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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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Sunday, June 30, 2002
hi all. i saw minority report and i thought it was very extremely scary..but a good movie. i wanna see lilo and stitch SO badly and i wanna see that surf movie when it comes out, and..yea, there are a lot of movies i still want to see. i also want to see a lot of movies that are no longer inthe movie theatres anymore, such as on the line. :o) michelle, how's camp? hope you're having fun. i see you online a lot..dont you nerds have anything better to do?? just kidding. i like nerds. i happen to be a nerd-wanna-be myself. so dereke..wow..i just spelled your name with an 'e' at the end..weird..anyway...im waiting to see/hear this sophisticated relaxed writing style. so i start my first day of work today..i think im so nervous, ill pee in my pants..okay not really...i know i told all of you not to go, cuz i didnt wanna make a fool of myself in front of you..but now i wish i had told you guys to go, just so i wouldnt have to serve total strangers and drop food on total strangers..i mean, not that i would drop food on you...i work at caffe vittoria..by allison's house..please dont harrass me...im so nervous...oh my goodness..i think if i didnt dye my hair, my whole head would have turned white my now..oh goodness..okay..well..what else is new..i cant believe how many of you are so far away..there are so many people who arent going to be here this summer..all you nerd-types stink! *sigh*...i just miss you all..in my sadness, the anger prevails...right..that made a lot of sense...*sigh*..okay..i guess i better go and do some work before i head off to the scary work place.welcome back richard! byee!! love, me.
Saturday, June 29, 2002
hey derek if you were a little blond-haired blue-eyed boy and you came down to boston you would be raped by a man called Jean Baptiste. lilo and stitch, minority report, men in black II, i wanna see it all!!!! but alas, i am too cheap. i think sometime this week i'm gonna go buy a pint of Ben n Jerry's ice cream and eat it all mwuhaha - concession stand, fish food, or soemthing else. i'll get it all - 3 pints of ice cream mmmmm alright i better go, cya
and i'm still here because my mom went out to eat with her friend, and a funny thing has happened. this whole extended family of taiwanese people who look like they just arrived from a farm have just walked in the store and the mom lady with a strange nasal voice is like "shien sheng, help us find this address" and their kids are wearing yellow outfits and staring at this computer as i type. hello little boy, why don't you stop breathing into my face. i'm sure this blog is going to be full of disparaging comments about chinese people until i come home. anyway, they just left and i wish i was blond-haired and blue-eyed so i could pretend convincingly that i don't speak chinese. oh well, at least i can pretend in new york city that i'm just a random immigrant boy who doesn't understand a word english ..
and i'm still here. haha, what a waste of a day online.
so what've i been doing: i read various xanga blogs by freshmen and college people (i'm sorry to say that juniors don't seem to put much value into writing about their thoughts as much as people older and younger) and was amused at how many interesting people i know but don't really. i need to develop a sophisticated yet relaxed writing style. something like the ones i've seen today by some of the college people, amusingly intelligent. then i read about south korea's run in world cup soccer and then about germany and a bit about turkey .. someone teach me all the rules and regulations of soccer. i don't get how someone can be suspended for the next game but still be allowed to finish playing out the current game. i'm sure everything fits together nicely somehow. anyway, i'm still at my uncle's architecture firm office and sitting at a laptop on a glass table in front of a huge frosted glass window (i think i really like glass) and wondering if i want to be an architect. we'll see. and my phone plays the mario theme now. oh, and emily called! classes start the eighth and we can do fobby things then. i hope everyone's having a nice sleep. maybe i'll go out and play in taiwanese traffic. hmm. Friday, June 28, 2002
so i saw "minority report" again with my friend jean yesterday. i don't think i want to ever see a movie in taiwan again, at least not at that particular hsinchu department store. so let's see, first was the tickets where they assign seats randomly and the ushers are late middle-aged women with permed hair and really taiwanese accents who are like "didi, which movie do you want to watch" and "didi, come here with me and i'll make a vague pointing gesture at these five rows and you can figure out where your seat is in this unlighted theater full of fobby school uniform wearing teenagers that all have strange personal habits". then after i sat down at the end of row twelve, listening to fobby teenagers scream and make funny chinese noises, right before the movie starts these two fat boys appear at the end of the row and try to squeeze past us and into their seats next to me. fat boy number two next to me had really bad body odor (jean tells me that people rarely use deodorant or cologne here and most of them need it, especially the fat male students in her class) and he was occupying one and a half seats, with the half being my seat. and they both were playing with their cell phones during the whole movie or seeing the futuristic cars and nerdy technology things and saying "wahh". they started whispering pretty loudly during the movie and i said "shutup" in a normal speaking voice and they did. and what else happened, the stupid old usher ladies kept opening the door next to us and letting light flood in the room and this guy came into the theater at least half an hour late and they kept the door open until he found his seat, which took quite a bit of time, and then these fobby kids laugh at every little thing even when it's not funny (like hahaha wah, she made a reference to sex) and the same skinny guy with huge glasses got up twice and walked down the middle aisle without even attempting to duck his head when the film projector is hello, right back of you and making an insanely annoying ten-foot shadow of your ugly hair on the screen .. i wonder if i forgot to mention anything. probably, there was so much. chinese people are the rudest stupidest people on earth with less common sense than an italian designer handbag. i don't know why, i just thought maybe italian designer handbags don't have a lot of common sense.
hi everyone! wow, i havent blogged in a really long time...i wanna go see a movie! i wanna see lilo and stitch and mr deeds and minority report and that movie that will be coming out in august with that girl from center stage in it! i dunno..maybe it hasnt been advertised..i saw it inmy dance magazine, and it looks like one cool movie. sorta like that movie about cheerleaders..but its dance..so its cool, unlike cheerleaders. no offense to anyone who is a cheerleader or who likes cheerleaders. i have a grudge against them. yes, i hold grudges, but only against cheerleaders. okay, enough of that. i havent seen a movie since..i cant even remember the last movie i saw..thats pathetic. i got this coupon in my email for skin market..i really like that store. they have lots of pretty make up. so i printed out the coupon, thinking i'd go buy something, but then i realized i dont have any money. so that wouldnt work out too well. i feel like whenever i blog, i talk like derek...no offense derek, you never sound as stupid as me. i mean, you never sound stupid. ellenand derek..how's taiwan?? you guys are sorta lucky you're not here..i mean, not that there's anything wrong with here..its just..a tad bit boring. but i finally got a job! well..i start on sunday, but i dunno whats really happening after that..i hope i can keep the job..i mean..i have no idea what im doing, and i think my boss will have to just cope with my crazy summer sched..because its kinda complicated and i feel bad, but..oh well...anyway..im so nervous..oh and i start classes at ranney on monday, and im really scared for that too..i feel like its the 1st day of school. and im taking bio and chem classes..which is okay in itself..but then ill be in class with all little underclassmen and ill probably go crazy. and they'll all be smarter than me. which is great. just wonderfully peachy. what a way to enjoy summer. oh well. well, i really have been enjoying summer. been hanging out a lot, sleeping..swimming, dacning, attempting to run. i really need to get back into shape before xc training starts and before we have to take out senior pictures...yea. i also bought our summer reading books today. i started reading the heart is a lonely hunter. its sorta weird. i dunno, i dont think i relaly like it that much. i think its weird that every summer, at least one of our books for summer reading is set inthe south and about black people..i mean, not taht there's anything wrong with thtat..i just find it interesting..what about some asian american studies books? oh well..maybe next time around. wow, i wrote a lot..i have a tendency to do that..okay..have fun reading my long blog? hope so. keep enjoying summer eeveryone! love, me.
so, the azn people in toronto do the same thing with the pants in 90+ degree weather. When I was there two summers ago, my brother and I would be walking around in the mall, and we would be the only people wearing shorts because all the other azn people were wearing pants and I felt so very out of place. By the end of hte two weeks, I gave in to sweating and jeans instead of coolness and shorts. I guess thats how they distinguish between the azn people there and the tourists that go and visit.
I saw Lilo and STitch this morning, which is an awesome movie. OF course I cried. To be honest I didn't really want to go and see it, but it was a better option that going to see MR. Deeds, I'm not really into comedies that much, mostly because I don't think the humor is that funny. But Lilo and STitch is definitely a Disney movie with a message. So I went in the morning and I thought no one was going to be there but there were all these little kids there and I even saw two racing each other in the isle which I thought was very cute. I told eric he should try and race them, but I don't think he wanted to risk losing to them. And then I came home to watch Andy Roddick lose in straight sets to Rusedski! I'm so sad... no more Andy for next week. I guess I just have to wait for the US Open...oh Andy. *sigh*
so the power went out during the night or something and when i woke up my clock was flashing "12:58" so i thought it was already 1 o clock in the afternoon and i was freaking out at how i could have wasted a whole day. but thankfully, i went downstairs and it turned out that it was only 10, phew. that was a real scare for me.
congratulations derek! i think i should start swimming/cycling/running really soon. i am really out of shape and i can actually grab rolls of fat from my midsection now. pleasant, i know.
