Hey, dudes, sorry for my lack of postage lately. Still working hard on Leviathan, which passed 40,000 words this week. More than halfway there!
Justine and I are headed to the mountains this week, for my niece’s graduation and a short writing holiday. Have a fun long weekend (and beginning of summer).
In the meantime, there’s an article in the NY Times this weekend that seems to come right from the world of Extras. It’s a memoir by a young blogger about being briefly internet-famous, being slammed, having your life over-exposed, and ultimately falling apart.
It’s pretty long, and not happy-making. But it’s also incredibly interesting. You can read it here.
Many of the zillions of (often nasty) commenters point out that the best cure for over-exposure might not be further self-disclosure in the NY Times. But there’s something slightly hollow about that argument. There are different kinds of writing about yourself, after all. Long-form essays in a newspaper aren’t really the same as posting every minute on a gossip blog. In any case, the article has a lot of interesting things to say about the risks of celebrity, and of putting too much of yourself online.
So what about you guys? Have you ever blogged something you shouldn’t have? Or has a friend ever broken a trust, revealing something private about you online?
In short: has the internet ever come back to bite you?
May 24th, 2008 14:09
Fascinating article – I personally worry sometimes about my presence on the Net, and how I could be tracked. Luckily, most of my peers aren’t smart enough to follow the tracks…
May 24th, 2008 14:09
OK, by “smart”, I mean malevolent enough. Not necessarily smart enough. ;D
May 24th, 2008 14:31
when i was twenty-one i got fired for blogging about work. i swear this was before it got popular to be fired for blogging. i had no idea my employers were tracking my movements, and i was working reception, and at the time i had a reasonably well-read blog, which did not have my name or the name of my employers. essentially, i said my job sucked, and they called me into hr and then escorted me out of the building.
at one point, probably around eight years ago, i also upset a lot of friends when i wrote an essay about a college roommate of mine who died pretty tragically when we were still in school. posted the essay on my blog, and my opinion was very unpopular with a few of my former classmates.
but, and i’m not saying this isn’t a hugely complicated issue, i think people have learned since then how to “cover” themselves on the internet by using private or friends-only blog posts. it seems like it’s probably easier to shield yourself now than it was years ago.
unless you’re scott westerfeld, in which case, did you see my blog entry where i told everyone about how you leave the bathroom door open at the ya mansion?
May 24th, 2008 14:55
Hmmm….can’t say it has….
May 24th, 2008 15:01
nope and myspace sucks so i never do nd stuff on that i mean you just talk to people blah blah blah i mean if you have that many friends why dont you really go talk to them (by the way when i did use myspace for a few monthes i got like ten friends borring) i hope all you myspace enthusiasts arent insulted by this
May 24th, 2008 15:18
Wow, I’m reading through that entire article and her (the blogger’s) life seems so depressing. Maybe it’s the very dry, uninteresting way she describes it; it’s very quick and to the point, even though it’s 10 pages… but it makes her life sound terrible. I suppose because it’s so blunt. I’m used to reading fluff and… stuff. =]
Hmm… I’m kind of disappointed: I was hoping she might reform or something… After that entire story– she sold out her friend “Josh” by writing all this private information about him, and her boyfriend Henry… she even wrote about how she kind of cheated on him? And how she had an affair?
She was distributing all this personal information while talking about how it was stressi—————
Nevermind. That’s basically the point of the article, isn’t it? She was an oversharer.
Hmm… I’m not quite sure how I would feel about this if I were her. Maybe she has an obsessive blogging disease.
*On another note*
I’m really anxious for Leviathan, Scott!
May 24th, 2008 15:41
woot! woot! more than 40,000 words! that’s exciting!
7th grade was like my blogging year. like i had the dumb msn blog. and i had an xanga. and i had a bebo. and i had a facebook. but i got bored and deleted them all the following year. i never put anything bad on them though or anything too personal. and i haven’t had any kind of blog since.
have fun in the mountains Scott-la!
May 24th, 2008 15:42
blaggings (xkcd) good if you have a purpouse for it like authors blags but otherwise just haveing a blog to get attention is just stupid blag for a reson dont self-indulge
May 24th, 2008 15:49
Rainy: I sort of thought she did reform, in a strange way. The article almost seemed to be an apology. I felt bad for her that the tables were turned on her about something she was so passionate about, but I guess if that had happened, she never would have seen the bad side of her job.
But I agree with you at the same time. I thought maybe she should have found a way to put ‘real life’ before her internet life. Maybe even stop blogging all together. I think it’s just dangerous to be more involved in the internet than what’s actually around you.
I’ve never been a huge fan of putting myself on the web. I read blogs and watch videos, but never write blogs or make videos. The amount of my classmates who find myspace and facebook essential to life actually scares me.
May 24th, 2008 16:40
Thanks for posting that, Scott. It was a really good article, I almost don’t want to call it that…a good story is more in tune. I think it was a perfect example of how the horror of being unknown can start, which could lead to a society like Extras, it’s not that far in the future, if you think about it. That’s why I’ve always loved science fiction, your books especially, because it is SO real. It’s so close to be reality. I feel for Emily, I know she made mistakes, but she knows it too.
I have never really said too much online. I had a blog for a while that I wrote that my friends read, but after having a nasty breakup, it all became too much. I made the mistake of writing down how I TRULY felt about what had happened. My one friend kindly sat me down and said that my feelings were valid but because I had written them as a blog where my friends ALONG with my ex could see, it seemed like I was asking for negative attention. And maybe I was, it was better than no attention at all, I guess.
Thanks for the post.
May 24th, 2008 17:13
yeah, I remember one summer I tried to write a blog. It was completely anonymous (i used a fake name) and just wrote about celebrities and news and stuff. barely anyone read it, except one day, this girl hacked it, messed up all my HTML, deleted my posts, and wrote insulting things in huge letters as well as my real name and the school i attended. i never found out who did it.
you’re lucky, scott-sama. no one ever criticizes what you write. we’re all happy and supportive here!
May 24th, 2008 17:49
Not exactly, but I did once accidentally send a personal message intended for everyone in my office to every single employee in the entire company, including offices in other countries.
The message was a farewell with contact information, and would have been nothing more than random spam except that it disclosed that the reason for my departure was that the show I had been working on had been canceled. That wouldn’t have been a problem, except that for unknown reasons a big boss was attempting to keep that a secret. How she thought that was to be accomplished was unclear, as “Hollywood Reporter” had already reported it.
The result was a rather hilarious encounter in which she stormed into my office and demanded that I be fired. My own superior pointed out that such a thing was impossible, as we had all already been laid off.
The whole affair taught me to be a bit more careful about what I thought was going out to a small group of people, but could conceivably be read by more. As a result, I have not yet had anything I write online come back to haunt me. Though now that I’ve written that, it will probably happen tomorrow.
May 24th, 2008 22:51
Back before blogs were the new big thing, or rather when it was all starting and there wasn’t myspace and livejournal and so on, I had a blog on my website for a short time. But I was incredibly stupid about it; I had told people about the site, and I didn’t change names or anything, so one day a very good friend of mine came over to me and asked why I had posted a rather personal story online, because this other guy had teased him about it. Oops!
I apologized, deleted it all, and didn’t even consider blogging again for years. Now I have a livejournal, but nearly everything I post is locked, sometimes it’s even filtered so that some of my “friends list” can read it and some can’t. And even so, I try not to post things that I wouldn’t want everyone to know.
I’ve been careful since then. If you search for my real name online, you only come up with around a dozen hits, mostly innocuous stuff from college.
May 24th, 2008 23:36
I have a blog, but it’s not like anyone reads it. I mean, it’s just interesting thoughts that I have over that course of the day. I come up with interesting questions and try to figure out the answer which often doesn’t exist. The fact is, I don’t even mention anyone but my thoughts. No one would bother to need the interesting thoughts of a teenager. No one. They would rather read about someone’s life rather than a bunch of questions that would keep them up at night.
May 25th, 2008 01:19
As far as I know… no, the Internet hasn’t come back and bite me.
But I feel rather embarrassed whenever I see the blog entries I wrote three or four years ago.
May 25th, 2008 01:46
My parents are too strict for my to have had the internet come back in my face- I tried having something called a hi5 but when my mom found out she like seriously chewed me out and grounded me for like a week. so yea. My sis was going to do a webshow (my website) but i think she gave up…
May 25th, 2008 01:47
wow Kay-wa and Tally&Zane are the only ppl who i recognize.
May 25th, 2008 02:42
I said some not so nice things on a comment on youtube.Then my dad later went on youtube (do dads even go on youtube?) and saw what i had said i got grounded (totally fun-missing)
May 25th, 2008 03:10
your dad went to YOUTUBE?????????? Okay, my dad has done some bizzar things (downloaded avril lavinge onto my mp3) but he has NEVER gone on YOUTUBE. Oh wow. Okay, parents do crazy things. Let’s leave it at that. Also, it sucks you were grounded. So, so, so, fun-missing. Also probably angry-making.
May 25th, 2008 03:41
personally, i haven’t had any bad experiences about the internet, mainly because i don’t discuss friends by name or location, and because i pretty much never use my real name.
i could probably think of about a million stories about friends and people from school who had horrible things happen to them, though.
…such as the student teacher, who someone one day found thier myspace (totally randomly) and she had some….unprofessional pictures on there.
…or, when a couple of friends of mine wanted to get back at this girl (who had actually done something pretty bad, but i don’t think they were totally justified) so they got permission to use this sort-of popular guy’s screenname and IMd with her, pretending they were the popular guy and they liked her, and got to see what she really thought of all her friends.
which was a really flawed plan, because she was the kind of person who agreed with stuff anyone said, and she was obviously doing it just to impress what she thought was a popular guy.
for me, knowing that at least one (and sometimes more) of my irl friends are reading my lj or posts and stuff kind of makes me not want to talk about real-life stuff.
plus, who really wants to? i talk to my friends about stuff like that. i don’t feel the need to broadcast it to the world.
but yay 40K on Levithan!!!!
….i have a story that hit 45 yesterday. except that’ll probably be more like 50K first draft. the idea of writing an 80,000 word novel boggles my length-issues riddled mind.
i love reading long books though. especially when full of zepplins and other things sure to be awesome.
May 25th, 2008 03:43
my dad goes on youtube. it’s not that wierd. he likes to watch like, live performance videos and lots of other cool music-related things that’re on there.
i’ve noticed i have issues with wierd contractions. random.
May 25th, 2008 04:20
Yeah, I don’t use my name or tell where I live or anything like that, the most personal things I give out are like my favorite books, movies, music…etc.
May 25th, 2008 04:41
I just use a nickname, and I’ve pretty much abandoned all of my online accounts. There just isn’t enough time to do anything. So, no…I haven’t had any problems with the internet. Of course, I probably just jinxed myself 0_o.
May 25th, 2008 05:39
i am very careful when it comes to using the internet. amy is my real name, but i dont say my middle of last name. i never say what town i live in, but i would say that i live in georgia. i never say my email address. i even created one to put on blogs so people wont have my real one! i dont have a myspace. i rarely post pictures of myself on the internet… so i dont think the internet will cause me any problems… it hasnt yet!
May 25th, 2008 05:41
Hah, i dont even WANNA know what you wrote, Abby-wa (btw it should be abby-la because there is no L in Abby;) )
May 25th, 2008 05:42
oops. I meant
May 25th, 2008 06:10
did you use the word dude?
My friend put a whole bunch of scary-making pictures of us when we were five on her myspace and I got grounded and made fun of
(My step mom says that myspace is the devil’s website, hence the grounding)
I had dance today and my mom just got here from CA,so she took me
she told me I should try to take another class and I told her I wasn’t good enough
but me and my friend were already planning to ask about taking a private lesson together
so my mom wen tin and started talking to the teacher and OF COURSE mentioned that I didn’t think I was good enough
and the teacher said that I was really good other than my arms
but I wasn’t paying attention at that point because everyone was looking at me
and then my mom mentions “development†in girls
and so while my mom and ballet teacher are discussing that and my confidence issues I’m getting stared at
overall today has been very embarrassing
May 25th, 2008 06:13
btw
I KNOW someone who can hack into private myspaces
my friend’s dad is a homicidal detective and traces people on the internet
May 25th, 2008 06:16
The last thing I blogged about was wanting a camera
May 25th, 2008 06:16
i think you mean a homicide detective, netta-la.
homicidal detective would mean he was a murderer/cop.
unless that’s what you’re trying to say…
May 25th, 2008 06:18
I use a last name that isn’t LEGALLY mine
I mean it sort of is just not LEGALLY (divorce and junk changes all of the legal stuff)
May 25th, 2008 06:19
yeah
no “alâ€
at least I hope he’s not a murderer
May 25th, 2008 06:22
Yes but that would indeed make it much more interesting would it not Netta-la?
May 25th, 2008 06:22
I’m reading through comments at random, sorry
my dad loaded eighties music onto my computer
he also has seen Charlie the unicorn
he discusses computer software on forums, too.
yeah, it’d be fawesometistically scary-making
May 25th, 2008 06:26
Emily-wa,
the irregular blog visitors normally comment first for some unfathomable reason
May 25th, 2008 06:46
hi pplz! i better now! lol sooo wets u all talking bout?
May 25th, 2008 06:51
MEGHAN-LA READ WHAT I WROTE IN THE LAST DAYS SPOILERS THREAD!!!!! ES MUY IMPORTANTE!!!!
