Death To ALL!!! -gulp-

This is a pretty hilarious website. It won't take long, check it out!!!

Everyone's doing it!

Plurk is the new blog!

Hello?

I GOT A PERMIT!!!! I DROVE A CAR!!!!!!
That's all.

Dark Knight

And..... We're back with a confusing review.
WHAT DO I THINK! This is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. It was fantastic.
I really have no idea what I think about this movie.
The acting was perfect and the whole thing looked amazing.
BUT the acting was probably too perfect.
The connection I kept on making was to Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately.
I really don't know what to make of this movie.
I'm probably gonna have to sleep on it. If I can sleep.
Others might not be as struck by this movie, but the ethics and morals and values made everything painful.
Too confusing? I thought so.
This was probably the best movie I've ever seen. And I hated it.

19-lingual

List of Languages I Can Speak*

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• German
• Thai
  
• Chinese
• Norse
• Afrikaans
• Greek
• Latin
• Korean
• Hebrew
  
• Ubbi Dubbi
• Pig Latin
  
• Portuguese
• Australian
• ASL

This is all I can think of right now.

*Your definition of speak might be different than mine.

Frog Guts

Did you know that karaoke is Japanese for empty orchestra?

Nifty, eh?

Creatin' Machine

Look at what I made!*

It's BACTERIA! In reference to the bacteria in The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie **
The bacteria that I'm talking about shows up 5 minutes into the video.
Biology students should watch. ;D

*It's a lot of silly putty.
**PLEASE NOTE: That the link above is to a video that is slightly graphic (in the beginning). Viewer discretion is advised.

Middle Sates, HERE WE COME!

This week Middle Sates has been here to look at our school to see if we qualify for awesomeship.
What does are school do to prove we're worthy? We do what we do best of course! BOMB SCARES!
This week we had two of them. One on, I think, Tuesday during 4th period (one of my free periods) So we stand out on the turf for 40 minutes and are extremely disappointed when they say that we can go back inside.
Today, Friday, it happens again. It's 7th period, math, and we're taking a test. It's about 10 -15 minutes into class and all of a sudden the guy comes on and says "Blah blah blah, please go to the turf, blah blah blah, evacuate." So my teacher say alright leave your test on your desk and go to the turf. I bring my bag, and not my binders, and start heading down. We all make it to the turf and sit in our assigned spot. (Academic Circles - don't ask.) I stand there for about 30 minutes and then I go find friends.
Two periods go by (each period is about 40 minutes) and during that they say that we're going home. Now that would be more exciting if it wasn't 10 minutes before we would usually get home, but whatever.
It takes FOREVER for the buses to get to the school, which is really weird because they should have already been there for the usual pick up.
They call out the bus numbers one at a time, very slowly. It sounds like we're playing bingo and luckily I won near the beginning of the game.
We aren't allowed back into the school, so I have no books with me.
Sooooo I HAVE NO HOMEWORK!
I got home later than I usually do. And it's going to take a while before the bro and sisters get home.

ALL AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ARE CANCELED

Dance Moves

Okay. I was looking around YouTube and I found this video and it made me laugh so hard. Maybe I'm a tad sleep deprived, but whatever.



I'm totally going to bust these moves out for the next dance!
I do some of them at the dances already.

Fresh

Today, after church, I was walking to the car and I saw some tufts of green sticking out of the lawn. I went to investigate and found out that they were wild onions. So I pulled a couple of handfuls out. We took them home, washed them, and put them on our baked potatoes!
Delish.


I totally took that picture!

Fiona - in her favorite fake tree.

Sorry it's a little messed up. Better quality pictures coming soon.

Oh boy.

Today was the first day with my new English teacher. She is definitely not as good as the last teacher I had.
-She plays soccer on Sundays.
-She used to be a stand-up comedian.
-She has bad ankles. (She almost fell in class. One kid couldn't stop laughing, because it did look a little funny. (Will demonstrate)
-She gives a lot of homework. (More than I'm used to. Which is none, but whatever.)

