Numbers: I am 22 and reading a teen book

Well hello cruel blogging world, I am bored on a rainy day and thus thought what a great way to waste my time and yours by posting some nonsense.

So, last month I turned 22. I got some funny sympathy cards, such as one saying "I'm sorry that your birthday has been forever marred by a national tragedy".

Anywho, I have always been a fan of Alice in Wonderland (both movie and book) and my brother recommended I check out this book called The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. When I went to look for it, they pointed me to the teen section. Yes, my 25-year-old brother recommended a teen book to me.

I started reading it and as expected the language was colloquial and at times embarrassingly overdramatic (like an ABC Family show), but yet I kept reading, and by the middle of the book, I was hooked. The fun plot took over, and the wonderland intrigue trumped the bad writing. Hurray!

So, if you're into getting lost in a fantastical world, I recommend you read this trilogy (yes, there are two more books that I am going to Barnes N Noble soon to buy).

Advice (Both General and Specific)

Topic: Life's a bitch.

Never take the 3-hour, $45 Amtrak instead of drive, thinking you will get a lot of work done. You will not. You will wind up sitting near a crying baby and next to a creeper, and it will be so hot you'll think you took a nap and it turned into summer.

Never say "be cool, wrap your tool" during a job interview: apparently people won't appreciate it.

Mind your facial expressions when watching an a cappella group sing horrifically off key. You might be considered a horrible person.

Never joke around with a man from Germany: he will think you're serious, then you will feel stupid.


In general, follow my family rule: If anything is ever going your way, expect life to shit on you immediately afterward.

Or just don't talk. Ever.

Advice

Do not see He's Just Not That Into You thinking you will learn something from the movie. You won't. Right after watching it you will still rush back to your room to see if the guy you're interested in IMed or called you, and then, upon discovering that he hadn't, tell yourself that he must be really busy with homework or away from his phone and computer or got in a car accident. There's no way in hell he would actually NOT want to talk to you.

Yeah, that will still happen.

But do see it if you are looking for some light-hearted entertainment. If you choose to go, sneak in burritos and colas, like I did. It will be worth the damage caused by the salsa leaking into your pocket book. Totally.

Definitions and Examples

Coincidence: a chance occurrence of simultaneous or apparently connected events

Example:
You have a really awkward random hook up, and then find out the next day that you were cast to be in a musical number with him, where you're supposed to be on a date and sing about how there are no good single men anymore.

Boom, Coincidence!

Numbers: Proofreading

The amount of times I've looked at one of my peers' short stories for my writing fiction class to find that he/she clearly didn't proof read is phenomenal. I almost want to give their manuscripts back to them with a note on the top saying, "Dear So-and-So, I'm sure it was a great manuscript-- if you had edited it. I stopped reading after the second time you wrote hear instead of ear. Have fun revising! Love, Wolfgang."

This is the fourth piece I have read so far this semester that was painful to read. Yay. I only have two more to read and critique tonight. Hopefully they won't be too bad.

Oh, and two more days until I see Allison! And one more day until High School Musical 3 the premiere. Yup, I'm going to the midnight showing. Don't worry about me.

Query: Weather terms

Why are there cold fronts and heat waves?

Is it because when a cold front comes, you have to face it like a soldier, geared up in thick woolen armor?
And when a heat wave comes, you strip down to your bare essentials (bare being the operative word), and just ride it out until it gets cooler again?

A wave is inviting, a front is an attack. Isn't that saying a lot about how our culture views the heat versus the cold?

Queries: Cough drops?

I used to eat those cherry Luden's cough drops as if they were candy. I'm pretty sure that they are candy.

Luden's
Halls
Sucrets
Ricola

The major ones. All equally delicious.
(Although, I have to say, sucrets can be awful.)

What is it that makes cough drops so good? The medicinal part (if there is any)?