Doing the GIF.

I liked doing the GIF project. I had a lot of fun. It was a little tough coming up with an idea, I mean, nothing can top Saveria's exploding baby, but I think I did a good job. I like it a lot when we work in Photoshop, versus working in Excel or Word. It's a lot more fun and creative. I hope we do something like this again soon.

Mason Augustus Wheeler

G to the I to the F.

Cold.

I love to sleep. I'm so glad that it's cold now and I can bundle up under a nice comfy blanket and sleep all the time. It's so nice. When I go to school I can just throw on a big, warm, comfortable jacket and not worry about anything. I love that. I'm just so happy that the weather has finally changed and it's nice and cool. I love this time of year.

Mason Augustus Wheeler

Gross.

I feel so self conscious. I keep throwing clothes on before I leave the house because I'm cold and then regretting it once I get to school. Today, I put on an ugly black long-sleeved shirt and threw a gross hairy red t-shirt on top of it. I'm disgusting today. I just want to go home and sleep. On top of all of that, I feel sick. I'm sick to my stomach and I feel like I'm going to throw up. I just want to go home.

Mason Augustus Wheeler

Smoking in the Bathroom.

So I was sitting in the bathroom at lunch today, like I do sometimes when I have nobody to sit with and don't want to look like a loser, and I could clearly smell that somebody was smoking in one of the stalls next to me. I didn't think much of it, but after they left I heard a teacher call security. A few minutes later I hear a loud noise. It turned out to be that fat security guard kicking in all of the stalls. He got to mine and was like, "Are you almost done in there?" I said yes and he was like, "Don't bother flushing those cigarettes." I realized that I was going to get blamed. So I came out and said that I wasn't smoking but I could smell that somebody else was. He still took my I.D. and wrote my name down. What an idiot.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. If they call my mom or something she'll pretty much know that I wasn't smoking.

Mason Augustus Wheeler

Technology.

If I could change one thing about the world it would be all the technology that exists today. In today's society, though we have a lot of very useful technology that helps do a lot of important things, technology has grown at an unnecessary rate. All people care about is their phone or iPod or what have you. Nobody has face to face conversations anymore. The old days were so much more intimate and happy. People played together and they laughed together. Now, they LOL together. It's just a little too much. So, I would decrease the amount of technology. Not all the way, but just make it less advanced than now. Like in the '90s or early '00s. We had technology, but it wasn't all over the place and didn't consume our lives the way it does now.

Mason Augustus Wheeler

Night of the Living TED.

I watched a talk given by Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist. She was showing images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice. It was very interesting and I learned a lot.

Mason Augustus Wheeler