Tiny Subtle Hints

I finished reading CIG: Internet Privacy and Security. Throughout the chapters, some things were repeated so you could understand everything without having to read them in numerical order or any order at all. This got a bit annoying. Also, it was written in 1991 so much of it has changed by now. Fortunately, it provided many subtle hints as to how hackers can get into your computer. They were vaguely mentioned but sounded as if it were trying to point you in the correct detention for illegal activity. A sort of transparent bug was mentioned that is in the form of a very tiny GIF image that you can't really see when going on a webpage. A "backdoor" to internet networks that hackers use was also repeated once or twice. And then, there were a list of webpages that you should contact to ask for your information to be taken away if you feel like it, but they were technically lists of resources for stalkers. They weren't exactly amazingly useful resources, but they were there. I didn't learn much from the book and I'm not hinting that I already know how to maneuver myself into your computer.
The book's copyright date clearly indicated that it was too outdated to help me stalk. ;)
I'm kidding.
I almost forgot.
And in honor of this special day(I do not take credit for this picture):

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Internet Privacy and Security

I was looking at the table of computer bargain books at Books-a-Million, which is a store I've visited twice altogether. I'm on page 63 now which probably isn't a helpful fact since I'm not going to bother checking the total number of pages and edit my current page number according to the extra pages in the book. It's not bad for something directed towards people who don't know anything about the internet. There's still things to learn.
I completely forgot to watch the Wimbledon today. It's so annoying with dial-up when you realize that all these important websites are so complicated that it takes forever to load. (www.wimbledon.org)I don't usually watch important tennis matches but it would've been something interesting to do during the long, uneventful day that was unfortunately interrupted with a dentist appointment. But without that appointment, I wouldn't've found a nice book to buy and a Spanish joke book that teaches you extra vocabulary and also has the jokes in English. There's a cartoon on each page with something written underneath it. Fortunately, I already knew the vocabulary at the beginning of the book that you're supposed to know before you go off and learn more. This probably seems like a completely mundane way to learn Spanish but I wasn't planning on doing anything extra over the summer but I know I'll need a little vocab boost if I want to take AP in the future. Not that we(meaning people at this school) have good chances of passing.

Comparing Pictures

It's so depressing because almost every day within the past week, it's been really cloudy and miserable during the evenings and you can hear a lot of thunder. Finally, today, it's raining! It wasn't when I started this post. I'm really glad because I don't have to water the lawn today.
In Hefei, my mom and brother went on this little roller coaster and today, two students (probably college students considering how the article had worded it in Chinese) fell 10 meters where it had broken while on the exact ride. One of them was injured and the other died. There are pictures online in the article and I have pictures of my mom and brother riding it, which makes it even creepier.
Here is the picture I took:

And here is one of the two pictures in the article today from www.wenxuecity.com:

Aaaaaahhhh!!!!!

Both of my "brothers" now have people who seeem to act like they like them and it is really scaring me.
Katelyn's boyfriend is currently in Peru, so she consequently acts a bit more quiet and slightly disappointed.
My VP's Korean-obsessive-person is sad even in her typing. She even described herself as sad/depressed (in Korean) in her status.
This is really disturbing (VP's) and I don't even know why. She IS Korean... But last time I checked, she was undecided about how she felt towards him. Someone else told me that she wants a Korean-tennis-playing boyfriend. And my VP perfectly matches the description besides the fact that he was awesomely born in my favorite state.
On a much brighter note, I previously edited Katelyn's boyfriend's name on her cell phone so that it read "My Lover". She put him on speed dial #2, which is the lowest number there is since #1 is (very permanently) voicemail on normal cell phones in this country.
My EIA is busily studying for his derivative tests for the National Junior Classical League convention that will be... somewhere. Tennessee? I don't remember. My Head of Marketing/Travel is also going.
I haven't heard much from the HOUSE. I suppose he's being nocturnal, going online for a minute to poke people, and reading profusely. Maybe he will read this and tell me that he is alive so I don't have to appoint someone else to be the HOUSE. I would probably give the title to myself since no one else stalks ANYONE these days.
I should probably also congratulate myself for finally writing a slightly longer post.
My VP is leaving on the 8th much to the dismay of the g girls. I'm still wondering how there can possibly be q girls. They must be in various universes.
The ARG BC hasn't been in much contact with us since the fiasco of photo comments under a certain picture in a certain album in a certain website that included a few guys who were labeled a certain orientation by a certain person who questionably acts as a paragon of that certain lifestyle.

