Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Now for my favorite subject on the planet...

EYES!!!

There are few things I love more on this planet than eyes.

First of all, you can use them to see stuff, like plants and colors and stuff, and second, you can have really freakishly awesome eyes.

Which is to say, I have freakishly awesome eyes. I don't mean to brag or anything, but I seriously have some of the coolest eyes on the planet. Unless you consider them creepy. In which case I really don't care about your opinion.

Before you ask, no, they are not purple or gold (mostly), or really bright green, the type of green Harry Potter is famous for. They're not red and they're not gray and I don't consider them hazel.

They're blue. Rather normal looking blue, unless you know what to look for.

Which is to say, my right eye is blue. My left eye is blue too, plus green. It's like it's yellow and blue and green!

It's so cool!

Yeah, people consider it creepy, most notably one of my neighbors who I've established a  firm mutual dislike with. Yeah, but who cares, really? Not a lot of people notice, since it isn't really that noticable. However, those who do notice are like, "Cool!"

And I'm like, "Woot! Someone noticed my eyes!"

Of course, when there are these questionaires in school that ask stuff like, "What color are you're eyes?" and "Your eyes are: blue, green, brown, hazel" I'm always like, "These questions are so lame!!!"

And then I'm like, "Mwahahaha!" in my head because it's so dang cool!

Okay, I always get hyper (if you consider hyper to be sitting on the couch and typing on a blog) when I think/write about my eyes. It fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling! I always think stuff like, "I hope my kids have cool eyes, like purple or gray or other really cool colors!" If only people had eye colors like cats. Which is to say, only if people had such a wide variaty of eye colors.

The down side of having different colored eyes (also known as Heterochromia) is that there's often unpleasant conditions to go with it. I'm nearsighted, which really isn't that unexpected since you have no idea how much I've read. NO HINT OF A CLUE.

And because I love eyes so much, I notice other people's eyes a lot more. It's sort of my goal. Like during lunch, I try to look around at other people and make a mental note of people's eye colors.

My conclusions are that, when seen in the right light, brown eyes look like dark red, which I find awesome. 

Blue eyes look pretty. 

Green eyes are magic. 

Gray eyes... They look like light blue and are ranked pretty high up on my list of freakishly awesome eyes. (And the sad thing is that I sort of have a list.) 

Central Heterochromia (inside of the iris is a different color from the outside) is one of those things that you can dream about having because it is so cool! 

Purple eyes, which I actually have never seen in real life before, make it onto my list of the Top 10 Cool Eye Colors. (Really, there's about six or seven eye colors total, not counting shades of the same color, so it isn't that big of a deal. But the fact that purple eyes are so rare make me love them and adore them and even if they weren't so rare It'd still love them.)

Yellow/gold/Cullen eyes, which I sort of have in one eye, SORT OF, as in not very much, if they actually exist would be so amazing... *sigh* Don't you just love vampires and gold and eyes and gold-eyed vampires?

Hazel eyes, well, I say that they're a combination of blue and green, which is to say that they're magical and pretty at the same time.

Red eyes, as a basic principle because they're rare and because, well, red rocks!, automatically becomes, I want them except not really but still because they're so awesome! Google Images for "red eyes." Ignore the ones that tell you how to get rid of red eyes in pictures and look at how cool the red eyes look. You'll have to agree with me when I say, Even though whoever has red eyes will pretty much have to wear sunglasses for life, they're such a cool color!!!

So yeah. That's really all I have to say about eyes. Wow. That's actually a lot. Probably means I'm an obsessive nut.

But whatever. I just like how eyes look.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

How To Catch a Liar

Here are some tips to spot a lie. I know that a bunch of people have already written about stuff like this (mostly since I'm sort of copying this off of those people), but like I care! It's much more fun this way.

ANYWAYS, here's the stuff that I'm not being paid to do and that you probably came to this pretty amature-ish blog for:
  1. They add unnecessary details. Please note: This is not a surefire way to tell if someone is lying (since people do stuff like that all the time) and you have to promise not sue me if you accuse someone of lying based on this alone and it turns out that they're not.
  2. Their expressions and gestures do not match their words. Example: "I hate that guy!" while hiding a smile.
  3. Bill is accused of having an affair. He publicly announces that he did not, but something isn't right, namely that of his eyes pointing in a different direction of his hand. (Anyone who watches Lie To Me would know that I stole this example from them.)
  4. Timing being off. If they hit a table with a fist after they deny whatever it is that you think they did, then chances are that they're lying.
  5. They use contractions less. Instead of saying, "I didn't do that thing that you say I did," they say "I did not do that thing that you say I did and frankly, I'm annoyed at you for even thinking for an instant that I would even consider doing that!" It's probable that they want to emphasize that they're being honest even if they're lying through their teeth.
  6. They want to change the subject. I mean, if I were to lie to you about eating your Charleston Chew candy bar, then I'd want you to start talking about something else before I gave myself away. The example for #5, for example, "I did not do that thing that you say I did and frankly, I'm annoyed at you for even thinking for an intant that I would even consider doing that!" is an exellent example. For one thing, the sentence doesn't use contractions, adds unnecessary detail (all the words after "you say I did"), changes the subject by accusing you of being disloyal, and if it were said out loud would probably be accompanied by an expression of slight fear, anger, and other stuff that is in no way related.
  7. And above all (which I find ironic since this is the one that is the farthest down on the list), if they act differently than what they would if they weren't lying. Twitching, holding still, eye contact, or lack thereof, smiling, frowning, nervous, calm, none of that means anything if you have no clue what they're like normally. I mean, I'm a rather calm person who doesn't like having eye contact with someone for more than a few seconds, and I don't like being stared at very long. If I was twitching like I'd drank 300mg of caffine in the last five minutes (I don't drink caffine; again, notice how I used a contraction instead of "do not"), then chances are I'd either be V-E-R-Y excited for something or else I was lying my head off. Off course, if I wasn't moving at all, that could mean I was trying very hard to not give myself away with any gestures or expression. (Or else that I'd died in the middle of a conversation. I don't think that this situation will ever come up, but it always helps to add random details.) It's harder for someone to lie to you if you know them extremely well and spend a lot of time around them.

Well, that's pretty much all I know about catching liars. Honestly, though, it would really be better if you googled the topic several more times before trying any of these methods out because 1) I recommended them and 2) I really, really suck at catching people in the act. Watch Lie To Me at hulu.com if you want to see more tips on the subject. For one thing, it's a crime show and for another it's what I'm basing several of these tips off of. Plus, it uses Obama as an example of lying. Not that I really hate Obama, it's just that he really annoys me.