The best lawnmower, but no grass. F, 32, brown hair blue eyes, loves drinking, partying, and late nights back at my apartment. Looking for a man who did not picture me naked when reading this.
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Last night I went out to dinner with my parents. I was already in a bad mood after waiting two hours longer than I was supposed to for my parents to get home. Me and not eating for a long time just don’t go together, so by the time we sat down at the table there was no way I was capable of indulging in any conversation. It just so happened that the conversation I missed out on was about golf. My parents spent the whole dinner talking about the day my mom had spent in Monterey playing golf. This especially bothered me because my mom had been complaining that I had been rushing her since she had been in the car for five hours. Oh what a stressful day you had, Mom. This is going somewhere by the way, I just feel like complaining first. Anyways, I was impressed on how long my parents could keep a conversation about golf going on. “He had only a handicap four!” “Oh wow, you must have been able to tell!” “Yeah definitely, he was just on a completely different level!” Kill me now please. The point of my story is I hope I never have a conversation like that ever, unless it is only to make fun of the kind of people that do have conversations like that. If I ever caught myself enjoying it, I would go home and beat myself so it would never happen again. I definitely want to have a family, it’s just a gamble whether my kids would turn out as shits or not. Hopefully I’ll be a good mother and prevent that though. There’s nothing I’m particularly interested in pursuing when I grow up, which is kind of sad. I want to go to Santa Barbara for college because my aunt and uncle live there so I’d have a place to do laundry, among other reasons, but I have no idea what I want to study. I kind of want to be a teacher so that I get summers off. I don’t know how anyone could survive working all year long, and I feel like that’s a good enough incentive for me. I probably would be an elementary school teacher so I wouldn’t have to grade piles of homework. Ideally I would have a rich husband. He’d be cool, and I’d love him and all, but if he had lots of money that would be wonderful. I see my dad, who makes no money (teacher), but still has the luxury of buying mustangs and big screen TVs while still having a job he likes. My mom spends long hours in the office, making all the money to support our family while he takes me to Florida and on road trips. How great would that be? It might be shallow, but think about it a lot before you judge me. I definitely want to learn how to cook lots of yummy foods, because that’s such a huge part of my life. I also hope I have friends. Most of the friends my parents have are either people from their work or my friends’ parents. I hope that my friends are people that I chose to befriend, not just someone I’m forced to be around because of my surroundings. I’ll party, but be responsible about so my kids think I’m cool not neglectful. I won’t wear old lady clothes, probably just a sweatshirt and jeans of course. I’ll travel a lot, and find every single shell there is in the world. I might go to the gym sometimes because my metabolism will have slowed down. Basically I really don’t know what grow up. I never could answer that question as a little kid, which always frustrated me. Now I look back and it didn’t matter that I didn’t know while everyone else was dreaming to be a firefighter or an astronaut, because they just changed their minds after a couple months. At least I knew that I didn’t know. I just want to have a job that gives me time to do other things I want, so that my career isn’t the focus in my life, but other experiences.
I really don't know why the last paragraph is a different font than the rest and it's pissing me off.