May 25th, 2008 06:51
heck ya it has! if any of you have read my NAMELESS ONE II and my CONFESSIONS posts, you’ll no what i’m talking about. ugh. so horrible. altho now im pretty much over it. i have recently gone back to hating the Nameless One II even more than before. wich is a LOT of hate.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
May 25th, 2008 06:51
comment 39!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
May 25th, 2008 07:10
What do you mean irregulare blog visitors usually come first??? I check this blog about 3 times a day. I only just learned to comment.
May 25th, 2008 08:17
Ha, well we couldn’t know that you checked the blog cuz we only know that someone’s here when they actually post. I don’t think she meant it rudely though, of course.
May 25th, 2008 08:28
yeah. sometimes i come on here and read. but then i dont no what to say…and talking about my new glow-in-the-dark nail polish or my four packs of black post-its that just came in the mail yesterday or the singing and dancing pink cow that i got for my birthday wood just make me sound like a dork…so i just dont comment…
hehe. ok who am i kidding? everyone nose im a dork! so…
my glow-in-the-dark nail polish is nine kinds of fawesome! i painted my toes and my fingers and my sisters toes and my sisters fingers and my brothers toes and my brothers fingers…he wasnt 2 happy about that. but thats what nail polish remover is for rite?! (he was asleep. hehe). and then i sat in the bathroom with the lights off staring at my beautiful nails for almost two hours…it never gets old…
and my post-its are fawesome. i dont think theres anything else i can really say. except the fact that im running out…
and my cow is running out of batteries. so now it sounds like a troll or sompthin instead of a pop star. hehe.
and thats my life story! *holds for applause*.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
May 25th, 2008 09:22
People are such jerks. How rude of everyone who commented nastily to her story.
I’ve come close to overexposing myself, but it’s just really scary to think that all that could come back to haunt you. It’s dangerous and permanent.
May 25th, 2008 10:59
I want glow in the dark nailpolish!
I have one of the glow in the dark shirts…and it says “come to the dark side…we have cookies” With this cute little monster [:
May 25th, 2008 11:22
Yep, the Internet bit me in the butt. I blogged about something I REALLY shouldn’t have, and it was bad. I’m a bit paranoid about it now. Ah well.
May 25th, 2008 11:22
Yep, the Internet once bit me in the butt. I blogged about something I REALLY shouldn’t have. Ah well.
May 25th, 2008 11:29
where’d ya get it Liv-wa? i want one!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
May 25th, 2008 12:25
internet has bitten me
in stupid ways
just stupid IM fights but nothing to serious
May 25th, 2008 12:46
I have never had something happen to me online. But I can only read the first page because I’m not a registered New York Times person. harumph. I wanted to read the whole thing.
May 25th, 2008 12:47
I’M SORRY!
Really, I’m just not good with explanations.
It’s just that once we completely change subjects, some people don’t comment.
That’s all I meant, because, yeah, more people comment BEFORE that happens
And Lizzy-wa,
You got your post-its?!?!?!??
FAAAAAAAAAAWESSSSOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMEE!
Oh, and I’m a….well, I don’t like to use the word because the nasty kids at my school use it in nasty ways but I’m weird too.
So you can rant about glowing nail polish all you want.
May 25th, 2008 12:51
wait, are you sorry for me Netta-la?
May 25th, 2008 13:15
well, I am sorry for you
but I was reffering to my earlier comment on regular blog visitors
May 25th, 2008 13:25
hehe. i no what your talking about. me and my friends found out about dorks about a week before Christmas break. hehe. boy did we have fun! then we discovered the real meaning of dude, and then it was all over!
but then Robot-la called this guy CESL a dork, and then we all started cracking up. and he asked what was so funny. and Werewolf had to go and tell him to look it up in a dictionary. hehe. it was the most hilarious facial expression i had EVER seen in my LIFE!!!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
May 25th, 2008 13:26
oh okay, I used to be on here all the time. stupid busy lives. Oh, well thanks for your sympathy.
May 26th, 2008 00:57
Ok. Hi people! Guess what? I broke up with my boyfriend! Yay! I didn’t even really like him that much. So yesterday my ex-boyfriend or i should say he was my ex but anyways, so he got on and im back together with him! (note:this is the guy that got me 5 days out of school.)
May 26th, 2008 02:46
Glow in the dark nailposlish??? I want to paint my shoes with that!!! It would match my glow in the dark shoelaces!!!!
May 26th, 2008 02:59
Have I ever… Well luckily my mom has tauht me very well about the internet and she has not allowed me to have things like blogs, myspace, ect. For that very reason and other. But to be honest I do have yahoo answers and I have talked about my friends in a sorta-kinda harmful way. And so ya, it has come to bite me. Everytime I say “she’s so mean” and then people say comments back, I’m hurting her and making her look bad. And sometimes you have people who can look through your question and reveal a nasty side to youir question!!!
May 26th, 2008 03:17
i find this very interesting.i personlally would like to start a bolg,but i am still a minor,and i dont think my parents would go for it.i find that recording every detail of yuor life is a little much.
May 26th, 2008 04:37
The thing about blogs is that anyone can read them, but often no one does(except this blog, duh). My blog is totally unknown. If someone did know I would probably be in some mental hospital. It’s just less risky to keep a blog than a journal because a blog is hidden among so many other blogs and can be completely invisable. Journals can be read and people would know it’s yours.
May 26th, 2008 04:42
my blog just talks about useless junk
I did say a few things about people but nobody really reads it
Nobdy I talk about anyway
Plus I only use names of my family members
May 26th, 2008 04:49
Okay, personally I think this is REALLY stupid
Becca has a different last name than me
and it’s not even like she’s a step-sister or half-sister or something!
May 26th, 2008 05:01
Yea on the subject of the unknown ppl commenting first- just an observation. nothing meant to be mean…
May 26th, 2008 05:11
Yeah…personally I don’t see how someone could call an observation mean. Prehaps mock-insulting, but not mean. Wouldn’t it be a nice world if we could say what we think and not have people getting mad about that? I mean, some people would say that we aren’t all hundred dollar bills. But who says everyone likes hundred dollar bills? I mean, really is there something in the world that everyone agrees on? Okay, I’ll shut up now.
May 26th, 2008 05:22
I agrre with u!
May 26th, 2008 05:37
You know what’s soooooooo creepy. So, I joined this swim team outside of school, next thing I know there is this girl in my class who had just quit swimming who I didn’t know and had sat next to in band all last year. And this guy who I sat next to in jazz band last year, well his brother is one of the coaches and that guy swims competitivly so, I’ve seen him in a speedo. And the wierd thing is that me, that girl, and that guy, all play Clarinet! Funny isn’t it? And that guys brother who coaches swimming plays alto saxophone and he sat behind me when the band teacher asked me to fill in for a clarinetist in that band. The funny thing is that the guy who I was filling in for was the guy who I sat next to in jazz band last year and was the swim coaches brother. And the reason I filled in was because he was at a swim meet! I know, it’s crazy. The reason I figured out all this was from reading old swimming news letters on the internet. It’s creepy how much you can figure out without even reading a blog. And there are many more connections like that, but it gets even crazier. Next thing I know my dad will probably tell me that I’m related to the alto sax player. It’s possible. See, you don’t need a blog to find out everything about a person. All you need is a few newletters and a memory! But you can’t comment on newsletters. Also, they don’t know that I know all this. I’ll shut up. No, really, I’ll shut up now. Stopping typing right…………now!
May 26th, 2008 06:11
i don’t think i’ve ever revealed personal information, except for the fact that i have blonde hair (umm…there r what? 3billion people who r blonde?) i’m a lefty (there r some other lefties, tho not as many as i’d like…
we’re dying out!) the number of sibbies i have, and the state i live in maybe once. this (the westerblog) is the only blog i actually comment on, so ya. then i only email my friends/family
) was very angry/sad. so i righted it, but still. it was…scary.
once i accidentaly sent a scolding letter to the wrong person, so he/she (see? i don’t even reveal the gender of my friends!
May 26th, 2008 06:12
for anyone who reads the love you kill you series, the third book is coming out on june 9th *2009* ! that’s like a year, but w/e at least it’s a definite date.
May 26th, 2008 06:20
I KNOW!!!!!!!! I was just on Ally Carter’s blog!!!!! EEEEEEEEE! So excitement-making!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! On the comments on Ally Carter’s blog I was the one who said EEEEEEEE!!! It’s like my catchphrase!
May 26th, 2008 06:38
Wait a second. It’s not 6:20 am here. HMMMMMMMMM. I wonder why they put a time on something so globalized. Blogging is all about globalization. Does that mean globalization is bad? Or good? Or both? Yes, a mixed bag. Bags are good, but the plastic ones are so not environmentally friendly. Boo-hoo.
May 26th, 2008 06:39
okay, so it’s now 6:39am. HMMMMMMMMMMM.
May 26th, 2008 06:51
I got it at journey’s in the mall near me, Lizzy-wa…it was like a year ago though.
May 26th, 2008 06:57
It would be so cool to be able to make a t-shirt with whatever I want on it.*starts laughing evily*
May 26th, 2008 07:12
As far as I can tell her website still says the date is unreleased
where the heck did you find the date?
May 26th, 2008 07:19
Oh, I found it
May 26th, 2008 07:29
I think Danica Patrick got it by a car or something!
May 26th, 2008 08:06
okay. Um Andrea-la you CAN- it’s called iron-on paper and a printer… yea.
Also, Andrea-la, apparently the new book “The Host” is like ALOT like that… i heard a VERY long summary by my friend last night.
May 26th, 2008 08:06
oh i meant about the whole no arguing thing. not the iron-on tshirt thing. lol.
May 26th, 2008 08:12
uh…I’m still confused
I read Host but I don’t know what you’re talking about
May 26th, 2008 08:20
I was just wondering, are you going to be writing a 4th book to the Uglies series? I am reading Extras right now, and I love it! i have loved all of your books from this series! I also loved Peeps! I really hope that you are planning to write a 4th book!
~Tiffany Sands ( tiffstar18@yahoo.com )
May 26th, 2008 08:44
Okay, we have 10 people in my house right now who could do the dishes.
Who ends up doing them?
Me.
So, who hits their head on the edge of the cabinet?
Me.
Who now has a large red mark on their head where they slipped on the water and fell onto the counter, hitting their head IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT AS BEFORE?
Me.
Who notices?
Nobody.
May 26th, 2008 08:46
Before being the cabinet incedent
May 26th, 2008 08:53
I banged my head on the lifeguard chair thing at the swimming pool. Twice! In one day! My friend looked at my like I was insane or whatever. I know I CAN, you know, make a T-shirt. Just, I don’t know WHERE. Or how I would get THERE. Also, it would cut into my reading time which is very limited due to swimming and school and oboe and clarinet. Yeah, I’m busy.(but still read a book a day). I NEED to read The Host. I just don’t have enough money to buy it and the library doesn’t have it.
May 26th, 2008 08:55
Also, if I could make any kind of T-shirt it would be totally glow in the dark and there would have to be shoelaces involved. You can blame my shoelace obsession with So Yesterday.
May 26th, 2008 12:19
omg just got the host today reading it like crazy
May 26th, 2008 12:24
OHHHHHHHH! I totally want to read that. Don’t you just love BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **************************************************************
May 26th, 2008 14:23
Once, my sister sent something TOTALLY intended for my brother to the library instead.
May 26th, 2008 14:49
That article was amazing! That’s all I’ve got to say. Thanks for sharing it, Scott.
May 26th, 2008 15:25
i never really blog anything. I only have a bebo account which i NEVER go on. i only have it to keep in touch with friends that live in a dif. country. anyway~
I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo want glow in the dark nail polish!!!! My friend has this kind that changes colors in different lights. Oh and another friend has this t-shirt that is white with some designs when theres no light and then when she goes in the sun the designs turn from white to their natural colors!!! Its soooo fawsome!!!!!
May 26th, 2008 15:32
OMG!!! i just finished the midnighters series!! It was sooo good!!! I thought it was soo sad how in the end they all split up and went their separate directions, especially about what happened to Jess.
I have one question tho, how did jessica get pushed into the secret hour? (all i kno is that touching the lightening did it but,… HOW?????????????????????)
May 26th, 2008 16:30
hi guys! i’se been sooo very busy! we had my bros grad party today so all my relatives were here from 2 o’clock in the afternoon till midnight so they all left like 30 minutes ago. it was fun though. i got to see cousins that i haven’t seen in years. and then last night was my final night of dance recitals and that went really well. so yeah. busy. busy. busy. but now that all of that is over i can relax. not clean. (cuz i’ve been doing that pretty much every spare minute of every day since wednesday.) i can read. and sleep!
May 26th, 2008 21:50
wow i havent been on in forever and it seems when i am on it three in the morning woo-hoo for me.Actualy ive been really busy.Schools almost over and we just finished a giant project called project citizan.Our class was studying inhumane animal slaughter, not the funnest topic when you look at picture videos and articles about it.Them our smaller group leader wasnt a very good one so i had to take over half the time.Then after that finshed up this week we had a disaplinary assemble at shool because the kids at my school are getting in fights then being exspelled.Then one girl at my school brought a knife for who knows why and got exspelled, but i didnt like her anyway.Luckly this weekend is a holiday so its a three day weekend. But of course unlucky me got sick, you know headaches, sore throat,the works so i woke up now and took some medicine that ive been at night to fall asleep but forgot to take before i went to bed,so now here i am typing this long overdue comment on here.I have been unable to have enough time to read the full artical because when im on her its only enough time to check if scott has updated and if its on the shorter side actually read it.Lets hope ill have more time in the coming weeks although i have another big project in school ill try and get on and not at three in the morning.Wow this is prolly my longest comment.
