My new phone came today, so I spent most of the day exploring  that. I’ll naturally have a post glorifying it, but for now, a bit of humor mixed with your daily dose of adverts.

Below you will find a “marketing poster” for the Olympus E3 dSLR camera. Just another case of fun and creative advertising. Too bad these awesome marketing fronts

Unfortunately, as brilliant as the is, I don't think it was actually legitimately used anywhere. Olympus just happens to have it on file. Ah, Asia and their restrictions.

Have been insanely busy the last few weeks of school, and even though that’s pretty much wrapped up now, I’m still worried to death about my very low C and dropping grade in Calculus.

Honestly, this past month has taught me a lot. Mostly a crash-course in how to edit videos with Adobe Premiere Pro whereas I’d always turned around and fled the last time or so I was faced with the display. That’s two videos in as many weeks and not enough sleep to get 4hr./night between them.

By Friday, however, I can truly say that I survived high school. In the meantime, here’s the Final–yes, a school final–that I turned in with my group of 6 for senior year AP English. And to my surprise, we got a very nice grade out of it. There are two parts; they total to approximately 40 min. of total watching. Yeah, I know.

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Topics covered are as follows, divided by parts.

[Part I] features
- How to Procrastinate
- How to Get to School on Time
- How to Make Friends
- How to Stalk Your Crush
- How to Ask a Girl to Prom
- How to Turn Down a Guy in Public

[Part II] contains:
- How to Have a Bromance (w/o being Brokeback Mountain)
- How to Cheat
- How to Kiss Up to Teachers
- How to Survive Puberty
- How to Ditch School
- How to Time Write Like a Pro

I have quite a few books on my bookshelf. I’m not pleased – in fact I’m slightly embarrassed to say – that the biggest set on there is the Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series which resulted from a stint/binge from a couple years ago.

Yeah, I know.

If you’ve every read her, you’ll understand what I mean. They embody everything vampires probably are and what the Twilight series avoided for the trilogy and then for the +1 suddenly decide to embrace it (going to the repercussions angle): sex.

So when my mother comes in today to grab a book to read while overseeing my brother’s piano practice, the one book she would obviously choose is Micah, the 50-page fluff novel that happens not only happens to be one of the series also happens to also read like porn without pictures.

I don’t even remember why I got it. In fact, I don’t even know why the lady wrote it. And any other book from the series would have been better since they have tiny font, are long, and actually has the occasional sighting of the bunny called plot. In translation, this means mother would have given up before she got very far.

But Micah, well, Micah gets its own genre…

Naturally, flustered and not eager to let my own mother read a book like that to practice her English, I quickly asked where my copy of Howl’s Moving Castle was.

It was a really close shave.