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I can’t really criticize my style as a little kid, because what little kid does have style? That’s what makes them cute – the one purple sock and the one blue. Up until maybe halfway through kindergarten I would wear a dress every day. I had a whole collection, and refused to ever wear anything else. I only started wearing pants after we went on a class camping trip. My teacher told us we had to wear jeans, so the day before the trip I told my parents this. Since I didn’t own a single pair of pants I had to wear my brother’s, which barely stayed on. Ever since that camping trip I stopped wearing dresses. I was also pretty cool all through that year with my two front teeth missing (I knocked them out jumping on my bunk bed, and it actually took like 6 months for them to grow back). I don’t really what I wore the rest of elementary school; clothes didn’t really become important to me until middle school. The main thing I remember about middle school was my endless collection of Converse. I had pink, pink and green, plaid, black, neon orange, red, brown ones that were fuzzy on the inside, and one other pair of skater ones. There were a variety of high tops and low tops, and yes I was one of the cool kids who ironed my high tops over. Other clothes still weren’t important to me. The main thing that was the reason I hate looking at my pictures from middle school was my hair. In seventh grade I was on a cruise and decided I wanted to highlight my hair. I guess the majority of people who go on cruises are old, so I feel like maybe the hair people were used to that. I’m pretty sure I was allergic to the hair dye too, since I spent the whole day throwing up after that. I guess I should have taken that as a hint; maybe I was just allergic to ugliness. Blehhh. I died my hair many times after that, and cannot say that any of them looked at all attractive, but that first time paved the way for all my other experiments gone wrong. I went through a lot of phases in my childhood. From skater, to rocker, to ghetto, or at least tried. Mostly I was just following my friends. I remember Zack Small, Maddie’s eighth grade boyfriend, inspired the skater phase. We all felt it was necessary to learn how to skateboard since he did. I don’t exactly remember what the other ones were inspired by.
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1. Do you believe in karma?
Sure some of the time. It’s nice to think that you can be in control of what happens to you, and if you try to be a good person good things will happen to you. This is not always the case but I’m not giving up yet.
2. What one current event in any aspect of world news do you think is being most neglected or underrepresented?
Umm maybe the face that we’re 4 trillion dollars in debt (thanks for your wisdom Ms. Dehart). Well, that’s probably not the most important, but it affects me more directly than the other things so it’s what I choose. That probably sounds selfish but I just don’t know that much about the rest of the world.
3. If you could have any one superpower, what would it be and why? To be able to control time. It triumphs over all others because it’s basically all the superpowers combined. Except maybe flying; I don’t know how to pull that off. You’ll never be late to class again.
4. If you could invite any 5 famous people or characters to your birthday party, who would you pick?
5. If you could live in any film or book, what would you select? Would you want to be one of the characters, or would you want to be you (introduced as a new character)? I’d be in a horror movie, and slap the girl every time she screamed at something stupid. I would be me of course. Or maybe I’d be some buff guy so it would hurt more. Who knows.
6. Who of your friends would make the best president? I can't wait to know why.
7. I used to always trip out that my strawberry Chapstick tasted so strongly like strawberries (and why was I eating so much Chapstick?). Then I realized that it wasn't the taste that was strong; it was the smell. They say that smell is the strongest scent. What is your favorite smell? USE CONNOTATIONS, FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, OR ANALOGY in your (butter) saucey answer. I love the smell of my grandma’s garage. I’m not sure what it is that makes it smell that way, but I have to make a trip to it every time I’m at her house. It’s all natural feeling and refreshing. It smells like…my grandmas garage, but in the winter, it smells like my grandma’s garage in the winter. Good one. If you stay in it for too long you don’t smell it anymore, and then it’s just depressing.
8. If you could invent a new class for AHS to teach, what would it be?
Definitely woodshop. I always get jealous when my dad talks about how Albany high used to have a woodshop class. I’m not sure why, I don’t really like building things, but I think it would be a nice break from the other boring classes. Besides English of course.
9. Identify any symbol from any film ever (pick your favorite if you can think of many from which to choose). Identify what it means and why you picked it. The first thing that comes to mind is the peacock feather. I really want to watch the end again to see if it was actually a peacock feather, but when is Mr. Ross ever wrong? It symbolizes how what’s her face uses her exoticness to lure in mates. That’s what the peacock does too.
10. Will humankind still exist in 300 years?
I think so. It might just be kind of fucked up. I’m not going to say it’s impossible though at the rate we’re going. That was kind of a downer.
11. What is the most embarrassing song to ever grace your IPOD? Why was it there, may I ask? Most of the songs on my IPOD are embarrassing. They’re there because I love them.