Virtual hugs to all hopefully be on later
May 27th, 2008 01:48
I’ve read “The Host” (twice) I like it…its no “Twilight” but its still amazing.
I also really need to get The Midnighters…Those are the only ones I haven’t read….
May 27th, 2008 03:49
GUESS WAT
I used to live in Newnan, Geaorgia. Count the letters
May 27th, 2008 03:49
oops. Newnan, Georgia. spelling error.
May 27th, 2008 04:22
My friend told me like the soul thingies in The Host never argued or got upset about stuff and all. That was part of her super-long-enormous summary she gave me… and btw Andrea-la you can buy iron-on paper at the store, print something you like on it (or if you have the technology design something yourself and print it off on the paper) and iron it on. That is, if you have a printer. If not you can go to Fed-ex… lol
May 27th, 2008 04:24
at least i think. If not, your school might let you. My school only charges for printing like 5 cents for black and white, 8 for color per sheet (if it’s like a personal thing. School projects dont count.). If you supply the iron-on paper then it should be free at your school.
May 27th, 2008 04:26
Tiffany-wa (should be -la bc there’s no L in Tiffany), Extras IS the fourth book. U mean a fifth, right?
May 27th, 2008 04:29
hi everyone!
May 27th, 2008 04:52
well, i kinda had problems like last week, becuase i go on this yahoo message board, and a kid on there (i know he’s real and not some 60-year-old perv) started emailing me, and then my mom (the psycho-spazzy-overprotective parent that she is) CHECKED MY EMAILS (!?!) and asked who he was.
so i made up some crap about how he’s a friend of my friend and she had met him at flute camp.
lol
and mom bought it!
May 27th, 2008 05:14
i hav one question for someone that can answer this:whats the
-la and -wa thing i’ve read the uglies series but i just dont get how they work. can someone plz tell me?
May 27th, 2008 07:21
for la’s and wa’s it is on a later blog
any name with a L in it is has wa at the end
any other name is la
ie:lacey-wa
mary-la
May 27th, 2008 07:23
yea. Except my friend and I think that if the name STARTS with an L it should be -la
ex: Lora-la sounds better than Lora-wa… yet Emily-wa sounds better than Emily-la. Anyone else agree with me?
May 27th, 2008 07:31
Kenzie your back!
remember our stories?? 
lol.
May 27th, 2008 07:32
No because Lora-la sounds like a complete name although i see where your coming from.I believe the rule has the right strucure to it so the names sound fine,although i i dont know about someone with the name will because Will-la and Will-wa both dont appeal to me
May 27th, 2008 07:37
i do those were fun times these last weeks have been stessful i mean that long post was 3 in the morning ugh icky headache
May 27th, 2008 07:46
yea. i just went back and read some of it. lol. i finished school last wednesday so i’m out for the summer! but i know what you mean…. i had sooo many projects and crap to turn in i thought i was gonna die. cuz i was up till like 3 each night trying to finish them and then waking up at 6 each morning.
May 27th, 2008 07:51
Ew.i have like 17 more days so not bad.But my sis only has 12 cuz shes a senior gr her.Plus i get to go to a alkaline trio concert this on 5/31 and its free and its just up the steet from my house.Its wierd because my towen is small other than like twice a year for a fair but no free concert for me.BOMB DOT COM
May 27th, 2008 07:58
that’s fool. no one ever comes to my town.. but they come to this city near me. so i guess it all works out.
May 27th, 2008 08:01
ya im suprised they came their playing im our malls parking lot lol
May 27th, 2008 08:03
haha! i did it! kira-la. lol i like it better!
!
May 27th, 2008 08:03
lol
May 27th, 2008 08:07
Now i just need to talk to TZ again havent talked in a while then we can start our storys again kay-wa LOL
May 27th, 2008 08:08
yep!! haha!
May 27th, 2008 08:09
hm i should prolly do my math homework i have like a 1 1/2 weeks worth oops oh-well procratanation always gets the better of me
May 27th, 2008 08:15
yeah. i’m a procrastinator too. it always comes back to bite me later though. i’m watching the season finale of Gossip Girl on youtube cuz my dvr decided not to record it. i don’t know if it’s the whole thing though.
May 27th, 2008 08:17
ooh fun i decided to add http://www.boondocksaints.com/ as my website because it has to be one of the best movies EVER.
May 27th, 2008 08:20
LOL! i remember the stories we made..like the one of that dude and the smoke and all dat..lol
May 27th, 2008 08:23
hmm so that was like only the first five minutes and then it take you to a link where you can download the episode… but i don’t really wanna do that cuz it’s probably stealing……..
May 27th, 2008 08:24
…lol…
May 27th, 2008 08:26
prolly bootlegging is everywhere now though maybe if you look up the channel its on online you can find it because isnt it on like WB or something im not big into tv im a movie goer.because WB i think will let you watch episodes for free because bootlegging has gotton so bad
May 27th, 2008 08:32
GUESS WAT!? ok..well i made this shirt of Specials but i spelled Specials wrong! i spelled it speicals lol..but on dat bak i put Tally Youngblood,Zane,David,Dr.cable,and Shay..lol
May 27th, 2008 08:37
nice
thats why i would be so stressed on making my own shirt i would think i would spell everything wrong
May 27th, 2008 08:38
ehhh.. all i could find there was a preview at the wb. and i went to the cwtv.com website which is where you can usually watch the full episodes without downloading and the network gets money for it somehow but they decided that they aren’t gonna put those up this time. ……such a pain…..
May 27th, 2008 08:40
sometimes the web can be so evil there is this one website that you can watch tv on but i cant remember the name sorry Kay-wa i think about it
May 27th, 2008 08:50
that’s k. thanks though. i finally gave up on looking and now i’m watching the crappy youtube version that is basically just a recap of all the important stuff.
May 27th, 2008 08:58
=( not cool well im sure the full season will be on DVD soon enough and all will be well
May 27th, 2008 09:03
yeah.
May 27th, 2008 09:17
oh guess what
my brother being the nice brother he is got me an ipod and hes only 16 its very happy making i like cant stop listening to it.He makes money off line making games for sites like ugo player one of his he got $1200 for i tried to play it but i lost hardcore
May 27th, 2008 09:18
so i have this big autobiograhpy project due tomorrow and i have to come up with a title that matches my theme (which is a picture of a book that is blown away by the wind and travels throughout the world) so far i have
-Once upon a Lifetime, but that’s not very good
Plz help!!!!!!!!!!
May 27th, 2008 09:21
wow that’s fool! my brother would never just get me an ipod or anything else for that matter. he doesn’t even get me a birthday present.
May 27th, 2008 09:23
um oi i dont know im like brain dead right now
May 27th, 2008 09:24
ehh sorry Tara-la i am sooooo not good at those kind of things! wish i could help ya!
May 27th, 2008 09:26
for some reason tara-la all i can think of is the wind and the willows i dunno maybe like ,where the wind takes me, though its kinda obvious im not good at titles
May 27th, 2008 09:29
yeah me neither. I have so much hw all due tomorow. Only 17 days of school left! That is so foool that your brother got you an ipod. Neither of my brothers have ever even gotten me a birthday present
May 27th, 2008 09:35
our family always gets eachother birthday presents, and christmas presents even when we were little we got to pick eachothers presents out for eachother even when we didnt have money.you know its the thought that counts kinda thing.I never thought of not doing it really
May 27th, 2008 09:38
the chapters of my story
where my story takes me
..yeah. me is definitely not good at this.
my parent by a present for me and say it’s from my brother. lol.
May 27th, 2008 09:41
we only do that if we really cant think of what to get eachother
May 27th, 2008 09:42
We usually just pick out somthin and then my mom buys it and says it from whoever picked it out. But now i usually buy a gift
May 27th, 2008 09:43
omg my printer just went phsyco!!! It was making this funny noise and like vibrating!!!
May 27th, 2008 09:44
lol. good luck with that Tara-la!
May 27th, 2008 09:45
i hate printers their evil it takes me like five trys to get something to print right and its still isnt exactly how i planned
May 27th, 2008 09:48
Me too! I end up wasting like 6 billion sheets of paper and then i try to save them to use for something that doesn’t need ther paper to be blank and then my mom yells at me for making a mess around the desk so she throws them out and… ya
May 27th, 2008 09:51
My printer goes phsyco frequently…it seems to only happen when I have a HUGE project due that day and its like 3:00 am in the morning though. It starts spitting out weird symbols.
May 27th, 2008 09:54
ours is a scanner/printer so if there something in the scanner it will print that instead of what i want.Then there are like 15 different buttons for like 50 settings it makes my head hurt
May 27th, 2008 09:54
ok well i’se gonna go read. laters.
May 27th, 2008 09:56
I HATE printers and i have bad luck with computers. Our first one died, our next one’s hard drive broke, and my mom’s laptop goes physco freqeuntly and freezes about once every 10 minutes. Once it kept freezing when it unfroze, i gave up doing my hw that night
May 27th, 2008 09:56
Jeez you guys! I go spend a few nights with my friend and yall just still keep talking. lol. Only 2 and 1/2 days of school left! I didnt have school today but still. I dont want to go to school! AH!
May 27th, 2008 09:59
I just finished midnighter’s yesterday, i hate finishing books or series becaus then after being so into it, you have to go find another book, anhyway what are some good books besides the Uglies trilogy?
May 27th, 2008 10:03
I should probably go finish that huge project. Byes
May 27th, 2008 10:05
Bran-la you are so lucky…i still have 3 weeks left.
May 27th, 2008 10:07
Ew. 3 weeks! EWWWW! AHHHHH!!!!! That is worse than if a tropical hurricane hit my house right now! Although that would be scary…
May 27th, 2008 10:09
It’s raining here..does that count? xD
Oh well..I have to go…aparently its family dinner time.
May 27th, 2008 10:43
Three weeks still of school for me. And exams (eww). Three weeks of torture with swimming B provincials thrown in. Oh fun. Also, oboe lessons.
May 27th, 2008 10:47
I hate exams…NY has those regents tests that I can’t stand. They are more or less slow torture.
May 27th, 2008 10:59
I have tomorrow, wednesday, and a half day thursday left of school. And tomorrow, we are just signing yearbooks and like packing up all day, wednesday is our fieldtrip, and thursday we only go till 11:00 to practice for the graduation ceremony.
May 27th, 2008 11:04
Nice. At least you got a feildtrip thrown in there. All the teachers at my school are counting down for the end. I just feel bad for the elementary school across the way, they don’t get out until June 24th-ish
May 27th, 2008 11:13
I don’t get out til June 12, i wouldve gotten out june 10 but we had 2 snow days. The third to the last day we are just packing up and basically running around the school (well that’s what my friends and i do), the next day is a half day so we sit in homebasethe whole day, and the last days the worst! They make us come to school for an hour just to have a flag day ceremony. ALl wwe do is get all the flags around the school, march into the aditorium, say random boring stuff, and then we leave. Usually some people just skip that day
May 27th, 2008 12:29
The 16th is my last day. Ugg…and this week I have to be at school an hour early every morning for our Women’s Select Chorus, becasue it hasn’t been approved to be an actual class yet, for our concert next week.
Bed Time!
May 27th, 2008 13:19
june 17, then exams. So, so, sad. I have to study forever.
May 27th, 2008 13:20
Exams+studying+tests+busyness=torture!!!!!!!!! At least I know I’ll do well in math!
May 27th, 2008 13:26
I oh so despise math.
May 27th, 2008 14:49
WOO-HOO
i am super exited for many things
1.schools almost out 17 more days
2.summers almost here
3.theres a thumderstorm right now
4.i have decided to become a free runner or at least try if you dont know what check the link its bomb.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDaZgSUka_I
^thats like extreme though
May 27th, 2008 15:57
woah. Kenzie that stuff is crazy! don’t kill yourself okay?
me is out of school.
it’s odd. today is like the first day it really hit me, because i’ve been so busy i haven’t had time to relax. but today i spent the entire day doing nothing! 
so yeah. good day.
May 27th, 2008 16:46
omg!!! in science we were talking about maglevs!!!!!!!
May 27th, 2008 23:21
Talking about anything but Light in science sound interesting. Test today. Not looking forward to it. And to make it worse it’s first period. Which is in 45minutes. And I’ve been sick, so I have no clue what the test is on. Oh, joy. Only a few more days of school(okay three weeks). Then it’s summer vacation. YAY!!!!!!!
May 28th, 2008 02:35
I think that everyone in this generation has been bit back by the internet. I’m sure all bloggers have had someone write something condescending or rude to them about something they have blogged about. It’s just a risk you have to take when you spill your life’s story to the public eye.
May 28th, 2008 04:28
It’s been a while, again…
Bad drama always seems to be happening on the internet, if you ask me. Between Myspace and IMing, it seems like everybody is just making themselves more vulnerable – available – to become more hated by everyone else. I’ve lost a few friends via the internet, which is stupid, right?
May 28th, 2008 06:19
man……. the season finale of House got all messed up.
…just like Gossip Girl’s season finale did. ……cuz i guess my dvr got overheated and then it didn’t record the sound and the picture is all messed up. and i was really looking foward to watching it. 
..i guess i’ll have to wait until a rerun of it comes on. bummer.
