Here's me.

Here's me not staying up past 12 on a friday night.

Wow. My house does suck!

-n

The Essay to win the lotto:

Your education helps you to meet your responsibilities as a citizen of New York State and the United States. Part of that education takes place outside the classroom in the form of time and effort invested in the surrounding community. Think about a contribution you have made, over a period of time, to an individual, a group, or project in your community. Describe the service or contribution. Take some time to reflect on the experience, combined with your college education, will prepare you to meet your responsibilites to yourself and your community.

I am entering a scholarship for $4,000 over the next four years of college ($1,000 per year for four years). It is sponsored by the New York State Lotto, and you need to be going to a New York State University. The scholarship accepts only one student from each school...

Just thought that I would let you guys know just in case you felt the need to apply for it as well... Join me at Bing!

A Nose in Need Deserves Puffs Indeed

random thought: i don't like when you're singing a song, and it sounds really wrong.. in my case, ifeel really awful (picture an inner voice going "steve, you SUCK at singing!" over and over again) and actually have to stop singing for fear of future mental shakedowns. then the next day, i start singing the tune and it sounds perfect. classic.

Excellent quotage today people, simply excellent. Here they are:

"Hi, I'm flat!"
"Good to meet you flat. I'm concert choir."

"All I'm doing is using his equipment."

"If you heard a ruckus in the chapel a few days ago, that was us laying our mock down."

And I appologize to Madeline for this next one, but it's just that good:

"Monty, get off your damn knees! We aren't at Madeline's house."

Home ce soir. It's actually kinda nice. I had a couple hours of the house to myself, and I haven't really had a couple hours to myself, let alone by myself, in a looong time. So I wrote some, drew some, sang some (straighten myself out on Carmina harmonies), worked out some, ate some...relaxed. I'm actually giving myself a chance to get bored!

Mrs. H isn't scary. She helped a bit, confused me a bit more, and has now gotten me set on the idea of going to Paris for drama and French studies this summer. Ah.

Must find Driver's Ed book. Must read Chapter 2...

This is how the conversation went with my mom...

"Weren't you just talking to Amy?"
Yeah.
That was quick. What is she doing tonight?
Going to Alli's.
"Well didn't she invite you to Alli's?"
No
"Well, why didn't you ask if you could go with her, you know, make an effort?
Well if you want me to go and get drunk, then I will!
::I called Amy back, she was definately drinking::

Hence, I am still at home. I think that I am going to go and take a walk.

Blech. I'm off to spaz out and air-drum to Kinky. That's some challenging stuff!!

I'm disappointed! Or bored. Same thing, really. It's been two hours since I last posted and trolled and almost nobody's added any new comments! Come on, people, you have to feed my addiction!

I have a car. I have no parents. hmmm...

I worked out! Finally!! It's been...well, a couple days. But this week has seemed like a few weeks, so by the transitive property, it's seemed like a week or two.

::Does a dance::

::Falls over and passes out::

I'm really tired. I think it's gonna be a night in. I'm ready for bed right now. I ran, and was really tired afterwards, so I did crunches and only one rep of each weight exercise instead of two.

Do you know what it's like to have a sick day offered to you by your mom three days in a row, and to decline each time?

[edit] Mr. D. foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog in Laureli rehersal today was gross. I couldn't stop laughing. I actually had fun today, as opposed to usual, when I'm cranky. I decided I need to have a more positive outlook, b/c maybe it'll be fun all the time if I get really into it. Yeah. I wish they'd give me a solo, though. Not that I think I have the voice for it, but I still want one. They now have me doing percussion for Can You Feel The Love Tonight (Tom...I'd like you to hear it and tell me if it sounds really dumb, or if it sounds good, and if you have any pointers), Mmm Bop, That's Just The Way It Is, and maybe Hilltones songs. That's a possible total of 5 songs. At the end of the last song, when the audience applauds (sp?), I'm worried my mouth will plop off and roll off the stage. If that happens, will someone please try to catch it?

Horray for being stuck at home!

I was going to spend a while working on very important and very overdue yearbook stuff and then go hang with Tom for a while after school. Sadly, my mother felt the need to remind me that I was grounded (as I have been since sunday night) and so I'll be here, on my computer, all night. That is, as long as they don't take this from me.

Rescue me! Most preferably bring 3-4 assault weapons to make sure my parents get the idea and then some duct tape so they can think about the idea as I've been thinking about being grounded since sunday.

Thanks!

haha...sweet!
I decided to go check the archives from when CnS was born...and it started snowing! Oh happy days...! I know nobody's going to read them, but I think that I'll comment on some of the very first posts. Just for fun, neh?

Just sitting here waiting for my mom...I have to pick up my dad's car from Drexel. Someone remind me to call my Penn interviewer tonight? I'm supposed to have an interview tomorrow, but he hasn't emailed me back.

English class last period was pretty damn cool. Barnosky's shaping up to be a good teacher, and my classmates (mostly people I've never had class with before) are, for the most part, also good. We held a workshop on Break Curtain, and it was so nice to get that feedback from everybody. I don't think I'll actually use it as a piece for this class, because I want to write new pieces, but I'll definitely be rewriting it in the future.

I'm giving blood Tuesday, February 25th at 1:30. Cookies and faintness at the end of the day! wooo! I almost wish it were B week, just to see how the rest of my day would go if I gave blood in the morning. (Tuesdays A week my frees are last two periods and on B week they're first two).

Yay for Brian coming to Hilltones today! He spit with [edit - dammit, I never spell this word right!] rhythm all over me...yuck! But Tillman beatboxing on By The Way spices it up and makes it awesome! Yay for Tillman!

So today was possibly the worst Laureli practice I've ever seen/heard. It was...wow...
I opened my mouth, and the sound that came out was one I'd never heard before. It was kinda a screeching groan of an Mmmbop...
But I only have two more classes, then I'll be free of this week. YAY!

Damn it Sue!

At home today... why? You ask? Because I can be... no, just lying. I have off from school today because we have Teacher Conferences or something of the rather. I am going to leave home and spend the day with my mother (gosh, this never happens - no seriously.) and we are going to go to the gym and then the mall (ACK!) and then out to lunch. It is only 8:45 ish...

I should have Pirst Fost...

I love my modified flower icon! Why did I get one? Who can I thank? I am so loved! Ack.

And more importantly.............pirst fost.

Maybe I'll get last post. I think that should count for something.

I took a nap. It was very nice. I'm considering going into hybernation until early March.

Yes, I really must agree with Heather on this one: this week seems to have dragged out longer than any other week in the history of weeks, ever.

In other news...oh wait...I seem to be lacking things to blog about on here lately. I could always blog about the iron filings you can find in Total^� cereal if you mash it up and put a magnetic stirrir in it.

Uhh... oops?

I hate it when that happens!

Yoga was sooooo great tonight . . . glad you enjoyed Tom!!! I then got to come home and go in the hot tub and am way too chill right now to do homework.

Great quote from Tom: "That is a great adjective - ' to lurk' " (ummmm yeah Tom . . . I think ' to lurk ' would be considered a verb by most Americans)

So its weird that we now have flags in every classroom and will soon have to say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. Not sure how I feel about this. I mean I am loyal to our country and grateful for its many benefits . . . at the same time, I don't like the government mandating that I must say this "loyalty oath" everymorning. Thoughts anyone?

Yoga...aaaahhhhh

It was hard work...but I felt so relaxed afterwards...and I was all energized to do my homework, so I popped in Morcheeba and listened away while I wrote a story for Creative Writing. It turned out a little longer than it was supposed to be (1.5 pages when it was assigned as "about 5 sentences"), but I like it.

Lounging in my comfy-wear, getting annoyed at Mr. Woehr, and hoping to Yevon that the Jazz festival on Wednesday does not run into the evening...Woehr would not appreciate that.

tai chi is marvelous.

I NEED A WEEKEND!!!!!!!

This has quite possibly been the longest week of my life. It's just dragging. Dragging through Philly slush. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. The brown, mucky slush that comes two days after it snows. And it splashes and oozes on your shoes. And it's only in Philly. Philly slush.

I can't take Concert Choir. I can't harmonize and sing the melody at the same time. And I'm just not talented enough to learn both parts. Thank god I have the weekend to work on it.

Ahhh...weekend...bringing with it girl time. =) Meeting with Mrs. H tomorrow. Maggie's joining us. Summer stuffs.

Interesting how by just taking your PPSATs you already get so much college stuff. Carleton, Washington University, Wesleyan. I want out. Take me to college with you.

Ok. So I'm going to admit that the snow was a little annoying after a while... especially because my computer isn't the best. I'm looking for something else neat to show on our page to replace it but I'm not sure what yet. I'm sorry to all you snow-likers, I liked it too, but it had to go.

Even though Tom implied that I'm a cow the other day, and when I eat, Jamie tells me to stop eating, I can't seem to force myself to work out today. Can someone please come and stand over my shoulder and yell at me to exercise?

[edit] Forget it...I'm not working out now. I'm going into hybernation (a.k.a. I'm taking a nap).

HULLLOOOO ALLLLL!!!
Well i guess now I am finally willing to admit the fact that I have been reading the blog for the past two weeks, "lurking" as Rachel called it . I've been sort of obsessed with reading all of your posts, which I've gotta say, are usually pretty interesting... anyways thanks for inviting me Daeb:)

My official rank:

R: Procrastinator
DO: Staying out all night
WT: An 11 o'clock curfew
FF: Younger men
WF: Bumming a ride
N: To be on time
AS: "It's chicken filet day!!"
ITY: Doing Herbal Essences^�
TS: Deb's Eyes Are Brown

Yep. Except I didn't do the � on my rank.

Does anyone have a story about me that they've told, which I can write about for english?

The guy who came to speak to us about drunk driving during guidance was really good.

Alright, what to do, I have been to one school day this week... I have a five minute conference left and then I am off!!! Until Monday when I am an official second semester senior... So excited!

For now, I don't really have much to say, but... um. Hi!
Oh!

Tomas! Avisa tu correo... estabamos mandandolo al mismo tiempo :o) He mandato uno que es muy largo! Espero que te sientas mejor!

I feel the need to share.

Did you know that a 43 degree northern angle at 5% slope will behave as if it's 300 miles further south? Isn't that cool?

I mean warm.

Guess where I am?!

Back at school!!! It is great, I haven't done anything all day, but I got dressed, ATE and I left the house... my goodness, it is a miracle... my knees really hurt from being in bed all day and my back hurts from the inmobility... but I will recover. Back to the gym for me today!!! Yippee... my religion returns... (You guys weren't there for that comment... my friends used to call the gym for me, my religion, I was "religiously" there... and I still am... oh well. I tried to explain!)

Will blog more later.

Tom feel better :o)

i have seaweed caught in my teeth. god dammit. skipped class for teh first time all semester, and took a 6 hour nap instead. best thing i've done all semester, really. then came movies and c-haus meetings and boy problems. just another typical night at beloit college. now it's 5am and i still haven't done my homework.

and i STILL have seaweed in my teeth! augh!

Pirst Fost! (if this attempt isnt foiled as well)

not so much to write about...ive got max 6 hrs if i fall asleep right now, and so i may go attempt that.

my next newspaper article is about the union protests at the SS construction...John David Cella (Oo Rachel!) wants me to contact someone higher in SS and 'pressure them a little' to find out if they used cheap labor or whatever. also, im supposed to talk to a striker if possible, are they still around even? oh well

although Antigone is required english class literature, its not a bad play, and there are many good quotes as well

Antigone: ...It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

Hey guys, I need two stories too...help me out here!!

Ok, for my english class (Autobiography with Mrs. Hill) I need 2 short stories that people tell about me. Any suggestions?

grrrrrrrrr . . . to all those people who are sick . . . my throat is SORE!!! I do not want to get sick!

American Idol - whoa, baby - down to 32!

I am so pathetic! I think I'll need to drop a course so I can keep up with the tv.

Anyone have an extra ticket for GFS night?

Ok... IEXPLORE.exe is consuming 90%+ of my processor power when I view the blog. Typical websites take at most 1%. Probable cause: The constant "snow," which is now a long-dead joke and outstanding blight. Kindly remove it.

Bleh. I've forgotten the monotony of school. Now, I'm being forced to remember.

I had Drawing and Painting II today, though. I've also forgotten how much I love art. And I'm glad to be remembering that one.

I have to talk to Mrs. Heckisher (however the hell you spell her name) tommorrow about summer stuff. I want a French student. But I want to go to Bennington. And Mission. Why is it that there is never enough time for all the things I want to do?

Ok. I'm doing history but I simply *had* to post this...

From the script, the discription of Tom's character...

"...RAOUL JAMAICA... He is a greased-back ladies man, a natty dresser and is engulfed in an air of confidence. It is when he speaks that the spell is broken. His voice is lacquered with the worst Spanish/Mexican accent and broken English the stage has ever heard."

-n

Stan Parker is The Worst.
He claimed that our practice would be cut short and end at 5:15...man was that a lie. As usual, i left school sometime after six o 'clock. What upsets me, is that the times that i actually decide to attend practice on time, half of the team just doesn't show up. Its quite frustrating.

I rise from the darkest shadows of the depths known as my basement to ask one great question:

Why was today not a snow day? Has Yevon lost her compassion? Or just the administration? It took me about 25 minutes to drive home just now from school, and it was less than safe. The school's decision to detain us through the day, and then through sports was totally irresponsible. I'll leave it there.

I hate to shatter anybody's hopes, but there's no snow in the forecast. That means NO SNOW DAY TOMORROW Sorry.

So on the topic of being in the play due to favouritism from VR..

I'll just say Carina and you can infer what you wish.

sorry this is long, but it's interesting. or it is to me, but maybe that's because i wrote it. in any case, the short version is the following:

kill your television.

i came home today after a day at school that should have never been, having snowed so freakin' much and all, and (quite stupidly) turned on the tv to watch something other than the simpsons - they're not on yet. well, i've certainly learned my lesson.

channel surfing... channel surfing... stop. i come to a program called 'it's just entertainment.' The segment covered (and exposed the true brutality of) a wrestling show, only the thing is, they pair men with women and, inevitably, the women are horribly tormented, battered, abused, and almost tortured in the most gruesome and repulsive of ways. there are no rules to this game and it depicted near-naked women in thongs and sorta-bikini tops being dragged across the floor, having their hair yanked out, smashed and crushed on the ground, or forced to perfom acts on each other like slapping one another or doing whatever the male in the ring asked of them. not all of it was focused around male-female pairs, however. some of it also showed two men together, obviously unfairly matched, in which one guy dominates the other by aggressive means and mocks homosexual acts on the other. thus, the show promotes female abuse and homophobia, which fosters the idea that hitting women and forcing them into submission is an acceptable social standard, as well as supporting people's urges to beat, laugh at, and torment gays by selling it to the public as entertainment. the audience gobbles it up, as the segment proved by interviewing viewers of the wrestling matches. even the women that enjoy watching it (no kidding!) openly admit they don't believe it is degrading to women (wtf? how in the name of all creation!?). and everyone interviewed, just common citizens walking out of the arena with CHILDREN, for crying out loud, all claimed "it was just entertainment... the kids know the difference between reality and tv..." most of them look to this kind of thing as acting out private urges to hit women or mock gays in what the public has viewed is an acceptable manner - to pay millions of dollars to support this business and to laugh at and be sucked into the appaling drama of the interactions between these people.

when i saw this, i definitely dropped my sandwich and nearly spilled my milk fumbling for the remote to quickly change the channel.

channel surfing... channel surfing... stop. i come to another program about celebrity stalkers. the psycho-mania that motivates them and a few specific cases that illustrated what exactly stalkers of nicole kidman, steven spielburg, and master p had done that utterly terrified them and their family and made them fear for their safety. one claimed to be "the death angel" who's presence indicated "a great blessing to the one who is visited, but only if he listened..." most had been arrested before too much damage was done, but i couldn't take it anymore. the tv was going off.

once again i have reminded myself of why i don't watch anything but the simpsons, and that only when i remember (which isn't frequently). seeing these two programs consecutively deeply disturbed my shamefully ideal and unrealistic idea of human nature and what the world is really like, which is all too easy to do when you emerse yourself in a cozy little blogger like this one filled with people you absolutely love. i'm not naive, don't get me wrong, but it did remind me of that great question of whether one wants to become aware of their surroundings and bear its weight, or if instead one wishes for the safe little alcove within into which one can hide from reality and remain disillusioned. for the moment all i can do is bury myself in my books and homework and decide to come back to it later. so i guess i've decided to run away for a couple of hours at least. coming to acknowlege shows like these and their impact on culture and society are no joke and even still are just the tip of the iceburg is too much for one swallowing.

kill your television.

So I'm braving this floor, even though I bet the bug is still lurking...

I WANT A SNOWDAY!
Bleh. This week is so long...

I should stop procrastinating so that I can be done my work in time for American Idol...

See... sometimes letters can be a good thing!

I just got a letter from the Prez. of my University - he wrote to congratulate me on making the Dean's List!

I am such a dork!

Why don't we have a snow day? WHY WHY WHY? I might be going home early. Ahh yes! Mrs. Bell just said that my mom called and said I can go home early! YAY! Hopefully no school tomorrow!!

Let me explain: A letter at my country club - You know the really snotty one that everyone who is a JAP (Jewish American Princess) belongs to... yeah that one - is a bad thing. It doesn't say that you have been kicked out, it doesn't say that you can't come back, it doesn't say that you have been fined. It just says that you did something bad, bad enough to get a letter. My mom always jokes with us when we are there because my family is not the typical JAPpy country club type family, my mom actually strove (strived?) to get a letter when we were there.

An example of a letter: You can't be at the adult pool when you are two but when you are three it is ok. Not two and eleven months and 29 days, three years old. It doesn't matter, potty trained or not. Three years old, and no exceptions. My mom has three kids, she can't possibly be in three places at once, when one child is three the other is only one and my mom can't be at both the kiddy pool and the adult pool. (Hang on, since when are three year olds adults?! I'm six, I must be a grandparent!)... Hence, my mom received several letters.

I am not quite sure what the point of this was, I sent a letter, and I wanted to tell a random story to go along with it. I also felt like using my html tags for a nice change of color :o)

I am sure that there was more of a point to this when I started. I am still not feeling well, and I wanted to blog, using my html tags, and I just can't remember what was the point! Wow, that all sounds sooooo random!

Gubah! All of this Hilltones stuff is teh suq. The best comment today was about how Scott was off 'for the first time' in his life.

Uh...

Someone obviously doesn't sing next to him all the time because if you did, you'd know that he's not quite on tune 40... 50... 67.8% of the time.

Oh well.

-n

Why is it that Hannah never seems to be able to show up to class when I remind her each and every time we have our Art ISP? I feel like I walked down to SS in the snow for nothing...well, not really nothing because I get to type on an eMac, but that's a different story.

Woehr's probably scrapping By the Way for GFS night, which sucks, but at least we'll be doing Send Me On My Way. That one's fun. I don't mind You'll Be In My Heart, I really don't, and I think Scott does actually sound good on it, but I while Woehr thinks that it's great and wonderful, I don't think he's realized that we've never sung it without the piano. It goes out of tune waaaay fast when there's no piano. He likes to [edit] disillusion himself like that. Well, we'll sing it tomorrow for the young'uns and see how it goes. Part of me still wishes that he'd put a little more practice time into By The Way because I really think we can do it, but we'll have other concerts coming up.

I do think he needs to realize that the audience is looking for a good time at GFS night...they couldn't give a rat's arse about whether or not we're transposing in our songs or not. That's Woehr for you!

[edit] Hey, where the hell was Brian Hecker!? He told me he was going to visit us today during class...

Hm... 10:15, I am at home... weird?

I attempted to eat like a normal person this morning... that didn't go over too well. (Don't you guys love how I give you updates on my health?!) I had a banana and some dry cereal, walked out of the house this morning, spoke some spanish at school, attempted to go to math class, my teacher was absent, so I had a sub, and walked myself right back into the house... back in bed I go. I am definately going to go back for eighth period though, ASS CLASS... because I haven't been back in a while.

My mom says that I am not allowed to go to the gym today, not even to just walk around, I haven't even done that for a while... arf! My knees are starting to hurt from sitting around all day!!! My back is in disbelief (can a back be in disbelief?)

Today, should be intersting... (Oo! Quick note... I had to try my new font color html tags :o) very exciting! Thank you Deb and Tom!)... I can't comment on "Dubya's" speech because I was sleeping and watching crap TV, but I am sure that it was terrible, I did have to write it (in some sick and twisted version)...

