I think its pretty interesting that i feel guilty when i go so long without a blog.
I'm in one of those writing moods. I haven't been a loyal blogger its been weeks since my last post. could be that i'm really lazy.
So there isn't very much to talk about right now. Its February and the weathers been on and off. yesterday i went to the rec with some friends to play basketball and wore shorts, today its windy and freezing and i wore my winter coat. Lately i've been thinking about life after high school and also after college, i'm wondering what type of climate i will live in. Although i like warm weather, i also sometimes look forward to the cold winters spent by a fire. I think i would get too bored of the warm weather and appreciate it less. I think that i enjoy the summertime so much because i experience the rough and cold winters. Of course the cold sucks usually but i like the change in temperature depending on the season in new jersey.
As you can tell theres not that much on my mind to write about, i wouldnt normally talk about the weather. My birthday is coming up, April 6th, and i am pretty damn excited about finally getting my license and not having to rely on my parents all the time for rides. Now all that needs to be done is get a car to drive.
Theres been two things in my life that i am constantly involved in. Music and movies. Lately i have been watching movies, maybe one a day, and my sense of differentiating a good movie from a bad movie is becoming stronger. Some movies i (along with my rating) have been watching:
I am Legend 8/10
Death Proof 4/10
Disturbia 7/10
American Gangster 8/10
No Country for Old Men 6.5/10
Juno 7.5/10
We Own the Night 9/10
Music:
I am currently addicted to Switchfoot. I need something else to listen to in order to get unhooked and i haven't found anything yet. Some of the top songs i like are: Awakening, We are one tonight, The beautiful letdown, and The shadow proves the sunshine.
But above all, Switchfoot (feat. relient k) produced a charity-type song called "rebuild" that is simply amazing. go on their website right away and download it. not sure why but ive listened to it about 50 times already after only having it for 2 weeks.
So there isn't anything too much going on in my life. same old stuff, different day.
quote to think about:
I make mistakes, a lot sometimes, but what makes us different is our ability to learn from them. Gandhi is great. one of my role models, im trying to be more like him.
Well im gonna get back to life and stuff, listening to switchfoot and watching a movie.
until next time.
josh
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
I'm becoming a better blogger. I got off my laziness habit and brought myself to writing this blog; my second in two days which is an improvement for me after going about a month since i've written.
Nothing too much happened to me, just a normal school day at high school fulfilled with homework projects and annoying teachers that piss me off. But i have to say that one of my teachers mr. nuccio differs from the usual teacher description. I admire that. rather than teaching through the book, everyday is a lecture from his own personal knowledge of the topic that we are learning about in school. Although it got sort of annoying at first because we would have to read the textbook on our own and we do not get any grades back at all during the year, his alternative teaching method has actually gotten to my liking. I feel as though he changed my way of thinking in high school and more importantly my way of learning. My attitude towards going to school changed also, as there are some days where i look forward to attending his class. there are even times where i find myself wandering around manalapan high school just looking to have a conversation with the guy. How can one person be such a major impact and influence on somebody you ask? well you'll have to meet him for yourself just to see how.
In this blog i intended to accomplish two main points; the first one being to mention one of the best teachers i will ever have in high school, and the second one is to talk about being different. Mr. Nuccio has a different way to teach his classes and it seems to be very successful and have astoundingly impressive results. The students he touched in his lifetime are endless. Anyway, today i had a really long amount of time to think because i didn't have anything to do after school because i couldn't get to the gym today. So the thoughts of what i would do after high school crossed my mind. I opened this blog with Mr. Nuccio's different style of teaching to express how one can be different and still be successful.
