his right is Kenneth, and if you were wondering that shirt is an Immortal band shirt he made himself (the face paint is based on Immortal's corpse paint). To his right is DiCarlo, and there are 70 total nails in those giant cardboard shinpads. Oh, and that's a wig. NOBODY'S hair is that long.

All Hallows Eve. In case you don't know what that is, it is the Christian holiday the night before All Saints Day, a Christian Day of the Dead, if you will. The name was shortened to Halloween a long time ago, and now we've got all these people saying it is Pagan/Satanic/whatever. Perhaps they should learn some history?

Call me immature, but I still go trick or treating, even though I would get snide comments from the people who give out candy if they realized I'm a lot older than my height indicates (hooray for midgetness and masks!!). But I do the Unicef stuff as well as the candy, so I guess that makes it all right. I don't buy store costumes, either. I just buy the components and mix-and-match my own. Last year I was an elf warrior (if I tie a scarf round my forehead, it makes my ears stick out and they're naturally semi-pointy, so I look like an elf), replete with sword, cloak and arm-bracers cunningly crafted from bandannas (I had to settle for a tough-looking dragon-shirt instead of a cuirass). I don't go in for the cheesy run-of-the mill stuff. However, anything resembling a fantasy/sci-fi RPG character is good, as long as I can add my own touches. A little face paint there, a little gold foil here, and viola! I am now ready to go get candy and money for charity. Hoorah!!

At school the week before last, we had a dress up like nerds day. I totally forgot, so I didn't do anything for it, but one of the guys in my Deutsch Zwei class dressed up in a Star Trek Uniform, neatly anticipating last week's school spirit theme, your favourite superhero (although I'm not sure the crew of the Enterprise qualify as super-heroes). Unfortunately, I didn't find out about that one until the day of, or I would have done something. An opportunity like that is not one to miss. Like when on Saint Patricks Day, one guy dressed up like a leprechaun, hat, beard, green waistcoat, shing black knee-boots and all. Yeah, my school is cool like that. And they're making a Warhammer 40000 Club. Which intrigues me. My friends talk about it a lot, but i've never played it. I'll stick to Magic the Gathering until I can figure this one out (or until i get my paws on the Dungeons and Dragons starter sets they sell at Barnes and Nobles. They're down in the back by the comic books, and actually cost less than some of them. $25 for the Dark Phoeniz saga (X-Men kick a**!!!)? HELL NO. I can buy forty years worth of comics in CD form from Marvel for $40. That's a dollar per year of comics. Damn hell that is a good deal! Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000E28UT2/ref=dp_olp_2/103-3051590-6073449?ie=UTF8 yeah, it's Amazon, but I believe that's the standard retail price).

Man, it sucks how Toon Disney took the original X-Men cartoons (you know, the one that had the same storyline as the comic, so you didn't have to pay to get it, just convince your parents to get cable?) off the air. Now I have to look them up on Amazon and see how cheap I can get the vidoes (anywhere from $20 to $200 depending on the episodes--The Phoenix Saga is the most expensive, with Savage Land, Strange Heart/The Dark Phoenix Saga and the one with Sanctuary on it among the cheapest).