This post is getting too long, enjoy school... somehow I wish that I were there with you :o)

Vamos a la playa y veremos las estrellas arriba... :o) como lo quiero.

Do I have to go back to school tomorrow?

[edit] whoa...I got Pirst Fost!

I watched the end of Dubya's speech when I came back from class, and then watched the Democratic response and the recap on CBS. Still digesting it all...but I agree with Rachel that Bush is a scary, scary man. Americans need to take some basic history courses...it should be a requirement before they vote...impractical, I know, but a guy can dream, can't he?

I love Tillman...that's all I have to say.

Sociology was pretty interesting today...I made a comment about the double pull on male kids in our society--we were talking about gender socialization prevalent in toy stores--and how homophobia could be instilled unconsciously in boys because we're "not allowed" to play with girls' toys...we had some good discussion, and our teacher's learning how to facilitate and encourage discussions (yes, we still get those guys/girls who sit in the back and mumble), but she's no Mr. Stevens. I started meeting new people though! Be proud of me, I'm going through with my dream!

Quiero caminar en la play contigo...con las estrellas arriba.

Please, can I beg of you to leave politics out of this blog. Please please please. I despise politics more than anything. Even more than bugs.

Um...I know this is random but my finger is bleeding because my skin is so dry and it just split open. I know EVERYONE wanted to know that, too.

My frees are no more, no less. Because I'm in photo 2!!! YAY!! I'm really excited. I miss photo sooo much. And now I can have a senior wall.

This has really been a slow week. The past two days have seemed like at least five. Probably more. The fact that I was at springside today, third period...I actually got confused about that at some point today and thought that had happened yesterday or the day before.

Mom. make me get off. now . bye.

So, I was an informed citizen and watched the State of the Union address tonight. Anyone else?? For those of you who didn't, our president is a kind of scary man. Some highlights included: 1)Cut taxes AND increased federal spending, 2) Bringing freedom to Iraq and North Korea, 3) Nuclear weapons are detrimental to Iraq and North Korea as nations (but we have them), 4) Providence will guide us because G-d is the driving force of all history, 5) And . . . if and when we go to war with Iraq we WILL prevail because we are "civilized"

Scary, scary man. And even scarier that most Americans believed every word he said.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
I don't like bugs.
Ick. Ick. ICKY!!!
So I'm occupying this computer (4th bedroom).
Because there is a scary bug lurking around mine.

I have at least an hour lunch every day. It's so nice.

If only I could get senior privs gaddammit!

I'm getting my geeky magazine weekly on tuesdays. It's so sciency! If you want... look here.

Tomorrow? English-Physio-Chambers-Free from 11 to 2-Math. Ugh. Math.
I have yearbook stuff and robot stuff to work on! I'll be busy when I'm not being kept busy :)

-n

We have such a fast growing blog! It's exciting!

So today was full of ups and downs. I'm going through many phases of either being really sad to pissed to not really caring at all to laughing (all about Players). Who knows. But it was a voice day, and voice days always cheer me up. Therapy sessions with Paula =) And on another bright note, I have normal lunches everyday! (I know, it seems so trivial...but simple pleasures...)

20 minutes until American Idol! I am so glad to be an American - like Celine.

Should someone tell her the word isn't schweet?

Hello fellow bloggers, it's Kate. I've been invited to blog, thus my blogging. I think I understand this stuff, or the general idea of what's going on, but there must be an afternoon in the future sometime when I take on further investigation.

Rachel, I'm eating that candy-thing you gave me today as we blog. It is helping to lighten my moods because, as you could have guessed, things weren't any better with the female parental unit when I returned home. Worse in fact, but that's neither here nor there.

So do I get an icon or something? Let me in on what I gotta do now. heh heh ... this is the most exciting thing that's happened to me since I don't know what. Is that bad.

Well, I may not have made the cut, but at least now I'll actually go get screwing lessons from Chris on Saturday mornings.
Congrats to all who did make it!!

it's no use being bitter, being as i can't affect anything. sure, i could have done a great job, but i'm sure others will as well.. that's the way players should work. looking toward the future will mean a lot more than dwelling on the past. maybe i'll get my feet wet and do set or something to keep busy.

so.. good job to everyone who's now a Spring '03 player. tom especially.. that role was really fun to act out during auditions-- it is too bad you weren't able to be there. you get to wield a menacing plastic knife--- i mean, DEADLY SWITCHBLADE-- not once, but twice! it is a lot of fun. and you get to be a menacing cuban with a penchant for destruction (Oh baby!). he's is a whole lot of fun, especially talking in dee ax-sent. dee ax-scent is good, meester. and.. adrian? dunk? you get to smack people around and yell about miscellaneous letters! oh baby! just remember to use a fake slap, instead of a real one! hell yes. yay for players, yay for somehow getting rid of bitterness.

I need to enlist everyone's help. Ranks are due tomorrow, and I still need my official Rank and Theme Song!! What can they be?? Any (not incredibly mean) ideas are welcome. And if anyone thinks they have good suggestions for pet peeve, in ten years, needs, famous for, where found, dreams of & wakes up to, or always says, suggestions for those are welcome too. Pleeeeeease help me!!

Rachel: "It was weird when I came back to school after hanging out with everyone over break, because I realized that everyone doesn't love me."

It's not an exact quote, but close enough.

Also, Mrs. Hillinck said "Unfortunately, I don't know about the toxicity of the Platypus," in response to a very random, very strange question from Kelly.

So I played detective today... I spread the RUMOR that Nick Carter had died in a plane crash coming back from the Bahamas... but then I played detective. I had told about 4 people that this had happened, shocking news and such, and then I watched MTV.
Now, when Aaliyah died it was all over the news in seconds... so I wondered... I spoke to some friends, checked some links. If you go and check Heather's link now you will notice that it says www.cnnFAKE.com - news generator... it is a hoax. Thank you M'ris.

The story isn't true. Heather, I give you props for coming up with that website in the first place. But I figured out the trick, the rumor, the scam, the hoax... Wow, I have no life, to sit the entire day wondering if Nick Carter is alive or dead... it's"great" being sick.

How many times have I blogged today?

Eh...I'm not so much feeling great today. Combination of factors really.

In other news...I think Heather has a secret admirer over at her blog!

oO Wafna!

I don't know when the March version of CosmoGirl! comes out in stands but it has Christina Aguilera (I know, I know) out on the cover (reddish/pinkish) background. It is the prom issue. Everyone MUST, and I repeat MUST go and get it because I am in it. Well I am not in it... but my name, my age, and unfortunately (I think?) my location is there as well... On page 100 :o)

I guess this post was kind of directed towards Madeleine because I know that she reads it. But that doesn't mean that everyone else can't go out and buy CosmoGirl! I know that they sell it at SuperFresh :o) (I forgot to mention this in my post yesterday.)

OK - not that my time is incredibly valuable - but doesn't it piss you off when you've set aside an hour to write a letter and your home page is down!!! The draft is there and I can't bloody get to it. ACK ACK ACK.

So, instead, I troll.

So I take it that I don't get Pirst Fost... not even Fecond Sost? Que triste!

As for the Nick Carter thinger... I haven't looked into it, but I am not quite sure that I want to. It doesn't look good.

Still at home sick... bleck! I feel better this morning, and I felt tons better last night, but then my mom made me eat something and I feel all funny again. I hate that. I love food... not cool! Gatorade is really starting to get on my nerves, so are townhouse crackers... ew ew ew.

Today should be interesting, I taped Joe Millionaire because I couldn't get out of bed to watch it, so hopefully I can make it upstairs to do that today... other than that, sleep is looking good, and school looks most plausible tomorrow.

As I was thinking about the next upcoming weeks, I realized that my half b-day is next Thursday! Maybe I should celebrate on the seventh because then I will be in Philly! Yippee!!! That sounds cool.

I hope that everyone is having a GREAT day at school! :o)

TARGET TARGET TARGET!!! (To be said like "Marsha Marsha Marsha! in most ditzy voice possible). And I don't mean Target the store. That's more like Tarjé, but spelled the same. Target links people. It's ok, Heather, I targeted for you. I can't view the article, so...what happened?? That is really sad.

Other than that...I must get back to prelabbing in last year's lab book (I left this year's at school, along w/ my math textbook).

[edit] Ahh, I saw it. That's horrible!!

Seriously...I'm wanting to fly less and less because of all these accidents.

Nick Carter died. It's really tragic. He was only 22. Read more.

I'm doing homework, I swear...

My exams were less than good. And so I had a breakdown. Fun times.
But then I slept. So it was all better.
I think sleep is like a drug for me. It makes me happy, I do it a lot more than I should...

The second time that I am out of bed today. Unfortunately I cannot say that I posted for myself earlier. Blogger was being slow and I felt the blood rushing out of my head while I was waiting so I asked Tom to do it for me (Thanks Tom!).

I can't exactly say that I have done anything today. I didn't even watch any bad TV, I stayed in my bed and slept. Or kind of slept, I don't really know what you would call moaning and groaning in nauseous pain, but that was me, for the past 15 or so hours, I feel like I have just been run over with an 18 wheel truck, so weak.

I am going to make an attempt to switch beds to go and watch Joe Millionaire later... School isn't looking promising tomorrow, but hopefully I will be feeling better enough to blog some more.

I hope that everyone did well on their exams, that their first day of second semester went well and that everyone collectively isn't worrying too much about Players!

PS- I love M&M's!

school has drained me of my insight and wisdom.. i must make pink swan like confucius and truly know myself.

random song pimpage - Glen Phillips - Easier.. just remember, I want to be carter at your peace talks. and I did alright on exams! yay for being a latin geek, and having it pay off majorly.

Hullo...I'm feeling very sick today. I think there're some stomach virii floating around my school...stayed home today and felt really yucky. But I'll be back soon and trolling as much as ever...as soon as I can healthily get out of bed...

Um yeah. I'm pretty much all over the place with my exam grades. Nothing in the D range, thankfully. I did have to press the orange button a couple times, though. In case you don't know, the orange button sounds like the first half of the sound made by the green button (which is the sound of a bomb falling and exploding).

I definitely got really hyper last night after all the chocolate I had. Very fun Superbowl party! Thank you to the Pringles for having a great party, and to Rachel for picking me up, and to Tom for driving me home!!!!

Most outrageous moment of the day:

Chambers, singing If You Don't Know Me By Now, Mr. Woehr: "I give you permission to do what I call 'Africanizing.'"

It was totally...I don't really have a word for it. Out of line, outrageous, etc.

Hi! It's Kate, posting as Tom, because someone (NICK!) didn't add me!
yummy valentine m&ms... they made me sick and i didn't sleep. i'm sure the mixture with the shrimp and chips made it extra good too. ick.
but rockin' party. (and what was with the six-people orgy? how come i wasn't invited??)

but really, no more m&ms.
ADD ME, NICK! er else....

So. I almost don't feel like posting, just to see how long I can go without posting, but I decided to give chortles up for the weekend, and now I'm back. God, I hope I get in the play, and I hope I get a big part. I haven't failed any of my exams yet...I only have to find out what I got on math (my spanish teacher already told me what I got). I did as I expected on english, better than expected on physio, and better than I expected but worse than I hoped for on chem. Oh chem, you are the bane of my existance. For serious. I'm gonna go try to figure out what I'm doing for lunch, cause I forgot to order mine.

I'm tired. Because I couldn't sleep either. Because I was too busy anticipating school to sleep...right...So now I feel the need to sleep during school. I have study hall next - sleep doesn't seem like a bad idea. I'm ready for the weekend already and it's only 3rd period of Monday. Long week. I'm sure it will go fast once vR posts the cast list on like Wednesday. I hope. ::worryworryworry::

Guess who can't sleep?

Jeff can't sleep either. I don't think.

I had to read a monologue at auditions today. Damn it was long. Ugh...

Don't worry about players everyone. If anyone should be worried, it should be me. I'm new at it, and I'm not worried. I'm surrounded by the most talented group of individuals at CHA and Springside. You all rock. All of you players people. Jeff, Andrew, Heather, Madeline, Natalie, Nick, Tom, Steve, Rachel, Deb, and Kat. Every single one of you is amazing. You all sing, you all dance. You all have fun. You are why I am at CHA. You will all be amazing, I doubt anyone will cross that.

I will borrow a quote from Jess: "We are all fools, whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."

Play on, dear players. Play on.

Oh the excitement!

March 7th is a Friday. March 7th is also when Idlewild is coming to the TLA to support the release of their new album, The Remote Part. Oh happy day! Godspeed You! Black Emperor is coming on the third of March, which is a Monday, but who cares? I'm going to both! (hopefully).

Anyone up for some really, really good Scottish rock with a lead singer whose name is Roddy? I know you are...!

Quick! Choose which date I should have my Penn interview! Feb 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16. 8 and 9 are out...

I should really organize tomorrow to start the new semester. Really. Really not. No, really...I need to clean my room...maybe finish putting all the maps up. I have a craving for some more of those valentine-coloured M&Ms...

Don't forget to look at the stars every night! They're pretttyy.

Pirst Fost again!

I'm really happy to know that there was a love sexagon tonight. Even though i wasn't a part of it, even though there were 7 people in it. It was a love sexagon, and that's all that matters.

Fun times, fun times. If there was equal respect all around, that would be better; but hey, i can't ask for too much i guess.

so the super bowl sucked . . . but the company was nice!!! Except I don't appreciate certain people (ahem, Nick, ahem) misconstruing everything I say . . . grrrrrrr . . . or Kat singing Soulman over and over again and stealing my fish plate . . . or certain explicit publice displays of affection, but other than that . . . jk, it was a great way to spend my last free night before school starts again. AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

YEAH FOOTBALL!!!

...

-n

There was something I was supposed to do...what was it?

I'm also excited about something. I just can't figure out what about.

yay for players auditions and driving... I'll post something meaningful later..

Ok, well I have nothing better to do than come home and post. But I got side tracked with old photos. My mom's cleaning the cabinets and therefore is organizing them all. Literally, ALL. I found one of my sister and me when we were probably 2 and 5, wearing nothing but tights pulled up to our shoulders. And then some of Heather and me when we were about 5 or 6...and then again at her country house after 7th grade. It's a scary thing. And Nick and Alex. They looked soooo young!

I'm soooo worried about the play. Soooo worried. Wyn did a great job seducing the audience with an Elmer Fudd accent, though.

Where is everyone??
I know you all have nothing better to do than come straight home and post! Rachel and I have been refreshing the page for an hour now waiting for something new!

Best of luck to everyone who auditioned! You were all fabulous! Mwah.

I hath given up on Pirst Fosts and...

...understanding myself?... I thought boys were supposed to fill that blank?...

Damn it! You think that you understand boys and then you lose yourself... why can't it all go back to understanding yourself and losing the boys?... or should it?

By the transitive property... But it's wrong this time! Neener.

So confuzzled...

Life in a nutshell

(?)

Oy! Fad Diets...

b-fest may be the greatest thing ever invented. 24 hours of bad movies. the only people crazy enough to go are psychos just like me. enough to fill a movie theatre. my god, it was amazing. i also met up with Cappy and got everything straightened out... we're good again. yay.

i was also told by the people working the desk for the main building that i was the opnoly one there that was even close to normal (read: having social skillz) because not only did i talk to them, but i knew who alkaline trio was. w00t. i win.

next year, i expect everyone even remotely close to the midwest to be there with me.

Eddie is my god. He knows it, but for serious...

Andrew, Jeff and I had a wonderful discussion on the way to my dad's:

Jeff: I was a boyscout.
Andrew: I was a boyscout too, then I quit.
Tillman: Yeah...I was a Germantown boyscout...
Andrew: Boyscouts are for Republicans.
Jeff: Yeah, with all that "No gays! No blacks! No Indians!"
Tillman: Boyscouts is basically the KKK for eleven year olds.

I need a picture of the three of us. Jeff with his normal dress-code is the median of Andrew's ten year old cross-country jacket and my black leather trench-coat.

We are a great group of friends. I wouldn't trade them for anything. Long live our friendship guys.

My sister's 21st went really well...dinner at a Malaysian restaurant (think Penang) and then pastries back home after the presents were opened. We got her to cry with happiness! Unfortunately, the four adults managed to turn the after-dinner tea discussion to World War II and other depressing thoughts. Not so cool...especially since all four are very head-strong and get into heated discussions quite quickly.

Coming home tomorrow (just for the Super Bowl...ads, that is)...someone remind me to use my turn signals at all times...even when I'm not supposed to...just to show my dad that yes, I do know what a turn signal is, and no, you don't need to threaten me with not letting me use the car because I didn't use it once. Oy! (-:

Pirst Fost!

Superbowl tomorrow baby! Yea, i'll be at the party, potentially not paying attention to a sport of which i know nothing. But hanging out, and that should be fun.

Spent the morning with kids from the ROnald McDonald house- science outreach stuff. Fun stuff, except that one of the girls took out her aggression by elbowing me in the stomach after i tickled her. Well, i learned my lesson.

pirst fost? not even close, baby. just the way i like it.

super bowl tomorrow? yes. players tomorrow? yes. is tomorrow going to be a good day? yes. am i tired? yes. does this post make no sense? yes. is that the way i like all my posts to be.. senseless and yet supremely cultured? flowing with vibrant energy and yet powerfully subtle? lacking all grammar and punctuation?. percolating with jargon and buzzwords? oh, yes.

You think you don't know, but you have no idea.

You think you know, but you have no idea.

You have no idea.

ARRGH!!
Foolish (song)writer's block!!
It's really frustrating when I go from inspired, heartfelt lyrics, to lyrics that are the equivalent of dogshit.
AARRGH!!!

"And watch out for those guys in spandex."

I'm learning soo much from Driver's Ed. =)

I bet I'm the only one in town with Saturday class and homework. Pity me! Oh wait, I'm having fun. Though I'd rather be a second semester senior.

I'm going to live in my cave and be a hobbit.

So last night was oh-so-fun!!! Adrian and I dominated to pool game . . . but I really do need to learn how to actually play. Oh yeah . . . it was fun EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE MY CAR GOT EGGED! so did Adrian's and Sam's grrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .

good quote from Jeff: "Jeff Buckley is like as good as Tom times 2!!!" (and yes, he did say the 'like')
and Jeff . . . don't forget to give me back my camera, and thanks for taking the pics for me :)

Steve Pearson . . . it was fun, you should hang out with us more often. Then, instead of just being that cool kid from the blog, you would be that cool kid that we hang out with!!!

I actually slept in today! Still didn't get 8 hours of sleep, but it's better than my usual 5 or 6. Last night was fun, although I hope none of you ever have to walk into a house inhabited by only Wyn and Ryan. It's a scary thing. However, that did mean I got to watch Friends, Will and Grace, and the end of Signs until Monty got back (I had to be completely absorbed in the TV). ;-)

Driver's Ed today. Excited? Peut etre. It's like a symbolic point...it means I am on my way to driving (= lots of freedom). However, it does take up my ENTIRE Saturday day. At at night, I'll be downtown watching a play at Walnut...and eating dinner at L'ange Bleu. And that's always a good thing. Oh French food =)

hehe
23 inch HD screen
Apple Store
heaven
two bounces in 10.2.3 for photoshop 7 its amazing!!!
its so fast...... you can also have like, a really big photoshop doc open, at 100%
woo hoo

Off to D.C. I hope I'll see Jennifer, she hasn't called me. It'd be really nice to have a real voice lesson after all this time. See you Sunday (I hope!)

pirst fost? oh, yes.

that was a good party.. monsters inc is such a good movie. sully, you are the man. chameleon dude (randall) you are such a bad ass. drivers ed tomorrow (yippee) and then auditions (again) on sunday (yippee, this time for real). at least I have no homework to do. yay for lack of punctuation.

Pirstification!

It's not too hard, is it?

Hmm. The weekend has... a lot of lounging around coming. I need it after last week.
Are we all showing back up Sunday for auditions? I might...

I hate HTML tables! They're so confusing and it should be so simple!

-n

And damn, do they feed us well!

Ah, so tonight was a good time. Although certain people on the couch...umm...I dunno what they were doing...
But all in all a good time.
It's fun to hang out with new people, give people a second chance. Or the first one they never got.
=)

Ahhh shopping. I love H&M. It's the best store ever. Joubles of good clothes for good, cheap prices. =) And they have so much spring stuff already. I have the worst case of spring fever ever. I want sunshine! The beach! Warmth! Short sleeved shirts and shorts!