"hm, maybe i should shave my legs."
well that's a thought. i think i'm the only girl who is not wearing long pants and/or fashionable denim attire. hey, i didn't even pack any pants! for derek. the top three aerobic activities (by effectiveness) are: 1.swimming 2.cycling 3.running. the only reason swimming and cycling outdo running is because there's less resistance to the joints or something. this hardcore cyclist my dad knows told me. haha, i just had a funny thought of derek being taiwan's answer to billy blanks. hahaha. um, yeah. i think the weather is getting to me too. it seems likeall i eat here in taiwan is massive amounts of mangoes, lychees, those green things that i don't know the english name to, and milk and/or bubble tea. oh! i ate stinky tofu. it was the stinkiest tofu i have ever eaten. feel better connie!! save a place on your dorm floor for me. that is, assuming you'll have a dorm. ;)
i'm not going anywhere this summer. poo. i'm gonna work. a lot. three job, actually. yay for money and yay for paying for college! =) but i can blog from here in new jersey and represent all the homies who have no where to go this summer=) haha, remember the old school ebonics that we all used to be so crazed about? sup dawgs, ahm repping the 732 area code shoutoutz to all my frendz [name] [name] [name] and so on so forth. hehe. we've all toned down quite a bit. and remember those mass emails we used to send out? where we'd write to each individual person? i miss those. that was so long ago. so much has changed!! great, now i'm all nostalgic and crap. i'm gonna miss you guys. but i have a good idea! everyone should go to illinois in two years and we can all party in the corn. ooo, children of the corn. sorry for this incredible randomness, i somehow got myself sick in this 90 degree weather and i've been groggy for the past 48 hours. ok i'm off to bed. gnites=)
i'm in hsinchu. yesterday i was in taoyuan and went to taipei during the day. tonight i'll be in taichung and i think missions starts on sunday in neili. anyway, i haven't done any fobby shopping yet .. haha, but it all starts july 8, when i start taking classes and living in taipei. all of my mom's friends say that the neighborhood i'm in is very "rei nao", which means hm. lively or something. lots of activity, popular, something along those lines. which should be fun. ellen, take me shopping for things! we have to go to night markets like shilin and shimending and all those japanese department stores and little fobby shops. i've realized that i need more light-colored clothing. white shirts. even though it seems like all the people here wear long pants or jeans even when it's ninety-plus degrees outside and the sun is like a microwave gone completely insane. my mom's friend says guys do it because they don't want to show their hairy legs. and i think girls are just weird like that, wearing things to look nice that aren't comfortable. hm, maybe i should shave my legs.
i need to get into shape. all those months of non-gym at school have really taken their toll on me. like, people said on friday at school that i have arm flab and i was grr angry annoyed. and i found this exercise machine on the ground level of this high-rise complex that i was in yesterday morning and i did three sets of ten dips and i used to be able to do fifteen or so without a problem but now i'm dying after ten and i did a set of twenty elevated crunches and that was hurting me too and so. there was no other equipment. i need some weights. and maybe i'll run. what are some good aerobic activities? need to find a gym while i'm in taipei and get into shape .. Thursday, June 27, 2002
so... derek, um I realized that you probably can't check your worldnet email account while you're in taiwan and I don't have your hotmail address... so could you maybe give your hotmail address to me? yea. Wow everyone has gone away to far off places, while I am still here. Still here. Hope you all are having tons of fun!
so i'm in taiwan now. we should all blog when we're in a different country/state. anyway, i'm totally using my cousin's computer even though i didn't ask. oh well he's at work. he has a lord of the rings soundtrack next to his keyboard.
um during the plane ride i wanted to shoot myself. or just be asleep for a really really really long time. there were loud babies surrounding me. i used this motion sickness patch, but it turns out i'm like, the .01 percent of people who get blurred vision when using the dang thing. so last night my cousins took me to one of those market things. i want to buy lots of shoes. i tried on five different sizes of jeans and they all fit me weird. i don't understand their sizing system. some go by waist size, but then there are small, medium, large, and then there's all these other weird combinations of letters and numbers. i'm confused. the heart is a lonely hunter is a good book. for the majority of the book, however, i was very sad. derek, are you in taipei still? hey steph -- will lives in irvine. you guys should chill! he's a working man just like you. =D
so i'm in my aunt's office right now. she just went out to eat with a client and here i am all by my lonesome. blogging. hmm, i don't know if i technically allowed to do this. but ooooh well. i've been dying for the internet the past couple of days. my grandparents don't have a computer at their house. bleh. but that's okay. it's a really really nice house.. they just moved into it this past year. it's in irvine and it's part of one of those planned communities where every house looks the same and are all two feet apart from each other. but it also has a pool and a spa and a tennis court and a basketball court and several playgrounds. i went with my cousins to one of the playgrounds yesterday and we built a sand castle. and what's really freaky is the fact that i've been running. like, every morning. *shudder* anyways. it looks like it might be kind of a boring summer, despite the location. work everyday. running every morning. playing with my little cousins. my older cousins might not show this year. apparently one of them just graduated... i could have sworn he still had a year to go. and then another one of them probably won't come too often since my brother isn't coming this year...*sigh* but maybe i'm just being pessimistic.
anyways. i hope all of you are having a fantabulous summer. or scrumptralecent. i'll be back sometime.
btw, jess if you read this call me cuz i don't think i wrote down your cell number - and call me after 9 which would be like midnight if ur in CA still - i called a friend in boston on my cell to arrange a get together and we ended up talking for an hour so if i've passed my monthly time limit for calls on weekdays i'm gonna be in big trouble.
shit..i just wrote this whole thing and then i touched the screen and it all disappeared - oh well nothing important - congrats derek on writing, you've beaten it whereas it has whooped my fat ass - and as for making friends, just be ur sexy self and all the girls will come flocking.
hahahahahahwah, i just checked my sat scores and i have officially kicked writing's butt. i own writing. too bad i won't have a chance to redo the gif image on the top of this blog page until i get home ..
mm .. hot guys. okay, that seemed a bit strange. i'm in the countryside now at yet another one of my mom's classmates' houses and aim is strangely not working and well. i'm happy because i have three new e-mail messages from between yesterday and now! so michelle, any tips on making new friends? or anyone else, actually. i think i'm pretty afraid of being left out too. luckily there haven't exactly been any groups here yet that i've wanted to belong to. anyway, i'm going to go finish "catch-22" .. it's so amusingly random. i could write a book like that.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
i'm so freaking BORED!!!!!!!!!! and i started reading the heart is a lonely hunter and like....so far about 30 pages into the story i learn that some fat greek mute likes "secret personal pleasure" and a bartender gives free beer to cripples like one guy who got his "piper" and leg blown off in an explosion...and this bartender happens to be a gay in denial even tho he's married to a woman. right. whitten scares me and i haven't even met her. bored bored bored bored. i think i've realized that my biggest frustration/fear in life is to not be accepted in a crowd or like be in a crowd but one of those people who never really belong. it really sucks, argh. and oh such hot guys but alas, all out of my reach - my friend's friend who's half chinese commutes here and i hung out with him for like 3 hours cuz my friend was off at class so like...he's really hot (at least i think so) but then again he's on probation for letting his other friend in school beat a freshman coming out of the shower w/ a belt. that's inda freaky....la la la la la i hate my essay class so i'm switching into macroeconomics cept i've already missed a class and oh well ppl call me or write to me and make me feel loved, i'm so lonely - but my heart is not quite yet a lonely hunter - u know what are good songs? Spinfire - Feeling Beautiful and Prove Me Wrong - great, i got a call but its just my mother. o whatever, i'm done
i'm in california, hope you all are having a blast, summer rocks! and i'm going to see minority report now with my cousin and her boyfriend i think, so i will blog more at some later date =)
what i did was wear a white dress shirt and dark grey dress pants and nice shoes (like i do for choir and orchestra but without the tie) and i walked across the stage and did a little spin without turning around and then i walked backwards four steps and then turned around and walked off the stage. yes, and i was supposedly the ghost of some girl's husband who was killed in the war and they were dreaming about their husbands. i don't have time to blog now, but it's been a strange two days that i'll tell everyone about .. soon. it's domo-kun. and stop with these short blogs grr, blog more!
edit: okay, so i'm back and it's three in the afternoon here which makes it really early morning there. i think i'll probably go see "minority report" again on friday when it opens in taiwan -- if you haven't seen it yet, go now! taiwan is hot and humid, but people are saying that it's been cool lately. umm. i think i'll go write some e-mail now. i wish classes would start so i could lounge around in my air-conditioned room. Tuesday, June 25, 2002
i will save derek's blog by blogging in his absence!! yay, now i feel like a hero. hi derek! how's taiwain? get me a komo-dun (aka meatloaf man) =)
sorry for this incredibly cheap blog. Monday, June 24, 2002
way to burst my bubble, ellie. hehe...
um so ellie, i find that powerpuff girls picture really funny. its great. =D if from what i hear is correct, derek wore a dress shirt, walked across the stage, did a turn, and walked off the stage. i'm going to taiwan on wednesday! conan is by far the best late night show.
I take it ... michelle is at harvard for the summer? :-P I hate to say this but I don't like toscanini's or however you spell it that much. I dunno ... I don't think it's that good. but if I could've I would've gone to a boston school (or I'd like transport yale to boston) because I have to admit I really like boston. actually I don't like it in the winter, too cold. but in the summer it's really nice. my brother's moving there, I think forever but I'm not sure. so ... you could go find my brother and hang out with him ... but I don't know why you'd want to.
I like the "w" keyboard story :-) oh if you have nothing to do you should go sign my guestbook. I've been doing stuff for my website so often nowadays because I always do it at work, and there's nothing else for me to do, so I do it, and ... yeah. which is also why I'm blogging at ten in the morning during the summer ... bye derek! hey I have a question for anyone who saw him ... what exactly did he do in that show he was in?
something to leave you with before i leave in a little over five hours: this hiliarious video of the late night dog making fun of star wars fans .. i could watch this for hours. too bad i only have five left for sleep. and i'm out -- see you guys soon. blog often for me.
