2008

Does it feel weird to anyone that a new year is coming? Where did 2007 go? I remember last year after break i got back and thought it was 2008. I'd been writing it on my papers for about a week before McKenzie broke the news to me.

But really, what is time? And why does it have so much control over our lives?

"So, I'll have to wake up at 6 and shower. Breakfast at 6:30. Be dressed and have hair dried by 7:15, and then leave at 7:20. I need to be at school by 7:30, then in science by 7:55, not 7:56 or it's detention! Wait, it's a block day. That means art. Then there's a cast meeting from 3:15 to 3:45, but mom has to pick me up early at 3:35 for a dentist appointment at 4:00. Then i have soccer from 4:30 - 5:30 and my cousin's piano recital at 6:00. Grr! And i still have to work on the science project after all that!"

Sound familiar?

Really,would it kill us to take an hour out of our lives every now and then to *gasp* relax and be with family? Yes, the hour that you could be spending working on the english essay. Yes, the hour you could be practicing your dance moves or perfecting that backhand swing. When we get older are we going to look back and remember the A we got on a paper, or the night we helped our mom make a pie? In the long run, which matters more? A letter in red ink, or family?

I'll admit, thinking about it, an aced math test sounds pretty good in comparison to an hour "bonding" with my parents, but isn't that kind of sad?

The State of Things (I thought I'd give this a try)

Dad: is remodeling the bathroom. Specifically, installing Wonderboard.

Mom: is remodeling the bathroom. Specifically, playing tool-gopher.

Ariel: is playing on FunTrivia.com

My hair: is shorter and wet.

The Knights of the Round Table: are running away from the cow-throwing French

Le Cancan Dancers: are fetchezd

My toes: are cold

The Diamond family: is in chaos, as usual

The Jones family: is preparing to have thier house trashed by a bunch of teenage girls

Jessica's story: is finished. Well, part one is.

Hahaha

I saw this headline today, and i just had to laugh.

Woman Accused of Wiping Her Nose on Cop's Shirt Charged With Battery

The State of Things

The radio: playing repetitive Christmas tunes.  They're getting rather monotonous

Sam: gone to Will's house.  Most likely watching the third season of The Office.  Lucky.

Grant: playing with his friend Jake in the basement.  Both of them are being twerps.  (: l

Note: messing around with Grant and Jake or in his room.  I'm not sure.

Outside: still snowing.  delightful!

Wow.  Kelsey was right.  This is boring.

Feliz Navidad

Merry Christmas Everyone!

MY week in review! haha

Monday: Science final, pretty good

can't remember what I did that night...

 

Tuesday: no school!  Rehearsal from noon to 2: 30, dentist

can't remember what I did that night...

Wednesday: history and math finals, got out of math early, joked around on stage, improv'd for middle schoolers, watched kelsey and thomas kiss

can't remember what I did that night....

Thursday:went to french class, watched movie, bored out of mind

english final

dyed part of tongue blue

Thursday night: went to David's house, watched National Treasure, joked around with Jacob, discovered more "lady charm," learned how to provocatively eat vegetables

Friday: picked up by Kacey and Mel at 10, saw National Treasure 2

went to lunch in food court

SAW BEST FRIEND!!!  

shopped with kacey mel and cassie

kacey mel and i come home

veg for a while

completely destroy my room in the process of turning it into the Teenage Girl Cave 

write theme song (same as Ms. Quinlan's!) doo da doo da doo da doo da doo da doo da 

have people over

go Christmas caroling with some of them- including Carter Baird

CHRISTMAS CAROL AT SAM'S HOUSE!!!  Sam didn't come to the door though.  It was someone who i'm guessing is his older brother- looked like a cross between a hermit and a hobo, had a beard (and hair) like something out of a movie, at first I wasn't even certain he knew english.  but he was nice! 

Came home

Watched Most Painful Elimination! (MXC)

Kacey and Mel slept over

Today: woke up

swim class

baked cake

ate cake

played dread pirate

kacey and mel went home

slept

So yeah that's been my week pretty much...what'd y'all think?  

My Week in Review

Monday
Review in all the classes except for taking the final in Science. It went pretty well. Then Olive and UC1 and I went to the libary.

Tuesday
History final. Went to library and Good Times with Olive and UC1 again.

Wednesday
Spanish and Math finals. Olivia came over and we attacked ice, sang songs and read stories.

Thursday
Ortho appointment and English final. Mall with Maithreyi, Olive, Onshalee, Lindsay, Jessica and UC1. We saw Enchanted and it was AMAZING! I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!! Also had string practice. Then Olive and UC1 slept over.

Friday
Olive, UC1 and I got up early and went to Seminary - Olive had fun. We came home, tried to watch the Importance of Being Earnest and fell asleep. Olive and I got up and made pancakes. We curled UC1's hair. We built a gingerbread house, too - that was messy. Very messy. Then Mom and Apples and I went on a girl date and saw National Treasure 2. I really liked it and spent most of the movie freaking out.

Saturday
Early morning choir and string practice. Not so fun. Violin lesson. Also not so fun. Christmas shopping with Mom and Apples. Crowded.

Tomorrow's the big performance... we'll see how that goes.

Bunny Blog

My sis has been demanding that I post the URL to her new blog - so here it is: http://mutantbunnies-uberhappybunnyofdoom.blogspot.com lol...

Ow

I've been sick since movie night lol but I think I was getting sick before that too

I need to sneeze

I've needed to sneeze for about 10 minutes now

So I snorted some pepper

Now my nose hurts

and I still need to sneeze

dangit

Ostrich

Hey guys!  So, on Thomas' blog we were talking about Photoshop, and this is the one I made in tech class!  *tear* I'm so sad that class is finally over.  I'll miss it so.  :(

Anyways, here it is!  Please leave comments 

Intamacy Exercises!

Well, today at rehearsals Josh wasn't there to direct Thomas and I. So we were left with McKenzie...directing us in intamacy exercises. Here's how it went:

3:30-3:35: Kelsey goes to the bathroom (procrastination!!!)

3:35-3:50: Thomas and i get to do "toes to toes, nose to nose". Yay! We manage to last 20 seconds without laughing and breaking apart!

3:50-4:10: Thomas leads me around the school blindfolded. And i only manage to run into a chain link fence, walls, lockers, snow banks, and accidentally feel up lexi. I am so sorry.

4:15 - 4: 45: Thomas and i run our lines and have girl talk.

I have been diagnosed...

I have been diagnosed... with tuberculosis.

Yeah.

TB.

That one.

It all started last Monday in Spanish class - we were working on our projects in the library. Well, my computer had been left on over the weekend by some kids working on a PowerPoint about a disease. I knew, via information from my sister, that it was Mr. Safranek's 7th period science class. So, I added a slide with a message from me telling the boys to close thier stuff when they leave. A week later...

Apples and Kumquats Babe had been expecting this message because I related the above story to them. They figured out what disease the people were doing: Tuberculosis.

Now, onto the symptoms of tuberculosis:
- chest pain
- fatigue
- trouble breathing

It usually affects thin people...

And a quote from Wikipedia: "TB was romanticized in the nineteenth century. Many at the time believed TB produced feelings of euphoria referred to as "Spes phthisica" or "hope of the consumptive". It was believed that TB sufferers who were artists had bursts of creativity as the disease progressed. It was also believed that TB sufferers acquired a final burst of energy just before they died which made women more beautiful and men more creative."

Well, that's exciting.

And another wierd thing: Guess what was happening right around February 16th, 2007?

The 2007 tuberculosis scare.

I'm sorry. Mo, this made me think of you.

Don't stare! 

I'm sorry, Mo. This reminded me of you.

Don't stare! 

Gosh...

Gosh, no one's posting anymore. No one is! Seriously. Pathetic.
Lunch was fun. I CAN do it, Ms. West! It just takes more than three days!
We have a piano at home, but I'm not quite sure if it's in tune...

Everyone! You should all be at my house from 1-4 on Sunday, for the filming of my incredible french video! lol well it will be great.  And if you're not there, YOU ARE WRONG!  lol

Another rehearsal tonight- great.  One more day with the people who caused me the most awkward moment of my life thus far.  

Just kidding y'all know I love Elliot like a brother

LIKE A BROTHER!  which his father didn't quite pick up on after finding the two of us hidden under a rolling cupboard pushed up against a wall in a remote corner of the second floor.  I love my life.

Popcorn Popping

Oh boy...

Wow

I just read Ariel's blog, and ran across the part where Moriah's dad points out to her where she was concieved. Um...I'm sorry mo.

Wow

I just read Ariel's blog, and ran across the part where Moriah's dad points out to her where she was concieved. Um...I'm sorry mo.

Wow...

So much has happened this weekend.

Friday:
Being albino Asian in Spanish
Coloring in history
Dead mice in math
Orchestra was amazing
Fabio's angry pants
Mr. H's kids
Skyler clapping 43 times in English
The speech party

Saturday:
Open Enrollment stuff with Katie, Olive, Kris, Maithreyi and Weston...
The ride back home
Piano recital
The Muppet Christmas Carol...

It's all still sinking in.

New Phone! Hooray!

(an outhouse!) haha inside joke with Hannah
well Grant finally has a phone of his own too
that's scary! haha
AJ was sick again today
poor AJ :(
I have rehearsal tonight! :)
Elliot is fun to hang with...
haha
anyways
tomorrow hannah and i are going Christmas shopping!
Yes, I called it Christmas.
Sue me.
Speaking of lawsuits, I totally want to have a Canadian conference! Because unlike you filthy racist Caucasians, we Canadians have faced opposition. I face it every day, in the form of Kelsey Gray. And her racial slurs.
Me and Alex Andony are taking. her. down.

haha
Good
night
God
bless

An Idea UC1 Had...

UC1 and I were in the car and we were talking about Google fortune cookies. She said it'd be interesting to blog what fortunes we got. So here goes: my fortunes and my comments on them as if they were real.

1. "Your eyes have magnetized a secret admirer." Well that's exciting! Probably not true, but hey, ya never know.

2. "You will find good fortune in love." Well, I seem to be doing pretty well in the romance department!

3. "Emphasize you own creativity." Maybe that's code for "make sure your essay analyzing JFK's inaugural speech for Speech and Debate doesn't suck!"

4. "Others see you as a wise person." Ha. Not.

