A lot of Bogus to Bubbly, the Uglies guide I’ve been working on, has to do with the real-life science behind the series. So I’ve been refreshing my research on hoverboards, nanos, and mag-levs, to see how much present-day technology has changed since I started working on the series six years ago.
The crazy thing is how many of the technologies in the books are already here, or almost here. It seems like every time I open a newspaper, I get a little dose of Tally’s world.
But here’s a scary one for you. You’ll probably remember a plant in the books called “the white weed.” It was a genetically modified orchid that grew rampant in the post-Rusty-Crash world, choking other vegetation and leaving vast fields of arid land in its wake.
Well, a brain-rattling article in the NY Times today suggests that an age of weeds may be a lot closer than 300 years from now, and won’t even require any genetic engineering mishaps to occur.
Here’s why in a nutshell:
1) The crops we grow and eat these days have very little genetic diversity. Why? Because we’ve bred them that way. We want them to grow quickly and at exactly the same rate, so we can cut them all down and ship them at the same time. Commercial processes love sameness. (Modern-day crops are more like Pringles than old-school, random-looking potato chips.)
2) Weeds are not all the same. They’ve evolved tremendous variety while taking advantage of every little crack in the sidewalk. And as we attack them with herbicides, we actually increase that diversity. They evolve and adapt under our constant barrage.
3) The climate is changing. In 1957, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 310ppm. These days it’s 385 ppm. (Yes, the climate has changed before, but in the geological record, swings like that usually take thousands of years. Our Rusty ways have managed it in 50 years. Last year alone, the carbon level went up almost 2.5ppm.)
4) Here’s where it gets freaky. Weeds thrive in changing climates, because they are a diverse population. Our food crops hate change, because they’re all the same. (Like, if you put Pringles in the wrong-shaped can, they’d all break. You can chuck those old-fashioned random chips in any old bag and they’re fine.)
5) So . . . if we change the climate quickly enough, the weeds win.
To test this hypothesis, a scientist named Lewis Ziska did an amazing controlled experiment. He transfered big blocks of the exact same soil to several locations and let them go fallow and weedy. Out in the country (with average 385ppm air) the weeds grew six to eight feet tall. But in downtown Baltimore (which, thanks to all the cars, has air with about 440ppm CO2) the same weed species grew ten to twelve feet tall!
The weeds love our Rusty ways.
Ziska’s weed lab, ganked from the NY Times. Photo by Rochard Barnes.
The most brilliant thing about this experiment is Ziska’s use of an urban center, with its hotter, CO2-laden air, as an analog for our planet 30-50 years in the future. Go hang out in downtown Baltimore sometime in August and you’ll see the world we’re leaving our grandchildren. (Oh, wait, only 30 years? I mean our children. Oh, wait . . . I mean you.)
The good news in the article is that weeds may be beneficial in some ways. Growing quickly means they suck up CO2, and maybe we can use them in biofuels, which would take some of the pressure off food prices. And the other good news is that although the funding for Ziska’s work (along with all climate change research) has been repeatedly cut over the last seven years, the folks who cut it are relinquishing power on January 20, 2009.
Bogus to Bubbly is available for pre-order from Amazon now.
Update: You can now pre-order from Barnes and Noble and Powells as well!
wow
ooh its able to pre-order I didnt notice that,
EEEEEEEEEEEEE! so happy, but the weed things kinda creepy, our worlds messed up
Yay! Preorder. I can’t wait. =)
But the weed thing is seriously weird. Dx Maybe we should begin adapting our crops for the future…
You would think, if we can do that to weeds why not our crops
*nodnod* Especially since the weeds are almost doing it to themselves.
Don’t forgett about the OIL BUG that destroyed the Rusty civilization! Yes it IS being made right now in california! google ‘oil bug’ do the Time article it’s all there!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
(tho the bug being our ‘main’ source of fuel is sorta ridiculous.
Scott, I can’t tell you how much I <3 you! 😉 You’re on my top ten list with Richard Dawkins and Darwin himself. Yay for science in YA!
I see Tally’s world everywhere I look. NPR was having a discussion recently about what we should call the “uncontacted” tribe of people living in the Amazon. I want to dub them the Andrew Simpson Smith tribe.
Emily
P.S. Please post when you find actual hoverboards available – I want one in the worst way.
you know Darwin took back his theory of evolution.
no one believed him. :[
the weed things kind of creepy. But exactly what is a weed?
Yeah, Emily, we should call the tribe something like that. I prefer the term ‘pre-Rusties’, though. =P
juli-wa what do u mean? a weed is a plant that invades the space of other plants and vegitation by choking them. usually spreading rapidly. (i think)
Wow. That was interesting, cool, and also scary. I liked how you compared crops to pringles. lol!
I think it is dumb that Pringles can’t be called potato chips… they have to be called potatp crisps.
They are made of potatos and they are chips.
I feel sorry for pringles. In our store, they aren’t even by the chips, they are by the nuts. The “real” chips are in a different isle.
woah, the weed thing is scary-making…
but the pre-order thing is happy-making!!!
freaky-deaky…
Nice analogy Scott-la! LoL, but that’s like totally creepy…are you sure you’re not psychic??? *starts playing Twilight Zone music* Rofl, I’m off to preorder Bogus to Bubbly!
Oh, us Rusties are sooo smooth… though I don’t really want to imagine a weed-related apocalypse, though now it seems somewhat likely… *shudders*
~i
Haha, this plant taking over stuff reminds me about The Happening. I can’t wait for Bogus to Bubbly. I had so many questions while reading the books.
AAARRRRGGG!!!!!
If we use biofuels for power, then we will be MAKING THE WHITE WEED!! :0
Biofuels are weeds that spread very, very fast. If we plant biofuels everywhere, they will spread out of control and take over the world!
Biofuels crops also catch on fire really fast and easily, just like the white weed!
NO BIOFUELS!
I can’t wait for Bogus to Bubbly it will be AWESOME
Also has anyone relised that there are only 6 charaters in the books that you know their full names!!???
Tally Youngblood
Aya Fuse
Hiro Fuse
Frizz Mizuno
Maximilla Feaster
I know thats off topic, but yeah
Other interesting fact: i was watching the new Futurama movie the other day (a respectable addition to the Canon of Total Awesomeness) and they were totally hoverboarding.
and this reminds me about other things i’ve read about how warmer global climate would help poison ivy basically take over the world—that global warming would totally cause a worldwide plague of poison ivy.
Also, this time i actually got in the top twenty comments! as opposed to number 300, like last time.
Yay for pre-order!
I really love Baltimore… It would be a really big shame to see it so bogus. *tear*
Oh, and by the way, DON’T go to downtown Baltimore in August. Your brains will be consumed by the summer heat. Heat exhaustion is an ugly thing.
I remember learning about all of this for the Bio Regents. Unfortunately it wasn’t on the test. This stuff is fawesome and scary. *Happy dance* Yay! Bogus to Bubbly is available for pre-order! I have to go do that.
Joey-la, don’t forget Nana Loves.
Serafina Zane,
I haven’t gotten to the Midnighters series (yet), but I want Uglies/ Peeps like they have Land Before Times, Star Trek revivals, viruses, etc.
I’m not surprised about the article. Nature has a way of balancing itself and kicking ass (sometimes in the form of Tally Youngblood).
*preorders*
geesh! us rusties need to wake up and realize that were sending ourselves into a world full of bad stuff (i dont want to die from a oil bug!) and the plant thing, its kinda scary, with that biofuels thing Joey-la was talking about.
🙂
That’s just horrible. I mean, it’s amazing how everyday we’re being proven just how powerful nature is and it’s amazing ability to survive through ANYTHING, but I still can’t believe that we’ve managed to inadvertantly make even weeds able to kill and cause devestation. Goooo humans!
Anyway. Can’t wait for Bogus to Bubbly:) And Leviathan! You need to finish! Fast! Go!
Ohhhh GREAT POST!
Maybe weeds will save the human race!
That would be a great twist!
If you haven’t already seen The 11th Hour,
you totally should!
Global Warming is an interestin thing!
