April 2009
11 posts
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Internet issues are hopefully finally gone!
The internet over the past month has been a fickle friend- never up for more than a couple hours at a time. My family has switched providers, and hopefully things look up.
In the space that I was gone, lots has happened. I’ve worked more, I took on a role one week before the play (I got to be trailer trash!), and I’ve written a seven page...
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Fun day.
Three day weekend to look forward to. I work twice, and hopefully I’ll be seeing lotsandlotsandlots of Chris.
Today was our six-month! Super exciting. We weren’t even going to be getting together, but I arranged for us to go rollerblading.
…well, by rollerblading I mean taking an hour to go down my street, while he tried to explain how to move my feet.
Didn’t...
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…I just realized that roman numeral thirty is XXX. I’ll try to do something interesting for that.
Dull day, really. Showed my English teacher the roughdraft of my outline for the research paper. We’re going to be learning about the Rwanda genocide tomorrow in government; hopefully I don’t cry. I stayed after school for an Envirothon meeting, but Chris had to be practicing...
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These roman numerals throw me through a loop. I suppose it’ll be good for me in the long-run.
Last Wednesday I attended a festival at YSU, where everyone was supposed to read the same seven books, and activities were done based upon them.
I, for example, started the day with a writing competition. However, we were really late, and I had only twenty minutes for an essay everyone else had an...
“I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer...”
– Charles M. Schulz (via thresca) (via quote-book)
XVIII
Internet is STILL being a pain.
Makes it difficult to do anything, let alone keep a regular blog. However, it has started to be a tad nicer, so hopefully I can keep the dust off this little fellow.
Life has continued at its usual pace.
Academic Challenge was last Saturday. My team won our first two matches, which is incredible. Farther than our po’dunk little school has ever gotten...
March 2009
24 posts
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best—” and then he had to stop and think. Because...”
– Winnie the Pooh (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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Yesterday I stayed after school for an Envirothon meeting, and learned something, for once. I’m feeling a lot more confident in my ability to identify trees, and I have got the leaves of the bigtooth and quaking aspen down. I an even tell the difference between the two!
Though there was a rather funny incident before practice. Chris and I were heading up an empty stairwell, and pulled off...
XVI
My internet is still being picky, and it’s getting frustrating.
I see Chris little enough as it is.
Though today I took Chris to the Academic Challenge practice at Meadville. That was nice. We stopped for McFlurries afterwards, and I bought one for his sister, and then he had to buy one for his mom, and then when we were on the way home we realized we didn’t get one for his grandma,...
We lost
We lost
We lost.
“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz ;1:2:3:4:5 (via krispayne) (via yoquieropancakes) (via katiestapleton) (via katoleary) (via leeshiebean) (via grace-notes)
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I am so excited for the Lipsync! Sincerely and honestly!
Now, most of the stress is done. No more props. No more figuring out. Just doing, again and again and again. And the performing is the best part of it.
And the gods are with us. Tonight up at Tanya’s house while making the big sheet (“Broadway Baby”), we were listening to the radio. And what comes on?
On Broadway.
...
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Hallo.
Lipsync, as usual, keeping me busy. But the entire thing is choreographed, with the exception of a few stunts we have to get down, and there’s only one girl left to be taught.
And, the best news of all, the teachers who help run the show saw ours, and they gave us positive feedback. I do hope they weren’t just blowing smoke up our… well, blowing smoke at us.
And I...
XIII
I haven’t done this in a while, do forgive me. The one day I was sick and completely overloaded with work (and I don’t just say that), and the rest my internet has been down.
So, I was gone but the blog was not forgotten.
Anyway, I’m going to be busy this week, since the big LipSync is this Saturday. And as a junior, even more is required of me, since we’re responsible...
XII
I stayed home sick.
I don’t have time to blog.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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I’m really quite sick.
I avoided staying after school, and dance class, so that I could come home and rest. This isn’t going to be good for school, as I’m behind in most of my classes. Splendid.
Today I went to the JETS competition. JETS stands for Junior Engineering Technical Society. A bunch of different schools get a bunch of problems about engineering. It’s soooo...
“why
do the
fingers
of the lit
tle once beau
tiful la
dy(sitting sew
ing...”
– (via eecummings) (via shambles)
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Two days of school I’m going to be missing, here!
Last Friday there was Project Enhanced. Tomorrow it’s JETS. (Oh, the headaches…) And this Friday we have the day off. It’s splendid.
Today, after school, we had LipSync practice. We have Popular mostly choreographed now. Nothing spectacular, but it does get the job done. And it’s a cute song, so hopefully it’ll...
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Today was pretty wonderful.
I spent the day at Chris’s. We “watched” Ironman and really watched I, Robot. (Which is an excellent movie.) And there were Sun Chips! And with a ton of prodding I got his sister, Alexia, to admit she loved me.
And, the funniest thing ever happened. I.e., he bled on me.
We were, um… “watching” Ironman when all of a sudden he looks...
“You can either avoid doing things because you think you’re unqualified, or you...”
– (via tmblg)
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Day of the Snowball Pageant.
I was Katie Rowles’s backstage assistant. It was lots of fun. There was food, and lots of clothing changes.
Everyone was gorgeous, all gussied up and gowned! Their talents all went excellent. Haruna, the foreign exchange student, sang beautifully. I was really impressed with her. If she could have won, the other girls would have been in trouble. (=])
The final...
February 2009
23 posts
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via quote-book)
VII
I was out last night.
At a friend’s house, preparing LipSync choreography. Another song and a half completed. I’m very relieved about it.
And the party was a lot of fun. After nine there were only six of us left to spend the night, and I really prefer that to the larger crowds we sometimes have. It feels safer.
We basically just talked the entire night, and ate popcorn like fatties....
“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things...”
– Mary Tyler Moore (via littlemiss) (via quote-book)
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Today was eventful.
Well, not full of events, but the one event that did happen was cool.
I gave blood for the first time. (Technically, at 106, I don’t weigh enough, but I fudged and said 112.) An experience, for sure. I managed to keep myself totally calm at the beginning. My iron was high, especially for a female. The questioning went good. I giggled without restraint when the iodine...
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My past two nights have not left much time for blogging, let alone resting in order to give blood tomorrow.
But, a quick run-down of events…
Envirothon meeting after school, where I think I actually learned something. And I can identify a skull like nobody’s business now.
…I love Chris very much.
And stayed after for the Snowball Pageant rehearsal in order to help out my...
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This boy is kiiiiiiiiilling me.
He’s saying all these cute things, but I can’t show him how sweet he is in public. Literally killing me!
It was his birthday, though. He’s eighteen- an old fart! He can now legally be in the military, buy stocks, lottery tickets, tobacco, and porn. (Buy/make porn, actually. Oh ho ho.)
My day was super busy. I just got home, at ten, after leaving...
“But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose...”
– David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement Speech at Kenyon College
Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also...