5. "You will travel to many places." I doubt it. I've never really been one to travel a lot.

6. "You will have a very pleasant experience." I'm all for that! But that actually is pretty obvious. Every day fits that description.

7. "Others look up to you." Literally. I'm tall.

8. "Luck will visit you on the next full moon." Apparantly that's Christmas Eve. Maybe it'll snow.

9. "Your home is a pleasant place from which you draw happiness." Yeah, sounds right.

10. "You have a remarkable power which you are not using." Ookay... Like the power to do my homework and not waste my time on fortune cookies? Probably.

That's all for now, folks!

Garble

Ug. My sis just smashed a bottle of nail polish on my aunt's bathroom floor. I am not happy about this.

My today so far

Well it hasn't been very long since the day started yet, but here's what I've done so far:
Got up
Showered (Kelsey, I did so bad shaving this morning! I cut myself and it hurt!!!)
Ate breakfast (tasty)
Messed on the computer for like 10 minutes
Got kicked off the computer haha
cleaned bathroom mirror
came back here
updated!

So rather mediocre. And now i realize I have no idea why any of you would care about this. But i just thought I'd say all of it anyways.

For the rest of the day I've got swim lessons (haha those are so pathetic I won't even tell you about them)
going to the AT& T store- hopefully we'll finally get new phones today or tomorrow!!!
chores- mom's gone on her weekly "clean the house" rampage
play more monopoly- get butchered again (the last game ended with grant and I both in debt to Note nearly 50 grand!)
Movie nite!!!

So...fairly somewhat busy
haha
Anyways, I hope I didn't bore you all too much with this post.
Comment me!!!
Have
a
beautiful
day
God
bless
kenzer

My Thanksgiving Break

Friday: School, obviously. String practice. Sleep.

Saturday: Speech Meet. Good discussion about orange peelers, proper washing of a sweatshirt and various states of shoe rattiness. I come home and fall asleep at 8:30.

Sunday: Chruch. The Happy List. Fireside about Humanitarian Relief in Guatemala.

Monday: Seminary. Remodeling. Moving furniture. Burning CDs. All that jazz.

Tuesday: Seminary. Driving to Utah. I bring wrong cord for DVD player, so we are stuck naming every single place we can think of that starts with the letter "A." Yeah. That bad. We also listen to 80s music. Then Apples discovers that she has Pride and Prejudice on CD. So we listen to that. I fall asleep on Apples's lap. Dad shocks us by stopping at Subway long enough to get subs and go to the bathroom. He's getting soft in his old age. We finally get to Provo, where we visit with cousins. Then we sign up for the Turkey Trot. Then we go to dinner with same cousins. Then we go back to cousin's house and play Scrabble until little boy cousin smashes it. Baby cousin attempts to eat letters. Then we go home.

Wednesday: What did we do? Um... oh yeah, we went to Wal-Mart and bought stuff for Thanksgiving. Then we visited with Seth, Karalenn, Makenzie and Kendyl... what sweethearts. So cute.

Thursday: Thanksgiving day. Wake up early, pick up Heather and run the turkey trot. Well, I walked with Allison, Holly, Hillory and Apples, but whatever. Take pictures of Courtney and Sydney in the baby race. Cheer for all the other cousins in thier races. Go home after determining that we will all eventually regain feeling in various parts. It was cold! Then I fell asleep for two hours. And then we went to Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma and Grandpa Hippen's. We had Great-grandma, Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom, me, Apples, Eric, Ginette, Connor, Declan, Nathan, Heather, Chase, Avery, Courtney, Holly, Allison, James, Elaine, Steven, Hillory, Serenity, Cadence, Seth, Karalenn, Makenzie, Kendyl, Hannah, Eran, Zach, Sydney and some other people too. I hear stories about Denmark and resolve never to move there. We talk a lot. I learn a lot about my dad. For example, I did not know that he was a legend for being a hearthrob. Nor did I know that his name was all over a middle school he never attended. He also forgot to mention that his parents were known as "Lyle's dad" or "Lyle's mom." I wonder what dirt Apples will give to my kids when I'm old. Or even worse, what dirt Olive could give them. Scary thought. Then the conversation turns to me and dating. As the oldest grandchild, I am used to this. People freak out about me getting old and ask about dating. Dad responds that I cannot date until I am 30. I punch him. And it goes on... still wierd.

Friday: We drive home. More Pride and Prejudice. I fall asleep again. Yeah... We come home to a 40 degree house and for once we can smell our gas leak, which apparantly has been around for a while, but that we can never smell. Doesn't smell to wonderful. We do the only thing we can: open windows and bundle up.

The end.

Enchanted- my review

Well I saw enchanted last night. It was really good! haha, I'll go into more detail in a minute. I also got to go ice skating with Kacey and Mel- these two girls at my youth group! We had such a good time. (I saw the movie with them too).
Well as I said previously, the movie was really good. The singing, I thought, was marvelous. It really captured the nostalgic innocent disney feel. Everyone needs a fairy tale once in a while. EVEN olive, the Uber Cynic of Doom!!! haha.
The clash with reality I thought was hilarious, which of course created most of the plot. It was very suspenseful at some parts. I loved it. Robert, played by Patrick Dempsey or whoever, was much more New York-y than I had gathered from the commercials at first. Of course Giselle, played by Amy Adams, warmed him up by the end. One thing the commercials had not advertised in the least was the presence of "nancy," played by none other than the infamous Idina Menzel!!! I was shocked to see HER, but greatly pleased. Granted, they have to leave some surprises for the actual film, but I thought it could have been a big draw for fans of the theatre. One of my favorite characters was Pip, the little chipmunk. I'm sure you could have guessed that one, but I just had to say it! He was really funny.
The movie was a lot deeper than you would originally think. Driving home Mel and her mom and I generated over 10 archetypes and hidden messages! Some of them are:
the comparison of relative happiness between reality and the fairy tale world
the beauty of love pure vs. in your face and all about
don't take candy (or poisoned apples) from strangers

Well...I hope those made sense. They sound better when explained I think. haha! Anyways, I totally plan on seeing it a few more times, so if you want to hit the theaters with me, gimme a shout out!
Happy
Thanksgiving
Good
Night
God
Bless

Blog: Theatre...in Style

In case ya'll didn't already know, AJ started a new blog for all the thespians!
The URL is: http://dramanerds.blogspot.com/
Come see it! Comment! And even if you're not one for the stage, drop by anyway. We're welcoming folk.

Ok, i think we've established that we're all very thankfull for a very many things. There.

About .0000001 percent of the things I'm grateful for

1. Life
2. My parents
3. My sister
4. My grandparents
5. My family in general
6. My cats
7. Nature
8. Fox trails
9. Frost on the windows
10. Sticky notes
11. Having amazing friends
12. Drama
13. Singing in the rain while getting completely soaked and not caring one bit
14. Chocolate
15. Books
16. Conciousness
17. Brand-new notebooks
18. Sponateous laughter
19. Inside jokes
20. Forensics
21. Getting an unexpected award
22. Not getting an award but still having a great time anyway
23. Computers
24. Teachers who go off on tangents
25. Smiling
26. Herbal tea
27. Rain
28. My tree
29. Blizzards
30. That series of Oxford this-and-that encyclopedias that are about everything from Medieval art to Biblical geography
31. When you suddenly get what a poem means and it makes perfect sense
32. Broadway
33. Quill pens
34. My viola
35. Metronomes that work really well and don't give you nightmares
36. itunes
37. Sleeping late on a Saturday
38. Vacations
39. Living so close to a friend that it's easier to walk to their house than call them
40. Compliments
41. Funny people
42. Waking up in a good mood
43. Colored pens
44. Silence
45. Symphonies
46. Dancing where nobody can see you
47. When your teachers decide not to give you homework all on the same day
48. Honey
49. Butterflies
50. Love
51. Pineapples
52. Singing with a small choir where everyone can sing really well and the harmonies actually sound like harmonies
53. Chords that resolve themselves
54. Daffodils in the spring
55. Hope
56. When optimists turn out to be right
57. Shakespeare
58. English class
59. Nice people
60. The universe

More of What I'm Thankful for

1. Songs that make you want to dance
2. Ballroom dancing
3. Cucumber sandwiches
4. 50s love songs
5. Little kids with chocolate all over thier face
6. Neighbors who love to decorate for holidays
7. Fake ivy
8. People who make very depressing literature funny
9. People who make modernism funny
10. People who help me understand the difference between modernism and post-modernism
11. Google fortune cookies
12. Google quotes of the day
13. Lollipops
14. School House Rock
15. The Magic School Bus
16. Sharing clothes with my sister
17. When guys turn out to be really sweet and kind
18. Packing lists
19. Bean bags
20. When you’re so tired you get hyper
21. Crazy times with my sister
22. Hiccups

More of what I'm grateful for

1. Electric Mixers
2. Blogging
3. going out to restaurants
4. Adventures in Odyssey
5. taking long bike rides with God
6. Trampolines
7. Instant Messaging with smilies
8. playing hide-and-seek: loft edition
9. Stratego
10. Memories
11. Youth Group
12. When Sam's friends are so considerate
13. playing games in tech class with Jacob
14. eating unbaked Cookie dough
15. staying out late with friends
16. driving to school with Matt
17. designing avatars
18. singing in the shower
19. scootering
20. lazy vacations
21. Singing along with BR6, the A Capella group
22. dancing in the rain
23. dreaming
24. Orange Juliuses
25. Pickup games of ultimate frisbee
26. swimming
27. having shower parties!!!
28. KANSAAAS!!!
29. When Grant is hyper
30. All grade field trips
31. pretty rings
32. irish step dancers
33. driving in the car with Sam
34. picnics
35. little playgrounds
36. dumpster diving
37. 8th grade english
38. boulder
39. rock climbing
40. spotted pajama pants
41. family card games
42. sarcasm
43. acting
44. scintillating humor pieces
45. when ms. rea puts us through stress management classes
46. raking leaves
47. kiwis
48. accomplishing things
49. long hair
50. autumn

I'm Grateful For...

