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i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.
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Friday, November 30, 2001
i'm a slytherin, which apparently is the evil school, which doesn't make sense because how can i be evil if i like chocalate, have a pet super monkey, and donate money to charities? unless its poisonous chocoloate, an evil super monkey, and the charities only gave out 10% of its collections? i'm clueless and afraid to try to read that book again.
karthik and i were playing some game on harrypotter.com just for fun ( i don't think it was called a sorting hat test or anything though), and the first time we got one question right and a rating called something like "3rd year student" and we kept playing and eventually got to "7th year student." we were so proud. they said we passed with flying colors. maybe i'll go find that real one that u guys took. i'll probably get something like "momo"
oh and i rearranged my desk today and i put two speakers on both ends so i can do more speed translating of crazy Pygmalion with the help of some bon jovi and the "beep beep" song.
i'm ravenclaw. or at least last summer i was. when the fourth book came out. that was last summer, right? time gets confused in my head sometimes. sats.. yuck, one more time in january and i'm done for good, whether i like my score or not. and then only two sat 2s.. writing and math. and then one more year of high school. college... = freedom. i can't wait. today i got into a fight with my mom about using her computer. i think i'm going to save up my money and buy my own. financial independence is really important to me. i think it's because if i buy things myself instead of getting things from my parents, i feel less indebted to them and less spoiled. if i have a lot of cool stuff and i earn it all myself, i'm definitely cool with that. they have less control over me also if i don't need them financially. since i can drive now, they've lost the power of controlling where i go.. so now all they have control over is my cash flow. not for long, hehehe... yes, anyway i guess this is just my normal teenage urge to be completely independent. but i don't think it'll wear off. there's nothing better than doing things for yourself.
anyway, there's my thought of the day. but i've been thinking stuff like that for a while now... interesting. Thursday, November 29, 2001
woh. i took the sorting hat test a few weeks ago and i got gryffindor too! but it might've been a little off, since i kind of knew what to expect if i said this or if i said that .. anyway. the girl was a sophomore, and i don't know who she was. i have this slight inkling in my head that tells me i know her, except i can't remember from where. "inkling" is a funny word. anyway, i need to decide soon what i'm doing for history project. so.
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whoa, i'm in gryffindor! man, steph, you should've seen my health class last year... most perverted set of people i've ever... heard. you know, bringing up all the wrong questions at all the wrong times. wait, just bringing up wrong questions... der, was it serena rezny? and the girl bathroom thing-- i was wondering the same thing! we entertained an entire discussion on whether or not they existed and then i needed to pee so i ran circles around the school looking for a (guys') bathroom and couldn't find one so dave helped me look for one and we randomly ran around again. and it seems like there's only one bathroom in the school. or maybe it's me. which is a boring tv show. and new jersey sucks. stupid gdl whatnot program... i can't get my license until freshman year. ick. btw, if you haven't looked at the time this publishes, you'll realize... IT's happened. darn. and today was supposed to be one of those not-so-bad-looking days of school where every class seems... okay. and we were supposed to watch the play for 2 periods. (and skip easton and mckenzie! darn.) and watch all the cool ellen-maked-up people. sigh. alas, more cramming time for the sats... Wednesday, November 28, 2001
thank you ellen! thank you for the blug! hehe.. you're the best. :o)
i took this test on harrypotter.com yesterday to figure out what house i'm in. my brother got gryffindor.. and i got slytherin! AH! he's been rubbing it in all day.. *sigh* even hugglepuff and ravenclaw are better.. but a lot of his friends got slytherin, too, so.. yeah. i wanted to be in gryffindor. :P we learned some hilarious stuff in health class today. actually, it was more on the oddly amusing side.. mixed in with some feelings of disgust. haha.. i don't know if i should repeat it here.. it was pretty awkward. something about.. the male privates. yeah.. it was funny. in an uncomfortable way. hm, maybe i shouldn't have mentioned it.. i need you i need you. i've probably heard the song.. but i don't know it right now. oh well. :o)
umm somebody give me the address of this blog...
i want a car. i want a car. i want a car. i want a license. i want a license. or maybe a sidewalk on holmdel road so i can walk home without getting crushed by a mass of cars. i actually have tried running there a few times and i must say those were some rather unpleasant experiences. so i took the 4:00 bus today, and once again it was filled with satz kids. i got on last and it just so happened that there was exactly one seat on the bus for each person...except for me. so i drove the bus driver crazy by walking up and down the aisle trying to get some little satz kids to move over a bit so she would stop giving me the evil eye. and somehow in the middle of it all, my shoelaces got untied, so i tied them after i got off the bus. is it illegal to one more person on a bus than there is room for? Fizziks is F=UN
yeah, i actually did count 15 people. my friend and i stopped working for the sole purpose of seeing how many people from our class was there. for some reason, it amused us greatly. yes, anyway.
hey, so if the middletown teachers decide to strike tomorrow, we won't have school. i'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing...i haven't decided yet. in any case, most students are ok with the strike. at first, the football team would have automatically forfeited our state championship game on saturday if there was a strike. but, not anymore. so i don't think anyone really cares. also, the play would have been cancelled -- but sadly, i don't think anyone noticed that. this year i'm doing makeup...yeeeah. funny how i can't put normal makeup on myself, yet i'm not too bad at putting stage makeup on other people. maybe it's because stage makeup looks extremely and incredibly unnatural and overexaggerated. *shrug* i don't know what to tell you..i'm a low maintenance kind of girl. haha...=P oh...i was driving home from piano today (with my mom of course!), and i heard this song on the radio. it's driving me insane because i don't know what the song is! maybe someone can help me...it's probably (ok, it is) from the '80's, and there's this one part where the guy goes, "i need you i need you." ohhh well i'll get over it.
and wait, ellen, you actually counted fifteen people? like you looked around and around and figured out how many people from your english-history class -- combined, their classes merge -- were in the library? okay. let me be your hero.
every day is a new day. umm. so four of my six cds have arrived from my half.com order, which is really cool, since they said they wouldn't arrive until five to fifteen business days. something like that. anyway, the projected arrival date range was from december fourth to the fourteenth, and it's not even december yet! yeah, cool. it's so weird, though. when one cd comes in, i find myself wishing that another one came instead. it's like they're arriving in order of least to most wantedness .. okay, it's not like i'm making sense there. i've been really tired lately. did i say that in my last blog? no, i don't think so. and school seems to have gotten very difficult lately. i have this history project that i think is going to be kind of hard. school isn't meant to be hard! it should be illegal to give homework. or have full weeks of school. ahh, four full weeks in a row ..
