2. List 10 simple pleasures. Describe one of them in detail.
1. Waking up to coffee in bed
2. A sunny day after a week of rain
3. The smell of apple pie being baked
4. Finding the pair of shoes you wanted on sale
5. Finishing a book that you were really into
6. Taking the perfect photo of lightning 
7. Learning how to drive stick shift
8. Being up to date on all homework
9. Pedicures
10. Getting all your foul shots in during a tightly scored basketball game


Taking the perfect photo of lightning
Whenever there is a huge lightning storm and it's really bright, I find it so magnificent. That static electricity can light up the entire sky. Also, that such a shock can burn a tree to the ground and start humongous fires and other problems. Whenever I am at home or not otherwise preoccupied I like to bring out my camera and try to snap a photo of the lightning. It's extremely difficult to get a perfect photo of the lightning when it's fully streamed because one bolt of lightning goes so quickly. You basically have to guess when the next lightning will strike. When I got the nicest photo of lightning I was so stoked, it really was a highlight of my photography.

2012!

Honestly, who cares whether or not the world is going to end in 2012? It's bound to happen at some point. Sure it would suck, but as long as we feel nothing what does it matter? That's just saying the world will end. Maybe the Mayans got lazy when they were making the calendar, and didn't want to put dates on that went forever and ever. It's possible that they didn't remember to put infinity on after December 21, 2012. For the people who already disbelieve in that, there's the galactic alignment, we've been in red shift since the 'Big Bang' and coming 2012 it'll hit blue shift, and what do you know? The Earth explodes and splits into a million pieces. Whoops. Then of course, this all mighty Nostradamus comes along to predict the future. Predicting Napoleon, Hitler, and 9/11. His prediction that 2012 will be the end of course has to be completely true... Not.
Other than all those facts though that can get pretty annoying, there's a kajillion billion people that are all freaking out about how horrible it'll be if the world ends. Not to mention the amount of Facebook groups and event being sent out inviting people to 'The End Of The World Party' where everyone meets in the black hole or whatever nonsense the person creating the group decides to make up that day.
The way I see it personally, is if it ends, it ends. As long as all these Mayan aliens don't come to take over and make us work as labour slaves and treat us with the utmost disrespect, I'm fine.