May 28th, 2008 07:10
I hate english! remember that project i needed a title for yesterday? well supposedly that was the last big thing due in english. But today my teacher gave us a big expository paper due june 2, and i have a huge social studies paper due june 2 too!!! What makes the last 2 or 3 weeks of school worse is that in a week we are dissecting frogs!! Ewwwww!!!
May 28th, 2008 08:18
WHOOP-WHOOP! Only 1 and 1/2 days of school left!!! I feel wonderful!!
Haha, i had to dissect frogs last week. A few tips:
1) Dont inhale their stinkyness, because….it….stinks. lol.
2) Dont poke its butt. Some weird stuff might ooze out.
3) Dont let your partner poke it eye ball! Its disgusting!
4) Wash your hands afterwards. Haha.
But its not to bad. some parts are grosser than others. And if you have a partner who is really rough, you may want to cover your eyes. My partner was rough and she was just tearing it all off! Nasty.
L8r or as my friend says it l8rter (shes kind of weird.)…(ok a lot!)
May 28th, 2008 09:16
Where is everyone? Its only 5:15 here. Are you guys eating or something? You people are always ahead of me…
May 28th, 2008 09:16
Wait, now its 5:16.
May 28th, 2008 09:42
i got out of school like and hour ago its only like 3:30 here
May 28th, 2008 09:43
Nope I’m behind you.
May 28th, 2008 09:47
hi TZ how was you day
May 28th, 2008 09:50
yes i am out of school for the summer YES i plan to have a lot of fun this summer i am going to YMCA camp and that is always fun have a good summer every one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 28th, 2008 09:52
Fun…we got our yearbooks today and so I was sitting down looking through it and I feel someone tugging on my hair, and it was my friend and I’m like “What are you doin’?” and she’s all “Just playing with your hair.” and “Okay….” and then she’s like “Finished!” she colored some of my hair with an orange sharpie. So then I marked her on her face and we were in like this Sharpie War.
May 28th, 2008 09:55
Sharpie wars are the best!!! my friend and i had on once but then she had to go and try and scrub it off because her mum is really strict and doesnt like her doing it.
Actual our school has banned writing on your hands because it supposedly is related to gangs or something.But its unfar because thats how i remember to turn in papers and stuff.not even the teachers get it
May 28th, 2008 09:58
Sharpies are like drugs. lol., Seriously!! And finally you guys talked.
I though people were ahead of me. O well. Isnt that weird. Like, when i go to bed….you could be eating dinner. Weird…but cool. And yet weird.
May 28th, 2008 10:01
ya the whole time shift thing really throws me off espeicalaly when on here it says its 9:58am when its really 4:01pm.Very confusing to see if people are on or not
May 28th, 2008 10:02
Yeah it’s totally Wool. But yeah so…..we apparently aren’t supposed to but nobody cares cuz it’s the end of the year, and everybody was like signing eachother’s arms and faces and stuff….OH! Instead of signing my name, I wrote Edward Cullen on my friend’s(same one who colored my hair) forehead and she went around all day not knowing and then she looked in a mirror and was all “WHAT THE HELL?!” and dude it was priceless!
May 28th, 2008 10:05
HAHAHA that would be so funny
i should do that to my friends they all have crushes on him, or like nick jonus or somthing their obsessed with him too.*shakes head*
May 28th, 2008 10:16
I once idiotically blogged about the teacher that lied to another teacher about me. (IS IT MY FAULT THAT SHE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ENGLISH? SHE’S FROM ROMANIA! SHE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TEACH FRENCH! Ever.)
May 28th, 2008 10:16
Nick Jonas? Ewwww…
May 28th, 2008 10:19
i know i have no idea what they see in them, they also crush about this one guy in our PE class.It was really funny because at our last dance he came up to our groups and asked one of us to dance and all the girls were too embaresed so they kept saying no so i danced with him.They all gawked at me it was weird
May 28th, 2008 10:29
Go Kenzie!LoL!
May 28th, 2008 10:38
its funny evryones afraid to dance with guys still its silly
i danced with a guy whos two grades above me who i didnt know(plus he was shorter than me it was weird)
and yet half my friends wont even think about dancing with guys
May 28th, 2008 10:40
I don’t really like dancing, but not cuz I’m afraid LoL,but yeah that is silly!
May 28th, 2008 10:46
idk i like dances though not very much dancing but im exited for our next and final dance of the year.its a beach party theme so the staff is gonna BBQ stuff and. theres. gonna. be. a .mechanical sirfboard!!!how cool is that.
i have decided on a new style of life.As i said before im going to be training on doing parkour its so cool, though dangorus but thats why ill train before i go and jump up a wall or off a building.Basicly im gonna have a healther lifestyle and plus other personal things.
May 28th, 2008 10:58
That’s hecka cool! Our theme for the last dance was A night in Spain, it was pretty cool.
May 28th, 2008 11:06
our dance themes have never really been good.I dont even remember what our last dances theme was.But the one before that was like movie star and you were supose to wear white it was dumb
May 28th, 2008 11:11
i’ve had a sharpie war with my friend once. it was fun. and then like we were suppose to meet some other friends at the mall to go to a movie and so we scrubbed with those face wash pads for awhile to get all the writting off… they work better than soap and water.
ehh… i have to go fold clothes now. laters.
May 28th, 2008 11:22
Sharpie war…good idea. Also, my school doesn’t have dances, but it would be fun. And getting sharpie off is easier with that hand stuff. I totally failed my science test today. But I’m going to pass my english test tomorow because it’s open book, on a book. Which is totally boring. Why can’t we read anything GOOD in school????? Why oh, why are doomed to the worst historical fiction in the world??????? Why on earth can we not read Uglies for a novel study???????????
May 28th, 2008 11:27
you tell em…. we should read the Uglies books. i hate every book they make me read in skewl…
May 28th, 2008 11:33
School spelled skewl is much more realistic, cuz dude it has EW in it.
May 28th, 2008 11:35
yea i have always done it like that!
May 28th, 2008 11:36
the unglie books would be good.Although i have a friend whos parent wouldnt let them read it because they said it promoted plastic sugerie total oppsite.so i let her family borrow my copy of uglies(which you should b honored i have all you books except midnighters bet that was just because it was the first series i read in school) so her mom could read it then her.Ah i just remembered i need my book back.It been maybe what 2 months
May 28th, 2008 11:38
gosh i would be like give me my dang book back lady. *heart attack*
May 28th, 2008 11:40
I feel kinda guilty though sometimes, always ragging on having to go to school when I should feel priveleged cuz a lot of kids around the world are in positions where they don’t have that opportunity…
May 28th, 2008 11:40
Yeah…all school books suck. They’re like text books, just fictional. Also, why can’t we study interesting things in science. I mean, proporties of light? Come on. Really, maybe one in 10000000000000000000000000000000000 people actually like the books that we read in school. And usually that is the person who published it in the first place. Also, if I EVER find the person who invented back-stroke (now I’m talking swimming) I will completely and thouroughly kill them. Same goes for whoever invented Fly. NOT FUN!!!!!!!!!! Also, I see many flaws in the school systems. I mean, I learn more in the hour before I fall asleep than I do at school. Do we REALLy need to know the difference between convex and concave mirrors? Why can’t we pick what we want to learn about? And not just the subject, but the subject within the subject. Also, I learn everything in social studies. EVERYTHING. Because that is the one class where we can voice our opinions. And to go with the whole blog theme, maybe that’s why people have blogs. To voice their opinion. Because our society is so restraining. We can’t just say what we think. We have opinions, but they are often crumpled into a ball and thrown out the window into a fire where they burn to a crisp before being fed to a giant squid, all for the purpose to “fit in”. But if you can annonymously voice your opinion on the net, then maybe you can say what you want without wrecking your rep. Except, why do we care about our rep? I think I really shouldn’t care, but frankly, I do. Now, I’m depressed again. Whatever, it was worth it.
May 28th, 2008 11:42
all the teachers do is talk then give us all the work to take home when i dont even get wut im doing? My freakin spanish teacher gets so off topic i 4get wut we r even talkin about.
May 28th, 2008 11:44
yeah… But I like when that happens. Then we might talk about something worth learning.
May 28th, 2008 11:44
but homework does suck.
May 28th, 2008 11:47
yeah but not when my math teacher is trying to reteach decimals to my class and they r all so dumb.. we have been doing decimals for wut like 6 years and they are all like wut???? So then she has to go over and over and over and well u get the point. But if its interesting we just let em talk.
May 28th, 2008 11:50
Decimals are sooo easy. I missed two days of school because I was sick and I was still ahead. I understood the stuff I missed why half the class didn’t. I laughted at them.
May 28th, 2008 11:50
why=when. Sorry, had to correct myself.
May 28th, 2008 11:52
yea its like review from 3rd grade! We should get to pick our classes. like zero math.. Uhg i hate math!
May 28th, 2008 11:54
Math is good. Mostly because I get it all and finish everything half an hour early. Which basically means that I get to read for the rest of the class.
May 28th, 2008 11:55
our school books arnt too bad but maybe im just a geek.My english teacher is the best she incorparates her own storys into our lessons though she can easily get off topic(but mostly if we suggest somthing).But her room is connected to our social studies teachers room by a wall that can fold up so its one big room.Our Ss teacher is stricter so when they work together its perfect.Our science is ok but kinda boring, but our teacher is bomb she lets us listen to our ipods during class.Oh my PE teacher is cool to.we played pickle ball today but shes really young and is a rocker like hardcore rocker, its funny shell play music through the speakers
May 28th, 2008 11:55
Yeah…I was behind in math for a while cuz I was sick for two weeks and couldn’t go to school (Ugh, strep throat AND menenjitis at the same time!) But then I came back and it’s like totally easy…
May 28th, 2008 11:57
Math isn’t hard just takes to much time when u have to write out equations in algebra.
May 28th, 2008 11:57
Yeah, I hate that we have to show work, and stuff. Isn’t the point to get the answer?
May 28th, 2008 11:59
yea i know…. who cares where we got it from as long as we have an answer… lol
May 28th, 2008 12:00
my math teacher hates me.half the time she cant even spell my name right.
May 28th, 2008 12:01
I mean, in english we don’t have to say where we got our ideas from. Why is math different?
May 28th, 2008 12:03
my PE teacher cant remember my name.. she calls me Cecil… so far from my name its just ewwwwwwwwwww…… Math is just MATH.
May 28th, 2008 12:04
All my teachers remember my name. Probably because everyday I go to them asking for extra credit. I need to be on first class honors. I mean, I write essays and short stories anyway, so why not get school credit for them?
May 28th, 2008 12:07
yes i luv to write. hey wut time is it where u live?
May 28th, 2008 12:08
8:05pm. You?
May 28th, 2008 12:10
its 9:10…
May 28th, 2008 12:21
haha im only at 6:20pm
i still got like four or five hours before i usally go to sleep
May 28th, 2008 12:23
oh so not fair. i live sorta by the east coast. u?
May 28th, 2008 12:24
west side all the way
May 28th, 2008 12:27
wow we are on totally opposite sides of the US. wuts it like there?
May 28th, 2008 12:34
hey sorry but i gots to go. gonna play dance dance lol. talk to u later. my email is polka_dot_foreva@yahoo.com if u wanna talk. c ya!
May 28th, 2008 12:34
I’m in Canada. And no, we don’t live in igloos. But it did snow in winnipeg. Not fun.
May 28th, 2008 12:35
wuts it like there?
May 28th, 2008 12:35
ok c u later. email me at polka_dot_foreva@yahoo.com i gots 2 go for now!
May 28th, 2008 12:36
So do I, band test tomorow. Thank goodness it’s practical.
May 28th, 2008 13:05
lol good luck!
May 28th, 2008 13:38
Thanks
May 28th, 2008 14:26
i go somewhere for 3 hours and you guysl leave about 100 comments?!?!?!?!?
Wow, we all live all over the place i live in the middle east aroung the great lakes. Ugh! If i missed just 1 day of school, i would be sooooooo lost. We move so fast, the school years almost over and we’ve finished 677 pages of the book out of like 800. My math teacher is great and its so funny cus he’s like demerit! to whoevers talking and he’s not strict at all, like you’re never “late” to his class, and if you don’t do your hw he doesn’t really care as long as you finish it by the end of the skewl year.
My science teacher is really nice, although she has this thing about chewing gum, same with my french teacher. She writes your name on the board if she catches u chewing gum. I could shoot my orchestra teacher (enough said). my architecture teacher is strict but he likes me so i’m lucky. I got the good english teacher this year (the other one is a ….. according to my friends) she’s really nice, and my social studies teacher is soooooo funny sometimes, although he makes half my class stay after school half the time. Wow that was really long.
May 28th, 2008 14:31
I noticed that Tara-la…and everyone was gone like 20 min. before I got back.
East coast for me [:
And I get the missing one day of school puts you soooo far behind. I missed four becasue of the flu and it took me like a month to get caught up. I like my science teacher though…even if he is wicked strict on the work/homework front.
May 28th, 2008 15:25
Sorry, I had to go cuz of my softball game! We totally kicked butt, and won 15-11!
May 28th, 2008 16:19
fawesomeness TZ!
my teachers this year were mostly fawesome…
-my honors english teacher….. kicked butt! she was like super understanding and funny… good times in that class.. although she always got me confused with another girl whose name is like really close to mine.
-my spanish teacher….. is one of the best! she like completely looked out for me… she was more of a friend… but still a really good teacher at the same time. i’m hoping i get her next year for spanish 2.
-my confrence advisement teacher (home room)…. is amazing! she like can tell when something is bothering me and always knows how to help……. she’s also more of a friend. i have her all four years of high school. so that’s pretty fool!