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
and before i leave... a *hug* from me to you, steph. smile, my friend. tomorrow is a new day. hey, its a blogger hug! blug.
i was at the library tonight, and i saw 15 (!!) people from my english/history (combined..our classes merge) classes, furiously researching for our thesis papers. the first portion of the thesis paper process is due tomorrow. i don't like my english/history classes. actually, well..i do, but the teachers just told us all the work we have this month, and i seriously want to shoot myself. ok, not seriously. but you get it. if you come over to my house and happen to look at my desktop, you will notice a HUGE electronic post-it note that is simply engulfing the whole screen. that would be the due dates for my projects and etc. for those two classes. well, anyway.
i cried in toy story 2 too...=( i love that movie though! i downloaded the sarah mclachlan song, and when i listened to it, i started crying again. why do animated movies affect me so much? that's weird. i think i could list all the animated movies i have cried in...but then i would be losing my tough girl rebel image that i keep so well. grrr. =P oh, and i found a cd in my car that was left behind by my brother. so i'm listening to it now. it's pretty good. ten shekel shirt. i know ellie mentioned them a while back. i feel very monotonous right now. if that can be an emotion. hey look, i'm blogging!
hey. i want to go to sleep. but i'm blogging instead. so i'll finish this blog and then go to sleep. okay, cool. ellie, you don't have a cold. it's actually this weird physical condition that's going to develop into a serious illness .. and then your ears will fall off. my english class is having a cupcake party on friday for me. that's embarrassing. my math average is currently in the low eighties. i have to pull that up. people say that two is the best number of times to take the sat. this girl from high tech waved at me yesterday and i didn't know who she was. i mean, i think i do, but i didn't know her name. so i just kind of put my hand up and shook it a bit and mouthed "hey". i wonder if there are any girls' bathrooms in cba. i wanted to look around yesterday. you know, i seem to be noticing recurring things that people say to me. i've heard the words "i'm stupid" from a lot of people lately. and then someone told me the other day about how they bought fuzzy slippers. the name of the girl cowboy in "toy story 2" is jessie. i think. my friend jessi -- without the "e" -- has disappeared on me. i have to find her sometime soon. peaches are fuzzy. does anyone know why? and it's spelled "mclachlan". sniff, no one blogs.
i realized that i have an uncanny ability to always say the wrong things. and i really wish i didn't.
mr. touma's running a trip to france and spain this spring break. most of it is going to be on the french riviera.. they're going to barcelona, some other spanish cities, and then nice and all those french coastal cities. i really really wanted to go... but, alas.. i cannot. bah. i have to "work on my sats" and all that stupid stuff. I HATE SCHOOL. i want to go to france and spain. :( in case you haven't noticed, this whole day has been filled with disappointments. aside from those two things, i think i did pretty bad on my chem test.. and i still haven't recovered from the shock of realizing that my precalc average is a d. ooh.. this week is turning out just peachy. and we still have three days to go! scoooore... :-/ *sigh* sorry if this blog is a little depressing.. i needed a place to complain and the computer happened to be on. :) i love blogging. i love monsters inc, too. that is such a cute movie.. toy story 2 is also quite good. i cried when the girl cowboy [i can't believe i forget her name..] tells about her old owner and sarah mclaughlin (sp?) sings. it was so sad. but it turned out happy in the end and that was good. :) i hope your cold goes away, ellie! :o)
nobody blogged yesterday ... [sniff] ... [sniff sniff] ... [sniff sniff sniff] ...
[sniff sniff sniff sniff] oh, i do think i'm coming down with a cold, though. Monday, November 26, 2001
i'm wearing slippers! cloud slippers. they're cute. but i saw these ones at old navy that were like, purple with a hint of green, and i think they were made to look like sully in monsters, inc., and i think i want them! ah, probably will be too lazy to ever go get them, though.
i think monsters inc. is my new favorite movie ... i saw it three times, two of those times on thanksgiving (i think i've told that story before). but it's really good! and so cute. and every single time made me at least tear (ok the first time i saw it i was like weeping ... you get the idea). i'm back at school and realizing how i should've done work over vacation ... my bad ... Sunday, November 25, 2001
aaah, i stubbed my toe yesterday and it feels like it's broken. :( but it's probably just bruised and i'm probably overreacting. *sigh*
my whole family went to the mall without me! i'm so upset. actually, they offered to take me but i said no because i had to study. i am a big dork. and i'm going to cry... those sales sounded really good. and my parents are seeing spy game, which looks really good. argh!!! missing out! oh well.. :-/ okay, off to study. yay... Saturday, November 24, 2001
oh, another p.s. ...yes i am waiting for my mother to get ready for the mall...mm...maybe i'll see br too...
Friday, November 23, 2001
hey. i remember i used to watch the "peanuts" specials all the time. the teacher would always talk in this muffled "wonk wonk wonk" voice, and i would always laugh like crazy at that. and then snoopy and the bird -- i forget what his name is -- would always make funny noises too. oh right, it was woodstock. i just asked dave what it was. anyway, i felt like charlie brown all the time -- i still do. he's an antihero. i remember how he would always try to get that little red-haired girl .. i don't remember if he ever succeeded. didn't she kiss him at that homecoming thing for the thanksgiving one? and then there was one where snoopy went off to find the girl who was his old owner .. and she was in the hospital .. i want to watch those all over again. i miss being younger.
the charlie brown thanksgiving show was on yesterday. i was quite happy. i think i may somehow be becoming an avid charlie brown fan. and i didn't even realize it. it just kind of snuck up on me. my sudden fanatacism i mean. i found myself yesterday anxiously awaiting the seven o'clock showing, and even skipping the first half hour of wedding singer for it!