1. God's never-ending mercy and forgiveness
2. Good friends
3. treehouses
4. or just ladders up trees
5. rope swings
6. tire swings
7. the open space
8. secret hideaways
9. Songs I can belt to
10. Those times when no one's around but God
11. My tree
12. Getting on the roof at Coal Creek
13. Being stupid
14. and still being accepted
15. Church, and the atmosphere
16. The flatirons
17. Dancing!
18. musicals I get to be in
19. rehearsals
20. laughter
21. inside jokes (Josh, can you walk over here? There's maniacal laughter! I won't do it!)
22. Cooking shows on the Mac
23. The minute before french class ends
24. Cooking with people I love
25. Getting an unexpected text message
26. Giving stuff away

Well I finish this later! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I'm grateful for...

1. God, and all of his blessings
2. The dramatic beauty of the Boulder landscape!
3. My mom.
4. My cats!!!!!!!!
5. My dad.
6. Winter One Acts rehearsals (Josh! Walk over here for a minute...)
7. Toast
8. Free range cows and chickens
9. Access to the internet
10. Gum
11. My grandparents
12. My cousins
13, My aunts and uncles
14. Acting
15. Really good musicals whose songs i can sing
16. Slacker days in science class
15. Slacker days in math class.
18. Slacker days in many classes...
19. Drawing with fresh charcoal
20. Painting
21. Sketching
22. Smoothies
23. Crazy movie nights at kenzie's house. ("She fell off the roof!" and "Thomas! Your shorts are see-through!!!")
24. Amazing friends
25. Late starts
26. Early releases
27. Block days
28. Mashed potaotes
29. Really good Indian food
30. Matan Fez
31. Memories
32. Very good looking males
33. Preforming
34. Ow! - anyone who gets this, good for you.
35. Sunsets behind the flatirons.

I have to go, but the list could go on and on!

The Happy List - Things to Be Happy About

1. I'm alive.
2. My mother
3. My father
4. My sister
5. God's love
6. That I live in a free land
7. I have a house
8. Said house has heating
9. I have enough food
10. I get to learn about a lot of stuff
11. I have the means to communicate with my friends.
12. I have friends.
13. I have amazing friends.
14. I have clothes
15. Music
16. Encores
17. Great books
18. Fuzzy socks
19. When an audience starts clapping on the beat
20. The circular sound of Manneheim Steamroller
21. When your sister writes stories and puts you in them
22. Musicals
23. The Hallelujah chorus
24. Whistling
25. Colorful sharpies
26. Finding programs from last year's musical in old journals
27. Christmas
28. Babies
29. Talking to walls
30. Having Olivia make your hair crazy
31. Thanksgiving
32. Ms. Quinlan's speeches about adopting turkeys
33. Ms. Quinlan's walrus imitations
34. Completely mental Beatles songs
35. Muffins
36. 6/8 time signature
37. Curly hair
38. Little girls with really poofy dresses
39. Little boys with huge cumberbuns
40. Boys wearing suits
41. Screaming for your teammates at a speech meet
42. Orange peelers
43. Clementines at Thanksgiving
44. The shuffle button on music players
45. Old people pretending to be Jamaican
46. Bean bags
47. Socks that say "no nonsense" on them
48. When an old guy calls boys tanks and girls beautiful airplanes
49. No school
50. Snow

Please add - let's see how long we can make this!

Why I'm Grumpy- in no particular order

no one's updating
we're reflooring my kitchen
so I can't eat
my french project is crap
it's dark out
i have no contact with the outside world
it's about to be break
so I'll have even LESS contact with the outside world
both of my shoes are breaking
my CD won't play
my backup cheap headphones broke
my real iPod headphones broke
i dropped my phone
and it wacked out
*tear*

You've been a naughty girl - you've let your knickers down.
I am the egg man!
You are the egg man!
I am the walrus!

And McKenzie just informed me i spelled knickers wrong. There i changed it. Are you happy?
Huh?
Are you happy?
I updated ok?
OK???
*breathing heavily*

Long Weekend!

Well, maybe it hasn't been the best. We had to come down to Colorado Springs for my grandma's memorial, which was kinda boring, and therefore, I've been harassed by four WAY overly energetic 9-6 year olds the whole time. HEAVY 9-6 year olds. Who still insist on being carried EVERYWHERE. but whatever, it hasn't been all bad.
it'll be wierd not coming down here any more...but I don't feel like going into that any more. To be perfectly candid, I don't think I'll miss this place half as much as I think I will.
Dean and Becky came down for the day!!! I was delighted to see them this afternoon, and even more delighted to hear they'd be here all day. Dean and Becky are the grandparents who...well, I nearly had. Granted, they're not actually related, but that's just a technicality. Trouble Pops and Nice Mom are the greatest, as well as Emily (who's 23, one of my best friends in the world growing up and getting married this June!!!) and Tracy (who's 21, and has spent the past three months as an exchange student in the DR), who I've just taken to calling my cousins. I mean, it saves alot of explaining.
Right now Herbie Fully Loaded is on in the living room. I wanted to see this movie when it came out (the old Herbies were classics), but right now it seems really predictible and cheesy. Ah, who cares!
I'm feeling a little cut off from the civilized world right now. I mean, Colorado Springs IS only an hour and a half away (in good traffic- it took us three hours to get through denver in rush hour last night!!!), but it still seems like a different world.
Have you guys ever seen the youtube video What Old People Do For Fun??? Haha, it's great! I'm gonna be just like that when I get older.
Well...I'm getting hungry now, so I better go try to find some food. Did I mention the significant LACK of it here? haha
Good
Night
Y'all
God
Bless

Earnest was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

Well, in case you hadn't already guessed from the title, Earnest was incredible. Absolutely hilarious, and everthing flowed together so smoothely. All the actors were amazing - I honestly don't know which one I preferred. I'm sure you're all seen it by now - but just in case, you should absolutely come tonight. It's well worth the price of admission. Oh, and nice job on the set, you guys who did crew! :)

Uh-Oh

Reasons I'm Uh-Oh-ing
1. My violin bridge moved. A lot. And my strings are kind of falling off the fingerboard.
2. I have to finish my Utopia essay by tomorrow. And it's maybe a third done.
3. I have to write and memorize an intro that doesn't suck for my Humor Interp piece by Saturday.
4. I have to memorize my HI piece by Saturday.
5. My mother is sick and is not getting better.
6. I am broke.
7. I cannot seem to sleep on a normal schedule. I keep waking up at two in the morning unable to sleep and finally falling back asleep an hour later. And then I'll be exhausted the whole day.
8. Ms. John will probably be very cranky tomorrow because of her fight with Weston about appogiatura and neighboring tones.

Fortune Cookie

My fortune cookie from Google (love those things!) just gave me this:

You will find good fortune in love.


Haha... I wish.

I guess the universe was conspiring against me in my efforts to not stare.

Or you could say the the universe was conspiring to help me.

Does that make tuberculosis part of my personal legend?

Oh gosh, I hope so.

I'm such an English nerd.

Yes! My computer hasn't been loading this page for like the past week. It was like being cut off from...life. lol jk
At least God doesn't need to be online for me to reach Him!

Well Chautaqua was really fun. Yes, we had to stomach some bonding activites, but it was overall really good! Kelly and Hannah and I went out for Inta Juice (and then chased Mr. D half way down the street before AJ and his mom pulled up asking if we needed a ride...embarassing...) and then of course we went to chautaqua!
After all the bonding activities in Access classes we broke off into who was staying at base camp and who was going on the hike. Most of us (24 actually, so I guess not) opted for the hike, and then that proceeded to take up pretty much the rest of the field trip. It was really fun though! For those of you who are still oblivious about what happened, comment Thomas' blog. Or ask David. But beware, he's having a little trouble talking. He almost peed himself trying to tell ms. weatherbee today! it was really funny.
Please comment!
Off to
Rehearsal
Christmas
Musical
Good
Eating
God
Bless

Something to ponder...

Kelsey and I discovered today that my hair is long enough that I could hang myself with it. Hmmm. This is potentially problematic.

Mo and Very Good, Amazing, Near Perfect Day

Seminary: Well, nothing much. But hey.
Ride to school: Um, my blush was being stupid. But hey.
Speech: Great. Tom did an amazing job with Jabberwocky and one other poem!
Spanish: Uh, we didn't do anything.
History: Had fun "working on Utopia project." Good times.
Math: Mr. Lehr was gone, so Fabio and I air-stringed. (He on guitar, me on violin.)
Orchestra: Olive, Weston and I got out of Orchestra to go do hearing and vision tests. It was very fun. Even when the people yelled at us for being to loud and ruining the hearing tests. Haha, oops. What would happen if we gave Mike a muffin?
Science: It wasn't supposed to be fun, but Hannah and I made it fun. What would happen if we bled donuts/lifesavers? Nerd ropes? Junior mints/milk duds?
Lunch: We bought Mollie a cookie for her birthday. Yay!
Tech: Nothing.
English: Hannah and I hopped on the desks and read Mollie a birthday poem. That was fun. Also, Hannah is going to bring in Andrew's 5 foot fish that we named Fabio to school on Wednesday. Hooray!
After school: Seperating two near-blows sixth-graders was interesting...

Current music: We Built This City (Jefferson Starship), Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)
Current mood: Happy yet a little stressed.

Tomorrow's Chataqua. Freezing our butts off in the near-mountains. That should be fun. At least it's another day to get everything done.

*ponders*

My toothpaste tastes like root beer. Curious.

Yesterday

Oh wow. Yesterday was amazing!

In Seminary, we had donuts. And of course, Chloe's prayer was hilarious. "Please bless the refreshments that they............... won't kill us." ~Chloe

In Spanish, we made sugar skulls, watched music videos and made Pablo and Carlito sing Me Muero with thier luchadore masks.
"Que paso?"
"Larson." ~ Sra. Meiler and Cindy

In History, we worked on our Utopia projects. In mine, one of the basic human rights (why wasn't this included in the Bill of Rights?) is the right to bathroom usage.

In Math, we had donut day. According to Mr. Lehr, it's all my fault for first mentioning donut Fridays. Hey, better being blamed for donuts than something else.

Orchestra was great. We established that Speech sweatshirts are the epitomy of dorky. We also played through our concert and it didn't go too badly. I've learned to just watch Olivia for bowings.

Science was interesting. I have to make my travel brochure for those on the run from the law. "Are you a criminal running from the law? Come stay in a plant cell! Much better than a prison cell!)

