So, for 1 week in history class we had to write down any racist/discriminatory comments we heard anywhere we went. This included racial,sexual, religious, and just rude comments in general. It really opened my eyes. Try it for a week, it only takes a second to write it down. The way i did it was a 2 column section in my notebook (left half for the date and entry and right half for my reaction) See how you change during the week

CAUTION! i didn't edit any of this so the following entry is raw, and extremely chancy...

so i got my blood test results back. And lucky for my i have to retake the test. Apparantly i was sick that day with a virus and it messed up my blood cell count, so i have to go back in a couple weeks and retake it. =[

*sigh* oh well, maybe this time won't be as bad *crosses fingers*



So, my parents signed me up for these "math olympics" things at my school. I took round 1 yesterday, and boy is it hard!! 

*sample problem* What's the next number in the pattern   2, 10, 202 ____ (if you think you know feel free to repyly =] )   But, i get to take round 2 next weekend. I hope i do okay.... you get pretty medels and your picture in the  newspaper XD


lastly i made some more icons... because i've been very bored this weekend

 

Patriots lost =[. They may not be my home team, but they're my second favorite. Or the fact that my dad is pretty much anti New York. But still. Hello.. Brady... what did you do before the game? Where you watching Donovan Mcnabb tapes or something? *smacks forehead*


 The game was excellent to watch though. It was one of the few superbowl's i acctually  watched (and yelled and jumped up and down) hehe *cough it had nothing to do with the really hot kid i was sitting next to or anything cough*

The last quarter.. wow, i was so pumped! hehe, anyways it was great.. 'cept for all those bad passes from the Patriots....


but next year the Eagles are going to win it ..... right?.... okay well, get rid of our QB and maybe we'll have a shot XD





also, meme from 

singnovember and tehrussian

 Ask me anything you want, and I will answer later in a voicepost!

 

so i went to get blood drawn yesterday because my parents think that i'm Anemic (not enough red blood cells in the body thus a lack of iron). So wow, not fun at all.

First, i had to go with my dad -- who was no help at all. I hate needles, they creep me out, so i sort of wanted to hold his hand, of course he's terrified of blood and had to stand in the hallway.... back towards the room.....

Then the lady said it would only be a few minutes and then i could leave, but after (what seemed) like drawing the blood FOREVER, she told me i looked really pale. Now, i'm positive it wasn't the blood, because i have no problem with that. But, my father insisted that i am pale normally (and i am, i'm pretty sure i don't even need a costume to play Casper the friendly ghost.... ). But the Doctor was persistant and said i should sit for another 5-15 minutes to make sure...

After a few minutes arguing with the Doctor (by my father), i asked for some water feeling lightheaded. Little did i know 5 minutes later the room would go all white and spinny. Of course my father was freeked out and he and the doctor had to escort me to a room with a cot and put this damp washcloth on my neck. They said i was clammy, but i couldn't really tell.... i don't even remember if i was consciouss for the whole event. ... but, everything turned out fine 20 minutes later when i was sent home (finally) 


now i just have to wait for lab results *shudder*


also book meme stolen from.. just about everyone

wow, its been a while huh? Ehh, long post it is =]

So MIDTERMS/FINALS ARE OVERRRRR! 

but still

and lastly
meme stolen from handyhunterand singnovember 

 meme from singnovember
List twelve fictional characters without looking at the questions under the cut. 

1. Dean Winchester
2. The Pie Maker
3.Tom Hanson
4.Edward Cullen
5. Sweeney Todd
6.Jim Halpert
7. Dwight Schrute
8. Cain Hargreaves
9.  Dr. Cox
10.Jack Sparrow
11. Sam Winchester
12. Hagrid

So this post is basically usless... hah, my life seems so dull. Nothing too interesting i guess, ....oh wait no .... i was going to ask for book suggestions. I was asking for unusual book (like Sex, Drugs and Cocoa puffs) or something mindless and entertaining... or just a good book in general. =]

Oh, and my ever present argument about the Flying Spaghetti Monster became a little more heated as well. My history teacher (who also teaches a religeon coarse ) refuses to teach the religeon of Pastafarianism because he says it was 'made up'. I don't want to get too deep as to not offend anyone, but really, who's he to say that someone's religeon of choice is not worth enough to discuss.......

anyway, 4 (hilariously funny) Twilight icons and 12 Sweeney Todd ones



fromtehrussian, star_x_faery, and julieelaine

 

So, i was away in Florida this week after my birthday (that would explain the lack of posts) heh

i won't bore you with details of my vacation, instead i'll just tell you about a series of books i found by Robin Wasserman


and here's the predictable part.....
well, i mean, you HAD to know it was coming didn't you ;]

So, as my sister's homework i was supposed to read her a story (Green Eggs and Ham) but, i thought that she should get some practice reading and she was so exited! I promised her i would record it so here it is! Her first real book! (it's a bit quiet and with a few mistakes, but she's only 7)

VoicePost 188K 0:59

(no transcription available)

So i missed my lunch period today to do some community service by serving my teachers a teacher appreciation lunch. It wasn't so bad, i got lot's of leftover cheescake! But, i did miss my Illiad/Odyssey test... which i wouldn't have complained about except that i didn't have time to study and one of my questions was "Who was the 2nd woman Oddysseus names in Chapter 1?" .. i mean.. who cares?!?

Though my teacher made up for that by casting me as the head prosecution lawyer in our mock trial of Oddysseus on Thursday! =]

Anyway, because of computer problems at school today i spent the length of my bio class listening to Springsteen! (not a bad day eh?)

