Hi, I’m Ruben Del Rio (aka usedHONDA; del_rio on Twitter), and I’m bored. If you’re reading this, chances are that you are as well. So let’s be bored together by letting me write blog posts and having you read them!

Personal interests range from graphic design and photography to web design and programming (though I’m not particularly awesome in any of those categories). I’m also a music fanatic, listening to just about every genre (98% of the world likes at least 2 songs in my iPod). Alternative, underground rap, hip-hop, heavy metal, Gospel, classical instruments, and everything in between. I guess my entire library can be condensed into five of my favorite artists, whom all of them I have at least 3 albums from: Coldplay, Finger Eleven, Kanye West, Gorillaz, and Avenged Sevenfold

As with most fans, Coldplay is my favorite of the 5. Not to turn this into a full-bread blog post, but just for note, I have the deepest respect for U2 and Radiohead, but in all honesty, I can’t stand to listen to 95% of their songs. I don’t know why; I guess it’s just the way my brain is wired.

Which brings me to my next subject; my brain. Accoring to a test from 2nd grade, my IQ score was 124, and because of that, I was sent to Gifted classes up to 6th grade (7th-8th I was homeschooled), and soon as I hit High School, I completely forgot about all of that. I was taking more advanced classes through a curriculum called Global Technologies, where classes are focused on technology and sciences, as well as a GT-specific elective (Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, ect.). However, my grades have fallen to a point that I was/am in danger of flat out failing a number of my classes. However, not that long ago, I remembered how I was in Gifted classes for a good portion of my life, and that even then, I was nearly failing a lot of subjects. This made me think, “If I’m so ’smart’, why don’t my grades reflect that?” Then I came to the pretty obvious conclusion that I’m not normal at all. Then I had doubts about my IQ, so I got more tests, and as it turns out, my score averages between 126 and 138 (basically a 97-99 percentile). So I started taking things into my own hands, researching conditions like ADHD, Giftedness, and the oh-so-compelling dyslexia. I say oh-so-compelling because I realize that it may be what I have, with much evidence to prove it (ADHD-eque symptoms, often sensetivity to light, really low attension span), however, I’m also wondering if I’m just labling myself, with that medical condition that you believe you have something when you really don’t. I didn’t want to be in denial, so I just looked up treatments for dyslexia, and I come to find that the best fix is to “just deal with it”. I have, and my grades remain the same. I’ll add more to this paragraph at the end of the next school quarter.