Leadership schmeadership

Oh how I love leadership thingies. We get to listen to Mr. Mason talk about "good leadership qualities" for about an hour while he insults our apparently horrible marching and expecting exquisite perfection. What better way is there to spend a Saturday afternoon? I always get easily bored with his little speeches, either because I've heard it before or I can figure out everything for myself. It's really not that hard, but apparently some people are just stupid. Or he just thinks we're stupid. Whatever.

On a slightly happier note, I went shopping afterwards for the first time in a longggggggg time. In a whole year, I haven't really bought much clothes-wise, so it was pretty fun. Unfortunately my stamina for shopping is extremely low, and after the first store, I was ready to go home. We did actually buy a lot of stuff at that store though, so I guess I can explain myself. I also bought some new tennis shoes because my old ones (that I've had sense at least 8th grade, sadly, and have survived 3 years of marching band) mysteriously disappeared somewhere between my room and the band slot room. Probably in the slot room, because once you lose something there, you're never getting it back - in fact, I'm sure there's some kind of wormhole that sucks random things into oblivion when it feels like it (and no, I'm not talking about the Trumpet Hole, but that's also a likely source of near-permanent loss). Anyway, my new shoes are cool because they have a random bright lime green design on it. Hooray for being unique! (or weird, whatever).

I saw this shirt in the men's section that had reasons for "why guys are freaking cool" or something like that. Some of the funny ones were "We 'do' our nails with a pocket knife" and "Everything on our face stays its natural color". But one of the ones that I had to pause at was "We get credit for the smallest act of thoughtfulness". That's kinda sad - I mean, the stereotypical man is crude and tough and mean, which is true in most cases, but they're not 100% like that...but apparently being nice to someone is NOT a sign of manliness. I think it's the other way around. If a guy is actually nice to all the people he meets (okay, all is stretching it...just most would be okay too) then I think he is definitely "freaking cool". It's just kind of pathetic that women are seen as the ones that are always nice and caring and...well, motherly, and that all of those things are apparently signs of weakness. No wonder our world is so messed up.

I had a good name for this blog, but with the way my layout is, I don't have it on here. It's "Why don't you come right out and say it" from a song by - never mind, I don't even need to say it. I'm sure you can guess. Speaking of the layout, like that random eye picture? I think it's kinda cool, but that could just be me. Or because it's MY eye. Yeah. Shush.

I had something deepish to say, but I forgot it so...I'm gonna go write more of my story. Toodles.