How much of your teenage life have you "messed up?"

[X] gotten kissed (How is that messing up though?)
[] gotten a phone taken away in class ("It's my emergency phone Mr. G!")
[] gotten suspended
[] gotten caught chewing gum
[] gotten caught cheating on a test

Total so far: 1

[] arrived late to class more than 5 times
[] didn't do homework over 5 times
[] turned at least 3 projects in late
[X] missed school just because you felt like it
[] laughed so loud you got kicked out of class

Total so far: 2

[X] got your mom, dad, etc. to get you out of school
[] text people during class (Didn't have texting yet, but I probably would have if I did.)
[X] passed notes
[X] threw stuff across the room (All in good fun of course. The teacher would crack up.)
[X] laughed at the teacher

Total so far: 6

[] been in a fight at school, fist or verbal
[] took pictures during school hours
[X] called someone during school hours
[X] listened to iPod, CD, etc during school hours (Hell yea)
[] skipped a class period

Total So Far: 8

[X] threw something at the teacher (Again, all in good fun, he cracked up.)
[] went outside the classroom without permission
[] broke the dress code
[] failed a class
[] ate food during class

Total So Far: 9

[] gotten a call from school
[] couldn't go on a field trip cause you behaved badly
[X] didn't take your stuff to school
[] given a teacher the finger when they weren't looking
[X] curse during class/school (Damn straight.)

Total so far: 11

[] faked your parents signature
[X] slept in class
[] cursed at your teacher
[X] copied homework
[] got in trouble with the principal-the vice principal

Total So Far: 13

I 26% screwed up my life. Yay me!

-Chi <3

I just saw this on Nickelodeon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11aFIrS4w5s&feature=related

Now, don't cheat, don't scroll down and look at the comments, WHAT DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF??

A certain MUSICAL of the HIGH SCHOOL persuasion perhaps??

I haven't seen Camp Rock, but I hear it's a blatant copy of that too.

I guess what makes me mad is I'm sick of people trying to glom off hits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNOupmGN5g Case in point, the Little Panda Fighter, a blatant rip off of Kung Fu Panda. (Along with their Little Cars, Little Bee, and Ratatoing. This stupid company from Brazil does this all the time.)

When I watched the Spectacular trailer, I felt like I was watching a brazilian rip off all over again.

Now think about this...

How long did it take for a musical more popular and more of a pop culture thing than Grease to come along? Well Grease came along in 1978. High School Musical came out in 2006. That's 28 years.

So guess what Nickelodeon?

NOTHING YOU DO WILL BIGGER THAN HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

Seriously.

I give it another 28 years for something as big as HSM to come around again. I mean, let's think about this... Disney ripped THEMSELVES off with Camp Rock. They over-hyped it and made a blatant copy of their hit and called it the "next HSM". And guess what?

NOT EVEN CLOSE.

So good luck Nick, but you're destined to FAIL. And MISERABLY at that.

Because come to think of it, nothing HAS ever been as popular as HSM. Think about it: HSM 2 beat out The Sopranos and became the MOST watched television program SINCE THE TELEVISION HAS EXISTED. HSM 3 continues to be number one in the box office and the cast continues to be the most popular people on the planet right now.

So NO. Good try Nick, but NO. Way to alienate your Disney viewers.

-Chi <3

I'm having way too much fun.

It seems the general attitude among all voters is that everyone is very proud to vote today.

And I'm one of em now, baybeh!!

I got up at 5 am to vote today. Good thing too since lines are so damn crazy today. We only had to wait maybe 15 minutes. I had fun going with mom and dad and voting and then headin off for breakfast and then bragging to everyone at work about how I just voted in my first election ever.

My first graders did some awesome election stuff today. We sang the 43 presidents song a few times, did some vocabulary and word search puzzles, and read Duck for President. The kids voted today and we handed out coloring sheets of whichever president each student voted for. 3 went out for Obama. I ran out of McCain pages. This is why kiddies can't vote.

We did a sheet where kids could choose who would be in office with them if they were president. I am a very popular choice for vice president apparently.

We also handed out a sheet asking all the kids who they voted for. These two are my favorites, from a little boy and girl respectively. Complete with spelling errors:

"I vote for Muhcan becase my parints vote for him. Also my dads nam is John and that is cool. it dose not mater who wins becase i will be presdent next yeer anywa."

"I voted for Obama. Obama has a cool name. My dad lieks obama and my granma says that Sara Pane is a dum tart. Obama also wants to stop the bad fiting in irack. i think that is smarter then mccans ideyuh."

The kid who wrote the Obama paper has only half the spelling errors; coincidence?!?! ;)

And I about spit on my coke and died at "Sara Pane is a dum tart". I totally agree in a correctly-spelled manner.

I had lunch with little T and asked her who she is voting for. The answer was "OOOOOOOH". I'll take that as an "Ooooobama".

So the poll's closed 10 minutes ago on the east coast so HERE GOES!! This is really cool. I'm so lucky to be voting for the first time ever on possibly the most historic and important election of my lifetime. Woohoo!

Don't vote.

GET EDUCATED.

DON'T CHOOSE TO "IGNORE" THE VP WHO IS ONE 72 YEAR OLD'S HEARTBEAT FROM BECOMING THE PRESIDENT.

DON'T VOTE LIKE YOUR FRIENDS AND PARENTS.

BE A FREE THINKER.

BE SMART.

GIVE BOTH CANDIDATES A GOOD UNBIASED LOOK BASED ON ISSUES.

THEN vote.

-Chi <3