"what am i going to do? they're all expecting a thanksgiving feast and all i can make is cold cereal and toast, and i can't even butter it!" "well charlie brown, i've seen you make toast, and you're right. i guess snoopy and i can help with the buttering." it's the coolest thing ever. i'll have to obsessively wait for the christmas special now i guess. which is EXCELLENT by the way. in the blunt words of derek, go watch it. and in the gee-golly words of grace, goodness goodness it's great! i went to the mall today. and i managed to drive myself there. and i only made a few illegal turns. i bought a christmas outfit from banana. i desperately needed a skirt. i haven't bought one since.. freshman year? not counting sweet sixteen ones i mean. anyway, great sales. and on wall street week (yes, i watch it with my dad) they said retail, especially apparel, is going to be extra cheap this year. which is good, because i can always use more apparel. especially if it's jcrew apparel. i'm seeing saves the day tomorrow. wow, i'm so excited. i think i know every word to every single song. although i don't know any titles. so if someone says the name of a song, i have no idea which one they mean until i hear the first second or two. this is because std song titles are very obscure and random. and yes, std means saves the day, not sexually transmitted disease. weird how they happened to share an acronym. raise your hand if you've ever said the phrase "amazingly pretty." (i do not raise my hand). don't you think it would be more efficient to just say "beautiful?"
oh goodness goodness. i love thanksgiving.
i think it was...starting...maybe...12 years ago?.. we've always had thanksgiving with my godparents and their family. terrific people. this year we went over to their place, in Long Island =). morgan (my...uh...godbrother...is there such thing?) was on residency call for med school in Boston, so he couldn't come. Thanksgiving! he couldn't come to thanksgiving! grrr...that stunk, but jeff was back from school, so all was fun. i think we sat around and ate and talked for four hours....until about 8PM...then jeff and larry and i trooped down to the basement to watch three consecutive movies (the mummy returns, the seige, what women want) until 3AM. good stuff! =) comfy, too, the three of us were sprawled out on the couch with fleece blankets and pillows...heaven, i tell you! and then major shopping today, of course. my parents went alll out, it's almost scary...and now that we're back home, my mother actually tells me that she's going to the mall tomorrow at 7AM, and "are you up for it?"...dude, of COURSE i'm up for it! =) anyway, i hope you all had a wonderful turkey day....and gaaaah...here comes the four weeks that go by hellishly in a snap until the wonderous winter break. tootles!
aw, the new hair probably doesn't look bad. new haircuts usually take a while to get used to. =)
wow, don't think i've even had a hardcore american-style thanksgiving meal before. we go the chinese thanksgiving route.. which is just as good. but i did have ham last night. does that count? ;) aahhh.. why am i doing schoolwork? this is just not right.. hey, smallville is not too bad a show. i watched the bug boy episode last night and it wasn't as corny as i thought. tom welling is cool. hee hee.. :o) hm, can't seem to think of anymore random comments. well, i'm off then. bye!
in the pseudo-words of steph, "happy [belated] turkey-day!" (yup, no repetitive "HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!" e-mails this year ... if you know what i mean ...)
yeah, so i had a strangely super-american thanksgiving meal last night. not the typical "chinese thanksgiving" meal (maybe a turkey, but mostly other assorted chinese foods-- you know what i mean ...) but thanksgiving-thanksgiving stuff-- mashed potatoes + gravy, string beans, corn, rolls, stuffing, turkey, apple pie, and pumpkin pie. mmm. in other news, i'm not liking this haircut ... ickily-non-gelled-spiked-hairdo-kinda-thingy. hm. i think you'll see what i mean tonight ... hey, der, i'm looking forward to four -- real? Thursday, November 22, 2001
you know, strangely enough, my digitalrice site is back up: derked.digitalrice.com. after about a year or so of the hosting service being total crap, it's suddenly up again and they sent me an e-mail saying that i can reactivate the site. so i did and now i'm deciding whether i should trust digitalrice. i would probably just move everything from the tripod site over .. not that there's much to move. i should make a new website sometime. or maybe i shouldn't, because i think my grades this marking period are starting to really go bad. we'll see. i have some ideas, but none that are really "wow" to me yet .. actually, i haven't really been thinking about it, so. so i ordered six cds from half.com last night: james iha - "let it come down", remy zero - "villa elaine", thisway - "thisway", stretch princess - "stretch princess", ivy - "apartment life", and m2m - "shades of purple". wahaha. the ones i'm really having great expectations for are the thisway and stretch princess ones. oh, and the ivy one too. i'm still disappointed that that new york show was eighteen and over. same with the lisa loeb concert last week in new york too. ahh, i'm missing all these events that might not happen when i am eighteen in what, less than two years. i want to go to concerts. like not the ones with huge mobs of people, but the more comfortable cozy cafe or small hall appearances .. that's a lot of assonance. or alliteration, i mean. i want to form a band sometime. of course, maybe after i pick my math grade up off the ground. you know, i think i'm going to do that link thing with my blog. hm. go listen to stretch princess.
ooh, happy turkey-day in fifteen. i'm so ecstatic.. i am free from IT. IT as in school. that evil, foul-smelling thing called school. ::shudders:: but.. we are free. and i am ecstatic. and i am also feeling extremely weird and hyper because it's eleven forty five at night and i am freezing my butt off in my basement. and i am blogging. whoo... :op
i went to the library today. being the dork that i am.. yes. i took out copy of "the lord of the rings".. it has all three books in it and it is positively gigantic. i wonder if i'll get through it in time.. okay, it's late. i'm tired. time for bed. good night, all. Wednesday, November 21, 2001
hi. this week just becomes stranger and beautiful stranger. i went to barnes and noble around seven with my dad .. the music section is so cool. at any one of the little computer consoles, you can sit down and listen to any cd you want to. like, anything you can think of, they probably have samples of. the only bad thing is that they aren't full songs .. like the other barnes and noble around the macy's in east brunswick. but then again, this one has the computer screen with album covers and art and featured selections and reviews you can read while listening to the clips. so it's all good. i don't usually say that, weird. i don't remember what i wanted to say. let's see if i remember tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
it's been a strange day. i think i'll go to sleep soon .. but i doubt i'll be able to fall asleep because of the nap i took this afternoon. i should try to have a more normal sleeping cycle -- not taking those naps and sleeping earlier at night. i think my sleep "quality" isn't all that good. what are good songs by remy zero? i just remember some songs in a few "roswell" episodes. i wish i could watch more tv. and i wish i could actually get all the network channels, instead of having horrible reception on most of them and passable for a few. i downloaded "super mario 3" for my nintendo emulator today. it's so fun! i remember how i used to play "final fantasy 3" on the super nintendo emulator and then my file got erased and i lost about fifty hours of my playing. it was traumatizing. i never actually picked up the game again. okay, i'm not really in a blogging mood. it's weird how i'm feeling less and less like blogging. it must be the birthday thing.
