The Addiction is Real

I can't stop playing this annoyingly-addictive cellphone game called "aa." You start with a circle in the center of the screen with 4-5 spikes coming out of it. Your goal is to add a certain amount of additional spikes without placing one where there is already one in existence. Easy, right? Wrong. WRONG. The spike-filled ball turns directions, speeds up and slows down. If you click too fast you lose. If you click too slow you lose. In the background happy music plays, the ball spins against a simple white backdrop. Then you collide two and a gushing sound interrupts the music as red washes over the screen, the pins come out and as fast as you can you start a new game. And you do it over and over and over and over until you are stuck on level 36 and you hate everything. You can pay or do something to skip a level but there is nothing more unsatisfying that skipping a level. If you can't get past level 36, how will I be able to get past 37. And in the end, I didn't truly win.

This game is almost as addicting as Flappy Bird, not quiet as popular though. I swore to myself I'd never play that stupid game but before I knew I had a high score of 267. Which reminds me of 2047 which will also be the death of me. I NEVER WON THAT GAME. Somehow I knew the "cheat" to the game and I still never won. Allegedly, if you only swipe the same direction the whole time you'll probably win. It always worked for my friends. NEVER FOR ME. What was I doing wrong? Left, down, left, down, left, down, left, down, left, down. Other than those exceptions, I'm not really a phone game person. Now when it comes to social apps I'm severely addicted. YouTube, Vine, Instagram, Snapchat. I have an account for almost everything even if I never use it. Like Kik. Who uses Kik anyway? I actually like figured out why it was called "kik" on my own. When you type "lol" and your fingers are actually shifted one key over you'd accidentally type "kik." But yeah, that's all I've got. No idea why they call it "Vine" or "Tinder." However, I can rant for hours how annoying both Tinder and Hot or Not are, but I guess that's a separate blog post.

I'm Sorry, What?

Laryngitis is one of the most annoying parts of cold and flu symptoms. People get annoyed with you because they can't understand you or your voice is agitating. Right, because I love the sore throat and the in-and-out tones of my own voice. The things you can't do with laryngitis, or at least the doctor suggested I don't do, are actually the worst part about it. First of all, I can't drink caffeine, which aside from water is the only thing I drink. I guess I'll have to result to drinking decaf which is no bueno, and serves no purpose. In addition to that, I can't whisper. Whispering is the only way my voice sounds remotely coherent but apparently is twice as straining. And then there is the try avoid talking all together, but then people think you are being over-dramatic and faking having laryngitis.

The most annoying part is going into class ahead of time to tell your teacher that you can't speak in class today, and then they call on you forgetting what you told them, and in the silence you have to awkwardly squawk out the answer or point to your throat. But when pointing to your throat your teacher is still not going to remember or understand why you are doing weird subtle hand motions towards yourself. It's a mess. It's always a mess.