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Let’s take what hurts and write it all down

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I am really sorry I haven’t been updating lately. But I have good reasons! I’ve been super busy…

Ok, so the last time I posted was December 7. 13 days ago. Almost two weeks. I IS SORRY!!!

Since then…

I have been very unproductive, writing-wise. I wrote a poem for a Write A Book In A Year club project, but that’s really it. I want to write, though!

We got a new admin! Haley, AKA Flamingo!! Show her some lovin’!

I have found myself in a much better state of mind.

We had a Speech and Debate trip that ran long…. because we got snowed in!! We ended up staying in Red Cross cots in the high school gym (I can’t tell you where we wre, but it was about three hours from home). On the plus side…. BART AND I GOT FIRST PLACE!! WE ARE THE BEST FREAKING NOVICES EVAR!!

Then I stayed up until midnight on Sunday doing APUSH homework. Then the next day I went home at lunch, only to come back after school for speech and debate.

Tuesday I started my Spanish final and took the essay portion of my AP English test. I also read the last book in the Inkheart trilogy. IT WAS GOOD WOO. I also had a party in APUSH.

Wednesday I took the second half of the Spanish final, and the first vocab part of the AP English final. More review in APUSH. I also helped the school newspaper start a website, which I will be designing over break.

Thursday I wrote two essays in APUSH for the final, and the school newspaper December issue came in! I took the multiple choice part of the AP English final and the speaking part for the Spanish final. Then, since I vouched out of the Trig final, I retook a chapter test I missed Monday instead and chilled.

Friday I did a dance, got an awesome score on the multiple choice part of my APUSH final, got hugs from lots of people, watched a movie in newspaper, gave Bart a gangsta hat for Christmas, which he wore with a suit and aviators to “intimidate the finals”, game Tommy Pants random stuff, took a vocab test in Ap English, went to the lirary to chill during Spanish, and watched NUMB3RS in Trig. Then I went to the movies with my family to see Slumdog Millionaire (EXCELLENT MOVIE) and then came home to watch WALL-E with them (cute movie).

Today I woke up at nine and I have a giant zit that is driving me car-azy.

 

I’ll be posting a new YouTube video soon. Bye byes

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Chop chop, he says I’m gonna win big

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the Red Hot Chili Peppers are weird.

So, first I’d just like to mention how thankful I am for everyone who has been blogging and commenting lately. It warms my heart to see the thoughtful, intelligent posts and debates going on. I’d also like to say that my little bro, Godfather, has come a long way. His blogs, although not perfect, like mine(obviously), are actually pretty good. I’M even reading and enjoying them. Love ya, bro.

I’d also like to talk about what the esteemed webmistress is looking forward to seeing under her tree this Christmas:

-Gift cards to either Gap, Old Navy, Barnes and Nobles, or Borders.

-Music: “We sing. We dance. We steal things.-Jason Mraz CD”, any Jack’s Mannequin CD, any Metro Station CD, or a Meg and Dia CD.

-Black peacoat (These things are freaking expensive, though. If I wasn’t so cheap, I might have bought one myself a while ago)

-Red Converse, size 8 (I prefer the ankle ones… not high tops)

-Jason Mraz Calendar (or any calendar, I guess)

-Cool, non-holiday themed socks (that aren’t too thick)

–This shirt

-Teeshirts from Snorg, BustedTees, or Threadless

-For the school newspaper to spell my name right

-Religious tolerance

-For the California Supreme Court to overturn Prop. 8

-For there to be a new human rights issue I can talk about, because gay marriage and abortion are getting old

-For either Jason Mraz, Liam Aiken, or Michael Phelps to propose to me

 

Oh, yeah, and world peace.

Actually, no. With Bart, I don’t think that’s ever possible.

Post your own wish lists! If you want me to hyperlink anything, let me know.

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I even freaking reminded you

Posted on by Aardvarki

Grar. Webmistress is grumpy right now.