hey well i will probably be at felly on friday night ... not like that should influence your decision or anything. ... no, really, it shouldn't. go have fun.
anyway, so i've been home!!!! since sunday, which has been nice except there's not a whole lot of heat in my house (because only my mom's living here right now so she turned down the heat for most of the rooms) so i'm sort of chronically cold. but other than that! ... i've been so much shopping (that wasn't correct grammar at all!), it's been great. i've been to the mall every day since i got home. hm ... that's more of an indication of how much exciting stuff there is to do in nj. ok, personally, i didn't like the harry potter movie all that much. i greatly prefer the books. Monday, November 19, 2001
i have a dilemma. ok, friday night: homecoming dance, fellowship, or pete yorn and remy zero concert with karel? oh the decisions. i was planning on going to homecoming (whee...), but then she has that extra ticket to the concert...oh too tempting. way too tempting. see, i wanted to go to homecoming just so i can be with my friends (even if the dance stinks)..and do all that cool bonding stuff. fellowship is always good. i could go to see pete yorn and bond with him and karel, that's a possibility. but on the other hand, i would probably look bad in my homecoming dress anyway (my friend's..haven't tried it on yet), felly is..felly, and birch hill is a sketchy place. oh the decisions.
in other news, my class got rankings today. i'm so proud of my friend sarah -- she's currently #1!! i remember when we were in 7th grade and she said to me, "i hope i'll be able to do the validictorian speech in high school," and look, she's on her way. i love seeing people have their dreams come true. oh, but me? i was too petrified to go and ask for my ranking, so i dont know yet. ah, ignorance is bliss. right. i'll probably go tomorrow. hehe...=P um, today i stared at a computer screen since 6 in the morning. dang newspaper is so consuming. and then i had mock trial at 6 pm..and now i'm here! and about to do bailey. the essay, that is.
hello. i checked my email for the first time in about a week and half, and i realized that i got quite a few important emails that were probably supposed to be read last week. oops. like.. this one telling me to research my latin grant project. and this other one about the outreach. yeah.. i'm a little behind. i should get online more often.
anyways... hp hp! i love harry potter. i realized after i watched the movie that i probably shouldn't have read the book right before, because i kept noticing little things that they left out in the interest of time. oh well.. i still liked it. did anyone else think wood was cute? ;) hehe.. and little kids are scary. especially when you have a mob of them screaming "harry potter!" at the top of the lungs and running as fast as they can right behind you as you are trying to get into the theater. but i survived. i outran a middle-aged asian woman in high-heels, too. hahaha.. that was fun. :) hey, caitlin, before i forget, we should probably try to do something for yearbook soon. i need to find out monica's email... aagh, two more days. two more days and we shall be free! free to sleep as late as we want and gorge ourselves with as much turkey and stuffing as we can.. i love thanksgiving. -_- Sunday, November 18, 2001
yeah, okay. no one blog. well, at least there's some activity going on .. even if it's only from me. i can be alone -- well, maybe not for long. i should start writing in my journal again. mm, it's been such a bad week. first i was feeling sick and went to school the first few days only to come back monday and tuesday with these incredible headaches .. so i missed wednesday. but i practiced piano at home, so it wasn't all that relaxing. school was really annoying this week for some reason. i have a "word wealth" vocab quiz tomorrow that i haven't even looked at the book for. english seems to be my hardest class this year -- i have to get the theme-thesis writing thing down and i have to write better essays under pressure. i think math and physics are tied at a close second for the classes i have to work hardest in this year. um, so i woke up early yesterday to ride in the car for an hour or so to princeton where i had this audition where a british guy would listen to my piano and give me musicianship tests. the sight-reading was impossible. it was allegro with like six flats and the rhythm was a bit difficult with the accidentals in every measure. and i messed up my pieces and the scales. but the welsh guy had a cool accent. i want to go to europe to live sometime. mm, and then i lost to an eight-grade girl at tennis .. and tied with this kid who i beat 6-1 only a few weeks ago. i'm still having this love-hate relationship with tennis -- it's almost to the "hate" extreme as of now. i have to practice. the stupid orchards association has to fix the net. either i'll get my mom or dad to call them up and tell them to do it, or i'll call them and be really .. irate. umm. there was something else, but i think i've forgotten.
you know, i've been thinking about strange things lately. i'll talk about it some other time. Saturday, November 17, 2001
oh, i forgot. pastor chang -- the chinese one at our church -- wants me to help him sell these two cds that he has doubles of for some reason. something about bmg music service sending him two copies of each one. anyway, they're two-cd sets in the "wow" series. one's "wow gold" and the other one is "wow gospel" .. i think each one is about twelve dollars. which i think is about half the retail price, maybe, i don't know. any takers?
hey, i moved the blog. it's now at derked.tripod.com/blog and well .. um. i'm going to take a nap now. and you know what, i've come back after an hour or so to modify this blog. hm, let's see. were the "harry potter" books written so that there would be only one way of seeing it? i'm sure everyone imagined it in a slightly different way .. but then again, i haven't seen the movie. maybe when i go see it, i'll say the same thing. maybe there really is no seeing it more than one way. and i probably will have a more objective opinion about the movie -- even though i've read the books and i enjoyed them, yes, just not to that point of fanaticism. okay, i don't think i'm making sense. i hate this new ergonomically-correct keyboard .. i think i'll have to switch back to the original purple one.
so i saw harry potter, and of course i loved it. it was exactly as i imagined it. is that good or bad that an author writes so meticulously that there's no room for ambiguity in interpretation? and somehow i wonder if it would be possible for me not to have liked it. i don't think i would be able to admit it to myself if i didn't like it because i had convinced myself like a year in advance that it was going to be wonderful. it's sad in a way because i don't know if it was truly good or not. but i'll say it was anyway.