The story goes that we go from grade school to high school. then to a good college. then get a job. then marry and have a wife and kids and live happily ever after. right now i have an opinion about that. total bullshit. maybe i dont want to go to college. maybe i've had enough of this whole being educated crap. or maybe i will go to college. but maybe i dont feel like getting a job that i'll have to live with for the rest of my life. going from college to sitting in an office building all day does not sound fun at all. when college is over, i'm expected to get a job and become an adult. but there's a part of me, some tiny voice in my head thats telling me to be different and don't do what everyone else is expecting you to do. dont go along with what society expects you to do. be different, be yourself, and be happy. i dont know where i will end up, but today i have the thoughts that all of these expectations are not meant for me individually to follow and maybe one day soon when i am able to i will divert from the master life plan i have been following all of these years and do what will make me happy.
i saw the bucket list a few weeks ago and there was a line in the movie that really made me think. Morgan says, "Well, the first question they ask is, 'Have you had any joy in your life?' And the second question you're going to be asked is, 'Have you brought joy to others?'" well living according to society and the path your parents want you to take might not bring on the two answers i would like for those questions. the two questions sort of go together i think, because you get joy in your life by bringing joy to others. and i dont know that much, but thinking about it i dont see too much joy in sitting at a workplace with a job on a schedule all the time. maybe i will follow the expectations everyone and society makes; i'll go to college get a job settle down with a family and live happily ever after. but maybe there's a different road i will take that will make me happier and be able to answer those two questions better. right now i am not sure. im still in high school on the long journey we were forced into when we were young and started school. but there's this strange feeling i get sometimes that when eventually i am fully able to make my own decisions i will be different from everyone else. i guess we'll just have to let fate do its part and see what happens.
(i feel like a writer now, so i'll use the name on my birth certificate to sign since its sounds more like a writer).
-Joshua Miles Siegel
Nothing too much happened to me, just a normal school day at high school fulfilled with homework projects and annoying teachers that piss me off. But i have to say that one of my teachers mr. nuccio differs from the usual teacher description. I admire that. rather than teaching through the book, everyday is a lecture from his own personal knowledge of the topic that we are learning about in school. Although it got sort of annoying at first because we would have to read the textbook on our own and we do not get any grades back at all during the year, his alternative teaching method has actually gotten to my liking. I feel as though he changed my way of thinking in high school and more importantly my way of learning. My attitude towards going to school changed also, as there are some days where i look forward to attending his class. there are even times where i find myself wandering around manalapan high school just looking to have a conversation with the guy. How can one person be such a major impact and influence on somebody you ask? well you'll have to meet him for yourself just to see how.
In this blog i intended to accomplish two main points; the first one being to mention one of the best teachers i will ever have in high school, and the second one is to talk about being different. Mr. Nuccio has a different way to teach his classes and it seems to be very successful and have astoundingly impressive results. The students he touched in his lifetime are endless. Anyway, today i had a really long amount of time to think because i didn't have anything to do after school because i couldn't get to the gym today. So the thoughts of what i would do after high school crossed my mind. I opened this blog with Mr. Nuccio's different style of teaching to express how one can be different and still be successful.
The story goes that we go from grade school to high school. then to a good college. then get a job. then marry and have a wife and kids and live happily ever after. right now i have an opinion about that. total bullshit. maybe i dont want to go to college. maybe i've had enough of this whole being educated crap. or maybe i will go to college. but maybe i dont feel like getting a job that i'll have to live with for the rest of my life. going from college to sitting in an office building all day does not sound fun at all. when college is over, i'm expected to get a job and become an adult. but there's a part of me, some tiny voice in my head thats telling me to be different and don't do what everyone else is expecting you to do. dont go along with what society expects you to do. be different, be yourself, and be happy. i dont know where i will end up, but today i have the thoughts that all of these expectations are not meant for me individually to follow and maybe one day soon when i am able to i will divert from the master life plan i have been following all of these years and do what will make me happy.
i saw the bucket list a few weeks ago and there was a line in the movie that really made me think. Morgan says, "Well, the first question they ask is, 'Have you had any joy in your life?' And the second question you're going to be asked is, 'Have you brought joy to others?'" well living according to society and the path your parents want you to take might not bring on the two answers i would like for those questions. the two questions sort of go together i think, because you get joy in your life by bringing joy to others. and i dont know that much, but thinking about it i dont see too much joy in sitting at a workplace with a job on a schedule all the time. maybe i will follow the expectations everyone and society makes; i'll go to college get a job settle down with a family and live happily ever after. but maybe there's a different road i will take that will make me happier and be able to answer those two questions better. right now i am not sure. im still in high school on the long journey we were forced into when we were young and started school. but there's this strange feeling i get sometimes that when eventually i am fully able to make my own decisions i will be different from everyone else. i guess we'll just have to let fate do its part and see what happens.