12. Corey Chin's brilliant question (and it's got me curious): How much would you charge to clean Mr. Ross' microwave? -all access to it whenever I wanted -the cost of the materials needed to clean it -Mr. Ross knowing he would always be in debt to me -guaranteed A for the rest of the year bwahahahahah Just kidding I would take that offer if I were you Mr. Ross. 13. Did you support your answers? Sure. YES. It posted the first time I tried for once. Must have done something good today.
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I can’t believe Mr. Ross is making me do this when I could be sleeping. Sleeping is good and I definitely didn’t get enough this weekend. I need like 12 hours of sleep on the weekend actually in order to function. I got like 8 this weekend which sucks. Oh well it’s fine. Today’s my birthday! So I definitely would rather be doing something else right now. I was on BART today and this lady was crying because she lost her wallet or something and for some reason it made me happy. I guess because most people these days just get really mad when something bad happens to them and blame it on someone else. It was nice to see someone who had genuine feelings even if it was mean to think that. I just want to sleep right now super bad. Like the movie. That doesn’t make sense I don’t know. Softball tomorrow. Bleh. I’m excited but nervous. Sleep. It makes me mad that this week everyone else gets to go to school at like 11 and we have to go earlier. What is that? Stupid presidential elections or whatever are causing us to be at school ten minutes earlier. That’s ten minute less of sleep but really like half an hour less because I’ll actually have to be on time to school which means I’ll actually have to get ready in time to get to school early which means I’ll have to get up way earlier. I basically plan to get to school late. If I ever am on time ill just wait at my house because otherwise I know ill have to wait for Maddie in the freezing cold. She probably waits at her house too because she knows ill be late. But I really hate standing in the cold. I hate how it’s ALWAYS cold in the morning even on like 100 degree days because I have to dress all warmly and then I end up taking off my jacket and having to carry it around. Yeah I’m really lazy. One time last week I thought it was going to snow because it was freezing and raining and it was the perfect time. Then we could have a snow day and go skiing and it would be awesome but of course that would never happen. It would suck to have snow every winter though. It also means it would be super hot in the summer which would also suck. That’s how it is in Virginia where my cousins live. Today my grandma sent me an email because I was supposed to call her when I got home but we called like an hour later at 8:30. She emailed me at 7:30 and I was barely even home yet because she was all offended because she thought I didn’t call her. I feel bad. My computer is a piece of shit. I don’t ever open up weird websites or anything and there’s always annoying stuff popping up. My parents are just like ooh maybe you shouldn’t download weird things but I don’t. Parents are parents. Ew. I have like one more minute left… I don’t know what to say anymore. Except that I want to sleep so bad. I love my bed it’s the best thing. That will definitely be the highlight of my day.
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“Detective” By No Doubt This song is all about how a girl finds out that her lover was lying to her and that there’s no trust anymore. I think this is kind of the situation with Sam Spade and Brigid O’Shaughnessy. Sam basically falls in love with her, and even though he never fully trusted her he still had feelings for her. Then he finds out that the whole time she was using him, which he probably suspected, but he learns out for sure at the end. In the song she doubts her lover so she tries to catch him. “I’m gonna snoop and call you out/I’ve caught you, you’re hands are red”. She suspects something but isn’t positive until she seeks out the truth, and I think Sam ignores the fact that he knows Brigid is using him until he has to call her out so he doesn’t go to jail. Another line in the song says “It’s too late you’ve killed the trust”. From the very beginning Sam didn’t trust Brigid, so she had no chance. “Why are you so destructive?