TOP TEN LIST OF THINGS TO DO WHEN ONE IS BORED...

(Note:  I wrote this when I was bored and these are the things that seemed most appealing at the time.)
1.  Take a nap.
        -This passes the time, maybe when you wake up someone will have something to do.
2.  Drive around.
        -Although it's expensive, many good conversations arise during drives.
3.  Watch a flick.
        -Usually this results in a nap, but you either fall asleep or watch a movie, win-win situation.
4.  Go to the gym.
        -Exercising is awesome.  Enough said.
5.  Facebook.
        -Creeping on people is a great way to entertain your time.
6.  Read a book.
        -Cures boredom and usually leaves you restless, so you want to go get something active accomplished, or leaves you content and ready for a nap.
7.  Listen to music.
        -Relaxes you and results in getting caught up in the world the lyrics create.
8.  Eat some grub.
        -Satisfies both your hunger and boredom.
9.  Annoy others.
        -Ends in laughter or getting  hit, hence ending boredom for that moment.
10.  Text people you haven't heard from in a while.
         -Catching up with old friends is fun and can be somewhat shocking.

Why is love so complicated?

Hasheem Thabeet is from Tanzania, Africa and played for UConn before entering the NBA.

(In today's feature of "High School Athletes," we will see why a loving a sport is complicated.)
ESPN-  What sport are you most involved in?
Athlete-  Basketball.
ESPN-  How long have you been playing basketball?
Athlete-  I have had a basketball in my hand for as long as I can remember, the first game I played in, with actual structure, was in Kindergarten back in my hometown which had a youth basketball program called "Little Dribblers."
ESPN-  You were playing a complete game of basketball in Kindergarten?  Dang, this relationship between you and basketball has had a long time to develop.  Are you two thinking about becoming serious? And by serious I mean taking it out of high school and playing at the collegiate level.
Athlete-  (chuckles)  Since about sixth grade, when I was able to talk to a Lady Griz player, I knew that's what I wanted.  Since then I've spent most of my time in a gym, missing time with my friends and other social events, in attempt to become the best.  And hoping that one day I would amount to enough to be able to enter the next level. 
ESPN-  What makes this love so complicated?
Athlete-  What isn't complicated about it? For starters you have to choose how to use your time, so much can influence and take away from your game.  Injuries are a huge set back.  After the hundreds of hours in the gym, you need to make sure you make your presence is known on the court, take control, want it!  The biggest issue that high school athletes face is whether they get looked at or not, I'm experiencing this now.  I guess we'll all know after this season.
ESPN- That is pretty complicated.  Well, good luck on your career.  Loving a sport is challenging, but overall it can be very rewarding.

Letter to Shakespeare

Dear Will,
    I'm going to be very blunt with you, please prepare your ego.  Your language makes no sense and it challenges my reading skills to exhaustion.  I understand that you were trying to impress your rich and royal audience with your fancy tongue, but you confuse the crap out of us "common folk."  Where are the plays wrote for us, the ones that don't need a side dictionary to decipher what is happening from scene to scene?  The only time your writing appeals to our vocabulary is when a character is incoherently drunk.  Are you saying that were as dumb as some one like yourself would be if you were under an influence of heavy drinking?  In my opinion, "Othello" was very dull until the last act.  Events were too drug out and everything was dramatized; which, I guess, drama is a big part of theatrics, but seriously you may have overdone it.  I really enjoyed the profanity and dirtiness the play had overall, mostly because half of the other students didn't catch onto it.  Concluding my thoughts, I'd just like to inform you (you know just a little friendly FYI), people can only die once; the multiple deaths per character were a bit ridiculous. 
                                                  Sincerely,
                                                                Katie Fitzpatrick