Brother Rant

My little brother is really cute, good at everything, and he has a good personality. I love him to death. This time, I'll talk about how I spoil him too much. He's addicted to Minecraft and spends his days on the computer never moving. I'm nice, so I'll get him stuff like meals. It's not that he's unappreciative. My problem is that he's always on the computer. We have many computers in our house, but only one works. This is the one one with the ability to run Minecraft and also the only one that a person could hypothetically watch anime on. You see my problem yet? None of the other various devices and computers can properly connect to the Internet, play the software needed to watch videos, and allow sound to come through. Well, my brother wakes up before me, so I never get to watch anime. I probably have about one day a month when I can just power through a bunch of episodes. It's even less when school's in session, probably about two days a season. I'm too nice to kick him off and our parents are useless at enforcing anything. There aren't any good anime these days, but still! This is probably why I've never gotten into anime that much, plus my aversion to TV. Sure, I may watch one episode of seven anime per season, but I never continue and that number keeps shrinking. 

Mou!

Summer🌻

School's out 'til fall!

🌻🌴🎆🎐🎋🎇🐚🌻

I'll be asleep until September. ^^

I have two summer homeworks, which is morally unacceptable, but I'll be relaxing for a few months. Bye sophomores! Yo, juniors!（＾◇＾）

World Cup⚽

Brazil 2014, folks!

I'm a huge World Cup fan, here to update daily. I only have limited flag symbols on keyboard, so do forgive. 

My favorite teams: Netherlands, Mexico, US, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Greece

My guess of winner: Germany🇩🇪

3-1 Brazil, v. Croatia

Rooting for: Brazil

Brazil played badly, but their goalie was good. Opposite for Croatia. The ref was controversial. I like Neymar and Oscar was good. 

1-0 Mexico, v. Cameroon

Rooting for: Mexico

The ref was controversial. It was pouring down rain. Both teams were good. 

5-1 Netherlands, v. Spain🇪🇸 (reigning)

Rooting for:Netherlands

A hyped game turned to slaughter. Beautiful, beautiful slaughter. I like Schneider, but I can't spell his name. Will the Dutch take the Cup?

3-1 Chile, v. Australia

Rooting for: Australia 

Aussies were better than expected. I liked Chile's goalie and Sanchez, but I was watching with two Aussies in the room. I like Cahill on their side. The ref was nice. 

cont. 

Goodbye Seniors

It's that time of year again, when the seniors, the students in their fourth year of high school, leave for college or the workplace. 

I don't know many seniors, but there are three in my Japanese class who brought us cupcakes and one in JSU, Jewish Student Union, who I vaguely knew of. 

To all those who've supported us underclass men and been role models of convenience, thank you. 

Good luck out in the world. 

🌎

SPU & 🇺🇸

Another school shooting occurred at Seattle Pacific University. One student, Lee, was killed, and others injured. What made this different from other shootings? Well, I'm a Seattleite, so it's close to home. But more importantly, this time, another student, Meis, apprehended the shooter with pepper spray. Several other staff and students held him down until police arrived. 

This time, someone stood up. 

As someone growing up in the US, there's a lot of cultural impacts on my developing psyche. One is that I've been desensitized to shootings. I hear about a new shooting about three times a month, it seems. Recently we had the one in CA too. I honestly don't care when I hear about these. They're normal. Everyday news. If I lived in Europe, or Asia, would I act the same? Is every country like this? I don't know. But I've long given up on these as a fact of life. 

This time someone stood up. 

I can't describe how much this means to me. Living in a culture of violence, I didn't know it could be stopped. Now I have hope that I never had before. Maybe someday this won't happen. Maybe in the world my descendants live in, they'll look back on this time and think about how backwards people in the past were. All this is new to me. Maybe guns won't last forever. 🔫