Why I Hate the Poster in My Health Classroom

I am a junior taking health in a sophomore class. The only other junior in this class is someone who also moved last year. This is not at all relevant to the story, but I felt it necessary to interject, because I am/have taken three classes this year meant for sophomores: Drivers Ed, Health, and AP Euro, and so it is no wonder that people either think that I'm a Freshman, Sophomore or Junior. And this isn't even adding in such details as the fact that the majority of my friends at my school (by which I mean all of my close friends but one) are Freshmen or that I often only have half a lunch period, or that... well you get the point.

Anyways!

So there is this poster in my health classroom, it says "Live for the Future, Not the Moment. Sex Can Wait". Now lets ignore the fact that in general I am against abstinence education as the root of sex ed. I know my health class does comprehensive sex ed, but I have no idea if abstinence is one of the major roots of the sex ed part, as I have not gotten there yet. Not to say that I'm against people who decide that abstinence is right for them, I just know that it's probably not something that really fits me, or a whole lot of other people.

Right back to what I was saying before that tangent.

So ignore the last three words of that poster, and you're left with "Live for the Future, Not the Moment." What kind of life advice is THAT? I understand that you need to realize that your actions now, if only focused on your current amusement rather than the impacts on your future, can badly impact your future (and later amusement). But to live a life that is only ever focused on the next thing and the next thing is no way to live. You need to stop and breathe. Love and enjoy what you have in that moment, because living outside of the current moment so entirely means loosing so much. Parents can almost always tell you that their children seemed to have grown up in the blink of an eye. And think of how much faster that time might seem to have gone if they were only considering that their child was going to grow up into an angsty teenager, rather enjoying their time left with a curious and rambunctious tot.

Another poster that is actually outside of my health classroom on the door speaks about how if you have sex you're going to feel unnatural, wrong things. Why on Earth should sex be considered unnatural? Can anyone answer me that? I mean, sex is pretty damn natural, it's what keeps a large amount of species, well, EXISTING. If that isn't natural then I don't know what is. You know what isn't natural? Clothes. So am I supposed to stop wearing clothes because a poster has related what is unnatural to what is wrong?

Abstinence posters, please get your act together.


Sincerely,

A Disgruntled Junior Health Student
(AKA Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek)

New Year

Right, so here it goes.

I have deleted the goals on the side of the page (which were pathetic, and I barely updated anyways), and instead replaced it with links to me elsewhere on the internet. Notice the shiny new goal blog!

You may not have read that far back, but this blog actually used to be a goal blog, until about halfway through March when I wrote "not my idea", which was the last post that referenced any goals. This goal blog is going to be very different from when this was a goal blog, so check it out if you're interested, and then tell me I'm mad.

A goal that I have that has nothing to do with the goal blog is just to keep updating this blog. At least weekly. Last year I wrote over 70 posts, which is crazy and amazing, but most of the lackluster comes from the end of the year when I barely posted at all. This needs to be a fixed. And I don't want to just update about myself. I want to DO something. Problem is I have no idea what to blog about. So topics be needed, or ideas of something to do (like try a recipe or take pictures or something). Because I think writing about just yourself all the time can't be super amazing to read unless you're close friends who don't talk much or something.

Oh and speaking of that, I am either going to publicly post the email I use for this, or make a new email that I can be contacted at. This will probably help with the whole wanting to have proper conversations with any of you that have commented before without having to figure out elaborate neopets schemes. So once I figure out which of those I am doing, I will have a new post that will also give out the email.

Also, I've been kind of sucking at the whole keeping up and commenting on blogs that I follow thing... Yeah, hopefully gonna work on that.

So either all of this will get accomplished or I will continue to be lazy. Let's hope for the former!

Back to refreshing HPFF for the new Once There Was A Darkness Chapter to be posted today.
~Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek

PS: Have any of you played munchkin before? We used to play it all the time during GT classes in 8th grade and I am going to be using the money my grandma gave be for christmas to buy a copy for myself, but I don't know which version to get. I'm between Star Munchkin, Munchkin Impossible or the original Munchkin. I might be getting a copy as soon as today, so anything you can put in would be lovely. Thanks!

Fandom

I am not the loud, vocal one. I don't lead anything. I can even be apathetic at points. But until things get very bad I am loyal to the end.

I think the only TV show I ever stopped completely standing by was Bones, which has continued to go down the drain in the realm of becoming a caricature of itself. I miss the Brennan who used to kick butt. I get annoyed that she's been flanderized to such a point as she has. I still tune in every week, perhaps not when it airs, but by the morning after.

In general I take in. I take in other people's opinions, read reviews, read news, watch videos, listen to new songs, listen to podcasts. I take in what other people have to say and what other people plan. I'm not proactive in making any of this happen. Most of my proactivity, if any, goes towards reviewing fanfictions and reading new ones. I don't really write fanfiction anymore, because I have issues with motivation when I get frustrated with characters, and oneshots aren't always the easiest for me to do well.

I think my one solace in the idea of a fandom is that I am not alone in not being the spearhead. Harry Potter is a fandom of thousands or even millions, yet there are only a few hundred who can truly affect the fandom. And usually I am okay with this.

But sometimes I want to, and need to ask why. Why aren't I a bit older so that I could be one of the spearheads? Why haven't I truly put myself out there when I know I can? It's all so silly.

And I just have to remember that fandom isn't just about being in the lead. It's about making friends, having fun, and most importantly being passionately in love with what the fandom surrounds.

I am passionately in love with Fringe, Harry Potter, Nerdy Youtubers, Wrock (admittedly this falls under the subsection of Harry Potter), How I Met Your Mother, Maureen Johnson's Books, ALL CAPS, non-shooter video games, Neopets, and Firefly.

And while I love all of these things, I take in as much as I can, form my own opinions, and mostly keep them to myself. But sometimes I share them on here. Sometimes I start a conversation on Facebook. Sometimes I get a Fanfiction comment or make one myself.

This is my fandom.
~Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek

PS: Texas was fun, and I'm mostly being lazy about editing anything. I promise to have something* up by the end of the month though =)

*something implies at least a picture. I'm not gonna make any promises I won't keep.