Weed.

You know what smells like stale maple syrup, is illegal in most places, and annoys me?  Weed.  I'm not going to say I am some expert on drugs or smoking, but I do know one thing.  Breathing in anything but clean air is detrimental to your lungs, brain, and entire body.  So why do it?  It costs you a lot of money, makes you smell like a homeless person, and kills you.  Where's the draw?  Getting high?  C'mon people.  And if you claim that it's not addicting, then stop smoking it.  Don't wanna?  Fine, then die young somewhere else.  My 10th grade English teacher was quite the eccentric one, and I swear that every time I entered that class room it smelled of old burritos and stale maple syrup.  Blech.

Fine Friday VII: Google+.

So I got Google+ pretty early (I'm a social network hipster).  I set up my profile, added some people I knew to my circles, and that was that.  Problem is, the amount of people I have in my circles is less than 25.  Apparently, I never realized how many of my friends on Facebook were under 18 (and thus cannot use Google+).  Another problem is that my stream never changes.  Of the 25 or so people I have in my circles, no one uses Google+.  If they do, they post the exact same things on Facebook at the same time.  But it does have some nice features.  The photo viewer is much nicer, and Hangouts are a clever idea.  But as of right now, I see no reason to switch exclusively to one or the other, so I use Facebook and Google+.  (Also my dad uses Google+, so that's a negative.)

Another bad abbreviation.

Today's post is more of an extension of one I did before.  The short version of 'Rest In Peace' doesn't work for me.  Whenever I see R.I.P, I think of comic gravestones and a quite graphic animation of someone being ripped apart.  Now, this might just be my disturbed mind (not really), but I find it much more elegant and less tack to actually say Rest In Peace.  I feel that if you are going to take the time to remember someone or pay your respects, that you could at least have the decency to write out a full word.  I'm assuming that the only reason R.I.P ever became the norm was because gravestones were hand-carved an expensive (don't quote me on that).  It's almost like putting H.A.G.S in a yearbook.  It means you don't really care.

People who dress stupidly.

I'm not just talking about the people who don't check the forecast for the day, but the people with their pants on the ground.  This post covers those who wear socks with sandals, basketball sandals, shorts that definitely don't fit their body type, and other hideous wardrobe malfunctions.  I get that some people go for comfort or convenience.  That's why basketball sandal are popular here.  It is a college campus anyway.   But when I fell like not putting on shoes that tie, you know what I do?  Put on Puma El Reys.  They still look classy, but at the same time take no effort to put on.  Wanna know something that is totally inexcusable?  Sweatpants.  They are disgusting, not flattering, ugly, usually bad colors, and make you look like a slob.  What about t-shirts that reach your knees?  Yeah, those are included.  I guess my main concern here is: Do they think they actually look good?

YouTube reposts.

I don't get why there are multiples of most videos on YouTube.  Do people feel like they need to download, and re-upload a video that is already on YouTube, just to put in the description: "I didn't make this video, nor do I take credit for it.  Original video here: youtube.com/.......".  Does anyone know the point?  Are they just really self-centered and hope to gain more channel views?  Even worse than the reposts are the ad videos.  The ones that look real, you click them, and they are just a still image with an annotation with a link to a virus.  "View the full video here!"  Why not just put the full video on YouTube, huh?  Also pointless, YouTube comments.  The haven and breeding ground of trolls.

My terrible memory.

Something that bugs me so much that it almost causes me to pull my hair out is my memory.  I seem to forget things in an amazingly short time.  Sometimes I will come up with a great idea to blog about, but forget by the time I get the Word document full of ideas open.  I also fall under the category of entering a room but forgetting why I am there.  Example:  The other day I scheduled one of those terrible online math tests I told you about, and put it in my phone calendar so I wouldn't forget about it.  I was gonna go straight from my Government class up to the testing center.  As I was putting my laptop back in my backpack, I remembered about my appointment, put on my headphones, and left the classroom.  By the time I reached the staircase, I forgot about the test and starting walking back to my dorm (the complete wrong direction).  I will open a new tab in my browser and not remember what I was going to type in.  Probably the worst: I will close a Facebook tab, only to open a Facebook tab immediately afterward without realizing it.

I'm taking the day off.

So, comment with something that bugs you.  Or annoys you.  I won't judge (or will I?).

Tea.

There's nothing to like about tea.  Whether iced, hot, bottled, or bagged, tea is gross.  To me, tea tastes like watered down Gatorade.  I also don't believe in the rejuvenating powers of tea.  I will admit that I haven't tried every different flavor/style/plant of tea, but none of them sound appealing.  Literally, if someone handed by a cup of tea and a slice of lemon, I would eat the lemon first.  The aroma of tea also disgusts me.  It has a sweet smell, but it lingers and gets stale.  Also, the people who name teas did a pretty bad job.  Does anyone really want to drink something called Earl Grey?