Wish #4

"Four wishes!?" you say in an incredulous and skeptical tone.  "Hey dummy, it's three wishes, not four.  Don't you read fairy tales?"

Oh, you silly closed minded human being.  Of course I read fairy tales.  If I didn't then I wouldn't have known that three wishes is a really bad idea, and thusly wouldn't have increased the number to four.

Wish #1 is always a 'test wish'.  Once the genie pops out of the lamp or wherever genies like to go around popping out of these days, the subject is in shock, and uses this wish to see if the genie is actually making a serious offer, or if he's just being messed with.  So he'll wish for something silly, like "I wish that I had a million dollars!", "I wish that big zit on my nose would disappear" or even "I wish my feet no longer smelt of onions!"  (Hey, you never know.  Sometimes you just have one of those days.)

Then it's time for Wish #2, where the wisher realizes that he can basically have anything in the world he wants.  Just one wish and...
POOF!

His life is perfect.  Everything is going just swimmingly, there are rainbows and sunshine and a few musical numbers involving animated disney animals and singing princesses...

...when suddenly we come upon THE CLIMAX, in which all of the rainbows are replaced my rain clouds, and as a result of Wish #2, everything goes horribly wrong.

Therefore, the wisher is forced to use Wish #3 to fix it.  How convenient!  An important lesson has been learned by all, be careful what you wish for!

And that, right there, is why you need Wish #4.  So after you learn your lesson, you can reward yourself for all the hard work you did, and actually get something out of the situation. ;)

Oh yeah... blogging

Why, hello there.  How are you? How's the family? Good? I've missed you for the past 37 odd days.  I doubt you missed me and my incessant ramblings about cheeseburgers, movies and jellybeans, but you never know.  In fact, when I logged into my account just know I had to brush a few cobwebs and spiders away.

So! We've got some catching up to do.  First of all, I've had a sudden onset of an 80s phase.  It started with me listening to this one radio station a little too often.  Combine that and Rock Band 3, and I now have a rotation of 80s songs to get me through the day.  Pretty great, right?

I've also taken a sudden liking to old fashioned t-shirts.  This inspired me to go looking through my mom's old cedar chest for even more, and I found a velour sweater which I now wear around the house.  I think it's starting to worry my parents.

That... is pretty much it.  In summary, I like old things now.

What else... what else... oh, that's right!

In English class, we just finished reading Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.  At first I wanted to take this novel, burn it, burry it's ashes in the ground and attack said ground with nuclear missiles,  but after a few chapters it started to grow on me.

We just had our final reading quiz for GE in English today, and here is what the last question on the test looked like:

50) How should this novel have ended?

Excitedly, I began to write my answer more fervently than Ben Franklin writing the US Constitution.  (Well, obviously, because Ben Franklin didn't write the Constitution...)

I'll tell you what my answer was, but I'm afraid it really won't make much sense unless you've read this book AND Lord of the Flies.  Oh well... it's motivation for you to read them!  You really should, they're both amazing novels.

All the characters board a boat and shipwreck on a mysterious island with no means of escape.  After an eight chapter power struggle between Pip and Pumblechook, they divide into two separate tribes.  Before too long, everyone except for Joe and Herbert has joined Pumblechook's tribe because they have more food and more fun.  Pumblechook's tribe decides to go on a manhunt for Pip, much to Pip's dismay.  Just in time, the Jack from the creepy waterside inn comes in his boat and offers everyone a lift back to civilization, for the price of their stockings.  Only Pip, Joe and Herbert accept, and everyone else remains on the island, damned to a life of savagery.  Tragically, contrary to Pip's great expectations, their boat is eaten by a sea monster.  The end.

Let's hope I get an A.

I think that's enough rambling for now, but I promise to actually start posting again.  My sabatical is henceforth terminated!