Dum-dee-dum...
I've watched two chick flicks since I got up at 930 this morning. And I've cried at both...
Dear god, I'm turning into my mother. =)

So... wrestling tetra-meet this afternoon/evening. CHA vs....

Germantown Academy, 4:00 (#2 at National Prep last year)
Blair Academy, 5:30 (#1... period. Best wrestling team ever)
Peddie School (#5 at National Prep last year)

So we're probably gonna get squashed, but it should be some of the best wrestling you can see. If anyone wants to watch, we always need support, and it'll probably be the most exciting wrestling before National Prep. It's at Germantown Academy.

Chicago was soooo good. I really want to do it in Players now, not that we ever WOULD. But I can dream, can't I? And who could've guessed so many famous people have such good voices? And could dance? (even though it wasn't Fossy choreography).

However, afterwards, Monty and I stood out in the frigid cold for...ohh...5 minutes waiting for his mom, who he then called only to find out that she wasn't coming to get us and we had to walk home. I don't think I've EVER been as cold as I was last night. EVER. My face went numb, and after a while I stopped hurting because I just didn't feel anymore. It got to the point when I just started cracking up I was so cold and I stopped being productive. So, it was a good time. =) It only took me about 10 minutes to thaw out, once inside.

PIRST FOST!!!! (yay, I've never done this before!)

So I rocked bowling tonight. only bowled a 100 but beat out Meghan, Sam, and Tommy, which is all that matters. Had fun playing with those crazy kids and ADrian, Ryan, Taylor, and Scott. Those boys are crazy when they all get together.

Yeah, so my first Players audtition. It was sooooo exciting and VERY fun. The play is so small though that I'm really not expecting to get in, but I'm glad I went for it anyway. You all have nothing to worry about though! And you should all count your blessings that you didn't have to come on to John Zell!

Oh yeah . . . anyone who wants to, Katie Bolton is having a party tomorrow night, 7:30ish, you should all come, it should be really fun!!!

Thinkin' of taking a break from the commnuity blog, just for the weekend. Who knows...maybe I'll pull a Deb (the other Deb) and not be able to peel myself away from it. We'll see.

Regarding auditions: I like the play we auditioned for....although there really aren't a lot of parts (yes, stating the obvious). I'm worried that with so few parts, I won't get in. I feel like the first part I read for was alright, but the second one...I don't know why but I was getting sort of confused, and I didn't really feel like there was much I could do with the part. It was strange. Maybe it was cause he gave me my motivation the first time, but not the second time. Whatever we do, I want to be in it, and I want it to be funny.

For some reason, my calf really hurts. Feel free to speculate; I have no idea.

My mom got an email from her friend a while back, and I just saw it and found it amusing.

Subject: CHRISTMAS CAROLS FOR THE PSYCHIATRICALLY CHALLENGED.


Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?
Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas
Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and trees and Fire Hydrants and......
Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get me
Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
Personality Disorder --- You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder --- Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle...

ok so theres all this talk about seniority and favorites, but you have to look at this from all angles...i think leads should go to the people best suited for the role, and for the most part i think they do...obviously there is a connection between getting along with vR and getting good parts, but thats perfectly explainable..

to be a lead/principle/whatever, you have to be talented, work at it, want to be there, and not be incredibly difficult to work with...and those are also qualities that vR (and other players even) respect. you dont have to be his 'favorite' or even get along with him very well to be recognized.

and does anyone think they make bad decisions? though you might feel you deserved a different or bigger part - and granted, some people definitly could handle larger roles - it doesnt mean someone else didnt deserve it, or didnt do extremely well in that position....i guess you can call the casting process what you want, just be careful about calling it nepotism.

Ok.

You may not get this at first but if you think about it enough, you'll get it. For a better explaination, check the text on the page.

http://shoebucket.dhs.org/advertisement.html

DON'T GIVE IT AWAY if you've gotten it and someone else has.

-n

Let's have a vote - who thinks color needs a u?

(She's gonna kill me)

boys are dumb. boys that send me blatantly mixed messages are even dumber. in that respect, college is a drag.

i completely r0x0red my persuasion mass media class today. ever have one of those days where you just completley dominate the in-class discussion? I haven't had one of those since my senior elective, 2 years ago. And I thoroughly schooled my 260 theatre class today. it was excellent.

sue, i need your email address, pretty pleasey.

"I'm writing one great song before I go..."
I'm trying to write a song. The chords are good. The chorus is good. As for the rest...bleh.
But if I finish it and it's good, I'll have 10 good songs. Which would rock.

Damn the person who invented divorced parents.

Eh, it's not so much that, more that I went from my dad's to my mom's to my dad's today. Weird, eh?

And I'm not trying to be depressing, it's just an inconvenience, kinda like having a permit and not a license is an incovenience. So there you have it.

Since the number of possible plays has been summed up to around 3, I think auditions went really well (For my second play...). I heard multiple rumors about seniors getting priority, and then a seriously smaller cast than Patience, but does anyone know the final rulings on these? I understand the smaller cast, but senior priority would just bake my noodle. Chaft my willie. You know the drill. ;-)

whoa.. go players and especially trying out (auditing?) for the play! it's like a complete parody of all those old 30s detective movies with humphrey bogart.. phillip diamond is the lead character.. what a great name. that is up there with Indiana Jones, Anakin Skywalker and Austin Powers on my list of great movie names. and exams are over! and I did relatively well without even freaking out! heck yes. whoopee. no school tomorrow. but, nothing to do. still, it's better than having school! yay for exclamation points!

It's amazing how many New Yorkers and Brits one can find in LA.

i actually thought auditions were ok...its nothing too stressful considering the rec is basically my house, and even though we hadnt seen the play before no one did badly.

i kind of like this play, actually, its a bit of a departure from all the previous plays ive taken part in (...all = 3 1/2 <--the half is middle school drama; 7th grade was a long time ago) and it seems like our talent could make it very funny. and potential stage combat (slapping!)! yes!

You guys are all gonna have to come and see Wissahickon's ice show.

I'll have a solo, since all the juniors and seniors get them [the show is every other year, so it'll be both 11th and 12th graders' last show].

But wait.. it gets better!

Yes, that's right. Better. So much better that i'll tell you what makes sitting in a cold rink on a Friday [Saturday, maybe? I don't remember] in March so worthwhile.

I'm skating to "So Long" by Guster!

And so, you'll all have to be there. If not to cheer me on, then to listen to a great song.

Grammar police, arrest this man he won't use caps,
He can't find the apostrophe,
Nor can he punctuaaaaaaaaaateeeeeee.

Can anyone guess the song? I may have changed the words a little bit...

To go along with everyone... ah! Auditions! Today!
I'm worried about having to tell vR that Tom won't be able to make a sunday thang either. It's Monica's 21st.

...Morcheeba...

mmm... it was good. The music was good. The crowd is better at any given guster concert in philly though. Lots of old people, lots of just-slightly-older-than-me people. A bit inbetween. Great space in the crowd though. About two people back from the front in the very center.

Skye is, in one word, enchanting. Rosey wasn't bad either.

mmm...tic-tacs...

-n

Auditions today! And I'm freaking out. I feel like I haven't acted in forever...since Patience actually because Walnut ended the week before and hasn't started up yet. I might've lost the feel for it!

No more exams!! Freefreefreefreefreefree::takesadeepbreath::freefreefreefree...ahhhhh relief. Ryan's was fun last night. Insomnia is awesome. Robin Williams is awesome. I wish I could act like that. His character is just sooo cool. With so many different sides. It makes you see all the positions of murder and accusing a murderer. Brilliant.

So auditions today! Woo hoo!
I miss the Rec...
But umm...yea..I'd kinda like to know what show we're doing...anyone else feel that way??

I think I should go wake Kat up...

Ah! Sue, Rachel! Anyone else working on those cards!

Check out the Yearbooks. From what you've said, it sounds as though you already have, but just for the sake of a refresher, I've always loved those "Personality Lists" they make.

My radiator sounds like it's going to blow up...Eh, it's sounded like this for years, I'm not worried about it.

I AM A SECOND SEMESTER SENIOR!!!! Why did I stay up until 1:45 a.m. studying? It was a bad call. Yeahh. But physio was quite easy, I must say. These cards seem somewhat mysterious...I'm not sure I like it. You should make them like ranks, though. Our ranks are supposed to be in by next Wednesday. You could also say rank, wakes up to, always says, in ten years (although I don't like this one), where found, theme song, famous for, needs. Those are some more.

Rach - call me with your e-mail address - I have the proto-type ready! :)

I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but these cards intrigue me.

We need more fun categories! We have things like worst date, dreams of, pet peeve, addiction...any suggestions?

I was hoping to get Pirst Fost, but got back too late from the concert, which, incidentally, rocked!

[edit] Morcheeba was awesome, had a good opener from Rosey who has an excellent voice and stage presence, but decided to mellow her set with an acoustic setup instead of a full band, which might have added more punch to the package. Morcheeba opened with the song I'd hoped against all hope that they'd open with...the opener to their cd Big Calm, The Sea. And they did! It was great! Skye Edwards is short, speaks with a British accent, and sings amazingly! The Brothers Godfrey: guitar prodigy with a spinning amp and DJ genius with a great baritone and awesome sense of humour. (He looks like a spastic teddy bear! Let's take him home!)

Kate, Nick, and Natalie wouldn't let me come back and try and get their autographs: it was cold, we got coffee from Wawa + Cow Tails and Peanut Chews (yes, I mixed almost every flavour of sweet coffee they had--new caramel!) Once my mom got us home she said I smelled really, really bad. Thanks, mom! Yes, there were old guys smoking clove cigarettes and joints next to us. Gave Kate and me headaches...sucked, but the concert made up for it. Awesome guest rapper, too! Gotta find out his name...he was really, really tall, especially standing next to Skye.

*Pirst Fost*

Rock on.

Now wasn't that easy? I don't see what was so hard about it...

My dad still doesn't believe that I don't have school tomorrow, but I really don't! Players auditions aren't school...right? Nah, not really. But yeah...I'll be at the Rec at 1:00 PM. I don't know how you're planning to get me up on stage, but those sorts of ideas come out as "spur of the moment" type things.

Seriously, I'm going to freak out on stage tomorrow.

Jess! I miss you so much! You're going to be my motivation tomorrow, you hear me? I love you and I know you'll be with me in some form tomorrow!

American Idol is CLEARLY the greatest show, we even got Alex to watch with us (yay Alex, if you're reading this)!!! These people are just so hilarious!!!!

And just so everyone knows, these alleged notecards were MY idea. Not to be possessive, but its rare that I have such a creative idea, and I'm very proud :) But Sue and I have big plans for them, so just you wait, it will be very exciting!!!!

Good News

The phone company will be able to track my prank calls I just need to do a lot more stuff through the police office. While talking to a neighbor of mine (no not "Albert" whose real name is Arnold) they connected another incident to this phone-al harassment. The incident that I described with the condoms... when they were left on my driveway in the middle of the night (or the middle of my run as I thought). Anywho! Neighbors think that this is related, and I now think that I have a "suspect" but I am not going to ASS-U-ME anything until the police is officially involved. If it happens again this weekend... someone is going to go down... no joke.

For now... I am going to go and study for my Italian test, get some rest... and then have a kick assin' day manana! For those still taking exams... ENJOY, GOOD LUCK, be safe, and use a condom...

Tillman, just try to put a condom on a banana... either way you look at it, sexual or not, it is a funny experience... (Tillman was the one who brought up that comment right?)

Sue, sorry to disappoint you, but I didn't actually write an "ampersand" essay. How 'bout an "ampersand" post?

Ampersand ampersand ampersand. Ampersand ampersand, & ampersand...ampersand. AMPERSAND!

Rachel was gonna post this, but she hasn't yet, so I will. We were on our way to Delesandro's, Rachel driving, Meghan in the front, me, Jamie, and Tom in the back. Completely out of the blue, Jamie goes "Hey guys, I've really been getting into Prince lately."

Enter about 30 seconds of silence, followed by each of us cracking up histerically. Ohhhh man, it was funny.

Pretty much it's cause it was THE most random thing of the day, and it took us all a while to figure out that he was kidding.

So we've started these index cards on "family" members, with "vital stats" of sorts...
They should turn out well, and if anything, interesting...

Watched Singin' in the Rain. I wish I could tap dance...

And, on a random note: I want to go to Prom!!! I was flipping through my Prom issue of seventeen, and all the pretty dresses...and...oh...I wanna go!

Just because I am obsessive and a geek, I went to Merriam-Webster Online to find out the actual spelling of "definite." It's merely because I was looking through the blog and I noticed that as a group we use that word abundantly, but we tend to differ on the spelling. Really, though, it was only for my own curiosity, I'm not making fun of anyone who spells it otherwise! Just remember, from now on, think of "finite" when you spell "definitely." It's a finite word! ::heeheeSNORThawhaw::

End Transmission of GeekTom

So here I am. Posting as Tomas.

Sadly, Tom has said nothing recently which was really innocent and could be construed as disgusting.

Give me about 7 and a half minutes and I'm sure I can get one.

Uhh....

-n

In honor of the recent "snows:"

"Percent sign ampersand dollar sign!"
"And colon, semi-colon, too!"

"What are you two $@%^in' doing??"

"Swearing in long-hand, asterisk-mouth."

I love Sam & Max Hit the Road!

So here I am. Posting as Natalie.

I simply had to quote...

Natalie: You tainted my snowman!

I'll let you all decide...

-n

Someday, I will get pirst fost. Someday. And I WILL write something afterwards.

In the art cave...exams are OVER! And I came into the cave and Wyn's there, looking at colleges...so, of course, I join in. Because I have so many requirements for a college, I didn't get any matches...so I gave up for the blog. Of course.

Dana is playing weird songs on her cell phone...with incredibly advanced phone rings. And Monty and Tillman were just singing everything they said. Monty's house in 15 minutes. Wyn finally can see Ryan so she can stop being sexually repressed. ::sighofrelief:: ;-)

Whoa...lost touch with the blog there for a while. Thought I was going to drown in all the new material!

Morcheeba concert tonight...someone remind me to bring a camera and earplugs to save my ears? I'll go see Singing in the Rain some other time. Sue's downstairs on the couch in pain (get well quick, Sue!), but she's crazy enough to still be going to school today for her first Food Crops class. Who the hell takes a class on Food Crops? Sue does, that's who.

Just checked the SEPTA schedule. Ahhh, SEPTA. I'm missing some quality index-carding downstairs...you'll all see what I mean later. I'm going to go and join, and steal a cookie. Survey question: What is your favorite Milano flavour?

I'm almost officially a second-semester senior!!! WOOHOO!!! We all are! Well, some of us.

Alright. Research is DONE! I have all of the research that I need... a good six or seven different sources to choose three from. It really shouldn't be that bad... but as I told you about the assignment that part is going to SUCK!

This week has been so hectic... so much stress, so many problems, and tests and stuffy thingers to do. Bleck blech bleck!

I am typing at a computer that has the sun DIRECTLY in my eyes, I think that my eye is going to burn a hole in it. It is like I need sunglasses to type at this computer.

Tonight is going to be crazy. For starters, there is going to be an hour and a half of the bachelorette!!! WOO HOO!!! But I probably won't be able to watch much because I am tutoring and I am going to be at track and other craziness... woh!

Oh the sun! I'm melting... I'm melting!!!

I didn't really have much to do today besides research and I did my math homework earlier, so for your blogging convenience I trolled on all of the posts until the end of the page... just in case you felt the need to go back and troll... there are some funny ones there that I never got to look at. I like having the last comment on a post before people forget about it. Then I definately know that I read it.

It sounds like something we should get worked up over. Shall we have arguements and then settle on a computer made post at 12.00 every morning?

to reclaim (or rather, to claim in first place...and since Deb isnt online to beat me by FIVE SECONDS i should be alright) my...

"Pirst Fost"

to break the trend of all you no-context pirst fosters, i will write about...the fact that i am sleeping soon...very soon

ah yes, sleep...ill leave the technicalities to Debra (remember the REM (good band!) comments?) and Tillman (phase hummawhat?), but i know that i am definitly going to bed soon. chem didnt really wear me out, but my eyes are closing, so here i go....goodnight/morning all...

PIRST FOST!

How about guitar? How exactly does one teach themselves guitar?

hey, check this out...

http://www.modernhumorist.com/

i especially like the "poster boy" section

(and no, i dont know how to target a link, copy and paste you lazy bastards)

hal has once again amazed me (in the good way, not the sarcastic one)

Jumponit 96ka: i disagree

Auto response from JeRoBe: "it is better to lose both shoes and walk barefoot than to lose one and limp along uncertainly"

Jumponit 96ka: if u have one shoe and say u r homeless
Jumponit 96ka: when winter comes
Jumponit 96ka: u can save a foot
Jumponit 96ka: cause u might have to amputate the other due to such extreme conditions
Jumponit 96ka: another example for summer time
Jumponit 96ka: u have one shoe, take the sole off
Jumponit 96ka: and cut the lace in half
Jumponit 96ka: use the lace to tie the sole to your other foot
Jumponit 96ka: and then with the top half of the shoe and the left over lace
Jumponit 96ka: put the top half under your foot
Jumponit 96ka: and tie it down
Jumponit 96ka: damn i'm good

simply stunning...this ranks up with diecks comment on my post about my hair...

"dude thats gonna completely ruin youre "im kinda deep and slightly counter culture....but not to the point of being obsessed with anything or having any wierd japanese fetishes" look"

completely unrelated....no smileys yet? i do like the @s, but ive still got my heart set on tiny little smiling bundles of joy

and no, im not talking about babies, or kittens, or bombs (alex)...so deal with it

I propose everyone get as excited about having the first comment on a post as they get about having pirst fost. Just a suggestion.

Um...I gave up studying a long time ago. As in, freshman year. Since then, well...studying hasn't been a big part of my life. And I have english tomorrow. I should review notes. I should this and that, but I'm not and I probably won't.

I have Find The Cost Of Freedom in my head. It's better than having Carmina in my head, which I did earlier. I wish Laureli would do stuff as awesome as that song.

I need voice lessons so I can attempt to get into OTB.

So my guilty pleasure of the evening . . . American Idol!!! I know, I know, but the show is sooooooooo good. I mean there were people there who were even worse than Carina (can you believe that) but they thought that they were amazing and got in fights with all the judges and stuff. Its on tomorrow night at 8:30 on FOX, I suggest you all watch it!!!

One more exam!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully my brain will work for the entire 2 hours this time, instead of quiting halfway through.

I also learned that the girls of our sister class had to learn how to put condoms on a banana.

That might be one of most sexist things I've ever heard about. But it made for a good conversation! ;-)

I've given up on Bio. I gave up on Bio last week, but I didn't tell anyone because it was just too damn early. But now it's official, I've given up on it. The issue is closed, I don't want to hear any arguing.

English was easy. If you consider typing 8 pages in 2 hours easy, it was easy. And so there you have my exam summary for the day. Chambers wasn't an exam - Chambers was a waiting room.

Okay, so a bit of enlightening news, right? I mean, I always knew this, but because of how much it's affecting some people lately, I've realized that being in a relationship can be quite hazordous to your health. Almost as hazordous as parents!

Be safe. Be single.

What to say?

I have officially procrastinated... well you tell me... I have a paper due next wednesday that is my final paper for my Contemporary American Society class... it is three to five pages and I have decided that I should start writing it... but why? Is this procrastinating? I know that I am going to write if not know then this weekend, really... why start now?

Hm? American Idol... what is up with this Simon Dude... it is funny... but I can tell you that if I sang I wouldn't put myself up for that kind of criticism... and some of these people that "sing well" don't... and they should know that. Some of you should have gone onto that show... as I was telling Nick it was very difficult to get the "acceptance" bracelet to audition. But you should be on it...

American Idol Wants You! ::pointing finger @ YOU!::

I find chem a lot easier to study for if you totally become a "Chem geek" (tom senior speech definition: someone who has an extreme interest in chemistry) while studying. Actually caring about effective nuclear charge and thinking that nomenclature is cool (alcohols, carboxylics, and binary ionics-- oh my!) makes it a lot easier to get motivated and actually study, rather than being like "chem sucks.. lampes a nazi... SCREW THE WORLD!". Even though that may be true, it's best to ignore it. Think Chem. (okay, i feel like a walking talking apple commercial.. yay)

I understand EverQuest is the devil. Therefore, I'm taking a break from it. Now, I'm remembering why I returned: Life is boring. Would someone mind telling me what to do with a boring life? I'll be sitting here refreshing the page while I wait.