/Do you realize what you’ve done?” Brigid is the definition of destructive. She gets people to fall in love with them and then dumps them as soon as she gets what she wants, and that dumping usually results in death. In another line she says “Your broken hearted detective”. This isn’t exactly the same situation, but Sam Spade is a broken hearted detective. He has never found real love, and one girl he thinks he might love is a dangerous compulsive liar. I think this song explains Sam and Brigid’s relationship except it’s opposite, the guy is the one who catches the girl. OLDIES “Money” By Pink Floyd This song is all about money and its importance. In The Maltese Falcon one of the major themes is money triumphs all. Sam Spade is all about the money and it comes before all his morals. “Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash”. This is what Sam Spade does. If he is offered enough money, it doesn’t matter how dangerous or impossible the case is, he will promise to figure it out. “Don’t give me that goody good bullshit”. Sam knows when people are fake and lying. He knows that the only thing the falcon represents is money, so there’s no point in trying to convince him of anything else. “Money is the root of all evil today”. This might be very cliché, but it’s definitely true in the book. At least four people were shot, a few more destined for jail, and the rest didn’t even get what they wanted. This diamond bird caused all the pain and anguish, and the people searching for it believe anything is worth doing to get it. Money (that’s what I want) By Bradford/Gordy Yes, two songs called Money but that’s just how important it is. The first line says “The best things in life are free/But you can keep them for the birds and bees”. This is saying that some things, for example love, you don’t have to pay for but to most people money is more important than that. You see this in Sam Spade. He’s very smooth with the women and flirts a lot, but in the end money is the most important to him. “Your lovin’ gives me a thrill/But you’re lovin’ don’t pay my bills”. Sam Spade like Brigid a lot but the reader assumed that he was going to give the falcon to what’s his face who was offering him way more money. Brigid’s love wasn’t important enough to sacrifice his money. The rest of the song just says over and over again “Now give me money that’s what I want”. This just emphasizes how big a role money plays in everyone’s lives’ and how much it is valued and lusted for. Sam Spade has forgotten about everything else besides money. Money is all he sees. “Black Magic Women” By Peter Green Brigid is extremely corruptive. In her role as a “femme fatale” she leads people into traps that they are oblivious until the end. “Got me so blind I can’t see”. Brigid gets people to fall in love with her and they are so obsessed that they don’t see anything she does coming. She had Thursby on a leash until his death, and also led Archer to his death. They are so entranced by her and her beauty that they are blind to the reality. “You’re messin’ around with your tricks”. Brigid is full of tricks. She never stops lying and has no trouble with it, the lies just flow from her mouth. Spade is the only one out of all her men that can see her tricks. “You’re turning my heart into stone”. Sam does really like Brigid but he tries not to allow himself to have feelings for her because he knows she is not trustworthy, so he just has to not feel anything. Being around people like Brigid all the time is probably what makes Sam the way he is. He never shows emotion and never opens up to anybody because he knows that he can’t trust anyone. “San Francisco By Blues” Words and Music by Jesse Fuller This song is cool since the book actually takes place in San Francisco. I don’t know how much this song relates to the book besides the San Francisco part, but I guess part of it does. “I didn’t mean to treat her bad, she was the best gal I ever had”. Sam Spade did mean to treat her bad at the end when he didn’t take the blame for her and called her out on everything she did, but I think he might regret it a little since he admitted he might be in love with her. “She ever comes back to stay, it’s gonna be another brand new day”. It seems like maybe if Brigid got out of jail and stop lying maybe they would have a chance. Except that would never happen but it’s okay.