Wow…that’s…um…scary. To think that we are that close to being taken over be weeds. And at this point what can we do? We don’t kill them and they destroy us, or we kill them and they become stronger…well that’s a pickle.
I’ve recently gotten my brother to read Uglies, and his response was to come for the weekend to retrieve the rest of the series (he lives 2 hours away). He has since decided to go completely eco-friendly [:
Wow, us humans are really…horrible…
Those weeds sound a little scary though….
I really want to pre-order Bogus to Bubbly (ever since your last post about it) but my mom won’t let me…yet…
I will preorder it though.
*cringes* Weeds taking over the world, god that sounds just like what our econmy needs.
One another global warming note, I watched a movie in schice class about solar pannels that shocked me. There’s a place in the middle of the desert (in America) that gets enough sunlight that if we were to put enough solar pannels there, we would be able to power all of America (it was kinda biased in favor of solar pannels so they might have been exagerating a bit)!
Honestly though, I don’t get why people don’t AT LEAST use those CFO (I think it is, sorry if I sound kinda stupid I only know them by brand name). If everyone changed just ONE lightbulb to one it would close like 20 (give or take a few) powerplants.
Wow I think that’s the most I’ve ever said about global warming haha
omg thats insane!!!!!!!! but yet…im not surprised at all..is that a bad thing to say??
Weeeee Im happy now
listening to FAWSOME Ska music
(Reel Big Fish&Sublime, look em up)
i always check this website rite after a new thing is posted.
ill comment again after i read this.
Wow. That is a lot of information to process…it may take awhile.
It’s amazing how some of the technologies in the uglies series are found in our modern day society. The carbon dioxide in the cities from cars just makes me even madder about the environment’s condition. I just saw Wall-E (i have the same name as his girlfriend, lol) and the Earth was covered in garbage. I hope this NEVER happens. We need to make a change.
i never really thought of the world being destroyed by weeds, but that’s really interesting as well as freaky.
Scott’s a prophet…Tally’s world is popping up everywhere! unfortunately, it’s the cool stuff AND the world-destroying stuff that’s coming…
yay!! can’t wait for Bogus to Bubbly!!
i’ll keep stocking up on borders gift cards…:-)
I would love to say something brilliant, but I think you’ve said it all.
And that really is frightening. Scott, one day Uglies will be the “1984” of the future, except it might more accurate– which I suppose would be bad.
<3
yeah, but the Nana in Nana love is a term of respect, like Hiro Sensi or something! 🙂
yeah, but the Nana in Nana love is a term of respect, like Hiro Sensi or something!
–x-
Still, you missed Anderw Simpson Smith… =/
BTW: I just found this and it disturbed me, and of course I immediately thought of Uglies::
**Computer Taught To Recognize Attractiveness In Women**
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080404122139.htm
<3
Wow. Yeah. And a lot of the criteria sounded similar to the standards in the series.
Wow…I would not be suprised if we wound up in the Uglies era..
“…always look on the bright side of life, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum.”
Scott, you may have missed your calling as presenter of science ideas on NPR. Thanks for scary rundown.
WEE! thunder/lightning storm gotta love ’em
I dont think Ill be able to sleep
Ive been looking at creepypasta
That computer attractiveness thing is just creepy. The Pretty Commitee is going to be a bunch of computers!
How horrible would that be? Especially if they start thinking that something weird is beautiful, considering that they’d have AI. Say one of them all of the sudden decides that purple skin is beautiful, or that green hair is beautiful. One could only imagine what would happen to the human race!
I suggest we send copies of “Uglies” to everyone in the world and then spell out “you’re next” with weeds all over the streets of Baltimore… or not…
thats really interesting but im not really surprised. When i was reading Uglies and about the Rusties, i was thinking that its only a matter of time before something like the oil changing chemical actually does happen, not to be pessamistic, but…we’re to consumed with money, we have to start focusing on trying to fix the climate change BEFORE there’s another ice age. (ex. day after tomorow((the movie))) i hate when people tell me when im explaining global warming that it’s supposed to be happening. YAH! every couple thousand years, not every 30. As much as i hate to admit it, we are the rusties, the killing machines. we care more about money than actually staying alive.
***(by the way, Shannen-Wa, thats a good idea.)
one more thing, abigail-wa, what do u mean. when he says the oil bug, he doesnt mean that is the main source of energy, oil is and the bug makes it explode. AKA. we all die. i love tally!!!! shay too cept she gets mad alot, but she totally a BA.
I SO WANT A HOVERBOARD TOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
********go green.
(also, is u see on the news that theres an oil eating bug and we have to evacuate, shut off the tv, and WALK out. itll take slower, but u wont DIE.)
i know, but this little bug is supposed to make our oil. it has been created out of a serious bacteria, they say it won’t harm the fuel and they’ll destroy them, but what if the oil being from mutated bacteria makes our cars blow up? or if they get in the oil???
When I get a car I want one of those smart cars, they run on I think it’s hydrogen (I’m not completely sure) and instead of putting in bad stuff into the air it gives off water vapor.
Haha I like the weed idea.
Yay January 20 2009!
YO-LA PARTY PEEPS!
Ok, maybe you aren’t party peeps… but hi anyway.
I’m back from THE BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE that i can think of right now. it was SERIOUSLY METAPHORICALDRPEPPERTASTICALLY SWIMTASTICAL!
Andrea-la knows how cool that would be then 😉
I’m not reading comments posted after i left from the last blog. There are most ikely oo many. If anyone said something directed towards me or think i’d like to hear, you’ll have to repeat it, sorry :o)
for the record, i did not post #7. That is another emily…
wow creepy.
That’s some seriously deppressing news.
Wow, that was 6 years ago? Doesn’t seem that long.
Isn’t it scary how on the nose you were with some of the book? It’ll probably just get worse as the years progress. I think a lot of sci-fi authors write their books like they’re worst-case scenarios for the world, and then everyone’s surprised how much it turned out like they said it would. Like some people reading books like Uglies probably think, “no way could the climate get that bad because of us!”, when it already is.
omg Scott thats like… scary. i mean, itd b totally bubbly if Tally’s whole world came in2 existence, wat w all the neato technologies & all…(& maybe the whole bubbleheaded thing wouldnt hurt, 4 a while @ least. i mean, we have completely bogus wars going on, and now the possibility of a secret war! they [the doctors & scientists] cud always have the full-fleged bubbleheadedness, & then, after a while, gradually reduce it down 2 where we wudnt need it anymor, and if we get back in2 wars & stuff, we can always bring it back– evn tho thats not everybody’s favorite option– unless, of course, by that time the whole Tally rebellion thingie with the cures & stuff hav already happened by then…..) but, yea, scary-slash-awesome! (the awesome part bieng that u cn pre-order bogus to bubbly!! btw, wen is that coming out? or did Scott-sama already say? i dont member. 🙂 bye guys!
It’s like Kudzu farming.
Did you guys know theres a Ska band called The Specials they started in 1977 their pretty good
thats really scary its one of the many scary things about climate change especialy since it will be left to our genertion
All who think Scott-sama has some freaky-deaky psychic powers, raise your hand.
*RAISES HAND*
that is terrifying. my heart rate just sped up enormously. It’s so scary…sometimes I get scared that we’ll be nuked before I ever get to be an old lady, but then I realize what the world will be like when I’m an old lady, and I wonder…
wow. freaky.
i’m having soooo much fun at my cabin on the Mississippi river.
we’re going to hit the sandbars tomorrow. 😀
and then i have to go home wednesday. 🙁
well i suppose i should go. babysitting.
talk to you guys wednesday or something.
laters.
too….many….comments….
just got back from the beach, we went there over the weekend…very fun, read like three books, and then some…
i haaaate summer reading, cuz i’ve read like 2/3 of the books i needa read, and they’re the kinda books i like the first time, but DON’T WANNA READ AGAIN. sigh. there are some very good aspects of homeschooling…
my uncle just moved here, cuz he got a job here, and we hardly ever saw him before but now we’ll se him so much, so YAY!
i dunno y i’m so hyper, i only had like 2 sips of caffinated coke, then i stuck to caffine free….
dyk that in the ranger’s apprentice series, there are SEVEN books in australia, but only FOUR books in the US?!?!?!?? sigh. i HATE WAITING! as u may c, i’m not that patient.
okay, i have a personality test….
there is a veeeery tall coconut tree, and four animals pass by: a squirrel, a lion, a giraffe, and a chimpanzee. they decide to have a contest to see who can bring down a bunch of bananas the quickest. who do u think will win????
try to take 15…no, 13, to make it anit-darkling, seconds to answer this, then scroll down…………..
if u answered:
lion, you’re dull,
chimpanzee, you’re a moron
giraffe, you’re a complete idiot
or
squirrel, you’re hopelessly stupid…
WHY?
because it’s a COCONUT tree. emphasis on COCONUT.
