Currently Listening Era Vulgaris By Queens of the Stone Age Suture Up Your Future see related

So we won our region basketball game, so now we're going to state.  Pretty rockin'.  Lance made a comment in youth group last night about how state basketball was a way bigger deal when he was a kid, which I think is one positive thing about our generation.  Sports aren't as near as big a deal - you don't see any "No Athlete Left Behind" bills going through Congress.  My dad told me a lot of stories about how they could just go skip school to go shoot hoops or go run, or how his brother dropped out of school for a year, farmed, then went back to school his senior year to be better at basketball; both of these stories I found ridiculous.  Sports probably isn't going to have anything to do with your life after the age of 18; it almost definitely won't be a part of your life after 25, unless you're really super good. 

Back to the education thing, though - I'm actually quite glad we put a lot more emphasis on education.  With all our self-obsessed 50-60 year olds (see also: Baby Boomers) retiring early, we're going to need a lot more educated Americans in order to keep our economy from going bankrupt.  Sports won't accomplish that in the least.

On a final note, mom pointed out this article in the paper - in the "75 years ago" section - that talked about how Armour beat Platte in regions, and it left a sour taste in everyone's mouths because the Armour cheering section was the most obnoxious crowd ever.  It made me laugh to know that Armour's cockiness and annoyingness is due not only to idiot people, but also genetics.

Alright, so I'm just going to kind of continue what Speed was saying.  Kids are just too disrespectful these days.  I'll admit, I wasn't the best either (but better than average), until I got told off by a certain gentleman who happens to use Xanga regularly, and he straightened me out a bit.  Anyways, here's an example.  So me and Willmott get to the bus a little early to get in the back of the bus for the Brain Brawl.  The only ones ahead of us are Tiny Porter and Abby Slattery.  Of course, they proceed to go straight to the back.  After much coaxing, they refused to move.  After explaining the rules of seniority, they still refused to budge.  We explained that seniority worked so that little kids could be together away from seniors and juniors, because the upperclassmen find them annoying.  That still didin't work.  Finally, Eric picked them up and forcibly moved them ahead of us.  They still sat in the second to back seat, and annoyed us the entire way up.  I eventually resorted to smacking Porter on the top of the head whenever she opened her mouth.  Moral of the story, kids are annoying and should be beaten often so they'll respect the power we have over them.

Also, sucky music.  I think I've had just about enough of it.  Seriously, I'll probably kill someone the next time I hear Crank Dat.  It's just so bad.

Anyways, glad to get that off my chest.

Currently Listening Storm the Gates of Hell By Demon Hunter Sixteen see related

Man, school is really starting to get old.  Mostly just my white days, because I have English and then Spanish.  Spanish III is probably one of the worst choices I have ever made in my life.  The teacher, Mrs. Mushitz, hails from the now defunct Geddes High School.  She pulls off the amazing combination of being both ditzy and patronizing (today she explained what the genre "science fiction" involved after we learned the words for science fiction were in Spanish... yeah).  I'm about ready to shoot myself in the face whenever I step into the classroom, which is unfortunate because it was Mrs. Peterson's old classroom, and I liked her, however crabby she was.

In other news, we played and consequently kicked the crap out of Armour yesterday, or I guess they're "Armour-Tripp-Delmont" now or something.  My one goal for the game was to stuff the ball right in Craig Holbeck's face.  Craig is an extremely cocky post player who is also very short.  He makes up for the size issue by pump faking approximately 16 times every time he gets the ball.  It's kind of funny because sometimes you can just stand there watching him pump fake right in front of you.  So in like the last minute of the game I just went up and blocked him, it was awesome.  So that's one more thing to check off the life to-do list.

Also everyone else has had top ten lists for the past year (or maybe just Speed) so I'll try a rating thing for the past year.

Top Three Erickson Brothers (in order of awesomeness from greatest to least)

1. Ross Erickson

2. Tie - Jordan Erickson and Tyler Erickson

It was a good year for Jordan and Tyler, but I pulled way away from them pretty much around January 1st at around midnight.  Better luck this year, guys.