• Lit. log. on "chapter" one of OMAM.
• Study guide.
• Read chapter one.
• Vocab.

Mary no likey.
-Her comedy is not good for a first period class of kids who are sick of English teachers.
-I feel bad for her. We're a very harsh class.
-She talks too fast.

Love Letters

This is a pretty funny video that my friend showed me.

Never Get Attached

Today my English teacher told the class that she was going to be leaving very soon.

Last year my first English teacher was pregnant and was going to leave in about three months. She left, and the next teacher came in. She was here for about four and a half months. Then she left because she wouldn't be able to work at our school next year and she got a better job in the city. So teacher number three comes in and teaches for the rest of the year.

Evaluation: Overall year was actually pretty good. No homework. At all.
1. She was okay. She was a little boring, and had a mushy gushy mind. (Due to baby in belly?)
2. My least favorite. She was way too into the creativity stuff. Draw this, draw that. And the one book that we did read while she was teaching us was Fahrenheit 451. We didn't even finish the book because every single day we debated about television.
Don't get me wrong, I love to debate, but she was very bad at understanding. Not much depth. (Harsh?)
3. My favorite. She was down to earth, understood our situation, and was lenient because we had a "rough year".

Now this year my first teacher was pregnant and stayed for about three months. She then left and my current teacher comes in. She now says that she is leaving because she won't be able to teach here next year, so she can get a better job someplace else.

Evaluation: Not as good as last year.
1. Crazy. (I have English first period.) Way too loud and obnoxious. And is obsessed about dehumanization. Grades critical lens essays by how you define the quote. Crazy.
2. Better. She is a better first period teacher and understands my point of view. Grades critical lens essays by how you support your definition of the quote. (The correct way.)

Unbelievable.

Sorry!

Alrighty. Let'sa go!!
-At this very moment I am in the library and there is a group a small children. I'm a little freaked out. They're taking up all the tables.
-As most of you know we got a baby corn snake a while ago. I'm trying to get a picture so there will be one soon. And we have chosen a name for the snake: Fiona.
-Out of the few times Fiona has egested/excreted, twice it has been on Mom.
-I just recently finished writing a research paper for social studies. The whole thing (title page, bibliography, actual paper, etc.) is (I think) 13 pages. It made me want to cry. It's 40% of my third quarter grade. Joy.
-There's this pretty cool website that has SAT practice questions. So you all have fun with that.
-IF ANYONE DOESN'T ALREADY HAVE TICKETS TO THE PASTA DINNER ASK ME!
-Okay. Now I know what the kids are doing in the library. They wrote books and the high school students are illustrating for them.
-We're going to start Of Mice and Men very soon in English.
-List of my classes in order of awesomeness. Greatest to least.

• Science (What can be more fun than learning about LIFE?! And I have the BEST teacher in the world)
• Math (I'm sorry, but I LOVE proofs.)
• Social Studies (It's fine. My teacher does this thing where he makes the history sound more story like so that's good. But now we're going to start learning about the industrial revolution and WWI. And I think WWI is one of the most boring wars ever. But I did learn about it in 8th grade with the worst teacher ever. We'll see.)
• English (Depressing. I have it first period and nobody is awake, but I don't think it would make much difference.)
• Spanish (Boring teacher. Poorly made quizzes.)

Chorus is somewhere in there. My teacher is pretty cool, but my classmates are obnoxious.
-I think I'm allergic to spring.
-Abstract "art" is NOT art.
-I just sneezed.

Finally a Smarty Pants

I'm going to be in Honors Chemistry next year. I finally get into one. I've actually turned down two other honors classes: English and global studies.
Interesting.
Whoops

My life depends on the sweets!

For Tuesday night activities I think the young women are going to make THE BEST cookies EVER.
They're called... ALFAJORES. They are the most delicious cookies ever. I could eat them everyday. I can't describe how the taste because I can't remember. All I remember is that they are the best thing ever invented.
I probably won't share.