Tech was... tech. Mike and Taylor are funny, though. Websense is annoying the crap out of all of us, though.

And of course, English. You know you go to P2P when your English class is crazily celebrating that we came up with 102 ways to close-read text in one minute. We're so nerdy. I love it.

Then I came home and practiced. That could have been a lot better, but hey.

And then my parents decided to take us out to eat. On the way there, Dad and I introduced Ariel to the song "We Built This City." Dad introduced us all to the song "Jessie's Girl," which is pretty much amazing.

At the resturaunt, people were singing a REALLY LONG AND DRAWN OUT Happy Birthday song. So I pretended to shoot them. Unfortunately, the old ladies at the next table saw me and started laughing uncontrolably. That was a little wierd.

And then we went home and watched The Gods Must Be Crazy. Wow. That is a really funny movie. My tummy still hurts from laughing.

And then I fell asleep.

The way your smile just beams...the way you sing off-key...the way you haunt my dreeeeams! <-- good song

Well...last night was AJ's birthday party. That was fun! We pretty much just played mafia for four hours! We played by the fire too, and ate, and opened presents, of course. I got him a CD and a Build Your Own Peace Garden Kit! Haha, I designed the kit myself (with a little help from Kelsey and Hannah). He said he's putting the sign in his room. It says Testosterone Peace Garden-Feel the Manliness!
haha.
Matt gave Paige, AJ, and I our scripts yesterday. That's cool...I haven't read the whole thing yet, but since it's so short we probably did 9/10 of it at callbacks. I can't wait till rehearsals start! Then I can stop taking the bus! lol somehow I don't think it's the funnest experience, but it's probably good for me.
Mom signed Grant and I up for swimming lessons starting today. I hope that all the other people in it aren't like first graders or something. That'd be so wierd. And shameful. haha.

I love it when I'm busy. Sitting around at home like a lard is so boring. Of course, I love biking, and going places by myself, but it gets a little repetitive for every Saturday! I still need to see Across the Universe. That looks like such a good movie! It should be rated R...for you know, the cussing, the SEVERE drug references, the partial nudity... Sometimes I wish Hollywood could get a grip and portray the parts of life that don't have all of that in it. One the other hand, this movie is to show us the 60's- complete with the anti war rallies, the drugs...I hope it's worth it.
Of course, who knows when I even think I'm going to see this! It's a pretty full weekend- to my delight. We start swimming lessons today...but those are only for half an hour, thank goodness! Maybe we'll rent a raquetball court for afterwards. That would be fun. This afternoon/early night I have another birthday party, which sounds like it'll be the bomb! I still need to get them a present...That'll be today, and then tomorrow I have church of course and I think Operation Christmas Child with Hannah. Maybe it doesn't sound like much. Maybe it does. Either way, I know I'm pretty full. But if I got an invitation, I'll bet I could squeeze it in.
One other thing I have this weekend- that I'm NOT looking forward to- is homework. Groan! Oh well, I don't have that much. I have...let's see here...history (working on my perfect society. Which I think would be torture to live in. I mean, in a perfect society, nothing would go wrong, hence the perfect. No one would ever learn from their mistakes, and think of how boring it would be! Plus, if the society is perfect, pretty soon we'd think WE were perfect. And then we'd be left with the worst thing ever- no need for God. Somehow I don't think Ms. Hollis grasps what she's asking for.), science (well, my Cell City brochure isn't exactly bad...Exactly...lol. It could take a bit of time...), and then french (let's just say I'm not a fan of those little magazines she always gives us! haha). So, not bad. Not bad.
I can't wait for Tuesday- CHATAQUA!!! I love our field trips there. So, it'll be cold. But we can go on a short hike with our friends and then chill at base camp. I mean, we can run around and play games and not get yelled at! Just be sure to bundle up!
Well, as much as I'd love to stay, it sounds like I've got a few things to attend to...
Luv y'all
God
Bless

Arg.

Ug. I just read my humor interp piece for my Dad, and am now feeling completely and utterly confused. According to him, I'm exaggerating everything too much, and I sound like a child. He suggested using dry humor instead of milking the stereotypes so much. I dunno, I didn't think you were supposed to do that for humor interp, but maybe I was wrong. Double ug. I hope whatever interpretation I end up doing works well for the Tournament in Fort Collins, I'm getting nervous already.

CHECK IT!!!

I finally decided what to be for Halloween.
I'M GRANT!!!

One Song Glory

I'm watching the music video for that song right now. This song is so sad...
it makes me angry. At all the stupid freaking people who think they can throw their lives away like April. At all the idiots...on one hand, they're being selfish, not thinking of the people they'll leave behind when they die, the people who LOVED them, no matter how stupid they were being. On the other hand, they're not even thinking of themselves... they should know it will kill them!!! All the flipping care about is a ten minute high. what jerks.
if any of you ever even THINK about trying to pull something like that, come to me. As merciless as I sound, I'll understand.
And then, I will dropkick you to Hong Kong.

Halloween

It's that time of year again: the time where little kids get stuffed into pumpkin costumes and carry a pumpkin around asking for candy until they get to cold and go home, the time when older kids wander around with lipstick all over thier face and pillowcases in thier hands asking for candy, the time when preteens try to act like they used to but then feel really embarassed and get angy, the time when math teachers make you find the circumference of a pumpkin and the time when college kids find the sluttiest outfits they possibly can all while old people hand out candy - Halloween.

So, what will you be doing for Halloween?

OH MY GOSH...

I hope this worked. If not, can someone please teach me how to put videos on this thing?

Anyway...oh my gosh this is sad. And that one part was kinda gross...but really, what ARE we showing our girls? I love dove...

kinda off topic, but

hey guys, I really need something to be for halloween...I was thinking Buttercup (from Princess Bride, NOT the powerpuff girls), but I'm not sure enough people would know who I was and it's not that entertaining, and then I was thinking a gas station but it would be hard to wander around in a box and my immature friends would make immature jokes about hoses. So let me know any ideas you might have!

The Great Religious Debate(s)

1. Resolved: That the Universe was created by a divine being.
Affirmative: Kenz, Mo, Kelsey
Negative: UC1, Olive

2. Resolved: That modern Americans were sent to Earth in the circumstances that they were because God knew that they were the best people for that period.
Affirmative: Mo
Negative: UC1
People I'm Not Sure About: Kenz, Kelsey, Olive

3. Resolved: That religion does more bad than good.
Affirmative: UC1, Olive
Negative: Kenz, Kelsey, Mo

Let the debate(s) begin! Feel free to argue in new posts, comments, whatever. Ready... Set... Go!

Today in science mr. d was telling us how in the human body every cell has 23 chromosome doubles, except for one kind of cell in a boy and one kind of cell in a girl: you guessed it, the sex cells. And the next sentence out of his mouth is "now it's interesting in evolution-" I stopped listening there. After all, how on earth was he going to explain that one??? That we just HAPPENED to be perfectly able to bond and create babies? How babies had that same chromosome balance??? my BUTT.

Callback lists got posted today- or at least, two of them did. Matt and Nathan Otey's. David didn't make it...that puzzles me. he was amazing. AJ made both, haha.

What else is going on in my life?

Well...
Katie's worried about Mo's eating habits.
Mo insists she's perfectly fine, and continues defending her eating habits.
Hannah's phone is either broken, she's avoiding me, OR she's uncannily busy every time I call....lol
Kelsey still remains near us all, yet it seems there's a rift, as she repeatedly claims to hate thomas and myself...again, lol
Olive hasn't been around much- i mean, around ME in particular. She's still nearby, but I miss her predictible cynicism.
Mollie shared her eulogy today, which was both entertaining and SPEEDY. She did a stellar job.
Thomas is "addicted to 'H'" in his monologue. Still as frisky as ever in real life of course.
AJ is really excited for callbacks. That's fun.
David and I have the most amazing "handshake" ever. You guy's'd love it...I think :)

Wellness Day is tomorrow- yippie-ki-ay. Let's hope it's fun...and I'm actually in some sessions with my friends. Due to a college visit, I wasn't able to pick the same workshops as them, as far as I know. All I remember is I put "theatre games" first. haha. I wonder who's running that. Somehow even CAD sounds more fun than wellness day. I mean, it's like, "health!" ew

I built a tire swing today! Over by my house some of you have been to where there used to be a little rope swing tied to a stick over a ditch. Well today, it got an upgrade!!! It's really cool and I swang there for like 20 minutes in circles! I'm still a little woozy...

I suppose that's about it...hopefully I'll see y'all in the morning!
Good
Night
God
Bless

Anorexia

It has come to my attention that there are those who think I am anorexic. Let me say it once for all read: I am not anorexic. I know, that won't do it for some of you, so here are your contentions and my rebuttals:

1. We never see you eat much at lunch.
That's because you missed me stuffing my face during 3rd period. I get hungry then.

2. You don't eat often enough.
Here's my philosophy: Eat when you're hungry, don't eat when you're not hungry. I don't really get hungry when people are supposed to eat. I get hungry during 3rd period, after school and late at night. So I eat then.

3. You don't get protien.
I put protein powder in shakes, and man, that stuff is loaded! I also pile on the peanut butter with my sandwiches. And I just ate a half cup of peanut butter.