Sunday, June 23, 2002
sorry guys i made a mistake if you wanna call my cell is 732-687-1923. yea i noticed a little later that a lot of my words seemed to be missing k's like i have to press down hard to get it to show up...and i forgot to tell you guys anoyher story-basically like we all went to this park and some weird guy in a bright silver cape came up to us and was like "for 3 bucks if you give me ur first name i can tell you either your phone number, the first three digits of your last name, or what city you live in" and basically if he got it wrong, u didn't have to pay him the 3 bucs so one of the guys decided to give it a go ...and the guy in the cape was cracking all these horrid jokes but in the end he actually guessed the guy's last name correctly, supposedly by saying the alphabet and looking at when the guys eyes dilated...i have no idea, but i was pretty impressed. so that's my story. and ellen, i know this kid who went to harvard over the summer who also was like, ytou gotta go to this ice cream place!! so i'll defeinitely check it out! let's see,....i heard some stories from my RA...supposedly there's a guy around here named Jean Baptist who goes up to blond blue eyed boys pretending to be a harvard professor and then convinces them to go bac to his room and then he rapes them. and also, there's this statue of John Harvard that all the tourists rub his toes or soemthing but a lot of the students happen to piss on the statue. and and...oh yea there was some psycho guy hiding out in one of the dorms' laundry room. and harvard cares more about plagiarism than about rape. those are my random facts for the day, i know you enjoyed reading it :) ok, cya kids
michelle!! if you ever have a few (minutes, that is), go to tosconinni's (sp?)!!! if i remember correctly, its right outside of harvard. like, "oh, i've stepped outside of harvard. oh, look, across the street is tosconinni's!" anyway, the place has the BEST ICE CREAM i have ever tried. when i was there i sampled a little bit (um, or a lot) of cake batter, ginger snap, and mango ice cream. all equally very rich and yummy tasting. i think their flavors change often (because "they make their own flavors!!!!!!!!" -my brother eugene, said with all those exclamations). maybe ellie can back me up. i can still taste it..mmm.
so uh, connie's "what's wrong with your 'k' key?" reminded me of this blurb i read in time magazine. apparently, right before george w. bush came to the white house, it was reported that 20 or so "w" keys were either removed or damaged on keyboards around the white house. haha. oh so yesterday my mom and i went to the mall to buy lots of random stuff for my relatives in taiwan. aka like we spent the whole time in victoria's secret. so that's really random. a substitute teacher from south works at victoria's secret (the scent section). i also saw the cutest steve madden diesel-ish/bowling shoe-ish/mule-ish shoes. but the sign next to it totally conned me because i thought it was on sale when they really weren't. so i didn't buy them. i'm sad. proof that derek is mean: on friday, during the missions meeting, derek put a rubber band on that sink sprayer thing. and then tells me to turn on the sink. so i got water all over me and my white tank top. at least i was wearing a bathing suit (woo, beach!). it was interesting because the night before, ellie and i got attacked by my neighbor's sprinklers. anyway, i got back at him when i threw a remote control at derek's head (by accident. i swear i was aiming for the blankets).
hey guys-i'm at harvard right now using a dial up cuz i dunno how to set up ethernet and my computer has literally lie 30 MB of free space so i don't think i have enough memory to download all the stuff. harvard/boston is really really really nice but ummm yea so what have i done so far....i forgot my retainer, glasses, and some other stuff at home...i went to boston with ppl i don't know and one kid made us waste a dollar for a toen to tae teh subway to some place that had a "head shop" which basically sells pipes and all that crap...but then he got carded and even when he asked random ppl to go in and buy it the store owner saw him so he never actually ended up getting a pipe...so we went back to the dorms where my roommate has a pipe and he stuffed his weed into her pipe in my room and then they went out for a smoke. right, so these ppl are definitely not my crowd but uh maybe in class i'll meet other dorks like me who i'm compatible with. i HAVE to see minority report - oh and you know what's cool? lie literally 2 minutes from my dorm islike a Gap, Urban Outfitters, Body Shop, Abercrombie, and I think there's American Eagle somewhere along there but i'll haveto search for it - so cool!!! and i'm gonna try to sign up for "cardio kickboxing" and well i guess when i'm not in class, studying, ickboxing, or eating, i'll be sitting like a loser in my dorm. or someting. hope u all are having fun, send mail or call me please 732-678-1923 but call after 9 on weekdays or all day on weekends - cya later!
i loved minority report!!!!!! everyone go see it. it is definitely one of the best movies i've seen in a while. and i've seen a lot of movies. it was very good. plus, tom cruise looked really good. :o) i just had to insert that in there.. it's mostly the story and the film-making that made it really good.
it's kind of late right now. and i have to get up (relatively) early tomorrow to go sing at marlboro middle school. haha, derek's mom called me to make sure i could go. she's so funny. anyway. after we (allison, janet, janet's brother, and i) saw minority report, we went back to janet's house to decide what to do and after much deliberation, we still had not decided. it was quite interesting. but then alyssa and pete show up and alyssa begged us to come to scottie sui/siu?'s little shindig at the hazlet hotel.. so we decided to deliberate some more and eat dinner. we ended up eating chocolate chip pancakes and dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets. that was yummy. and then we decided to go to the party.. which turned out to be kind of a dud, mainly because we missed the, urm, breaker war? is that what they called it? oh well.. i'm sure it was fascinating. i heard that the holmdel "crew" got creamed by the random north jersey "crew." haha. after THAT, we deliberated on where else to go because we were kind of bored and that took another half hour or so. we then went to mcdonalds, bought some soda and i went home after they checked out everyone's engines. so that was my saturday night.. filled with deliberation.. and a lot of driving. haha.. this is why i don't go out too often. :o) time for bed. i'm leaving monday morning for california, but i might be able to blog from there. so this may not be the last you hear from me.. mwahaha. :) Saturday, June 22, 2002
my computer hates me hates me hates me. it shut me down in the middle of my engaging online conversation with christine and then i came back online and she was gone. wah, i hate people who do that. i mean wait, i hate the action, not the person. i've been noticing girls throwing around the phrase "i love you" a lot in everyday situations. it's strange.
hm, i don't get the big car "joke". if it was a joke. wait, was it a joke? and adam sandler is annoying. but it's cool that you'll be in a movie because i've never been in a movie and i want to be in movie! i just came home from a movie. two movies at the theater in one week and one not even an earlier matinee showing, how rebellious. i paid $8.75, ahh. i haven't been here since wednesday, wow. it's been an eternity. i don't feel like part of the blogging community anymore. that comment was made for allison, who said that and what the heck is a blogging community oh hello that's what you are. i blogged twice on my site but later this week i found out that the scrollbars have been showing up messed up on other people's computers and so i've become distraught and i'm not going to touch my site until .. oh i don't know. maybe i'll update it from taiwan. yeah. er, what's been happening since wednesday .. quite a bit, actually. thursday, i went with ellen to see "the bourne identity" and even though matt damon is so hot -- i mean, cool -- clive owen is better. he's the guy from the bmw films who drives cars and in the movie he played this really cool superspy assassin guy codenamed "the professor" and he walked around without saying much in a cool trenchcoat and nice suit and shot people with his sniper rifle. too bad he had to get shot at least three times by matt damon and then he died. i want to get glasses like his. i also want to get glasses like colin farrell's character -- witwer? -- in "minority report" today. or maybe they're the same kind, thin and dark but not too dark or maybe they're black which is very dark. i've been noticing glasses a lot lately. taiwan is the place to get glasses. oh, and apparently someone told me new york city was too, like chinatown. i wanted to go today, sigh. then i went to dance rehearsal on thursday afternoon and then to steph's house to watch "american beauty" with who, um. eric, steph, janet, allison, christine, i think. i liked it. the director, sam mendes, has a new film soon .. i think it's called "the road to perdition". i was at imdb.com today looking for something and i noticed a new steven spielberg film called "catch me if you can" which comes out in december. starring leonardo dicaprio and tom hanks. ehh. friday was fun-filled with my last day of being a junior and then just-missed lunch at chilis with some people and then an incredibly long missions team "training session" with sheila bringing me completely the wrong thing for lunch, but thank you so much. then it was the dance performance after going home for a bit. what i did for my ten-second part during the whole two-hour show doesn't count as dancing, but i was still the star. someone even asked me to sign their program! and i realized my latent fear of girls. so i'm minding my own business watching the show from the sidestage and then after this one dance all the girls run off to where i am and start changing out of these strange white burlap-like clothing and into really old-fashioned dresses and i'm thinking "umm, dressing room is to the left" and then i turned around (gentlemanly, yes i know) and stared at the cabinet two inches in front of my face. how traumatizing it was in those first few seconds, though. girls running to me and stripping .. eh. and when they did use the dressing room, they didn't close the door and i noticed this one guy who was standing right outside and looking in. and i would list all the other reasons that girls are scary, but this blog is already too long. allison was mean and didn't drive her car to the performance and we couldn't do anything afterwards and i had to go straight home. psh, and she said "find me afterwards" or something like that about maybe finding something to do. i spent seven hours at church and at ellen's house today doing missions trip related things, and it was so annoying. gh, why couldn't they have spread it out among several meetings instead of waiting for the last few days to do everything and grr. some people in the group are annoying too. i just came back -- okay, not "just", maybe an hour ago -- from seeing "minority report" with serena. i think it's the best movie i've seen in forever. i should rethink my list of favorite movies .. wait, i don't know if i have one. but i'll definitely make one after this. it was just so well-directed, casting was perfect and the filming was amazing, special effects and what. even though critics talk about how spielberg put his positive spin on a story that wasn't so happy, i like happy endings. the movie was set in the future, but also -- in the words of frances -- "grounded in our time". wait, i don't know if those were the exact words she said. oh well, it's a quote anyway. i want to see it again in the theater. maybe in taiwan. i'll drag my friend jean to come with me to see it. what a long blog. if i don't come back tomorrow, good-bye ..
ellen, you know what they say about people who like big cars? ;)
actually i don't know if anyone says anything. that was stupid. oh well. i'm going to be in a movie next wednesday! it has adam sandler in it! my friend organized this thing and the movie people are sending us a bus because we have a certain number of people, and it's at yankee stadium, and so we get to be part of the crowd watching a game! tres cool!! Friday, June 21, 2002
super congratulations to connie!! =D high school is over! i'm very proud. i guess i'll see you at illinois sometime, eh? save a place for me on your dorm floor.