A COCONUT TREE DOESN’T HAVE BANANAS.
Obviously you’re stressed and overworked.
You should take some time off and relax!
Try again next year.
i just got a kick outta that….
btw, i was a complete idiot. shocker there.
UMR-wa you have the devil comment… it’s comment 66 and UMR-wa has 6 characters in it…
i didn’t understand what scott-la said on the post. O_o Maybe it’s the fact that it’s summer and my brain is probably frying in the heat…
yes, aren’t we the lucky ones…we get to deal with all this.
oh my gosh this is like so awsome it makes me so excited i just can’t wait till the day when there is hover boards and flash tatoos *screams*
i am so so so so so so so happy
I assume you’re just talsking about the technology and not the whole ‘weeds take over the world’ thing…
i don’t think anybody’s super excited about weeds taking over the world…unless you’ve got an obsession with weeds…
no, if you read the article, weeds aren’t going to take over the world. in fact, weeds will end up saving us once climate change causes all our regular crops to die out…
You know what’s cool though?
My sociology teacher would always say, “You guys are capable of changing the world. We’ve all screwed up and now it’s up to you to save the planet. YOU ARE THE DIFFERENCE!”
He was kind of a spaz.
But I realized more and more that he was right.
It’s cool about the plants, but predictable, since plants love carbon dioxide and thrive on it to live – without CO2 (I’m incapable of making the two a subscript), plants couldn’t survive. It’s a great balance we have with them – they excrete oxygene for us and we give them back carbon dioxide. So of course, the more carbon dioxide there is, the bigger and faster the plants grow.
Really, really cool.
i really didn’t get the post, either…it probly is the summer and heat etc. i sometimes can’t even remember the day of the week!!!!
haha, same here UMR-wa. I think today is… wednesday?
Nope, it’s tuesday. I checked the day of the week on my computer and it’s tuesday, July 1. HEY! Independence Day, the 4th of July as we Americans call it, is in THREE DAYS! Idk what my family is doing this year… Usually we go to Stone Mountain located in Atlanta, GA for the 4th of July. But I went in May with my class and we’re a little tight with money, so we cant go anywhere… this shall be a boring 4th of July.
Ah i’m so mad. I have three games i feel like playing on the computer-
1. Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Reason i cannot play it- lost CD.
2. Virtual Magic Kingdom (virtual internet game)
Reason i cannot play it- Disney closed it last month -.-
3. the original Sims games
Reason i cannot play it- it would take me two days straight to load every all of them on the computer, IF we even have all of them still. My brother, who owns them, probably got rid of most of them. All we have is the delux edition and “House Party” expansion, so id probably get bored…
RAWR!
scary about the ominous Rusty days looming over us, but a good bright side about how the weeds can possibly help us rather than hurt us. Yaaaay~ pre-order Bogus to Bubbly! They have it on Barnes & Noble.com! Listening to “Vindicated” by Dashboard Confessional, it makes me sigh, it’s totally an Edward song I love it!! Hopefully our generation will be smart enough to fix the world.
Oh wow. I learned something. Facebook emails suck. Anyone on?
I guess no one is on. I just updated my blog.
I’m on. But I prefer to stay on the specials and extras spoiler boards or discussion questions board {though I posted a question on Scott facts today}
Interesting comment about minds on you blog, btw.
lol. I’m half asleep right now.
Sorry. I was looking at the uglies pictures on deviantart. They need more Shay pictures x_x
hi anyone on?
Sort of,not really, sleep deprived…can’t keep eyes open…will be back tomorrow…
Hellos, anyone here?
we watched room with a view last night, till midnight, and for some reason i got up at 9:30. AM!! i’m weird. like, really really weird. of course, everyone probably already knows that.
i think….today’s wednesday. or something like that. 4th of july is only TWO DAYS AWAY! i have no idea what we’re gonna do for the fourth this year. we might have a cookout with my grandparents and my uncle (who just moved here from ohio!!! yippeeeeeeee!!!!)…that’d be fun, and maybe our two cousins could come too. my other cousins on my dad’s side r aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll the way across the country, so i doubt they’ll be able to come out. sigh. life is sometimes so annoying.
i dunno y i’m awake soooo early–it’s only ten AM!! sigh. i confuse myself a lot.
i’m gonna go work on my story….
cul8r…
andrea-la r u still on?
YES!!! Yayness!
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yahooooooooooooo!!!!!
IIIIIIIIII’MMMMMMMMMMMMMM HEEEEEEEEEEEERE
we’re almost up to 100 comments……………….
do u have any book suggestions??
It’s 9am here. I’m so proud of myself. I slept in.
i’m almost done with the septimus heap books, and i finished the maximum ride books….any good suggestions?
Book suggestions….I read Midnighters for the first and second time during the weekend. I also read How to be Popular by Meg Cabot.
i’m guessing that you’re a morning person…..
getting up at 9:30 is reeeeeeeeeeally early for me
how to be popular meg cabot…..one sec i needa check the liberry….
one second
One second…and yes. If I sleep in past 5:30, it’s an acomplishment.
Oh, and right now I’m reading The Mind and The Brain by Jeffery M. Schwartz and Sharon Begley. It’s really interesting. It’s not really a teen book though. I kinda stole it off my dad’s shelf.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr my comment is ‘awaiting moderation’
how annoying.
in case it doesn’t show up, here it is again:
YIKES!!! ur just like my younger brother (tho we look like twins, he’s only like 3 inches shorter than me even tho he’s 2 years younger–i know, scary) who gets up like, at the cracka dawn every morning. //inwardly shudders// it creeps me out…
i’ll think about that book…thnx 4 the suggestion!
what’re u gonna do today?
i don’t really know what the ‘awaiting moderation’ thingey means, but w/e.
my dad’s into scifi, and tho i luv scifi movies, i just can’t do the books. so whenever i need something to read, he suggests these like 1000 (ok, that may be an exageration, but u get the pic) page books that to me look rather boring (no offense to him, of course) and i’m just like ‘thanks, but no thnx’. so then i go bug my oldest sis, until she lets me look at her bookshelf. //shrugs// it’s just the way my life goes.
what does it mean, anyways, the ‘Your comment is awaiting moderation.’ thing??? it bugs me.
Hey hey hey peeps. You think 9 AM is sleeping in, Andrea-la… I slept until like 12 noon yesterday. Although I didn’t go to sleep until like midnight, and woke up at four in the morning and couldn’t sleep for like half an hour…
Hmm, book suggestions…
well, obviously scott westerfeld books. Fever 1793 is my favorite single-book. I liked series of unfortunate events, but it gets confusing and uses run-on sentences alot. I just read a book called Comedy Girl, it was good, and I finished Pish Posh, which was a good book. It’s considered a teen book at my library, but it’s not really much of a teen book. I read The Chicken Dance recently, too, it’s really good, especially if you like books with twists… um In the Chat Room with God 😉 hehe… Once Upon A Marigold was good too, it’s a little more Juvenille than most books I read, but it’s still considered a novel. Obviously Harry Potter books rock. Not as much as Scott-la’s books, but still. I’d sugest Twilight, but I can’t stand reading New Moon, it’s so boring sofar…
so yea. I’ll add more later.
Where did you see ‘your comment is awaiting moderation’ UMR-wa?