4. You give away your food.
Well, if I'm not going to eat it, someone might as well.

bleeeeeah

Current song: Something Bad (Wicked), Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)

Current mood: contemplative

Current thoughts: I still can't believe that auditions for one acts are tomorrow. I realized this at 9:32 last night with a shocked gasp. I'm screwed, and y'all better not even think about arguing with me. Ah, whatever. Sam and Note just got home...I wish it wasn't so far to my tree, but biking the 3/4 miles there and then the same way back holding a rake this morning was enough. I nearly took out SO many cars! lol. I wish that people actually LIVED in our neighborhood. I've seen three people who live in our cul-de-sac in the past 2 weeks, and we ran into them at the PARK. I wish I had different neighbors, but I definitely don't want to move anymore. bleeeeeah
i'm bored

well bye guys!
~KENZER LOU

Another Speech Meet, Another Timeline

3:30 - Wake up and stumble into shower, rush to get ready
4:30 - Pick up UC1. Don't remember what we talked about. Did we talk?
4:50 - Arrive at school. Get on bus. Watch everyone fall asleep.
5:30 - Am UC1's pillow
6:00 - Talk about stuff with Camilla, that one dude and Em with occasional comments from other people, depending on if they're awake or not.
6:30 - We use my flashlight to practice.
7:00 - I realize that with Joe, Travis, John and Tylon with us, there are more guys that girls in our grade on the trip. I am shocked.
7:30 - We arrive at Platte Canyon and notice that the flagpole seems like it's about to fall over.
8:00 - We change. I am happy that I did not forget anything.
8:30 - Maithreyi and I compete in Public Forum Debate against these really scary twins. (Our topic: Resolved: That the US should encourage the implementation of a soft partition in Iraq.) We think that they ate us for breakfast even though we debated the negative side, which was easier.
10:00 - We debate a mean and scary blonde couple. We think that they ate us for lunch. We had to debate the affirmative side.
11:30 - We debate the twins again and do much better. Because we went in the same order with the same sides as the first round, we essentially have the same debate, but we do a lot better.
12:15 - Lunch. Which should actually be called snarf-down-a-sandwich-while-you-write-an-intro-for-your-afternoon-interp-piece-and-massage-your-feet-because-your-shoes-are-actually-your-little-sister's-that-you-had-to-borrow-because-you-need-to-move-around-in-interp-and-can't-do-that-in-your-own-shoes-and-also-try-to-tune-out-the-annoying-school-that's-doing-the-hokey-pokey-really-loudly-and-as-soon-as-that's-done-start-helping-people-memorize-thier-oratories-and-once-you-have-heard-an-oratory-about-how-someone-hates-Romeo-and-Juliet-or-sports-players-using-steroids-when-the-orator-keeps-pronouncing-steroids-as-steeeroids-because-you-can-only-listen-that-stuff-about-twenty-times-you-run-away-and-find-a-piece-of-wall-that's-unoccupied-and-start-talking-to-it-practicing-for-your-humor-interp-until-someone-runs-into-the-cafeteria-and-shrieks-"posting"-and-then-everyone-freaks-out-and-starts-yelling-postings-and-everyone-rushes-to-the-posting-to-find-out-where-to-go-and-we're-talking-serious-sprinting-here-and-everyone-freaks-out-and-wishes-each-other-good-luck-and-runs-off-to-thier-respective-rooms.
1:30 - First round of humor interp with astrology girl, DUI guy, dancing-in-my-underpants-british girl and self-help girl. I think I did pretty well.
3:00 - Second round of humor interp with Oz-lawsuit girl, Hillbilly-Rapunzel guy, and frog-prince girl.
4:00 - We are ready to be done.
4:25 - Last posting. Phew.
4:30 - Third round of humor interp with fourth-grade-boy girl, microphone-canon girl, some other girl and English transvestive guy.
5:30 - We arrive back and celebrate that we're DONE!
7:00 - Awards ceremony. Peak to Peak gets a ton. UC1 wins Excellence in Humor Interp and Superior in One-On-One Value. Caitlin wins 1st in Impromptu. Em wins 2nd in Oratory. Weston wins third in Humor Interp. Cindy and Weston win 2nd in Duo Drama. Proof that the judges are crazy: Maithreyi and I got 2nd in Public Forum. Wow.
8:30 - We stop at Qdobas. UC1 and I argue over whether or not I'm anorexic. I eat to make her happy, even though I'm not hungry.
10:00 - We arrive at school.
10:30 - I get home.
11:00 - I fall asleep.

I have found an amazing new musical

At a suggestion from a fellow thespian, I have discovered yet another amazing musical: Jekyll and Hyde, the production we will hopefully be doing as seniors. I haven't seen the video yet, and I've only heard 6 songs, but I've loved every one of them. These being:

This is the Moment
Facade (defiantely my favorite)
Murder, Murder
In His Eyes
Someone Like You
Dangerous Game

If we actually do this musical, I can already see it being absolutely amazing, despite the fact that some of the parts sound incredibly hard. I can already think of two or three people who would be amazing as Jekyll/Hyde, in our year alone. Kenz would be a perfect Lucy, not because she's anything like the character, but because she is a) an amazing actress and b) really really good at belting. And Emma Carew sounds like an amazing part too, which I think would be really fun to play :). I hope Ms. West really has us do this as seniors!

I am mad at Mr. Lehr.

I am mad at Mr. Lehr. What kind of math teacher assigns an essay? Ugh. Well, being the dork that I am, I decided to get back at Mr. Lehr by inflicting upon him something horrid: I am using big words on my essay. He's horrible at English. Haha. Here's my favorite excerpt:

Well, I suppose part of getting the A is understanding the material. So let’s say that this year I would really like to finally indisputably understand a truly enigmatical and puzzling concept that has baffled and bemused me since it originally entered into my consciousness: sine, cosine and tangent. Honestly, every year my teachers endeavor relentlessly to drill this “truth of mathematics” into my brain, sometimes lucratively, but the end consequence has always been thus: what with all the other ineffectual nonsensical lampoonery crammed into my thoughts by subsistence, this “truth” indeed has never manifested itself unto me in all its logical grandeur.

Total Words: 100
Total Syllables: 182
Total Sentences: 3
Estimaded Readability Level as indicated by that one graph in our Writer's Handbook: College.

Down you go, Mr. Lehr.

What happened?

Whatever happened to actually commenting on things, carrying on whole conversations about a certain post? I mean seriously, no one ever comments any more- and a lot of you aren't posting either.
most things lately seem rather docile and ho hum. I'm ready for excitement, something different! I mean, that comes from all of us getting together and hanging out, so let's do that again soon. I want to have friends over like every night, and not huge ordeals either. They can just be simple things, like friends over for an hour after school to play knockout, or even 15 people over for 3 hours and a groundies tournament. It doesn't have to be gigantic, but it can be. I just want to be WITH people! *sigh* oh well. :)

The PSAT

Well, today was the day. We took the PSAT. And it was really boring. Painfully so. 45 minutes of filling out personal information. 25 minutes of reading. 25 minutes of math. 25 more minutes of reading. 25 more minutes of math. 30 minutes of writing, which was really grammar. Zzzzzzz.....

And then we went and waited in the cold. And shivered.

And then we tried to go outside.

And got kicked out.

And shivered some more.

At last, we were let in, free to... go to science class.

And listen to Mr. D talk about going to CU.

And realize that he had my dad's hair when he was young.

Wierd.

Then we went to lunch and vented.

And then I went to tech. And photoshoped. Which I was supposed to be doing, for once. I tried to give myself good violin hands and it didn't work. My hands died.

And then we listened to Ms. Quinlan. Always interesting, if not a little crazy.

So that was PSAT day!

My Scintillating Humor Commentary on our beloved home of learning, Peak to Peak

DISCLAIMER:
Hey y’all! So this is my…scintillating humor piece. Lol
Well no…I mean, it’s a bit of sarcastic commentary on Peak to Peak. Don’t take anything it says seriously, and if this falls into the wrong hands, be assured it was only for the sake of amusement, and those who live in the nearby neighborhoods shouldn’t take offense. It was only for the sake of the piece!

“Here at Peak to Peak…” “Here at Peak to Peak…” “It’s a LEARNING environment…” No it’s not. It’s an insane asylum. Those adults aren’t teachers, they’re “accountability partners,” or even “friends.” More importantly, they’re our counselors. They’re there to “bring us through the hard times” because they “know what we’re going through.” No they don’t. NO ONE knows exactly what we’re going through but us! Sure, they drag themselves to Peak to Peak every morning like us, but this is their job. They are paid. We are patients.
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t have an exact mental disorder in the brain. But we certainly are teens, adolescents. The poster children for a hormone imbalance.
It’s an isolated building. The administration believes the only people who can stand living the nearby vicinity are senior citizens. They’re old already, so no big loss to society if we accidentally kill them off, right? Other than the retirement centers and the run-down low-income neighborhoods two streets away, Peak to Peak is abandoned in a barren, undeveloped field, overlooked by the over-inflated economy.
They say they’re building a football field. More like they can’t stand the “lack of structure” in physical education classes. Yes, the dreaded classes that remind us of the days when we were young, and free to run about the fields and hills like little mountain goats. Why are they so dreaded then? Because they also remind us of our families and how when we came of age they heartlessly shoved us off, left to fend for ourselves in the big wide world. Or rather, left to be fended for by the counselors. So those schleppers were our parents, sloughing off their duties and dumping them on someone else. When you’re rich you can do that.

Funny Quotes

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. - Senator Patrick Leahy

Why be a man when you can be a success? - Bertolt Brecht

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can. - Cullen Hightower

Speechletes unite!

The Battle Mountain speech meet was amazing! You all should ditch soccer or dance or whatever and come to the Platt Canyon (sp?) meet. Here's the day's timeline (with ballpark times - I wasn't really keeping track):