A really flat line.

Triangles were the best part of geometry proofs back in 8th grade. Now, they are menacingly boring and would really like to torture me. This is why I can't stand Trig. And also why I don't want to do any math. I would like to just skip all this sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent stuff because it seems so useless. But of course, we use almost everything we learn in math at another time... Except stem-and-leaf plots, of course. The problem is, complex numbers don't seem that exciting either. Maybe I'll just keep slacking off and playing the piano instead of real studying. There's only so many hours of piano before you start wandering away, though. I can't even play for an hour nonstop these days. Summer brings thoughts of actually doing things, but after going somewhere and actually doing something (that was kind of disappointing), nothing is exciting now.
I suppose I should go and play the piano now.
And then realize that I have nothing else to do once I'm done.
How exciting.
Like always, of course.

1/3

A lot of the summer has passed. Because of the PRC trip, it has actually felt like a month or so.
Jack: what???
This is what one would say if one did nothing over the summer except run to guys' homes.
Jack: i'm spazzing
This is what one would say if one realized that one needed to study so that one could possibly skip Spanish 2.

It's always kind of funny when people ask me if I would like to play tennis with them (literal meaning: I would like to beat you because it would be fun and I hate you). Well, the literal meaning only applied for the second-to-last time, but it is still funny. I can't play at all.
I had a few minutes of ping-pong practice against my brother. It was very disappointing because it is too easy to dominate him and it was far too uncomfortable outside the house. Screens don't do anything.

Jack: what did you do to the officer positions????????
I fixed them? On the Kejing, Jack and June's family!!!!(ex-family members count too!) group that Chanyang made. I don't remember the exact number of exclamation points in the name of the group, though.
Jack is "La Hermana Baja y Feminina" and Katelyn is "Sister-in-Law".
It's perfect right now with the very limited amount of members.

Bored... so bored...

I want to go and do something but I'm too bored. Not that that made any sense...
Facebook is definitely not changing enough to keep me occupied. There's only so much one can do with a website like that.
There isn't even anything to post.

Technically not a double-post

I didn't get any sleep when I finally went to bed at about 2:30am after playing a game of the most retarded game of checkers possible with Ryan.
If you have the ability to skip a piece, you HAVE TO SKIP THE PIECE.
So France won against Russia.
He is now "Yahoo! Games Checkers Champion" because of our compromise.
Yahoo! Games needs to FIX their checkers game so it isn't made for not thinking. I am quickly losing my respect for Yahoo! as more uninvited incidents occur.

...

My eyes hurt terribly but I can't go to sleep during the day.
So I still haven't made up my significant loss of sleep.
I feel like it's 3 in the morning.
And got up at about 5:30am today.

I'm sorry that my posts are so short these days because I used to rant and I liked doing that. However, I never know if my parents might storm in and yell for me to read Chinese so I don't know if I should start something. Fortunately, the autosaving is very convenient. No one likes redoing something like a long post or a long essay for school. I'm glad I haven't had to do the latter.

Facebook is structured so that it pulls hours of time from me and leaves me feeling as though I did absolutely nothing the entire time. So addicting; so evil.

Ryan's the only one online

My jet lag got so messed up that I went tooooo far with it and now I'm getting closer to Beijing Standard Time. I basically lost a day of sleep and didn't go backwards.
I feel completely awful and I hope I'm getting tired.
But I don't really feel like leaving the computer.
I don't know what I'm doing.
:(

Learning how to use the touchpad

When I got back, my bed felt like a really soft, thick sponge.
The touchpad felt so foreign that I had to re-learn how to use it.
The house smelled new again.
3 weeks did some interesting things to my mind.

And today, my brother said that he's a Gator fan "because they beat Ohio State".
*cries*