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.