In a way, and I know this is gonna sound sort of nuts, the college application thing is good. How, you ask? It keeps your mind off of what'll happen once you're in college, or the in between time, during the end of high school until the start of college. The process keeps you so busy that you don't have time to start freaking out like I'm doing.

All I could find on the recently published blogs yesterday was really well-designed pages! Today it's pure crap!

I need blog-spiration!

[edit] and a larger monitor if anyone wants to donate... you have NO IDEA how hard it is to design at 1024x768 on a 15 incher...

Why is it snowing EYEBROWS?!?

This is SO deep.

"Just remember and I'll remember cause MOMMAAAAAAAAAAA I'll get by." I wuvvv OTB.

I'm a big pig.

Ummm Tom and I still need to talk about english. TOMMMM. He's standing right there.
<--

Me: "What happens in Ghosts?"
Tom: "Stuff."

Ahhh Tom. And I can't call him tonight to talk about english because he has a socio class. At the Beave. I mean...Arcadia.

I think I need to learn how to play drums.

Q: What does it mean when you spend your last hour of freedom catching up on the blog?

A: That it's time to return to higher education.

English was so easy! There wasn't an essay, I was so confuzzled. There was, however, an essay on how Barbie is actually a beneficial toy for little girls because it allows them to explore their sexuality. But it was Mrs. Hill's exam, so go figure.

Bushisms...

That was the topic of conversation... Oh geez, we read that little book... some of the things that he has said are like, OMG, WTF?! (To quote Deb)...

At home now... should be leaving soon... I should, but do I want to!?

I want to keep on reading the blog, but I have trolled and read and I am done, I don't have much patience now... my schedule for today was completely changed around... and I liked how it was before! Dammit!

Oy... my neck hurts... I need a massage!

UGGGGHHHHH!
I have Stan Parker's history exam today. Without a a doubt it is going to be one of my hardest exams this year, if not for a while. Is that incorrectly punctuated....oh well; all of my brilliance is left at school for the exams.

About an hour and 10 minutes until English exam time. And you'd think I'd have gotten more sleep...or at least a good night's sleep. But, noooo. I bargained with my mom for more phone time and then went downstairs and watched TV with my rents...made upstairs at 1130-ish, and then read for a few hours. And for some reason, my mom felt the need to wake me up when my sister got up for school at 8 when I don't need to be there until about 940...Sleeping through English is very appealing. But then, maybe I'll just sleep until voice.

IT'S NOT PIRST FOST IF YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING. That means I get pirst fost.

I am at school, blogging. Instead of studying for spanish. I think that even if I didn't study at all (I've done a little) I could probably still get an A. Devon was in the retreat singing "I don't care, I don't care," and it pretty much summed up my policy for this exam, and probably for english too.

I went to bed way too late last night, so I'm gonna be dead tomorrow. Maybe I'll nap when I get home. How am I getting home??

Remember when it was rainging "LIKE, OMG, WTF??" That was worse than "ampersand" by far.

[edit] I BEAT YOU JEFF!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!
[edit] By 5 seconds!!

well...it seems to be my time...

"Pirst Fost!"

i claim the latest one ever! 8:45 am! usually theyre at like 12:20 or 3 am or something, i guess this is what exams do to people...good luck with that everyone

PIRST FOST!

i think my only complaint with it raining "ampersand" is that the word is gigantic at times, and thus interferes with the reading....how about it raining tiny tiny smiley faces? id like that.

well...i am putting a definite end to what seems to have been a gradual process...

ready?

no more spikey hair!

(for the time being, at least)

Fbbbbthhhh.

Yes. Talking is best. It's true, and everyone who said so was smart.

I don't wanna go back to school!!! NOOOOOOO!!!

I didn't so much study. But it's spanish. But I should've at least reviewed my notes or something. I did start making a list of all the vocab words I need to know, and I read one of the short story things we read. I really need to go over ser v. estar and imp. v. pret. Badly with the latter.

[edit] Is ampersand not a commonly known word?

when you all go to college, please keep this in mind:

remember your old friends.

because getting blown off for a frat party, a kegger, and a meaningless blowjob is really the epitome of sucktacular.

As for the meet:

I polevaulted, unaware that my event had started, I vaulted. I vaulted without warming up, taking steps, readjusting my grip or anything. No run throughs... WTF?! I randomly chose a spot to begin my run... no calculations of steps... completely randomly.

Ok, so without anything, and the morning that I had, I took my first jump... failed... the next one right after (I am the last one jumping at this height)... failed... on the third jump I succeeded. This is the starting height 6'.

With Polevault, it starts at 6' for girls and goes up by a foot until 7' and then up 6" until the last person is out. If this hadn't happened then I would have cleared 6'6" and felt a little better... BUT! It was practice for me and I took them as practice jumps... so I did pretty well for absolutely nothing before (no warm up or anything).

What a day... Que un dia!

Cats in heat.

Or rather, semi-cats in heat, as they are still relatively young. But in related news - My kitty had kittens last night! Little tiger-kitties. Aww...wittle itty bitty baby puds.

But back to the main topic. Cats in heat, that is. They might be one of the most annoying things ever. They either roam around the house going "MeeeeooooOOOOOOOoooowwwWWW", or they go "MeooOOw, waHHhaaa, MeOOOooW, waaahhHHHaaaa, MeeeeEEoooW, WaaaHHaaaa."

Take your pick, and enter the house of maddening feline hormones.

I'm tired.
I didn't go to bed as early as I wanted to last night. And I got up early.
So I napped for two hours.
But I'm still tired.
So I'll go to bed early tonight.
Or, kinda early...

My day:

It all began when I got up... I was tired, not terribly tired, I had had the most sleep that I have had in a while last night, but I was still tired. Let me tell you what happened.

When I got up this morning, I went through my normal routine, with a little extra time to turn on the computer. While doing this I was thinking. What if I missed the bus? Just what if? Maybe if I arrive at just the right time then I might just miss it and not feel so bad... Don't try wishing for something if you don't really want it to happen... I guess you can figure out what happened.

I was talking to Deb online at like 10:20 and then I decided that I should probably grab my stuff and go, but I leisurely did this. I was out of the house by 10:26 it takes a couple of minutes to get to school without traffic lights and things so I was ok to be just on time. I wasn't speeding or anything so when I got to school and I saw a big yellow school bus pulling out of the lot I got a little excited that they were leaving and then I thought... OH SHIT! So I honked at the bus to stop. They stopped and waited for me, I parked and ran to the bus... BUT!

I polevault. Meaning, to polevault one would need a pole to vault with. Correct? Of course! So what am I missing...? I am late, I did a really crappy parking job. I have everything that I need to compete... except... My pole!!! We drove to the bottom of my schools driveway when I realized. I broke down, I actually shed tears over this... I was in such a vulnerable mood of not wanting to go, not wanting to make the bus, not wanting to leave my house that I brokedown on the bus (which I had also made about five minutes late). The bus turned around and went back to school so that I could get my pole to vault.

Finally on the bus, I get crap from the team for making them late... they shouldn't care! The meet doesn't start until 1:00!!! It is now 10:35! WTF?! So now on the bus, I feel terrible for making them late, and I am now definately stuck on this bus with all of my friends at home. Friend Andy: Broken back, Friend Jeff: Sick, Friend Cass (Bitch): Not talking to me, Friend Raquel: Asleep, Friend Aaron: Unable to find... I thought that I was going to die...

If this wasn't all enough, I have to get my cell phone number changed because I am getting prank calls in the middle of the night from someone! I can't trace the number nor get the police to do it for me (it is a private number)... and against the law. So I had three voicemail on my cell this morning from Mr. X (I know that it is a guy from the voicemail) and I was called a whore several times in those messages.

All in all. It was a great morning.

the beatles are so bloody trippy.. i've been listening to the beatles one and I space out on every other song. whoa... beatles-inspired trips sure beat studying for exams. yeah. sting - jeremiah blues part 2 is also good. I tell you, if I was an african tribesman ready to hunt for the family, ready to put my life on my line for the good of the tribe, ready to sacrifice my good, my life, my body, to bring down that big snarling beast from the jungle.. I would sure listen to jeremiah blues part 2 before the hunt. screw all logic and sanity - a southern man don't need them around, anyhow.

Me duele mi espalda. No sé porque. And yeah, that time I used an HTML accented thing. Let's hope I remembered the right code...

What exactly happened at school today (I wasn't there)?

Has anyone seen the commercial, I can't remember what it's for...but it was on during the game last night, and it's raining +'s? It kinda looks like the blog.

i like gettin' out of class an hour early!

now i can take a shower! woo! anti-stink!

How in the hell to you really study for an English exam? Vocab, grammar...and then essays?? Vocab I memorize by making every word dirty...figures. I suppose she expects us to be completely clueless and get experienced in bullshitting. Good thing I am. I can lie on paper, just not in person.

My sister has a boyfriend!!!! I told her to wait to kiss anyone until 9th grade because, until then, no one knows how to kiss and they're all only experimenting/practicing. And you DON'T want to be the girl they practice on. Then Heather and Maggie brought up a good point - we need to practice, too...

Golden Globes last night were semi-good. Pretty much all the dresses were "ehhh". No gorgeous ones. No horrendous ones. Just "ehh". How disappointing.

Another disappointing note: we don't get to go to the super bowl. ::tear:: I love how I actually care about sports when our teams are good. Like I watched almost every game when the 76ers were good...and like hypervenilated when they lost. Every other year I'm lucky if I even remember it's basketball season.

In other news...

Recently, using Jupiter and a distant Quasar named J0842+1835 for reference, the speed of gravity was found to be roughly 1.06 x the speed of light.

This means:

If the sun were to disappear right now, like, COMPLETELY GONE, not only would we have 8 and a half minutes of sunlight still left, the earth would continue to orbit nothingness for a little less than that amount of time.

For your informaton.

-n

Happiness? It's as simple as this equation...supposedly.

Happiness = P + (5xE) + (3xH)

where P = Personal Characteristics, including outlook on life, adaptability and resilience,

E = Existence and relates to health, financial stability and friendships,

and H = Higher Order needs, and covers self-esteem, expectations, ambitions and sense of humour.

Huh?

Figures. Fucking Pittsburgers.

http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20030117tonguep9.asp

Ok. Since I can't reach the blog to comment, a phenomenon which is extending to more and more chortlers, I'll do all my commenting and posting from one post.

M'ris, Nat did the cake, I did the candles. HER TOO! And DDR! Tom owns DDR. They had a disney-version in disney when we were there for the chambers trip (did I ever mention how much that trip kicked ass?) and Tom and Jess went at it. It was quite the sight because they are two people who own the beat and have coordination as well! Tom ALMOST got through an entire round without missing one really late in the game. It was neat.

Debra? You messed up your cell phone ALREADY? Eddie didn't even throw you in the pool yet! It's ok, you can come and stay with anyone but me only because I know you wouldn't want to stay here.

Uh... Monday. It's nice to be home with no one else here. I've gotta call Tom later. Shall we place bets on when he'll be up? Obviously he's had a busy weekend... I still have massive gift certs to spend.

That's it for now?

-n

An all day track meet...

A bummed up Cell Phone...

A new number tomorrow...

The "Who's a Ho?!" song playing on my voicemail...

Stuck in Edgemont...

::tears::

What is up with chortles? Why can't I view it? ARRGHHHH!!

Pirst Fost!

Oh wait, maybe not, M'ris typed something out at 5:30am but never published it. Damn. Can't i get an honorary pirst fost?

It's early. Not as early as 5:30am, but it's 6:30am. Still very early. I'm skating, then hanging around the rink for half an hour before the stupid MLK day starts. Hello- we're not even doing service projects today. We're having some dumb assembly.

I realy need sleep.

i just realized that i will most likely not be home for a very, very long time. not til may. and then, not til october. jeebus.

my birthday was wonderful, thanks tom n nick, and my friends here have decided that much like chanukah, it will last for seven days. so tomorrow night we're playing DDR. so much DDR.

the past few nights have been filled with truth or dare (of the drunken variety. i pretended to be a swimsuit model and admitted that i'd like to sleep with jerry o'connell. yes there are pictures, and c'mon, like we all didn't know that already?) bad movies (premutos, killer eye... "B movie" doesn't even begin to describe them.) and my friend Cancer being an uberslut. good ole cancer.

now i have an 11am class, and should prob'ly go to bed. is this pirst fost? cool.

Good talk today, Ray. I didn't mean for that to rhyme, but I'm not going back to delete it. Lots of good talks with people today. Good good. :-D

Life, life is foolish. That's my conclusion. And, from earlier, you should be able to turn off thinking sometimes.

Someone may have broken into our house today. My mom and I did a thorough check of the basement and the third floor and didn't find anyone hiding, but if I get killed....I love you all.

Fear the rental unit... they control your life! Or really... at least mine.

Heather/Alex... your parents are cool... love yours! Tom's are cool too...

Nick - I have no comment on yours... I can't say hurt them because you would probably moduli them... (I just made up my own verb!)

My mom is cool... my dad isn't... but I fear the both as a unit.

(I know no other Philadelphia parents enough to assess)

ah, time to chortle randomly and incoherently. 1.the eagles losing is a bad thing. damn Philadelphia sports and our tradition of losing. there's always next year. 2. reorganizing mp3s is very boring and very timeconsuming but worthwhile. 3. service thing tomorrow.. oooooh boy. 4. more exams this week. arg; need to study. hopefully, the worst of it is over though.

I'd comment only I can't get to the blog or comcast.net at all.

Oh well.

The train ride took forever due to the stupid, silly Rail Project SEPTA (quick! spit on the ground in defilement of that name!) is doing on the weekends to replace the wires between the three city stations. Yeah, yeah, I know it's necessary, but SEPTA's shiatty enough as it is, so why not just revamp the entire %$@#'in system while they're at it?

Found out that the Eagles lost from the fans who were on my train home. damn! Nice bunch of guys...middle aged dudes who've obviously been friends for years and Eagles fans for more. They made the train ride pretty amusing and interesting. Reading the Socio book also helped alleviate the boredom that one suffers on long train rides with uncomfortable seats.

I'm going to pry open my Yoga To-Go to see if I can do something about my back...thanks dad!

P.S. Muchas, muchas gracias (y abrazos!) para una fin de semana que me alegria mucho. Hasta viernes, mi media naranja...

Wow...after thinking about it, I am definately the Catcher in the Rye.

My alter ego is none other than the Curbside Prophet.

No, really, I took the time to look up at least the Catcher in the Rye. Yeah, the one by JD Salinger.

It's so amazing, did anyone else like that book as much as I did?

I hope we're all ENJOYING the rain which is now changed to....

MODULI.
NOT PERCENTAGE SIGNS.

As in
15 % 3 = 0
16 % 3 = 1
17 % 3 = 2
18 % 3 = 0
and so on and so on.

Just so you all know what Modulus does.

Jack Ferguson is my favouritest person EVER. =)
Even when he's attacking me with stuffed animals...

Hey Kat, I was just thinking yesterday about how glad I am that we're friends again. This year would not have been the same if we hadn't worked things out in that tent on the senior trip at midnight. So yeah, I love you, and I'm soooooo happy we worked things out :)

from last night at dinner:

Heather: i just have no motivation to get up in the morning other than to brush my teeth...
Me: how about the motivation to get up and learn something new, to live and grow as a person!!
Heather: (grunts) yeah right.

and, though not limited to this one occasion
Sue: hahah(snortsnort)hahaha(snort)

again, the title of the blog is justified

Ok. Pretty much boringness since I last posted. Where is everyone? I'm starting to think that here's the loop:

O

And here's me:




.

The Two Towers is so much more awesome at 1 in the morning.

Speaking of random IM's, this girl from California IM'ed me the other day asking me about "Kanyamagufa."

The first thing she tells me is that she was searching for it in people's AOL profiles. Now this totally blows me over, and not in the good way. Who the hell searches for "Kanyamagufa" in AOL profiles?

She does.

It was weird.

So I decided I might want to have a conversation with her, but no, shes only there for one reason, and that's to find out what "Kanyamagufa" means. So I tell her. And then she says goodbye. Completely random...Just the weirdest thing.

Oh, and two more things. One, apparently I'm the only person in the AOL world who has "Kanyamagufa" in my profile. Two, I purposely didn't say the meaning of "Kanyamagufa."

Goodnight! Sweet dreams.

Auto response from SuperDebers (12:48:21 AM): Tea anyone?
infinitecode (12:48:21 AM): We all know Tea is a secret metaphor for hot, steamy sex.

Nick: You weren't there for me to respond... but, Thanks...

I thought Chicago was amazing!!!! Well, it was very Fosse-esque, so some parts were a little strange, but overall it was lots of fun. Everyone should definitely see it though if they haven't already.

quote of the night: "My quesadilla is falling apart. Its like a quesa-juuble." - Meghan

For those who don't know, juuble is a word we made up that means a group of things. It is used in contexts like "a juuble of freshman boys" or "a juuble of grapes." Try adding it to your vocabulary if you haven't already. We actually did get Mr. Moyer to start using it, which is kind of humorous.

so a few weeks ago i get this random IM from this 13 year old girl in NY thinking im someone else, and then she started to IM me regularly because...well i have no idea, maybe im cool? ha! after becoming increasingly frustrated because i was always away, today i get an email...

"im not going to talk to you anymore because every time i istant message you your stupid thing comes on and there all stupid and i bet your to lazy to type so bye idiot i wont be talking to you anymore bye brat"

now imagine that in purple bold type with a pink background, and youll get the full effect. this was only half a surprise, because she had called me 'idiot' and such before, but a brat??? never!

lets call this my addition to the "wow, what its like to be 13" file...

I feel like Chicago was sort of a weird movie.

Where is everyone watching the game tomorrow??

Wow, it's hard to type with mittens on...
But I'm doing pretty well. =)
I like cool action movies without much plot where you can just sit and watch them and be like, "Whoa! That was sooo cool!!!"

What with icons, 15+ people, cryptic posts, trollers, and weird posts, when are we going to get on "Blogs of Note?"

Blockbuster sucks. We went to go get Monsters, Inc...so you'd think it would be behind the Monster's, Inc. box, right? Wrong...no...we ended up getting Monster's Ball instead....oy! Well, it's supposed to be good..so we'll make the best of it.

The Sociology teacher may not be so much fun...but the book kicks arse!

so im in the kattskils or however youre suposed to spell it....but yeah...im bored....make my life fun!!! i need to study for exams

Don't you hate it when those "assorted chocolate" boxes come with no key??

Grr...

Guess the next person who finds them will be wondering who took all those bites to find out what each one was...

I am contemplating an iBook at the moment, it is small and fun and cute...white as well...which is different, I could definately paint it to be orange :o) Ya never know. Thinking a lot about the computer that I want for college, not quite sure if I want a Mac or not :o) Vaio anyone? I think that I want to stick with a PC, but Macs are just all so cute (and people that like Macs are normally cuter :o) )

PS- Because Tom didn't thank me in his post, he is with me in New York and I am an awesome girlfriend and I bring him to cool places like this (that he likes....)

PPS- He just edited his post.

I am definitely hyperventilating right now...I am in the Westchester Mall...in...an....APPLE STORE!!! Holy flying cowz! It's awesome! I'm typing on a 1.25Ghz dual Mirror-door G4, and I'm just drooling! Thanks, Debra!!!

I love Apples, yes I do! I love Apples because Jaguar's blue!

Psst...M'ris....HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I've got your annual mix ready for the taking whenever I see you again...(which will be SOON, yes?)

Where are we all watching the Eagles game on Sunday??

As a side note...I finally worked out today...the blub starts disappearing!

So my interview . . . Tom why didn't you warn me?!?!? The guy was really kind of weird. I mean I guess the questions he asked me were interesting, but they were tricky, and I feel like I ended up sounding really ditzy. Some of the questions included: "So what is Rachel Krol?" (I mean, how do you respond to that?) "What is a 'fact'?" and "How do you know if something is true?" and then every question had a follow up question which made me think that everything I had just said was wrong. I mean, I don't know philosophy now . . . THATS WHY I'M GOING TO COLLEGE! Ok, it actually doesn't really matter at all, because I don't really want to go there, my parents were the ones who made me apply anyway.

Ok, off to finish Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. YAAAYYYY FOR EXAMS!!!!!

Debra's not trolling. I should've guessed she and Tom are together.

I'm so out of the loop.

Go to yahoo.com and put in "college scholarships" and you'll find 1,200,000 matches. How can I possibly look through all of that?