Thursday, November 15, 2001
i have this suspicion that i have some strange habit of clawing at my face in my sleep. i have no idea why, but somehow i wake up once in a while with these small weird scratches on my face -- either i'm doing it without knowing i'm doing it, maybe .. someone else is doing it. anyway, tonight i'm going to see what happens if i go to sleep with something on my hands. like either gloves, paint, or peanut butter. hm, maybe i can stick moisturizer on my fingers.
hm, richard .. i don't think you should publicly declare your dislike for harry potter. how many "land before time" movies do you have in your house? i remember when i went to see "josie and the pussycats" -- you should go see it too -- and it was full of little kids, and some kid behind me spit up soda on me, i swear. no one believed me. hey, i never bought that soundtrack .. and oh right, i wanted to get the "mission impossible two" score too .. it was so good. i remember last thanksgiving i went with my parents to some family friend's house and it was full of these strange kids who seemed to have even worse social skills than i do. we had a turkey, okay, but then the rest was all this disgusting chinese food and the turkey was so dry and there was no gravy (!!!) and then those kids were acting weird. so i went to watch the movie by myself and i enjoyed the score. hahaha, sean ambrose.
you know what harry potter is really like? or ... well ... ok, not all of it, but that whole ... hufflepuff slytherin gryffindor ravenclaw thing is exactly like the residential college system at yale. (and the house system at harvard.) b/c at yale you get randomly placed into one of twelve colleges and you live only with people in your college, and all the colleges have separate dining halls (ok they didn't in harry potter), and the colleges compete in intramurals and stuff like that. yeah, harry potter uses the residential college system.
so anyway ... i'm coming home so soon! sunday!!!!!!! :-)
well um i wasn't invited...,so i had my own little posse and that guy Big Chris is Sphinx from Gone in Sixty Seconds.
aahh harry potter is like alan greenspan!! i...really...dislike...harry potter. i'm scared of movies with little kids, like beethoven and harry potter and all 7 Land Before Times. they always do something really stupid and irrational, like Pyramus did by killing himself when he thought that Thisbe was dead, when in fact she was only hiding in a cave. i saw the preview of the movie and i was even more turned off because the kids were such delinquents, and it looked like they would end up getting really screwed, but then try it all over again. and derek you're way behind if you haven't seen Monsters inc. i want to see The One. yea imitation Matrix! Wednesday, November 14, 2001
so i wasn't in school "tomorrow" -- which was today. i woke up and i was still having that same headache .. and then i told my mom and she said something in chinese that meant "make your own decision". so i stayed home. and now i'm still home instead of at the powderpuff game .. ahh. i knew it was a bad decision. so she said "if you're sick, you can't go to the game either, because it's cold outside and you're sick" and i guess it's a valid argument. i should've been in school today then, even if my head was killing me. because then i would be at the game now. grr.
i don't really have anything to say. see, i told you i'm sick. Tuesday, November 13, 2001
wah. okay, i should've probably figured that out pretty easily, but i wasn't really thinking. gothelf talked for at least ten minutes about harry potter today, too. i have to work harder in that class. and i'm sick -- i just woke up from this long long sleep. i don't know if i'll be in school tomorrow ..
"richard, you're way behind?" ??? i don't think so...i think it's YOU that's way behind derek =)....caitlin's saying "hp tickets" as in.....
HARRY POTTER!!! gosh, i am so excited. i think i'm going to dress up or something. at least have a lightning bolt on my forehead....that would be cool. and maybe a black robe.....and a broom? yeah....brooms are cool....maybe i'll wear my old glasses to go see the movie....the ones with the thick black frame....oh wait...i can't see too well in those.....anyway....HARRY POTTER on friday night, 8:15 !!! hehe. anyway derek...it's okay, i didn't really mean that you are "way behind".
there's just never a nice time or way to say "you're way behind," now is there. tsk, tsk. be nice, kids.
i think i'm leading worship tomorrow for the first time in ... what feels like four months but was probably really less. yep. that should be interesting. on another note ... i skipped every class today. on another note ... i now have "a knight's tale" skin on winamp and heath ledger is looking at me :-) Monday, November 12, 2001
your what? anyway, richard, you're way behind -- we watched "snatch" and "lock stock" a few months ago at steph's house. i don't know .. i think "snatch" was better. but only because it was better-produced because they had more money. the stories was similar. brad pitt is so hot.
Sunday, November 11, 2001
i just watched "lock stock and two smoking barrels". british movies are so hilarious. everyone should go download the song "zorba the greek".
are you making fun of me? okay, so we had this fellowship co-workers sleepover thing last night at lisa's house, which was amusing. well, it was to me. first, we all had to read this article about leadership in the church, and there was this one part where i laughed because it was talking about how some leaders could be wolves in sheep's clothing, and i was just trying to imagine the deacons and pastors dressing up as wolves and then wearing sheep costumes over that. right. then we prayed in a circle for a really long time, it seemed to me, and then afterwards lisa said "oh no, i forgot something" -- and so we prayed again for another really long time. i have a hard time concentrating on anything. it still happens every time i close my eyes. no, it's not you i see. then we played this game called "cranium", which was a mix of pictionary and charades and trivia stuff .. i wish we played a more fun game, like mafia. or even some simpler proven-to-be-fun game like oh, i don't know. risk, maybe. i like risk. oops, i have to go.
oh, the tetris thing has undoubtedly happened to me too. i think the weird ones are the ones to whom it has not happened.