-my journalism teacher…. is super fool and layed back. she is super understanding. and i get her again next year for the student newspaper… i’ll probably have her all four years though.
….and those are the teachers worth mentioning… most the others were good too… but they didn’t try to establish personal relationships with me so i don’t care about them as much.
May 28th, 2008 23:27
Oh wow, my teachers really vary.
Band-good, actually pretty much my favorite mostly because of subject.
Choir-hate hate hate. Mostly because I didn’t learn a thing
Social Studies- Favorite, oh wow, so…understanding in an incrediblely interesting way.
Math/Science- so, so, he’s a little bit angery most of the time, but that’s understandable since he had two twin boys.
Englsih- Good, I mostly like her because she likes my essays.
Who cares about the rest. The rest are kinda pointless.
May 29th, 2008 06:24
hello everybody!
May 29th, 2008 07:37
Its 3:33 here. Im in the sourth part of the US.
Tomorrow is my last day of school! We have a half day. YEAH! I’m happy. Only one more year and I’m out of middle school! Yep yep.
So how was everyones day? Mine was good. We still did work today though. Although they cant take any more grades they still decide to give us work which is REALLY stupid! But w/e. I’m done. Hahaha!
Over the summer i am going to Florida. Anyone live there? You dont have to say if you dont want to. Just curious.
May 29th, 2008 08:05
so r u in almost done with 7th or 8th? I am out 2morrow 2!
May 29th, 2008 09:13
I love my choir teacher [: Her room is like my home away from home. Concert tonight!
May 29th, 2008 09:27
well have fun!
May 29th, 2008 09:38
dude i still have like 3 weeks of school i feels like school is unfar somtimes
i didnt go to school today though had to go to the doc i have ANOTHER ear infection this time in both ears.Its my second one this year
May 29th, 2008 09:40
I am leaving 7th and going into 8th grade. So happy. WHOOP-WHOOP!
May 29th, 2008 09:47
kenzie, that sux i hope u feel better
Bran-la, thats kewl!
May 29th, 2008 09:50
lucky im in a junior high so i have 7,8,9 grade together.i still have 2 years of junior high.Its weird though because they still consider 9th grade to be high school so 9th graders can be on high school teams but they dont technicly go there.Although i do have a friend whos home schooled but goes to our school for some classes(like drama art and pe), plus she was in our school play
May 29th, 2008 10:10
Ok i have something to show you guys! I dont no if the link will work, if it doesnt then just forget it but i have to at least try. It is the poster i made for my Scott Westerfeld project.Its awesome.
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll221/Pnkalway/Scott/Scott001.jpg
May 29th, 2008 10:14
May 29th, 2008 10:17
rex-la same here- tomorrow i’m out.
Scott-la we told you to work on a fourth midnighters (and possibly fifth uglies), but have we heard about any of this? NO. Get to work, Mr. Westerfeld!!!!
gosh i skipped like 50 comments, you post too much when i miss a day!!!
i am in middle school, so we’ve got 6, 7, and 8th grades. I’m in 7th as i said before.
it’s 7:15 PM here- eastern time
May 29th, 2008 10:17
Haha oops i acidently did that but i thought i wouldnt do anything. Let me do it again!
Brb!!
May 29th, 2008 10:18
I tried too.
Hi!!!!
May 29th, 2008 10:20
rawr why does everyone get out tomorrow.Some people in other districts get out later than me though.But its ok i guess cuz i the 13 i get to go to wildwaves for school.Anyone whos had 2 or less detentions get to go.Lets just hope the weathers nice
May 29th, 2008 10:21
get better, Kenzie
Anyone here read the book “Fever 1793″? It’s really good. it’s even on my Summer Reading List (school gave ti to me…. luckily i’m moving so i wont have to read the books). Speaking of moving, I’m so mad- I’m moving this weekend, but i wont be able to have TV or computer for A WEEK. AAAANNNNDDD…. our pool wont be ready for like three weeks!! What Am I Supposed To Do With No Friends And No Pool And No TV And No Computer?!?!?!
May 29th, 2008 10:23
Sorry, i deleted it because i realized i left the names on there and (im not calling you people creepers) there are some creepy people out there. And they like to stalk you so i just dont want people stalking me! Haha. Here it is.
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll221/Pnkalway/Scott/Scott001-1.jpg
May 29th, 2008 10:25
Ok im going to eat dinner so tell me if you think its neat and ill read it later!! TTFN! (ta-ta for now)
May 29th, 2008 10:26
thats so unfool Emily-wa though for me a pool i wouldnt want to use because its like bi-polar here so we really need to get into summer before its hot
May 29th, 2008 10:28
Nice, Bran-la!
Hey you’ll never guess what i had to sit through my last hour of school…
a presentation on body parts. Yeah. A lady from the college and her two student teachers came in and showed us BODY PARTS. HUMAN body parts. REAL human body parts. Ew.
We saw a brain, a spinal cord (the grossest of all) which they had sliced open to show the nerves, kidneys, a normal heart, an enlarged heart, a skull, normal lungs, and the lungs of someone with lung cancer…. again, ew.
May 29th, 2008 10:28
Is EVERYONE getting out of school soon??? I still have three weeks til EXAMS!!!!!! Then I’ll be free! Yeah, that’s it.
May 29th, 2008 10:29
Yea Kenzie i understand what you mean.
It’s beginning to feel alot like summer here, so a pool is like a sanctuary lol.
May 29th, 2008 10:29
hey Andrea-la! Wow, three weeks? Are you on year-round school?
May 29th, 2008 10:34
Thank you Andrea-la you and me both are left to rot in school
May 29th, 2008 10:35
haha. And I’ll be left to rot for a wekk until I can talk to you all again.
Gtg, bye!!
May 29th, 2008 10:38
bye!
Emily-Wa!!!!!!
May 29th, 2008 10:41
I’ve never had the internet harm me in any ways. Except for my dad finding out all my secrets. It turns out that he googles me weekly. He hasn’t found me on here yet only because I’m not using my last name. If he found me I’d be in big trouble. And what’s creepy is most of the stuff about me online is not stuff I put up there. If you google my first and last name in quotation marks (which is what you do if you only want a certain set of results), 10 things come up. 6 are actually me: one for good SAT scores in the Midwest Academic Talent Search, two for Principal’s Honor Roll, one for a piano recital when I was nine, and two for winning the spelling bee. Two might be me, but aren’t for sure: a family tree and a census results list. Two are definitely NOT me: community service in a church. If you google my first, middle, and last name in quotation marks, it used to be that a blog I had would come up. My dad saw the blog, freaked out, hacked my account, and deleted the blog. I was not happy.
I graduate middle school in one week. Exactly. I’m scared!
Emily-wa, why would people show you human body parts? Don’t these people have any moral standards?
Today in LA I had to do an on-the-spot speech on the best book I’d read this year. It had to be something I’d read for the first time this year, so I did the first Midnighters book (I would have done Uglies otherwise). My speech was awful. It was mostly silence. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
May 29th, 2008 10:41
Eek. That was LONG!
May 29th, 2008 10:48
It’s called Canadian school. And three weeks is considered getting out EARLY! My brother has 4
May 29th, 2008 11:04
I’m soooooooo board. I’m procrastinating studying for EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m being very naughty. Also, I may have failed my band test today! Okay, it always feels that way because we have to play this stuff that gets harder and harder and we have to stop when we CAN’T play it anymore. I mean, when it gets to 108=half note because it’s in cut time and everything is twice as fast. Also, this particular song was almost all eighth notes. Fun…
May 29th, 2008 11:33
hey ppls im back!
May 29th, 2008 11:37
Cool!
May 29th, 2008 11:38
Are you still here?
May 29th, 2008 11:39
yeppers I am here!
May 29th, 2008 11:41
Awsomeness. Totally swimtastical. Yes, I just said(typed) swimtastical. Do you play any instruments??? Just need to know!
May 29th, 2008 11:42
I like to play keyboard. u?
May 29th, 2008 11:44
clarinet, oboe, piano, recorder (of all shapes and sizes) and I sing(well enough to get into an auditioned group). Also, clarinet jazz, which is kinda totally different.
May 29th, 2008 11:44
im back also though i didnt tell you i left:mrgreen:
May 29th, 2008 11:45
Grawr it didnt work i was never good with smileys
May 29th, 2008 11:45
dang gurl! u makin me look bad! lol
May 29th, 2008 11:46
you both make me look bad i dont play any instruments
May 29th, 2008 11:46
I’m kinda musical. This is frequently BAD because it is so time consuming being in jazz band junior vocal group and recorder ensemble. Also, oboe lessons. All on top of my insanly crazy swim schedual.
May 29th, 2008 11:47
Im in LOVE with music. i would die without it! my whole family is musical!
May 29th, 2008 11:49
that would stink i never really had a full shedual after school other than all my honors homework.But i most likely will because im doing tennis lessons this summer will be practicing parkour and maybe dance lessons
May 29th, 2008 11:49
Really? It is soooo time consuming. Too much music. Also, Jazz fesival with no sleep/healthy food=being really bad at your swim meet the next day.
May 29th, 2008 11:50
Swimming everyday after school! Also, saturday morning practice(jaws theme)
May 29th, 2008 11:52
I love swimming but 6 days a week *shudders*i think i would be sea sick most the time
or get another ear infection-_-
May 29th, 2008 11:52
Love music. But too much of a good thing sucks(jazz festival). I start freaking out if I don’t play my clarinet for more than a few days.
May 29th, 2008 11:53
yea my dad plays guitar, banjo, and this one thingy. my cuzs are in a band. one of my family members was on that show Can you Duet on CMT. my cuz is on that battle of the bands thing you know all that good stuff!
May 29th, 2008 11:53
Swimming is FUN! Unless you are being tortured by a sub. Who makes you work so hard you wish they would just kill you already.
May 29th, 2008 11:54
Both my parent suck at music. So does my brother. I really don’t think I’m related to them.
May 29th, 2008 11:55
Also, my dad doesn’t know the difference of my oboe and clarinet. My mom just doesn’t get it. She likes jazz though. In JVG we are doing Pink Panther. YAY
May 29th, 2008 11:55
lol
May 29th, 2008 11:56
I’m so happy right now. But swimming was so hard. They made us go so fast that it ended early.
May 29th, 2008 11:58
im happy 2! I get outa skewl 2morrow! when do u go back to skewl. like in the fall?
May 29th, 2008 11:59
UHHHHHHHH! I still have THREE WEEKS of skewl. NOT FAIR!
May 29th, 2008 11:59
fun my family is more sport oriented.My aunt and uncles and mom and dad usually get together for things like bowling and nascar.Then most of my cuzs are into skateboarding or baseball(some sport i have alot of cuzs).My sister is a swimmer and i play tennis and am starting parkour.Are family members do some music my dad plays trumpet and my brother plays cello.other than that i think we more appriciate music because i know if i didnt have music i think id die.
(grr sorry if there are spelling errors my keyboard is like rubber and hard to type on)
May 29th, 2008 12:00
really when do you go back next year? i go back in august
May 29th, 2008 12:01
i go bak early september i think and its ok i have 3 weeks more too
May 29th, 2008 12:01
September. Early september. Also, school starts, swimming ends. Kenzie, your family is just like mine. It’s all about sports. But I somehow find time for music. Mostly when I’m supposed to be eating/sleeping.
May 29th, 2008 12:01
i play violin, i want to quit but my orchestra teacher found out and is MAKING me stay in orachestra for another year. Then i’m free!!! 2 more weeks of school as of tomorrow!!!! I think i’m going to die dissecting frogs next week, watching it on the computer is bad enough!! The elementary school is grades kindergarten-5th, my middle school is 6-8 and high school is high school. O, and btw im in 7th grade for 2 more weeks
May 29th, 2008 12:02
i go back like august 17th
May 29th, 2008 12:02
I’m out the 16th…which is relatively earlier than the elem. school. I’m in the high school…bt that’s not saying much on a ccount of its 7-12
May 29th, 2008 12:03
School and swimming is so hectic. I don’t know if next year I’m going competitive or lifesaving. But since I’m only 14 I kinda can’t go any farther in life saveing. Stupid age restrictions. I would say I swim better than that idiot who I had to drag across the pool last time. The idiot who was TWICE MY SIZE
May 29th, 2008 12:03
wut grades r u guys all in?
May 29th, 2008 12:04
So hectic. Studying for exams is not happening.
May 29th, 2008 12:04
Grade 8! With all those other idiots. You?
May 29th, 2008 12:04
i didnt study at all
May 29th, 2008 12:05
I have to study, or else I will FREAK OUT!
May 29th, 2008 12:05
getting ready to go into 9th!
May 29th, 2008 12:07
So so so looking forward to that. Just, life will get even more crazy. But who on earth said life wouldn’t be?
May 29th, 2008 12:08
yeppers. im gping to be the high skewl strange person. I guess im just odd
May 29th, 2008 12:08
im exited for 8th!
May 29th, 2008 12:09
yay…..lol
May 29th, 2008 12:09
School is probably made purly for the purpose of killing people. Also, I’m going to be taking more subjects then allowed. I’m odd.
May 29th, 2008 12:10
What on earth was I think signing up for band, choir, and digital pics?
May 29th, 2008 12:11
wut were u thinking?
May 29th, 2008 12:11
hey i gots to go c u tomorrow!!!!!
May 29th, 2008 12:11
I really don’t know. I also don’t know how I will survive picking between different classes in grade 10,11,or12 when we have more choices.
