Real-Life Extras

Posted on by scott

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?

516 thoughts on “Real-Life Extras”

  1. 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…

  3. 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? 🙂

  5. 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 😛

  6. 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!

  7. 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! 🙂

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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!

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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…

  18. 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)

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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!

  27. 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

  28. btw
    I KNOW someone who can hack into private myspaces
    my friend’s dad is a homicidal detective and traces people on the internet

  31. 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)

  34. 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

  38. 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! 🙁

  40. 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.

  41. 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.

  42. 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! 😆

  43. 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.

  44. 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 [:

  45. 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.

  49. 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. 🙁

  50. 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.

  53. 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! 😆

  54. oh okay, I used to be on here all the time. stupid busy lives. Oh, well thanks for your sympathy. 😀

  55. 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.)

  56. Glow in the dark nailposlish??? I want to paint my shoes with that!!! It would match my glow in the dark shoelaces!!!!

  57. 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!!!

  58. 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.

  59. 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.

  60. 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

  61. 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!

  63. 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.

  65. 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!

  66. 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
    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! 😆 ) was very angry/sad. so i righted it, but still. it was…scary.

  67. 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.

  68. 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!

  69. 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.

  71. I got it at journey’s in the mall near me, Lizzy-wa…it was like a year ago though.

  72. It would be so cool to be able to make a t-shirt with whatever I want on it.*starts laughing evily*

  76. 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.

  79. 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 )

  80. 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.

  82. 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.

  83. 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.

  84. omg just got the host today reading it like crazy

  85. OHHHHHHHH! I totally want to read that. Don’t you just love BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ************************************************************** 🙂

  88. 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!!!!!

  89. 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?????????????????????)

  90. 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! 😀

  91. 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

  92. 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….

  95. 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

  96. 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.

  99. 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!

  100. 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?

  101. 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

  102. 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?

  104. 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

  105. 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

  106. 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.

  107. 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

  108. 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.

  112. Now i just need to talk to TZ again havent talked in a while then we can start our storys again kay-wa LOL

  114. 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

  115. 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.

  118. 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……..

  120. 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

  121. 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

  123. 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…..

  124. 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

  125. 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.

  128. 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

  129. 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!!!!!!!!!!

  130. 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.

  133. 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

  134. 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

  135. 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

  136. 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.

  138. 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

  139. omg my printer just went phsyco!!! It was making this funny noise and like vibrating!!!

  141. 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

  142. 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

  143. 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.

  144. 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

  146. 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

  147. 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!

  148. 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?

  151. Ew. 3 weeks! EWWWW! AHHHHH!!!!! That is worse than if a tropical hurricane hit my house right now! Although that would be scary…

  152. It’s raining here..does that count? xD

    Oh well..I have to go…aparently its family dinner time.

  153. 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.

  154. I hate exams…NY has those regents tests that I can’t stand. They are more or less slow torture.

  155. 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.

  156. 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

  157. 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

  158. 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!

  160. Exams+studying+tests+busyness=torture!!!!!!!!! At least I know I’ll do well in math!

  163. 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.

  165. 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!!!!!!!

  166. 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.

  167. 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?

  168. 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.

  169. 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!!!

  170. 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!)

  176. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  177. 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.

  178. 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

  179. 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.

  180. 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

  181. 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!

  182. 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*

  183. 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.)

  185. 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

  187. 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

  189. 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.

  191. 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

  192. 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.

  193. 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???????????

  197. 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

  199. 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…

  200. 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.

  201. 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.

  202. yeah… But I like when that happens. Then we might talk about something worth learning.

  204. 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.

  205. 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.

  208. 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.

  209. 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

  210. 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…

  212. Yeah, I hate that we have to show work, and stuff. Isn’t the point to get the answer?

  215. I mean, in english we don’t have to say where we got our ideas from. Why is math different?

  216. my PE teacher cant remember my name.. she calls me Cecil… so far from my name its just ewwwwwwwwwww…… Math is just MATH.

  217. 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?

  226. I’m in Canada. And no, we don’t live in igloos. But it did snow in winnipeg. Not fun.

  232. 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.

  233. 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.

  235. 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.

  236. 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.

  238. 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.

  242. 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

  245. 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

  248. rex-la same here- tomorrow i’m out.
    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 😉 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!!!!