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I'm sure I'd qualify for this one (note the dripping sarcasm):

American Young Woman of the Year Program
P.O. Box 2786
Mobile, AL 36652

Majors: All fields of study

Amount: total of $3.5 million

Requirements:
High school seniors. Based on SAT or ACT scores, GPA, transcript, interview, physical fitness, talent, poise, and appearance.

Deadline: Early Autumn

ah, losing 700+ minutes of claptonian goodness in the wink of an eye (but Cream and Derek and the Dominos are still there, interestingly.. damn you, computer.) And I'm not even sure how.
let the mass clapton re-ripping commence. damnit.. this is going to take a while. Being nonsensical rules!
By the way, the quote of the goat needs to be updated.

Okay, okay, I'm done with the depressingness on my life having to do with this blog, because it doesn't help, and you all have been really great with it. But fear not, I'll leave well enough alone and be done with it.

I've heard about sleeping "phases", such as one, two, three, and four. Each depends on how asleep you really are, and what will bring you out of that phase. But now that I think about it, I don't think I've gotten much "phase four" sleep, ever. I mean, for serious. Look at this:

Last night/this morning:
1 hour of phase one, just to get to phase two, three, and four.
About 5 hours of phase four.
My mom wakes me up, enter phase three.
She talks to me, and expects comprehensible answers, enter phase two.
But then she leaves, so phase two stays around for a while. Phase two consists of me having okay speech patterns, but not knowing who or what I'm talking to.
Mom leaves, enter phase three.
Phone rings, but phase three is still present, so I don't remember who or what was on the phone.
Phone rings some more. Same instances as above.
Meds from when my mom was talking to me (phase two also consists of not knowing what goes into your mouth) kick in.

What a night, lol.

So it's nice to get to a point where I can sleep through Mads getting up, posting, and leaving, and have it not considered rude, etc.
And last night was a good time. But now I'm conflicted. Read my blog for more cryptic posting on boys, boys, boys...

Once more, Happy Birthday!

I don't believe in fate, but I believe that everything happens for a reason, and that if something happens, it's probably meant to happen.

I'm glad you couldn't make the post dirty, this is a G rated blog. Or PG at worst.

They never rate anything as XX. Do they? There's X rated, and then there's XXX which is also porn. Or am I wrong and severely confused?

I had a dream that I got a 64% on chem. Now, this sounds bad, but with the AP curve that would give me almost a B or so. In my dream, Lampe rounded everyone's grade up enough so that it was a B, which is also equal to a 4.

I'll be lucky if I get a 2.

Speaking of Lampe...what ever happened to him? I feel like he disappeared off the face of the earth.

[edit] YAYY!!! My mom's not making me go to school on Monday!! How do I get out of it, though? Does she have to call to tell them I'm not going? I could've sworn they said you have to have a note, but when would you bring said note in if you're not going to school that day?

::piddlepiddlepiddle::

on Heather's third floor again...except she's asleep and I don't have a Wyn to make my posts VERY dirty. Despite what my sidebar says, all that I talk about are not hot sex and monty. I have variety. I also rant about exams and make weird noises. And some other things too, I just can't remember.

So the anniversary dinner has become a couples' dinner. No biggie...we simply can fill the space we're using anyway. And perhaps eat all the food. And, yes, I'm disclosing this information because someone let on to what we're going to do. (Maggie thinks that someone is her...). Grocery shopping...

And I really want to talk with my sister! I'm sure something happened in the realm of boys (ok, so maybe this is all I'm talking about in this post...but it's more concerned with my sister's love life!) and she wanted to tell me...only she was in the shower when I called. I'm really excited. But then, you think about it...and you realize, wait, she's only 12! She's little! Ew! It's something that's been bothering me lately. I have all of these (what I thought were) romantic memories, and then I look back at how old I was and I realize I was 11, 12, and 13. And I think, I was little! Ew!

i am 20.

20.

do you understand how old that is?

so im on cdnow.com (which has apparently been taken over by amazon.com, and its not as good anymore) and i notice something...theres the heading of "customers who bought this album also like:" and then there was

Customers who wear clothes also shop for:

now, i dunno about you, but this makes me wonder how many customers they get who dont wear clothes....i guess it is the internet, and thus anything is possible, but still!

life: clothing optional

interpret as you will

hippie9301: "munchkins do not make good applesauce!"

do i even have to say "and the winner is..."?

I need to be cryptic...
I'm being bashed in the head by signs. So now is when I believe in fate. (Or something like it).

VICTORY, I TRIUMPH. Boy do I miss that. Wow. Wow.

I've finished Waiting For Godot!! I liked some parts of it, but at others I just wanted them to stop being stupid. Some of the stuff Vladimir said was really cool. I wonder if he got it from Lucky's hat. And yes, I read through Lucky's entire blather. It reminded me of the stream of consciousness things I do. Probably no one else can understand them the way I can. I think what's-his-name who wrote it maybe understood it. Maybe.

Where have all my creative juices gone, long time passing? Where have all my creative juices gone, long time ago. Where have all my creative juices gone? Gone through vaporization, every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Yay!!!! I get to have a college interview tomorrow at 8:30 in the morning!!!! I know, I know it doesn't really matter, but I am so beat from exams. My brain hurts and seems to have stopped putting coherent thoughts together. Luckily it stopped working halfway through my history exam. Oh well.

Nick . . . I'm one of the only ones without a picture. waaaaaaah!! whine, whine!!!! Can I get something fun, cool, and creative . . . just like you? (nudge nudge hint hint)

I get to teach a ballet class tomorrow, which is pretty exciting. Life's been pretty uneventful lately. Where's all the drama? I guess its good to sometimes have a break from all that emotional stress. It really puts everything in perspective, at least for me.

Posting from a PC. Not that it matters, but that's for Maggie. So come to think of it, it's astounding how fast either ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc change as fast as the direction of the wind. I don't understand it, honestly. I guess one of the major issues that's been bugging me is that everyone knew what had happened before I even did. That has always been one of the most annoying parts of the entire concept. I want my life to be at least somewhat private, is that so much to ask? I guess so...

Er...yeah...definately obsessing about this girl who Jeff tells me that is useless to do, and to a certain extent I know that's hes right, and then there's always this part of me that doesn't want to believe him. There's that part of my mind that wants to believe.

And then I saw her face...Now I'm a believer.

But am I? Or should this just be given up? I feel like a paradox...mayhaps I am...

do you have any idea how hard it is to read with that pink splooj all over the screen? i hate you, nick.

today my advisor yelled at me for trying to take 5 classes. (i'm on academic probation, and the administration doesn't want me to overexert myself.) then he yelled at me when i tried to audit my 5th class.

i turn 20 in 4 hours. i'm going to go hide under my covers and hope it doesn't happen.

ps - sam burdick, you've still ruined vnv nation for me, and i really won't be happy with you til you somehow resolve that.

The encounter with the 'x'...

Makes me want to hug the people that do me justice :o)

ah yes, another shot at jeff's feminine attributes...and AHEM they seem to be BUTTERFLIES, not RIBBONS. thank you.

i thought it would have something to do with prancing though....

but seriously, i really do like it

Jeff's new icon, courtesy of Nat.
Madeline's new icon, courtesy of every emode test she's ever taken and anything she talks about on the blog.

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And courtesy of her comments on New Years, Natalia's argyle thong.

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

I'm almost done Waiting For Godot. I still have to read Ghosts, though. I'm not sure whether or not I intend on finishing Child of God. Hope everyone's exam went well. I've just been informed that I'm going to dinner at the club. I wish we didn't have to go on a Friday night, but I think bitching about it will earn me negative points, so I'll leave it alone.

I end this post with a fervent neener. :-P

And to continue that docudrama dinner conversation.............

Chicken vomit.

Whoa - Kat - are your jeans from the GAP? Wyn

Kat is under the dining room table hitting her head repeatedly.

Alex in the background screaming "coffeecoffeecoffeecoffee..."

Did you wipe your nose on my shirt? (Deb to Tom)

Then the women started playing piano and singing "Oklahoma".

You know what I need? Some Adobe Photoshop! Maybe also some Illustrator. I finally got my CD of the stuff on my SS file from last year, and I'd like to see if my nutritional info thing is on it, because I think I lost all the copies I had of it.

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My brain just went ::kerplop:: ::splat:: when it fell out of my ears. That was actually a while ago. I think it tried to grow back, but it fell out again.

::dripdripdrip::...that is the sound of my brain, dripping out of my ears

Another thought on Jeff's post: Isn't it weird enough to think that maybe people we don't know are religious as we are in checking the blog? And it's like they're following us along through our lives, but we'll never know it? Is there any way to check how many people look at ths blog?

NOT studying for math...it's not a question of if I know it or not, simply of whether or not I can apply it...and that's probably NOT going to happen...

I hate waking up early when I could be sleeping in. But the idea of that, when I wake up early, I can go and sit in front of my computer and listen to music for a couple hours before I have to do anything is quite comforting.

I think it should do that when you hover over a link.

[edit] Fixed!

Sadly, there is no way I can run around the room to rid myself of APUSGOV gitters while blaming it on 'putting myself in the mindset of the Government.' Wait... maybe I can! All I have to do is immitate congress!

Are posts not showing up again? I'm confused...

-n

pirst fost!

at least its not raining fails any more

jayb06105: sneaky like the neuter forms of the 3rd person personal pronouns?
jayb06105: oh yeah
IHope216: HAHA
IHope216: no
jayb06105: yes ::dismay:

Nick. My box is fabulous. And oh so appropriate.

Let's go mix some sodium and...water?

Um yeah....I don't know about you but I'm not sure I want random people IMing me.

I also don't know why, but today has been a good day FOR TYPING IN CAPS. Probably cause I feel like screaming. Maybe. Sort of.

I organized for spanish and english while watching TV. I still have to organize for physio. Maybe tomorrow, in between reading a play and 1 1/4 books.

I have a rant:
Has anyone seen the show Good Morning Miami? If so, you may have noticed that one of the characters is a nun who works at the television station. What bothers me is that this "nun" is the most crass "nun" I've ever seen or heard of. I don't remember specifics, but they have this lady saying comletely outrageous stuff, all while wearing a habit. You all know I'm not particularly religious, nor am I even of the religion in which nuns are involved. But man, this pisses me off to no end. It's so....blasphemous. Or something. It's completely disrespectful. Although...I do find Dogma to be quite amusing. But...this is tasteless, unfunny "humor". Dogma's humor is funny, and much more well-written. Ok, basta.

On another note...
Alex doesn't blog anymore. ALEX!! YOU DON'T BLOG ANYMORE.

Nick: I like the linker image & the little touch-ups to the info page. :)

Me: "I hope it doesn't snow."
My mom: "It's been snowing for an hour."

Ahh yes, I just got the lecture; fortunately it wasn't a long one. Phew.

Good luck to everyone who has an exam tomorrow. I'll be home. Of course the lovely trade off is that I have to go in next Thursday and take my physio exam at 9. Oh well, I need an off day tomorrow so badly.

i wonder if we have certain readers who dont comment (and so we dont know they read) but are as religious as we in checking? i wonder if we published all our screen names, if random people (remember Dean?) would start IMing us...that could be cool. just a thought...

i think that fox tv's main goal is to turn us all to our natural instincts...like hunter-gatherers or something, fighting for joe Millionaire (for his money, duh) and driving fast cars while uttering awful lines and wearing as little clothing as possible

I'm trying to troll and its not working. Blog, behave!

Trying to study . . . its interesting how a test on about 4000 years of history can be fit into 2 hours.

Oh yeah, continued from dinner . . . does anyone really know what holy water is used for? Now I'm curious (long story)

I could say that you guys could come over to my house, where there will be some sort of a football watching party, hosted by my brother.

Of course, i won't be there. I won't be watching the game. But you're welcome to hang out with my brother, his friends, and my parents if you want.

The posts have become significantly longer by most people... interesting... I make mine short because no one wants to read very long posts and everyone else makes theirs longer...

Hmph...

Here yee Here yee (or is it Hear yee Hear yee?)

I have just been informed by a very knowledgeable spanish speaker that at the Museum of Philly there is going to be an art exhibit that has a ton to do with Dancing... two very important artists whose names have slipped my mind will be showing their works (not sure if they are dead or not - I have never heard of them)... we were speaking in Spanish and talking about Barcelona and we were chatting about the museums there and she mentioned this exhibit... I figured we have some figure skater/ice skater-dancer-singer-artistic type people living in Philly so I thought that it would be an interesting excursion to see...

Good luck with that interesting piece of information...

Question?: Why is it that I feel so disconnected from the blog... everything seems so cryptic... I really need to move there!!!

Geez, it's raining failures. Can't get much more self-depreciating than that, can ya? It's definitely a great feeling to click on this link and watch blood-red fails pour down your screen.

Like my icon? I made it! After i finally installed Photoshop...

ME. NO STUDYING. TONIGHT. NONE. Organizing maybe. On phone or while watching tv. ME. SLEEP LATE. TOMORROW. LATE = 9:30 instead of 8:15. THEN ME GET UP, STUDY. READ WAITING FOR GODOT AND FINISH CHILD OF GOD.

Yes, I was screaming the part in caps. Sorry guys, that was my moment.

My hand is cold. I'd sit on it to warm it, but then I couldn't type.

I worked out today. I really really really didn't want to, but I did. Ran the shortest mile I've run so far (which was still pretty long, but whatever).

Niiiiiiick, make me a pretty box. ::whines::

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AND READ GHOSTS.

i love a) having the smallest possible things affect me in the biggest possible way. b) feeling like i'm worthless. c) being cursed from the gods on high. d) being cryptic.

i love how its raining fails, that is always a good sign

Sometimes I just crack myself up... ha!

ur...uh...back to AP US GOVERNMENT

But let me explain first...
For those of you who don't know, first of all, you're out of the loop, sixthly, our teacher, the sweet Ms. Collett, IS SATAN.
Eddie doesn't beleive me.

DOES NO ONE ELSE SEE THE FIRES OF HELL BURNING BEHIND THOSE EYES?

uh... -nick

Who's doing stuff this weekend?? I wanna do stuff!
As for exams...French was a joke. Math will be pretty easy, then it'll be the weekend. Yay!

well, nick won this one, hands down...

infinitecode: SAY GOODBYE, KNUCKLE HAIR.

nick, you are truly inspiring

(for those of you who dont know, debra created a contest out of my away message of "say something meaningful, quick," and now whenever i get good responses, i post them)

Nick, can I be Keanu? And can it say "Dodge this." Instead of "that"?

Awkward moments, like that one where Katie broke up with Mike (The third time, for everyones information) right outside the Cave?

Weird. Looks like things are going my way. Would you believe it?

Maggie thinks I'm a tyrant...er...right. I don't think she understands that her Mike makes the most pointless and all together inappropriate at the time comments. So I told him to shut-up.

If felt really good. I'm sorry Maggie. I still love you.

one third of my sophomore midterm examination buzzword experience is over.. et sentio magnus! hah. Latin wasn't that impossible too, which is a good thing. It's nice to be more casual about exams instead of "OHMYGODOHMYGODI'MGOINGTOFAIL".. only four more to go. And I think my hardest ones are over with (thankfully). only math, chem, english, and concert choir, all definitely aceable. And I was one of the winners of a poetry contest. So, life is good. Only real work for tonight is to make a note-card, and then a long weekend. sweet.

Posting from art cave...

Wyn: well our french test was a wall banging good time. 2 down 3 to go. thank god math is tomorrow. well the cave now has a no touching policy so this afternoon kinda blows. but ryan is hott. and i have a really hot backseat.

c'est moi: finished french test in 45 minutes, complete with page essay...=) And it's almost Friday! and that thing about the no touching zone...well ironic how wyn wrote it and right now she and ryan are practically making out next to me...and are, yes, entangled in eachother, just like he promised last night. wow, sexual tension. leave room for the holy ghost (which would be Tom...and Nick is Jesus...)

wyn: tom's good... i am supposed to dominate him.... i almost forgot

c'est moi: ryan says "who's Tom? Is that my code name?" nope, sorry Ryan...your code name is "Ahes"

Monty: Ryan's fat... so is jeff

Wyn: god montys butt is sexy... i wish ryan looked more like him... or atleast his butt.... god monty's hott

Ryan: I have no equipment

Monty: No Shit

Wyn: Just his third leg

Ryan: (upon seeing this) Hey! youre fatter than I am!

Green button action.

Does this mean I get pirst fost after the worst exam I've ever taken in my entire life?

I really don't want to say any more about it. Actually, I'll say this: I cried before, during and after. And I still want to cry. Yeah. Good exam. Good day.

Sue: we weren't dancing, we were spinning like electrons. There's a distinct difference.

For lunch Jamie had a scone, a tangerine, and an apple. I couldn't ....oh wow. I just had a brain fart. What was I saying? WHERE AM I AND WHY DID I TAKE AP CHEM? I may have to smack the next person who mistakes me for someone smart.

Rachel talking to Deb: "Can we go pretend to be atoms? It's really fun. Do you know what I'm talking about?

And yes, the dancing commenced (Tom was pseudo-director)

"spit" and "beatbox" are the same word in Polish. Figures.

i don't have class til 11. (i know, i know, no sympathy from you guys on that one.) so my alarm goes of at 10. yet every day since getting back, i've woken up, of my own accord, before 9am. WHY????? why does the universe hate me??? all i want to do is get some sleep.... really... i'm not going for world domination or anything. all i want to do is get a normal 7 hours of sleep!

and then housekeeping comes by with the vaccum at 10.15 anyway. bleah.

IM BACK!!!! hiya, remembered my password so im back in action so to speak....yeah...you guys have fun taking an exam today...ill be sleeping or watching tv or something...

that was quite uncouth

i am here to tell you about madeleine's sexual crunches. they really are quite entertaining. she is whittling her abdomen while looking incredibly alluring. madeleine does this amazing thing where she arches her back and then swings her legs up over her head and rocks forward. she just left the computer room, crunched all of the way into paradise cove and now she's coming (back) again. love, The Dominatrix (or trixie, or just dom...)

Hi all...it's Madeleine and Wyn and Heather too...and Steve (cat Steve, not person). last night was fun- wish everyone could have been with us- some very interesting conversations... "was he hot??... then throw him down and dominate him!!!" yeah you wish you could have been there. Well, that was at breakfast , but other people were getting dominated at night...with fuzzy handcuffs. *jostlejostle* or we were at least fantasizing about people getting dominated. hmmmm... yes, please!

And just so you all know, Wyn flails when she talks to Ryan, legs spread and kicking, up against the wall, moaning and grunting, and saying things like 'Mmmm, Daddy..." and "ooo, you know you want it." And she thinks Monty's and my conversations are interesting because we talk about melanin and basketball (they go together, I swear). Of course, afterwards, I lost my mind and sang opera to Heather while she was online...and I discovered that I can migrate with my crunches from the computer room in the third floor to Paradise Cove.

"pubic hair is so familiar..."

And as Wyn says "domination is key to any good relationship"

And it gets really interesting when we're half asleep, talking about sex, in Alex's room, and Alex walks in on us...and Wyn goes "We're talking about sex! Why are you here?"

To Wyn: RBSurf313: just think in a few hours we will be intangled with one another...in a really BIG backseat

YAY!!!
(see, that's how they talk...)

whipped cream and hand cuffs? well anything edible really... no whips or chains... that's slightly masochistic...

I've been having a dipole moment since last night. I feel like running around and freaking out about this exam until I pass out.

Is something wrong with the blog? I'm not getting a lot of content on the main page...

I'm just having a dipole moment.

Yeah! Pirst Fost!

At dinner tonight - a normal gathering of 10 around here, there were comments - I've been told to post them one at a time to be better absorbed.

Take Heather home and squeeze her - she makes noise.

1 down, 4 to go. Why is it that I've gone through the textbook backwards and forwards, looked at all my tests, read over all the labs, and even done practice problems . . . yet I STILL feel unprepared for this chem exam!! Oh well, I guess its back to studying for me. Dinner was so much fun tonight, Sue you have to post those comments. Oh yeah, and Heather, I didn't get to say good-bye when I left, so good-bye and good luck!

Oh and Sue, you give me wayyyyyy too much credit on the being smart thing. I'm really not. Really. Really not.

We got soo much studying done tonight...
That is, before the boyfriends called...

"and he shall raiseth his hands to the sky and, bereft of all other thought, there he shall stand, screaming 'WORK, COMMENTS, WORK' but alas, the comments shall not work"

IT IS A SAD DAY.