YAY Emily-wa is on!!! I might be destracted. I’m googleing gluten free restrants in minniaplolis.
And I’m also updating my blog. Even though I just did last night.
wow andrea-la. The week I leave for camp is the week you update practically twice a day! lol…
thnx, emily-wa!!!!
i never really got into the harry potter books…
on the subject of meg cabot, have u read the new one, airhead? it’s really REALLLLLLLLLLY good…then there’s all american girl, etc.
i read a lot. teehee.i bet u already guessed that, tho….
i gtg and wake up. then find a brush, as my hair is sorta…well, messy would be an understatement.
More than twice a day actually. And yes I’ve read Airhead and All American Girl.
emily-wa, twoa my comments have the aforementioned phrase at the top. 103 104. it may not show up on ur guys screens, tho. //shrugs// w/e.
ooooooooooo another good series is the squad series by jennifer lynn barnes–soooooooo good.
now i’m reeeeeeeeeeeeeally gonna go.
ya those books r good.
talk to ya later!!!
Ya. I totally love Princess Diaries
Wow andrea-la.
I’m kinda disappointed in you… the Andrea on your blog isn’t the andrea I figured was such a great christian.
Haven’t you noticed- Christianity and Popularity doesn’t mix. God says, somewhere in the bible, i’ll look later, but it says that the rich will have a hard time going to heaven. Rich and popular mean the same thing in this saying, I think…
Eh, I started the first Princess Diaries book but I guess i got bored with it and stopped.
I’ve noticed. I’m kinda failing at life at both standards right now (God’s and the worlds). And my family does have quite a bit of money. We have a big house, a cottage, two cars, I do competitive swimming, my brother does year round soccer, we go on lots of trips, and I go to private school. And at private school everyone has lots of money so it doesn’t really matter. But really, most people are at least PASSING at life by SOMEONE’S standard.
I like princess diaries. I find them somewhat addicting.
Oh wow. I’ve already updated my blog twice today and it isn’t even 9:30am.
I’m listening to A Place In This World by Taylor Swift. I like it. It kinda describes how I’m feeling. But it’s kinda sad when a country song describes you. I think that it is one of the signs of being depressed.
Emily-wa, are you still here? Or am I talking to myself?
lol. I love Taylor Swift.
Yea, I went to go have breakfast.
Oh. I’m having some tea right now…yum. My blog hasn’t been THAT depressing lately, has it?
um, i’m reading the one titled Flat vs. Round, working my way towards the recent posts. It’s…interesting. At least you decided to be a RTG instead of an RTS. You have to remember- Jesus said that the road to God won’t be easy. That means that when you think taking the easy path, the RTS path, will still let you be close to God, you’re wrong. Think of Jesus’ deciples (spelling, sorry). Many of them DIED or went to JAIL for believing, but they are the ones who went to heaven.
At least if you go to jail you have lots of time to think. And the odd thing about me is that I don’t fear death. I don’t think I would mind jail that much. At least no one would bother me. Like, if I went to jail for, like, something worth going to jail for it would be all good.
and by the way, it’s happiness not happyness. lol.
And trust me, I argue with myself all the time. I’m a fairly normal person, too. I just think differently, especially on here, when i’m free to think and express my thoughts and opinions.
The problem is that at school you can’t really express opinions. I mean you COULD but no one does. At my school I only show my opinion when asked. Such as in Social Studies class. Everything I learned I learned in Social Studies. Not even kidding. And arguing with yourself is really annoying. Especially when the two of you arguing are oposite in every single way. And you don’t really have to express any opinions at my school anyway. I mean, it’s kinda pointless. It’s a Christian school and so I don’t have to worry about anything like that. It’s just that no one at school EVER voices their opinions. Do you want to know how many people made fun of me when during band class I told everyone how sharks are good loving creatures? Not doing that again.
Guess what? I thought about you at camp. They had some notebooks in the camp store, and one of them was designed like a hardback book. It had a blue spine, and had the word Notes on the front. I almost bought it, but was running out of money and needed some for food for the ride home. I had even thought of buying two, one for me and one for you, and seeing if you would would be willing to let me send it to either your home address (which i doubted) or some other nearby address so you could have it for the book you’re writing.
hmm…
tell me why you think that, and i might even agree with you.
the shark thing i mean.
I have a BILLION notebooks. Just I’m writing the book on looseleaf. I think it represents something deeper, but I’m still figuring that out…Cool notebooks. And your right, I wouldn’t tell you my city much less my home adress. No offense or anything, I’m just kinda careful about those thing. However, I will tell you my province. Manitoba.
cool. And i will tell you my state- kentucky.
No city like you said. At least not yet…
GAH I WANT TO PLAY VMK SO BAD!
sorry. it’s been closed for about a month or so now, and i just realized how much i miss it… WAH!
WHEN GOD MADE THE WORLD HE DID NOT SAY THAT IT WAS GOOD EXCEPT FOR THE SHARKS. WHEN PEOPLE GET EATEN BY SHARKS IT’S USUALLY THE PERSON’S FAULT. AND LET’S FACE IT, MORE PEOPLE DIE FROM FALLING COCONUTS THAN SHARKS. BUT DO THEY REPORT THOSE ON THE NEWS? NO, BECAUSE THE SHARKS ARE THE BIG BAD WOLVES THAT PEOPLE WANT TO DESTROY. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SHARKS PEOPLE HAVE KILLED? PEOPLE HAVE KILLED WAY MORE SHARKS THAN SHARKS KILLED PEOPLE! IT’S ONLY FAIR THAT SHARKS GET TO KILL A COUPLE OF US! BUT SHARKS DON’T KILL THAT MANY PEOPLE REALLY! PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! SHARKS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE! AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO REALISES THIS? This is the shark talk that I give to EVERYONE.
I actually wrote an essay on this topic for fun. My friends basically laughed at me for the single fact that I wrote an essay for FUN. LOL.
see? I agree with you. the sharks are simple animals, just happen to have sharp teeth and apparently bad enough eyesight to think we’re seals in the water.
I KNOW! Sharks are amazing animals and a few of them messed up and killed a couple of people and now they are considered bad. A couple sharks ruined it for their species. Sharks don’t even LIKE the taste of people.
How much of my blog did you read?
GOOD GRIEF YOUR PROVINCE IS BIGGER THAN CALIFORNIA!!
sorry. Just hard to believe it…
i’ve officially read every one of your entries. why?
LOL. I’ve never actually been to California…I think.
YOU’VE READ ALL MY BLOG ENTRYS? You must hate me now. I can’t read all the way to june 21st without hating myself. Did you read that far?
i took out the time a couple weeks ago to read all the way back.
And i don’t hate you. I don’t hate people at all. I may dislike people, but I still don’t dislike you. You’re alot more like me than you think, Andrea-la.
Decode that please. How am I more like you than I think? BTW, I kinda hate myself right now, and it’s totally okay by me if you hate me two. We can start a “I hate Andrea” website.
I feel alot like you do right now. I’ve…had some turbulence, we’ll say… in my faith, and thought society’s way was better. I’m still recovering.
And don’t hate yourself. It’s natural to want to give in to society. See? you aren’t alone, Andrea-la.
But society’s way IS NEVER better. I know that but still might give in. I haven’t even moved on to recovering. And you are recovering and I’m nowhere near that and might still give in. See the difference?
Well, that’s what Global Warming can do to us. Just think what it’s going to like in 30 years(If we make it that far).
Not really, andrea-la. Like you, I realize (and realized at the time) that society’s way is never better. I gave in to society, like you. Just remember, I’m here for you. i’m sure TZ and abigail-wa and everyone else on here are here for you too. that’s the only difference I see- I had nowhere to turn when I made my bad choices. You have us. And we’ll never think bad of you.
i’m back but i have to have lunch…wait, no breakfast…
and it’s 11:30. it’s sad.
and country songs aren’t all depressing!!!!!!!!!!
Hi I just woke up and painted my nails
anyone on
hmmm… i’m reading brio, and one of the products they suggest is called Batter Blaster. It’s pancake batter in a pressurized can, like whipped cream. isn’t it weird?