  251. 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

  252. 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?!?!?!

  255. 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

  256. 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.

  257. Is EVERYONE getting out of school soon??? I still have three weeks til EXAMS!!!!!! Then I’ll be free! Yeah, that’s it.

  263. 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.

  265. It’s called Canadian school. And three weeks is considered getting out EARLY! My brother has 4

  266. 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…

  271. Awsomeness. Totally swimtastical. Yes, I just said(typed) swimtastical. Do you play any instruments??? Just need to know!

  273. 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.

  278. 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.

  280. 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

  281. 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.

  283. I love swimming but 6 days a week *shudders*i think i would be sea sick most the time
    or get another ear infection-_-

  284. 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.

  285. 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!

  286. 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.

  287. Both my parent suck at music. So does my brother. I really don’t think I’m related to them.

  288. 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

  290. I’m so happy right now. But swimming was so hard. They made us go so fast that it ended early.

  293. 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)

  296. 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.

  297. 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

  299. 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

  300. 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

  307. So so so looking forward to that. Just, life will get even more crazy. But who on earth said life wouldn’t be?

  311. 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.

  315. 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.

  318. ?!?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

  329. woo procrastinators unite……..tomarrow
    haha sorry always a laugh with me
    and i will be reading your blog*opens blog in new tab*

  331. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  332. 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.

  333. 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.)

  334. 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!

  335. 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?

  337. 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……
    -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! 😀 (semester… but i’ll be taking pictures for them year round)

    okay… sorry guys for the longness….. 🙁

  339. 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

  340. 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!

  341. 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

  343. 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.

  344. 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.

  345. 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.

  346. 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.

  347. 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!

  349. 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 …

  350. 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.

  353. 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.

  354. 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.

  355. 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.

  356. 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).

  357. 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?

  359. 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…

  360. 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.

  361. 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?

  362. 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.

  366. 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.

  367. 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.

  368. 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.

  370. 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.

  371. 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?

  372. 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?

  374. 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???

  375. 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.).

  376. 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

  377. 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.

  378. 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.

  379. 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!

  380. 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

  381. 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!

  382. 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!

  383. 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.

  384. 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???

  385. 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.

  391. 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!

  406. 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

  407. 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.

  409. 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)

  412. 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!

  413. 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?

  415. 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.

  420. 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!

  422. Yea same here. I have not been participating in Gym because of an health problem and she tried to fail me. Stupid evil teacher.

  423. 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?

  426. 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…………..

  427. 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!

  428. 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)

  432. 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.

  436. 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.

  439. 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.

  441. 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.

  455. 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.

  461. 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.

  462. 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!

  464. 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….

  465. 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.

  467. 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.

  468. 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.

  471. 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.

  472. 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?!?!?!?!?

  474. Why are coach purses not cool? If they cant afford them then they can just say that…

  475. 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.

  476. 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.

  477. 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…

  482. 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

  483. Hey..me and Netta-la are going into 8th grade! We should have a feista!!! WHOOP-WHOOP!

  484. 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

  485. 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.

  486. 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.

  487. 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.

  488. 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

  489. 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

  491. 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.

  494. 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

  497. 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

  498. 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

  499. 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!

  501. 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

  502. I finished Midnighters 1! finally…even though it only took me like…a day. It was soooo good.

  503. 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

  504. 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…>.<)

  506. 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.

  507. 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…:-)

  510. i love him… but not in that way. i really love being his friends and honestly hes almost the only thing that makes me happy…. if i didnt talk to him i wouldnt be happy anymore

  511. u whore arent me and remi important too. but ummmmm i rly thinkm its like a couple thing like rly if u think bout it kinda is
    but i rly think u guys would make a good couple or like just ry and make him happy

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  514. Thank you so much, this was a good read. I was actually born in Spain (I’m not telling what year though!) but was moved around various parts of europe and lastly settled in Britain when I was 5. I dont remember much of the few years I was in spain, but the smell of spanish food always seems to get me going or something. It’s weird how I dont remember anything except the smells,isn’t it! I even found a whole website dedicated to spanish recipes, which gave me great delight and thought I ought to share. Anyway, thank you again. I’ll get my son to add your feed to my rss app…

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