I’m taking a break from homework right now because I have a pounding headache and I noticed that our new admin, Shawn, has not posted a blog today. Me thinkies that he will be getting deleted… soon. I warned you.

It is eight o’clock at night, and I still have about two hours of homework left to do. Freaking speech and debate cases took two freaking hours, and freaking AP language persuasive letter took freaking one hour, and now freaking AP US History is taking freaking forever. 20 more vocab cards plus fifteen pages of notes on the most BORING ERA IN HISTORY.

The Industrial Revolution is the DEVIL. I do not CARE WHO INVENTED THE STEAMBOAT (Robert Fulton). I like all the political stuff and the presidential scandals and the religious stuff, but manufacturing makes me yawn. Plus, I had to learn about all this crap back in 8th grade. Granted, I like this class better, but STILL. AUGH.

We had a debate today in APUSH over whether or not Andrew was an accurate representative for the “common man”. I was on the negative side, because he so totally WASN’T.

Ack ack ack. Bad-ish day, I’m stressed beyond belief… ok, I’m going to go back to vocab cards.

Shawn, you’re getting deleted. I had hoped that you would be a little more committed to this and would actually put some effort into it. At least the FIRST FRICKING WEEK YOU HAD TO DO IT! Augh. I told you I wouldn’t miss you once astronomy ended. >:p

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A little something I wrote a while back…

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Boys suck.

 

Excerpt from Bri’s diary in 2-7-07

I’ve realized what the trye meaning of a jerk is.

A jerk is someone who pretends to be your friend for a while, then decides not to talk to you much or starts being rude to you, and then, when they need help, they come to you. After you help them, they lapse back into ignoring you.

That is a true jerk. A jerk isn’t someone who calls you fat, stupid, or ugly. Those people don’t even know you. A jerk is someone who actually gets to know you, learns about your strengths and insecurities, and THEN calls you names, while still expecting you to help them out. A one-sided deal.

Parasitism is the relationship between two organisms where one benefits at the others expense. Parasitism. Like a bad friendship. A jerk is a parasite. A bad friend is a jerk. Therefore; STOP PRETENDING TO BE MY FRIEND. IT’S NOT WORKING ANYMORE. YOU AREN’T WORTH MY TIME, SO STOP WASTING MY LIFE AS WELL AS YOUR OWN AND GO AWAY.

–end of transcript–

 

And now, I’d like to add a bit more.

I trusted you. I forgave you. I believed in you. I helped you. I cried for and over you. Is this how you repay me? Is this the reward for being a good friend?

Five years of my life I wasted on you. I knew all along that I would get hurt, but I waited for you anyways. I was your friend anyways. Do you see this quote above? That was a little more than a year ago, but that’s not the only quote I have. I’ve been saying the same thing about you in my journals ever since I met you. Does that make this my fault? Maybe. But at least, before I sleep at night, I know that I did my best to you. I was my best for you, because I thought you deserved that.

Don’t I deserve some respect, if not a little credit? Don’t I deserve your acknowledgment of my existence? Apparently not.

“Dorky, nerdy, strange, annoying. I’m done.”

Those words will forever be burned into my mind. And you know what the worst part is? I would do it again. I’m so emotionally dependent on you that I would risk my feelings and my psychological health to help you through your hard times. I haven’t even learned anything. So where do we stand now?

You’ll never read this, but that’s ok. Maybe one day I’ll email it to you, but I doubt you’ll even give it a second glance. I know you deleted the notification that I subscribed to you on YouTube. I know you deleted all the texts from this summer and from the beginning of the school year. I know you got every single email I sent you in the past few months, but I also know that you don’t care. Destroying my life and mental well being means nothing to you, does it?

You say you’re done. Maybe this time you’ll mean it. Maybe I’ll be better off. Or maybe we’ll just start over again, with me apologizing for your cold heart, and you pretending that what I do even matters.

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I’m just gonna say the railroad tracks

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I love newspaper class. I always get the controversial articles. The whole school is going to hate me by the end of the year.

