The tokenism/racism distinction

I was reading a creative writing guide that advised when writing to stay away from featuring an all-white cast "unless your novel is set in the rural parts of Sweden." I highly disagree. The implication here is that you should balance up your novel with a racially mixed cast, which is one of the best examples of tokenism - treating someone as a "token", as if they're just somebody that you use to satisfy certain criteria.

My thoughts on Exams

I want to talk about a subject that applies particularly to me, a 16 year old living in the UK, because I think this is a subject that undoubtedly requires attention. This is school examinations.

Observational comedy

So I've made an observation lately. And it's that observations seem to be just so damn hilarious.

The confusion over little differences

I have no idea if everyone does this or if I'm alone in my extremely specific dyscalculia, but Zeus knows I still can't grasp the concept of differences.

You know, I'm really not that great at recommendations

Sure, I'll take a few and some I really like, The Hunger Games was a recommendation from me by my librarian. But usually, when people send me links to webcomics, books, TV series, videos etc that they like, I just don't care. If it's something short that I can take a look at quickly like a YouTube video or a page of a webcomic, cool beans, but bar that, if it's not something *I* found, then I don't tend to care. Of course, like I said, there are exceptions, and if somethings catches my eye and you've sent it to me, I will take a look. And I'm not trying to discourage y'all from sending me cool shit, just saying that I won't necessarily look at it.

~Random rambly riffraff at half past midnight from Leonidas

Why I distrust psychology

So I was in Waterstones (bookshop) earlier this afternoon and browsing the "Smart Thinking" section, which had some really interesting titles in it, and they all looked fascinating, nearly all of them books that inspected our minds, lives, some aspect of the internet or our relationships, the list goes on. And of course, almost all of these books promised a fascinating new perspective on some part of our lives. The thing is, how the fuck am I supposed to know what's accurate when everyone has different opinions on psychology?

Weed

Leonidas is happy not this evening. >_>

Misolunadiesy

Here's a new word for you which I'm sure you can all associate with: misolunadiesy (mai-zoe-loo-nuh-dee-zee) or the hatred of Mondays. If you're a person who hates Mondays, you're a misolunadies. If something's related to hating Mondays, it's misolunadiesical. If you do something like a misolunadies would, you're doing it misolunadiesically. So there's a brand new word for you to use whenever you feel like expressing yourself at the start of the week ;)

~Have a misolunadiesical day, love Leonidas

Happiness: Guilty as charged

So I don't have the perfect life, noone really seems to; I have many flaws and plenty of things that I don't like about my life. But these are all really small things, like my hair, or the education system I have to swim through. In general? I feel really frigging happy with my life. And I feel guilty as hell about it.

I'm working on it

I'm not the most organised: my homework is usually last-minute and my room permanently untidy.
I'm not the greatest when it comes to memory: tell me something and I may ask you a second later what the heck you just said (sometimes I can't remember what I said.)
I'm not the most time-managed, I spend a lot of my time on the computer and not a lot of time doing any work - I procrastinate so easily.

I'm not the best blogger out there, I don't do an awful lot to go out there and attract people to my blog, and I don't post consistently.
I'm not the hardest worker: I care nothing for a lot of my school subjects and only work on the ones I don't enjoy because I have to.
I'm not as great a writer as I want to be, for the reason that I'm afraid of commitment and don't actually write much.

But to all these things I have say this...

I'm working on it.

~Love Leonidas