Abandon all hope, Nerds who enter here.

So, some of you may know I am a proud student of the International Baccalaureate Program. I use the term "proud" lightly, mainly because I'm enduring the hell of college-level courses, shit tons of homework and garbage like that...but that's not even the worst. At the end of the four year program (now), I'm in the midst of taking examinations that determine whether or not I get rewarded with the IB Diploma after all of this effort. SO, if I fail the tests, four years of extra work will all have been for nothing more than the same high school diploma as the people who wasted four years making shoebox dioramas and baking soda volcanoes and elementary school-level things which should not be condoned in a high school curriculum but is anyway.

ANYWAY, I'm stressing out.

But enough about that crap. To celebrate, I had my first of these hellish exams today (English Paper I (of II)) and am confident that I aced it big time. I know the worst is yet to come, but to hell with it! I'm celebrating anyway!

BUT! Enough talk of IB and such. We've other business to tend to.

In Acting today, we continued work on our final monologues, and I think I made some genuine progress with my character and motion and reformatting of the monologue I've written. During off, I went and had lunch and then proceeded to just hang in the band room (and I had a brief stint on drums, which ended in my band teacher jokingly threatening to administer a headlock and promptly complementing my ability to keep time). And in math, considering our exams for said class are tomorrow and the day after, we're starting our collective relaxing until the end of the year, complete with a lack of assignments and curriculum. Good stuff, indeed.

ROMANCE PARAGRAPH. BLAH BLAH BLAH.

My girlfriend and I are doing awesomely, and I'm glad to say that things aside from IB and school have been very, very awesome. She and I really click, since we're both dementedly nerdy and not afraid to show it, and over the weekend we took part in a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and a celebration of National Wear Cosplay to Starbucks Day. Yep. She's pretty much perfect.

And now we reach today's activity...

COOL PICTURE TUESDAY! (Oh baby, oh baby...)


Today's images come from my favorite source of pictures on the internet: My friend's filtered collection of pictures from the evil, evil place we know as 4Chan.

The first one is Portal-related. Because it is still consuming my life. Inevitably, I inadvertently found out how Portal 2 ends before finishing the game. But good God, now I can't wait to play it and do it myself, because it sounds goddamn epic. So here's a picture of a corrupted Personality Core.

The next image features a great quote from one of my heroes, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock. And face it. That's one intimidating picture of a gun pointed right at your face.

And in case you care, here's an old picture of me in a steampunk-y outfit similar to the one I wore to National Wear Cosplay to Starbucks Day.

And just for the hell of it, here's Deadpool.

Anyhow, this is becoming a disorganized mess, so I'm going to stop this post before it gets out of control.

This concludes the posting of The Mindless Ramblings of the Nerd for 3 May 2011. I hope to see you soon for another exciting installment!

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