Thursday, June 20, 2002
a BOWL fight? hm.
ah i'm so jealous of you guys!! words cannot express how much it hurts to study when others are out tennising, movieing (even if it is a bad movie)...sigh. tonight my brother had a bbq @ my house -- i was having fun eating meat (fat) and talking. until i realized that i had to study. i was sad. i got to drive sheila's car today. i like it. it feels fast. i like ellie's better. although, i have never driven it...*nudge nudge* but i like big cars. and fast cars. which explains why i don't *really* like my volvo. aka its small and its not fast. anyway. tomorrow is math anal(ysis) (pre calc for you holmdel kids). should be easy. also, i will be the only person testing since i'm the only junior in my class. everyone else took it already on monday. afterwards? quicktraining thing for missions...and then the beach! finally. i have been waiting far too long to go the beach. it'll be good times -- kind of like a goodbye thing (everyone's leaving for the summer..), but fun. maybe we should go to seaside to be on mtv. HAHAHA no. ahhh so many kids from my school have been on mtv..but not even for cool things! one was in the britney spears lookalike contest. they died her hair and she looked gross. another one got dunked in syrup and was put in a human pancake (for $100). but..ahh. beach. i'm listening to jimmy eat world now. oh. so this song i heard on the radio: "when the stars go blue" by the corrs (or..ryan adams). at first i thought francis from travis was the one singing in it..but its actually BONO from u2. that makes the song so much cooler. because, you know, it is cool. john mayer is still my husband.
ahh i just saw a really bad movie called "idle hands", which is supposed to be a comedy. there was really only one funny scene, and the rest of it was annoying and really bloody and kind of dumb. ::sigh:: i can't wait to drive.
i really wanted to see a bowl fight!!! but you guys were leaving when i got there ::sigh:: i'm so disappointed.
ahh i am so tired. i played tennis with eric for 1.5 hours last night and then we played for another 1.5 hours this morning at holmdel park, inbetween frolicking on the swingset and with 3-year-olds in the playground. and only 4 of us showed up for the bowl roll, so we played some frisbee and sat around pondering out loud.
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
hm, that reminds me of this thing on ellie's site that struck me as really funny. apparently she had an away message that said "christmas rocks" and some guy left an im message that said "what the hell are christmas rocks?!" anyway, yeah. finals are done. i feel the same. i think that's just a sign that i didn't stress myself enough to study really really hard so that i could do well. i can't wait to see my math grade. and english and spanish and physics and history. i have all these things tomorrow that my mom wants me to do -- okay.
how is it that you guys start later than we do, end ealier then we do, and have about 5 extra days off during the year?
wow in a couple days we'll be big bad seniors, but i think that description wouldn't really fit me. i need to play tennis and go bowling and watch lilo and stitch and get all this stuff done before i'm out of here for the next 3.57 weeks.
Tuesday, June 18, 2002
i feel like i've been neglecting my blog, which i have. but it's for a good reason: this. everyone should go there and leave comments for me. so i saw these adidas slides in a kohls catalog on sunday and went there yesterday to look for them, and they weren't there, so i went online to look and it turns out that they're womens sandals!! [edit: these] grr, and they don't have a mens version. the guys' sandals are so much worse made, while the one i want is .. well. i have the link somewhere, but i don't feel like posting it -- maybe i'll edit this blog later. ellie, i'll watch "the little mermaid" with you! and the sequel too!
wow, i am an idiot. i accidentally clicked on the blogger button instead of the post and publish button. wow.
anyway, i didn't really have anything to say. i was just commenting on how most guys like black hawk down and most girls don't. and then i was complaining about how ridiculous physics is. and then i said that i was going to eat lunch. which is what i am going to do.. now.
here I am again at work. I finally watched the breakfast club last year at college sometime (I forget when, but my friend had it and we were like, let's watch it! although we also wanted to watch the little mermaid) (pity, because I'll never find anyone else who'll want to watch the little mermaid with me) and it was really good. I called basically everything that happened in it! not like that made it any less good, that actually made it more enjoyable to me, because then I felt like a smartie pants while watching the movie, and that's never a bad thing.
anyway, I didn't like black hawk down (the part that I saw) that much. oops, I think I said that already. but yes, it's still true. I saw the bourne identity last weekend, and it was pretty good, but now I find myself wishing I'd watched scooby doo. but I don't think I'd like scooby doo, because I hate the cartoon series and I think they should've gotten a real dog. I'm not part of the "blogger community", but I blog anyway ... but I do understand allison's reticence. Monday, June 17, 2002
we didn't see "the breakfast club" .. let's watch it. i told allison to blog because she hasn't and i told her to a long time ago and she says she's not part of the so-called "blogger community" and what, what community!? anyway, the blog is calling her name. i think "black hawk down" is three words. i actually liked the movie quite a bit .. it seemed well-directed and the depiction of the front-line looked very real. i think the message of the movie was that when you're actually in the middle of the war, all politics and ideologies and whatever, they all disappear. wasn't that what eric bana's character said in the beginning? steph, you should go find who that guy is. i tried today and i looked through at least twenty cast members of the movie at imdb.com and i couldn't find the guy. plus, my connection is horribly slow.
math was impossible, history was okay. as long as i get what i want it should be okay. ahh, i did the first ten questions in math and then did the last twenty and then went back and forth and back and forth .. and then i had about thirty left blank the second time around because i didn't know how to do them. his description of the test was misleading -- it sounded so easy. oh well. i'm looking forward to next year when (hopefully) i won't have to take a single final exam. my mom won't let me drive until she takes me to a parking lot so i can show her what i've learned. dangit. so i've been watching "just shoot me" for a few nights at midnight on fox (on my mini-tv in my room) and it's a funny show. i think i could call it one of my favorite comedies. not that i watch too many .. i think i like that, "friends", maybe "seinfeld" and "frasier", um. i don't remember what else. but "just shoot me" makes me laugh a lot. i want to watch more saturday night live and "whose line". i'm television-deprived .. give me cable!!
i have to agree with ellen, the breakfast club is a classic and better than so many movies out there. *I wanna be an airborne ranger*. so many truths about high school life are revealed in that movie, how can you not love it?
the breakfast club is so much better than blackhawk down. plus, in blackhawk down, did anyone notice that after the first half-hour or so, there was seriously no dialogue in the movie?? just lots of high octane action packed thrill. (i'm not sure if i'm being sarcastic...) um yeah so i guess i wasn't impacted by the "message" that blackhawk down supposedly had. oh well.
tomorrow i start finals! history/english. gag me with a spoon.
shout-out to FRHSD!
sometimes i exhibit road rage. but it's quite easy in new jersey, eh? and last week i accidentally cut off a police car right outside the school, because i was rushing to make the left turn because he was getting in his squad car to leave, and there would be massive traffic, but i realized too late that i turned when he was going, and i cut him off. but he didn't racially profile me or pull me over or anything, which was good. the sunday before that, i honked my horn for the first time ever and it was at virginia! she told me in church, and i felt bad. wow, this was the most poorly constructed paragraph i've written in a long time. and it really has no meaning or relevance to anything. i'm sorry for destroying a lot of your precious brain cells since most of you in this here blog still have 1 more year left. hey, i'm (almost) done!! booyah.
mm, i have yet to take my math final. that's on wednesday. dude, i have to go to school tomoddo. everyone in our district takes finals, whether or not youre a senior or if you did well in teh class. that's hardly fair. oh well. i hated black hawk down. even though ewan was in it (!!)
so yea, i thought i had a nice pace going for hte math test. i remember at the beginning of hte final i thought to myself, gee... maybe i should flip to teh end and check how many questions there are, but then i stupidly decided to trust bird and rely on him telling us that there were only 60 questions on the test. oh no, thats a stupid question. so im on number 59, and im about to turn the page, only expecting one more problem, and lookie! theres 11 more problems! that evil evil foooooooooooool, ugh, and when i raised my hand to ask him if he'd made a mistake or something, he said to me, oh nope, i meant 70. so then i had like 15 minutes left to do the rest, and go back to fill in all of hte other questions i left blank, i wasted more time by day dreaming about calling him a lazy 1/2 of a sor ars. ugggggggggh, now i remember why im so happy to get out of his class. at least he'll never spit on me again. BAH HUMBUG.
wow. i was just completely destroyed by the math final. obliterated. annihilated. i wanted to scream so loudly during the test. wahhh. so then history was right after that.. did not check my scantron or proofread my essay, which was a piece of crap. yummy. curse that mr. bird. AAAARGH!!!!!
well, i guess my grade didn't really depend on it. as i've told many of you already, i need a 102 to get an A for the year. i'll just leave it at that. yay! i don't have to go to school tomorrow. and neither do most of you.. yay for us! i plan on sleeping until ten at the earliest. actually, ten is a little too early. let's say tenthirty/eleven. i am so excited. i didn't even sleep that late after we saw black hawk down. i didn't like that movie very much... it didn't have much of a story. we should have watched the breakfast club!!! ack, i still want to see that. eighties classic! big hair and tight pants! it's all about the big hair and tight pants! and emilio estevez! he was coach bombay. awesomeness. all throughout black hawk down i kept seeing all those actors that are in a lot of movies but you never know their names. it was crazy. i still can't remember where i saw that guy who was kidnapped though. hmm. :/ hey, my brother's watching romeo must die. i think i'll go join him. Sunday, June 16, 2002
hm, i woke up yesterday around twelve. and eric told me he woke up around two. after the graduation banquet on friday night, a bunch of us -- dave, frances, ellen, steph, eric, norman, me -- went to ellen's house and then we watched "black hawk down" until around two-thirty in the morning. i don't think i should stay out that late anymore .. hm, my mom informed me that my curfew is now declared to be midnight. it would probably be a good idea anyway to get more sleep. i should be studying math and history now. maybe i'll take a nap and do it soon.
