The Sword of Heroes

Continuing my 30 day challenge from about a month ago, lol.

My favorite language is probably English.  That probably sounds really ethnocentric of me, but I have some good reasons.

It’s basically the awesome genius child of both French and Anglo-Saxon, which gives it such a big choice of words.

It’s the grandchild of latin, and the brother of german, both of which I’m also fascinated with.

Without conjugation of verbs and other stuff it’s awesome to make poetry meter with too.

I don’t plan my college much, I don’t like to think about it.

There’s just too much knowledge out there, and when I think about that I can’t acquire all of it, it depresses me.

Like, there’s no way I can become a novelist and high school teacher and writer and professor and scientist and astronaut and business executive and politician.

So right now, I’m going for a bachelor’s in psychology.  It seems to be a broad enough subject that I can apply it to writing, or education reform, or whatever I feel like.  Then, I can go back and get physics and/or math, aeronautics, computer science, ecology, linguistics, architecture, etc.

But what sucks is that all of those can be combined with each other to make badass things.  Like, you mix ecology and architecture, and bam- you’re designing biodomes.  Add in physics, and you’re designing a space colony.

I think that school is a bunch of horseradish.

There are so many things wrong with public education, it’s almost easier to list off the things that they are doing right.

I think that as we study more into psychology, we learn more and more ‘tricks’ to get kids to learn things.  And then we do nothing with those ideas.

For example, we’ve learned different stages of learning.  We’ve learned that with children in general, creativity is planted early early early in life.  And by adolescence, any preconceived notions are already defined.

So what do we do?  Restrict kids when they’re little, and give them art options in high school.

I don’t know, there are ebbs and flows in learning versus age, and schooling should take advantage of them.

I think that my most prized possession, regrettably, is my laptop.  It’s the thing that I use every day.

Oh snap, I take that back.  My mind is my most prized possession.  It’s the only thing that’s stayed with me (times I’ve lost it aside) throughout my life.

It’s why movies with lobotomies freak me out so much.  Because no matter how much you try to crush someone, or try to make someone give up, it’s up to them if they want to give up.

No matter what circumstance you’re in, you can always think of a way out.  Thinking is actually a resource, and it’s the most inexhaustible, in my opinion.

I love spaghetti.  It’s a few food groups at once, with the potential to be all five healthy food groups in one, depending what you put in it.

It’s hardy, but it’s got carbs, so you get energy now and later.

Just too delicious, I can’t stand it.

Name:  Andre Nicholai

Height: 5’11”
Weight:  158lbs.
Alignment:  Chaotic Good
Profession:  Amateur scientist, Recreational visionary
Personality traits:  Eccentric, Elitist, Adventurous, Pensive

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I really like this photo because it caught me off-guard (in a sense), you can tell by how my shirt is caught on my belt a little bit.

I also think it’s neat how the whole thing seems to be in soft focus.

1. Post a photo of yourself
2. Make a stat card of yourself
3. Your favorite food and why
4. Your most prized possession
5. What you think about school, and your favorite subject in it
6. Your college major plans
7. Your favorite language and why
8. What you would do if you lived in a fantasy world
9. Introduce some of your friends
10. Your favorite movies
11. Your favorite band
12. Your favorite instrument
13. Your ideal living place
14. Your favorite colors, and what you think it says about you
15. Some of your favorite quotes
16. Write a poem that’s a story
17. What if you had a band?
18. Your views on the evil pleasures
19. Write a poem about how you feel
20. What is courage?  What is cowardice?
21. Make a math problem for yourself, and solve it
22. Your definition of the difference between law and chaos
23. Your motto
24. Make a science problem for yourself, and solve it
25. Write a letter to your middle school self
26. Define good and evil
27. Your ideal superpower
28. What you think about the apocalypse
29. What you think about the outcome of the human race
30. Your philosophy