May 29th, 2008 12:12
I really should spend more time thinking things over.
May 29th, 2008 12:13
see ya!
May 29th, 2008 12:13
?!?why would you sign up for so much stuff
i signed up for a semester of art then a semester of ceramics and a year of reading tutor we get extra electives in 8th grade.Then ive got a advanced(not honors harder)math social studie and language arts honors and science
well im think so anyway
May 29th, 2008 12:14
I sign up to keep myself busy. When I think my brain starts a war.
May 29th, 2008 12:14
bye Rex-La *virtual Hugs*
May 29th, 2008 12:16
lol
May 29th, 2008 12:17
I’m so board.
May 29th, 2008 12:17
And possibly slightly insane
May 29th, 2008 12:17
can you link to my blog now?
May 29th, 2008 12:18
EEEEEE you can!!! Try it, try it!!!
May 29th, 2008 12:18
Ya me too but im procrastinating from doing my long homework
May 29th, 2008 12:19
stupid homework. I’m procrastinating studying for exams.
May 29th, 2008 12:20
gtg…see ya!
May 29th, 2008 12:20
woo procrastinators unite……..tomarrow
haha sorry always a laugh with me
and i will be reading your blog*opens blog in new tab*
May 29th, 2008 12:22
bye Andrea-La *virtual hugs*
May 29th, 2008 12:39
we have the same EXACT choices for 8th grade as 7th. I was going to do architecture 2 which is when you get to build a small model of your designed house, which is the whole year. That would leave me with 2 other choices cuz everything except band, choir, orchestra, and architecture is only a semester. I was going to do cooking and art, but my EVIL teacher Ms valdez (aka ms valdevil (notice how shes not married yet)) found out i was quitting orchestra and she had this big talk with me about how she doesnt want to lose me for 8th grade and she FORCED me to not quit, so she changed my form to orchestra and architecture 2!! SHE IS A DEVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 29th, 2008 12:40
Kenzie, that’s my lunch table’s motto! I’m actually procrastinating doing my social studies homework, only I’m a little bit creative in my procrastination – I went to my sister’s chorus concert purely for the tradition that former Madison elementary students get to sing “Pop”. But I’m home now… *sigh*… and have to do my homework. Hey, I love music too! I sing and I play viola, piano, clarinet, and guitar (though not very well yet on the last two). My family thinks I’m nuts. They’re always trying to get me to do softball or swim team, not realizing that I run away from projectiles flying through the air at me instead of hitting them and that I can barely do a doggy paddle. The only remotely sportsy thing I do is dance (tap, hiphop, poms, and musical theatre).
And Andrea-La? I know you won’t see this until later, but we’re all slightly insane.
May 29th, 2008 12:46
Tara-la, I sympathize about evil orchestra teachers. Just don’t ask about Mr. Lipari… he threatened to hang me from the cieling by my toes, shake me until all the change fell out of my pockets, throw my glasses in the bottom of the timpani drums, and smash them (my glasses, not the drums). He quit the job at the school (good) and became the choir director at my church (bad. Very bad.)
May 29th, 2008 12:56
Help… I need a major event that’s happened between May 1994 and now!
I already have:
9-11
the Iraq war starting
Saddam Hussein being executed
the launch of the Mars rovers
Katrina
the Euro being introduced
the space shuttle Columbia exploding
the tsunami in Asia
North Korea getting nuclear weapons
I’m making a Top Ten list of US and world events during my lifetime, and I’m out of ideas… help!
May 29th, 2008 13:17
Am I the ONLY one who has a good Band teacher??? He is totally swimtastic! Band rocks!!! I’m switching my band instrument from clarinet to oboe. I would also love to play alto sax. Amy, define major. What about the pokemon paka-paka thing in 1997? Does that count? Another major event (in my eyes) would be the release of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Or the increase of people who have celiac desiese?
May 29th, 2008 13:25
woo-hoo support harry potter
oh columbine(cant spell)and virgina tech shooting
May 29th, 2008 13:28
okay so wow. today has been a little crazy. first i went to the evil dentist who used that sharp hook looking tool to poke my gums until they bleeded… and i take very good care of my teeth. the only thing i don’t do is floss and that’s because i have wires in my mouth that make it pretty dang impossible. and she wacked me in the eye with one of her tools and she didn’t even say sorry. mean. mean. mean. so then i went to work from like 11:30 to 3 and then i went to my ortho….they are soooooo much nicer there….and i got another retainer. (now i have four that i wear at the same time.) so after that i went to my friends party…. it was awesome… huge shaving cream fight. if you’ve never tried it you should. but i advise doing it in nice weather… today was so cold for the end of May… it was 59 degrees out and i was walking around in soaking wet jeans and a camie… not a good idea. so i had to leave early for softball pictures.. and now i’m home. i think i’m gonna go in my hot tube pretty soon cuz i’se still frozen.
Tara-la… i feel your pain too! i quit band this year and my teacher threw a fit…. he almost made me cry… and i don’t cry easily. and then he like gave me an 80% on my band fianl…. which was such crap because at the begining of the year i got a 96% and i did wayyyy worse then and this time i did almost perfect and got an 80%! but i still came out of the class with a 93.6% …which is an A- so i guess it’s okay.
next year i’m taking……
(semester… but i’ll be taking pictures for them year round)
-Honors English 10 (semester)
-Honors Communications 10 (quarter)
-Personal Fitness (quarter)
-Biology (semester)
..those are my required classes…
my electives are….
-Geometry (semester)
-Algebra 2 (semester)
-American Gov’t (quarter)
-World Geography (quarter)
-Journalism 2.. which is the school newspaper.. i’m the main photographer!
okay… sorry guys for the longness…..
May 29th, 2008 13:35
okay since no one is talking to me i’m gonna go hot tubing now. laters.
May 29th, 2008 14:33
Ok you prolly wont see this for a while kay-wa but why in the name of mother pearl would you take algebra and geometry as ELECTIVES do you actually have nice math teachers
May 29th, 2008 14:45
I’m taking all horrors classes*cough* I mean honors… next year too, it’s gonna be a pain but nothing I can’t handle….including Honors English, Honors Biology, Honors honors and more honors! Ah! LoL!
May 29th, 2008 15:07
my english teacher calls us honorites and the extra smart/nerdy page kids are called pagelets, shes weird though.I wish we had honor science classes but no we only have basic Ss La and math
May 29th, 2008 15:25
Yeah…
May 29th, 2008 15:34
that was a pretty random thought…oh well………
Im like the only on in all of my classes who likes science.Everyone thinks its boring i think it interesting, its my favorite class.
May 29th, 2008 16:00
in a way it’s not really by choice… see theres this really high honor at my school that you can get if you take all the hardest classes, and keep your GPA at or above 3.75 the entire four years of highschool. and my parents, grandparents, and I all really want me to get it. so i kind of have to take these classes now so that i can take the really hard classes my junior and senior year. and by getting this award it could mean that i get college entirely paid for or mostly cuz i would get tonssss of schlorships… which would be amazing… cuz i wanna save my money to travel and take pictures. and so yeah working my butt off now hopefully will pay off later.
technically we don’t really have honors science classes either.. like there is no honors biology at my school. we have science classes that you have to have teacher recommendations to get in like Chemistry and Physics but there not called honors for some reason. i don’t know why. i’m taking both junior year. which is gonna MAJORLY stink… because i don’t like science too much.. and those classes are seriously tough.. like in Physics especially… more than half the class fails… and these are honors students i’m talking about. ahh! ..scary stuff!
my cousin goes to this one highschool where learning to put a bike together is a class! and they have this one class that they choose a place to visit and then the students do research on what they would like to see and then actually get to go for a week and see all the stuff they wanted. soooooo very unfair! i would love school if stuff like that was offered to us.
May 30th, 2008 01:44
All these comments (wow! look at them all!) make me think that it’s probably a good thing to keep yourself anonymous on the net until you’re old enough that your feelings aren’t so volatile and what you think doesn’t change as much from year to year. That age will be different for different people, but let’s borrow a phrase from Cory Doctorow’s new book (Little Brother) and say it’s 25.
At my age (47), I think it’s a good thing to use your real name on the net, because you should stand behind what you say in any public forum. And the net is public.
May 30th, 2008 02:34
My school doesn’t have any honors classes that I can take right now. Advanced placement only starts in grade 10 and I’m in grade 8. I find all my classes so easy and this is in private school. My band grade is 97% and my band teachers totally love me. If I quit, they would likely hate me. One of my band teachers wouldn’t let me switch to alto sax because the clarinet section “needs me”. I’m going to switch to oboe though. My new band teacher will let me. There are three music teachers in my school and I’m in all of their little private clubs, so they kinda have to like me. This will be helpful next year when I try out for the musical(“if” I don’t get in, I’ll do pit orchestra, they can’t reject me there). Only three more weeks of school. Only three more weeks of school. Only three more weeks of school.
May 30th, 2008 03:53
hello all! just wanted to say that i just finished reading Little_Brother and I wanted to share with you WESTERFELDIANS that it is a must read and Scott was totally on the ball with his review!
May 30th, 2008 03:56
haven’t been on here in forever
but I am officially an 8th grader, again
May 30th, 2008 04:22
Yesterday I skipped school and ended up in a bookstore Coles. I talked to the most amazing person EVER who’s read so much its scary, but its so good to get an insight once in a while from experienced readers and she was SO against the whole YA is only for YA cause she’s like 30 something so
Horray for skipping for … erm learning …
May 30th, 2008 04:25
I’m not at school today due to the fact that I am sick. It sucks, I can’t eat, sing, or anything really. Maybe this is my chance to study for exams. The worst part is that I can’t go swimming. So, so, sad.
May 30th, 2008 04:56
I’m just wondering what singing has to do with going to school
lol.
May 30th, 2008 04:58
When you are in EVERY LITTLE MUSIC CLUB THE SCHOOL HAS TO OFFER being able to sing is kinda important.
May 30th, 2008 05:00
Dear Andre-La,
I’m in grade 11 and I play both, Clarinet and Alto.
My school has to different programs one thats instrumental Band
and the other that is Jazz band, the only thing is its after school. Its really cool to learn about different types of music and to have to feel the music like in jazz but its always a good experience… try asking them if you can do it on the side or something, cause honestly, its totally worth it. And don’t do oboe. Its a pain for you and your parents to practice.. Lol.
May 30th, 2008 05:03
I’m doing clarinet right now. Jazz and regualare band. Along with recorder ensemble. My band teacher wants to clone me. I am learning oboe. That’s the reason my parents gave me the basment bedroom lol. Jazz band rocks, escepicall since now we are learning St. Tomas. In junior vocal group we are doing pink panter. I’m just in grade 8, so I can’t do EVERYTHING. Oboe is good though, and I am getting better at it.
May 30th, 2008 05:04
I’m in Instrumental band, and Jazz which are the two main programs and the school choir. I also played in the musical this year which was Little Women which was… well not as much fun as you think it’ll be and ya, Jazz Band Rocks lol.
May 30th, 2008 05:07
I was going to audition for Pirates of Pinzance last year, but chickened out. I just painted sets instead. Jazz band is good (plus missing school for trips is good too). Next year I’m going try for school musical, which I’d probably get into, just it would be lots of after school rehersals which would mean skipping swimming (everyday after school).
May 30th, 2008 05:09
Look at you!
lol your a very busy girl, and now I thought I was busy… Guess not really compared to you but I mean do you have a job?
May 30th, 2008 05:11
No, but I do babysit a lot.
May 30th, 2008 05:14
Well then technically i am busier than you, but hey thats where i get all my reading through, at work! But i guess you do go to a private school and your parents are probably capable of not making you get a job AND all and you are still super minor…
May 30th, 2008 05:16
Saturday morning practice at swimming=waking up at 5:30am. You may be busier, but at least you get to sleep in on saturday, i’m assuming.
May 30th, 2008 05:18
Well Work at 8:30 so i do have to wake up like at 15 to seven so we’re looking at a possible show down here lol..so when do you have time to read?
May 30th, 2008 05:21
During math class. Before bed, after writing in my journal. During english class. During science class. My teachers don’t notice and if they do they don’t care. It wouldn’t matter if I didn’t show up to class at all, I would still be on first class honors.
May 30th, 2008 05:22
So you read everything or just YA?
May 30th, 2008 05:24
Basically everything. Anything I get my hands on. Unless it totally sucks. You?
May 30th, 2008 05:27
I’m not a huge fan of historical books, but I’ll read them
May 30th, 2008 05:30
Historical fiction kinda sucks if it’s what the school picks for us to read. I mean, the author’s last names were alphabetical. They just went to a book shelf and picks three books sitting together.
May 30th, 2008 07:23
Jeez….I’m so busy this time of year. Everything from finals to preparing for multiple recitals, and concerts for school ever other day…
I love my english class. We are reading A Secret Life of Bees. It’s so amazing.
May 30th, 2008 07:23
Everybody go look at my LA class’s literary magazine! (Click on my name or go to http://hmslitmag7808.googlepages.com) My piece is called “A Valiant Attempt”. It’s about how I couldn’t think of anything to write when we were being forced to learn formal poetry (sonnets, villanelles, pantoums…)
Next year in high school I’ll be taking all honors classes and chorus as my elective. I’ll probably do honors chorus, too…
I hate historical fiction. I used to love it, but it’s all the SAME! And if you know of historical fiction that’s not all sameness, let me know!
They WHAT, Andrea-La? How could they do that to you!? Just picking three books sitting together? Unbelievable.