So firstly, I’d like you all to welcome IRideTheLines, who has posted an introduction blog, and Cairo, who should be posting soon. New admins! Should I be worried that most of my admins are at least a year younger than me? Sigh.

So. Music. I got a Sansa dock this week. It’s where I plug in my Sansa e260 and it’s got speakers and I can hear my MP3 all over my room! Which is cool. But we had to update my MP3’s firmware, and it totally screwed up all my music. So now I can only listen to my playlist or specific albums. I can’t click “play all”. Luckily, most of the new music I have is on the playlist, so I just listen to that. I’m waiting for a day after school where I don’t have anything to do so I can take evrything off the MP3 and then put everything back on. This is going to take forever, and I have absolutely NO TIME.

Monday I had speech and debate after school, went home for ten minutes, and then went to training for a Kids Voting thing I’m volunteering for. I got home at seven and then ate dinner and did homework.

Tuesday I had speech and debate after school, went home and did homework for four hours.

Today I have a haircut right after school, then I go home to feed my animals, then I have about an hour to do my homework, then I get all fancied up to go to the Academic Awards Ceremony until about eight.

Tomorrow I have speech and debate after school, then I go home for about a half hour, then I leave to go volunteer until eight or eight thirty at that Kids Voting thing. Then I will do homework.

Friday I’m going to out school’s play at seven. And then I rest. Maybe Saturday.

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Wish me luck

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Lots of news today!

First, I just signed up for a YouTube account, and once I figure out how to save the videos (vlogs) that I record, I will be posting stuff up! I’m very excited, and I think this will bring us more traffic! So once I get some things up, I’ll let you all know so you can go watch it!

Second, I am partaking in a social experiment so riveting that those with weak stomachs should go read my old Various Ramblings to calm themselves down. Actually, you should do that anyways, and the social experiment isn’t that crazy. I am going to see how long I can be a vegetarian, while also attempting to live green. Here are my rules:

 

-No meat. Dairy and eggs are ok, I’m not going for vegan, but no meat. No chicken, steak, beef, goat, dog, anything.

-5 minute showers. Because of my very thick hair I’m not sure how well I’m gonna be able to live with this, but we’ll see.

-I was gonna just ride the bus from now on, but then I realized that even the desicrating planet couldn’t force me to do that. I hate my school bus. Plus I have activities after school I need to get to. And my job on the weekends. Maybe one day a week I’ll ride the bus. (Shudder)

-Minimize energy use. Run my computer, MP3, and cell phone on battery as much as possible. Use natural light as much as possible, shower in the dark. And maybe (cringe) use such technologies like the computer less

-Air dry clothes, and wash them only when I absolutely need to.

-If I go out to eat, eat there to minimize waste from take out boxes and stuff.

-Track gas mileage; don’t accelerate so fast.

-Don’t waste so many notebooks; use every bit of paper I can before getting a new one.

-Try to cut out as many preservatives as possible from my diet

-Exercise without using energy, like doing weights and walking instead of Wii Fit and treadmill. (heh, or exercise at ALL)

So let’s see how long I can hold this up. Anyone got bets? A week? Two weeks? I don’t completely fail until I’ve only got two of the many rules left. So If I break all but two, I fail. Cheer me on! Try it yourself! GO HIPPIS!!!

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Maybe you’re gonna be the one that saves me

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So this summer my parents, my brother, and I have been pretty much redoing the entire house. New floors, complete paint job, new furniture, new look! I was particularly excited that finally, after thirteen years of living in this house, I was finally allowed to paint my room a color other than white. WOO! This is what I’ve done with it.

 

New shelf thing… and lots of new pictures! On the top, I believe the order is Liam Aiken, old soccer picture, bottle with flower, tree hugging, and me at my freshman homecoming. ORANGE WALL!! I added a couple more things since this pic was taken… a Star Wars poster, my DC group picture, and some artwork I did.

