Doc, there's a hole where something was

Butterfly bandage, but don't worry....
Lol. Tyler and I were tuning timpanis in 6th period.
While watching yet another History Channel movie on the Black Death.
Yeah, it was icky.
And a lot more devastating than I ever knew.
And really sad. People abandoned their sick family members and whole families were left to die in their own homes.
And it was a really painful way to die.
But I don't see why Leonard Nimoy had to tell us this.
And why Mr. Hurd had to explain what the movie was about and tell us EVERYTHING that was going to happen.
You obviously know all this stuff. Why are we watching a 45-minute movie if you're just going to condense it into a 10 minute lecture anyway?
Rosey is so cool. He was in the paper this morning.
And "St. Francis and the Sow" is his favorite poem, too.
We were interpreting "Lost" by David Wagoner, and Amanda was being really insightful and understood the entire thing.
We were in awe. She decoded everything to the very last detail.
"The Legend" is so sad. He wasn't just a man on the street! It reminded me of the homeless people in Seattle.
Along with "Miss Rosie".
Poetry is so cool. Only we have to write some of our own soon.
And there's a book report due Friday.
And we have to measure the roots of our radish plants.
And we have a WASL vocab quiz tomorrow.
So the flash cards are due.
And Mr. Macaras expects us to do that massive math packet.
CRAP.

You Are a Cougar

You have more strength than most people, and with it, the ability to inflict a lot of harm. Your power gives you confidence, and you find leading others to be easy. You believe that you need to the best, and you are very driven to excel. Most people immediately admire you, but some people feel very envious of your abilities.

What Big Cat Are You?

WSU, here I come!

Shakespeare romp turns into suckfest

Kenneth Branagh. You were doing SO GOOD.
"Much Ado About Nothing" started off great.
Except for the giant bathing orgy, where the women started stripping down and rubbing each other with shampoo, and the men wildly ripped off their clothes and swung like Tarzan on a vine into the public fountain.
And you got to see EVERYTHING.
Those were DEFINITElY pubes.
And Keanu Reeves can't act to save his life. He is POSITIVELY terrible. His first big scene found him on a massage table wearing nothing but leather pants, though he quickly became angry and began to fondle his henchmen. The whole homoerotic vibe wasn't helping. "Betruchio! Rub me with oils while I describe my evil personality!"
And that guy from "House" was in it and I kept thinking, "Peter from 'Swing Kids'! Peter from 'Swing Kids'!" When things got slow, I whipped out my trusty umbrella and began screaming, "Swingheil! Swingheil!"
He, too, was a terrible actor. When he grew upset, he chose to destroy scenery and cry rather than fondle men.
When Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh were together, the movie was great. Even when they were apart, they had some great comedic scenes.
And I don't know who to blame for this, Shakespeare or Branagh, but those two characters reconciled their differences a little too quickly for my taste, and suddenly disappeared from the movie's plot for at least a little while.
MICHAEL KEATON WASN'T FUNNY! I suppose it might be to some, but his Patchy the Pirate impression didn't really do it for me. It was sort of distracting and stupid and unnecessary and he, Keanu Reeves, and Robert Sean "Swingheil" Leonard should have all jumped off a cliff together to rid the world of such talentless scum.
Actually, they'd have to take Brad Pitt, too. And Tom Cruise. And John Travolta. And George Clooney. And the Jonas Brothers.
I can't decide whether it was better or worse than "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I hated that movie, and the fact that it was practically a 2-hour long Shakespearean porno. But this one was so disappointing and just as nude.
And somehow, Kenneth Branagh managed to pull of "As You Like It", one of my favorite movies of all time.
Grrr....

Happy colors and fashion advice

Fridays are so great. Best day of the week.
I finally took my chocolate to school again and sold almost half my remaining bars.
Progress reports don't come out until next week, but I'm pretty sure I'm passing each class with at least a high B.
WE DIDN'T FAIL THE HISTORY TEST!
Kay wasn't here today and missed the movie about parasitism. :( The bird ate the zits of the mistletoe and then crapped them onto the tree!
No more subtitles. We're so screwed.
Janessa's party is tonight, and I'm pretty pumped.
But there's so much to do.
Ew, gross. I think I'm fighting a losing battle.
In math, we just started STANDARD DEVIATION!! YES! I'm good at this!!
Alexander the Great was a hottie, apparently.
Tie's foot started bleeding all over the carpet when I got home from school.
And that interesting tidbit and the fact that I have nothing else to say means it is, in fact, a Friday.

