Lazy Friday

"I'm home!" I shout to my empty house, shutting the front door behind me.  I drop my backpack on the floor and make a beeline for the refrigerator.  Pausing for just a moment to bask in it's calming electric glow, I let out a heavy sigh of relief.  Another week down, just about eighteen more to go.   Grabbing a vitamin water, some cheese, a butterscotch pudding and a hand-full of candy beans, I head to my room, turning on my ipod as I walk inside.  Singing along to REM's Loosing My Religion, flopping onto my bed and flipping open my previously spotless white laptop, my mind begins to search for inspiration.  What to write about today?  

I'm going to be blatantly honest... I've been sitting here for a good ten minutes trying to figure out what to write about.  How come I'm always inspired while doing my history homework, but when I sit down on a Friday afternoon with nothing to do my mind goes blank?  

Thats me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, loosing my religion...

Suddenly, I hear a chugging noise from the corner of my room. After a minute, I realize it's the filter in my fish tank.  Somehow it got clogged again.  I don't even have a fish in there anymore because Finn died this summer, but I bought a plant a while back and it came with some resident snails.  Since the snails are still alive (I think... I dont see them much but you never know), I can't just unplug the tank or they'd probably die.  With a heavy sigh, I get up and open the top.  Sure enough, the filter is covered in algae, or whatever that green stuff is.  I have two options.  Either change the filter or turn the music up louder.  Not surprisingly, I pick the latter.  

Alright... here's an idea.  These are six things that you probably didn't know about me:

6) My favorite comic strip in the whole wide world is Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson (who I have met before.)

5) Every day when I get home from school and on weekends I answer the SAT question of the day.  I've been doing this for about a month, and I've gotten it wrong a total of four times.  Three of those times it was a math question.

4) My current favorite author is Trueman Capote.

3) I can play the Jeopardy theme song on my cello.

2) I think that someone should invent a lava lamp that plays music depending on what kind of vibes it detects.  It could be called the Lala Lamp.  I would buy one for every room in my house.

1) I play guitar hero on expert.

I reach my hand beside me for more candy beans, but all I grab is empty air.  Alas!  Judging by the fact that this post really wouldn't benefit by increasing in length, and the grumbling in my stomach that makes it sound like my digestive system is saying 'Gutzon Borglum' (the carver of Mt. Rushmore), I figure it's best to end this post before it gets any more ramblesome.  

What? Don't look at me like that.  Next time your stomach growls, try giving it a listen.  

Happy Lazy Friday!