Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

I am constantly befuddled at the fact that everywhere I look online, I see people who have the amazing ability to read/listen to/participate in online drama that looks like it might be tongue-in-cheek but isn't 100% certain to be so, and not only not experience mental trauma because of it, but actually enjoy it, to the point of starting it just because it's "fun".

I'm not talking about typical trolls; I'm talking about stuff like this (a discussion thread on SROMG #1222), this (a discussion thread on LMOO #486), and especially this. There's the chance that all three of those are tongue-in-cheek, but if there's a chance that they're not, then there's a chance that those people will overanalyze anything I write in the same way. They're probably not aware of it, but the possibly joking controversy that they "enjoy" completely ruins my life whenever I read it. If the more recent ones continue like they have been, they could ruin some of my favorite webcomics, too.

And even worse, I'm the only person I know of who's affected by it in this way. I might as well call it "Matt1993's Syndrome", since I must be the only person on Earth who has it. Andy Weir of Casey & Andy (a webcomic I discovered because there's a few links to it in Irregular Webcomic!) is the only other person I know of who doesn't like political webcomics, but even he clearly doesn't have Matt1993's Syndrome, as he didn't have any problem with working political discussions in the annotations and even a few of the comics. Don't get me wrong, most of the comics cheer me up, but there's also one that's so much like the Forbidden Comment Threads that I'm not even going to try and find it just so I won't have to read that one again.

And since I'm the only one with Matt1993's Syndrome, no one's ever going to advocate for the rights of those with it... :(

I'm not sure how much sense this makes, especially given that I wrote most of it in only 5-15 minutes. I just felt that I had to rant about it. At least if it doesn't make sense, it proves another point about Matt1993's Syndrome: people (or person, anyway) with it are unable to even talk about controversy without saying something stupid.


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First of all, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to Enya and/or Schrödinger's Enya!!! Hope it was a good one!

In otherelated news, I'm back from my trip to Puerto Rico! Overall, the trip was great, but it was also very tiring, so I'm also glad I'm finally home :)

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Here is all the homework I had to do today:

- a chapter review for Economics
- some Physics problems
- yet another paper to write for Spanish
- citing another source for the Research Paper of the Apocalypse
- writing a note from said source

This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have ALL OF THESE ON THE SAME DAY. Ugh. I'm finally done, but now it's 9:31 PM and I'm so tired that I might as well go to bed even though it's not my bedtime yet. :(

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I think I did pretty well on both of my finals today.

I finished my English test, but sadly, only because I stayed in class for 20 extra minutes. :(

I felt SO awkward giving my speech, though. Y'see, normally I write the notecards for my speech in my shorthand (because I don't know the official shorthand, so I make up my own). However, I've recently added some new symbols to my shorthand - any word that, when translated to Spanish, sounds like an English letter is replaced with that letter with a tilde (~) over it (as well as an accent in the case of "what" to distinguish it from "that", since in Spanish, those are "qué" and "que", respectively). Since I hadn't been using these as long, it was harder to read them, so I had to look at my notecards most of the time. Though, since everyone in the class says I did really well, apparently I did...

Tomorrow is my Spanish exam. All I have to do for it is write at least 100 words about almost anything in English beforehand (which I have) and translate it to Spanish in class. Shouldn't be too hard :)

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I've typed up all of my notecards for the research paper, so now I need to write them on actual notecards. I also have to work on a review for a test over A Painted House, do this worksheet for Spanish (shouldn't be too hard), and read a few pages in my history textbook by Thursday. And if I get time, I have to work on HAS and my math assignment that's due after Spring Break.

Later today, that is. (it's after midnight in my time zone, so technically it's "later today" and not "tomorrow")

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Well, I think I did good on my English exam. Tomorrow is math and Spanish - that shouldn't be a problem at all. Then I'm FREE.

Well, except for HAS. Speaking of which, I'm gonna have to work on that essay today. Blah.

And now, the obvious way to make this post slightly less generic: QUIZ!!



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So my chemistry and Spanish exams today went smoothly.

Only one left for tomorrow: history. Then I'm FREE.

To save this post from being really short, here's a random quiz:



The ironic thing is that the slice for Pretty in Pink is in blue.

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http://www.mostfungames.com/swine-flu-hamdemic.htm

Ugh, even online game websites won't shut the cattle note up about the swine flu. :(

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WORST DAY EVER.

6:30 AM - 8:00 AM: My forgetfulness caught up with me, giving my mom a reason to nag for an hour before school.
10:35 AM - 11:25 AM: As if what my mom complained about in the car weren't enough, I forgot to bring my chemistry paper to school.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Probably didn't do well on the essay on my reading test.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Another hour of nagging.
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Way too much homework.
7:24 PM - Hurt knee.

Only two good things happened all day so far.
Number one: I treated myself to chocolate ice cream after finishing my homework.
Number two: One of the funniest things I've heard:

MY SPANISH TEACHER: Sillón.
KALEE (friend at school): Celine Dion!

Celine Dion was a chair! I mean, she was a singer chair! Er, maybe she was just a singer! Um, but she was still CELINE DION!!!


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