BUT WHY DON’T YOU JUST HATE ME ALREADY! I hate me and therefore see reason for everyone else to hate me. The sad part is that I’ve TRIED to give in to society. I ACTUALLY TRIED. It didn’t work…yet. Part of me is JUST CURIOUS. JUST HUMAN. And yeah, I know I have you people, but it’s just that I can easily just ignore you. EASILY. In theory. AT THIS POINT I MIGHT JUST FLIP A STUPID COIN TO MAKE MY STUPID DECISION.
OH! I’ve heard of that stuff!
that’s true, UMR-wa. Actually, MOST country songs arent depressing.
HUH? I still haven’t gotten a subscription to Brio. I’m not even sure if I’m considering it anymore. BUT AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO REALISES THAT 0.5 ROUNDS UP TO 1???
thats is weird wipcream pancakes??
whats next wipcream tuna….ew bad image
I like country music. If I want to listen to something depressing I’ll just listen to blues.
and 1+1=2
HA! true that! or maybe wipcream eggs….
BUT 0.5 ROUNDS UP TO 1!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT WHAT IF YOU HAVE TWO 0.5s AND YOU CAN’T ROUND UP BOTH OF THEM??? WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU CAN’T BREAK THE LAWS OF MATHNESS!
1+.5=1.5
right?
UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! But 0.5 rounds up to one. So if you have 0.5 round up to one, then another 0.5 rounds up to one then you have TWO! But then the eggs fall out of the baskit!
Andrea-la, think about it. What do you get out of society? Not eternal life with God. You get eternal life in, well, hell. And trust me, it will SUCK. Now, what do you get out of thinking for yourself and putting your trust in God? EVERYTHING. Doors open, and you get eternal life with Him in heaven.
This is alot like the Uglies trilogy, isn’t it? You can become pretty, a part of society, and it seems pretty good. But you can rebel, live without the lesions. And pretty much everyone agrees with Tally-wa in Uglies, that becoming pretty (giving in to society) is great, but isn’t worth it in the end.
you lost me at eggs?
EGGS! The bascit is not BALANCED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the eggs fall out and you die!
ok i don’t have a clue what you mean with the 0.5 rounds up to 1 thing.
METIPHORICAL DOOR KEYS!!!!!!!!!!!
But what if.5 is already rounded then you don’t have to round it to 1. But since you can work with .5 again you don’t need to round. right?
Andrea-la i’m starting to get worried about you now…
what does math and eggs and baskets have anything to do with giving in to society?
but .5 may also just be .5 no more no less
okay. 0.5 rounds up to one. but you have two 0.5s but you can’t put them together. so they both get rounded up and you have two ones. and they fight. and then the baskit tips over and they eggs fall out and you die!
Ugh, my head is starting to hurt.
Andrea-la is going crazy. I’m serious!!
BUT ROUNDING UP IS RELEVENT!
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I’M GOING CRAZY???
since when did numbers fight and own baskets of eggs??!?!?!!
you don’t always have to round.
Does anyone else here understand andrea-la right now, or do they agree with me that andrea-la is giong crazy?
why can you not just add the two .5s to get one super 1
ok, .5 and .5 can so go together to make 1
BECAUSE IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY BECAUSE THE TWO .5s HATE EACH OTHER!!!
I understand
FINALLY!
UGH! I think she’s just overreacting in a crazy manner!
How can numbers hate each other?!
So the two .5s are like the little shoulder angel and devil, correct?
THEY CAN IF THEY ARE METIPHORICAL!!!!!!!!!!
YES!! DING DING DING! WE HAVE A WINNER!!! YES!!! FINALLY KENZIE-LA GET’S IT!!!
i have proof that society’s math and numbers aren’t correct.
Take .99999 repeated and one. Now, 1 divided by 3 is .33333 repeated. But 0.33333 x 0.33333 (both repeated) is .99999 repeated, not 1. Keep up with that kind of thinking, and there’s alot of proof.
they are
those things would be you concience
right now its just having issues with your brain
but what you should do is follow your heart
well i still don’t understand.
why on earth are we talking about metaphorical numbers?
That’s just a saying right? I can’t exactlay see my heart to follow it. Hmmmmmm. I can’t see my metiphorical heart either so how am I supposed to follow it?
METIPHORICAL NUMBERS ARE THE ONLY WAY I CAN MAKE SENSE OF THINGS THAT MAKE NO SENSE!!!!!!!!!! METIPHORICAL NUMBERS ARE VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT!
Andrea-la you can think your way out of this. Like Tally thought her way out of the lesions, out of society. Think seriously about what you’re talking about. About which choice, society or GOD, would be better in the long run.
DO YOU HONESTLY THINK I HAVE BEEN TIERD FROM LACK OF SLEEP DUE TO THINKING ABOUT FAIRYTALES? I HAVE BEEN THINKING SERIOUSLY!
well i still don’t understand what the metaphorical numbers stand for, and why they have eggs in baskets.
BECAUSE EGGS ARE COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how bout some song lyrics(my drama teacher sang this song in our musical with our choir teacher)follow your heart from urine town
Bobby
Did you mean what you said? About everyone having a heart?
Hope
Well, sure I did. Do you think you’d be feeling as bad as you do if you
didn’t have a heart?
Bobby
I don’t know. I spupose not.
Hope
Of course you wouldn’t. Because then you’d be dead.
When darkness surrounds you
And you lose your way
You have your own compass
That turns night to day
And it’s even with you
Before you depart
Be still, hear it beating
It’s leading you
Follow your heart
Bobby
Follow my heart? But to where?
Hope
To wherever your heart tells you to go.
Bobby
Even…there?
Hope
Even to the clouds, if that’s what your heart commands. What’s it saying
now?
Bobby
I don’t know. I don’t know how to listen to my heart.
Hope
You have to listen carefully. Here, let me try.
Bobby
Do you –
Hope
Ssshhh! Ah, there it is. It’s saying:
We all want a world
Filled with peace and joy
With plenty of water
For each girl and boy
That bright, shining world
Is just waiting to start
No meanness or sorrow
Just cleanness tomorrow
If only you follow your heart
You see there, Bobby. Even your heart knows you should follow your heart.
Andrea-la, caps don’t do anything but attract attention to yourself which honestly i don’t think we need right now.
Also, eggs are very breakable. And because the two 0.5s are half of what they should be they are both very breakable too. SEE? The metiphorical eggs are the numbers!
Kenzie, my brain isn’t turned on yet. I can’t understand that at the moment.
Why don’t I need attention right now? Also, caps are my friend.
why are we rounded .5s and why cant we add them together?
I think I get it!
just be quiet for a moment, no music, block out the numbers and listen to your heart
ok andrea-la. My head is hurting, and I think for once this is some type of logic i won’t understand. Hopefully you’ll figure this out. All I can do is hope and pray that you will make the right decision. I’m off to have lunch, do my daily bible study, and maybe play some of the original Sims.
Good luck!
METIPHORICAL NUMBERS THAT ARE FIGHTING WON’T REALLY WANT TO BE ADDED TOGETHER, NOW WOUD THEY. OR PREHAPS ONE OF THEM IS A NEGATIVE AND ONE IS A POSITIVE…HMMMM.
My conscience is that the hospital(stiches) and my better judgement went on vacation(mexico). And they didn’t even leave me a note.
Okay…thinking…no music…heart says…ah…i get it now…i suppose i could ignore it…i mean, it just called me an idiot…how nice of it…
Must turn music back on. Can’t listen to the agrument.
I really dont know if I even have a concience or better judgement
I used to have one. You know, until I ripped out my conscience and now it needs stiches and my better judgment is in mexico with joe the scuba diving chicken.
usually the hearts pretty blunt
doesnt take nothing from nobody
Ummm…yeah! My brain is being the problem at the moment.
DONT LISTEN TO IT
the brain is souly for school(not social either achedemics only) nothing more nothing less
But my brain is fairly smart. I’m kinda missing school.