Skippy peanut butter forest

"Invisible" by Pete Hautman is fascinating, but ultimately depressing. I wasn't exactly surprised by the ending, but I was a little surprised by the circumstances. I just knew that a lot of it wasn't real.

What Your Bed Says About You

Outward appearances aren't important to you at all. You think that the over emphasis on looks to be shallow. You try to be an organized person, but you often fall behind. Certain parts of your life tend to fall into chaos. You are not very high maintenance in general, but you are high maintenance about a few things. In relationships, you tend to be quite dominant. You enjoy taking charge. You tend to be a dreamy, head in the clouds type of person. You think in terms of possibilities. You are a total homebody. You are happiest when you're at home.

What Does Your Bed Say About You?

Alexis is moving to Texas. That would be funny, because it rhymes, but that's depressing, too.
We have to devise a plan to make her stay.
She doesn't want to move, because she'll miss high school and Disneyland. Why are her parents making her move at this pivotal time in her life in the first place? Way to be insensitive and selfish, guys.
The sophomores got their schedules last night. I checked with a couple of my friends and I only have one class with each of them, except for Alexis and Kevin. I have three classes with Kevin - what's up with that? And he got put in some random vocational class he did NOT sign up for. "Best Classroom" - sounds thrilling.
I'm pretty excited for school to start, but the school is so big and my classes are so far apart, I'm afraid I'll be late.
My dad was freaking out because my locker wouldn't open. I didn't think it was supposed to, but whatever.
So Wednesday was sort of a momentuous occasion: I got my first pair of skinny jeans, hahahaha.
And they were pretty cheap, so that's cool.
I don't have one of those pyscho-religious uber-strict families that makes their girls wear knee-length skirts and never lets their kids watch PG-13 movies, but my mom was pretty adamant about me not getting skinny jeans.
But then I tried some on and she saw I didn't look like a harlot, so she let me buy them.
Funny thing, too, my dad actually asked if I was going to buy some before I let for the mall, and my mom said he was the one that wouldn't allow skinny jeans in our household.
????
Although I'm a little apprehensive about wearing them because he saw another pair of regular fit jeans that I have and was like, ":O Are THOSE your skinny jeans???"
So if regular fit is too tight, he'll have a conniption when I pull on my skinny jeans.

Wouldn't you like to know?

Sean Kingston. Stuck in my head.
Who knew scoop neck T-shirts were so hard to wear?
I obviously didn't.
Rather than feeling cute and trendy, I feel naked and slutty.
And it's plum, which doesn't look that great on me.
I'm really thinking about destroying my Madison Finn Sims (that was never going to go anywhere) and creating Rent Sims.
Because I can.
And I really want to make a weak-chinned Roger.
I've decided to buy "The Silver Cord" this month with my meager funds because I listened to it online and it sounds pretty cool, and so far it has very positive reviews.
Lol, I spent at least 4 hours reading stuff on Cracked.com and the articles on superheroes cracked me up.
Tie slept with me for about an hour this morning, barked at every little noise coming from outside, and was very annoyed when I decided to get dressed rather than immediately take her on a walk.
In other words, she's back to normal.

Even more cuteness!

Snatching is so much fun. But Sarah got paranoid and was running from me all day.
All I had for lunch was cookies. Tyler had some magically delicious cookies from a pouch, and a cookie that looked like vomit but tasted good, and Sarah gave me an Oreo, and then I ate some Chips Ahoy.
Phew, both English finals were SO easy. Band, Health, and French didn't have a final, and I got a B on the science final, so the only thing I have to worry about is the math final on Friday the 13th. How clever, Mr. Kovacs.
EWWWWWWW we had to watch "Life's Greatest Miracle" today in Health, and we didn't get to the part where the baby comes out, but we had to watch sex from the inside!! You know what I'm talking about, right? Not only that, but we had to look at guys in Speedos, various animals mating, and this guy make out with some random girl on a beach WHERE HE TAKES OFF HER DRESS!!! WHOA!!! WHY ARE WE BEING ALLOWED TO WATCH THIS???
And then we had to take a good look at HIS sexual organ, and then the baby's stump. Not quite a penis or anything else, just a stump.
Connor, Sarah, and I were practically barfing. And we had to watch all this RIGHT AFTER LUNCH. I almost literally tossed my cookies.