4:00 (am of course!): I wake up to a mysterious sound coming out of my radio. It takes me a full five minutes to figure out that my alarm clock has gone off, and that I actually set it to ring at such an unholy hour for a reason. This is seriously how incoherent I am in the morning.
4:05: Upon figuring out what the alarm clock is, I get up and get ready for the meet.
4:25: I argue with my mother over whether I'll really need a heavy overcoat and extra socks for the bus ride.
4:30: I call Mo's family with Mum's new cellphone to see if it actually works. It does.
4:35: Riah's family takes me to school. I try to stay awake until I get to P2P so I don't seem totally rude. (Really, this was a challenge for me.)
4:50: We get to school and hop on the bus. Everybody else arrives within 10 minutes.
5:00: We leave P2P. I start to wake up.
5:10: Mr. Schafer and two of the seniors give me a crash course on value debate, which happens to be my first event and which I happen to know nothing about.
5:25: We all talk about completely random topics such as famous opera stars, actors who lived horrible lives and died in their fourties, and scientific notation.
6:10: Everyone except Moriah and Mr. Schaefer crashes and falls asleep. I doze.
6: 20: I fall off the bus seat and decide that the floor is more comfortable than the chairs.
6:30: I get back on my seat. Everyone slowly starts to wake up.
7ish: We get to Battle Mountain. It might be more like 8ish, I'm not sure. I'm going to pretend it's 7ish for the sake of my timeline.
7:30: Everyone changes into their formal clothing. Mo realizes she has forgotten her skirt, and Cindy saves her life by providing an extra one.
7:55: Mr. Schaefer gives everyone their codes for the morning events. We search the school for the rooms we're supposed to be in.
8:00: I go to the value debate prep room for round one, and get my first topic. My wave spends thirty minutes madly coming up with contentions for our resoultion: "When in conflict, is it better to fund a preschool program or an athletic program?"
8:20: I run out of ideas for either side, and spend the next ten minutes trying to organize my thoughts so I can actually use them.
8:30: We are released from the prep room to go debate.
8:35: My opponent shows up; we flip a coin, and I get to choose sides. I pick affirmative.
8:36: We debate! I don't totally blow it, but I'm not brilliant either. I decide that my opponent is either very stuck up or very awkward at this. I muddle through my arguments.
9ish: We finish the debate, and go back to the auditorium to wait until round 2 is posted. Mo comes back and tells me about her CST round, which I'm sure was amazing.
9:45: I go back to the prep room for my second debate. We spend thirty minutes madly coming up with contentions for our next resolution: Is it moral to ticket drivers who talk on their cellphones?
10:15: I do my second debate, and end up arguing the affirmative side. The other girl is REALLY GOOD and talks really fast. I muddle through my arguments again.
10:45: We go back to the auditorium and sit around waiting for round three postings.
11:30: I go to the prep room and get my last resolution.
11:31: Everyone freaks out because the topic is "Is it moral for Bush to continue funding the war in Iraq?"
11:32: We quiet down and spend 28 minutes madly coming up with contentions for our debate.
12:00: I go to the debate room and wait for five minutes while the judge from the last round finishes her notes.
12:05: We debate! I get very lucky and get the affirmative side again, which is the side I had MUCH better arguments for. I think I won this round.
12:35: Yay! We're done with all the morning events! We eat lunch and practice for humor interp.
1:30: Round one of humor interp. I am okayish.
3:00: Round two of humor interp. Just for the record, my piece is all about how ridiculous credit cards are. I read it, and there's a girl and her dad sitting on one side of the room who are just laughing their heads off the whole time about it. I'm thinking, "Gosh, I must be better than I think I am!" and am feeling pretty confident. Then the round ends. The girl comes up to me, still lauging, and says, "My Dad works for VISA." Oh. My. Gosh. I can't believe I read that piece to someone who actually works for a credit card company. But it's all good.
4:30: Round three of humor interp. I'm okay, but everyone else in that round is REALLY GOOD. Oh well.
5:30: Yay! We've made it through all our events, and neither Mo nor I threw up the entire time! This we consider an achievement. We all sit around and socialize.
5:45: We do about 10 rounds of impromptu duet acting. Lexi and Josh represent P2P and are amazing with their response to their prompt: "An intense game of hungry, hungry hippos." Or something like that. Anyway, they manage to be one of the few groups that isn't eliminated by the boredom gong. I'm not even going to try to explain that.
5:55: Awards for impromptu duet acting. Lexi and Josh win first place! Obviously, they were way better than everyone else, but we all know how brilliant they are at acting.
6:00: Awards ceremony. P2P totally cleans up with a million awards. I'm not even going to try listing them all. Go P2P! Mo gets an excellence award for her mad creative story telling skills. I get excellence for humor interp, and by some miracle, 2nd place out of 26 competitors for value debate! Considering I was learning how to do value debate on the bus this morning and it was my first time, I think that's pretty good, although I'm sure luck had something to do with it.
6:25: Everyone compliments everybody else on how amazing everyone was.
6:30: We leave for the long busride home.
6:40: Mr. Schaefer gives us back out comments from the judges. Apparently, I won all three of my debates, and averaged a score of 49 out of 50. I am pleased. :)
7:30: Dinner. We refuse to listen to TB's insistence that we eat at some soup place called Zappapos, or Mizappos, or something like that, and go to Subway instead. TB is very annoyed.
7:42: Lexi manages to spill soda all over Kate. No idea how this happened.
7:50: We get back on the bus, and it's snowing! First snow of the year!
8:00: We talk about everything from the meatpacking industry to unjust treatment of minors to cloning to sleep deprivation to what a horrible teacher Mr. Cegelski apparently was. Cindy falls asleep.
10:05: We realize that Cindy has completely crashed - she falls off her seat and fails to wake up. Little wonder - apparently she got something like 3 hours of sleep last night. Poor Cindy!
10:10: We get back to P2P, and try to wake up Cindy. She opens her eyes, but has difficulty recognizing us, and can barely stand up, although she insists she will drive herself home. We leave TB to argue with her over the likelihood that she will fall asleep at the wheel and crash her car.
10:15: Dad picks me and Riah up, and we go home.
11:00: I fall asleep.

Wow, what a day. Speech is so much fun! You should all join. Those of you who are on the team should come to the Platte Canyon meet next Saturday!

Fall...DUCKS

haha. so hannah and i had a sleepover last night. it was really fun...we made a really funny cooking movie. and none of you care. lol

Mixed Feelings

Life has been kind of difficult lately. I mean, it's been good, and I'm enjoying it, but rather challenging at the same time. Things are always happening...which is so much better than when things aren't happy. And I'm discovering day by day (as if I didn't learn it last spring) that I'm a hopeless extrovert. Ah, well. God's always there!
With every day comes a new revelation- a way I can make life better, I suppose. Like I said before, it keeps changing, and it's exciting. Then again, it's not the type of excitement that makes me want to jump up and down or talk about it, it's a more quiet type. Or maybe it's maturity finally kicking in...
More and more I realize that the world literally is as big as we make it. It's been said that it doesn't matter where you are but who you're with. And it doesn't matter what you know but who you know... This life revolves around people, and whether we know them or not. In essence, the earth is just the airplane on our way to somewhere so much bigger! The airplane may always be the same, but no flight ever will be. This world is always changing, and we have to document our experiences, so that they aren't lost between the countless strands of time. Then again, they'll always be filed away distantly in our memories...

My Take On Saturday

3:45 - I wake up. Totally awake. And ready to go.
5:15 - I arrive at school. Olive, Kaylin, UC1, and Maithreyi are there.
5:20 - We board the bus.
5:25 - Tuberculosis arrives
5:30 - The bus leaves
5:40 - We are excited and establish that most of us were afraid of Disneyland characters when we were little.
5:50 - We begin practicing for Creative Storytelling
5:55 - Most people fall asleep.
6:15 - We give up on practicing for Creative Storytelling
6:20 - We establish that none of us could eat this morning
6:25 - We establish that I am a morning person.
6:30 - We watch the sun rise
7:15 - We arrive at Brush High School
7:30 - We change into our formal clothes
7:45 - We are all nervous and jittery.
8:30 - I am called to the CST prep room
8:40 - I get my topic (a poodle in a salon about to get a bath) and prepare for it.
8:55 - I go to my competition room and while waiting, tell a story to a wall.
8:59 - I finish my story shortly after hitting the three minute mark.
9:05 - I celebrate being done and not throwing up.
9:10 - I help people practice for round two.
9:30 - Round two begins; I watch humor interpretation.
9:35 - Kaylin is amazing at her humor interpretation!
10:45 - I am finally able to eat.
10:46 - But just a little.
11:00 - Round three: socializing.
12:30 - Awards Cermony: We cheer for Peak to Peak a lot.
1:15 - We get on the bus
1:45 - People fall asleep again
2:00 - We glimpse "syphillis-ation"
3:30 - We arrive at school
4:00 - I actually leave school
4:30 - I shower again
5:00 - I go to Olive's house to get ready for Homecoming
6:00 - We take forever to get ready.
7:30 - We are still curling Kelsey's hair.
8:00 - Homecoming!
10:00 - All the Speech people get really tired.
11:30 - I arrive home
11:35 - I fall asleep.

HOMECOMING!!!

It's finally the big day!!!
yeah, so I'm a little excited...or a lot!
Well can you blame me? It's going to be so much fun
Kacey'll be at my house from 2-4ish
Lorien'll come over at 4:45ish
The guys'll come pick us up at 5!!!
Don't worry. you'll hear ALL about it!!!
:D
:D
:D
:D

My Amazing Day!

Seminary: Trashketball!
NJHS Meeting: Sweet. Better with less people. Ryan is funny.
History: We watched Hercules!
Orchestra: Theory. Need I say more?
Assembly: My entire right leg fell asleep. It was boring, but oh well.
Scrabble Club: Um, great. UC1 and I kept singing.
Lunch: Just great. Four pages of pure magic!
Tech: Unbearably hot. Oh well.
Forensics: Absolutely amazing!
After school: Talking with UC1 was great, but homework wasn't. Now I'm off to practice!

Saturday is going to be sooo incredibly amazing!!!!!!!!!

Ag.

Two things of significance happened to me today:

One: I got braces, just in case you guys couldn't tell today. I'm already counting the days 'till they come off.

Two: I forgot my locker combo. I honestly have no idea what it is. Aren't I too young to be going senile?

Yup, that's my day, summarized. Hope you guys had better ones. Cheers!

Reviews of Musicals I've Seen Recently

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: This is a fun musical. It reminds me a lot of Oklahoma! Basically a bunch of guys and girls singing and dancing out in Oregon territory in the 1800s. Catchy tunes, and astonishing dance numbers. And Howard Keel, amazing baritone and actor that he is, is of course brilliant. I recommend this as a nice, completely g-rated film that isn't particularly deep but still proves entertaining to watch.

The Producers: Without a doubt the worst musical I have ever seen in my life. In fact, I didn't even get a quarter of the way through it before giving up in disgust. The humor is crude, rude, obnoxious, and quite frankly, not very funny. The plot is...well, stupid, to say the least. The acting is poor quality, and the songs are less than brilliant. Frankly, I don't get why this was such a hit musical. I don't recommend it.

Cabaret: Hmmm...hard to say. Probably the best of all the musicals I list here, but it wouldn't appeal to everyone. There's a lot of material that's...well, scandalous is putting it mildly. It's a pretty dark musical, and the PG rating is very deceiving. But I think that the juxtaposition of the devil-may-care attitude of a thirties nightclub with the rise of the Nazis is very well done. Joel Grey is amazing! I can easily see why he won both the Tony AND the Oscar for his role as the emcee. Anyway, I would recommend the film if you're okay with a lot of inappropriate material, because it's very well done.