I do to
summer gives to much time to think
Yeah. I miss math class. All the numbers…I need numbers. And I need english. All those new words. I miss learning what people tell me to learn. I learn too much over summer.
yu just need to relax
and forget your brain
you should learn something about me. I don’t relax. I NEVER relax. My friends have actually asked me seriously if I even know what that word means. Mostly because during exams I was waking up at 5:30am to study after staying up til midnight studying. I don’t even eat lunch during the school year because I’m in so many extra clubs and stuff. I get double booked by these clubs on the one day when I would usually have nothing to do at lunch. I don’t relax.
are you doing anything today
like a club, sport, anything?
No…I am bord out of my mind and don’t know what on earth to do so I am seriously going insane.
so just sit down and think, one thing at a time
and doodle, nothing serious, just squigles circles faces, anything it will clear yur mnd
And my mind DOESN’T clear. EVER.
so block out everyting, but one thing at a time
My mind is kinda out of control right now…you know, when you start fighting with yourself, your mind isn’t exactly going to clear.
think of one thing anything, like a book you didnt like, name one now
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…what?
awsome! you got me to think of nothing for like a second!!!
good good
yes.
you know whats yummy
cinnimon-sugar toast mmmmmmm
yeah…I love that…
its like…aaahhhh*drools*
that good
I agree. I like tea. Maybe there is a key. But prehaps it is not to be.
lol. I like rhymes.
Tea’s good, so what we talkin’ bout?
Nothing much. I think Kenzie-la has disappeared.
TZ, what’s your personality type? It’s okay if you don’t know. Mine is INTJ. It’s fun to read about personality types…
Also, we were discussing metiphorical numbers.
sorry my grandmas here gtg
be bak later bybye
byes
TZ, are you still here?
so… i got braces the other day… and my birthday is in 10 days!!!!!
cool. i’ve never had braces. happy almost birthday.
haha… thx… and despite what u might have heard, my braces dont hurt…
well… i g2g…
really? that’s interesting. my friend said that they hurt a LOT.
okay then. bye
ANYONE ON? TZ, you just posted. Where did you go?
I’m back sorry! Spaced out…how do you find out your kinda personality?
Personality quiz. You can take them on the internet.
Mine is INTJ. It’s interesting. Of course, metiphorical numbers are more interesting but still interesting enough.
I shall takith one now.
awsomeith!
I’m not so sureith which one to takith though.
Hmmmmmmmm. Doesn’t matterith. As long as it workiths.
Ya, but some of the test that I have tried to takith just nowith aren’t giving the same kind of answers.
Ah. Takeith this one: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
It says that I am an INFJ…
I am an INTJ. Only different by one letter.
Hmmm…mine seems like it fits me pretty wellith, you?
It fits me okayith. Have you researched mine? I am researching yours. I find such things facinating.
I’ll research yours nowith then…
My favorite INTJ website is http://intjcentral.com/ It’s the best!
Hey, that’s interesting. Both of our personality types are the rarest.
Yeah…YaY us for being rare!(That’s just a nice word for weird, lol. JkJk)
LOL. True.
I’ve been updating my blog semi-obsessivly. I wonder why…
Hey, I’m not denying it bout myself at least. *shrugs* I think it’s cool that we got the rare ones!
Yeah. It makes us interesting.
HeHe, interesting…another word for weird. LoL
yes. But let’s face it. We are weird. But I don’t particularrly care so whatever. Let’s get over it and get on with life. Seriously, some people think I’m so weird. Those are the people who I regularaly make really mean jokes about behind their back.
I really like updating my blog though. I think it might be like an addiction.
I have an addiction…but my addiction is different…it involves jollyranchers:aka candy of the heavens. LoL, jkjk, I have an addiction to reading. I admit that.
Yeah. I read 4 books in three days. So now I don’t have anything to read so I’m reading my dad’s books. LOL. By they are really interesting.
too…many…comments…urgh….
i’m gonna go sit in the corner and be discouraged for a while….sigh.
Yes. There are many comments. Ah.
OwOwOw. I’m an idiot so I was leaning back in the rolling chair, even though my Dad told me I was gonna fall I’m like No I’m not. As soon as he turns around….CRASH! And he’s like Told Ya So. I’ve got nothing else to read either…I need to take a trip to the book store.
I spent all my money on books. You know, the money that I didn’t spend on clothes that is…
And so now I don’t have any money left.
HeHe, I’m a naughty girl I ask my Daddykins for money so I can save mine. But it’s not like I get allowance or anything….it’s all B-day money…
And so now I’m just waiting for school to start. I honestly can’t wait. I really really really can’t wait for school to start. And summer vacation only started a week ago…uhhhhhhhhhh.
My dad gave me $50 because I did well on my report card. But I spent that money on books.
I wish summer would be over already!
I don’t get money for my report cards. If I did bad, they’d bribe me with money like they did with my brother to do better, but I don’t do bad. Worst thing I’ve gotten on a report card is a B. I kinda wanna start school and I kinda don’t….I want to because it’s gonna be like a new experience at Highschool and I wanna see how its like, but I don’t want to have to wake up early! LoL.
I wake up early anyway. I just can’t wait for next years math class. Also, english class…yes I am a nerd. I can’t stand not doing any math so now I’m using numbers as metiphores. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. My parents just give me money for good report cards so that it will be fair between me and my brother. The lowest grade I got was 81% in french and the highest was a 98% in band.
1×1=1 2×2=4 3×3=9 4×4=16 5×5=25 6×6=36 7×7=49 8×8=64 9×9=81 10×10=100 11×11=121 12×12=144 13×13=169……….
Ya…I got like 130% in English but that’s cuz I did some major extra credit…I love English class. I don’t like math so much but it’s not hard…Science is easy, History is super easy and I like it, uh…Gym, there is no possible way not to Ace that class unless you like try to, Spanish would be good except my teacher was mean.
I g2g, it’s my brother’s birthday so I have to help get everything ready for his party…bye.
okay, bye.
EXPANDERS STINK!!!
i have a piece of popcorn stuck on top of it and it’s ANNOYING!!!!! sigh. sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh etc. i know, i know, i shouldn’t be eating popcorn with my expander, but we were at the movie theatre, seeing wall e. it was sooooo good!!
tee hee he was so cute!
gtg
YOU HAVE TO GO?????????????? UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I updated my blog. Again. If anyone is actually here that is.
hey guys!
i’m back from vaca!
and i’m soooooo majorly sunburnt!
very. very. painful.
the last 2 days i have been laying out reading…
so i guess i deserve the sunburn…
but still.. OUCH!
anyways.. vaca was great!
my little cousins annoy the crap out of me though.
so what have i been missing?
anyone want to catch me up? …please?
URM-wa.. i agree expanders do stink!
..i had one when i was in like 5th grade…
and you had to put a little key in it and crank it.
painful much.
do you have to crank yours?
I’m sunburned too! Yay! We can be sunburned together!
ANYONE ON???
yep. yep. lol.
are you still here?
yep
I’m researching gluten free restraunts in minniapolis. Know of any?
Did you leave?
lol sorrys. i get distracted easily.
nope. i don’t know any.
so how was your vaca?
I got sunburned. I read books. I’m going back to my cottage in a couple days. Then I’m going to Minneapolis. I can’t wait for school to start.
are you still here?
yep i’m here. looking at digital SLR’s they are so amazing. i want one so bad…
i’m in pain from my sunburn too. monday i went to the pool and slept on the cement while my cousins played.. the pool was kinda too cold. and i forgot my book.. so the only thing left to do was sleep. then yesterday i layed up on the deck of my dock reading for awhile. and then all the wasps started to bug me. so then we went on the boat to a sandbar and i layed on the deck of the boat for awhile reading. then i swam.. the mississippi rivers current is so strong though. and the whole time i was without sun screen on… not very smart of me.
why are you going to Minneapolis?
i can wait. lol. i really don’t want to go back. schools so boring. and homework… bleh. feels like summer just started.. but it’s already been a little more than a month.
did u leave?
what’s up people?
Huh? Just obsessivly updating blog.
sir…
what is happening to the climate is bad, and it is affecting weeds and crops.