May 30th, 2008 07:24
Okay, let’s try that again… Now click on my name.
May 30th, 2008 07:29
Really, it was insane. All the books were okay, but at the same time kinda sucked. The problem is that they could have been not bad, just when you read the in school they are totally boring, and they totally disect them til you read them just to get the questions done. So, so, so, stupid. I see oh so many flaws with the school system. Oh so many flaws.
May 30th, 2008 07:32
Yeah, they should take the smartest kids in each grade and have them design the curriculum. Kids would learn so much better and the smart kids would actually end up challenged instead of just sleeping/reading/writing/doing everyone else’s homework during class.
And did it ever occur to teachers that not every book has a hidden meaning?
May 30th, 2008 07:45
OMJONAS! YES!! ^^ It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that they’ve got a board of gray-haired old people making up the cirriculum, pounding out obslete material.
All the way up to about 6th grade, I learned next to nothing useful/new, and it was so dumb that we’d spend weeks on things that could’ve been learned, understood and perfected within mere hours.
But then starting from 7th grade, there came the special schools and such for the academically advanced which made school a little challenging.
Even so, with the current cirriculum, especially for elementary grades, it’s wayy to slow-paced and pointless for about 95% of the class, so it begs the question, is it really worth it to hold everyone back for the 5% of people?
May 30th, 2008 07:47
“OMJONAS”? What does that mean?
May 30th, 2008 08:01
Really, I’m smart, so if they had smart people designe the whole school system, I’d be one of them. The thing is, in my opinion, adults are really stupid at knowing what kids want to learn about. Really, if we are going to learn about something pointless, why can’t it be pointless, but interesting. And why do they so rarely give us a chance to voice our opinions on the matter? And who on earth came up the stupid idea that everyone should learn about the same stuff? Why can’t we learn about what we want to? I mean, we get some choice subjects, but really not enough. And if they are actually good, we are very limited on which to pick due to schecualing difficulties. See what I mean???
May 30th, 2008 08:07
Oh, and in class I usually do read. I don’t even have to hide my book under the desk, because the teachers really don’t mind. My friend who is even smarter than me doesn’t even take notes! I really do learn more in the hour when I try to get to sleep at night than during class (unless it’s social studies). Social studies is the only exception because the teacher seems to be accepting of all types of learning, which includes debates, class discussions, and story telling. See, if all classes were like that I would be a genious(not like I’m not already almost one, or so it seems compared to the idiots at my school.).
May 30th, 2008 08:09
theres no honors at my school. For english the levels are – resource, regular, and humanities, im in regular. For math theres regular, advanced, and algebra. im in adv anced ugh i was gonna say something that happened today but i have to go!!!!!!!!!! Im probabvly gonna 4get wat it was by the time i next go on
May 30th, 2008 08:18
There is no honors classes at my school either! It sucks ‘cus I’m stuck in a class with a bunch of idiots who take so long just to copy down a few notes that me no time at all! And in band I sit next to this guy who always says his instrument is “broken” so that he doesn’t have to play. Yeah, he’s an idiot. The sad thing is that he plays 1st part. 1st part is where they put the “good” players.
May 30th, 2008 09:04
hola cherry cola
today was good i finished my math in science so i dont have homework*does happy dance*but i have to do make-up work*stops*.Run day in PE though talked about the musical my friends wont stop singing thats going on at our school.In science we got to watch the day after tomorrow, i love our smartboards.Im either going to the musicl tonight or tomorrow which is good because the money you pay to go in goes to a friend of our prinicpals daughter who has cancer,then saterday i get to go to a free concert.
May 30th, 2008 09:08
Yay, no homework for you! I’m not so lucky. Just, I’m sick, so I don’t know what it is! Which means I have to study for exams instead (has feeling of doom). Exams will suck. In fact, it would be really good if I got mono and didn’t have to do them. Okay, I would be disapointed that I wouldn’t get to see how I would do compared to my friends. Also, I really want to see if I can get 100% on my math exam, because I really think I could!
May 30th, 2008 09:13
i dont think ive gotten 100% in a math test this year,yet i aced all my other tests ive past, im usually great in math its really one of my best subjects
May 30th, 2008 09:14
I’ve gotten 100% on almost all my math tests this year without studying. I didn’t even have to pay attention in class! 96% average in math!
May 30th, 2008 09:22
I’ve been putting off studying for this humongo language arts test on our vocab… 183 words I have to match definition to word…. ugh.
Amy, you could also do the very recent Earthquake in China that killed like over 60,000 people. And try finding something good, too. Much nicer than sad news they talk about all the time. GL!
May 30th, 2008 09:23
its because my teacher hates me and is super strict.on her last test no one past so we had a make up test today i got atleast a B.Right now in that class i have a D because ive missed days.
May 30th, 2008 09:54
I hate it when the teacher makes us show work on math tests. If I ever get marks off in math it’s because of that. Does it really matter??? I can do the questions in my head, isn’t that GOOD THING???
May 30th, 2008 10:03
lalalalalalalala….. how is everybody?
i just finished The Pact… it was good. it’s about these two teens that have grown up together their entire lives and became lovers. and then there parents are called to the emergency room one night and find out that Emily, their 17 year old daughter, is dead from a bullet wound to the head. and the only person who was with her that night was Chris, the man she loved and that her parents loved like a son.. and the jury is left to determine whether it was murder or suicide… i won’t ruin it though. but if your gonna read it be aware that there is some explicit content… it’s adult fiction.
May 30th, 2008 10:06
hola mi amigos!
May 30th, 2008 10:12
Como estas?
May 30th, 2008 10:15
ok. Y tu?
May 30th, 2008 10:16
muy bien. Y tu?
May 30th, 2008 10:17
oops sorry didn’t mean to post the first one!
May 30th, 2008 10:20
I’m sooo glad we have honors…Most of the people in my school aren’t too bright so honors makes it somewhat bearable. Yay for highschool honors!
May 30th, 2008 10:20
mas o menos
May 30th, 2008 10:22
thats good!
May 30th, 2008 10:25
lol yep. what book should i read next….. Twilight or Just Listen?
May 30th, 2008 10:29
Twilight!
May 30th, 2008 10:31
lol k thanks. well i’se gonna go. laters.
May 30th, 2008 10:32
Twilight is totally swimtastical!!! READ IT!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 10:32
yup c u laters!
May 30th, 2008 10:32
Hey andrea-la!!!! wuts up?
May 30th, 2008 10:33
Nothing. Just thinking about studying for exams.
May 30th, 2008 10:34
lol. i finally finished mine 2day! im gonna get lonely without skewl…
May 30th, 2008 10:35
what are you up to?
May 30th, 2008 10:35
nothin much! U?
May 30th, 2008 10:36
You already have exams over with??? So, so, lucky
May 30th, 2008 10:36
Yep finished em today!!!! finals suck!…
May 30th, 2008 10:37
I would practice clarinet/oboe, but I’m not because I have a cold, then I’ll start coughing, then I’ll break my reeds, and that is a bad idea
May 30th, 2008 10:37
English exam is going to suck. We have to write an essay on one of the stupid books we read in class. I wish we could choose our exam essay topics.
May 30th, 2008 10:38
really im sick too! it might be allergies… im not sure!
May 30th, 2008 10:39
So suckish. I can’t go swimming. Well, I COULD but that would be a BAD IDEA (trust me, after trying to swim 4 days in a row while sick, you learn)
May 30th, 2008 10:40
I bet u do!
May 30th, 2008 10:41
I just always get sick toward the end of the year because of stress.
May 30th, 2008 10:42
hmmmmm maybe thats whats wrong with me. I had to do an oral spanish report today! yuck…. trying to give an oral report while you can’t breath is not fun!
May 30th, 2008 10:43
I know what you mean! I got sick before doing an oral book report, and I could hardly talk! I did really well on it though, because how hard is it to talk about books?
May 30th, 2008 10:44
Yea i got a B! I had to do a slideshow and present it!
May 30th, 2008 10:46
I totally didn’t prepare for my book report, but got 100%. I just went up there and talked for 5 minutes about the book (I think I did Uglies for that one). So, so, easy.
May 30th, 2008 10:49
I bet! My presentation had to be all in spanish. It was about Mario Lopez. The person had to hispanic or whatever!
May 30th, 2008 10:49
I don’t take spanish. I have to take french…which I basically suck at.
May 30th, 2008 10:51
I wanted to take french but they didn’t offer it! Sucky school…
May 30th, 2008 10:51
I want to take spanish but my school doesn’t offer it. The grass is always greener on the other side…
May 30th, 2008 10:54
Yeah seems that way. I teach you spanish you teach me french…… advice (I SUGGEST YOU NOT TALK TO ANYBODY WHO KNOWS IT GOOD….THEY MAY LAUGH!!!) I officially suck at spanish!
May 30th, 2008 10:56
I suck at french. When any mark is lower than my gym mark, we have a problem. I only have an 82% in gym.
May 30th, 2008 10:58
Yea same here. I have not been participating in Gym because of an health problem and she tried to fail me. Stupid evil teacher.
May 30th, 2008 11:00
I tried to get out of gym by saying that since the point of gym was to get exercize and I get lot’s of exercize from swimming. It didn’t work. I didn’t even earn any respect for waking up at 5:30am on a saturday to go swimming. Stupid evil gym teachers. What kind of health problem do you have?
May 30th, 2008 11:01
I hurt my back in… what else could it be…. a fourwheeling minor accident. No brakes+huge ditch= OUCHY!
May 30th, 2008 11:02
I would do gym but my doctor said i can’t…..
May 30th, 2008 11:04
My brother doesn’t have to do gym. He has severs in his foot, so he doesn’t have to. Lucky you, you don’t have to do gym. Also, why can’t we do FUN sports in gym (aka sports I don’t totally suck at). If I ever had the chance to challenge the school system…………..
May 30th, 2008 11:06
How did that happen? Yea i would do stuff like swimming, i like to play tennis( I still suck at that so… yea…) just fun stuff!
May 30th, 2008 11:07
Honestly, I would happily write 1000 essays to get out of gym. I would even take extra french (wait a second, now I’m talking crazy)
May 30th, 2008 11:08
I’m good at swimming, teather ball, diving, and tenis. Those are almost the only sports we don’t do. See my problem?
May 30th, 2008 11:08
lol. I luv to write especially MUSIC!
May 30th, 2008 11:09
When I play tennis I use all the courts. Thats my only problem!
May 30th, 2008 11:10
Writting is so fun. I like to just doodle on my clarinet. Doodling officially refers to making up junk on an instrument, not drawing on your practice record when the band teacher isn’t looking.
May 30th, 2008 11:10
In badminton I hit the person three courts down in the head with the birdy. True story.
May 30th, 2008 11:11
lol. I like to write songs.
May 30th, 2008 11:11
We just played badminton not to long ago!
May 30th, 2008 11:13
I like it in jazz band when we do improvising. So much fun. But sightreading tests are bad. It doesn’t matter how far you get, you always end on the hardest thing feeling like you failed.
May 30th, 2008 11:13
Also, badminton=bad
And, basketball= me hit in the head multiple times.
May 30th, 2008 11:14
that sounds not fun
May 30th, 2008 11:16
Swimming is a good sport because there are no balls for my to get hit in the head with. But there are the walls…yes, I’ve banged my head on the balk-head. It should be called the bonk-head.
May 30th, 2008 11:17
i have done that one to many times!
May 30th, 2008 11:18
Many people would say that about me. Most people think I’m insane because I go up to random people telling them random things and asking for hair samples. I’m not insane, just slightly odd.
May 30th, 2008 11:19
im very strange…. in a good way!
May 30th, 2008 11:20
Oh course in a good way. Being normal is just being a robot to society.
May 30th, 2008 11:20
oh=of
May 30th, 2008 11:20
i know so overrated!
May 30th, 2008 11:21
Just like a TV ad. Looks cool, but it won’t get you anywhere.
May 30th, 2008 11:22
i know!
May 30th, 2008 11:22
I hate commercialism. Do you?
May 30th, 2008 11:23
Yes makes me want to punch something!
May 30th, 2008 11:24
Totally!!!!!!! Down with commercialism!!!!!!! Down with the stupidity of sameness in the school system!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 11:25
DOWN!
May 30th, 2008 11:26
DOWN WITH LABLES OF ALL KINDS!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2008 11:26
YES DOWN WITH THE.!
May 30th, 2008 11:27
Them not the
May 30th, 2008 11:28
Our society has far too many issues. Commercialism just happens to be the biggest on yet least known about. Don’t you hate seeing people love commercialism. Both my parents like it. So, so, stupid. Also, school system has serious issues.
May 30th, 2008 11:29
on=one
May 30th, 2008 11:29
school system is crazy. i wish it would all just stop! lol
May 30th, 2008 11:31
It needs some serious tweeking.
May 30th, 2008 11:32
Yep it does. Hey gots to go. talk to you tomorrow!
Luv, Rex-la
May 30th, 2008 11:33
Bye
May 30th, 2008 13:20
hmmm…maybe this is just because i was rereading Touching Darkness at lunch today, or because I’ve been listening to Tyrannosaurus Hives the last couple days, but See Through Head by The Hives strikes me as such a Melissa song. though i always imagined her tastes as a bit darker, but it’s plenty loud for the homeroom mind-noise.
May 30th, 2008 13:22
You guys! I got out of school today and im sick! My nost wont stop running and im getting a rash under it! My brain is hurting and i fell like someone shoved a buffalo up my nose, its so stuffed!
