Sweet 16!!

Today is my sixteenth birthday!! I am no longer fifteen years old, and a few years ago I would've been able to get my Driver's License soon! However, laws have changed, and I now have to wait at least nine months after getting my learner's permit to get my license, which means that the earliest time I could get my license would be February.
The first two days of school have been okay. My teachers seem nice enough (I especially like my Journalistic Writing teacher, Mr. Scales), although since I had such stellar teachers last year I'm afraid that this year won't compare. Mr. Schaefer is nice, but his class will be as nothing compared to my Algebra class last year with Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Wesley is pretty cool but I still like Maffey better, and while Mr. Cronfel was a little weird at times, Ms. Drogos (AP Euro teacher) downright scares me.
Also, I like eighth lunch because I have a lot of friends in it, but I caught myself singing "Hunger Strike" by Temple of the Dog in French today ("I'm goin hungry...").
Also, I am already knee-deep in AP Euro homework, and I am positive that it will be very hard. Luckily, my teacher said that we won't have any homework over Winter or Spring Breaks, which is pretty awesome.
In addition, I got a White Ninja birthday card from Boots, and it was a mixture of random and funny.

Good News!

I finally finished summer reading, with only two days to go!! w00t!!
Other than that, I don't really have anything else to say, other than the fact that my birthday is in three days (ugh, it's a school day), and I'm half-excited, half-depressed to be starting school again. At least I have lunch with a lot of people this year, unlike last year.

Off to GenCon Tomorrow!

Yes, the title of this post pretty much says it all. I'm leaving early tomorrow morning for GenCon, an annual gaming convention that takes place in Indianapolis that I go to every year. I always have tons of fun, but I will be gone until Monday, at the earliest.
More random Geek news! In my incessant wanderings on Wikipedia, I discovered a few tracks for Guitar Hero World Tour, the upcoming Guitar Hero that looks like a Rock Band rip-off with better songs. Drums and vocals will be included this time, as will the ability to create your own songs! Versions will come out for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii! It comes out in October, and I can't wait. Here are some songs that will be in the game (not all of them; the game is said to contain at least 85 tracks!):

"Are You Gonna Go My Way"-Lenny Kravitz
"Beat It"-Michael Jackson
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"-Smashing Pumpkins
"B.Y.O.B."-System of a Down
"Crazy Train"-Ozzy Osbourne (it's about time!)
"Dammit"-Blink 182
"Everlong"-Foo Fighters
"Eye of the Tiger"-Survivor
"Feel the Pain"-Dinosaur Jr.
"Hollywood Nights"-Bob Seger
"Hot for Teacher"-Van Halen
"Hotel California"-The Eagles
"In the End"-Linkin Park
"The Joker"-Steve Miller Band
"Lazy Eye"-Silversun Pickups
"Light my Fire"-The Doors
"Love Me Two Times"-The Doors
"Low"-Flo Rida feat. T-Pain (wtf??????)
"Misery Business"-Paramore
"Mr. Crowley"-Ozzy Osbourne (I love this song)
"Never Too Late"-The Answer
"Obstacle 1"-Interpol
"One-Armed Scissor"-At the Drive-In
"Purple Haze"-Jimi Hendrix
"Rebel Yell"-Billy Idol
"Santeria"-Sublime
"Stillborn"-Black Label Society
"Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"-Airbourne
"Trapped Under Ice"-Metallica
"Weapon of Choice"-Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
"What I've Done"-Linkin Park
"The Wind Cries Mary"-Jimi Hendrix

Sounds awesome!

It's Been A While...

...since I've posted, I know. It's just that I was in Camp Mack for a week, and then went with my family on vacation in Michigan this past week, shortly after returning from Mack. Although both trips were tons of fun (in Mack, I got a chance to go tubing, and in Michigan, I swam in the Great Lake while being battered with seven-foot tall waves), they have prevented me from blogging all that much. As if that weren't enough, I'm leaving Thursday morning for GenCon Indianapolis, which is where I'll be until next Sunday.
However, I did take the opportunity during Michigan to read a lot of Brave New World; I now only have 60 pages left, although I still have to do that crazy essay and letter. It's an interesting, thought-provoking book, although a little weird.
Some interesting nerd news:
Guillermo del Toro, director of the Hellboy movies and Pan's Labryinth, is taking the directorial reigns of the Lord of the Rings film franchise, and will be directing two movies set in the Tolkienverse: a movie adaptation of The Hobbit, set for release in 2011, and an unnamed movie that will center on events that occur in between The Hobbit and LOTR. Sounds awesome!