Amazing

I love looking at notebooks that I had used for school. The books from elementary school are pretty hilarious. So I was reading a notebook from 5th grade and came across this:

Stand tall, stand proud

Voices that care are crying out loud

And when you close your eyes tonight,

Feel in your heart how our love burns bright.

So now I think that I was a kid genius. This is one of the most amazing things that I have ever written. Then I start to think about it, and think it might be a little too brilliant. So I type the whole thing into Google, and I come up with the lyrics to "Voices That Care".

You can imagine my disappointment.

Did you miss me?

Sorry I've been away. I've been busy? So yeah.
What happened to me over the break and other stuff:

• My glasses will never be fixed. The guy "fixed" my glasses. Then I put them on my head and they broke again. We take them back to the store, and a different guy fixes them. And they break. Don't go to BJ's for your glasses.
  As for the actual glasses man, I hope I never see him again. Basically he was really bored because not only was he a glasses man, but he was a matchmaker too! The worst part was when I had to tell him my number... backwards. I had to tell him ####-###-(###) I had to say dash and all that stuff. I wanted to die.
• I got a snake! It's a baby corn snake that I got from PetCo. It's white/orange/red and it's a girl. I haven't figured out a name yet. Any suggestions would be LOVELY.
• I have a lovely cold/flu/pneumonia/strep and I'm living off of Airborne Gummies and cough drops.
• I think the stake choir did a very nice job. Except for the till we meet song. Everyone kind of sang there own version of that. I could have sworn the congregation thought we were crazy. It didn't sound much like singing. More like mur-mur-ing. (mur mur mur mur)
• My room is only half a mess.
• I can't wait until the next break. When is that?
• There might be snow/sleet tomorrow.
• When I type it's doing this weird overlapping thing where if I have to go back and change a word it deletes what I did after that.
• I have a terrible but wonderful memory. I can remember what I was for Halloween 8 years ago, but I can't remember what happened on Friday.
• Seminary is WAY too early.
• I'm always less sick during the day than in the morning and bedtime.

That is all.

Praises

My Happy List

• Even though I don't thinkn it's necessary, we have an early dismissal.
• I have no homework.
• I'm wearing my glasses to school for the first time!!
• I CAN SEE!
• No proof test today (again)!
• The rest of the periods I have are free!
• I'm wearing my glasses right now. Even though I don't have to wear them.
• I feel cool.

My Sad List

• We're out of juice.
• I don't get to take my proof test today.
• One of the lenses in my glasses isn't in all the way.
• My glasses have to go back to the scary glasses store guy.

UPDATE: Mom took the glasses to the scary man and he fixed them. They're all better. I wear them often, and clean them even more.

Yes We Can

The groundswell of enthusiastic support for Barack Obama continues to ignite across the country and is unprecedented in modern political history. He is building a broad, diverse coalition and has energized millions of young people to become engaged in the political process for the first time. He has also inspired so many who had been disenfranchised in the past to rise up and embrace a movement of hope and unity.
Yet the path to a glorious victory in November will be extremely arduous and require tremendous fortitude. We face an opponent and a former President that will descend to any depth in their ruthless pursuit of power. The Clintons thrive and excel in the cut throat tactics of political warfare and as they sense that their reign is slipping away, they will resort to literally whatever it takes to prevail.
The vast majority of the Clintons base consists of white women and the elderly. This is a highly disciplined block of voters that will always turn out in high numbers. Our challenge is to ensure that the massive show of support for Barack is translated directly into votes during the remainder of the primary. We must not dilute the tidal wave that is sweeping the country by attending the rallies and then failing to get registered and cast a vote on Election Day.
The country is at a critical crossroad and the choice of leadership could not be cast in starker contrast. Barack Obama is the inspirational, visionary leader that comes along once in a lifetime. He will be the uplifting force of change to repair the wreckage of the Bush/Cheney regime and be the face of a revitalized, united America that will restore moral authority across the world. Whereas the Clintons will turn the clock back in perpetuating the bitter partisanship that has had a corrosive, debilitating effect on our country for the twenty long years that they and the Bushes have occupied the White House.
Our moment in history is before us and it may never present itself again. We must seize the opportunity and have the courage to make Barack Obama the next President of the United States.

