The Nerd is thanking Mother Nature.

Good day, fine readers!

I am currently jubilant, because tomorrow, I won't have to wake up before the sunrise and waste my day away in school. I can instead wake up around midday and waste my day in my home, because tomorrow is a SNOW DAY! Yeah! (epic guitar solo)

So, my current plan for the evening is to not care about when I hit the hay and just watch a lot of good films. So I've quite the evening ahead of me. With that, let's recount the day's events.

In English this morning, we finished Waiting for Godot, a beautiful absurdist work of art. It is quite literally fantastic if you've never had the pleasure of reading it or seeing it on stage. However, the event is bittersweet, because now I no longer have an excuse to wear my bowler hat in class. In History, we were assigned an epic debate project where students will take on the roles of historians of different schools of history and historical figures and host a trial where the people who are thought to have responsibility for starting the Cold War will be interrogated. I literally ran to the sign-up list to ensure I would be portraying President Harry S. Truman, a hero of sorts for me. Honestly, he found himself in a really crappy situation and took it in stride. He ended the Second World War, and although the recovery for the nation was hard and depressing (economically AND literally), he still managed to get a second term. Because he's a badass. A badass who I will have the immense pleasure and honor of portraying in my History class. Spanish, as always, kind of sucked. We had a quiz of Hispanic-american countries (capitals and adjectives of nationalities), and I think that went well, actually. However, I feel as though I might have misspelled a few, and to get points on the quiz, the spelling must be flawless, so I think I'll be losing a few points in that regard. Whatever. I hate that class. Then in Band, we did...the ordinary thing that happens in Band. Pretty standard.

Due to the weather, all after school activities were cancelled, and therefore I cannot report on a musical rehearsal today, because there wasn't one.

WARNING: Romance Paragraph Ahead!

Well, things are stagnant as hell. I finally saw her today after her week away, and we exchanged a few words and a hug, but that's about it. On another note, there's another female friend of mine who I simply cannot read. She's insanely sweet and cool, but she's not single. So whenever she talks to me or hugs me, I can't tell if she's just being really nice or if she's flirting. The latter really doesn't seem probable, firstly because she has a boyfriend and secondly, why in the name of God would a woman flirt with me? Whatever. I guess time will tell in this situation.

So, we've conquered another Monday, readers, and therefore, it's time to reward ourselves with...

COOL YOUTUBE VIDEO MONDAY! (applause or lack thereof)


Today's clip is a song from one of my favorite YouTube channels, schmoyoho, the people behind Auto-Tune the News. This, however, is a song made by Auto-Tuning the infamous "Double Rainbow" video, which everyone should know of by now. It's actually a decent enough song, and, as it is with most cases involving Auto-Tune, it's freaking hilarious. Enjoy.

To further prove my point on how Auto-Tune is one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind, here's another video where Weird Al Yankovic helps the Know Your Meme team explain the history of Auto-Tune. Because few things are funnier than Weird Al using the I am T-Pain iPhone app and singing "Shortay!" Enjoy.

And with that, I'll close off the day's post with one last fun video, a cover of the Weebl's Stuff classic Amazing Horse ("Look at my horse! My horse is amazing!" Yeah, you know it...) courtesy of Italian electro-nerd-rock band The Nerd Follia. See you tomorrow, folks!

This concludes the posting of The Mindless Ramblings of the Nerd for 31 January 2011. I hope to see you tomorrow for another exciting installment!

("Get on my horse, I'll take you 'round the universe and all the other places, too!" "I think you'll find that the universe pretty much covers everything." "Shut up, woman! Get on my horse!")

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