Glee

  Yes many people think Glee is a joke.  But many people watch Glee.  Season One (which was before I started watching it) had an average of 9.18 million people watching per episode (exact number is 9,178,636.364).  The current season (season two) has an average of 12.69 million people watching per episode (exact number is 12,693,076.92).
  So far, the most widely viewed Glee episode is "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" which premiered on February 6th.  This episode premiered to 26.8 million people right after the Superbowl XLV.  "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" was the start of the second half of season two.
  Surprisingly (or not), only 11.58 million people watched Glee the next week ("Silly Love Songs").  This is less than half of the population the week before.  This leads me to believe one of two things... either 1. People set their DVR to record Glee in case the Superbowl went over its allotted time, or 2. People watched Glee to watch Glee and knew that the next week's episode wouldn't be good.
  Honestly, I like Glee.  I will talk about it with my friends, I will watch it every week, ect.  But the episode titled "Comeback" was not great.  I didn't enjoy it that much.  And this is partially due to the Justin Bieber aspect of it.
  It's not because I am a "hater" of Justin Bieber, I just do not like how it fit into everything else.  I also don't think that it was a good person to cover.  They could've covered much better people but in that particular episode, they chose not to.
  But that is another great point, nothing in Glee fits very much into other things.  In these short 1.5ish seasons, Glee has dropped countless plots and characters.  Just to name a few... Will and Emma's love which was completely dropped after she got married, Dijon Talton who played Matt Rutherford in season one, Will's x-wife,  Quinn's baby, Rachel's mother, and (very very unfortunately) Kurt.  Well, Kurt hasn't been dropped yet but we are seeing less and less of him.
  The sad thing about this is that the Glee's writers and directors can get away with dropping every slightly unappealing character or storyline.  They can do this as long as the viewers are happy and making them money.  This is unfair because I think ALL the Glee viewers want to know whether Will's ex got pregnant when he was sick in "The Substitute", or any other number of dropped items.
  I am not sure if Glee is getting increasingly better or worse.  Season one had the original six characters; Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Tina.  What I think season two has better in that aspect is that the main characters; Rachel, Finn, Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, Tina, Mike, Brittany, Quinn, Santana, Puck, and others have lives outside of Glee club.
  But what season one had better was that the storyline made sense.  Each episode was a continuation of the last one and the beginning of the next one.  Currently, our plot line was "yay-football-lets-have-the-team-sing-and-dance-with-us-to-create-unity", then it was "omg-im-going-to-set-up-a-kissing-booth-and-get-the-one-i-love", then it was "damn-i-need-my-girl-back-damn-he-stole-my-girl", and this week it is "ew-party-at-rachel's-bring-beer".  The kissing booth and the Justin Bieber ones kinda related to each other.
  But now we just sit and wait... Wait until Kurt and Blaine finally kiss...  Wait until Sam and Quinn get back together... Wait until the plot makes more sense...
  Though I do have to give the writers some credit.  They do deal with modern-day high school issues like relationships, sexuality, bullies, ect.  They do make it seem kind of "real" except that it is totally not because Lea Michele (Rachel) is currently 24,  Cory Monteith (Finn) is 28, and Amber Riley (Mercedes) is 25.  Most of the cast is 24 with Cory Monteith, Harry Shum Jr, and Mark Salling being the oldest people to supposedly play high schoolers at the age of 28, whereas Chris Colfer is the youngest Glee member at the age of 20 which is STILL older than a high schooler.

-Em
(Song pick of the day: "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers)

Stupid White Stuff

  Why?  Why do the gods of weather hate me? (or like the actua planets really).  I'm tired of this stupid white stuff we all call "snow".  Technically it is not snow.  It is really annoying ice.

  Right now weather.com says cloudy but that is only because the sky isn't falling on us.  Dramatic much?  But today it has precipitated at least 0.15 inches and it has snowed at least 1.4 inches.  Greeeeeeeeeaaaatttt right??  We have at least 1.5 FEET of snow on our deck (accumulated) because every week, it freaking snows.

  Yeah, everyone is like "OMG I LOVE SNOW!" but when we have it every week starting the day after Christmas, it starts to get a little old.  Scratch that, more like really annoyingly old.  And shoveling snow can hurt your back and possibly give you frostbite.  Fun, right?

  My mom had gotten an email a few days ago about living where we do.  Everyone thinks living here is so great but just wait until you move here!  Yeah the deer are cool, the Christmas's are usually white, and winter is an actual winter, but just move here.  See what we see.