WHERE IS MY BRAIN?? WHAT HAPPENED TO MY MEMORY?? And don't say it's because I was dropped on my head as a child. I don't even know how to study for this exam.

And I didn't mean to - I SWEAR - but I took the Executor. I had put it in my pocket, and when I got home I realized it was still there.

My brain:

::presses green button::

::bomb exploding::

I feel so ungracious - I left in such a hurry that I didn't say thank you for dinner. Thank you Sue, it was great. I was having a really good time up until my breakdown. I'd also like to give a big THANK YOU to Dave for driving me home.

I am just really nervous for this exam, and I feel like there is nothing I can do that will prepare me for it, aside from figuring out how to pause time and just study for an elapsed week. MAYBE then I'd be slightly prepared.

"You must become intimate with the material until you have mastered it and you can feel it coming out of you. That's what I did with my woodies." -Sue

Bush declares National Sanctity of Human Life Day

Smile; freedom of choice is going, going, gone...

Note: The Turing Test is a waste of time. Eliza passed it quite a few times. Ok... so it was a different version of Eliza than we use but it was still Eliza.

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Picture from Natalia... here.

who is at the pringle's that know's latin?

qua qua qua qua...ahh, Lucky. Sadly, there will be no more Waiting for Godot until next Wednesday!

Interesting...Kate invited me this morning to an anti-war rally in D.C. this weekend, and I'd really like to go and show Bush that I think his policies are shit, but unfortunately I have different plans. If they push the rally back a weekend I'll be there, though! Visiting my sister for her 21st birthday and visiting Jennifer!

Rachel's talking to the computer. Talk, Rachel, talk...it'll answer someday when it passes the Turing Test. Deb and Jaimie (spanish pronounciation!) are holding us up from going to McD's. And Deb's trying to argue Spanish...I dunno...can anyone help us here?

So yeah...my math exam. It wasn't too bad, except for about four problems which I know I got wrong. I'm so not in the mood to go study chem for the rest of the afternoon/night/next morning. I don't think I'll be able to go online tonight, unless it's only for a minute or two because I will have been studying wayyy to much. Habre estudiado. Right Debra?

Pirst fost after exams! Whew, math wasn't too bad, just wish I had more time. Now it's off to bio! Yeah bio! I'm going to post this now and then type more later because Deb is racing me for pirst fost.

Being productive...

It has a new meaning when you have done everything to be productive to do...

I am done being productive... I now have to wait to have more productiveness to be productive with...

This is what the blog is for...

Now, what happens if part of checking the blog was being productive?... Part of your list to be productive with?

Then what? Or rather, now what?

Double trolling...

Yes, a sign that there might be white stuff on the ground.

It was Snowing!
some sort of a sign maybee?

Good luck on exams everyone. Maybe they'll be cancelled because it's snowing.

Whatever the outcome, always remember:

lim f(x+h) - f(x) / h
h ->0

wooo, i'm a full time student again!!!!! I also have my first class at 11am with a bunch of frat boy jocks. which is what i get for taking Sports in America.

PIRST FOST.

yeah, me.

Ok, phew thats out of my system. Its great to be alive! I had an amazing yoga class tonight! These are my last exams at Springside! I don't have to wake up early tomorrow! Yay, life is good!

We had the most depressing convo in history class today. Basically, people in our government don't seem to realize that the United States will not always be the dominant power. So why the fuck are they pissing off countries left and right, provoking wars, and gaining no allies? Did you all know that we currently have 150,000 troops in the Middle Eastern area "scrimmaging"? I mean this is real and extremely scary. Ok, off I go back to integrals and derivatives, cause they will help me SO much for the rest of my life.

You miss a day of blogging and the entire world goes to pieces.

Can someone remind me about the whole "everybody knows everything" fact? Startling as it may seem, I usually like to have a say in who knows what about me.

Monty said this afternoon that he felt I was being taken advantage of every day because of the role I play in the lab. I think for one day I might keep it locked, eat at CHA, and forget it even exists. Just randomly decide it need not be opened a certain day. That would be interesting.

I feel like a police man. I have to take that stance in the lab, be that person who people listen too. I think that I've actually scared some of the people in there at some points because of what I've either said or made them do. I don't know if I'm being taken advantage of, but I do take pride in the Art Cave. It's a wonderful place. I just want people to know that it doesn't clean itself magically every night, and it doesn't have sound proof walls. During exams I'm going to test the power I have. I have to, and if you feel as though I've acted unfairly to you, I'm sorry, but think about the position I'm put in. The Art Cave will remain under control this week.

Please feel free to stop by.

It's been a long week, and it's only Tuesday. I'm sorry this seems so harsh. Between Dana and Katie, whom I can't make any distinguishing remarks about at this moment, life has transformed into a hell of wonder.

Also, I'd like to say that I cannot stand the CHA freshman class (excepting one, obviously). THEY ARE SOOOO ANNOYING! I may have to personally beat them all up.

I never realize how dependent I am on my compooter, and my ISP, until it stops working. But, I must say, persistance paid off, and I finally got reconnected by trying a couple different dial-up numbers.

I'd like to point out that in Laureli we have yet to do a song in which either Meghan, Caroline, or Adrian doesn't have some sort of solo.

AHH NICK!! The boxes look incredible!!

You know it's exam time, when your friend says "we hadn't gotten our feet as a country yet". Thank you, Heather. Any other strange sayings going around that I should be aware of?

I've slipped so low as to comtemplate the translation of "one language to rule them all." jussive subjunctive, or pure infinitive? damnit. oh well, maybe this latin high will carry over to my exam on thursday. speaking of exams -- hey, bomo tomorrow. should I take the jeff beers "i'll be fine" approach or the bob dickey "let's start studying over winter break to get every possible advantage whilst simulatenously making love to Sneakers" approach. I'm leaning toward the former, as I haven't fullfilled any of the latter's criteria, although onyx would suffice. but that would be god-awful. Hey, there's my cryptic post for the day, and here's my token punctuation. back to bomo.. i'll be fine.

does anyone have any helpful info about Parker's American History honors course that they would like to share?

Let me tell you my away message for the moment...
I was caught fooding and mathing by the Italian Mafia and they stuck me in Spanish. Now the whole Contemporary American Society is against me, which means I don't get a Yearbook. Those damn ASSholes!

This was my away message esta noche because I was eating dinner and doing homework... Those are all of my classes. Math, Spanish, Yearbook, Italian, Contemporary American Society and ASS (Advanced Senior Seminar)... Ok, so I thought that it was funny!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I'm calm now.
I might take another bubble bath right before bed...to destress and such...

So there is this girl Allison (who is one of my "best friends" or at least in my "group" of friends - neither of these actually exist here in Edgemont, but I make do with what I can)... she is that girl who is friends with my actual best friend, and by the transitive property she is my friend too, we talk, but not much, and we hang out, only when I am with the other girls. On a rare occasion.

Anywho. I have to search for a present for her, and get her something nice because she is the quintessential JAP from Edgemont. So aka we have to get her something nice and expensive (so Tiffany's it is?)...

Ignorant Moment For The Day:

"why are you always doing that (beatboxing)? its so...homosexual!"

hey everyone...download "the devil and the deep blue sea" by George Harrison, its absolutely amazing...and no, its not depressing jeff-music, its got a banjo!

SMILE!!!!!!!

Jeff doesn't want to smile. He's angry. He needs counselling. Shall we find him a therapist? It can be a group effort!!!!
He's laughing behind me. He actually goes, "Hahaha." It's odd...

Dear Czar,

I really, really want a picture too. I will give you my first born as payment.

And you can teach him good English.

Where are you that you are posting right now??

What box? Any particular reason for smileage? Where am I? What's going on?

Who is going to A Capella Fest that isn't in chambers?

Thank you for my box! =D
So today was good. Very good! =)
Everybody smile!!!
(This is my new campaign...)

Why isn't school over yet?! Damn the school! Save the Empire!!! (I have yet to see that movie... my sister always says something along the line of that line...)

::twiddling thumbs::

(Does anyone ever actually do that?)

Damn it! I am going to go for a walk! (See I do follow certain peoples advice sometimes...)

Back at school... crazy day. And now to track and then work... bleck!

I can't exactly say that today was completely productive, but it was another day closer to the end of the week... meaning... ::smiles::

Ten more minutes until track. I have lost count of the amount of layers that I am wearing... probably close to four. They say (meaning the weather people) that with a wind chill it should be close to about 9 degrees... or 4, I can't remember. I am going to FREEZE! Listening to the weather last night on the radio they said that if you are outside and exposed for more than 15 minutes you are susceptible to frostbite. This is bad... in 8th grade when I broke my arm (gymnastics, round-off back handspring) I broke the nerves to the tips of my fingers, on my right hand, (if that is at all possible) so less blood gets there. In the cold, they turn white and purple and funky colors. Note to me: Wear gloves :o)

I just printed a lot of stuff and killed scores of trees. All in the name of History and Biology. Went to South St. yesterday, got the tix (thanks, Sue!) without any charge...and of course the day I go down is the day they have two people actually answering the telephones! Oh well, I got the tix with no surcharge.

Sort of worried for math, moreso because I have my first Intro to Sociology ::gulp:: class tonight between 7:10 and 9:50, so I'm out of commission between 7 and 10. Thankfully, it is and afternoon exam.

Mom's coming to Great Books Club today! I love Mr. Stevens (I know you don't, Deb!) - he's a 1337 English t33cher.

To: Nick
Subject: CSS intro page. And I'm bored, cause you could clearly do this yourself.

A:hover {
font-style : normal;
font-weight : bold;
font-size : 10px;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color : #78A9D9;
text-decoration : underline;
cursor : help;

You probably don't need font size or style, maybe not even family...I think you could probably just do text-decoration and it would work. You could do the help cursor, but I don't think you like it.

I'm bored and this computer doesn't have adobe on it, and the retreat sounds sooo loud.

Money money money money....MONEY!! It's now raining money, so if anyone asks you if you think money grows on trees, you can say "no, but I've seen it rain money before."

I got caught for gum today. A first in recent times. I also got my second semester schedule, missing both photo and english class. Man, if I didn't take photo and english next semester I'd have a niiiiice schedule.

If you could be any part in any movie, who would you want to play?

Double frees! And am I studying? noo....I'm instead watching previews for Bruce Almighty for like the 20th time. I want to see that soooo badly. That and Chicago. Soooo badly. Both Heather and my rents say it's just amazing. I need to go this week after exams or something.
I have Chem next. And the Matrix Reloaded. And Pirates of the Carribean. But no matter what scott says, jungle book 2 looks bad.

Another positive thing about today - only gum chewing classes to go =)...and a regular lunch. And voice. tehe.

So.

Here we are in the geek room and Alex has just said "No. We don't get nothin' like that."

AND THEN HE DENIED IT.

We have proof. A little at least.

-n

ok, first of all, that someone did; you think pinstripes and sneakers go together. that person was wearing suspenders at one point also.

So a certain someone said they'd wear a really gross outfit to school today and I said I'd wear one too, but someone wussed out. :-P Nerd.

Pirst Fost.

Custom sidebars for everyone?

Maybe after I'm done studying... This means they should all be up by friday.

/sleep on
/sleep off
/sleep on

Chem nerd moment: I actually sort of like naming organic compounds. It's fun once you get the hang of it - it's kind of like a puzzle, like a cryptogram, but easier. Cause man, cryptograms are hard.

Studying is such a bust. I started to retake math tests and look up things I didn't know, but now here I am, blogging. My computer needs a restraining order against me.

This is what we call Blogworthy.



Don't you agree?

Hey everyone . . . Singing in the Rain, one of the greatest movies of all time, is playing at the Prince Theater downtown. Anyone interested in going? I was thinking either this Sunday afternoon or night, or Wednesday night (after exams are finished! Woohoo!) Let me know.

I'm smiling =)...I haven't stopped for about a month.

Are you all smiling??
You better be.

Exams.
Bleh.
Yeah.
Bleh.
But we can all smile anyway!

My dad's comment at dinner was by far the best in a while:
"So natalie, do you think you'll get your graduate degree right after you graduate college or will you work for a bit and then get it?"
[He says, in all seriousness]

My response was a "you've definitely boggled my mind this time" look, complete with the furrowed brows and drop jaw stare.

My brother leaned over to me and whispered, "Just say Yes dad, whatever you say."

So i got up and left the table.

ah history. thou art as beautiful as the rain forest, yet as deadly as the tiger within. as endless as the ocean, yet as sharp and precise as the tooth of the great white shark that prowls its depths. simple, yet complex. fried; just like my brain after studying.

so Pete Townshend (The Who, you know, the windmill thingy guy) was arrested on child pornography charges, and he claims that he downloaded the files for "research purposes"...now, he was supposedly trying to drudge up his own child-abuse memories for his auto-biography, but regardless of that, "reasearch" and "child pornography" are not often honorable linked. i think itd be interesting if this kind of reasoning worked for everything, then the rest of us could start stealing dvd players or driving 90 miles an hour everywhere (think adrian estepa) and claim that we were "researching." and yes, before anyone else says it, we could park on crosswalks too...lousy bloggers....

also, i was witness to a conversation about the Ted Nugent summer camp program....if you dont know, Ted Nugent is a crazy (very crazy) guitarist who also wrote a book on how to kill and cook your own food...once on VH1 he was talking about how the answer to all the world's problems is guns, or something like that.

Dieck: "who would send their kids to a Ted Nugent summer camp? what kind of parents would actually think Ted Nugent is a good role model?"
Brooks: "i dunno, the same kind of parents who would send their kids to an OJ Simpson driving school."

Why are our comments being such poos?

When I'm driving, and this especially happens at night, when I'm by myself, I start to think what's to prevent me from going over the double yellow line and crashing? What's preventing someone else from crossing the double yellow and crashing into me? This happens a lot when I'm coming home from working out, for some reason. Now, don't think these are suicidal thoughts; they're not. I'm more terrified than anything else. I think it's because of my grandmother's accident...things that I wouldn't generally even consider about driving start to pop into my head and swim around. No me gusta.

Also: This may be a man's world, but toilet seats should still be left down!!

On a not wholely unconnected (disconncted..whatever...) note, I went to work out today. Nothing too exciting on the cardio front, but I did my weights increased (like I did last time, which was almost a week ago), and a small load of crunches. So what about the toilet seat thing? I went into the bathroom twice while I was there and found the seat up. Needless to say, I put it down. WHY CAN'T GUYS LEARN?? I think there should be some sort of toilet beast that bites the guys when they don't put the seat down. Or something.

Must go to dinner now. Din din din.

Qua qua qua qua qua. Oh Lucky, you nonsensical fool.

Hey Nick...Jamie asked if he could be invited, so I invited him. Can you make him an icon?

Ah. Red snowflakes... must be that time of the month for our blog...

Naturally, our blog is a woman. So if you're posting in the tech lab and someone asks you what you're 'doing' just say "Some chick."
Yes, even women.

Do you know why? Because of the production of GnRH from the Hypothalamus that targets the Anterior Pituitary and...

[-edit-]
ARRR. Our comments are not working again... DON'T MAKE ME WRITE MY OWN COMMENT SCRIPT...

-n

In case everyone hasn't figured out, you can view this blog from the SS tech lab because it's at comcast.net!

It is sort of funny when you're sitting in the CHA computer lab and it's raining "boobs" and you're like...I hope no one sees this.

Firstly... I do NOT appreciate the boobs... (there is no secondly - this word does not exist)

I am in the library (the public library) at my school and they give detentions to people looking at inappropriate websites or people who are playing games. Hotmail and blogger are neither inappropriate nor is it a game. If I didn't quickly troll around and gotten off I could have gotten myself a detention... (notice: I have kept up a very good record for no detentions my entire high school career and I am NOT about to start now!)

I have work... doesn't that suck... I have to write papers and study for tests... just like you guys with your midterms, but I don't have midterms!!! Yippee!!! Good luck with yours... although I have heard that they don't start for a while.

OKAY WHO IS STUDYING TOO HARD?

I've never seen it snow boobs before. You have definitely lost it.

::Smash, crash, bash, bang::

::Smacks Tom over the head and drags him to lunch::

Deb's being really funny and strange. We're here in the Tech Lab in the Treehouse. She's singing sweet Carmina Burana into my ear. Weirdo! I never do that! The pink raining boobs remind of of Forty Days and Forty Nights if you've ever seen it: Josh Hartnett (sp?) has a dream of undulating fields of boobs. It's weeeeeeiiiiiird. Besides that, it's a surprisingly good movie.

Ok, Deb really wants to eat....::dragged::

Yeah. It hit me yesterday that exams start on Wednesday. I studied with Rachel for chem, but haven't started studying for math. Eddie tried to ask me a question about it today (a big mistake on his part), and I had no idea what to do. I'm also not organized, and I should probably be working on that now. I sort of feel that the 10 minutes between chambers and english (because he let us out early) isn't enough time to start trying to organize. I need to finish Child of God and read Ghosts. Maybe on Friday when I don't have school because I have to come in on the make up day to take my physio exam at 9!! BOOOOOO. Pbbbth.

In chambers we argued about the "Blue notes" and "Melody girls" and when they should have performed.

Eddie asked me if I'd go to a Valentine's Day dance. I don't know, but I have a good shirt for it. I hope we get a jeans cut. Ok, time for english.

[edit] LOOK! IT'S SNOWING BOOBS!!!!! RUN FOR COVER...or don't if you're a guy.

exams seem a little less daunting today...even though they are only getting closer...and closer...
they would seem a lot less daunting if my 22 page history outline would print! damn macs!! (sorry mags =)
and even less daunting if i had a break for a normal lunch. but no...doc sal's study hal. at least it's not libersat.
i do get to sleep in on those days........

In case any of you were thinking about it, DO NOT rent The Seventh Seal. This movie that Mr. Moyer, usually a really cool guy, made us watch was in black and white and in SWEDISH with subtitles. I mean, have you ever even heard of a fucking swedish movie before?!?!?! Needless to say, it was a complete waste of time, when I could have been studying for exams, or more importantly the chem test I have tomorrow! Oh wait . . . I could be studying for all that now. Oh well.

i had a conversation tonight with Ryan Boutcher that id like to share with you all. it took place over a few hours with leaving and coming back to it, and basically had way too many good parts to put in my profile. skip this if you want, it should be a bit long...

now this is ryan
RBSurf313: u buff stud
JeRoBe: hahaa not really
RBSurf313: u know ur tryin to get more like me

he wrestles...
RBSurf313: im god what can u say

but recently broke his arm (badly...i saw the x-rays...yeah...) so he cant anymore.
RBSurf313: dude if u want i will give u my studliness for a day
JeRoBe: if only
RBSurf313: we all have the true stud in us you just need to dig deep
JeRoBe: thank you, ryan, that is truly inspiring
RBSurf313: i try my best

(about the hilltones, and energizing, which he doesnt think it needs)
RBSurf313: maybe it needed a stud like me to heat up the joint

and finally, something i cannot elaborate on...
RBSurf313: and i feel open with her to tell her that i cant pee w/out u

to all of you, it might not be that funny, but if you know ryan or can picture that gigantic boutcher grin that he always wears, it adds to the effect tremendously. hes also Wyn's boyfriend! imbalanced with that broken arm and everything...

Wow.


Ummm...
Shit...
Brain fart.
I've gotta stop having those while I'm posting...

ack! I haven't blogged in too long! It's not like there are things to keep me away from blogging...at least during the day. The last few days I have lived in my jimjams =) ahh...I'm almost back into the swing of winter break. I feel like this week was just a weird one and we still really don't have school. But not really, because today, although still in my jimjams, I have been organizing and attempting to condense info into outline form to make studying easier. bullshit. My history outline is 22 pages long. Fuck it all.

well last night was really fun. I actually watched football...well, actually, the tv was on and I heard it. Well, actually I heard Maggie being bitter. So actually, I saw the score...and the last half hour. But it was still really fun =) Ryan and Wyn have the oddest conversations (but then you think about who they are and you aren't suprised)...and they take up too much room on my couch...and they take over my playroom, forcing me into the bathroom. ooo, shadiness. lol.

Maggie: "If Mike was here, at least I'd find a DARK corner."

well, my brain is nearly fried from studying for exams. curse that moyer-wilcox combo. its like starting off a boxing match being hit with a solid right cross and then a left uppercut. hopefully, I won't get KOed.

I thought the concert was really good. of course, gotta love the carmina. and our boys to men deal... ah, so nice, so nice.

well I don't have to much to say. will this be a recurring theme for my community blog posts? let us hope not. ah "let"... first person plural jussive subjunctive. but wait. it's negative. so its "ne credamus." somebody shoot me.