-Robert Luciano- Atlanta, GA

From this article: Obama Leads in Poll; Clinton Hits the Airwaves.

Juice!

Nobody looks good in a purple mustache.

Except for her.

Fine. Be that way.

Barack Obama, all the way.

Disaster*

Today I was walking in the hallway to go to the library. I'm walking, walking, walking, and I SLIP!

NO! I do not fall down.

But I did slip... on a pencil. And there was a little arm waving action.

Just thought you peeps would like to know, I almost died.


*Waiting to Happen

Seminary

Here is a small list of some seminary inside jokes.

- Are you sure it's ____ (whatever book was just said). (KEEP IT ALIVE!!)
- Tinkerbell spirit
- SNAKES... on FIRE!!

I'm sure there will be much more to come.
Also I got 91% on my 100 question science midterm.
And I got 96% on my 39 question math regents.

Battle of the Bands

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

-Dorothy Parker

Novembrance

Go to……
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php33 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post.
(Don’t forget to follow the Terms of Use at Flickr and provide a link back to the page at Flickr.)

Family Mottos

We have been trying to figure out a good family motto.

Brother suggested, "D---ys are picky"

Mom said, " I like D---ys are delicious, but P-kins eat a lot. So that might be a problem."

Not So TGIF

On Friday I was having a pretty good day. Not too much homework yet, and the classes were nice and nothingful. Now, my science classroom is on the second floor of my school. So I have to walk up some stairs. Duh.
These stairs are not just strait up, they go up for a bit, then you have to turn and go up again. Right? So the people on the upper stairs can throw stuff on people down below. Can you see where I'm going?
So I'm walking up the stairs trying not to fall down, (It really is a problem. I'm basically a falling-down-the-stairs-a-phobic.) and surrounded by tons of loud boys. So I'm walking up the first little flight of steps, and I feel something fall into my hair. I thought it was some sort of paper falling from up above so I keep walking. Then I feel the something in my hair, you know, like a weight difference. You can feel some thing in your hair. So I run my hand through my hair, and feel. . . gum.
Yeah that's right. Sticky, white, still very moist gum. (And possibly mint... -barf.)
So I'm holding my books and holding the gum and a clump of my hair in the other hand. I had to hold the gum or it would go EVERYWHERE.
Now the gum wasn't on the top of my head, it was actually in the lower right side of my hair.
If I had to choose a place for gum to fall, that would be the place.
So I finish going up the stairs, and walk into my science classroom. Scissors I need.
So I walk up to my science teacher and say, "Umm, Ms. Science teacher, can I borrow some scissors?" Holding the gum in my hair.
"Yeah sure." She says while working on the overhead.
"Umm, where are they?"
"There should be some right in that drawer over there." She says while pointing to a drawer at her desk.
"Thanks because I was walking up the stairs and some gum fell in my hair." Still holding the gum and now showing it to her.
"Oh my!"
Well, I was talking sort of loud because I was feeling a bit hysterical, feeling a lot of emotion and everything.
-I was still pretty happy, it was Friday.
-Excited. I have no clue, but I was. I guess it's not everyday you get some gum stuck in your hair.
-And I was sad. Who wants gum in their hair?
So I'm thinking many people might have heard about what had happened to me.
But it's all okay. I clipped the nasty out of my hair, put it in the trash, and walked away.
I sat down and class started. Then I realized I had touched somebody else's gum. Ew. And that I didn't wash my hands. Well it just so happened that the school put purell in every classroom because of staff or something. So I killed 99.9% of the germs on my hands. Yay!
But today I have a head ache.
COINCIDENCE?!?!
Yeah, I think so.