These are old shelves but now I have pictures on it! Order: First-grade-age picture with Rachel and Mariah, Spy picture of me and Rachel (6th grade), and homecoming 06 picture!

New shelf thing… with pictures from my photography class, me and Megan, and pictures from Glacier NP. Also I have a Jonas Brothers poster (sue me), a Micheal Phelps poster, Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) on the front of Parade, Shia LaBeouf as Mutt Williams poster, homecoming 07 picture, Italy calendar, Italy map, and that mask thing I made last year.

 

One of two bulletin boards (old). Heh. I need more. I put so much crap on them. 

My bed (kind of made) and my shade and my ORANGE wall. The shade is the same color as the other wall in my room.

 

I have two walls orange (and that weird fifth wall that I don’t count), one teal-ish green wall, and one yellow-ish white wall. Framed pictures: 24. Unframed pictures: 19. Organizational furniture (I cound shelves): 12. Books: Not gonna count again.

Woo.

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Hah Hah Henna

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So last night, all of the (eleven) girls in my hall ordered Chinese food, sat in one of their room’s, and did Henna. For those of you who don’t known what Henna is, it’s basically a temporary tattoo that lasts for three weeks. I got a crescent moon on the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger, a heart on my wrist (both of these are fairly small), and a sun on my ankle. Not very creative, maybe, but I’m stuck with it for three weeks. Don’t want to get annoyed with ’em.

They look pretty cool though. I’m very excited. I’ll post pictures when I get home.

Roommate is standing over my shoulder so I should probably go.

Roommate just wiped her nose.

Roommate is giggling.

Roommate won’t stop giggling.

I have to sleep in the same room as this person.

Dang it stop giggling.

Stop.

Hah. She stopped.

Goodbye.

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You know you’re pathetic when…

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All girls school. Two weeks. Not a good idea.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m having fun, my roommate’s cool, and I love my classes. But no boys? Uh-uh.

So we all went the movies on Friday. Everyone dressed up. Girls I’d never seen in makeup or nice clothes were suddenly dressed as if they were going to homecoming. I’ll admit I even spent a little more time on my hair and makeup. Yes, we were THAT desperate.

They carted all one hundred of us to Hancock (which was pretty good) in two big buses, like we were touring the city or something. When we got to the movies, we weren’t allowed off the bus for about fifteen minutes. Also not a good idea.

We all (yes, all) spent the entire time staring out the windows. When a cute guy walked by, someone pointed him out, and everyone else squealed and giggled like adolescents. Pathetic. Unfortunately, I can’t say that I didn’t take part. (Some of those guys WERE cute)

All guys pretty much look like supermodels to us right now. It’s horrible.

Nice recent blogs, guys, keep up the good work!!

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Say what you need to say

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As repetitive as it is, I really like that song. And it was playing on the radio on a really ironic day. But that’s not important.

So I hope that not speaking in two days is making you as crazy as it’s making me. I really do.

Anyways. I just finished watching Camp Rock (HAHAHAHA) With the Jonas Brothers, yes. JONAS BROTHERS. They are incredibly good looking, and as much as people are going to hate me for this, I actually like their music. Good beats, good lyrics, catchy tunes. I LIKE THEM.

Yes, that makes me a Jonas Lover. I don’t care.

You know, I hate how people get so stuck up about music. I have spent half my life pretending that I don’t like half of the music that I actually thoroughly enjoy. I mean, I’ve never lied that I like a certain band or something, but sometimes when I’m naming music I like, I leave things out. Like the Jonas Brothers. And Aly & AJ, who have really good lyrics. And Superchick, who, as lame as the name is, are actually very good. I’m sorry I missed them when they came to this town on tour. The town that I’m not telling you.

That’s not the point.  The point is that I hate it when people judge me and my “coolness” because of my taste in music. I hate it when people measure my inherent worth as a person on my taste in music. As great as music is, that shouldn’t be what makes or breaks a friendship. Really. If you don’t like it that I enjoy the Jonas Brothers, then you can either deal with it or shut up.