GO EAGLES!!! I watched the game last night after the Titans game, and it was amazing. I sat and poked at a salad and ate some pizza, no drinking, i dont drink and blog.....Anyhow, i was thinking that I really like vegetarian lasagna, and you know, I'd die to have a good recipe... *hint hint* Sue. To clear things up, i DID NOT get a bar through my nasal cartilage, its in my upper ear cartilage fun fun...
My dad told me i got inot Drexel, apparently I am supposed to be supprized about this, considering he works there and all..Water is boiling, tea time!!!!!!!!

ahem (referring to sidebar) i only had one extra copy...and one more of "O Fortuna", but thats incomplete....get it right, foo'!

Our archives are sketchy at best. Sometime's they show up, sometimes not... then we publish again... and poof! They're back!

Rick Recht = Rock God

I have a similar story to Rachel's.
It goes like this:
It was near the end of the night. I found myself on a pool table, nearly asleep. Kat was across the room. And then, sprinkled here and there...and everywhere, couples. Oh joy.
Bleh.
But the concert was fabulous, and the after-concert was fabulous as well (outside of the coupleness).
And I'm really kind of giddy right now...

Here's a funny story from last night: So there I was sitting in my chair by myself watching the eagles game. Then, cue Dave and Jess who sit leaning against the right side of the chair. And then Deb and Jamie sitting on the back. Oh hey, then come along Miguel and Caroline who sit on the left arm of the chair. I look up to realize that my chair and I are completely surrounded by couples. Why does this always happen to me? It would actually be extremely hilarious, if it weren't so fucking annoying. I mean, I'm completely fine with my single state, but I just don't like to be constantly reminded of it.

(And Deb, this is in no way directed towards you, just to the situation in general. You know I love you)

Must be the weekend - there are bodies in the family room.

Most amusing is the body that appears at noon to sleep in there. I need a hostel sign for out front - what material should I use? Neon?

Sitting here by the computer with M'ris and her father at 3:03 (make a wish!) AM. Yes, I don't sleep when I'm here? Why? Because we watch really, really strange Czech claymation shorts and bad MTV...and watch M'ris pack for Beloit, Wisconsin, the armpit of America. She gave me a college t-shirt...I'm in college! woohoo!

Nick: M'ris is angry because she wasn't invited. Invite!

M'ris sez: tom is chewing on his glasses. the same glasses that he's lost at least twice since being in my house. once they were hiding behind the potato chips (could i see them? no. did i know they were there? yes. did he? hells no.) then he left them ON THE COUCH!!! who the heck leaves their glasses on the couch? it's like he was screaming "please, sit on them, make me blind! please!" (tom = big dork.)

i still have to pack. dear everyone, go to college close to home, packing stuff for plane rides to and from college sucks it big time. especially when you go to school where it's way, way colder than (thank you tom, mr. spellcheck himself. =�) home, and you have to pack 40x as much stuff so that you don't freeze to death while walking across campus to the stupid theatre building in at 8 am in the stupid morning for your stupid public speaking class with the stupid department head in the stupid winter with TWO STUPID FEET OF SNOW ON THE GROUND!!!!. (iow -- go to school in california. please.)

does everyone understand why i should have never been allowed to start an LJ? because i start typing and don't shut up. now i'm going to pack some more.

Tom sez: wow...I just realized that M'ris does type a lot...and I just learned that iow = in other words. Also, as a request to the admins, can we take out the boobs comment and just make it a plain simple: Tom's a Big Gay Moose or something along those lines?? Thanks...thanks much.

I walked into the auditorium tonight and said "Fuck."

Where the hell did such a big audience come from?? The Eagles are on, remember?? Go watch football!!!!

No such luck. I ended our Hilltones' pieces with almost my entire body shaking.

I think I'm not going to think about how amazing and incredible A Capella Fest will be this year because I don't think I've actually realized I'm in it. Wow...

Wooo.

Sports!

E - A - G - L - E - S

EAGLES!!!!!!!!!

McNabb is back and better than ever. Duce is incredible. Defense amazing. We're unstoppable!!!!!!!!

Carmina Burana rocked! I laughed through the whole thing - could someone please sing it in English for me?

The middle child always gets screwed over! The least love, the least attention... what less can I ask for?!

Okay, so everyone ignore my last few posts, apparently you can see my icon. PURPLE SNOWFLAKES!!!

my name is N A T A L I A.....and im tall

Okay, so for everyone who forgot, im that girl from New Year's that doesnt go to school with any of you guys. I know i havent posted for a few days, but ive been busy. I got my cartilage pierced with a huge bar through it, looks pretty phatt..hahah. Anyhow, I would like to know why I no longer have an icon, someone please help me out with that.

So what's up with Tom's description box? Who will be happy? And I guess the better question, will he?

Just wondering... I hope that that description has been up for a while and that Nick has just been waiting for me to notice it so that he can laugh everytime I talk to him (wondering why I haven't noticed it yet...). But, nevertheless, I have now noticed it... honestly, I don't really like it there... but it isn't my description box.

Great Tom, thanks!

I'm thrilled to see the rules of horticulture. Would someone help me study them for my next midterm?

Can't wait for the singing to commence - but do we have to listen to handbells? If I put my hands over my ears and scream lalalala would that be distracting to others? I never know what's PC.

A mi no me gusta los anuncios... son lleno de misterioso y no puedo entender a nada!

Ayer, dije que no voy a anunciar mas, pero despues de hablar con una persona especial, siento mejor, o que yo pense esta manana! Pero, despues de leer todo, pienso que no. Lo hice que una buena persona tenia que hacer :o)

Miento mucho... estoy anunciando, contra de mi libertad! Una broma... que quieres que yo haga?

Pues, voy a anunciar, pero no mucho, o no tanto que antes... Buena suerte a todo.

Good luck to all for the concert tonight, I am sure that you will sound great!

I LOVE PAIN!

i love pain... pain's my friend...

That wasn't cryptic. It's an inside joke.

Even fucking better... :)

That whole constructive thing, I dunno if it really works out for me in the long run, I mean, it's great to say and everything, but it's 10:45, and I'm still basking in the glory of my powerbook, which simply means I'm posting from my bed. I take it for granted, but it might be one of the best things in the world, surfing the net from your very own bed.

The concert tonight...Ahh, yes, I always get really incredibly nervous without any real explination. I just do...Maybe it's the crowd? I don't really know.

My mother makes the greatest hot chocolate in the World. She puts coffee ice cream in it too...Oh my god, it's so amazing.

Halo last night. One of the coolest games I've ever played. Can't wait till it comes out on the Mac.

I'm determined to actually do something constructive today. enter bomo.

Is anyone else not really nervous about the concert tonight?

edit: the thing that I am scared about is my history exam. dear god.

I HAVE GLITTENS

Whoa! First time ever that I'm posting two times in a row! I had a quick survey to ask:
How many of you have glittens? I'm trying to see how fast the trend's spread. (And Deb, yours don't count...they're mine, silly!)

And I quote:

"I'm EASY!"
And who does this wonderful quote belong to? Why, none other than our very own Sue!

Well hullo there everyone!!! Wow, I'm so nervous, my first blog post . . . I hope its cool enough. Thank you Nick, my logo is oh-so-pretty, yay!!! And yes I am a dancer, but I am NOT a ballerina, I am a MODERN DANCER. This is a very important distinction! hehe.

Heather, did I really run over your phone? I'm sorry!! At least it wasn't you!

And Steve, I'm sorry I don't know who you are, but if you can reference colorblind, LOTR, Latin, and Carmina Burana all in one post, you must be really cool.

OK . . . well I guess thats it. Oh yeah, something fun to think about - today at lunch Meghan and I recalled all the really dorky things we used to do in middle school. It was really funny and you should all try to remember those bygone foolish days. And then be really greatful that we are all now mature and sophisticated young adults. Or at least we are most of the time!

So I thought...

Some things just shouldn't be said...

I need to learn how to bite my tongue, or my fingers...

Why doesn't it feel like Friday night? How can that be fixed?

Hey Czar n,
I've been meaning to say this for a while, but in Madeleine's left-aligned text box apostrophe is misspelled. Just thought you'd like to know.

G'job on the hex codes, Deb! Now you can hex people! Haha, get it, hex?

I'm proud to say I've sort of mastered the hex code for color. Yeah...I'm a geek, I suppose.

It's simple: the first two are red, the next two are green, the last two are blue. 0 means no color, f means full color. That's why 000000 is black and ffffff is white. It goes from f-a and then from 9-0. I didn't explain that very well, though.

Who wants to help my buy new guitar strings? Mine suck...when the guy fixed my guitar he replaced mine with stinky ones.

[edit] AHHH!! I'm playing it and the bottom string is buzzing like crazy, and there is a very tiny piece of coiled metal making yet another faint buzzing noise. I need new strings a.s.a.p.!

I think i pulled a muscle in my big toe from skating.

OW.

Hi Heather! Hi Wyn! Hi Tillman! I'm being cool and hanging out in the art cave. oooh...Wafna! mmmmBop!

Today I animated a pink and purple cow with an orange tail. Her name is Herm. Is Herm a girl's name? Tillman has Unreal on his new TiBook ::drool:: and I'm going to give in to my addiction and play a game or two.

I took a nap on the couch in the senior retreat ninth period. It was really, really nice. Mr. Stevens and Mr. Stein both like me again! (I handed in work). I think those two English essays are pretty cool: one's on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the other is on Child of God. I really wanted to talk to Mr. Stevens about it, but then he would have realized that I'd just written the former one the night before.

Listening to Off the Beat's Take One. Good shiznit! Ticket list for the Morcheeba concert Wed, Jan. 22: me, Kate, Nick and Natalie. Anyone else want to join? There's still time because I cannot for the life of me get through to the TLA box office! Arghness! oooh, and Godspeed You Black Emperor! is coming Monday March 3rd!!! woohoo!

I'm HUNGRY!!!!!!!!
Let's whine!
Or not...
I have a hot date tonight!
Unless I get stood up...
Hmmm...
Bleh...
I'm bored...
Maybe I'll go wander...

Well, today was good. Except for the latin test, but hey - it's latin. what can you do?

I liked concert choir today. It is fun, especially when you get it right. I think that the concert will go well if concert choir and chambers can fuse together to form one entity of amazingness. Granted that probably won't happen, but it is fun to imagine. There are other fun things to imagine doing, but I'll stop being bitter. Woo.

gonna rip cds now. eric clapton, you are an amazing man.

I am at school. I want to go home. My back sort of hurts, but today wasn't too bad. Lampe actually let us out of chem early, and it was sort of fun today, due to the fact that we did minimal work. Ok...I'm gonna go now.

School!

It's 1.35 - 6.50 by the clock on this computer - and I'm working on a logo for CHARobotics.

Just one peice of advice... Don't stick children in boxes.

-n

[-edit-] Robotics!

[-edit-] Note to Nick: don't forget to target!!
-the other admin

To be completely honest... I feel unloved. I am not the new blogger anymore, although I doubt that that is the reason. I really have nothing to say to the blog. In fact I beleive that I am the one full of animosity and causing problems. This weekend at least, I will not blog only comment, if that.

I don't know why... maybe I will be like Natalie and just lurk... although that might be a little difficult for me.

So we're in the car - and I mean all of us - this morning, when the discussion turns to Trotsky and an axe which he left in his head for about a week. I mean, how does one shower or start a conversation without people just STARING at your head.

I was forced to snort prior to 8am.

Well, I just bombed a math graded item. Stupid "increasing" and "decreasing." It's a problem when you mix them up.

I have free next, so I'm going down to SS to try to get 40 seconds of my dance coreographed.

:-/

Why do I always get Mmm Bop stuck in my head when I read this blog?

so here's a question (actually a few questions): why does natalia get the best icon? and why is my icon an ax? does nick want to hack me to death with an ax? why doesn't nick like me? why does he apparently like natalia better? why doesn't he want to hack natalia to death with an ax? is it because he doesn't know her well enough to know if he wants to hack her to death with an ax? at what point does one realize that they want to hack someone to death with an ax? what type of ax would they use? a pick ax? hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........

i am so tired. ap chem sucks. i am so confused. it is so frustrating. i think i will go curl up and cry. i have a test and aquiz tomorrow, both of which are very important. i want it to be the weekend.hopefully rusty won't break our date. oh foolish humminah.

Loving the new bloggers...

Why such animosity?

The posts are getting more strange...

I am watching Lilo and Stitch in Spanish :o)

Tomorrow is Friday!

I could probably make a poem out of this...

Tiredness strikes... but someone tell me, why can't I get into bed and actually fall asleep... Silly rabbit, trix are for kids!

I.am.HYPER.like.crraaaazyyyyyy.
I.think.it's.because.I.took.a.nap.and.because.I.had.some.swedish.fish.
and.if.my.back.didn't.hurt.I'd.probably.go.run.around.
Maybe.I'll.work.on.my.dance!

Hyper hyper hyper. um....

I finished webass! 29/29 thanks to Faiza who helped me with (read: told me the answer to) number 10.

Here's a poll.....finish this phrase:

Happiness is...

Oh Admins, it's not the holiday season anymore. You should change the little thingy(yes, that IS the technical term) that says it's the holiday version of chorts 'n snorts...

heaven is dave matthews and tim reynolds, jamming live at luther college. The ants are matching in, and Dave and Tim are determined to spread the word... soulfully focused, they create an endless symphony of acoustic guitar. a wispy murmur flows from beyond, like the ghost of Tom Joad, compelling these Homer-esque bards to tell one more tale before the night closes. dave strikes up his voice, like the rosy fingers of dawn. its like he's striking a match, igniting powder kegs of musical precence. a strange silence fills the collegiate stage, like god is telling moses about the ten commandments.. except this ain't history folks, it's the real world. this is dave. this is tim. they're musical gods. come, baste yourselves in their aura and sacrifice yourselves to these two, lords of the dancing guitar. and the worshippers respond.. quickly their symphony is combined with the rhythmic pulse of a legion of fans, all in rapt attendance, as if witnessing the transcending to heaven. musical heaven! and as the song ends, steve returns to reality.

hell is a latin test tomorrow.

JackDSipper (9:08:38 PM): yo

Auto response from SuperDebers (9:08:38 PM): I'm a...

JackDSipper (9:08:53 PM): whos is this?
JackDSipper (9:15:48 PM): yo yo
SuperDebers (9:17:29 PM): yeah?
SuperDebers (9:17:57 PM): who's this? how did you get my name? What can I do for you?
JackDSipper (9:18:54 PM): whats ur name?
SuperDebers (9:19:11 PM): well who are you?
JackDSipper (9:19:25 PM): dan shuptar
SuperDebers (9:19:38 PM): and where do you know me from?
JackDSipper (9:19:50 PM): i dont know vince amoroso gave me this sn
JackDSipper (9:19:54 PM): and i im'd u
SuperDebers (9:20:09 PM): and who is vince, I don't kow him
JackDSipper (9:20:50 PM): we go to cha
JackDSipper (9:21:02 PM): whos this?
SuperDebers (9:21:08 PM): you do?
JackDSipper (9:21:16 PM): yea
SuperDebers (9:21:17 PM): ok so who is friends with vince?
JackDSipper (9:21:19 PM): 10th grade
SuperDebers (9:21:22 PM): how would I know vince
JackDSipper (9:21:44 PM): what language u take?
SuperDebers (9:21:50 PM): I don't go to cha
SuperDebers (9:21:53 PM): I can tell you that much
SuperDebers (9:21:55 PM): nor springside
JackDSipper (9:22:03 PM): where do u go?
SuperDebers (9:22:04 PM): but through who would I know you
JackDSipper (9:22:12 PM): no one
JackDSipper (9:22:16 PM): i dont know
SuperDebers (9:22:18 PM): I am the girlfriend of a very important someone who goes to cha
JackDSipper (9:22:26 PM): whose that?
SuperDebers (9:22:38 PM): well I can't tell you that because I don't know who you are
JackDSipper (9:22:50 PM): im this kid vinmac34
JackDSipper (9:22:53 PM): ok?
SuperDebers (9:23:05 PM): uh huh
SuperDebers (9:23:57 PM): and what does that do for me?
JackDSipper (9:24:21 PM): he know the answer
JackDSipper (9:24:28 PM): what school u go to?
SuperDebers (9:24:35 PM): it doesn't matter
SuperDebers (9:24:37 PM): how did you get my sn
SuperDebers (9:24:40 PM): what do you want from me
JackDSipper (9:24:45 PM): ur name
SuperDebers (9:24:45 PM): why did you decide to IM me
SuperDebers (9:24:51 PM): and how could you possibly know who I am
JackDSipper (9:24:56 PM): vince saw it on a profile
SuperDebers (9:25:12 PM): Tillman's profile?
JackDSipper (9:25:26 PM): i guese
SuperDebers (9:25:29 PM): so what made you decide to IM me?
JackDSipper (9:25:29 PM): ur his girl?
SuperDebers (9:25:36 PM): no, not quite
SuperDebers (9:26:34 PM): I am friends with him
SuperDebers (9:26:38 PM): we are tight and such, but no
JackDSipper (9:26:54 PM): yea i dont chill with them
JackDSipper (9:27:02 PM): who are u girlfriend of?
SuperDebers (9:27:54 PM): it doesn't matter
JackDSipper (9:28:05 PM): why cant u just tell me
SuperDebers (9:28:11 PM): because god knows who you are!
SuperDebers (9:28:20 PM): you could be like some type of stalker who just knows too much
JackDSipper (9:28:40 PM): ask me if i know someone and i;ll tell u about them
SuperDebers (9:29:09 PM): well I am going to tell you this much. I am related to Tillman, we are half brother and sister, our parents just recently got married, so we had to break up, we couldn't deal with the relationship family thing
SuperDebers (9:31:35 PM): do you get it
SuperDebers (9:31:45 PM): ?
SuperDebers (9:31:54 PM): freaked, yeah I know me too... it is a lot for people to take in
JackDSipper (9:31:58 PM): yea
JackDSipper (9:32:01 PM): yea
SuperDebers (9:32:04 PM): Tillman and I are really good friends though, no hard feelings or anything
SuperDebers (9:32:09 PM): so any other questions?
JackDSipper (9:32:23 PM): is that ur boyfriend?
SuperDebers (9:32:31 PM): who
SuperDebers (9:32:33 PM): ?
SuperDebers (9:33:00 PM): he was
JackDSipper (9:33:07 PM): oh
SuperDebers (9:33:11 PM): what the hell am I supposed to say to someone who asks me about something like this!
SuperDebers (9:34:19 PM): well dan or jack or whoever, it was a pleasure, may we meet in CHA sometime...
SuperDebers (9:34:30 PM): and I take spanish and Italian
JackDSipper (9:34:35 PM): yea
JackDSipper (9:35:24 PM): peace

I hope that you have enjoyed this... Sorry Tillman, Jeff told me to do it! Yell at him... Tom, I was saving you from a potential stalker or murderer or something. Tillman, I hope that you know this guy and can take him on... just kidding. I doubt that anything will happen, I actually didn't want to reveal my true identity. Jeff just told me to make something up. So, in fact, Tillman you are not invisible. Tom, I love you, and Jeff, you are PSYCHO!

::Emits a fervent GRRRRR::

::Makes a face::

UGHHHHHH!!!

I can't really say any more than that. Sorry to be cryptic, but we have to play nice on here. Czar says so.

::Bows down::

:-P

wow, if you double-click on the snow just right, you can highlight individual snowflakes and it stays highlighted while it travels around the screen! see, this is what happens when im procrastinating with no one to talk to....

on a different note, today i went to see mr vr

Me: so, any new word on the play?
Mr VR: (imitate joking-mad) right here, you little shit!

after saying that, he gathered a stack of playscripts about 8 inches high from his desk and assertively placed (slammed?) them down again...a lot of them i didnt recognize, but i did notice 'the wind in the willows' and a demented version of 'robin hood'...when i say "demented" i mean "in the spirit of Monty Python" ie crazed british humor. the one part i remember seeing...

Blind (some name): I cant see!
Deaf Dan: I cant hear!
Glok (i think..): (holding up a sign that reads "im dum") UHHHHH UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

im excited already...

