Not this post, Hunter

Yes my friends, I am typing this at three in the morning. THAT is devotion.
(Mixed with guilt of not having updated this in a while)
I have a surprise though! What I think will be a rather good post! I even wrote down all the stuff I wanted to write so I would remember everything... now, allow me to go grab this scrap of paper...

Okay, so (I'll try to not be annoying about this *ahem*) my family and I put a Barack Obama sign out in our yard, oh say three weeks ago or so, to show our support for the best presidential candidate :) The whole putting up of the sign was sort of funny because I think my dad is legitimately afraid that ultra-conservative Naper-villains are gonna come and egg our house, I assured him that my graduation sign wold garner far more eggs than Mr. Obama would. Anyways, we put this sign up and all was well and good. Only, then the unthinkable happened... hang on I need to turn off the B-52's... ahem, so I'm driving down my street (which is not very long at all, mind you) and minding my own business, but then i glance at my neighbors house, and what I saw was so shocking I had to double-take. My neighbor actually had the nerve to put a McCain sign 3 houses down from my Obama sign. At first I was a little bit peeved and plotting on how I was gonna "extract" the sign from his lawn, but when I got around to really thinking about it, it's sort of funny. I think of it like a 21st Century "Keeping up with the Joneses", this time, instead of getting a pool if your neighbor gets one, you have to show political support that you feel overrules your neighbors. I wonder if I hung up an Obama flag if another one may pop up on my block? It just goes to show that we American's haven't changed entirely from the 1950's of yore.

Moving on... I was thinking about Senioritis, and, my brain being so complex and all... I got to wondering: What if Senioritis is a placebo affect? I know that sounds like a narrow minded thought, but hear me out. I get that as second semester seniors it isn't exactly the easiest thing to focus in school, but what if instead of being distracted with the prospect of college being right around the corner, we're actually thinking we can't pay attention because everyone blames "Senioritis", maybe we actually are capable of doing an above average job but we just tell ourselves not to? After going through that whole process my train of though stopped at the next station (Pun most certainly intended), and got me wondering about Junior Year. This may not be true with everyone but we're (I'm) going to use a generalization to get my point across. Everyone says Junior year is the hardest year, or most stressful, or most academically challenging. Then that little word I love to apply crept into my mind and got me wondering if maybe the aspect of Junior year, in and of itself, was a placebo affect as well. Maybe from hearing all the talk of about how hard it's going to be, our brains make the work more complex than it actually is; maybe the work is actually as easy as it was freshman or sophomore year, but because of all the talk about the dread of Junior year, we convert something as simple as a jigsaw puzzle into a Rubik's cube, so to speak. I wonder how much people talk about things influences us in life. This could go into a much deeper post but, seeing as my clock is now saying 2:55 AM, I'm going to have to move on to my next topic. My case in point is that maybe the thought of Junior Year is all a placebo affect.

Ok, this is a disclaimer: This next post is not going to be what you'd typically expect
As I was listening to the school talk about how they're enforcing the dress code blah blah blah, I began to ponder if teachers (hopefully only the younger/middle-aged set) ever get attracted to students. I know, this is actually really creepin' of me, but I just wonder if teachers think of students as a strict platonic relationship, or almost as though they're the parents to the children, or if in certain rare cases there is an element of attraction (that of course the teacher has to hide, going back to the whole "jail-bait" topic.. which I've never discussed...) Ummm

That's about it... I literally can't keep my eyes opened and am typing this with them closed so I'm going to bed. Hopefully this will hold all of my devoted readers over until I can post next.

Oh... one last piece of news.

BLOC PARTY ARE PLAYING LOLLAPALOOZA THIS YEAR!!! AHHHH EXCITING!