Baseball!

Baseball season is almost here, and I couldn't be more excited, as the Reds are #1 in the power rankings to start the season. If you follow baseball at all, you would now how amazing the Reds season was last year, and how disappointing it was at the end. They lost 3 games in a row to the San Fran Giants and made Buster Posey a hated man to many people. Flashback: I was sitting in study hall listening to the game 5 of the series between the Reds and Giants on my phone. And then it happened. An infamous grand slam by Buster Posey that led to the Reds collapse and ended their hope for the world series. I don't think I talked to anyone for the rest of the day I was so upset. But, even though it ended badly, their were still some shining moments from last season: Homer Bailey's no hitter, having the best record in the MLB, and winning the NL central. And everything is expected to be even better this year. They have arguably undoubtedly the best hitter in the MLB with Joey Votto, the hardest throwing closer with Aroldis Chapman, and one of the best pitching staffs in MLB. Oh, and we got rid of the strike out king Drew Stubbs, and got the coolest Korean player ever, Shin-Soo Choo. All of those add to a great season that starts in 11 days.

Poetry

"Poetry is basically anything that calls itself a poem" is what my view of poetry is. I think that you could just write a description of anything, use some fancy language, and call it a poem. I hate the fact that poetry can be about anything. I also think poetry is all about identity. If someone is a well known poet, they could write some scribbles on a sheet of paper and it would be considered a masterpiece. They could write a description of a piece of grass, and while it may be the most boring thing in the world, it would be studied at every school and be inducted into the poetry hall of fame. I don't understand why some of the poetry I have gone over in past English classes ate so famous. Most aren't interesting, most don't make since, and most of them are completely ridiculous. I also dislike all of the different types of poetry. If poetry was all rhyme, I might have liked it, but unfortunately it's not. It feels like there are a hundred different types of poetry, and you can't use rhyme in any of them.

High School

I can't wait for high school to be over, and I'm sure its the same way for every senior. I don't know if it's just  me, but I feel like I've been doing the same thing for the past four years. Wake up too early, go to school, sit through two or three classes wishing you weren't there, go to lunch and get some nasty food, sit through one or two more classes, go home, sleep, and repeat. I would like to know how anyone is supposed to find joy in that. I know school isn't supposed to make you happy, but being bored doesn't help any. It has come to the point that in some of my classes, I sit and watch the clock to try to see if I can see the number switch or I just sit and stare into oblivion until the class is over. For example, my percussion class. I have been in that class all four years I have been here. We have gone over the same things every single year. I can kinda understand because we always get new players who don't know what they are doing, but I'm not learning anything new when we are going over what a quarter note is for the thousandth time, or when we play 6th grade music. I would be much happier if we had an advanced class, but we barely have enough students for one class. Well, that got a little off topic, but at least I let out some of my feelings.