Saturday, June 15, 2002
wow, michelle .. that's really some strange carelessness. in addition to writing the answers to sat-ii math iic in the wrong spaces. uh, so being the pessimist that i am but also an underdog supporter, i wanted the nets to win but i knew they wouldn't -- and i completely predicted that they would be swept. that was the most basketball i'd watched in a while. wow, kobe is really good. shaq is just a big man. there's an interesting article about his largeness and lack of skill. anyway, the united states made it to round two of the world cup, yay! i wish i had cable. then i could watch all this television.
english final, hm. it was okay. spanish final too, considering my complete lack of studying. okay, that's an exaggeration, i glanced at a piece of paper at jessica's house and then looked over some old tests when i got back to school. yeah, all we did at jessica's house was watch funny domo-kun videos and some music videos, including "jajonshim" by finkl. wow, i don't know what made me want to find that and watch it again. avril lavigne seems annoying. they said that the guys from jars of clay are hot. i think i'm going to come back and insert links to everything that i can. you know, i remember how i wanted to order a jars of clay poster a while ago, and maybe i will soon. that old black and white one where they're not smiling. i hope they have bagels on monday too. i think i'm going to go make part of my new website soon. uh, only a week and two days before i'm in taiwan for two months. yay (sigh).
wow i just woke up half an hour ago... at 11.. felt SO SO SO GOOD.. i havent slept that late since.. i dont remember when.
mickel, don't worry, she might give you part credit..? besdies, u have a pretty solid A in that class don't u. and really, do you actually care? anyway, if you get the rest of the test perfect and get that question completely wrong you still have a 90. isn't that comforting? =) dont worry it'll be fine. so my father just left to teach tennis or seomthing. and he put the alarm on. and the stupid side of him.. of course he does command 1 instead of command 3. command 3 is only perimeter, 1 is perimeter and inside. so of course i just stood up to get food and the alarm starts blaring and scares the crap outta me. wonderful wonderful stuff, and i'm sure you cared. i was going to say something else...and that something was the point of me blogging, but it seems i have been sidetracked. oh well, maybe i'll think of it later. rich, when are you ordering the tickets? tell me if they are good ones... tell me before i leave for cali the 21st! because it is so important that i know =) and you still haven't finished signing my yearbook. bum u bum. ahh i was so mad so mad that the nets lost. in the first half of the 4th game, they scored 9 in a row and were up by 5 i think.. and they lost it lost it lost it. shaq killed them. Friday, June 14, 2002
wow...incredibly crappy...i wrote about streetcar in 2002 instead of raisin!!! NOOOOO!!!!! dimmit dimmit dimmit!!!!!! i shouldn't curse but somehow darnit doesn't give the same oomf so dimmit is the closest i can come. right. noooooooooo.
AHHH those $##$%&*@$!*&!^!&##!&!!&$%*!&^ LAKERS!!! rot in hell! scelesta, vae te! the NETS will see you next year. same times. same places. NETS in 6.
i think i used "in the end" 3 or 4 times throughout the english final. cause, you know, it doesn't even matter. and i was tempted to used "denied" when referring to Oliver not giving Biff money, but i decided it was too informal. we watched some of Born on the 4th of July at Kevin's house yesterday, which is ironic b/c kevin is born on the 4th of July. and wow that movie is gross. it has all these nude Mexican prostitutes who are smokers and boy are they ugly. there was one really poignant scene with tom cruise ranting while he's drunk, but then he ruined it and we started laughing. i don't know why mrs. bryer recommended it.
richard, i wanna go to the goo goo dolls concert!!
i was strangely apathetic to(?) the english final today..for some reason i just didn't care..which isn't really a good thing. i, being the hungry food monster that i am, did get a bagel and it was really very good. and the moms who were at the table were so nice about it. then i went to the art room and i ate some mroe..there were those grandma something cookies and i really wanted to take a pack of chocoolate chip ones, cept they were 200 calories per cookie and 9 g of fat. that's pretty gross. that means...after eating one pack, you basically only have 1600 more calories that you can consume. yuck. one down. 3 to go.
you know derek, you really need to work on your committing skills. that way, seniors on the tennis team won't have to lie about how you supported them the whole season. yep.
just got back from school and the english final. that was fun.. i especially enjoyed writing about how raisin in the sun could apply to 2002. right. i actually stayed in school for a long time after the english exam to keep caitlin company down by the yearbook area. i could have grabbed a free bagel but i wasn't hungry.. and now i'm hungry. i could use a bagel. mmm.. cinnamon-raisin with cream cheese. aww man, i'm so hungry. i want to eat some food. i've never done a video project. i want to do one.. they usually end up being quite hilarious. we have a video camera at my house but it's really old. not early-nineties-bigger-than-your-torso-old, though. more like the kind where you have to look through the one tiny hole and everything is black and white. helen has this really cool camera with the little screen that comes out and you can do all these cool effects with it. even that's pretty old. we should video tape senior prom. ack, i can't take it anymore. i need to eat. Wednesday, June 12, 2002
how embarrassing. so after coming back from that oven known as the satz school cafeteria where a lot of parents come to watch their kids pick up useless certificates, my new blue shirt was humid and i looked like mr. baranowsky. hm, i haven't seen him in a while .. it must be to my lack of participation in newspaper now. i think i quit but i didn't really tell him, so maybe he still thinks i'm on the staff or probably not. i wish we could've had a good school newspaper that i could've been part of. i wish i could've been here freshman year and applied for yearbook and then now i would've been cool. i've always wanted to be editor of something. and i wish i ran cross country. that team picture today was annoying. ten minutes turned into forty, and this photographer man was so irritating to me, i don't know why. oh, we had to go to a board of ed meeting at satz today where a lot of kids were "honored" by the board, and so they call me up as part of the tennis team and all these girls scream and yell. that was embarrassing. the guy who presented me with a certificate and shook my hand said, "i see that you have a fanclub back there" .. hm, interesting word choice. i want to be bilingual.
so there's this goo goo dolls concert, with third eye blind and vanessa carlton (ahh!) on august 17, and if anyone wants to go, tell me. soon. unless you'd rather not go with our little Iceman and the Asian Invasion group.
go here!! it is so hilarious!
the guy who was taking our pictures today for the star ledger was incredibly annoying. he took maybe 20 minutes to take maybe 100 pictures of gordy for player of the year. then he took 20 minutes to mess around with our team picture trying all these odd poses. it was very unamusing and i think we were being mean to him. oh well. the board meeting was disgustingly hot and sweaty. where's Iceman when you need him? i hope the song that sums up my life doesn't end up being "In the End". that wouldn't be a good song to sum up your life. some bon jovi or u2 song would be nice. Tuesday, June 11, 2002
serena said i should be a teacher. we presented today and i learned how much non paying attention goes on in class. or maybe it's just because it's the end of the year and there's not going to be any testing on the material we go over in class. oh well, anyway. she said i should be a teacher -- i remember a long time ago she told me that i was a horrible teacher. many people have said that to me, actually. apparently i give weird looks to the people i'm trying to help with schoolwork. haha, next year's tutoring for nhs and shs should be interesting.
tennis dinner .. hm. so the seniors had this thing where they called each player up to sit in a chair and they would say some things about each person. and i went up and sat down and gordy was like "um, so derek came to support us at every match and i remember him running around to every court at the big dwight-englewood match cheering us on and giving us the support that we needed .." something like that yes, except it was all lies -- haha um. i went to maybe less than half of the matches and i didn't even show up to the last tournament of champions final. i think i mentioned this before .. i went to orchestra. it was a mistake. oh well. i had too much salad and breadsticks and couldn't finish my main course. not like i like lasagna anyway. but i only had one bowl of ice cream when there were so many left! i've had a lot of ice cream lately. today: espresso chip, mint chocolate chip, vanilla ..
the tennis dinner was fun. the breadsticks were awesome, but they didn't give us any of that vinegarish sauce stuff. uugh i was so stuffed. i think i still am.
So, I'm online reading the Andy Roddick chat because he's very adorable and doing a livechat. he says that the song that would describe his life is Another day in paradise by phil collins. I wish I had a song that would describe my life. LOL some girl asked if Andy thought Martina Hingis was a tennis beauty, I find that amusing, oh and the other day in lab I heard Srikar dissing Andy! good thing I went over there and hit him, straightened that whole situation out.