Kiss Me, Kate: This is such a classic. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are the leads. Love the songs, love the choreography, love the story. A few of my favorite numbers: I hate men; I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua; Tom, Dick, or Harry; Brush up your Shakespeare; and Too darn hot. I recommend this musical for anyone who likes good singing and acting, and Broadway in general!

Shall We Dance?: An old Rogers/Astaire movie. It follows a pretty predictable plotline, but I still like it. The dancing is amazing (what do you expect?), one particularly incredible number including a dance done on roller skates! If you like old movies and a lot of dancing, this is a nice, fun, g-rated musical.

Happy movie-watching!

Homecoming

For those of you who have been living under a rock for that past... month, Homecoming is on Saturday and Homecoming fever is at its height. Symptoms include:
-Giggling
-Staring at the opposite sex
-Talking of nothing but shoes, dresses and plans for Homecoming
-Frequent glances at where they're selling homecoming tickets
-Idiocy
-Sudden change in appearance
-Fantasizing
-Obsessing over who's going with who, what they're doing and everything else possibly involving homecoming.

Now, this disease is not to be confused with lovesickness, which shares the symptoms of idiocy and fantasizing. However, the staring and obsession are always directed at one particular member of the opposite sex. Lovesickness has no cure, while Homecoming fever has one cure: Homecoming. Only after Homecoming will Homecoming fever go away. Lovesickness only goes away with time.

Ways to avoid contracting Homecoming fever are:
-Remember that Homecoming is just another school dance
-Be cynical
-Don't have school spirit.

Unfortunately, these don't always work. If you are afflicted with Homecoming fever, do not hesitate to seek the help of a therapist. Remain calm and lie down if you feel faint. Do not hyperventilate.

We hope that this information will be helpful to you.

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS 10 LINKING VERBS.

Scripture Mastery Songs

So for Seminary, we have to memorize some scriptures. For those of us who are musical learners, there are songs to help us memorize them. I needed something to do to take my mind off food since it's Fast Sunday, so I made of video of them here. The songs are very helpful, but a little... well, wierd. Let me know what you think!

Arg.

I hate spacers. I've had them since last Tuesday, and I still can't eat anything besides soup and pudding and yogurt. What a boring diet. And braces...well, I really hope they aren't much worse...grumble. :S

Streaking World Record

So I was just getting my History book from upstairs when I heard the wierdest story: Some guy wanted to set the world record for highest altitude streaking, so he climbed Mt. Everest and at the top, took off all his clothes. Interesting...

And of course the song that they picked to play for that story was "Top of the World" by the Carpenters...

Christmas

I want it to be Christmas right now...

I miss the feeling of having it be freezing outside but you're inside and warm around your friends and family, maybe around a fire curled up in some blankets....

I need some Christmas music. Ah. That's better. Still, Still, Still... it's a kind of wierd song, but whatever.

I miss the feeling of Christmas. When the world stops and remembers what one perfect man did for all of us.

Yeah. That's what I miss the most.

Sure, the lights and cookies and parties are good...

But there's nothing like the Christmas spirit.

And nothing makes you feel like Christmas more than Christmas music.

Days until Christmas: 87

Bah... stupid fall. Can we at least skip to Thanksgiving?

I am agitated

Okay, Mo and I were talking about the old testament today, specifically the story about God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son to prove his devotion. I have a problem with that. This is supposed to be the same God who is loving and good and caring and everything, right? How does killing your children factor into the equation? The whole "God never meant Abraham to kill Isaac; he just wanted Abraham to prove his allegiance" argument makes no sense. If he were such a good God, why would he need his people to prove their faith by sacrificing their own children in the first place? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. And I don't intend to offend any of you Christians, this particular story just really bothers me.

I Have Found My Theme Song

Top of the World

Such a feelin's comin' over me
There is wonder in most everything I see
Not a cloud in the sky
Got the sun in my eyes
And I won't be surprised if it's a dream.
Everything I want the world to be
Is now coming true especially for me
And the reason is clear
It's because you are here
You're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen.

I'm on the top of the world lookin'down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.

Something in the wind has learned my name
And it's tellin' me thatthings are not the same
In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze
There's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me.
There is only one wish on my mind
When this day is through I hope that I will find
That tomorrow will be just the same for you and me
All I need will be mine if you are here.

I'm on the top of the world lookin' down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I've found ever since you've been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.

EFY!

Oh wow... EFY was so amazing...

So we met at the church for rides and rode down there... and we got there and found seats and all that good stuff...

And then the first guy spoke and MAN! was he good... at telling stories, acting, piano and guitar... he was funny! And his songs were... wow. Really touching. The whole stadium was silent. It was amazing.

And then we took a break...

And then the second guy talked... and that was cool. His stories were funny. He was a good speaker too. I kept noticing what thier habits were and I could tell that they were both very nervous at the beginning. Speech and Debate is already affecting me...

And then we had dinner. And that was fun. It wasn't windy; thank goodness. And Jessica still has her Mary Poppins bag.

After that we went to the concert. And it was REALLY loud. So I we ended up going outside and talking to the boys.

And then was the dance.......... What can I say? Michael wasn't there. I danced with guys I had never seen before... they played some good songs, some really lame songs.... and the dance was really long.

And then I fell asleep in the car on the way home after being driven crazy by the song I hate more than any other ever written. Seriously, I loathe this song with a passion. Good Morning Baltimore is of the devil, I'm sure of it. Oh yeah, and we listened to some Michael Bubble. Er, Buble, I mean. Whatever. It's Michael Bubble. And then I fell asleep. And then I woke up and went home. And then I fell asleep.

Today Brooke brought Mallory's old elementary school yearbooks to church. And guess who was in there? A certain bear. And, you will all be shocked to hear that in fourth grade....................... He did not have a bowl cut. He looked nothing like he does now. Wierd...

Anyway, that's it. Time to go clean my room.
Love you all!

And may you all have Moriah-endings.

The Wierdest Combination in the World

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates = wierd enough.

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments = what were they thinking?

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments + Japanese girls = Ookaay...

Simon and Garfunkel + Older married women having affairs with college graduates + classical instruments + Japanese girls + headbanging = REALLY REALLY WIERD!

Thank you to my mother for the translation of what the heck this is.

Haha, My Troll House!

Well, after all the business with McRiley, I decided to create some fun of my own.
Starting Monday, my locker will be completely decked out with a lower-level troll house!!!
It is beautiful, and full of fun-loving inhabitants.
The mother of the family is named Smurf, and is married to *coughs awkwardly* AJ.
They have a few kids, named Lil' Perp and Princess Diana. Their youngest is handicapped, wears a diaper and blue hair in braids that stick straight up, sleeps in the barn, and is named David.
Li'l Perp is in love with Fabio the Naked Musician, and Princess Diana is in love with their foreign exchange student Bruno. They have a pet cow, named Cowie.
Please don't go around telling people that I have tiny naked men in my locker. Because really, only one of them is completely nude!
On block days, we can spend passing period playing trolls!!! Haha.


Also: the list of memorable quotes from this week

"Part your legs please!"
"I have THE biggest, longest, thickest...ankle!!!"
"YOU! Pants off, NOW!"
"No heifer in here!"
"Please don't go around telling people that I have tiny naked men in my locker."
"Then you could weed the soccer field wearing nothing but tennis shoes!"


Please comment.
Well, that's aboot it.

Have a lovely night- I sure will!

Suing God???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_fe_st/odd_suing_god

This link is the story of a Nebraska senator who sued God.
LOL!!! Okay, this totally cracks me up. A guy actually thinks he can SUE the Almight Creator of the Universe?!?!?! Wow.

Audition Tape Update

Ugh. That was not fun. I hurt. My head hurts because that gave me a headache... my neck, shoulders and back hurt from stressing out. My arms hurt from bowing and playing. My hands hurt from shifting. My fingers hurt from vibratoing. (Is vibratoing a word?) My leg hurts because it just does. My left foot hurts because I just stood on a wood floor for about two hours with all my weight on one foot.

I made my tape in my front room. My front room is perfect for practicing. Why? Because we're still remodeling. The whole thing is wood and paint. There's no carpet or furniture anywhere. And it's bright. Which means that it's acoustics are wonderful... So that's where I made my tape. And why my foot hurts. The floors are wood.

D flat major scale: If only I had gotten the one I didn't record! That was the best... oh well. You can sort of tell that I'm playing a major scale, it only really dies in the third octave. Slurs... well, they're slurs. I suck at them.

B flat melodic minor scale: Dreadful. But I gave up. I'm not getting in anyway... At least you can sort of tell that I'm supposed to be playing a scale.

Overture to Russlan and Ludmila: Actually not horrible. For once I sounded better on the tape than in real life.

Solo piece: Pretty good. Better than usual. Phew.

I still hurt. And I'm tired.

Good night.

Oh No!

Guess what I just found out? My audition tape for Western State Orchestra has to be sent tomorrow. Which means that I have to make it today. And possibly drive to Loveland. Ack!

Wish me luck, I'll need it.

Why did DiGiacomo assign so much homework?

I am irked.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Eternal Perspective

I know that some of you don't believe this, but I feel that this song really helps me keep an eternal perspective. It makes homecoming and school and all our big worries seem so trivial. And it's uplifting, too, to know that God is out there for us.

Yay!

Arg.

Arg. I just finished my story of a carbon atom, which took forever to write and is pretty satirical. Then I looked at the worksheet that actually explains the assignment. Guess what? You're supposed to actually demonstrate the carbon cycle in your paper, not write about an atom that floats through deep space to 4 billion years, get stuck in Mars' crust for 2 billion more years, then gets blown up in a nuclear fission lab. Aren't I a clever little student?

oh, btw

By the way, I think I'm gonna make that newsletter every two weeks, so bimonthly. That way you'll all have time to contribute if you want! Or you can take a breath of fresh air between the surges of nerdiness, either one. lol, l8rs.

You're Know You're a Theatre Geek When...

You go see a musical in the theaters and stay throughout the credits dancing and singing to the music.
You already own the soundtrack and blast it through the car speakers on your way home from said musical.
You see said musical with "the cast"
It's a requirement for your friends to be fluent in "theater lingo"

add your own!