But on *sneeze, i really did* the plus size, tomorrow my mom is taking us to buy a new dress, shoes and get our nails (hands and toes) for the summer! YEAH!
…..uh. I want to feel GOOD! Not POOPY! *Sneeze* i did it again. Ew its all over me!
May 30th, 2008 13:24
Anyone want to buy some used tissues?……They’re fresh. I JUST made them….
May 30th, 2008 16:25
I hope you feel better Bran-la and I think I’ll pass that’s really kinda icky….I have a wicked headache right now….stupid glass at Six Flags….okay so we were there for the school trip and I was looking at the wale and so I had my face pressed up against the glass and I’m all “I can’t see it!” and my friend’s like “Come over here! You can see it perfectly!” and I’m like “Okay!” so I run over to where she was and say “Oh I see it!” run up there to look and bash my face into the glass. Ouch. and I graduated today….WOooOoo….
May 30th, 2008 23:21
I’m sick too! Sucks, doesn’t it! My throte hurts like mad because I can’t stop coufing. And my nose is in pain too. Not at all pleasent.
May 30th, 2008 23:47
Feel better
May 31st, 2008 00:55
Ok, so not only am i sick…but i guess my dog is too. I woke up to him throwing up on my bed. EW!
….this day better go well.
May 31st, 2008 03:34
hope you guys feel better!!! i just got done at softball practice. it was long. and hot. and the fields were soaked with huge puddles. we had a really big storm last night. tornados and all. none of them actually hit my town though. we were lucky. well i think i’m gonna go make myself a sandwich. byes.
May 31st, 2008 03:46
Maybe you caught Canine Influenza from your dog’s barf, Bran-la
May 31st, 2008 03:47
It’s a vicious virus.
Vicious, I say!
May 31st, 2008 07:14
lol. My nose is running like crazy, i’m also getting a rash under it. So ill tell u guys what i was going to say yesterday. Ok so these popular ppl at my school made this website based on gossip girl so its basically gossip girl- elm place (my school) version. They put the password to the websitw in like all these school books (which was REALLY dumb), so everyone knew it. THen someone went on and changed all the stuff so it was all about other people and ya. The popular ppl all like started crying cuz some of it was about them. My school blocked it so you couldnt go on it, but in social studies this guy went on it, it was blocked, but it also locked the laptop he was working on. All the teachers were threatening to give out detentions if they heard us talking about it. And then when i went on it at my house it said: This website has been taken down by Mrs. SHroeder (our vice principal). The whole grade was talking about it yesterday, i dont know about today. So the pop. ppl made a new website. You can go on it if you want. I geuss they took all the nasty stuff down. Gossipgirlep.webs.com.
May 31st, 2008 07:16
Oh, and since my cousin and grannie are here from ireland they went shopping today in this huge mall with my mom. My mom felt bad for me so she let me leave school at 10:00 so i could go with them!!!!! How fool is that?!?!?!?!?
May 31st, 2008 09:41
Tally & Zane, You graduated from school entirely or just a grade?
May 31st, 2008 09:57
Why are coach purses not cool? If they cant afford them then they can just say that…
May 31st, 2008 09:58
woo today/yesterday was fun.After my last comment I went to the park with a friend and we found a DOG.There was this big coppery oorange dog that just ran up to us and it didnt have an owner with him.but then he ran off so we went up a little hiking trail but then he came up with us.Then we found his name was grizzly from his collar and we took him to the dog park and tried calling his owner, no luck.so he jst followed us around till we were waiting for our ride and his owner pulled up.Then we went up to our schools musical it was great, our drama teacher is bomb this was our third play/musical this year, plus it was for a little boy with cancer.today was a free day in PE and i played pickleball, fun game, then we watched the rest of the day after tomorrow in science.
May 31st, 2008 10:00
Wow, thats a really weird website. They should take it down though…you can get in A LOT of trouble for cyber-bullying and stuff like that. And i think they might be getting carried away with there popularity.
May 31st, 2008 10:20
I graduated from jr high, ya know? Eighth grade? Yeah so….I have two coach purses Bran-la….I guess it’s a matter of opinion, but I don’t really like purses cuz I always set them down and forget them places….pockets are much more convenient cuz I highly doubt I’m gonna forget my pants or shorts anywhere, that would be really really odd…but they were both gifts…
May 31st, 2008 10:21
Really? so did I yesterday! Go us!!!!
May 31st, 2008 10:26
I have 2 coach purses too. Haha…but i guess they are a hassle if you loose them. lol.
May 31st, 2008 10:35
YAY! FOR US! Cuz we totally rock, lol!
May 31st, 2008 10:47
You know it!
May 31st, 2008 11:05
I’m going into 8th grade…again
I could say some very nasty things about age discrimination but I won’t
cause Becca and Alice are in the room
May 31st, 2008 13:20
Hey..me and Netta-la are going into 8th grade! We should have a feista!!! WHOOP-WHOOP!
May 31st, 2008 14:11
so am i!!! go us! Oh and i also have two coach purses. But the thing is, the popular ppl are like SUPER rich! You guys know what bar and bat mitzvas are right? well all of theres is like perfectly planned and REALLLLLLLY expensive. They probably have like 10 coach purses. The ppl have made like 6 different websites. One of them puts some of the not stuff on the hot list. its soo weird
May 31st, 2008 15:16
You see, at my school it’s not like that…don’t get me wrong the so called Popular people are still preppy jerks and brainless morons but believe me….most of them are not rich. My school isn’t like nesecarily a “rich” school. I used to go to a private school that cost like a tons of money but I didn’t like it cuz everyone was so conceded and full of themselves it was just disgusting, so I chose to go to public school, but basically it’s the same just less….money for most kids I guess, but I choose not to flaunt it around like a show off acehole as others would, so most kids don’t know the difference…and I’m proud to say that I am NOT popular in the least, I have my own friends that I’m extremely happy with.
May 31st, 2008 16:02
Im not popular but im not like an outcast.The weird thing is our “popular” kids are richer but so are alot of my friends are too.The problem is half of our jocks/preps(who arnt nessesarily “preps”)are always suspended or some even exspelled because they’re always getting in fights.Most of our school isnt even like popular/outcast/geek, theres no real ladder its just we all have our own groups.The popular kids are just the kids who you know the names of and not usually for good reasons.My school/grade is messed up seriously.
May 31st, 2008 19:07
It’s funny that I would encounter such a question. Roughly a month prior to reading Extras, I myself was in a situation remarkably similar to Aya’s. I know that doesn’t seem very sense-making, but it’s the truth. Hear me out.
I’m a college student, but I also spend a lot of time online, obviously. So, here I was, slogging through classes when I heard about what Aya would’ve called a weird new clique online: soulbonders. Since you probably haven’t heard the term yet, the word is used to describe the experience of having “another soul” bonded to your own, effectively someone living inside you. For the soulbonders, most of the time, this other soul is a fictional character. For example, one girl I met believed that she had the soul of character from a movie living in her body alongside her. Soulbonders also often believe that these other souls can take temporary control of the bonder’s body, and many keep Livejournal’s specifically for their soulbonds. But I digress.
Somewhere along the line it clicked that I had to write a term paper about Japanese popular culture for one of my classes, and that a good portion of the soulbonders were “bonded” with manga characters. Perfect! I decided I would write about the soulbonders in the paper, and also that, once I was finished, I would drop the paper onto the Internet and hopefully be e-famous.
There was one small hitch in this plan. The soulbonders were a bit… reluctant to talk about their other souls with people whom they didn’t think would believe them. So, I did what any other impulsive college student would have done; I went undercover. I used a fake name, invented a “soulbond” for myself, and met lots of cool and interesting people, as well as their other souls.
As time went by and I began to finish the paper, I felt kind of bad, as if I were betraying them, and vowed not to use any of the information I had gained by truth-slanting and pretending to be one of them. This made the term paper a lot shorter, but when I was finished, I still put it online.
The site got 2000-some hits in the first few days. Good times had by all? Hardly. The soulbonders were completely livid that I had written about them without permission. I got pounds of hate mail from the bonders, as well as kudus from other folks.
I couldn’t figure out why at first, but then I realized that it was simply that I, an outsider, had tried to figure them out. I guess a lot of little groups (ie furries) have been burnt so many times that they’re always afraid of outsiders.
I’m not saying that the soulbonders are really much like the Sly Girls. If any online clique resembles them in any fashion, it would be Anonymous. Why? Anonymous pulls off all kinds of quasi-illegal tricks, has gained almost mythic status, and is just as obsessive about hiding its identity.
June 1st, 2008 05:06
hayy well i was just wondering the new book you say that you are half way done writing the Leviathan…does that go with the uglies trilogy just like the extras or what….
i hope you write another book to go with that…almost half of my school is reading these books….they are GREAT….
i really hope you do….mssg back
thanks
June 1st, 2008 05:14
leviathan is its own book not related to any of his others im actualy good with how extras ended the series though im sure another book couldnt hurt im more hoping for a forth midnighters as are many of my fellow commenters
June 1st, 2008 05:38
I agree with Kenzie.
June 1st, 2008 08:09
as i said, i just finished midnighters last week. Im obsessed with it. Im guessing most of you guys are like booklovers, like me, so you might know what im talking about. Whenever i finish a book that i love (IE midnighters, percy jackson, uglies, etc.) i am obsesed with it for weeks. I feel like i have to be reading it, like im a part of it. Also, i listen to music while i read and so whenever i hear the songs i listened to while reading a book, i like NEED to be reading that book. For example: After i finished harry Potter i really wanted to be a wizard (I know weird right?) for like ever. And then i eventually become unobsesed with it (not that i dont like it anymore). Right now the song that reminds me of my recent finished books is No Air by Jordin Sparks. In fact im listening to it right now. I know, I’m weird like that.
June 1st, 2008 08:21
*twitches* I really really really hate that song….
June 1st, 2008 12:47
Deffinetly not my favorite song…I’ve heard way better.
June 1st, 2008 13:11
I once blogged about my parents, being pretty rude, and not using the nicest language.
I accidently left it open one day, and my parents found it. Then they read EVERY SINGLE THING, including the month old post, where i was really mean to them.
I guess its not suprising when I say that i was grounded from the internet for the rest of the summer… it totally sucked
June 1st, 2008 13:20
that sounds so bad.
June 1st, 2008 13:44
I just finished The Host. It was REALLY good! I just wish i would have got to seen Melanies POV at the end! I wanted to no how her and Jared where and stuff. So excited!
Look at this:
http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Dawn-Twilight-Saga-Book/dp/031606792X/ref=pd_sim_b_img_3
isnt it beautiful?
June 1st, 2008 17:24
i just finished my scott westerfeld theme nerd Nerd fighter song if you dont know what nerdfighters is google it because im to lazy to put a like heres the song tell me what you think!
We’ve got hoverboards and parasites
We’ve got pink hands and Jess’ light
Nerd fighters, were fighting Nerds
We’re no longer just using our words
When I’m not fightin’ Psychokitty
I’m savin’ the world from parasitic catastrophe
Nerd Fighters, we fight with our brains
Nerd Fighters we bring the Special’ pain
i only got his YA books btw because i have not read the others
June 2nd, 2008 02:24
I just started delving into the Midnighters! Haha…took me long enough. I realized at the end of chapter 3 I had actually gotten the book out of the library like 4 years ago, started it, got to chapter 3, then forgot about, not realizing what it was and who it was by…how I managed to do that I have no idea.
I like the song Haddy-la [:
And I officialy love the cover of Breaking Dawn. So many people don’t like it because they think it deviates from the rest of the covers but I love it. Each character is the peice of a chess game. There are so many possibilities for interpretation in that picture.
comment 498 o_0 9+8-4=13
June 2nd, 2008 02:49
I love the cover! It is beautiful! I saw it when i went to B&N yeaterday. I looked in the Eclipse special edition and i practically screammed!
June 2nd, 2008 03:37
I’m going to see it today…I’m going to the bookstore even though I really should be studying for exams………
June 2nd, 2008 04:24
wow1 it is so hard for me to find time to cme and see all of the news now days. i can’t wait for Leviathan!!!!! i hope it is good, but iknow it will be. well, how is everyone? i have been grounded! wooo! so ya. finally i am ungrounded so ya! talk to me!
Sophie-LA
June 4th, 2008 08:46
I finished Midnighters 1! finally…even though it only took me like…a day. It was soooo good.
June 6th, 2008 07:12
hi i love the uglies seres please tell me if another book for them and if not start a new one hehee what is Leviathan goneing to about
June 8th, 2008 13:49
grah…i MUST find some other series to read…i’m out of stuff to read…OOH! i will go read midnighters.
I got tons of borders gift cards for my birthday…MUST GO RAID BORDERS NEXT WEEKEND!!
woot school’s almost out for me!! just finals from tuesday to thursday next week (ekk…must study for them…>.<)
June 8th, 2008 14:41
Hola!
June 9th, 2008 09:29
Haley~Hyperness is BUBBLY!, you should save them (or at least some) for the fawesome new book…. duh lol. unless you’ve never read Uglies series. Then I tell you to go buy thte entire series. it’s fawesome. oh ya.
June 9th, 2008 09:36
hmm…then maybe i should go read twilight and satisfy all my friend’s pleadings that i “MUST MUST READ THE SERIES!”
anyways, what’s leviathan about? i haven’t heard much about it other than everyone’s REALLY impatient waiting for its release…:-)
May 28th, 2009 23:08
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May 28th, 2009 23:10
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May 28th, 2009 23:12
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December 2nd, 2010 16:56
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