A Little Cup of Cyanide

I'm trying to start reading more. So, I went to Borders and bought a couple books. Okay, I bought a book, the next Angel Sanctuary, and an issue of AP. The point is that I'm reading. Anyway, they asked if I wanted to get a Borders reward card, and I figured why not? So I got it, and they send me these shortlist things in my e-mail. Honestly, I would never buy anything they have in the shortlists. Except for today, they had some really good stuff. White Stripes! Woo! And I'm looking forward to seeing Bridge to Terabithia. But I was looking at the price to pre-order the last Harry Potter book, which by the way, is cheaper on Amazon. And I found a community thing dedicated to debating whether Snape is good or not. I'll be getting back to that later.

So, I joined the site just to give my opinion. I've actually posted on the site a grand total of one time. But it's pretty cool. It's called Gather.com. It's basically a forum site, and they have everything. Even if they don't have what you're looking for, you can make a community of your own.

You're probably wondering why this is shameless self-promotion. Well, they're having some promotion thing where if you can get five people to join, you get a $20 Borders gift card. Which I need. I would love to buy my books from Amazon, but that involves begging my dad for the credit card. And have you seen Borders prices? I need some extra money to buy from them. They're the only bookstore around here that sells Angel Sanctuary. Just in case you need more of a reason to help me out (not that you need it, since you must be an uber nice, caring, thoughtful person who would just jump at the chance to help out a fellow human being) I give you the top five reasons you should join Gather.

1] It's free.
2] You get to show off your knowledge, or argue until hell freezes over, about whatever you're into.
3] You can earn points to get stuff by participating on the site.
4] Make lots of new friends with similar interests.
5] You can get five more people to join and get your own Borders gift card.

And don't forget you'll be helping me out. But that would be six things, and lists of five are so much tidier. So if you want, just go to this site: http://www.gather.com/inviteLanding.jsp?parentMemberId=29... and sign up.

I promised myself I wasn't going to write anything about the whole Paris Hilton thing. I find it annoying when I hear about the same things over and over and over... That's why I never write about the stupid crap they have in the news. My life may be boring as all hell, but at least the whole world isn't talking about it. Let's face it, if Paris Hilton breaks a fingernail, it's everywhere. Who wants to know every detail of a celebrity's life. Scratch that. There's lots of people who want to know every detail of a celebrity's life. The real question is why. There's enough REAL news going on out there that we don't need to be told what's going on in Hollywood by a million different people. Isn't that what the Globe is for? So they can get their celebrity gossip and leave the news for actual news?

Have you noticed my complete and utter lameness in my updating? Yes, it's true. I've ran out of stuff to talk about. That's what summer does to me. Nothing interesting worth writing about ever happens to me during the summer. Unless you want to hear about me being so bored I started peeling wallpaper off my wall. It's ugly wallpaper, anyway. Or maybe my new little habit of watching The Young and the Restless? Completely my mom's fault. She watches it during lunch, and I just happen to be eating lunch at the same time. I thought it was getting pretty bad when I started watching Degrassi. But I just hit an all-time low. When I start watching Big Brother, that's when you have my full permission to punish me as you see fit.

Anyway, that's my life right now. Oh the joyous life of the wallflower extraordinaire.

So, it seems that my luck has finally changed. I was checking my e-mail today and I got this message:

2007 LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT Company, attached to:
REFERENCE No: ASL- WF97 - 2G3
BATCH No: OX7T - 6T5T - N3N

We are pleased to notify you of the release today as dated of the NL National Lotto/International Promotions programs held on the 30th day of May, 2007. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 98,000 names from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle-East, Africa,North & South America and canada as part of our international promotions program conducted annually to
encourage prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards, you will take part in our
end of year lotto jackpot of 1.3 Billion International Lotto.
As a category B winner, you have been selected by computer balloting system where only email addresses
are soughted, from a total numbers of 30,000 email addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program consequently won in the second Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of US$2,000,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for second categories winners. This is from the total prize money of US$45,000,000.00 shared among the eight international win! ners in the SECOND category.

Lucky, lucky me. It then asked me to send them my name, address, phone number, and a bunch of other crap. Yeah. The sad thing is, there are people who actually fall for these things.

I was in Wal Mart today, and I noticed a handicapped sign on one of the registers. It wasn't any different from the other ones. So why is it the "handicapped" line? Why do they even have a handicapped line? Those little carts can go just fine through the other lines.

My mom's computer wasn't going online. So, I finally convinced her to let me hook mine up. She has this weird thing with messing stuff up. She's afraid to take pictures with her camera because her computer doesn't have enough ports on her computer, so she has to take the mouse out to save her pictures. She thinks taking the mouse out will mess up the computer. So when I suggested hooking my computer up to the internet, she was afraid it would mess with the computer. Which is retarded, because it wasn't working anyway. Not that it would mess anything up even if it was working. Anyway, I should be back now. I know, I just made your whole week, right?