If this is about those sandwiches....

I just finished "Prophecy of the Stones" for the millionth time, which was my favorite book in 6th and 7th grade, but I don't know, it seems different now. Like I used to hate Jade, but rereading it she's mean but really hilarious. Ugh, the character that really annoyed me was the Amber girl. I think that was the author's favorite character, because whereever she went people would fall down and practically worship her. It was way stupid and then there were like 5 million descriptions of how she was so sensitive, but then whenever she had to help her friends she'd chicken out and run away. They also made a big deal about Opal being "silent", but they cut her out of a lot of the dialogue and killed her off so as not to give her a very big role in the plot. :P Lol, Adrien cracked me up, tho. He gave this moving little speech. There was another thing that bothered me about that book but I'm not going to mention it so as not to seem hypocritical.
Do do do do do. Mr. Faxon was planning changes to "Largo" alone in the night with a muffin as his only companion. Yes.
In the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the retriever trotted like a pony among the trees in the woods behind the house.
These are the kinds of things we come up with in Pre-AP English.
In math, we had to watch a movie. It was very disturbing. The old man was everywhere: Waterloo, India, Britian, the states, Poland....
Tyler cut his hair, lol. It is no longer long and flowing, but it looks really good. He kind of looks like he belongs to a gang, but that could be considered a good thing. Yay for the 90's!!
Agh I do not want to MC, but I supposed I must MC.
YES I got a B on my science test. I think.... Maybe a B-. BUT AT LEAST I PASSED!! :P Drake got a 70/70. That is so lame. But I got full credit on the question about force=weight and the acceleration of gravity. Acceleration of gravity = 10 ms^2. That's right.
Hm hm hm I guess I'm going shopping with my mom, but I really want to get my holds from the library. Once I get them, I will have (hopefully) 2 Avalons, 1 Unicorns of Balinor, and 2 of those horrible horse books where the girl has to give away all of her horses.

Woman power!!!

I am never watching movies with my brothers again.
I think I just suck at picking them out, though. Movies, not...yeah.
So we decided to have a little bonding sleepover. Yeah. Cuz we're nerds. So we rented movies to celebrate the occasion; "Hairspray", "UHF", and "Robin Hood: Men In Tights".
"Hairspray" was good a second time around, but I still think the second half is way flat, and the ending was way too long. But the music was great, and I'm in love with the soundtrack.
Aaaaaagh, "UHF" with Weird Al Yankovic when he still had a Jew-fro! (not racist...) I don't know if it was the best movie I've ever seen or the worst movie I've ever seen. He daydreamed that he was Rambo...but he made a sandwhich out of a Twinkie, a hot dog, and Cheez Wiz. And there was this guy Bob who had the ugliest hair I think I've ever seen. It was way random and Michael Richards played a really freaking annoying janitor/TV host.
Man, Cary Elwes sucks. Since the movie was by Mel Brooks, I was expecting something really good. Hello, "Spaceballs"? Guess not. It was just really dumb and not funny and Cary Elwes can't act. Dave Chappelle was in it, though, and he's pretty funny. He was the only thing that made it worth it. Other than that, :P.
Yay I saw "Enchanted", though. THAT was pretty AMAZING. It was everything my life probably should have been. Except James Marsden REALLY creeped me out and the evil henchman was played by the Peter Pettigrew guy. Yeah, the giant balding rat, only in this movie he had long luxurious hair. Amy Adams is my new best friend, and it was nice to see Patrick Dempsey playing something other than a manslut. Awwww it was just so adorable and amazing. It was kind of weird, I saw Alicia in the bathroom afterwards, but it was pretty cool talking to her after like....a long time???
Popcorn was good, too.
I love Atreyu so much. "When Two Become One" = my new favorite song.
Except there's this song I keep hearing on the radio that's like the hardcore version of "Lose Yourself". Aaaagh AND THEY WON'T TELL ME THE NAME!!
Why does "Alvin and the Chipmunks" look like a good movie?