I'm glad that I enduce sleep... if anyone else has sleeping problems come on over and I'm sure I'll beable to cure that... Monday, June 10, 2002
well, we would have videos if i had a video camera like i've wanted one for the past how many years. i have no videos of my childhood and adolescence, sigh. how sad.
serena makes me sleepy. so after we found out today that we completely did the wrong section for our chem project (it was okay because we didn't do much work anyway), i went to her house after the math science awards thing and stayed there for a while. and we worked really slowly. actually, she didn't even finish her part until just now -- "i can't work with you here!" anyway, we're done and it's going to be a boring presentation. yay! serena has a black toilet downstairs -- it absorbs a lot of light. and she has a basement with a lot of snapple and computer parts and a ping-pong table. also, i cannot think of anything at the moment because i'm still tired. even after sleeping for an hour or so just now before. so that "meatloaf man" is called domo-kun, and he's very popular in japan and apparently also in the united states. what was that quote -- "so far, domo-kun dolls are a prized rarity stateside .." there are a lot of hilarious videos and miscellaneous things online. i think the funniest one is when he tries to imitate a japanese kid on the tv. domo-kun. i'm going to get more stuffed animals this summer. or monsters.
so i just noticed in the spiderman issue of time magazine there is apparently a comic book series or something called "jimmy corrigan, smartest boy in the world" or something like that. i just find that amusing.
the match against asbury park was funny. we only had 5 people and they had 3. so the kid i played in singles was really funny, and he'd go like "this kid's crazy man! he gives me serves that bounce this high and i'm supposed to get it?!" and when we were changing sides he walked up to the net and stared at it and after a few seconds said, "just checkin the net man." yea...it was the way he said it. fear factor was disgusting. pig uterus....yum. i could school them all in ski-ball.
p.s. it wasn't my junior prom, now that i think about it. holmdel's junior prom, and i was a sophomore, so it was ... three years ago. wow.
dude, STRIP CLUBS! *that's* the major thing that becomes legal when you're 18. and i was just going to go buy cigarettes and a lottery ticket. ... no, i wasn't, but seriously, i forgot about strip clubs. ... although it doesn't really matter because rest assured i won't be going to one.
anyway, i really really want to see your tiananmen square reenactment, ellen. that sounds sarcastic, but it wasn't. it sounds really funny. not the actual tiananmen square, because that *was* very sad, but ... a green range rover as a tank? that's gotta be good. i miss making videos ... i want to see the senior video that we did last year for the graduation banquet. dan still complains about it because it was supposed to be like half an hour long. oh, speaking of videos, the other night we watched a video that wei had of our junior prom. bing was narrating, so it was really funny. anyway, it was a total ... blast from the past. (i is a poet and doesn't know it!) as i was saying. blast from the past, right. yeah, it sure was. except that most of us looked exactly the same. except for phil, who looked a lot younger and cuter (in a little-boy way cute) (did anyone here not know that he shaved his head? b/c he did, but it's probably almost all grown back by now). yeah, i enjoyed it. i'm going to have to make sure to embarrass all of my kids by videotaping them, because they'll thank me a few years later when they look back at it nostalgically. that might not be a word. did YOU GUYS videotape YOUR junior proms?!?!? (or senior proms)?!?!?!
aw, poor jason kidd. =(
so today i spent a very enjoyable six hours doing a group history project. we're supposed to talk for eighty minutes (two periods; our english and history combine back to back)...can you believe it? i still can't. but it's in good fun (ok not really) since it's the decades project. my group has the eighties -- incredible. duran duran, spandex, teased hair, aha, flock of seagulls, sting, the cure, bad makeup, leg warmers, rambo...so incredible. um so we're trying to kill some of the time by showing videos. today we made a reenactment of tiananmen square...um it wasn't supposed to be funny. but it is. i am a student protestor. i was speaking in (broken) chinese and yelling things like "FREEDOM!!!" my friend's green range rover was a tank. i'm pretty sure our reenactment might be seen as crude since the actual event was horrific. but seriously, it wasn't supposed to be funny. really. hey, you should see our reenactment of the fall of berlin wall. i think i have a rash from wearing all those eighties clothes we bought (for one dollar per garbage bag!) from all those garage sales. ew. feel better jess...rest up your voice for saturday. ;) and, happy birthday to ellie! you're old. are you going to go to a strip club? just kidding. Sunday, June 09, 2002
i have a fever. i think im going to skip the first 3 periods tomorrow... tempting as the mighty ducks and the all mighty mr amitrani are.. but i may just have to make that sacrifice.
christine and i were trying to be all ambitious and stuff with our project but we ended up going for the boring kind of presentation. that's what happens when you're feeling incredibly lazy and experience a severe case of creativity block simultaneously. fun stuff. you guys will be blown away. or not. hmm..
nets game on tonight. they're probably not going to win and that makes me sad. :( okay, maybe there is hope. stupid lakers. shaq is way too big and all he can do is dunk. but he is pretty funny in those burger king commercials. so in an attempt to avoid work, i offered to go grocery shopping with my mom.. but she knew what i was up to so we just went to the mall. hee hee. i bought a lot of stuff. a LOT. i can only buy lots of things when i go shopping with my mom for some reason. the gap at monmouth mall is so much better than the one at freehold. mainly because their sale rack is about four times the size of freehold's sale rack.. and it is all about the sale rack. hehe. :) i was going to run today, but i didn't. dang.
we beat will, we beat will. so richard finally sees "spiderman" weeks and weeks after it comes out .. nice. um, i spent hours and hours at serena's house today and we pretty much did our chemistry project -- which needs to be finished tomorrow when we make a nuclide out of clay and then present it on tuesday -- and then physics. i don't understand the static electricity things. grr, it's stupid. and i don't want to blog at the moment.
Saturday, June 08, 2002
i finally saw spider-man yesterday! i can't believe he ditched mj, but he marries her later right? i wish i could swing around like that with those lightning-quick reflexes. he almost seems like tragic hero.
i think i'm in love with that aflac commercial with yogi berra. yogi berra is so cool. "if you get hurt and miss work, then it won't hurt to miss work." and "and it comes in cash, which is just as good as money." i got my butt whooped in tennis today by two kids who play first singles for their respective teams. it felt good just to get the ball over the net. the 60's is on NBC. it's vietnam, which is what we're studying! coincidence? i think not.
woaaaahh, editor-in-chief. that's so cool! i just spelled "chief" as "cheif." i have problems. but, anyway. congratulations to ellen!
so my brother went to the mall today with his friends.. and when my dad went to pick him up (he was in a big big hurry because he and my mom needed to go to a wedding banquet), his friends had left him to get ice cream. so my dad's like, "get in! we have to go! just leave your friends!" yeah. i found that rather amusing. they ended up getting jon ferng's sister to pick them up and she scolded jon for buying all this stuff with other people's money and made him return all of it. haha. meanwhile, i was at home working on chemistry and physics with christine. yessss.. that was exciting :) after she left, i started watching the mtv movie awards. wow. ewan looked really good. yes. i'm not obesessed. :) hey, only four days left of learning. sweetness.
yayy!! CONGRATS ELLEN!!
and oh goodness...could anyone imagine if mrs. gothelf were driving next to you while you were singing at the top of your lungs? hehehe.. =) Friday, June 07, 2002
so i guess michelle wanted to be back on the blog so she could express her rage. umm, today was a bit uneventful -- so i think i'll go to sleep. good night.
last night i had a dream about the bio lab my friend and i designed and did and have to hand in on monday. in it this kid mohammed in my grade (that was really random b/c he doesn't take bio or anything) was shouting "your results are all wrong! it's wrong! your lab is wrong!" and stuff, and it was a nightmare. i woke up this morning and panicked about the lab then i realized it was just a dream and went back to sleep, and woke up late again. i haven't waken up before 7:20 in a long time. i'm supposed to get up at 6:30, but i never do anymore. oh well. today was the last full day of school on a friday ever for me! next friday is a half day when finals start and at gw there are no classes on friday. today also ended the last full week of high school for me. agh!
that was a very boring blog, sorry.
oh! thanks to eugene, i'm seriously addicted to the ping-pong game at shockplay.com. derek, i don't think reading dave eggers will better your illiteracy. but it is a very good read. did i just contradict myself?
i think its funny that there's always a huge eruption of blogs when a day-off comes along. anyway, i'm insanely jealous of everyone who goes to holmdel. do something fun for me. or, as i said to allison earlier, "sleep like thirty hours for me!" at the time it made sense.
um so school makes me want to gouge out my eyes. i'm also on a downloading binge now. that makes things a little better. i was only going to download the new dmb single, but now i'm kind of randomly downloading more howie day, dispatch, guster, and oar songs. i just noticed that they're all the same genre/sound. oh well. so, yes. i lead a boring life. oh, i'm editor-in-chief! its scary. for now. so the other day i was driving to piano lessons in my mom's car. being the crazy teenager that i am, and since it was nice and sunny and warm, i rolled down all the windows, opened the sunroof, and pumped up the music. so i'm at a stop light. i'm sitting there in my open window/sunroof/loud music playing car, singing along to a song. i look over, and there is my english teacher in her car staring at me! i just kept singing along and she laughed at me. hehe...=D ok well that's enough from me. back to work i go! kids, have fun tomorrow. Thursday, June 06, 2002
wow, so many blogs. so many that, in fact, i cannot blog. actually, i think i'm just tired. that yahoo graffiti game was fun -- i think they do it better than the inklink game at shockwave.com which i used to play. i remember how games got so out of hand with people drawing obscene things and writing all over. anyway.
i want to go out to eat too, but i don't. let's go to tgi fridays (because i have a gift certificate). memento was not a very happy movie. oceans eleven was a happy movie. i realized today how illiterate i am.
so i'm finally back on the blog (yay) and i can't think of anything to say now...i just rewatched the pilot episode of Roswell and it was really really good and its sad how like all these good shows get sucky after the first season...but anyway, so the show had DMB's Crash Into Me which is old but i really like it and now i'm going on a DMB downloading fest which is really like only 4 songs cuz it takes my computer 20 minutes to download each song...but anyway, i'll make sure i tell you guys if there're any good songs, i'm sure u're dying to hear...and oh yea, i just took grace lee's profile test thing earlier and i got....*drum roll*.....a 20. and that was with guessing....i knew a total of one question - that's kind of sad. oh well.
norman, shush. hahahaa..wink....i looooove mashed potatoes...enough to make a complete fool out of myself at chili's, asking for them....on a plate....