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Wow. One food item. I really don’t want to pick favorites among my food, because you’re all just so wonderful. Food is my stress reliever, I come home, turn on the TV, and sit down with a bag of chips. On my bad days I’ll boil up a whole bag of pasta and stuff myself until I feel sick. It might seem extremely unhealthy, but I’m young and have a fast metabolism, so I might as well enjoy it while I can. You can see with my strong relationship with food that it’s hard for me to single one out, but I will because I have to. I’m going to right about fish tacos because some of you might be able to relate. You know the quote we talked about? “Feeling is the point between desire and its consumption” or something? Here’s the deal; every Tuesday fish tacos at Rubio’s are only a dollar. I try to hold myself back from buying them any other day of the week besides Tuesdays, because I know in the long run I will be saving maybe hundreds of dollars. By the time Tuesday roles around I have been waiting so long that the cheap deep fried fish tastes so much better to me than it would have if I hadn’t had to wait a whole week. I know in reality Rubio’s fish tacos are not the most quality food you can think of, but I think they are delicious. What makes them the best is their sauce; it’s like Rubio’s version of chipotle sauce. Sometimes when the fish is not at its finest, the sauce drowns it out so that you are still getting your dollars worth. Then there’s the lettuce which there is always a surplus of, and makes me feel healthy knowing that I’m eating a vegetable. I’m not a big fan of salsa, but I never mind in the fish tacos; it just adds to the flavor. I always prefer to get it in on a corn tortilla, but there’s also the choice of flour if you’d rather.
They’re easy to eat on the go. They even wrap a little slice of lime in each individual taco. What premium service, right? There are advantages to eating them there, which is usually what I do when I go with my family. This way when they talk nonstop the whole dinner I can stare at the fish in the tank and pretend I’m listening. I feel sorry for the fish though, and it makes me sad sometimes to watch them, especially since coincidentally I am usually chewing dead cooked fish in my mouth. Sorry fish. Fish tacos wouldn’t be my first choice as a lunch, but I have learned to love them primarily because they are only a dollar. Where else can you go where you can buy a whole meal for just two dollars? They even give you free water(most of the time). So just remember, if you’re ever low on cash and it’s a Tuesday head to Rubio’s and they’ll give you what you need; maybe you’ll see me there. Don’t take this the wrong way though I’m not a freak that never misses a taco Tuesday, I just prefer not to spend more money than I need to.
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1. If you could be a fly on anybody's wall, on whose wall would you perch? Why? What would you do with the information? I would wait on Mr. Ross’ wall until he started typing the homework questions, and then, even though the whole fly thing isn’t literal, I would start buzzing around him, and it would be so distracting that he wouldn’t be able to write the homework. That way I wouldn’t have to do English homework on weekends! Oh, and my reflexes are too fast for your fly swatter.
2. What is your favorite piece of art? Describe what it looks like. Why do you like it so much? How does it make you feel? Does it tell a story? Have symbolism? There are so many different famous pieces of art, and I don’t think I could choose out of all of them which would be my favorite. Because of this, I choose a painting I did in like 1st grade that’s hanging in my parents’ office. It has girl in a perfect triangular dress, with yellow skin, standing on green grass with a sun and rainbow in the backround. A typical little kid paining, but it just makes me feel so happy when I look at it. It symbolizes my childhood, when things were as simple as rainbows and suns. The days of teacup parties and the toothfairy, when the only thing I had to worry about was what kind of cookies I could bring for lunch. It makes me laugh to look at the painting and think of those days.
3. If you could choose your parents, how would they be? Describe how they look, act, and parent. What do they do (for work, hobbies, etc)?
It’s hard to imagine having my parents any other way then they are now, which doesn’t mean that they’re perfect parents, but I would never replace them. There are way too many different kinds of people to choose from to ever pick out someone specific I would want as a parent. My parents are good people with good jobs who support me and want me to be happy. My dad is an elementary school teacher. He’s also really into nature and can tell you anything you want to know about birds, trees, etc. but you might not want to get him started. We can spend days on the beach looking for shells. My mom’s not exactly as interested in that stuff, but she puts up with our obsessions. She’d rather spend the day shopping which is fine with me too. Our whole family loves to travel. Both of my parents have gone through a lot in their life so they are very understanding of most things. Sometimes I just wish they got along better, but who doesn’t these days? I love them and could never ask for anyone different. 4. If you could live in any decade, which one would it be and why? ELABORATE. What opportunities would you take advantage of in said decade? I would live in the 1990s. I would pick this decade, I just think it was better before 9/11 and the war and everything. I would have to be where I live now though, otherwise it would probably be completely different. For the most part it doesn’t matter what your religion, race, sexuality, or gender is. Living in the generation I live in gives me the opportunity to do almost anything I want if I work at it, which hopefully I WILL take advantage of at some point, just as soon as I figure out what it is I want to do.
