In the middle of Crash Course

It was dinnertime.

Me: But I was just in the middle of learning history!
Mom: Ugh. Just because your family wants you to eat dinner with them.
Mom: I suggest you fire them.

Watching Crash Course

That's what I'm doing. I don't really watch the biology ones as much but I do watch world history (because, you know, world history is the single thing that American education up to grade seven or so does not really teach - yeah, I know about the Native Americans and I've learned the American Revolution about three times, don't wonder why I'm not that interested in class).

This week's video was about the French Revolution. I learned all about it in Israel. It was cool.

Then, a picture of Marie Antoinette came up and the little "did you know" thing said "The cake was a lie."

Me: The cake was a lie?
Me: ...
Me: THE CAKE IS A LIE!
Me: LET THEM EAT CAKE!
Me: OH MY FREAKING GOD I GET IT!

And then it was chair happy dance time.

(If you get only half the things I'm saying in this blog post, go see the awesome that are John and Hank Green on Vlogbrothers and Crash Course. Join the Nerdfighters! We are made of awesome!)

(Marie Antoinette never exactly said "Let them eat cake" so the cake WAS a lie.)

(Also, excuse me for being vaguely disconnected with some aspects of popular culture.)

(And excuse the excessive parentheses.)

(I read once in Writer's Digest that you should not use parentheses. At all.)

(I don't really care.)

I do not like vacation homework because

1. The Doctor lies (that's rule one, isn't it?).
2. Vacation is supposed to be work-free. Honestly.
3. Golpalott's third law states that the antidote to a blended poison must be equal to more than the sum of antidotes for each of the separate components.
4. There are better things I could be doing.
5. I could be watching Doctor Who.
6. I could be reading.
7. I could be drawing.
8. I could be watching YouTube.
9. I could be outside.
10. I could be walking around Tel Aviv.
11. I could be lying on my bed and thinking about nothing in particular.
12. I could be helping cook the Passover food.
13. I could be watching a movie.
14. I could be bothering my friends in America.
15. I could be writing.
16. I could be making lists.
17. I could be making and editing videos.
18. I could be painting.
19. I could be doing an infinite amount of better things.
20. No matter how "small" or "easy" the teacher says the assignment is, they aren't the ones doing it so they don't really mind giving it. So it's never what the teacher says.
21. I could be enriching my knowledge of French.
22. I could be sleeping.
23. Homework is overrated.
24. Homework is overrated.
25. Homework is overrated.
26. Homework is overrated.
27. I could me doing stupid things for the fun of it. Like when I electrocuted myself on purpose with my lamp before it was fixed.
28. I am a procrastinator.
29. I could be talking to myself.
30. I could be getting a haircut.
31. I could be shopping.
32. I could be making myself a bag.
33. I could be taking photos.
34. I could be decorating my wall.
35. Homework is overrated.
36. The Flaw in the Plan
37. I could be daydreaming.
38. I could be baking something delicious.
39. There are a billion reasons to dislike it.

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If you understood the references, you are awesome. Okay, FINE, now I'll do my history project.

Talking to Myself

Okay. So it's vacation and I'm being a recluse in my room again.

I'm supposed to be doing my history project on the US Constitution, but it is one of the most annoying things I've ever laid eyes on. And there's also that geography paper and the English homework and the French material I should be learning - yeah. I've got a lot to do. And a lot of time to be spent on Wikipedia - that's where I'm getting my Constitution info. I don't freaking care if it's "unreliable." I just need to get the damn thing done. Although, I will end up having some more work translating from English to Hebrew. I'm not particularly good at that. Oh, the joys of being bilingual.

Me: Go do your history project.

Me: But I don't wanna!

Me: Just get it done.

Me: *dramatic sigh*

Me: It's due tomorrow.

Me: *withering look*

Me: GET OFF OF YOUTUBE!

Me: But the video is only two minutes more!

Me: But you have a history project due tomorrow!

Me: But I don't wanna!

Me: Get off YouTube. Now.

Me: Music helps me concentrate.

Me: No, it doesn't, you idiot. Music distracts you.

Me: I can multitask.

Me: No, you can't.

Me: Why am I talking to myself?

Me: I'm tired of typing "me."

Moi: Is this better?

Me: Just go do your history project.