Yay! Sam and Dean are back.. for now! 

A Very Supernatural Christmas:

i did enjoy this episode. Emotionally it was great, you laughed and cried and just overall it had a holiday feel to it. No to mention there were some pretty sweet lines =]. I absolutely loved the backstories, more specifically about Dean's amulet and how now Dean was gung-ho Christmas while it was the complete opposite when they were kids.
 
Daddy's little soldier thinks John's a superhero. While Sammy.... not so much. But I can understand, with Sam supposed to be kept all "innocent" and "sterile" from the hunting world. Dean! You try so hard to be a good parent at age 11(?) Sam should be proud.

The pagan gods scared me sh!tless. Why is it that every older person/child has to be so scary in this show? And i don't think i can look at a chimeny the same way ever again..... but hey, it got some nice caps of the boys! =]

anyway i'll rant on somewhere else because i think most of it has been said by others *cough*(singnovember, handyhunter,julieelaine) ;)

so, here are some icons i made of the episode
 off to babysit/bake cookies with my sister! =]

 title today is a song from the 1990 John Waters/Johnny Depp colaboration Cry Baby (no Johnny doesn't acctually sing)

anyways, school is boring... lots of stuiped essays (evaluative Truman's desicions of the atomic bomb during WWII) .... did i ever say how much i dislike that subject? And what i would do if i won the lottery (harder then it sounds.... you never want to sound too good or too selfish....)

fun time! meme stolen from singnovember

Pick a fictional character/ character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions.

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.

2) Is he/she important to the general plot?

3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?

4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?

5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)

6) Is there anything about the character you would change?

7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)

8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?

9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone whose new to the fandom?

10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

heh the title of this post doesn't have anything to do with a certain now popular song by the Styx. It's acctually a little toy my friend Eddie (not the vampire) bought me for hannukah
   

Um, anyway i went from an 85% on my test to a 98% because my teacher marked 5 of my problems wrong when in fact they where right. This makes me wonder about all those other tests i only "glanced" over. (this one was a major chapter test that's why i actually took the time to look it over) 
And oh yes, we're building a database in my computer class and i need a topic. Nothing seems origional enough. The only criteria is that there has to be 40 different subsetings of information(if i was doing actors, it would be the different names) and 10 catagories. I'm stuck right now on TV shows (very unorigional i know) Does anyone have any other suggestions?

So i finally got caught up today on all of the Pushing Daisies episodes i've missed (because why waste a saturday doing something productive? Mind you it is a holiday after all ;) ) *Caution* spoilers (if you-like me didn't catch the last few episodes)

 A musician friend of mine (Scott-the dude in the christmas swearter ^^) just release his new co-written Christmas album! He's a really great guy, and super talented! Not only does he play guitar, drums, piano and a whole slew more - he also is a music teacher in Jersey, and a thrill seeking roller-coaster junkie! (Who apparantly likes to drag his friends *cough* along with him ;)  ). He and his partner Megan have compiled an out of the ordianry Christmas CD now in stores. They have recently added one of their (and my) favorite songs to youtube, and it would be great if everyone could check it out! It's a guaranteed laugh! (Not to mention someone *cough* helped with set design *cough*)

You can also support them at their Myspace page found here If you're looking for a funny and unique christmas gift, or even a laugh for the holidays i would deffinatly recomend pickup up their CD or buying a song!
 

I love getting into the "hannukah spirit." This morning on the Christmas radio station they played Adam Sandler's Hannukah Song. Nobody else on the bus understood all the little inside jokes... And then of course they'res the giant jewish star made of lights i put on my lawn this morning =]. Haha, and we can't forget the famous candle lighting! Today was my sister's turn, she did pretty well (nobody was burned so that's always a plus!) I can't wait untill sunday, i'm going to bake some gingerbread Rabbi's ;)


Happy Hannukah everyone!! 


this post seems a bit short, so meme! Stolen from tehrussian
Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5.Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.

here goes

"This is acomplished by embracing semiorigional semielitist cultural artifacts that remain just out of reach to those wo desire them- the so called Cocoa Puffs of Power. We all relate to Sonny the Cuckcoo Bird. We pursue that which retreats from us, and coolness is always a bear market. Coolness is always what others seem to have naturally-an unspecific delicious, chocolately paradigm we must pilfer through sub-terfuge. It drevies us for a lack of better terms "coo coo" " page 123 Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman

wow, out of context this guy seems like a nut =]
  

Everything comes down to poo, from the top of your head, to the sole of your shoe. We can figure out what's wrong with you by, lookin at you poo!

 

So, do you belive in destiny? Well of course i do! Like the destiny that Sam and Dean will end up together? Okay, that's more of a hope. Alright then, the destiny that Orlando Bloom will never make another horrible movie in his lifetime? Okay, that's never going to happen... So, maybe destiny is subjective. I belive it is destiny for Ned and Chuck to be together. As it is for Sammy to get Dean out of this godforsaken deal..... but, when you ask me are Bella and Edward destined for each other? I must say... i think not.

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on the flip side, i just watched Troy and was inspired by Brad Pitt's lack of clothes  awsome acting. So here are 12 Troy icons

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so, ... i finally decided to get a journal. Don't ask me why, i have absolutely no idea =]. Probably because i feel the need to rant and not bother my friends (whether that be in real life or on a message board). Anyway thanks for reading! Have a nice rest of the day? (i'll most likely end up posting more.... or maybe make some icons... it's going to be a long day)

oh yes

GO E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!! *crosses fingers* please win!

p.s the first snow came today!!! =]

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