ooh serena...memento is really good....we watched it here for extra credit for ap psych...except i don't think any of us even went to get the credit. we just watched it because it was pretty good =). a little confusing, but good. i didn't like death of a salesman too much. i think i got too frustrated with the dad having all of these false ideas about success without work. i frequently get frustrated at books. i constantly want to join the characters and change what might happen at the end.....kinda pathetic, isn't it....i do the same with movies. i'll actually watch the same movie over and hope for a different ending...okay, well not really HOPE...but have this...expectancy that it might be different. yeah. sad... i loved a raisin in the sun and a streetcar named desire though. i actually thought that they were really good...i think i've liked a total of like...5 books in high school that were assigned thus far. i want to go shopping with serena and allison tomorrow at jersey gardens. i've never been there before....but serena...just so you guys know...i can't. again. i can't go again. i can only be out from like 8AM to 2PM...and i won't be back in time...phooooooey!! but i'll go shopping with the mommy....yes... goodnight!
three day weekend! yea! So I rented Oceans 11 today, which is really relaly good and I rented Memento too... I hope I'm not too scared. And we're going to the mall tomorrow! I'm all about being a girly girl and shopping... woo hooo 12 hours. Wow... I attempted to read deah of a salesman and I got 1 whole page into it! That is the measure of my new work ethic. Oh no, ER is on, reruns are awesome
three days!!!!!!!!!! *enormous sigh of relief* i've been reveling in it all night. okay, maybe not. i actually read some death of a salesman. it doesn't make sense so far.. maybe i'm just not getting it. i can't get over the fact that two of the main characters are named biff and happy. biff reminds me of biff tannen from back to the future. i hate manure!.. like the movie? yeah? haha. i hope i didn't just sound completely silly there.
i baby-sat today for my piano teacher. her son is incredibly technology-oriented and talkative. they're house is so wired.. they have an alarm that goes off whenever the mail comes or the garage opens and zachary (the son, who is in kindergarten) has his own computer, two cameras and is about to get a digital one. and they have a very very high tech entertainment system with at least five remote controls. there is more stuff, but i don't remember. and her daughter is adorable. she is so chubby. :) mm, the mtv movie awards are on. time to move on to another time-wasting venue.
chili's has awesome awesome blossoms and awesome boneless buffalo wings or legs whatever you call them. bones bad. meat good.
gosh so many people were playing tennis today. so many people from track were playing tennis today. so many chinese people (like me) from track (not like me) were playing tennis today. so many asian people (like me) were also playing basketball today. its an asian invasion. the only white kids i saw the whole afternoon were dave wrigley and ken. i see a little segregation here. damn. gordy lost! aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! the apocalypse is here!! i have the incredible urge to slack off.............now.
eee! i don't know what to do with myself. i feel incredibly disoriented...when there's no track practice after school, i sit and don't know what to do with myself. but maaan....two weeks of no running....wow.
i have a lot of shopping to do....need to get a gift for my piano teacher, need clothes that actually fit me, need to get a sweet sixteen gift (still!) and i need to eat....fried chicken. sorry, don't know where that came from. but i have these incessant cravings for food that i really shouldn't have. =) i actually got an A on the gothelf research paper. it was a little pathetic though....every page had an "awk" on it...and at the end, she wrote that perhaps i needed to pay more attention to sentence revision. then i read the whole thing over again, and i realized that i didn't even really remember writing those things. sad... does anyone want to go to chili's sometime this weekend? i have a craving for their shrimp pasta....i need good food.....mmmmm.... have a great weekend everybody! =)
hi all. everyone whose prom is tomorrow night, i hope you have an AWESOMEEEE time and i wanna see pictures!!! and i dont..well, we dont have school 2morrow. i did my latin and french homework when i got home. so now i just have..physics and read death of a salesman. i have my dance recital this weekend. opening night...2morrow night, matinee saturday, evening saturday, and alas evening sunday. i guess that pretty much leaves zero time for the homework..darn it, that means i have to do it today. *sigh*...im losing motivation to do anything at all. this isnt supposed to have junior year..im supposed to be full of verve and diligently working to get myself into a respectable college, but i seem to be doing the exact oppposite..blah. okay, maybe ill make my blog relatively short and end it here today. have a great day everyone!
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
go read about my experiences on my blog. um, we were at ocean grove last sunday -- you probably noticed the blog maybe, but we were in dress clothes and ate ice cream and more ice cream and saw beach people. i came home around eight today from this science thing, the culmination of one whole year of honors advanced research, and we won a prize! i wonder if our being called up first for the award means anything .. anyway, it was four hundred dollars in bio supplies or whatever for our school, yay. too bad that thing was hours long. too bad i couldn't speak clearly the one time that they looked to me when this guy was asking annoying questions. too bad i found all questions annoying. there was this one guy with an eastern european accent who was sort of like, "so eh, i'd like to ask you eh, all these many obscure questions on rnai eh, until you cannot possibly do anything but eh, tell me that you know nothing." okay, he didn't say that, but that's what it seemed like. we finally got out an article (actually it was my article) from "science" magazine and he skimmed it and nodded a lot .. i don't think he understood it. i am in varsity tennis, no matter what anyone says. yesterday's sports awards were interesting -- the baseball team was amazingly annoying. and that slide show was horrible. i want to get a camcorder and film people and do nice video editing. yeah.
dude! our orchestra concert was at the great auditorium in ocean grove! and we got free ice cream at Day's ice cream! but i got italian ice.
goodness, i'm gone for 3 days and i have to spend 15 minutes reading all the blogs that were posted. there were so many things i wanted to say in response to several of the blogs, but i can't seem to remember any of them. oh yes! the first thing that came to mind was after i read the one that said somethign about acts being weaker than the collegeboard. from my experiences in illinois this past weekend, acts are a BIG thing out in the midwest. everyone takes it, and they're more important that the sats. i guess we east coasters would rather sit then act. (HAHA) and uh, everything else that i wanted to say has seemingly seeped out my infected ear. yes, ew. my earhole got infected and now it's all gross. well, not really gross...but incredibly itchy! i just got back from a piano recital at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove by the ... *drumroll* ... ocean!! yes. it was big. it seats 6400 people and...there were probably only like 30 ppl there=P just our parents are whatnot. anywho, i got really lucky cuz the khatchaturian i played sounds really dissonant so when i totally bombed the beginning, no one could tell =) in fact, everyone came up to me afterwards and said they really liked that one, as opposed to the other one where i didn't mess up so badly. ah, the joys of contemporary music. and i got home from illinois last night at around 11 or so and got straight to doing a math and physics project that was due today. i didn't sleep til almost 2 and i hadn't finished them and i did them both wrong. what a waste. go read about my traveling experiences in my blog. i'm going on the senior trip tomoddo!! friday is prom=) it better be fun... :)
what do you mean mighty ducks WAS the coolest stuff?? mighty ducks IS where it's at. though the third installment of the trilogy is rather weak, d2 makes up for it. d2 is the ish yo.
antigone = here i played in my last band concert ever last night. band holds a special place in my heart. you can read all about my emotions here!
so i talked to the athletic director today, and he said that coach would call me and he'd probably give me varsity. nice.
gosh watching mighty ducks 2 right after Blade is the weirdest thing. its like jumping into the swimming pool right after you get out of the hot tub. i remember when mighty ducks was the coolest stuff. i can't tell if i have allergies or a really stubborn cold. i think its allergies b/c i don't see any other people going around with colds in 80 degree weather. Tuesday, June 04, 2002
so it happens that i got denied of a varsity certificate because i didn't play in half of the matches before the may 10th deadline, though i still played in 18 of our 32 matches through the season. which is odd b/c i got a certificate last year for playing only 5 matches. but in the end, it doesn't really matter b/c i can still write "varsity tennis" on my apps and i get my name on the banner on the gym wall (i'm going to leave my legacy), and that's what counts. and we're gonna get championship rings! now we can be like those basketball and baseball players going around pimpin with those big fat rings on their fingers. wow i've never used the word "pimpin" before.
i think i'll go big pimpin with antigone now.
sunflower seeds *hate* you too. i would go to a goo goo dolls concert if i were here and it weren't too expensive, but both probably will not happen. christina is .. christina. and long blogs are good, so you should keep blogging long! and i just changed into some semi-formal clothes for that sports awards ceremony (eric said he would come at 6:30 but now he says 7:15) and i think i need to buy dress pants and ties and shirts. yes.
i *hate* sunflower seeds.
hey i have a question ... who's christina audrey? hi, i'm ellie. i don't go to holmdel high school. and never did. although today brian really wanted to go and watch ... er ... that guy ... first singles on the tennis team ... oh i forget his name ... gordy! or something. anyway, he really wanted to watch him play, and maybe he will go, because you know what it's only 11AM and it's just not right that i've been up since about 7:30. i would love to go online and talk to people from here, but i don't think i can. i'm pretty sure there's a firewall that prevents you from getting online, plus, they monitor your internet access and they yell at you if you go on too many non-work-related sites. and i don't think i can count "www.aim.com" as a work site. "they were teaching me the *aim* of ... things!" seriously, i have nothing to do until my project gets started, and nobody knows when that will be. today my supervisor actually *said* to me, "as long as you look busy, you're fine." so i've been writing my novel. oh, i also brought a novel to read, actually ... have you guys ever heard of the mitford series? it's this series of books about a small fictional town named mitford, and the main character is an episcopalian pastor and it's just about like ... small-town stories. it's really good, though. and it's even spiritually encouraging. the first one's called at home in mitford and i read it while i was in california last week, so i bought the second one. i think i'm going to order the rest of them on b&n.com, although part of me wants to not buy them so that someone can buy them for me for my birthday, but i don't think anybody has ever heard of them except me. ok ... i *have* written a novel! goodbye. Monday, June 03, 2002
hi all
i havent blogged in a while. so i was faxing the word wealth list to serena and i was sitting on a chair and leaning towards the fax machine and then i felt the chair slipping out from under me, so in my haste, i stood up hastily (hee hee) and hit my elbow very very hard on something (i dont recall its identity) on my funny bone. i assure you, it was not humorous at all. now my elbow hurts and i cant lift my arm up to put my hair in a pony tail. now thats just pathetic.so as i type this there is a very heavy ice pack on my arm and it feels awkward to be typing with something heavy on your elbow. okay enough of that. i havent been to fellowship in a reallyyyyyyyyyy long time..i have a legitimate reason for every week that i've missed. i will be missing again this week because of i have the 1st night of my dance recital. i really need a spritual boost...revival..sunday services just dont do it for me..*sigh*...need to get back to fellowship..i also need to apply for summer camp because i have not yet done that..whoops..i also hate school. i hate school. i have senioritis mixed with junioritis mixed with laziness mixed with summer fever mixed with stupidity. thats a great combinatin, dont you think? i also really like pictures. i love pictures. they make me remember better times, happy times..and they make me smile. and i also like breaks from track and dance. i got home from school today, read a book for an hour, ate a lot, went online a lot, practiced piano, did my homework, and still had time to spare. so of course i wasted all my extra time i could have used for sleep. so now its 11:20 and im still awake. what am i doing?! i could be sleeping right now. so i think i actually will go and do that. and im acting/speaking/typing very strangely. this isnt how my normal thought process goes. and this isnt how i normally type/talk, if you will. okay, i am a weirdo. i admit. okay enjoy life everyone. derek i like sunflower seeds too. they taste good inside peanut butter and banana sandwhiches, except you have to use chunky peanut butter because it tastes better inside sandwhiches. i also really like turkey subs. and steffy everyday in math i want to eat your lunch. okay thats all for now. bye bye bye.