5. If you could/had to be any Disney character, who would it be and why? I have to say Goofy, because he’s just too cool for words. He’s mostly a good father to Max, and his name is Goofy so obviously he has fun with his life. I loved him as a kid, he was the first thing I ever learned to draw well, so that every time I drew anything it would always be Goofy. His voice is wonderful and he makes people happy. He even has his own movie! I guess most Disney characters have their own movies though…
6. There is a difference between the moral man and the criminal in that the moral man has a legitimate reason to steal. Support or refute this idea (that a person's objectively bad deeds can be justified by the subjectivity of their life). I support this idea. I think for some people it is necessary for their survival to steal. If someone steals from a rich person, who probably just finds it a hassle that they need to call insurance, how is that not legitimate if the criminal needed it more? Isn’t it just as bad to have more then you need and not help anyone else?
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If I were to invent something I would invent a teleporter so that I could go anywhere I wanted. I’ve been thinking about this lately because I’m really sore from softball, and I’m lazy and don’t want to walk anywhere. It just sounds really nice and handy, but there are other reasons why it would be helpful too. It would be nice to be able to go wherever you wanted without having to pay money and go through all the trouble of booking an airplane flight and everything. People who can’t afford to go on vacation would be able to go wherever they wanted. You wouldn’t have to pay for hotels or anything because you could just teleport back to your house at the end of the day. A teleporter would not only allow everyone to afford vacation, but would also make people more educated. In the long run I think this would benefit our world. By seeing how different countries work and the problems they have we would learn a lot and be able to bring it back to our country which would be very helpful. Also the people who deny the events going on in our world right now would be able to witness them first hand and would finally snap them out of their denial. So basically how it would work is that everyone would have a controller that would be small enough to carry around with them. Whenever you need to get somewhere you would just type in the place on the controller and press “go” or whatever and it would teleport you to wherever you wanted to go. While you’re being teleported you wouldn’t really see anything, just darkness until you got to your destination. It might take a couple minutes though, because of all the technology. I know this invention is not very realistic, but after I read the assignment I thought about what would be nice to have. Over the last couple days I kept thinking about a teleporter. You wouldn’t be late to things as often, you wouldn’t have to walk anywhere, you could go to any country in the world with the push of a button…how nice would that be? I guess it’s also just because I’m extremely lazy, but most of us are, so it’s something to think about.
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1. What is your favorite book? I’d have to say I love the books be S.E Hinton like the outsiders and stuff. They’re kind of lame and are all exactly the same, but I always feel really appreciative of my life afterwards. 2. If you could/had to live in any country besides the United States, where would it be? I would want to live in England(I don’t know if that’s really a country ??) because that way I would get to have the whole experience of a new place without having to embarrass myself by learning a different language. I just love the feel of Europe with their style and crowds. 3. Who is your favorite superhero? I really don’t know. They’re all just kind of fake. I’d rather be someone who could make a difference without super powers. 4. If you could change any one law, what would it be? I would change it so that we didn’t have to wait a year before driving. I guess I choose this because I’m just starting to drive, so I’ve been thinking about it a lot. There’s really no point in having my license if I can’t drive my friends, and my parents are making me sign a contract saying I won’t drive them. Wow. I do think we should have to wait a certain amount of time, I just think it’s not going to make a difference whether I wait six months or a year. 5. Is life a matter of reality or is it all just based on perception? I think life is pretty much based on perception. Everyone interprets things different ways. Two people can make a situation completely different depending on how they view it. 6. Is it better to be too hot or too cold? I’d rather be too cold, because when you’re cold you’re not sweaty and gross and you can put on more layers. When you’re hot you can’t do anything about it. 7. Which is better: to get in a car accident that isn't your fault and lose a leg or to get into a car accident that is your fault and kill an old lady? Ummm that’s a really hard question. I think I wouldn’t have a life at all if I lost my leg. I wouldn’t be able to do anything I do now and it would ultra suck. If it was a kid it would probably be different, but I’d have to pick the old lady. Hopefully she wasn’t a cute little grandma because I really love old people. 