This One Wasn't Actually As Frustrating As The Other Things I've Written About So Far, But I Still Called It My Frustration Of The Day. This Post Needs A Better Title. Any Ideas?

Frustration of the Day
Also Laugh of the Day
Funny how those work together... 

Here's what I just texted to my friend Kira:
"I just saw a Facebook post where a girl was expressing, I assume, how she would rather live in the moment and take risks than stay safe and sheltered and technically alive but not with a life. I suppose it's a nice sentiment, but I was a bit confused because of her first sentence. I'm pretty sure, judging by the coherent parts of the rest of her little Facebook speech, that she meant for it to say 'I would rather live than live forever', but what she wrote was 'I would rather live, then live forever'. There were also lots of other grammatical errors I won't get into at this time.
It's no wonder I'm so antisocial.
I kind of bring it upon myself by being like that, don't I?
I don't know why I'm making such a big deal of it, but it's probably because that's just what I do. I send six texts explaining how much I hate people's grammatical errors on Facebook when I know that, well, it's Facebook."
It really does bug me, and I really don't know why. Facebook is full of things like this, and I just happened to decide to pick on this one.
I didn't actually pick on her, by the way. I just calmly kept scrolling and decided to vent on my blog, which this girl will most likely never read.
I actually feel kind of mean now, but at the same time I don't, because this person had just as many opportunities as I did to learn how to speak and type English at least coherently, if not entirely correctly. Why didn't she use these opportunities?! Life would be so much easier if everyone would just use correct grammar.
Seriously.

In other news, I had a pretty great day today. I had bacon, Greek yogurt, and chocolate cake for breakfast this morning, I got all my homework done at school so it wasn't actually homework, and I had a nice time talking to various friends (and getting some of their phone numbers). My older brother Ian will be submitting his mission papers for the LDS church on Saturday, and I just found out my friend Penny's older sister is going on a mission in Mexico on the 16th of April. My piano lesson went well and I have time to practice clarinet and flute (and maybe violin and piano).

Dramatic Burritos

My friend Kelly brought up a good question recently- one that I've asked several times myself. Why do some parents find it necessary to give their children names that sound alike? As a part of a conversation on the subject, she said, and I quote, "I don't know why any parents torture themselves by naming their children alike. Ian and Neil, Adam and Alex, Brooke and Brielle, Michael, Matthew, and Mark, Kaylee and Kirsten; my mom's older brother's family even have all the kids' names with J's. Jessica, Jenny, Josh, Jeremiah, Jill, James, Jacob, and the dad is John. How do they manage not calling all of them each others' names? Why do they do this to themselves?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  My mom has enough trouble with just Brynn and Kelly for crying out loud!"  

Seriously, why? I understand that alliteration is cool and it's cool to have some sort of pattern or something, but doesn't it just get confusing? I'm really good with names and I still think it would be hard to keep track of all those similar names! 

On a slightly related topic, why do people dress their twins the same? I don't understand that mindset. "Our children look the same, so we must dress them the same." I suppose it's cute and all, but it wouldn't help you keep track of which child is which. All the twins I know get annoyed when called by the wrong name, so why make it even more annoying by buying them matching clothes? It just doesn't make sense to me. 

Well, that's about all. 

It's not, actually. I could rant for hours about little things that bug me. Some of you may have noticed. I'm not going to, though. I don't really know the point of a blog (I've probably said this before), but I'm pretty sure it's not for one to complain about every tiny thing one doesn't understand or is frustrated by, so I'm just going to pretend that's all. For the time being, at least. 

P.S. My math teacher said "timesing" instead of multiplying at least seven times today. 

P.P.S Because this post was based on something Kelly brought up, the title is dramatic burritos. Just so's you know. 

Brains

"An inside look at the brain of a logoleptic pluviophile" does not mean you will literally get to see my brain (unless of course I have a horrible accident and acquire an enormous fracture in my skull because of it). Just so you know. You will see some of the contents of my brain written as blog posts, but hopefully none of you will ever actually view my brain itself.
That is all.

Vacuum Amplexus

I'm not really sure what people have blogs for. The experience I have with blogs comes mostly from watching BBC's Sherlock, which I'm pretty sure doesn't contain what a normal blog would.
For the next few minutes I will tell you about my little brother Neil, because I have nothing else to write about. Even if I did have something else to write about, I would probably choose my younger brother as my topic because even though he annoys me to no end he is actually quite intelligent and clever and enjoyable to be around.
Neil and I have spent the last half hour or so complaining about all the parts of society we don't agree with, such as teachers calling on the slower readers only when excruciatingly long paragraphs are being read, teachers saying annoying things like "timesing" instead of multiplying, and other irksome things we encounter at school.

First off, teachers calling on the slower readers only when excruciatingly long paragraphs are being read. Seriously, why do they do this? If students have a hard time reading, teachers shouldn't make them feel even worse by making everyone else in the class suffer through the entire page being stuttered over by someone who can't read or just doesn't want to.
We also talked about our reading aloud and how if we read first, the other people in the class feel like they have to match our speed instead of our accuracy and they read so quickly and so quietly nobody can tell if they're even speaking a real language.
Calling on people who don't read aloud well to read something aloud and do it well is just a horrible thing for teachers to do, because everyone in the class just feels awkward. The people reading are just struggling to read out loud, and the people listening are struggling to stay awake because the people reading out loud are struggling to read out loud. Stop it, teachers. Just stop.
Neil and I are also very annoyed by words which are not words, such as "timesing". Three times three is nine, but you cannot times three and three to get nine. You have to multiply them. I have on countless occasions been driven farther and farther to insanity because a math teacher will tell his or her students to solve a problem by "timesing" one number by another.
In frustration, I asked, "Why do they do that?!"
Neil replied, "Well, I think they just do it so the 'little kids' will understand the concepts they're learning- and that drives me crazy. Just because I'm young doesn't mean I don't understand the words you do. They say 'timesing' instead of 'multiplying' for the same reason they tell us to take away a number instead of subtracting; they don't think we'll understand the longer words." (I'm paraphrasing, by the way. I don't remember his exact wording.)
He paused for a moment and said what he wished to say to a teacher, "Do you realize I do understand what the word 'subtract' means? I speak Latin and Greek! Do you realize-"
"It's possible I'm smarter than you?" I finished. We started laughing, but we were both actually serious. Don't dumb already simple words down for little kids because they may not understand it right now. It's annoying.
Well, this is, like many other things, getting tiresome. I'm still not even sure what the point of a blog is. I hope I'm doing it right. I'll just end by saying my little brother and I talked about many other things and ended with how often we use Latin and Greek every day. He names things in various games with Latin and we have a few inside jokes in Latin and Greek.

My new favorite phrase (at least for today) is vacuum amplexus, which means embrace of the void.