  From my perspective I see ugly, dirty snow pushed up against the curb in two to three feet tall piles,  I see an ice covered driveway, I see a convertible in the garage, and I see so much freaking white that its boring. The only good thing about this winter is that it is finally getting my parents to get a move on into the new house down south.  But sadly I don't get to live there yet.  It is the "vacation house" and eventually the "retirement home".

  Grr SNOW STOP FALLING UNTIL THE NEXT ICE AGE!! WE ARE TIRED OF YOU AND WE ALL HATE YOU!!!

-Em

(Song pick of the day: "Firework" by Katy Perry)

Video Montages

  Ok, we get it.  We've been seeing pictures of you and your family on your vacation to Hawaii for almost half an hour now.  No we don't need to see it again to see the Pacific Ocean.  Yes, I've seen the Pacific Ocean with my own eyes before.
  Stop!  I mean this didn't happen to me, but close.  We were at my great aunt and my great uncle's 50th wedding anniversary today and they had video montages (3 of them but we only watched two).  The two montages ended up to be between half an hour and an hour.
  Honestly, I love my great aunt and my great uncle.  But the videos were just too much.  Like one was ok (about 20 minutes).  But the second one was a little excessive and unnecessary.  The reason that they had so many was that my great uncle's 80th birthday got snowed out and we were supposed to watch one then. And that would've been perfectly fine! (His 80th birthday was five years ago).
  I mean the pictures were cute and everything but we stopped every 5-8 pictures for one-liners and explanations or stories that went with them.  And all the explanations were cute and everything about their honeymoon or the day they met, but again it was somewhat excessive and unnecessary.
  By the end of the second one, my grandma was jokingly-but-not threatening to show them (not threatening them to their faces) all the pictures from our family history that in both parts ends up to be three or four hours.  Fun...

-Em
(Song pick of the day: "Only Girl (In the World)" by Rihanna)

Useless Overspending

  You know the whole saying that if you dont have the money, dont buy it?  Well, its true.  We all have those friends who have to have the new iPod touch even though they just got a new nano last month!  Do humans really not have enough self control?
  It's not right to spend the money you dont have.  Thats called debt, people.  And if you do borrow money from a friend or parent, you pay it back!  I mean, im not the one to talk or anything because it takes me several weeks to pay friends back, but I eventually do.  It just takes me time to remember to.
  So money is meant to spend as a reward.  Being in debt is nothing to reward yourself for.  You dont need to have that new $80 dress (whimper),  those $45 jeans are so not worth it, and you have a 54'' flat screen, you dont need to upgrade it to a 58''.  There are just some things that are overpriced and unnecessary.
  Being one of the few people unaffected by the recession, I see people being broke all the time.  The prices       of everything are going up every single day.  People don't need to buy those new shorts when they come out in the new spring collection in January!  How about wait until at least March when you might be able to wear them.  Most likely, you will have to wait until after spring break to wear them.  Hell, if you buy them now, they might not fit you when it is weather appropriate to wear them.
  Don't buy what you dont need (or at least dont need yet).  Save up and you might be able to buy a better quality one when the time is better.

-Em
(Song pick of the day: "Perfect" by Pink)

Midterms

  Even some teacher's dont agree.  What IS the point of midterms?  I quote one of my teachers, "You've taken a unit test on it, why do we have to quiz you again?"  Do we really have to sit in a classroom for an hour and a fifty-five minutes and wait for it to be over?

  The ones that always take the longest are usually the ones that you think will be easier (English, History, ect) but no, those are the ones that take almost the entire time.  I mean really?!  Is having students take an 130 question test twice a day for four days a really good idea?  I know im complaining and everything, but its true!

  And how long do we have to wait for our grades back?  I mean, teachers I give you credit and everything for making a really long test and grading over a hundred of them, but still.

  So now we sit and wait for our terrible grades to come back.  Fun...  And the while point is to make sure you retain information from like 5 months ago (which we dont) but after making sure we memorize everything AGAIN, we will forget it in about a month.

  So is it really worth stressing over to forgot it soon anyway?  Not really.  I've been freaking out these past two weeks making sure I have everything etched into my mind (which I still dont) and some tests end up to be a lot easier than planned.  So we freak out over nothing.  I finished my earth systems one in 30 minutes, algebra in an hour, and spanish in an hour and a half.  I mean, I didn't need the entire time, but i know some people do.

  So, midterms.  The point is...?

-Em

(Song pick of the day: "Grenade" by Bruno Mars)