Yarg

I invented the word yarg yesterday. And I have decided it perfectly describes today, which was, to say the least, bizarre. I know Mo's already blogged about it, but I feel like reiterating what she said and adding a few things of my own. Here's my day:

1. Got up, babysat for an hour for these two adorable twin girls who live in my neighborhood.


2. Went berry picking - best season EVER. The raspberries were as thick as thieves, and they're SOOOOOO good. Definately my favorite fruit. I must have eaten at least a pint of them all on my own.


3. Went home, went to Broomfield Days with Mo. That was bizarre. The sequence of events went something like this:

Run into Matt, Mo's stalkers' accomplice. Avoided him for the most part; he was talking to someone else.

See Michael, Mo's stalker. Attempt to climb a tree to avoid him; fail miserably. Forced to talk awkwardly to him for about five minutes before he goes away. I would swear to goodness I've seen him before, a long time ago, but I just can't think when.

Glimpse the back of Teddy Bear's head. Mo starts to hyperventilate. We run away before he sees us. (Mo just happened to be wearing her A/W t-shirt. Brilliant.)

My sis get's thirsty, so we go wait in line for lemonade. Guess who else wants lemonade, and appears out of nowhere RIGHT BEHIND US? Teddy Bear, of course. Mo did a pretty good job of acting normal. We talked about Debate, since he's on the team, and where everyone lives, which was awkward, because I live in the same neighborhood as he does. Mo starts hyperventilating right after he leaves, and suffers severe heart palpitations.

Run into Michael and his friend again. Escape him pretty quickly with the excuse that our sisters have disappeared and we need to find them.

Run into Michael and co. AGAIN. He was stalking Mo, I'm sure of it, even though he acted all surprised to see us.

Leave Broomfield Days.


4. Then we went to the mall to meet Kenz. Her disguise was AMAZING. I honestly didn't recognize her until I heard her voice, I thought she was one of Mo's crazier church friends when we first saw her. She could have been Audrey from Little Shop, with the wig and the skirt and the makeup. That was very amusing :).


5. Went home, and am now blogging about today. What a day it has been.

Yarg.

My Amazing Day!!!!!

Oh my gosh today was so amazing!!!!

Okay so I woke up and posted about how I was grumpy...

But then I had a violin lesson and I played really well! And my pinky vibrato was the best it's ever been!

And then I stressed out about getting together with people.

But then it all worked out and I went to Broomfield Days with UC1, Ariel and UC1's sis.

So we got there and walked around... First we saw Matt... we managed to avoid him.

And then we saw Michael... had to climb a tree to get away from him; it still didn't work. Eventually he got the hint...

And then we walked over to another section... and I was looking at who was there... and who did I see? None other than Tuberculosis.

So we ran away... because I happen to be wearing a shirt given to me by Hannah and Olive...

And we wandered some more

And then UC1's sis was thirsty and wanted lemonade, so we stood in a really long line waiting for it...

And who came over to us while we were in line? You guessed it... Tuberculosis. (Why does he have such an awful name? Tuberculosis is a disease... I guess Olive would say the same of the person though... Anyway...)

So he came over (he was there with his mom) and talked to us... About Speech and Debate and Oratory and where we live and impromptu and theatre and lots of stuff...

And I only freaked out for the first two minutes...

Out of about ten....

And I was happy the rest of the day.


Quotes from today:
"It looks like the red spot on Zeus!" ~ UC1
"******, stop ruining the lawn!" ~ UC1
"I live in Broomfield! I really do! I promise!" ~ Me and UC1

I'll think of more sometime...

So yeah

May you all have Moriah-endings.

Any contributions?

Hey, if anyone has any contributions for the newsletter, then can you e-mail them to me? I'll put them in if I get them in time! Thanks, Kenzer

Reasons I Am... Grumpy

1. Middle of the night last night, 3 in the morning, I wake up in agony. No kidding. My left calf totally tensed up and it hurt like crazy! I just sat there, unable to move in great pain, and then it went away. Apparantly that's called a charley horse and apparantly that means I have a magnesium deficiency. What the heck is magnesium?
2. My teachers are mean. They have given me sooo much homework. I am annoyed...very annoyed...and if it wasn't a weekend I'd be downright livid.
3. I'm hungry, but we have nothing to eat in the house. Well, actually, that sentence needs a correction: I'm hungry, but we have nothing to eat except for disgusting decomposing fruit, soggy waffles and chocolate/brownies/pudding that I'm not supposed to eat. *tummy rumbles* I always get grumpy when I'm hungry.
4. It's the weekend. I want to go to school and be with my friends and have orchestra (which is my new favorite class this year! It's millions of times better than Concert Orchestra was last year.).
5. I can't figure out what music I want to listen to.

I don't know why, but I'm going to try that readability chart we did yesterday in English. Maybe I improved!
100 words/1o sentences/164 syllables
Now that puts me at....

Somewhere between the big gaping hole and 11th grade... That makes a lot of sense.

Well, adieu!
Love ya lots!

May you all have Moriah-endings.

As Long As You're Mine

This is the best song!

Well, both of them, actually...

Can you feel the Expo marker symbolism???

I hope so.

Arg.

Arg. Everyone in my family is grumpy right now, and it's a Friday. You're supposed to be happy on Friday. I mean, it is the weekend, after all. And I can't think of anything good to post. The world is fatally flawed.

Chronicle of a life well lived

Well, here it is, the story of my life. Part of it was created by me, part of it by friends. Let me tell you, it was very fun to write :).

Chronicle of a Life Well Lived

0. Is born. (Duh)
1. Reads first book. (well, technically memorizes book, doesn't
actually read it, but that's just a technicality).
2. Moves to Colorado.
3. Actually learns to read.
4. Gains sibling.
5. Attends kindergarten.
6. Starts Irish step dance.
7. Enrolled at Pioneer Bilingual Elementary School; learns Spanish.
8. Goes to Japan.
9. Goes to Italy.
10. Starts playing viola.
11. Enrolled at Peak to Peak Charter School.
12. Starts coming out of bubble of introversion.
13. English IV Honors. What's more to be said?
14. First lead in a play.
15. Goes emo for a day and claims to be a new student – convinces everyone.
16. Unwillingly attends first school dance.
17. Wins State in Value Debate.
18. Graduates Peak to Peak and starts college.
19. Starts college.
20. Makes millions with first solo show tunes album.
21. Meets President Bush and tells him my opinion of his policies.
22. Fall in love at a friend's wedding
23. Starts dating future husband
24. Stars in Broadway Musical - Guys and Dolls
25. Stars in more Broadway stuff.
26. Drastically cuts hair for a starring cross-gender role on Broadway.
27. Actually marries said not-future-anymore husband!
28. Gets mugged while shopping in New York with Olivia and Moriah. Sues muggers.
29. Almost divorces husband, changes mind the day before signing to agreement. Husband is very happy.
30. Learns to tapdance.
31. Finds a cure for allergies.
32. Works for the CIA – discovers vital information that results in the impeachment of current president.
33. Changes name.
34. Wins Tony award on Broadway. Wins Oscar for same role.
35. Develops perfect pitch.
36. Writes autobiography.
37. Plays viola at Carnegie Hall.
38. Adopts a little girl from Ghana.
39. Learns Japanese.
40. Gets first Phd (Microbiology)
41. Discovers new species of penguin on trip to Antarctica.
42. Guest appearance on a reality-TV show
43. Suffers poisoning. Recovers.
44. Starts teaching viola.
45. Succeeds in expanding vocal range to five octaves
46. Learns to play the saxophone.
47. Takes a vow of silence for a year and fulfills it.
48. Is mysteriously given 2 billion dollars from an unknown benefactor and donates half to Amnesty International. Keeps the rest.
49. Gets sued for giving Ms. Gannett emotional damages with my rebelliousness in high school.
50. Is cleared of all charges.
51. Figures out how to make cryogenics actually work. Refuses to tell anyone else.
52. Becomes an anarchist.
53. Gets second Phd (Quantum Physics)
54. Forges the Mona Lisa and doesn’t get caught.
55. Is kidnapped by Russian Mafia.
56. Makes bold escape with the use of only a piece of string, a hot air balloon, and a field full of turnips. Refuses to explain it.
57. Kidnaps the Russian Mafia leaders back.
58. Lets Mafia leader go after he promises to change his name, move to Zimbabwe and devote the rest of his life to the preservation of exotic species of marsupials.
59. Teaches a course at CU on the epic poem Gilgamesh.
60. Admitted to a mental institution for hallucinations/mild schizophrenia.
61. Forces president to resign by bombarding him with angry letters.
62. Clones self.
63. Gets third Phd (Psychology)
64. Publishes a memoir of Boof's Lair
65. Gets sued by Mike Chilcoat (Ms. Bunting’s old plagiarist boyfriend) for trashing his name.
66. Cleared of all charges.
67. Accidentally develops breed of talking, man-eating plant. Barely avoids being eaten; kills plant by electrocution.
68. Abducted by aliens for nine months.
69. Works as a bricklayer for a year.
70. Kicks a bucket. But not the bucket.
71. Spends a year as a hermit in Madagascar.
72. Invents airplane that runs on sawdust.
73. Works as a peacock farmer.
74. Takes a year off to travel the globe barefoot.
75. Writes first book to sell over a billion copies.
76. Becomes a grandmother.
77. Wins Nobel prize for medicine.
78. Fakes death.
79. Is knighted.
80. Last acting role.
81. Survives assassination attempt.
82. Moves to Cambodia to work in Peace Corps.
83. Arrested for political demonstration in Saudi Arabia.
84. Cleared of all charges.
85. Adopts a three-legged cat.
86. Retires to Iceland.
87. Becomes oldest astronaut to fly to Mars.
88. Sponsors building of a university in Namibia.
89. Speaks only in old Latin for a year.
90. Develops rheumatism.
91. Moves in with Hannah and Mckenzie, becomes senile old lady who putters around and steals traffic cones (we then set them up to make people think there's construction going on. then we get entire lanes to ourselves)
92. Loses limb in freak gene-splicing accident.
93. Gets dentures.
94. Spends a year training fleas for flea circus.
95. Suffers nervous breakdown.
96. Gets a tattoo on sole of left foot depicting the British Isles.
97. Writes will.
98. Rheumatism mysteriously disappears. Climbs Mount Everest.
99. Takes a senior trip to Hawaii. Dies when a coconut falls on head.