Hello. I'm Steve, a random sophomore who likes to discuss the meaning of life over breakfast with Jeff...

i don't have much in the way of grand invitations.. but i am in concert choir and i like carmina burana. why? well, i like sounding like an orc from helm's deep marching on the Gate along with fifty thousand other members of my savage and vile band... bred to pillage and rid the world of Men (daugherty introduced this amazing concept to me). that is why i like carmina burana. very savage. very "I AM STEVE... BOW DOWN TO ME OR I WILL EAT YOUR CHILDREN"-sounding. it is hard to muffle the "must sound cultured" impulses, but it works.

i submitted some good songs to woehr the other day, and had an asskicking coaching today. hopefully he will find it in his good graces to enlighten concert choir with some sweet musical sound. okay, maybe i just want a baritone solo. but hey.

i take a lot of good subjects. the best of them is undoubtedly latin. my, that class is amazing. it is oh so very good. well, it's either that or mindnumbingly hard, either one. in fact i should be studying for a latin test right now, but instead i am making my grand invitation which isn't very grand. such is life.

the small things in life are so sweet. like toffee, stuck and tongue-tied.. or hooking up the ipod to a pair of 10year old computer speakers and having 600 songs at my command. ramblings sweet too.

I dare say that the most annoying online IM experiences revolve around the girls I know who use "valley-girl" grammer in their IM's!

16th member on the way.

Steve Pearson is more than geeky enough to be able to post here.

This community blog is inclusive rather than exclusive. As long as the person will not take away from the atmosphere we have here, I'm more than willing to invite them. As you see, there are people that don't post here at all. They don't add but they don't take away either and I have no trouble with that. The only thing you will be missing by not actively posting is getting a left-alligned table and bio page. Bio page base designs are on their way for this week. You can submit them manually to me until I have the java app set up and working. May I reitterate, I will not post anything on your bio page on my own. You take the base page and modify it to your liking and then submit it to me or the java app when it's up. The left-alligned tables are more of a joke thingy and although I may make them, I am at your command if you want something in them.

I think I'm going to make a rules page. Not like 'rules' but just what I've explained here.

I'd love it if the blog expanded to 20 or even 30+ people. It's all in the spirit of community, or if that's too mushy for you, just pretend it's all a big orgy. You keep finding people that watch and lurk and troll and I will keep adding things to the site.

I think, maybe for a moment, we all have to go back to when the blog started. We haven't really been here for more than 2 months and in that time we've expanded so much that we've had to move from blogger because of space limitations. Even with only 4 days posts on the top page, it can take some time to generate pages. What I'm trying to say is that this is a friendly blog. Post what you want, that is your right, but think before you post. I want us all to have a good time and although I can control alot of the blog from my seat at home, I cannot control what you do and what you think. I am not here to edit posts and to make people beleive that other people are being nice to each other. Although I do edit posts occasionally, it's always in jest and I would never touch a serious post. The same goes for Deb.

You know my point better than I do because you have all applied it in your minds while reading this to posts you've recently or not so recently made. I'm not going to lecture any more.

Over all, have fun :)

Your humble Czar,
Nick

How many other people are worried about the actual performance of Carmina Burana and the whole combination of Concert Choirt and Chambers?

Weird, my last to posts weren't actually mine...

But enough of this gibberish! A great moment in math class yesterday, but still worth the recap:

Mr. Coopersmith: "You guys know what an urban legend is?"
Sam Greenwood: "I am an urban legend."

I have to eat an orange, it is supposed to be better sugars than the average sugars that you are supposed to eat in the day... regulates something or rather... like an apple a day for the digestive system... good stuff... I should go and do that.

Coffee with Andrew!!! Yippee!!! I miss him, he goes to Brandeis... fun stuff...

I had no homework because I have no friends, and by the transitive property I did it at school... somehow that works... but the best part is, I get to watch LILO AND STITCH in Spanish when I get home... I just found out that my Mexican friend has all of the disney classics in spanish at his house... yes! Fun!!!!

All I have to do tonight is study for AP US Gov! Too bad that it's such a bitch!

I have some misc. things to do that I haven't been getting around to recently also. Work on the java thing for the blog (haven't touched that in a week...), work on java thing for school, a few more yearbook layouts and some robotics stuff I should be working on.
I WANT TO BE ON BREAK AGAIN!

I have $60 to use at EB too. Maybe I'll head out there this weekend.

Right. Work.

I have a new cell phone!!
It's 'cuz Rachel ran over my old one. Hehe...
Not intentionally, of course.

Mmmbop...
Doowap...
Mmmbop...
Dumdumdumdum ye-ee-yea-eh...
You know you're singing along in your head. ; )

procrastination....I should be at least organizing for exams...notice the SHOULD.

Poll: If I had to sum up my day with one word, I would say....

My answer: OW!!

"I wanna post as Tillman!!!"

I'm such a bad person!

-Tillman (Wafna, Ooo, Schving, Hoo-wa and the rest)

In physio watching a brain video...it's so freakin'g cool!!! Phantom left hands, imposter parents, blind people who can see....Cool!

Hi to all, posting to you from The Treehouse's tech center (once again)...have you ever wanted to be on some radio show or something? Wouldn't that be fun? I feel like I'd scare away all my listeners though. Now to watch "How to make an Anerican Quilt" in life issues. Oh joy, oh rapture, oh ecstasy. It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't making me watch it. I don't like doing things when I have to...however, if you don't tell me to, I probably would on my own accord. Notice how well my punctuation is. Notice how I capitalize. And I don't even think about it anymore, it just happens...look what you did to me!

Here I sit with my kashi - trolling along.

Today, Mr. Language Person explains when to use commas: To indicate a longer pause - "Then the earth,,,,,,, cooled off." I've always, wondered about, that.

I shouldn't be posting. Really. Really not.

Ticketmaster is pissing me off. I'm trying to order Morcheeba tickets and I can't. Damn you Ticketmaster! Overpriced, overglorified jerks. More like Ticketscalper! So I'll order them tomorrow over the phone...save some money by having them charged will-call. Last chance for anyone who wants to go...otherwise you gotta get yer own ticket!

I've been so productive today...yay!

I really can't wait to sing Carmina Burana. I know it sounds insane, but I like singing it! Being all evil and stuff....Semper creci....ss! Aut de creci....ss! Yeah, yeah, I'm a geek...

I've got the munchies.

Straight from the board of Vic (My History teacher)! Quote of the day!

Today's Quote: Sooner or later, masturbators lose.

Yes, that was on Vic Taylor's blackboard today in class. It is brilliant. Insightful. Mesmorizing even...

Ahoy, new bloggers! Welcome to our minds, and beware! For once you have decided to make the journey in, you will never return to the known World the same.

"O Fortuna..." ::And from the back row, Nick, Eddie, and Tillman all go, "Wafna! oO! Sh-ving! Hoo-wah!" complete with hip-thrusts::

Pirst?

I really ought to go to bed. My paper's almost done, though! Just have to write half a body paragraph and a conclusion!!

YAY I DID IT!

Look look! It's Orly on some random site! And a girl named Deb!

The czar must approve of new bloggers, because invited them. I approve too, like it matters.

NEW BLOGGERS? WHAT?

THE CZAR APPROVES.

ahhhhhhhhh.................hullo there all. woo hoo! i finally joined the communal blog! i generally don't not capitalize as i can type faster that way, so deal with it and FUCK OFF!(alex). i will try to be good about blogging regularly, as many of you know my own blog was quite a failure. anyways.............i'm on the communal blog!

Quote for the day! I'm starting quotes of the day. If I remember. They're all from BeOS so be prepared for some very geeky jokes...

Chicken Little only has to be right once.

Gone fishing?

I'll be blunt, as usual: [Some of] You guys need to stop fishing for compliments. And don't say that you aren't, that you're just venting and expressing all the angst in your soul about how no one loves you or notices you or comments on your posts, because that's a lie. Or you're blind and therefore ignorant.

I love all of you. Except when you announce how worthless you are. So stop doing it!

Or disregard me completely, that works too.

YAY! I'm beatboxing for Mmm Bop. I think it sounds pretty good, and I figured it out allll by myself! :-D

Eeyore summed it up pretty well when he said "Thanks fer noticin' me."

Hey Tilly...I think I'm invisible too. Maybe we can be invisible together.

Someone please take note, I have just shortened my blogs down, but made them more frequent. And by frequent I mean three within the past five minutes. A round of applause please! :o)

I do not have homeworkk tonight! Who is a smart one... that would be me?! In some weird and twisted way... because I did all of my work on Monday and Tuesday nights so that on Wednesday night I could watch TV... someone share the hysteria and awesomeness with me! This is my first real, sit down and watch a series TV show in a very long time... religiously trying to watch the entire "season" of shows... it seems like a new concept for me. I am so excited!!!

Now what?

My dad heard me singing today... he just stood there and laughed at me. It was one of those feelings like... someone is looking at me, but what do I do about it, no one is home... or are they? I turned around and there he was, just listening with this big toothy grin on his face, chuckling at me, with this face like... HA! You SUCK! but he would never say that because he has tact, unlike my mom... (a very unoriginal way to describe my mom "without tact"). I really don't enjoy singing and the more people that tell me that I can't do it, the more that I get frustrated by singing to myself... damn!

I am openly trolling. I have nothing more to say.

-n

What time does next period start? I'm in some sort of odd bubble where time doesn't exist and everything smells like onion.

Lunch! Except it's late lunch, meaning I'm alone...with the exception of greg and scott. I hate study halls with Libersat, and I hate how B Week late lunches mean I don't get to see people...almost any people...like not just pluralizing one person. During late lunches, I mostly blog, read email, play mindless games, and steal honey mustard from the cafeteria. I have one from yesterday and I stole 2 more. =). I wouldn't steal them if the grocery stores had them...but they don't, so I'm forced to go to drastic measures. Pete came in now...and he's talking about who knows what, but whoever he's talking about apparently looks like a "burn victim" but "not the swamp thing." hmmm....::monchmonchmonch::

Hmm. Study-hall first period, and I did all my homework. I dunno about this whole chambers thing, which suddenly seems as though, "Sure, it's great, and it's really something to be proud of, but you don't actually want to do anything more than say, 'Look! I'm in chambers!'".

It's the whole matter of not really knowing what we sound like. It's so hard to get even a remote feel for what we sound like, because when you're actually singing, everything about the sound you make changes, self-consciousness, for one. Maybe we should seriously consider making a tape of our stuff so we can say "Yeah! We sound good!" I mean, thats the best way to be confident, to know you do something well...

PIRST FOST OF DAY!

LAMPE MOVED WEBASS BACK TILL FRIDAY!!! YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!

This means I can probably go to the Laureli rehersal. Oh God, I'm sure I'll have a blast.

"Who knows? Could be.
It's only just out of reach
Down a block,
On a beach,
If I can wait.
The air is humming
And something great is coming.
Who knows? Could be."

Holy eff...I'm getting all crazy and philosophical on my english paper (he didn't ask for it today!!! This is a good thing, because it wasn't done). I'm actually more productive on papers when I write things out by hand, as opposed to staring at the screen, seeing who's online, talking to people online, etc. Gee.

This is me, promoting CELEBRITY MOLE! Wednesday night at 10PM (I think) on ABC.

It is one of those Perceptive Genius type shows... I should love it! In fact I remember watching the first season and loving it, then no TV last year so I had to miss the second season, but now I am back! With watching power! I am so psyched!!!

Watch it!!!

So, here's a poll question... honestly... I have been trolling the blog lately, and I have noticed that when I write really long blogs no one comments... this was due to the fact that Deb was talking about commenting, so I did a little investigation. So the question is:

Does one read my posts when they are so long or do you just disregard it as me ranting and raving (Honestly!)?

Tonight was wacky! I came home from track after having a breakdown day. Went to babysit, came home, ate dinner and then showered and got ready to sit in bed and watch "The Bachelorette" with my mom... mother-daughter bonding time - we make fun of the people on the shows... ask Tom she has tons of tact. But! Tonight there was no Bachelorette... very upsetting... I allocated time to procrastinate and watch that show. This left me no other option but to write my ASS paper... bleck!

Natalie said I don't smell.

I suppose i could just beg for comments. I was trying to be slightly more tactful than that. I just feel unloved when every single post by me has zero (ocassionally one) comment. Whatever. I don't care. I'm getting REALLY pissy...it's sort of growing exponentially and I don't know why. Scratch that. I know why. It's cause I haven't had enough sleep, I worked out and am tired from that, and had this Reese's tree thing for dessert, along with a small cinnamon bun, which was clearly too much and now I'm cranky and feel like yelling or going to sleep or crying or SOMETHING.

I feel so inadequate! I like to think that I post a lot...but I don't! Or it just seems like I don't because everyone else posts so much and the blue foot gets buried in all the other colors! I'm dead tired, and I tripped over a suitcase that was on the floor in the study. I certainly would like to post more, but unfortunately I have to stop procrastinating and go finish work. Here's a question...

What is your quest? no, wait, that wasn't it...
What does the 'Team' button do in the edit window where you type your post?

Deb - maybe if you just plead for comments, you'll get them. Too bad I have nothing cryptic to say. There isn't too much hidden, or anything I don't want to share and is pressing on my mind. Life, outside of school, is wonderful. Life, in school, is shit. C'est le merde de ma vie. I'm really sure most of you can figure that one out...and if not, learn how to curse in french. It's a wonderful thing. I feel like cursing at french. Or rather, at english because we have to OVER analyze the stupid book and all I want to do is to hit it with a wooden shovel. And then kick it. And then take a baseball bat to it and reenact the copier scene from "Office Space."

OMG. I just got an add on the chortles linker that said nothing less than:

Farscape.
Thrilling. Sexy. Dysfunctional.
Friday, January 10th at 8PM EST on Sci-fi

And it's SO TRUE!

Sorry I spelt it wrong the first time, Tillman. I fixed it now.

AND YOU NEED TO FIND TIME TO DO 3D STUFF OR I KEEEEEL YOU!

Love,
Nick

Here's something sad: I hate chambers. I hate it the most when we split up; I should probably say I hate Laureli, because chambers isn't too bad. I don't mind Carmina. But I reeeeeeeeally don't like Laureli.

I also hate math.

And english. I hope autobiography is better than my class now. I hope I don't have to write an actual book, but I somehow feel that I do.

And I can't wait for photo!!

I know I make things difficult...for some reason I just can't accept some things...those things being Laureli & some stuff it entails. But I'm not like that with every class. Take chem, for example. That class is a rediculous amount of work, but I do it and I deal with it. Maybe that's cause I like Lampe better than Daugherty.

Why does math always seem to be at least two hours long? And why did Coop let Julia have an apple, which counts as food, sitting there on her desk, but he wouldn't let me wear my hat?

Every time I think I have it figured out - how people get sooo many comments on a single post - it goes and changes on me! Now it's something cryptic, something sad, or a poll (although the poll thing was obvious).

Poll: Who reads the comics?

I worked out today! FINALLY!!!

Could someone please explain pink snow? I like it, but I don't deeply understand it.

What time does school end?!

I don't want to be 17 and I don't want to grow older... Help! I don't want to die either, so I guess pushing back time is what I am going to have to do... watch, ready?!

<------------------ PUSH --------------l

Ok, I am feeling a little better... (Tom, disregard your email... I have to deal!)

Everything is under control, only a minor breakdown today...ok so it was relatively big... apts cancelled, plans messed up, and I was left in the dust of it all... AGAIN!

I have a feeling my posting is going to center more around the school day now, or at least happen more often during the school day. Even though at home, I should technically be doing homework...the phone also happens to be in my room, and it's just so inviting...so much more than exam review. Or even memorizing polyatomic ions (I know, it's pretty close, though). Second day of school. 3 days left in the week. I know I always count down, but this time it's to the weekend, so I guess you can't really get mad at me. If I was counting down to the concert...now that's a different story. Or to exams...do so, and die.

I wonder why it cut off like that? Anyway, to finish - That is my resolution. (Yeah! I figured it out!)

Yay Nick! Thank you for changing the snowflakes!

I have 1 1/2 pages. 1 1/2 (at least) more to go. If: not done by 1 a.m. then: going to bed and: handing in late.

I have taken my first lesson in procrastinating from Deb... thanks! I have a paper to write that really isn't due for some time now, it is just a matter of me writing it. I think this is my first "senior moment" It is one of those open ended assignments... it is as follows:

Which should be the U.S.'s current priority, Iraq or North Korea? Which country is the greater threat? Why? Take a clear position in an introductory paragraph and support it throughout, bringing in specific, accurate information.

You can obviously see that I am thrilled.

As for all of you, I would like a "show of hands" or a comment in the box if you are in the Hilltones/Lauralei (I know I spelled it wrong) concert on Saturday... Just a daily poll... no one else posted one today!

It's funny how when I have a paper to write, I have 500 other things I'd rather be doing, and I do them all in order to put off the dreadful act of writing an essay. Blogging is one of the 500 other things. So, here I am wasting time.

If I were you than you'd be me and I'd be you!

Robotics is awesome! I have to build and animate a virtual version of our robot for the competition. I don't know what programs I need or will be requested to use though...Nick? You're thinking CAD, but I have little or no experience in that!

And then you feel as though you see everyone, and they never see you back. Like in Harry Potter when he uses his father's Invisibility Cloak. I see everyone, but they don't see me, but I'm not sure if it's by choice, or not. Maybe I don't really exist in the world. Maybe...maybe I'm an Invisible Man? Maybe...

MY TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE INTERNET!

In short, I was unplugged when I returned home Wednesday. I am now back and finished lurking the last few days of posts. My regular posts should start again soon.

[applause]

[cheering]

[go-go dancing]

...anyways...
Deb, figure out which of the # color values under the style sheet .drop are for grey and change it to pink if you must.

Erm... I'll figure out the rest of the questions later...

-N

Today I went from having a chem test and a physio test on Friday, to having a physio test some time far away in the second semester and a chem test on Friday, to having a physio test some time far away in the second semester and a chem test on Monday (so no tests on Friday), to having a physio test some time far away in the second semester and a chem test on Monday and a math test on Friday.

::Twirls finger::

Ahh well. I'd rather have a math test than a chem and/or physio test.

So I called, and a lot was figured out... well not that there was much to be concerned about but last night was tough. I cried for many hours last night and it was just a heinous way to end vacation. I walked into school this morning and several people immediately asked me what was wrong. Don't you hate when you are just getting over something and people start asking you about it? It personally makes me feel worse about anything that could have been going on because it is a rehash of what has happened lately. Normally I love it because I am so happy but with things like my family life and college and school and what not, it personally makes me more upset because then I start reliving it. I really don't have to say anything about relationships because that is an obvious (not currently and hopefully not for a while!)

Today was interesting... like I said "I looked sick the whole morning" and then it got a bit better because I had lunch to just do my work and be productive (what I love) I have a tutoring set up ($) and a date for slave with Rachel. Other than that, celebrity mole is this wednesday which I am dying to see, it is such the Perceptive Genius show :o) I can't wait! Other than that, assignments up the wazoo and plans to be made for hope :o) ::you know who you are:: and ::I know who I am:: I have to make some plans to.

Here is what I figure... for all that care. I am going to make this money this year, for me, to use, because for the last five years or so I have just put it in the bank to save up for something nice or for college spending money. But, this year, when I make money I am going to spend it, meaning, I am going to come to Philly :o) aka. Making me happy! I hope that this goes over well... with my rental until and everything, otherwise, you all are just going to have to road trip it and come and visit me! From you it really isn't that far, a two hour trip one way :o) Leave early, sleep in the car and get here enough to spend the day and or the night and then drive back! It can, and has been done, several times on my part!

For now, I am off to go and get reacquainted with my locker, I haven't opened it for a while, good thing I don't leave much in it :o) A good picture or two.

So I called, and a lot was figured out... well not that there was much to be concerned about but last night was tough. I cried for many hours last night and it was just a heinous way to end vacation. I walked into school this morning and several people immediately asked me what was wrong. Don't you hate when you are just getting over something and people start asking you about it? It personally makes me feel worse about anything that could have been going on because it is a rehash of what has happened lately. Normally I love it because I am so happy but with things like my family life and college and school and what not, it personally makes me more upset because then I start reliving it. I really don't have to say anything about relationships because that is an obvious (not currently and hopefully not for a while!)

Today was interesting... like I said "I looked sick the whole morning" and then it got a bit better because I had lunch to just do my work and be productive (what I love) I have a tutoring set up ($) and a date for slave with Rachel. Other than that, celebrity mole is this wednesday which I am dying to see, it is such the Perceptive Genius show :o) I can't wait! Other than that, assignments up the wazoo and plans to be made for hope :o) ::you know who you are:: and ::I know who I am:: I have to make some plans to.

Here is what I figure... for all that care. I am going to make this money this year, for me, to u