Learning to fly

"There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss"

Well, yes, from A Momentary Lapse of Reason by Pink Floyd. An aptly chosen quote, because there IS in fact a sensation to compare with this. It's like getting punched softly in the stomach over and over and over again. A state of bliss? HA. Anything but. This state of lying on the couch watching stupid Drew Carey'd Price is Right episodes is NOT a state of bliss, let me tell you. And yeah, I just verbed a proper noun. Omigosh now I verbed a noun. But hey, my perfect grammar can be moved aside for now, there are more pressing matters.

So I'm sick and all. Nothing drastic, and though many of you consider me to be the little boy who cried wolf now (weeks and weeks of school missed, I blame psychological troubles), you'll be happy to know I have been having horribly dull and boring days. It's wake up, go sleep downstairs, tv, go sleep again. Over and over again. Even blogging isn't something comparable to the boredom that is this sickness.

But hey, someone managed to make my blogging exciting! That's right, I've gotten my FIRST hate mail! I am flattered. If you, an avid reader I'm sure, is the hate-mailer, you should enjoy your crappy sense of fame in this paragraph. But for next time: Try and make your insults more than a long string of various slang words taken off urbandictionary.com. It'll be way more exciting, I might even write more than a paragraph about your clever ability to insult my ten minutes worth of writing!

Well, that's all folks!

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Reach for the... Whaa?

A most productive day indeed today. Pretty much a standard day in all of my classes, aced the Fifth Business quiz in English today even though I hadn't read the book this year, I remembered the exact sam quiz from last year, and the answers that I got wrong I got right this time! I did better than some people who HAD read the book this year, so that's pretty sweet.

But probably the highlight of my day was going to UTS for our first Reach for the Top match! Got some practice along the way with a little calendar trivia book thing. UTS is this really fancy private school, and maaan, they take education seriously. Going up the stairs, the walls were covered with Chemistry formulas. Come to think of it, the entire school was covered with random school stuff. And the kids running around the school seemed... different, as if they had a purpose to being in school rather than being in school just for the sake of being in school.

Anyway, the actual Reach for the top games were rather fun. Interestingly enough, we did better against UTS' A team. Maybe that was because they asked way more french questions, and I, being the designated french expert, naturally answered all of them correctly. Eric pulled some interesting random guesses, Dao had some pretty weird answers (who would have guessed The Monkeys for some random oldie song?!) and Shuyang naturally took the lead with regards to Grade Twelve chem and Bio.

Free refreshments too! The Quiz Master bid us to take as much food as we wanted and even more, as she seemed keen on getting rid of all of it. So, I filled my bag with clementines and granola bar, which, naturally, will make up my lunch for the rest of the week.

Ah yes, and the badminton season is starting again! Excellent, excellent! A reminder to all you n00bs out there that will be trying out to get that paperwork done, 'else you can't try out. Damn the TDSB and their phobia of getting sued. Gawd, I hope I can find a good doubles partner this year, and do well at the Toronto finals! That would be fun.

Where do we go now? Wisely, GnR asks this, and I don't know. I think it's an indication to stop my blog for today.

This is Kaleidoughscope, signing off

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Last edited: 2019-07-16

Jesus Christ, it's alive!

Okay, well, I can picture a few of you (just a few!) who, after December 6th, came back every day, hoping to get a new blog post, waiting anxiously to see these precious words appear on your screen. I'd imagine that after a couple of weeks, those dedicated readers stopped checking. So, for the moment, this blog post, I imagine, will be unknown to just about everyone. I plan to update it some more though! And to keep up, allll you have to do is "Subscribe" to my blog feed. So like, in the URL box, to the right, you should see a button, maybe it's orange with white lines in it, or something similar. Click on that, and you can subscribe to my blog! And it'll update in your browser every time I post something new. A nifty feature, I'm sure.

Okay, well, of course, lotsa stuff has happened in the past few months. I won't recount my life story for the past two months, so I guess you're out of luck if that's what you wanted.

Recently, I have been getting an awful lot of attention regarding the fact that I, Gabriel, APPARENTLY look like Jesus. Firstly, I can almost guarantee you, that JESUS DID NOT WEAR GLASSES. Secondly, how the hell do you know what Jesus looks like? Prove to me that I look like Jesus for realz, and I'll be more inclined to believe you.

I've decided to make a graph depicting my situation, and why I have been getting more and more attention as Jesus.

Behold, my graph plotting length of hair and how closely I resemble Jesus.

As you can see, a very interesting trend presents itself. According to this graph (from a credible source, of course), I am right now almost at the peak of my Jesus-ness, since my hair is somewhere in between my shoulder and upper arm.

Two choices present themselves: Either I revert back to somewhere earlier in the graph, or grow my hair to Herman Li length and enjoy the lack of Jesus comments (but surely gain other even worse comments).

I have decided to put up a poll as to what you people think I should do, to celebrate my return to blogging. (Note: there are absolutely no guarantees that I will do what the majority of what the poll indicates me to do. Just a guideline to see what you Jesus-lovers think).

And, I really should go study some spanish now, I'll see you all later with a blog post, coming soon! Remember to subscribe!

Yours in Return of the Jedi,

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One does not simply leap into Mordor...

It's true, you can't really take a leap of faith into Mordor, though I'm sure you could argue that Frodo did and blah blah blah. I needed a title today, so I picked that. Nothing else to it.

So, I've accomplished something rather odd this week: Not a single day of school. Oh, you must think I'm crazy, a deviant of some sort? I'll admit I was lazy, and the reasons for not going to school are not good reasons you'd like to hear, so I won't tell them. So, if you haven't been blessed by my presence in the hallways, you now know why.

So, in the end, it doesn't work out too well anyway, I'm prolly behind on tons of stuff. But I did have a nice week, lotsa sleeping and reading honestly. And now I shall pay the price.

Oh, I'd also like to thank Kates for filling in my blog, I'm certainly not nearly as consistent with the writing as I used to be. But Kates certainly does provide the more... feminine side of the blog, what with her chick flick analysis and all, and I'm sure she talked about shoes somewhere. Not that my blog is really masculine or anything, it's more of a neutral tone I'd say. Which is nice.

Do have a good end of the weekend, I will leave now, with this very short blog entry.

Yours in empathy (lol),

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