8. Do you believe that pain and suffering is a necessary part of life? Yep. Anyone who is happy all the time would be like a robot freak. You’d never appreciate any of the good things if nothing bad ever happened. 9. Is animal testing acceptable? How can I say it’s not? Out of all the extremes we go through to make ourselves happy how can anyone say they think we shouldn’t learn things by injecting gross dirty nasty rats. I mean I know they do things to other animals and I do think we should limits, but our life wouldn’t be nearly the same if it weren’t for animal testing. It sucks that we have to invade a different species world and put them in cages and test them, but I have to say it’s not the worst thing we have done to get what we want. 10. Do you believe that ghosts exist? Kind of. Not like white blobs that scare you like in the movies. But I kind of believe that after people die they still occupy the space they used to live in. I’ve heard stories from reliable people, but everyone will think its bullshit if I say it write now. 11. Do you believe that you can never have too much of a good thing? Yeah that’s how I feel whenever I look at most little kids these days. I’m not saying all kids because some of them are cute and nice, but so many are just whiny and obnoxious. I feel like this comes from parents always giving them everything they want. It sucks to see someone that’s supposed to symbolize innocence and purity throwing a temper tantrum because their parents won’t buy them ice cream. 12. Do you believe that school is the best way to make a person smarter? I think it might be for like book smarts and such, but you can’t learn everything from school. People who spend their whole life sitting at home studying will have a hard time surviving in the real world. 13. Do you believe that Free Market Capitalism is fair? If not, what would you suggest? I think it’s fair for some things, but not for necessities of life. People shouldn’t have to pay for things like healthcare, because you need it to survive, but if someone can’t afford an ipod it’s not really a problem. 14. Do you believe that war can be justified? I think a lot of the time it can be, but it’s hard to think that considering what’s happening right now. 15. If you could switch your gender, but it had to be permanent, would you? No definitely not. I would cry too much and everyone would think I was a loser. 16. Do you think you are anyone's favorite person in the world? I doubt it. I’m not an only child so that leaves my parents out. Except one time my dad told me that he liked me better than my brother which still horrifies me today. I don’t think he meant it like that…and I can’t believe I’m typing it here. Maybe he just meant we had more in common.
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The first team I ever played on was the Smilemakers. I might look back and think what a perfect name for my first ever softball team if it weren’t for the fact that it was called the Smilemakers because it was sponsored by a dentist company. When I was little, it wasn’t the game that I enjoyed it was the social aspect. Every softball day I would walk to Zari’s with Krista, get a turkey sandwich, and wait at her house until my dad picked us up. Those were the days where it didn’t matter if we won or lost, it was about having fun and hanging out with each other. As the years passed, the more competitive it became, which although makes it discouraging when you lose, just makes it that much better when you win. There’s such a feeling of accomplishment when you beat a team that you didn’t make, and you talk to the other coach who turned you down after the game and they congratulate you and you act polite and say they played well too, but the whole time you’re just thinking IN YOUR FACE YOU ASSHOLE. The bonds you make in sports compares to nothing else. I’ve met some of the best people in softball, and some of the worst. There’s some days where you’re just tired and grumpy, and you get to practice and the coaches suck, the girls are the only thing that save you. Over the summer I had the most frustrating coach ever. He just didn’t believe I was good, and never gave me a chance to prove myself. I didn’t even care though because I was backed up by 13 other girls that he was being an ass, and that’s what kept me going. Knowing that there are so many people there for you makes you feel so safe, whether it’s in a sport or not.
