Fighting the Current

Tricking Magic Tricks

All weekend most of the TV channels have been airing Halloween specials. They don't scare me. But the History Channel knew how. Today they aired their series on Hitler's youth groups. That really chills my spine. They scare me more than pictures of Holocaust victims. They were not just innocent victims, even though they didn't have much of a choice either.

A friend just tried a word/number magic trick thing on me. I always go with my second instinct in picking those things, just to throw the results off. And if someone says they are telepathic and I should pick a number between X and Y, I pick a decimal or a fraction. Then when they go through all the whole numbers between X and Y and declare that I must have either changed my number or not thought of one, I tell them matter-of-factly what I did think of. Then they say I cheated. Well, they never said WHOLE numbers...

I have to write an English paper between now and tomorrow afternoon, so I should go. It's due for peer review tomorrow. Which really probably won't benefit me much considering several of the people in my class(es) ask me to edit their papers anyway. I'm usually not bad at editing my own papers, but I'll have my mom or someone look through the final draft because I tend to get attached to really bad lines and don't want to change them, lol.

I should go finish that paper anyway. I'm tired. This daylight-savings time really screws me up.