Introversion

I have found the most wonderful article ever written! (Click that text to read it)

In this article, the best writer that ever was describes how to properly care for and understand an introvert. The masses truly do not understand what people such as I are like. I'm not anti-social, though some may think it sometimes. I can carry on a conversation, and I can be a very interesting person.

But I hate small-talk! This article really is interesting. I recommend it to any would be introverts and unsympathetic extroverts. You might learn how cool introverts really are!

"How can I let the introvert in my life know that I support him and respect his choice? First, recognize that it's not a choice. It's not a lifestyle. It's an orientation.

Second, when you see an introvert lost in thought, don't say "What's the matter?" or "Are you all right?"

Third, don't say anything else, either."

Pictures!

Today we went to the picture place and had Senior Pictures made! I have a number of pictures, and I'm going to make them all available to the masses on some as of yet unchosen place. There are better ones than this, but this is the best looking formal one. In a few of them, I looked gay. This is just an appearance, however. I will not be coming out of the closet any time soon.

I'll be waiting a while to do that.

But seriously, I promise not to be gay. And I try to not make promises that I can't keep, so unless it becomes terribly unavoidable, I will try to keep myself honest in that regard.

Look how handsome I am! I'm a sexy beast!

Wait...I promised not to be gay, didn't I? Guess I better try harder.

You know what sucks? I payed $12.95 for the disk so that I could put all these pictures on the web. $12.95! And they give me low resolution crap! I guess they don't want people buying pictures only to print them themselves and not pay the ridiculus prices that they charge normally. Did you know that they eeked out over $100.00 of us today? They have a package deal for like $6.89 which includes a few pages of one picture. Then they charged a ton of money for whatever you want on top of that. Normally we don't buy anything on top of the cheap deal, so I guess we're making up for lost time. Or money. But wouldn't we be making up for saved money in that case?

I suppose that what we spent wasn't really that bad, though, if you think about it. The same package from the school was a few hundred dollars more than what we spent. So, in total, we could have bought all the pictures in the world and still have saved money. Nice.

In other news, my studly photo (none of the ones you'll get to see, unfortunately, unless it's on the school website) was in the school newsletter this month. I am a National Merit Semifinalist. Apparently, I'm the first that the school has had in about a decade. And let's just say that this isn't a reflection of my smartitude.

(For my slower readers, it's a reflection of the school's dumbitude).

I'll try and get my pictures up in a minute or two. They should be at http://mark0007.netfirms.com/images/seniorpictures.html shortly.

Work hard, have fun, and make Tiger reading # 1!

(Really, I'm not gay! That's the gay slogan that our school uses. We got a D on the FCAT this year, and so it's Read, Read, Read!)

Hasta la pasta,

Mark

I Can Make My Own Decisions

Despite what you might think, I am capable of thinking and making decisions for myself.

Switch from Livejournal

I’ve decided that I’m not all that enthused with the ever ugly livejournal, so I’m making a switch. I’m going to try to make this blog about a little more than just my personal life, because if you were frank with yourself, you’d admit that you don’t really care that much about the life of Mark. In fact, you probably don’t care that much at all. You just read because you feel that you’re under an obligation to for one reason or another. For some, it’s a matter of Karma; if you read my blog, perhaps the Gods will look favorably upon you. For others, it’s a matter of finding gossip; the more juice you’ve got on me the better you can tell the world that Mark is an idiot (which isn’t far from the truth: I’m a stupid idiot). For most, however, it’s simply the notion that when Mark is rich and famous, he might give you a small pittance of his millions if you suck up now.

You are utterly and terribly wrong.

For I am a stingy person. All your sucking up now will be useless when I am rich. Indeed, the only way to get into my pocket book will be to marry me or to steal it. Though both are essentially analogous, anyway.

I’m going to call that quits, I believe. I was having fun rambling for a few minutes there. Hopefully it was entertaining. Not a word of it was true however. If you suck up now, I am very likely to give you some of my millions.

For now though, I’m going to end this with a closing note: Blogger just seems so much nicer than the old disgusting LiveJournal. The hardest part about switching is convincing myself that I don’t really need that old dusty account anymore. I only wish I could move all of my old blog entries.

Ta ta for now,

Mark