The Open Notebook of an Atypical Teenager

Wowzaz. To say the least I haven’t updated in a while. To say the most I haven’t updated in 65 days. (Someone can call me out on the math if they want, but I think its right…)

So, to remedy this fault, I am founding the Weekly What Really Grinds My Gears Report, hereon known as WWRGMGR. For all y’all Family Guy fans out there, that line actually was funny.

But since I can’t say I’m not as funny as the writers for Fox network who create the dialogue for Peter Griffin, it probably won’t be as satisfying, or funny.

Before I begin WWRGMGR Pilot Episode!, I will take the time to apologize and explain myself.

For one, Advanced Placement courses don’t exactly allow very much time to do… anything else. In life. 

For two, Honors courses fill up the tiny bit of extra space of life you had.

For three, track overlaps the time during life, eating up some of the Advanced Placement time, lowering grades.

For four, music, if such a time does manage to wiggle its way into the aforementioned block of “life time” (space intended), eats up some Honors and Advanced Placement time, lowering grades and stressing me out.

For five, impending tests, i.e. SAT IIs, AP exams…, are filled with stress. Stress is a great time sponge. It keeps your mind on something else while this valuable “life time” goes by.

For seven, sleeping has become a secondary action. The others things already occupying too much space on the block of “life time” simply do not allow for such pleasantries to last more than 6 hours. 

Thus, this block of “life time” has no room for The Open Notebook of an Atypical Teenager.

Humph.

Anyways, that aside, the moment you’ve all been reading ahead for, WWRGMGR PILOT EPISODE! (Would it actually be classified as the newly created word, “webisode”? It IS on the web…)

Okay! The topic of this first, and rather short, webisode, is plastic packaging.

You know what really grinds my gears? Plastic packaging. Have you ever bought something, usually electronic, in plastic packaging? If so, then you have experienced the hell it is to open the packaging. Plastic doesn’t rip, so that option is eliminated from our packing-opening toolbox.  In fact, plastic is quite tough and difficult on the hands. If one were strong enough to rip through plastic, they would likely inadvertently rip the product inside as well. Next option from our toolbox, opening it by pulling apart at a seam or connection point. The plastic couldn’t have been grafted around the product completely seamlessly, so of course there are seams and points of “weakness” in the plastic packaging.  However, as if the manufacturers DON’T want you to open their product (?), they are very tightly glued together. Any attempt to dig through the seams and pull them apart will leave you with a still-closed package and a broken nail, or at least a finger in pain. So, you are forced to find scissors to solve the conundrum. How annoying. Even then, the scissor blades often slip on the slippery yet tough surface of the plastic, and it is still hard to cut. Plus, you generally have to cut in an extremely erratic fashion to free your product from its plastic jail. Yes, you finally behold your inhumanely packaged product! Wasn’t that fun? Just to make it worse, plastic is bad for the environment. It biodegrades in (I don’t know the exact figures off the top of my head, sadly) a few million years, I believe. That doesn’t sound good for Mother Earth.

So, in conclusion, plastic packaging grinds my gears because its incredibly hard to open and bad for the environment. Paper packaging is easier to open and good for Mother Earth (provided you recycle the packaging when you’re finished with it). Doesn’t that sound better? :)

This concluded the programming for the pilot webisode of WWRGMGR. (Although “Weekly” is in the title, please do not expect them every week, or even every month for that matter. Refer to above for the justification of this.) Hope you enjoyed it.

P.S. I have also begun to use “tags”. These are visible at the bottom of the post. However, since I haven’t been using them until now (I really don’t want to go back and categorize all the previous posts…), they sere almost no purpose, unless you genuinely don’t know what went on in the post and had to refer to the tags to understand. Sorry. (If you click a tag at the bottom of a post, it will provide you all the posts I have written and tagged with that word or phrase. Or it’s supposed to. Because I haven’t tagged any other posts, it will bring up this post only. Again, sorry.) Hopefully, as I use them more often, they will become partially useful.