college people are *really* nice about getting people to church ... i've been going to this service that starts at 9:30am (which, by the way, is pretty much insane for college students, because who in their right mind wakes up at 8:45 ... ever?) so we're supposed to get to the bus-stop-thing by 9:20 or so. unfortunately today i missed it ... like, i watched it pull away, which was rather sad. luckily i ran into two other guys who had also missed it and we called a junior's cell phone, and the junior was already driving some people to the church and he went there, dropped them off, turned around and *came back* for us! that's like ... really sweet. guess when i'm coming home!? a week from today! a week from today and i'll be home! i really like college but it's really tiring (for example, i had to wake up at 8:45 to go to church ... well i didn't wake up til 9:05 which is why i missed the bus, but you get the idea). and this week is terrible ... i have a lot of work ... (which is why i'm blogging). but after that and i'll be home doing nothing for an entire week! yay! excited to see you guys! :-) oh! go find some songs by this band called "ten shekel shirt" if you haven't heard them/of them yet. like ... meet with me ... and much. i think those are the ones i like best. i actually like them all but they're not famous enough that i can advise you to illegally download their stuff without feeling guilty. they came and played here and they played in boston the day before so eugene and i both heard them. all right ... i should either go work or go run. i think ... i will ... decide ... Saturday, November 10, 2001
wow, that thing about closing your eyes and seeing tetris blocks - um, it happens to me all the time! well, not with tetris blocks. but i just drove to va with my mom, and i ended up driving the whole way because she goes like 55 on these major interstates and it's REALLY annoying.. and then whenever we come to toll plazas..
"caitlin, oh my god, caitlin! which lane am i supposed to be in? which ones have ezpass?" "they ALL have ezpass, mom. just stay in the lane you're in..." yeah, and anyway, so i always say that "i don't feel well except when i'm driving.." haha, so i get to go 80 - 85 the whole time, and we get there and back in reasonable time. but anyway, back to my original point. when i close my eyes, i keep seeing all these cars driving around me and the highway and different lanes and imagining myself speeding around all these cars to pass them.. it's really annoying because i can't go to sleep or else i might crash, you know, if i don't stay focused on the traffic. and the same thing happens in the summer after i spend entire days at the beach.. when i try to go to sleep, i keep seeing all these huge waves that i have to either dive under or ride, and if i stop focusing on them, i get knocked over. scary! anyway, virginia was really nice. wow, uva is so beautiful! i remember in eighth grade for latin, i did a report on it, and on how jefferson designed it... interesting, very interesting. we also went to monticello. did you know that the .. oh, i forget, some architectural society.. has acknowledged uva as the most important architectural accomplishment of the last two hundred years? i don't know if i agree.. wright did some pretty important stuff. but still... wow, i really liked it. and it's so warm. and so many good-looking people go to uva!! i mean, wow, our tour guide was very attractive. not like i'd go to a college because the guys there were attractive.. no, definitely not. but anyway, it IS an excellent school.. and southern people in virginia aren't southern in that ignorant, slow way. more like that classy, refined way. it's actually nice. and now i'm going to.. go do some homework, i suppose. dare i say it? - four day weekends can grow.. boring.. i think three day weekends are ideal.. how about every three weeks we have a three day weekend. okay, sounds good. except for like, christmas and spring break, and that sort of thing. of course, i know that as soon as school starts up again i'll be appalled to think that i suggested any sort of break to be boring. but that's how things go i guess. derek, it would be easier to read your blogs if you broke them into paragraphs.. seeing that huge block of verba is just too intimidating for me.. especially on four day weekends. Friday, November 09, 2001
oh anyway, i thought i should blog again. so i haven't really heard pete yorn yet for the second time again, but since everyone keeps talking about him, i think i'll go to cdnow.com and listen to a few clips. right. i have this strange condition lately where when i close my eyes, i keep seeing tetris blocks falling down and moving into place so i can get four lines. it's so weird. i just keep seeing them coming down .. anyway. i want to learn guitar better. i think i'll tell myself that every day. i've discovered that my barred F chord is really hard to play because of the stupid guitar and how high the strings are from the fretboard .. meaning i have to press really hard at the top of the neck to get a clean barred sound. or else it's just like halfway muted and goes "bleh". i don't think classical guitars were made for me to play like i've been. of course, if sheila wouldn't forget two weeks in a row to let me borrow her borrowed guitar .. grr. oh right, remy zero. a bunch of their songs were on "roswell" episodes. i haven't watched television in so long. what are some of the good new shows? there are so many new spy shows, like "alias" and "thieves" .. i think that's what they're called. and then there's those action ones like "24" and um, i don't know. i want to see "dark angel" -- what happened after the last season finale? grr .. i want to see all those shows and those other dramas i used to watch once in a while. but i think i'll get addicted to tv. oh right, i want to see the "buffy" musical, whatever it is .. it looks amusing.
you know what's worse than a fat person? a mean fat person. and you know what's worse than a mean fat person? a mean fat person who pushes me out of line when i'm only ten feet away from the table where lisa loeb is signing autographs. and what's worse than that is -- all of the above, except now the fat person has rabies and bites people. and okay, so that didn't really happen, but i can imagine what it would probably be like. "grr, ahhh, don't bite me, hahaha, i'm a fat rabid mean person and i'm going to bite you, oh no, wahhh, he bit me, chomp .."
how close is this close? and.. you have serious issues with fat people. tsk tsk..
woah, ellen. it's like we live in parallel dimensions.. like.. holmdel and middletown. and crawfords corner - everett is the barrier. haha.. that's pretty cool. and i keep seeing commercials for pete yorn! weird.. and i remember that i was at sam goody with derek one time and he told me to buy the cd.. it was only, like, ten bucks. but i didn't. because i had no idea who he was. haha.. i downloaded "life on a chain" shortly after just to see what i was missing.. i think it's that type of music that doesn't hit you at first but grows on you later. yep. :) hm, i think i'm behind on the college thing, too. i need to find out what i want to do first.. that might take a bit. *sigh* i also need to take those darn SATs. argish. i want it all to go away. i went to woodbridge mall today and bought a scarf for someone. it's so pretty and soft. i'm considering buying a hat.. and going dress shopping. yes, those don't exactly go together.. oh well. i think i'm going to go eat now. Thursday, November 08, 2001
hey. it's "consistently", with an e instead of the a. anyway, lisa loeb is on tour now, and she'll be in new york on saturday at the shine club on broadway and canal .. grr, it's an eighteen-and-over show. just like the ivy show. i wish i was eighteen or over. anyway, supposedly it's to promote her new cd on her new record label. i haven't heard her songs in so long -- i remember when i used to like her music so much and listen to it all the time. oh well. hm, pete yorn .. is he like folk rock? i remember reading about him somewhere and listening to the cd at a store, but i don't remember what it sounded like .. i just remembered i didn't really like it. maybe i should've listened more. i wanted to see ivy. and lisa loeb again. last time i went to a free concert in central park, i was this close to the table when they said "okay, no more, she has a performance on some talk show" .. and then she left. i was traumatized. especially because i was so close to the front before and then fat people pushed me out of the line. fat people are mean.