But in Uglies, bottom of page 181 to top of 182, you say
“…They turned into the ultimate weed. What we call monoculture. They crowd
out every other species, choke trees and grass, and nothing eats them except one
species of hummingbird, which feeds on their nectar.”
You see, there’s a difference between The White Weed and your average one.
The thing is, NOTHING EATS A WEED! You were saying that 30-50 years from now,
The White Weed may become something more than a reference in your book. If
thats true, then the weed would spread faster than you wrote because it has no natural
predator.
So even if the climate does change at the same rate it is now (2.5ppm per year),
than we might need rangers in as little as 2.5 decades.
This is no laughing matter.
Also… that one chapter in Uglies reminds me of another book I read this year in
seventh grade. I forget What it was called, but it was about the TITANIC. See, someone
wrote a book a while before the Titanic crashed. It was about how someone was building
the biggest ship in the world, and was supposedly ‘unsinkable’. But it sank. There weren’t
enough lifeboats for its over 2000 passengers, and many famous people died. It was like
a premonition for what happened to the Titanic, and is sometimes known as ‘The Premonition’.
What I’m trying to say is that what you wrote is like that book.
Farewell for now,
Dessa-la
i said, what’s up?
Anyone still here? I’ll leave in a couple minutes to go babysit…
Oh, your still here. I’ve been obsessivly updating my blog.
I’m sleeping over at a friends house tonight. i’m getting all my stuff packed…
good luck babysitting
Yeah. I’m going babysitting soon. I’ve been doing nothing all day. Can’t wait to go back to school in September.
I miss school so much…
i can wait for school. I’ve been engoying this first month of summer.
how can you miss school?!?!?
What’s wrong with you? I can’t wait for school to start up again. My friends often tell me jokingly to get a life. I tell them I’m breathing. They say just barely. Probably because I breath about half as much as a normal person.
I love school. Especially math and english class.
i don’t make that many friends in school, and i don’t like homework and tests and getting up at six in the morning and people that drive me crazy and all that. That’s why i don’t like school.
I totally love school. Especially band. And math. And english. And social. I just don’t like homework. I don’t dislike it though.
i never liked math. my favorite subject is science.I love science! i’m also really good at writing. last year, my english teacher sent me to the young athours confrence. i got to miss a whole day of school doing fun stuff! it was fun.
i’m in band too! i love music!! i play the trumpet.
EVIL TRUMPET PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, just had to say that. I play clarinet and oboe. WOODWINDS RULE THE EARTH. G2G babysit.
I love playing the trumpet!
WOODWINDS STILL RULE THE EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! okay, I haven’t left yet.
g2g too. bye!!
OBOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okay. bye. OBOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
trumpets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUMPETS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha! yeah right! SAXOPHONES are the BEST!!!
hello?
is this like the great instument war or something
hi?
Uh…Idk but if it is then I’ve gotta put my two cent in. PIANO ROX! LoL…can’t stay on though dang it.
It says that I am an INFJ…
–x-
Omg, MBTIs. I had to do that for the program I’m in now. I’m an ISFJ.
Hi T & Z. Whats up Kenzie-La?
Wow… I just read the full article. Cheatgrass sounds scarily like the white weed. =o
hi just got on again 🙂
OBOES!!!!!!!!! CLARINETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REEDS!!!!!!!!!! Basically the point is that reeds are better than ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PLANET!!!!!!! Plus, reeds taste good. Anyone on?
i’m here! i can’t completely agree with the reeds taste good thing. although i have to agree that reed insturments are better than any other insturments.
YAYNESS!!!!!!!!!!! GO OBOES!!!
AND SAXOPHONES!!!! 🙂
YAY!!! I’ve been updating my blog obsessivly. I need to stop doing that.
lol. i’ve been editting pictures obsessivly.
cool. yeah…
I’m drawing uglies fanart in my *new* sketchbook. Any suggestions for what to draw?
I don’t know. I don’t really do art.
OH WOW I CAN TOTALLY ADD ANYONE I WANT FROM MY SCHOOL ONTO FACEBOOK…hmmmmmmmmm…
you seem very excited about that fact.
Yes…I can add ANYONE.
yep. lol. i mostly just have facebook so i can put my pictures up… and i can look at my friends pictures.
I can add the most popular girl at school onto my facebook friends in the click of a button…
yeah…
clicking…
i commented on your blog.
oh crap.
what?
I just added my worst enimy as a friend on facebook. That’s all. I’ll live. Maybe we wont be worst enimies anymore…hopefully. Also, I was kinda dreading reading what you posted on my blog. I posted back to you.
what happened?
What do you mean?
lol sorry. i posted that what happened? at the same time.
oh. okay…
do you have facebook?
why would you add your worst enemy?
and why were you dreading it?
yep.
Dreading your comment? No reason. Just I feel like I might barf from adding my worst enemy onto my face so, anything mean anyone said could you know…And why on earth would I add my worst enemy? No clue.
EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE FACEBOOK??? COOL!!! CAN I ADD YOU AS A FRIEND???
ic. interesting.
What’s interesting?
umm.. i don’t really know. there is kinda a lot of personal information on there. ya know? like where you live and where you go to school and stuff. i usually only add people that i’ve met face to face. i think your cool and stuff… i just don’t know you personally. sorrys. i’m a very overcautious person.
oh i was just saying interesting to your previous comment about you no knowing why you added your worst enemy.
oops that was suppose to be not* not no. lol.
SHE JUST ACCEPTED ME AS A FACEBOOK FRIEND…Pigs can fly.
that’s good!! 🙂
I don’t even have a facebook. xD
Wooden rollercoasters are really hard to draw. -_-
I’m not sure if it’s good. Pigs can fly. I think that could cause problems.
hi yall
hey Kenzie!
Hellos…pigs can fly…
SHE JUST ACCEPTED ME AS A FACEBOOK FRIEND…Pigs can fly.
–x-
If that was me, I’d be more scared than if she rejected me.
Um, why?
=)
I commented on your blog Andrea-La
I know.
It would mess up my entire view of the world and my brain would asplode. That’s why. =P
=D
I got new socks *^* their thigh high and stripey hehe so comfy
Yes. My world is now so totally messed up *this was sarcasm*
g2g
bye!!
Nice, Kenzie-la.^^ The weird thing is I just passed by a store selling thigh/knee high socks in all sorts of crazy patterns today.
that’s fun!
i love socks!
softball socks especially!
all my friends on my summer softball team are like “why do you wear your long sock to practice?”
and i’m like “my long socks are cool! don’t mock the socks!”
and then they have to slide and get scraps and i’m like yep bet you wish you had my socks!
I also got lime green ones with pink polka dots hehehehe
and a knee high pair of checkered black green blue red and magenta
they all make me smile
fawesome!
my softball socks are only knee high.
i don’t have any thigh high.
now i kinda want some though!
thier nice
come right over the knee
I got at em buy 2 bet one free yay for good deals
that’s happy-making!
very much
I WANNA DANCE
WOOOOOOOOO!!!
yays!!!
*starts mindless self indulgence*
bom chi bom chi bon chi
I’m back. There is no force on the planet that could possibly make me sit through a historically inaccurate movie.
lol
hellos!
Hellos back. lol
YAY! Another person accepted my facebook friend request!!!
HI
bom chi bom chi bom chi
*dance dance dance*
that’s good!
i’m thirsty.
i be back.
a what the?
YAY! It feel nice to have people accepting my facebook friend requests.
Im dancing
Bom chi is my techno music noise
Dancing? Cool i guess.
i’m back.
water is good.
clench’s the thirst.
bom chi bom chi bom chi
woo Im drinking a mt.dew wooo
ok so maybe too much sugar
ya think? I would have never guessed! *sarcasm*
speaking of sugar..
i was on such a sugar high last weekend!
it was fawesome!
my cousins and i went and bought 5 bags of pixie sticks!
we went on a sugar high.. and then went on the pixie plunge.
good times!