(i feel like a writer now, so i'll use the name on my birth certificate to sign since its sounds more like a writer).
-Joshua Miles Siegel
Monday, February 4, 2008
Party it up / Do What you want
So today was quite an interesting day in high school. I woke up this morning next to my friend alex and eric shaking because it was so damn cold on the floor that we slept on. Last night was the superbowl, and although the giants upset the pats there were crazier things going on at the cohen house without any parents in the country. Anyway, me and a couple of friends started to party with some older girls and got pretty drunk last night. I found out today that the group was supposively famous around manalapan so that was pretty awesome to say that us high school kids got to party with some popular college girls. One thing led to another, and next thing i know me and this one girl have sex and i got her pregnant. well that didnt really happen but its on my list of things to do before i die. minus the pregnant part though.
We always learn about abstinence and all that shit in school, but being that junior year i have been going to a couple of parties here and there i can actually say that it is pretty fun to get shit drunk once in a while. Its like the whole high school experience isn't complete with out a variety of parties where you can drink until you puke. This would've been just another party but in reality it wasnt because we did it with a bunch of popular older college girls and on a school night. Now i'm not an expert on hangovers, but i can def. say that falling asleep in math class only to be woken up by your teacher isnt exactly good. So what i drooled all over my test in english and almost threw up after i ate lunch, i partied with some hot chicks and got wasted life is good. Maybe someday i will look back and see how immature and bad my decisions were, but until then hell im going to live it up.
I really don't want to go to sleep. I want to live a life where i can do what ever i want and not be limited. tomorrows school, and so is the next day, and the next day after that. it seems never to end. I think we would be a whole lot more productive if we didnt spend so much time sleeping. We usually spend like 7 or 8 hours a day sleeping, a little less than 1/2 the day. thats a lot of wasted time! i believe we should spend every single day like its our last, and on my last day i don't want to be sleeping. maybe ill become an inventor and invent something that decreases the amount of sleep that we need. that would be sick.
so people ask me whats new and i never know what to say. everything is the same with me. i go to school everyday, hang out with friends on the weekend, and then do the same thing when a new week rolls around. i need to get off this schedule that dominates my life. it sucks that i cant do what i want. but i am progressively accomplishing that. i try to sleep less and avoid making plans, instead doing things when i feel like it. i'm a lot happier that way.
so long
We always learn about abstinence and all that shit in school, but being that junior year i have been going to a couple of parties here and there i can actually say that it is pretty fun to get shit drunk once in a while. Its like the whole high school experience isn't complete with out a variety of parties where you can drink until you puke. This would've been just another party but in reality it wasnt because we did it with a bunch of popular older college girls and on a school night. Now i'm not an expert on hangovers, but i can def. say that falling asleep in math class only to be woken up by your teacher isnt exactly good. So what i drooled all over my test in english and almost threw up after i ate lunch, i partied with some hot chicks and got wasted life is good. Maybe someday i will look back and see how immature and bad my decisions were, but until then hell im going to live it up.
I really don't want to go to sleep. I want to live a life where i can do what ever i want and not be limited. tomorrows school, and so is the next day, and the next day after that. it seems never to end. I think we would be a whole lot more productive if we didnt spend so much time sleeping. We usually spend like 7 or 8 hours a day sleeping, a little less than 1/2 the day. thats a lot of wasted time! i believe we should spend every single day like its our last, and on my last day i don't want to be sleeping. maybe ill become an inventor and invent something that decreases the amount of sleep that we need. that would be sick.
so people ask me whats new and i never know what to say. everything is the same with me. i go to school everyday, hang out with friends on the weekend, and then do the same thing when a new week rolls around. i need to get off this schedule that dominates my life. it sucks that i cant do what i want. but i am progressively accomplishing that. i try to sleep less and avoid making plans, instead doing things when i feel like it. i'm a lot happier that way.
so long
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