How to Make Friends and Influence Enemies

A simple guide that will make your life a billion times better. Or at least make you laugh. Or make you glad you aren't me. Or make you wish you were me. At any rate, it may or may not change your life/interest you/make you smile/make you cry/do something.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Lesson Number Thirty-Seven

If you have something to look forward to, whatever bad thing you're going through isn't nearly as bad.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Lesson Number Thirty-Six

Watch out for when you think you know what you're doing. That's when everything blows up.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Lesson Number Thirty-Five

You can get a lot more accomplished by trying to fit things in than you can by sitting around and thinking about how much you have to do.

Lesson Number Thirty-Four

There is such a thing as a beautiful falsehood.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Lesson Number Thirty-Three

When there's a fire at 5:55, you can't have a fireman's parade at 6:00.

Lesson Number Thirty-Two

Sports are terrific. They inspire terror.
Sorry. That was ganked from Terry Pratchett, only not about sports. It was about elves, actually.
How about sports are fun, but also very tiring. And a double scoop: Sometimes the people you think are least likely to become your friends are better friends than the people you try to impress.

Lesson Number Thirty-One

If you do your best and think you're going to be the worst, sometimes you're pleasantly surprised.

Lesson Number Thirty

Always be thankful for unpleasant things that happen in your life. Be thankful when it's happening, and be more thankful when it's over.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Lesson Number Twenty-Nine

School is fun. No, seriously.

Lesson Number Twenty-Eight

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.
(You don't realize how good you've got it until it's replaced with something much worse.)

Lesson Number Twenty-Seven

Friends are some of the best things you can ever have.

Lesson Number Twenty-Six

Hard work is its own reward.

Lesson Number Twenty-Five

Even when something is really nice, if it's raining, people won't show up.

Lesson Number Twenty-Four

Hard work makes hanging with friends more fun.

Lesson Number Twenty-three

Two siblings are not comparable.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Lesson Number Twenty-Two

The matters of the teenage heart are soon forgotten.

Lesson Number Twenty-One

Busy can be fun, but it's also stressful.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Lesson Number Twenty

Getting up in the morning is pretty bad, but a heck of a lot better than the alternative. (Actually, I don't mean dying, although that's what it looks like. Because I guess being dead would be better. I mean if you don't get up and your mom yells at you.)

Lesson Number Nineteen

Sometimes you need to let people think they've won, when they actually haven't.

Lesson Number Eighteen

It is no shame to be poor, but it is no great honor, either.

Lesson Number Seventeen

If you insist repeatedly that something will be fun that usually makes the thing in question appear repulsive, and will become no fun.

Lesson Number Sixteen

If you put your whole self into something and show that you're really trying, you don't need to worry about people laughing at you, because you've already shown that you're above that. So they probably won't laugh.

Lesson Number Fifteen

Beer is bad.

Lesson Number Fourteen

Be more prepared than you think you need to be.