Archive for June 2008

Owned application… creepy

I'm officially creeped out. I knew for a long time that MySpace was place full of pedophiles and prostitutes, but I never thought the former would end up on Facebook. After all, it's Facebook.... a clean website for college and high school kids. I was invited by my friend to join this application called Owned. I also hesitate to join any app because I think I use too many but I finally decided to give in. The idea behind this app is that you can buy your friend for a certain amount of virtual money and that increases his value. But then other people can outbid you and buy your friend for a higher price. So it started out that one of my close friends bought me for $1. Later that day I saw that some random person bought me for more. And then a second random person bought me. ...

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A Great Happy Birthday to Me

Today was (and I suppose still is) my birthday. I am 17. And it was quite an eventful day. I would like to outline for my own pleasure in explicit detail: At approximately midnight I went to bed. I woke up. It occurred to me it was my birthday. I showered, got dressed, and put my contact lenses in. On my way to school I had a Go-gurt and OJ for breakfast (the juice, not Simpson!). I took my English final. It was overwhelming at first but I eased my way into it and wrote for the win. It was very different from any other final I've taken so far and looking back I enjoyed it. I had a 15-minute break although it felt like 5. I had my PE final. That meant that I sat in the gym for 2 hours (weight room for maybe 20 minutes) doing various...

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