My first memory of Halloween is when I was two and I was the pilsbury dough boy. I looked like a two year old beast, I trick or treated a little bit. Then I went to bed because I was two and I had a bedtime. The end.

In five years I just want to be done with college without a lot of debt. I do plan on coming back to Long Island, but if I do not have a job out of college it will be difficult to live here because it is so expensive. Basically, I just want to have a job out of college.

Hurricane Sandy was awful. The only thing I remember about it was losing power at four o'clock the day of the storm and not getting it back for eleven days after that. It was the longest eleven days of my life because all I did was sit at home in the dark while my parents were at work. There were trees down on my street for a while so I could not really go anywhere. When one of them was moved my mom and I were able to leave the house and just drive around looking at damage. But, when there was a gas shortage, we were not able to do that anymore. Hurricane Sandy was not fun.

McDonald's dropped their relationship with Heinz ketchup because Heinz had a change in management, the Burger King CEO became the CEO of Heinz. McDonald's decided to end the relationship and get kethup from different producers. I do not think that this will change anything with McDonalds, ketchup is ketchup. If anyone claims to notice a difference in the taste of ketchup they are probably just Heinz fanboys.

I have never participated in Safe Halloween, nor am I working it later tonight. I might end up showing up to help out because I will not have anything to do tonight, and everyone will be there anyway. Yay DECA. Woohoo. What the hecka. Tuesday means DECA. The claw is useless.

Starbucks will not do well with the whole "Teavana" thing. Starbucks is not the kind of company that can sell something by just putting their brand on it like Apple. Tea does not taste good, and people do not like it as much as they like coffee. Starbucks will waste their money opening an expansive amount of tea houses because people will not buy as much tea as they do coffee.

I honestly do not care about Inbloom. What is the big deal if my information gets uploaded to a database that nobody can see. Isn't that the same exact thing as parent portal? People are claiming that this information might be shared with private companies, so what? You are going to have to share all of your educational information when you apply to college anyway, so what is the big deal if it is put in a database now? Inbloom is not a big deal. This whole database will actually make accessing educational information in the future much easier for everyone, as it will always be in a database as opposed to sitting in a file cabinet that someone has already forgotten about. It can also help catch mistakes in test scores. For example, say a kid does very well on a state test but it gets uploaded to Inbloom as a failing grade, the kid will be able to catch the mistake and notify someone who can help him.

Spirit week was fun, but I did not participate every day. The football jersey day I did not participate because I don't have a jersey, and the Wacky Wednesday was dumb so seniors did western Wednesday. I would continue the tradition of spirit week and homecoming because it is the only fun week of school. Other than the week before winter break, spirit week is the only good one.

Now that the government is back in session, my biggest concern for January is that we will end up right back where we were a few weeks ago. The government will end up shutting down again and the Republicans and Democrats will be arguing again about whether or not to raise the debt ceiling, which will cause them to create another temporary solution. I feel like over the next few months, maybe even years, the government will just constantly push back their deadlines, causing no permanent solutions to be made.