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Donating Blood

Published on May 18, 2009 in Daily flash, Life and Touhou. 48 Comments
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I realized recently that I haven’t made a daily flash in awhile (since the end of April; I guess the daily flash characters were temporarily affected by swine flu or something). Anyway, yeah. Blood drives. They hold them at school every once in awhile, but I’ve never donated because I get uneasy at the fact that a pint seems like a lot of blood. Well, basically my view is summed up by Headphones Character’s brief explanation.

Swine Flu

Published on April 29, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 51 Comments
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Swine flu is spreading rapidly… as a topic of discussion! So many people are saying things along the lines of “Oh no, swine flu, we’re going to die!” and I can’t even look up “plural version of flu” on Google without getting a bunch of swine flu results in the first page. And even dictionary.com‘s entry about the word “flu” has “swine flu” in it! And now the swine flu is on this site! How did that happen?! Run! Run before you catch it from the internet!

Earth Day

Published on April 22, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 39 Comments
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Today is Earth Day! (Or yesterday was, depending on your timezone) I didn’t really bother doing anything to show that I cared about the environment, except… well, not throwing trash on the floor, but I do that every day. Anyway, the fact that today was Earth Day wasn’t really mentioned that much in school, except on a bunch of posters that nobody really spoke about except maybe one person. And to avoid turning this into a post about the social implications of Earth Day (as if Headphones Character’s monologue wasn’t enough already), I will end this post after this sentence is finished, which will be now.

School Surveys

Published on April 6, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 35 Comments
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Today we had to do one of those Department of Education surveys about our school experience, with a bunch of opinion-based questions (although some of them weren’t based on opinion, like what grade you were in or what classes you’re taking). And it was kinda interesting that we were asking each other what we put down for certain questions as if it were a test of some sort. Of course, if it were a real test, we wouldn’t be allowed to talk or else it would be seen as cheating, but yeah. Taking the survey reminded me of how my school doesn’t really have too many options for the classes we choose to take, but I guess that’s another issue.

Taxes

Published on March 31, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 24 Comments
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This is perhaps the one of the most uninteresting things that I can ever make a daily flash about. I don’t know why, but I thought taxes might make an interesting daily flash. I spent some time thinking how I could possibly make this interesting, and then eventually I came to the realization that income taxes can never be interesting or fun. But here are some interesting tax-related quotes, and here are some interesting tax-related… tax deductions.

Anyway, the reason for this daily flash is that today in school, we had a guest speaker from the tax preparation company H&R Block who came in and taught us about filing income taxes (in addition to advertising the company), since we would have to do it eventually. I learned a lot more than I knew before (I knew almost nothing about taxes), but I also learned that filling out those tax forms in the future won’t be very fun at all. But then we got free H&R Block post-its, pamphlets, and pens, which I guess is pretty cool. But not really.