i'm blogging consistantly. or constantly? *shrug*
wow, steph! strangely enough, our minds/lives are on the same lines. i sat on the couch at 2 in the morning (watching my taped episode of gilmore girls...yes!), AND i am currently (re)reading bridget jones's diary. oh, and then i woke up this morning because connie called me up. =P its a strange world. hm..i didn't do much today. got some homework out of the way, practiced some piano, played some guitar, watched some mtv...nothing much. many of my friends from school left today for college visits -- somehow i feel like i'm falling behind in the whole school researching deal. i..have no idea where to start looking. heh, i'd better find a way soon. anyway, so i was watching mtv. and i saw pete yorn's video "for nancy (cos it already is)". i must say, i am enjoying him thoroughly (that sounds weird); i downloaded some of his songs and looked up his site just a few minutes ago. go new jersey! he's from montclair, nice! home boy makes state proud. or, something. anyway, someone on this blog should start listening to his songs and liking him, because he's going to be at birch hill on the 23rd with remy zero, and it would be very cool to come see him with me. =D its just a suggestion, hehe...dude, why do all my blogs end up about music?? goodness.
i love having good days. :)
so i went out to eat with some people last night.. and after that we came back to my house and watched bridget jones' diary. i love that movie.. *sigh* i should probably read the book or something.. but the plot was ripped from pride and prejudice and i read that, so it's all good. hehe. after they all left, i sat on the couch until .. two-ish.. and watched tv. i just couldn't get myself to get up and walk ALL the way up to my room... ugh, i felt like such a slug. and i fell asleep a few times, too. man, if only i didn't have to shower and brush my teeth.. i could have slept on the couch. hygene is overrated (wait, is it hygiene? or hygeine? no, that's not right. darn. :P) . but i did eventually drag myself upstairs.. i slept until eleven fifteen this morning.. and i only woke up because somebody called me. darn phone. and then i went and played football for a really long time at holmdel park. yeah, we were practicing the plays because we're cool. SO COOL. :o) blah blah blah. so that was my oh-so-exciting day. how was yours? ;) i'm looking foward to another three of laying (lying?) around the house and wishing i could do something. hehe :p hey, the tick premieres tonight. that looks funny.
hi, and happy belated birthday dear blog! i am a complete horror when it comes to remembering birthdays. and blogging consistantly...that too. well anyway -- it is now the start of a glorious 5 day weekend. my goodness i love my life and the middletown board of education. i also love phys ed. volleyball...it is possibly the greatest form of sport in high school, no joke! it'll make my day when my class starts having gym instead of health with my decade confused stereotypical new jerseyan teacher (don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy but -- oh my goodness you should see what he wears. go '80's! bruce and bon jovi rock it hard). it's intense volleyball i tell you...i honestly don't think i'm ever that competitive about any sport than in phys ed. volleyball. somehow i know that'll come off as sounding very pathetic. haha...=P
hm, well today was a pretty good day, without considering the fact i wanted to shoot myself during classes because i just wanted to GET OUT OF SCHOOL. and also the fact that i don't think i did too well on my math test. but that's just school stuff and ah, i'll get over it (i am currently taking in a new philosophy of not being overly anal about academics...). after school, my friend and i went to go chill in red bank (because...what else do people from my school do?), wandered around in music stores and funk & standard...drank coffee...loitered...and surprise surprise, bumped into many people from south. we also decided that we'll do the live show this year -- she'll sing and i'll dance. just kidding. about the dancing part. i'll accompany her or something..hehe, this will be fun. ah..what else did i do in my oh so exciting life. oh! i got to take a hear at incubus' new cd -- wow, good stuff! i think i might be becoming a fan. i gave it to my friend for his/her bday (joining bdays! yes, i bought them both the same thing) and...it was on at the party. but, yeah. oddly enough, i came home tonight in time to catch the last 15 minutes of incubus' "the morning view sessions" on mtv..wow that was impressive. i also came to a realization that a guy in my school has an uncanny resemblance of the lead singer from incubus. the hair..features..voice...ok, pretty much everything. except music/dress style. the local guy is more like...thrash/raegae/funk, mostly punk. what is thrash anyway? that was an odd combination. that's what he told me? i'm also incredibly jealous of him because his father has a recording studio and his band has a million connections. psh. also tonight? i realized that i have the greatest friends ever, and now i'm just feeling incredibly grateful for that. i have no idea what i'm blogging about right now. if you've read this much..wow, because i know i probably wouldn't have read something this long. hehe... ok, so that's pretty much it. cool! or, not. today was pretty good to me -- something that's really been a little lacking. hey, i'll take them when they come. Wednesday, November 07, 2001
eh, no one's blogging. it seems like this year isn't turning out to be such a nice time .. all my classes are irritating me. like last year, i actually enjoyed two or three of my classes -- well, to a certain extent. but this year is just, mmpf. we don't even get to pick our gym classes anymore, and this is the year that we're upperclassmen and get to actually maybe have what we want for gym .. i have reckage. as soon as i heard the no choosing your own gym class thing, i was thinking, "as long as i don't have reckage, as long as i don't have him" -- except i got him anyway for volleyball. murphy's law or something, if you like to look at it that way. well, i'm just going to have to get one or two points every day and do his assignments to get extra credit and make sure i get a definite A in his class. this freshman kid's been bringing out the balls for two days in a row now -- that really has to stop. and the people in my gym class are mostly girls or freshmen, and none of them can play volleyball .. i am really not looking forward to gym anymore. today was a so-so day.
