Some of you I’ve been applying to scholarships for graduate school. This post is actually for one of my scholarships: TheUberman.com “I AM a superhero” Scholarship. I thought I’d go with something a bit, well, humorous for this. In any case, enjoy: I am Gauisus, the United Nation’s designated superhero. The problem with being like me is that you’re always the butt of someone’s joke. You see, my name means “happy” in Latin, because I can fabricate happiness out of thin air. And I don’t mean the hearty chuckle variety of happiness, or even the hippy, high-as-a-kite kind. I mean the kind of happiness you find in a laughing child: that pure, innocent, and unimaginable sensation forgotten by adulthood, concentrated into a thick, happy syrup and injected straight into the veins. It’s like an adrenaline shot of happiness, but without the side effects. I’ve stopped wars by turning grumpy politicians into crying bundles of hugs and apologies; selfish oil barons, isolationists, and xenophobes have turned into environmentally and socially conscious progressives. Everyone I target has an experience, a moment of clarity in which they begin to realize that things really do need to change. But this is all standard superhero fare. The more interesting stuff occurs at the UN. I’m not welcome there anymore, because the politicians are unable to get riled up, to toss insults or argue relentlessly about things they think are important–distributing happiness like crack to politicians can have that effect. Most of the meetings end in people hugging and some superpower vowing to solve a humanitarian problem–poverty, disease, theft by monkeys, you name it. My ability doesn’t always work, but that’s life. Injecting happiness into people is at least changing the dynamics of the world, creating new generations of people willing to pay attention, rather than stick their heads in the sand. All the hugs and laughter are making people see the world through someone else’s shoes and bring to reality why it doesn’t matter that we’re all different: because we’re all human beings.

(Discovered here) This has been making the rounds, so I thought I would jump in. I don’t have iTunes, so I will be using my Creative Zen Vision:M, since I think the former is an evil piece of hardware placed on this planet to destroy mankind. Here are the rules: 1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS. 4. Feel free to steal this for your blog (just link to whomever you stole it from). 5. Have Fun! IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY?“The Wardrobe” from The Chronicles of Narnia (apparently gay jokes are in order). HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF“If Baseballs Had AIDS” by David Cross (not kidding). WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?“Voyager” by Immediate Music (I’m sure that’s some sort of metaphor…). HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?“Exhale” by System F (apparently I feel like breathing, which is good). WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?“The Breakdown” by trance[]control (not exactly glorified, now is it?). WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?“I Don’t Know” by Lostprophets (well that fits). WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?“The Beat Goes On” by trance[]control (that seems fitting). WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?“All of My Life” by Aluna (which also seems fitting, since my mother can’t get rid of me.) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?“Loose Lips Sink Ships” by A Change of Pace (sounds wrong to me). WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day (oh man, what a wonderful way to put it). WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?“Prom Night With Melinda” by David Cross (I don’t know what that means). WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?“Hands Up” by Lagoona (yeah…). WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?“Sunrise at Palamos” by M.I.K.E. (not a bad tune for that). WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?“Darkpop” by The Higher (if you can tell me what a Darkpop is, please do). WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?“The Quest” by Immediate Music (well that’s crap; I totally want to go on quests). WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?“Social Suicide” by Carl B (ain’t that the truth). WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?“Waking Up Inside My Own Paralysis” by Funeral For a Friend (apparently that’s what I’m doing instead of this). WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?“Hymn” by Immediate Music (so, I think that they are a religious tune). WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?“Atrophy” by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (wonderful). Well, there you go. This is sort of hard when you have over 2,000 songs on one little mp3 player, but so be it. Maybe I’ll redo this in the future and only use rock music. Anywho!