does anybody want to see a goo goo dolls concert on august 17? i'm sure you'd rather go by yourselves, but i'm just asking. this word wealth is making me melancholy. i watched "angel" on WB today. it was creepy but cool.
i know i wanted to say something. oh yes, so with that little portable tv, i stayed up last night until one or so watching "just shoot me" and "frasier" and "everybody loves raymond" .. crazy. i walk around the house with it in my hands. anyway, lately i've had this urge to meet new people -- i don't know why. change of scenery, something new, i don't know. but basically i think there are three options: be outgoing and go up to someone completely and totally new and talk to them, ask your friends to introduce you to people they know but you don't know, or pretend that someone you already know is someone you don't know. yeah, that last option is pretty stupid. i should go do math homework or study for word dearth. oh well. i've found myself making strange loud comments in class more and more this year. today i suggested that mr. bird go and beat up mr. touma for not passing out these papers like he was supposed to. and when a girl asked what they do with the placenta after a birth, i blurted out "they eat it!" i don't remember what else i said today. i like sunflower seeds.
guess where i am? i'm at work. guess how much work i have to do? 0. nothing. there's nothing for me to do today. my supervisor actually went home. i'd go home, too, but my mom and i are carpooling, and she can't leave until 5:30 because she, unlike me, has a lot to do. i wouldn't mind having a lot to do ... ok, i'd probably mind .... i wouldn't mind having *something* to do ...
boo boo boo boo boo, this sucks. my mom suggests i go join the gym (there's a gym at this workplace, isn't that ... slightly insane?) but i don't know where it is to join it. poop.
wah, this is exciting. i haven't come home this early in a very very long time. but.. judging from past experience, i will end up not doing anything until.. oh, fourish, fiveish. so now i have about two and a half hours to kill. :o)
i have nothing to blog. hm.. i guess i'll go and waste time somewhere else then. feel better, norman! :) Sunday, June 02, 2002
gRACEee101: i'm going to bed derlei-poo
so my mom gives me this little portable color tv (like cassette walkman size) that she says my dad's boss gave to him because he heard i was really smart or something, and nothing came up on the screen and i opened it up and moved some things around and then closed it and now it works. so i get to keep it, okay. grace said she was going to sleep ten minutes ago but she still hasn't. psh, i think she just doesn't want to talk to me.
serena, you should go to bed earlier. even though i think i was still awake at one too. today was so-so. church in the morning, fell asleep as usual (there seems to be nothing that will keep me awake) and then went home and ate and changed and then went off to ocean grove for the orchestra concert. uh, a group of us walked around for a while along the streets and by the beach, i had ice cream, a lot of it. it was only $2.75 for a large cone with four scoops -- mm. i've found that fat people without clothing on are really annoying. i want to go back to the beach when i'm not wearing dress shoes and socks and black pants and white dress shirt and a tie. actually, the pants were dark grey. then we played our piece and it took a long time and i was cramped with people on all sides of me and it's really hard to play like that. oh, i got a orchestra sweatshirt for being part of it for seven years, yay. they gave us vouchers afterwards for free ice cream, and i should've gotten it from the guy. i like lemon italian ice.
ah. ellen h, when did you meet dave wei?
i should be asleep right now. but i'm not. i'm not even doing anything productive right now, why am i still here...??? so anyway, i met dave wei!! hi!!! i've known who you were but i didnt match you up with this blog.... i snapped my tennis strings today. by doing absolutely nothing except standing and waiting for the ball... the first strings i've ever snapped and its like not even exciting, poo. and ok i'm leaving i'm too tired to blog
Saturday, June 01, 2002
oh, and then i went to dance at holmdel park and it was strange. roger had been there since three and they hadn't even started yet. i don't know how to do the dance. somebody help me.
i'm featured on ellen's (ellen h) profile. yay! i ran into some problems uploading the image to the "create your t-shirt" interface when the colors are all jumbled and so i e-mailed customink about it. they'd better fix it. it caused me a lot of grief. actually, i don't think i've ever experienced true grief .. i'm not looking forward to the day i do. uh, so after sat ii writing and chem (oh no bears!) i went to tennis at around two and it was okay. my racquet had no strings, i went to the little shop and asked for a demo, brian asked why i didn't give him the racquet to string, i was embarrassed and said that my mom said it was cheaper at sports authority, he charged me two dollars for the demo racquet and then said jokingly (or maybe not) that i would have to pay if i broke those strings and why didn't i just let him string my racquet da da da. and then i broke the strings on the demo racquet. grr, i think it was julius when he used the racquet for the first two games of our little match against each other -- then we switched off and i broke it on his serve. then brian laughed a lot and gave me another racquet. then i proceeded to break a 0-3 deficit and the match ended up 6-6. wahaha, i don't know what happened, i was playing pretty badly (well okay, not that badly) with racquets that were unfamiliar and heavy and hm. it's strange when parents watch their kids play. i don't know why, one father had a video camera and when i looked up he had it pointed at me. i think i've started (to use parentheses often for some unknown reason). i want to watch "oceans eleven" again. and some other good movies.
by the way, my little short-term goal before i leave for taiwan is to deal with all those gifts i never had the chance (or i was lazy, i don't know what happened) to get for people at christmastime and for their birthdays and whatever else there was. deadline, june twenty-third. i should make a list of people, and you (yes, you!) won't be on it.
auuugh, the ets is an evil, evil organization. i hope i'm done with it. but.. i am probably not.. i kind of bombed the math today. i'm a math idiot. blargh. no more no more no more.... :oP
i have an urge to watch a real jack ryan movie. not that fake ben affleck stuff. i saw sum of all fears today, by the way. it was all right. it ended up being somewhat predictable.. and the ending was.. eh. i think liev schreiber (or however you spell his name) should have played jack ryan. he was so cool. hm, i guess that dialogue is funnier when you hear it. sorry if i weirded anyone (else) out. i just have that effect on people. :o)
gimme an oh no bears shirt. oh derek, just so you know, this color scheme is startlingly like the one for my new website ...
they're everywhere, they're watching you. the internet people, that is. and i think i'm also done with those three letters -- arrange the letters s, a, and t in the correct order and no it's not tas or tsa or ats or ast or sta -- which spell out "huge annoyance" every time i'm confronted with them. anyway, writing and chem (for the third time) were okay. i skipped four or five questions in chem. and with writing, there is always a "however". i wrote about how every point of view or opinion has an opposing idea with its own valid argument, and then used capitalism versus socialism to illustrate it. three paragraphs, i hope the readers like it. umm, then there were some multiple choice questions and i was a bit confused but it should all turn out fine. i hope. my rubik's cube is peeling. i think i'll start setting up the "oh no bears" shirt and ask people to buy them starting monday. oh no, BEARS!
i took spanish and latin.. spanish was much harder than expected, latin much easier. but as of right now, i am finished forever with anything sat-related. but those damn ets-ers will get me again for aps next year.
i was thinking that they had a monopoly, but then i realized that those act people are their competitors. their only competitors though. and weak ones at that. and wow, act.org is very weak compared to (with?) collegeboard.com. i think it's "when compared with." wow, look what i just found: Note about compare with and compare to Compare can be followed by a preposition to or with, depending on the meaning. These two are often used indiscriminately, but, in formal English, TO should be used when similarities are compared: e.g., Finnish politics are sometimes compared to, or are considered similar to, Swedish politics. However, in technical writing we usually want to compare both similarities and differences, so it is correct to use compare WITH. E.g., The heart can be compared to a pump or likened to a pump. (A clear comparison or likeness can be seen between the two). But, e.g., In the figure below, pumps made by X are compared with pumps made by Y. (Here, we are interested in knowing about both the similarities and the differences, though often the differences are more important) since i'm emphasizing their differences, then i'll say "compared with." i think it's weird and kind of creepy that i typed in "grammar help" on google, clicked on the first website that came up, clicked on prepositions, and then that was the first thing that i read. the internet makes finding information almost too easy.
hmm i thought the writing wasn't that bad. i actually knew what to write for the essay. maybe i was lucky. fizziks was as expected. i left maybe 10 blank and got probably 10 wrong. actually that's better than was expected. nice, i have 4 hours of tennis coming up at 2:00. i have to write my history papers now. lets go Nets!
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