Tuesday, November 06, 2001
i used to have a turtle. i was in a van -- a real van, wow, not a minivan -- with my family and another family and we were driving on this country road in texas and then we saw all these turtles crawling across the road. which was really stupid, because they go really slowly like zero meters per second and cars go very fast, like twenty meters per second. anyway, so we stopped and picked up a few and took them along. and then i went home and had them in a box for a few months. but then i think they somehow escaped and ran off into the woods behind my house .. or you could say they crawled off really slowly. anyway, okay. "ozma" just struck me as a really ugly name for a girl. i don't really like the whole oz thing with dorothy and all the characters -- it used to scare me a lot. i would always be afraid of a house coming from the sky and falling on me. okay, so maybe not, but that would be really scary to a little kid. i was going to say something today, but i think i'm forgetting.
oh, i brought home most of the leftover brownies from the politics club bake sale, which was a mistake .. i ate two or three already. they're so thick and i keep thinking about how much fat they must have, but then i can't really stop myself. well actually, i have, but it was an irresistable temptation when i was eating them. hey, it's an archetypal plot motif -- temptation. i think another one that works for the brownie situation is journey .. the journey of the brownie through my body and other places. of course, if the brownie was searching for something or had a goal, then that journey would be a quest .. someone poked me in the head today.
derek is definitely a kick to sit next to in history class. mrs. bryer’s saying something like “and here’s ozma of oz…” and i hear derek snickering next to me. i turn to my right just in time to see him shaking his head and say under his breath, “what a stupid name. why would you name her ozma??”
kudos to caitlin on her blog birthday card. even so… me: “you are such a loser. a blog birthday card??” caitlin: “hey! you’re the second person to say that to me in ten minutes!” me: “really. and who was the first?” caitlin: “derek!” …figures. Monday, November 05, 2001
that was such a cute card! turtles are the best.. :) oh, and happy birthday to the blog. =)
i finished my homework relatively early today. why am i still up? i should be rereading harry potter.. i need to prep for the sixteenth. hehe.. i'm so excited. ah, it was so cold today. well, it was only in the fifties, but the wind made it feel like it was in the thirties. i thought my toes were going to fall off. as well as my fingers. *brrr* i need to bring in gloves. i watched a lot of game six on saturday.. it was kind of depressing. i watched the part of the third inning where every single diamondback that came up to bat got a base hit. yeah.. that was when they scored ten points in a row or something like that.. :( oh well.. it's only baseball. :oP hey, we only have two more days to go..
strange. the webpage for this blog is looking weird .. like the left column is all squished and then the right column is bigger than usual. and i can't find what's wrong -- oh well. anyway, so i changed the archive format to monthly since it was getting to be a long list, but i don't know how to get it to show the months of the names instead of the numerical date ranges. grr. and the card was very nice .. caitlin, go learn some html and how to make a link. and you didn't blog anything! i wish my name was something cool. i'm really quite not in the blogging mood today. i saw bits and pieces of the yankees-diamondbacks game last night .. haha, how funny was the look on the faces of the yankees after they lost? it was funny -- well, to me it was. they looked a bit unhappy.
Sunday, November 04, 2001
i'm sure it was sooo funny. i thought i just had a blank bemused expression on my face .. maybe i wasn't controlling it as well as i usually can. anyway, speaking of birthdays, yes, my blog is one year old -- and two days, okay. three hundred sixty seven days! if you want, you can buy presents and give them to me, and then i'll .. give them to the blog. right.
i think this might break my record for MY LATEST BLOG EVER! yeah.. so sorry for misleading people with that birthday thing. i couldn't resist. it was sooo funny... if you guys could have seen it.. just the expression on derek's face, which was like.."and your telling me this because?"
anyway... i don't know. why am i still awake. hmm.. happily, we have only three days of school next week. and then i get to go to virginia! and somehow, i have to explain to my mom that i already bought tickets to a concert the same night i'm supposed to be going to my grandma's house. ouch. Saturday, November 03, 2001
ha, i get it now. caitlin is so silly.. :o)
aagh. i feel moody. i hate it when i get like this. every little thing makes me mad or makes me cry. argh. hormones are so bothersome. :-/ i think i'm seeing "monsters, inc." with my mommy today. yay.. :) Friday, November 02, 2001
ok i was thinking, "hm ... i could be wrong ... but i thought it was caitlin's birthday like a month ago." now i understand perfectly. ... yeah.
mm, college is funny! go download "thinking about you" by m2m, it's so good. it's not originally by them but it's so awesome.
ahh, it's not her birthday. she was making fun of me because a freshman girl came up to me yesterday during ninth period and said "it's my birthday today!" anyway .. yes. i don't really know why, but it hasn't been all so well with me lately -- i feel tired. and lonely and really kind of a bit down. and the littlest things have been bothering me lately .. like recently, i've noticed how people all around me are always asking "what's on the test" and "was this word on the vocab" and "what were the essays" and i just feel really a little bit angry. no one around me seems to really have integrity. i mean, okay, it's not really a big deal about the whole semi-cheating thing where you ask the people from earlier classes about the test or the quiz or whatever it is .. but it seems wrong, somehow. i remember in eighth grade how -- i think this is what happened, my memory goes fuzzy -- some girls in my math class got in trouble during a make-up test because they were using a cheat sheet that some other girl had given them. i think that's when i really told myself that i wasn't ever going to cheat, and even staying away the things that don't really seem like it but could be considered a lack of truthfulness. so i'm kind of happy about that. except when people around me are being dishonest. okay. so i don't know why i've been feeling lonely. it just seems like i haven't talked to anyone lately or done anything fun with other people or .. well, yes. i don't need a lot of friends -- it seems like it turns really fake when you're buddies with everyone. a few close friends would do. i'm not sure where i am. anyway, at least i don't have too much to do this week .. i'm going to the dentist on sunday .. maybe my mom can take me to the mall tomorrow. i remember i was looking for a something.
Thursday, November 01, 2001
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