Common App Update!

Everything in my mind has been shaped by Greta Gerwig's hands.

I don't have much to say other than that summer break has been pretty underwhelming, or it would be 'whelming' if I could be productive so far. It's been 24 hours of playing the Sims 4, non-stop (please don't show my mom this). 

Here's a random piece of me (not a limb, just a fun fact): I live on the New York Times Website. It started off as a one-off thing in sophomore year when I had decided that being present in class didn't really matter (this action will have consequences) and started to check out the fun little crosswords. My dad really loves crosswords. He would always ask me the easier questions that made me feel especially smart, which I didn't realize until he would ask me something like who the "Footloose hero" was. I'm only nine! 

As lame as this may sound, I think playing the games made me turn out to like things like journalism. One day I stopped looking at the little crosswords and actually fell into the rabbit hole of people writing about events- interesting, important events. Just a little fun fact. Go play Digits on the NYT website, it's like second-grade math all over again.

Sometimes I worry or freak out about my problems for a while, and then I stop and remember how privileged I am compared to other people in the world. Like,  here I am worrying about something unimportant like Taylor Swift tickets or the timing of my summer vacation while people are struggling with major health and environmental problems. It creates this huge pit of guilt that grows every time I catch myself doing something like this. Talk about embarrassing.

At least the news has been interesting. With the whole Ocean Gate thing, like, it feels surreal. It feels like a Black Mirror Episode (btw, did you know that Michael Cera appeared in Joan is Awful? I refuse to watch that episode because they stole the premise off of a Please Don't Destroy sketch but that is crazy!) like it's a direct example of how exploitation or something similar to it can result in karma. I also think it's further proof that ghosts are real.

I bet the Blink 182 stepson must be feeling realllllly bad right now. But I also think that he sort of won the IDGAF war, and I hate to say it but if I was in his situation, I would also go to the Blink 182 concert. Like, it said no refunds allowed on the website?? And as much as I find this whole 'paying 25k to get into a deathtrap' thing sort of hilarious, Twitter and Tik Tok is just, vile? Sure I did laugh, a lot, but imagine being in the family's situation right now. I feel like there needs to be more sympathy behind this whole thing. (Wow, hot take alert- the internet can sometimes be bad!)

This whole thing reminds me of how in almost every alien sort of media, the aliens always say something along the lines of: "We came to Earth to observe you, because you humans are SOOO different. You guys have such great hearts!" or some bullshit like that. Like sure, I'll believe it when I see it.

My mom and I like having weird, in-depth conversations about random niche topics. One of those topics that have come up more than once has been "Do aliens look like how we portray them in media?", which would be really cool to find out. Where did we get the image of an alien having huge bug eyes and gray skin? Because I feel like that's really weird and random. They could look exactly like us like half of the current population could be from another planet right now. We could be the most technologically advanced beings, we could also be the least. I'm not sure why I write about these thoughts when they aren't exactly original. I'm trying to write another blog for school but if it turns out anything like this one, no college is going to accept me. 

My favorite blog just updated their whole website, so I gotta go read some actual interesting posts instead of writing whatever the hell this is. TTYL, XOXO!