You can’t always depend on other people though, and softball has taught me that the most important thing is to do things for yourself, and not for other people. There’s times when I get into the batter’s box thinking, I have to get a hit to prove to my coach I’m good. Then I realize that I’m not here for them. I don’t play softball to please my coach, I do it because it’s what I love. I think this is a huge lesson. So many people base their life according to other people, and I have learned that if I just do things to make me happy, everything works out fine. It’s when I stop doing things for myself and start doing them for other people that I become miserable. Softball has taught me so much, and that might sound stupid but it’s the truth.
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| 2007-11-05 07:07 |
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If I were an animal I would be gazelle or something because I like to run around, and I like being with a lot of people. I’m not really graceful, but that’s ok. When I think of gazelles I think of a large group of them prancing in a field or something. I was trying to think of an animal in a herd, so that was the best one I decided. Gazelles also seem to be in a huge open area, with the sun shining and a waterhole nearby, and it seems so nice. I would love a life like that.
On the quiz I got a horse. I guess that’s kind of like a gazelle, but I like gazelles better. They just sound better than horses. Gazelles are free, I always think of horses in stables, and that would suck.
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When I was little, my definition of fear was much different than it is now. The closest thing that came to a horror movie for me was Beetlejuice. I even remember having nightmares from one movie called Waking Ned’s Divine, where a guy dies from shock because he wins the lottery. One thing I’ll never forget watching was an episode of the Rugrats where the show ends with Chuckie’s parents unzipping the back of their skin and peeling it away to reveal they were aliens. I’m not entirely sure what actually happened in the episode, because Chuckie’s parents were back to being normal human beings the next time I watched. Still I could never stop thinking about the fact that anyone around me could be an alien, even my parents. Every time I was with my mom I would examine her to make sure there was no zipper on her skin proving her disguise. Although I never found one, there was always that doubt in the back of my mind that she could have been lying to me the whole time about being my mother, and she was really on some secret mission to kill me. Every night I lay in bed wondering if it was true. There was nothing that disproved my theory, so how could I ever know? After awhile I decided if she were put on Earth to kill me she would have done it already, so I stopped worrying about it. I once informed my mom of my suspicions and she is still offended to this day that I could ever think that. But hey, you can never be too careful, right?
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| 2007-10-21 22:48 |
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One song I find interesting is called Sick Little Suicide by the Matches. Its message is that today a lot of the things we do to ourselves are harmful. It’s a warning to us. The chorus says “There’s a sick little suicide in all that we do…”meaning that many of the choices we make hurt us. The first verse talks about a man who is living in poor conditions, but is trying to be true to himself and voice his opinions. Then it goes to say how “those things will put you back some pay checks”. He chose this over taking some job that he hated just to pay the bill. Either decision would have hurt him. It just shows the world has turned into a place where everything you do is harmful and there’s no avoiding it. The second verse talks about women and how they work so hard to look good that it’s dangerous. “’Cause all that matters is what's outside/So says every magazine cover”. There is so much advertising with these skinny, gorgeous women, and it makes everyone else feel like that’s how they have to look. “But it’s not my fault, it’s never my fault”. The song explains how children and the magazines “assault” women and children, but they never take responsibility for what they’ve done. The magazines will just continue to print out pictures of women with bigger boobs and skinnier bodies, never caring about how it is affecting the human race as long as they get their product sold. The chorus says “you decide…which ones for you” meaning that no matter what we choose it will hurt us in some way. The message of this song is almost like the message of Lord of the Flies, warning us of the beast inside us. It tells us how we’re stuck in a society where there is always something wrong with the decisions we make. When I listen to it I feel like I’m trapped in a world where it is almost impossible to be happy, and makes me want to change things. They say their lyrics like we have no control over the outcome of our decisions, no matter what we do we’ll be killing ourselves. I think when people listen to this song, it should motivate them to try to better our world.
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