=(
………………
=l
don’t be sad!
why are you sad?
dunno
give it a minute
minutes are stupid. I mean, why measure seconds when you can measure minutes, why measure minutes when you can measure hours, why measure hours when you can measure days and why measure days when you CAN’T MEASURE ENTERNITY. Time in general is stupid because it is so general.
🙂
Im good just crashed a little I guess
YAYNESS! I haven’t really had any sugur/caffine today…
yeah.
crashes aren’t fun.
the pixie plunge is a big crash.
we all took a nap after it. lol.
caffine goooood
crashing bad
yep. yep.
Yeah…Like during the jazz festival…yeah, my teacher kinda told me that I couldn’t have anymore caffine…I had to tell him that I hadn’t even had any…yeah…
bom chi bom chi bom chi
wwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
hyper*twitch twitch*
yeah…why on earth are you so hyper? when I’m hyper I start thinking about fractions…yeah…FRACTIONS.
do you guys ever eat pixie stick after pixie stick?
..it’s fun. and oddly addicting.
dunno really
but I just had ice cream
I usually try to avoid sugar. You know, for the obvious reason that I am crazy enough without it.
yumm..
giant pixie sticks are even more fun!
i have such good times with my cousins.
we’re all so crazy.
=P
sugars good
but you know what stupid
all microwave kettle corn is made with splenda SPLENDA not real sugar inatation, its better from the farmers market *huff*
Sugar makes me more insane than I am usually. Trust me, that is a BAD thing.
Dx I’m trying to read posts in between drawings, but this is going too fast.
**drawing, not drawings
sorry Lori-wa
Im mad at kettle corn makers
Im gonna write a complaint letter
Who knew facebook is so addicting?
yep yep it is.
when i first got it i was like dang i can’t get off.
but now i get kinda bored.
myspace is adicting also I cut down though
Yeah…there are so many PEOPLE. People from my SCHOOL! People from my old schools too!
BTW, facebook is way cooler than myspace…yeah…
yeah… i agree.
meh
just most of my friends have myspace ya know
None of my friends have either…
I have neither… but I might get a facebook because so many of my friends at camp here have one.
most my friends have both.
but i only want facebook.
myspace is too public.
YAY!! Another person accepted my friend request on facebook!
you know whats fun
wikihow.com
put in one keyword and you can find instructions for anything!!
yeah, I know…
i got facebook so i could swap party pictures with my lazy friends who are way too lazy to send them in an email.
You know what’s weird? Being facebook friends with people who totally hate you.
haha yeah
yeah. it’s not really that funny that pigs can fly.
i just drank a liter of water. 🙂
not feeling as dehydrated anymore!
bluetooth is fun!
no this lots of people hate me and add me but then deleted me because I didnt post bullitens about anything personal and they were
you know no gossip bo good
shaving when you have a sunburn hurts.
sure…I hope they don’t do that to me. I don’t want to get deleated from anyone’s friend list!
and yeah kay-wa, a bet you are right.
meh they didnt like me I didnt like them, I didnt really care
WHY DON’T YOU CARE???
xD we are so off topic of the post. But idc.
huh???
why should I care what they think if they dont respect me and my friends with the respect I give them
Yes! I finally finished drawing the struts of the rollercoaster for my hoverboarding picture. xD
Refresh my memory- did most of Tally’s and Shay’s trips to the Rusty Ruins in Uglies happen at night?
I don’t know. I just don’t know why, but suddenly I’ve started actually giving a crap about what people think of me.
I think
I havent been able to reread it cuz a family friends still has it
RAWR GGRRR
I’d look myself, but I’m at camp and didn’t think to bring the books w/ me. Dx
I care about people who respects me opinions
but these girls were kinda on the road down hill if you get what I mean
Yeah…my friend has my book, I think…otherwise I lost it.
So? I don’t know why but for some strange unknown reason I’ve actually started caring about what people think/say about me. I don’t know if this is a sign of RTSism, but who knows?
YAY! Once again someone is a confirmed facebook friend with me.
Whatever. I’ll just draw it like it’s at night anyway. =/
my books are gone too.
my cousin borrowed them in April..
and hasn’t given them back yet!
she’s still on Uglies only like 60 pages in!
and i miss my books!!
Gtg, bye! Might be on later.
I miss uglies too 🙁
bye Lori-wa!!
And again someone ELSE has confirmed facebook friends with me. AND she’s kinda popular!!! Oh crap, I have gone back to RTSism. UHHHHHHHH.
byebye c u l8ter lol IM talking
i never should have given her all 4 books though!
how stupid do i get!
like seriously!
yeah. IMology…
ya know what i’ve realized in the past month….
a lot of people want to get me drunk.
and they are all adults.
like my best friends mom…
she wants to get me n my friend drunk when we turn 17 and then have a sleep over so they can see how we react with alcohol. my mom was completely against it though.
and then one of my cousins who is like 35 or something.
but i’m not like that. i don’t get drunk or drink alcohol for that matter.
yet your not going all mean
are you sure they maybe, just go with me on this, actually do like you for who you are and your just not asking to hang out with them and stuff
Yeah…that was kinda random
lol. sorry. i was just thinking about it.
and did I go all mean last time?
kinda
you just wernt you
really? was I really kinda mean? uhhhhhhhhh. come on. and technicly speaking I was still me.
yeah, it was kinda scary how much you changed, and for me not in a good way
*off topic*free hugs campain I Love this, its so what the world needs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpzkHhgcZG4 plus a good song*off off topic*
come on. I didn’t change that much. and it deffinetly wasn’t scarry. was it?
kinda you were
fool video!!! i loved it!!!
I want to do it so bad
but it almost makes me cry
its just so perfect
Like the video. very interesting. and how was I scarry???
you changed to something you wernt
like jeckel and hide
Also, the world is not perfect, so we can’t expect the video to become reality.
well, I wouldn’t say that I changed to something i’m not. that’s a little harsh. maybe true though.
idk. but i like you better this way too.
the truth is something no one really wants to hear
but just a couple people can change the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IUSZyjiYuY
another great video and song
these people were and am amazing
now, we shouldn’t play favorites (j/k). I don’t know which me I like better.
I like you this way too
cool video.
these people are insparations
they changed the world for so many people
Why do you like me better this way?
your more interesting to talk to
you have opinions
your spontainious
you have a very uniquie(in a good way) way of thinking
But everyone has a unique way of thinking.
that was a cool video. and i love that song too. i have the cd and was just listening to it an hour or 2 ago.
And I did have opinions as a RTS.
but they were mostly just yours because they were others not that you really beleived in them
join the movement
http://www.freehugscampaign.org/index.php?categoryid=10
they were still opinions. And at the time I might have believed them.
but deep down?
maybe. still don’t know. it’s a blur at the moment.
ah well
im trying on all my socks
im wierd like that
being weird like that is fun.
really? I remember after reading Harry Potter semi-obsessivly I totally loved Dobby and never wore matching socks for a long time.
I really like toesocks. But I haven’t been wearing them for a while.
Im wearing matching socks hehe
very tall socks lol
they make my feet feel funny, toe socks
never really liked them
I’m not wearing socks right now.
i have so many pairs of toe socks!
I like toe socks. Just I haven’t worn them for a while. You know, not since I kinda got over my Harry Potter obsession.
I AM!!!
and eating popcicle
neither am i.
it’s too hot in my room right now.
Popcicle. I like that word.
me too
it the cool kind too
the ones with two sticks
but this one…has three!
one on one side and two on the other
COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also like the word icicle. And bassoon. And bookkeeping.
how anbout wound
just stretch it out
wooouuuunnnndddd
AWESOME!!! Words…just gotta love them. And the word classical.
Okay. This is a really weird conversation. Really really weird conversation. Half of me is excited. The other half is afraid. Very afraid.
yeah
my family had alot of fun with wound
when we had to go to the hospital two times in two weeks
My brother had to go to the dentist twice this week.
wow. i’ve never been to the hospital for myself.
i like the word layaway…. say it. it just rolls off your tounge.
EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! I love that word. layaway, layaway, layaway, layaway………….
ew I hate the dentist
how about labels, they sound funny
punk
prrrreeeppp
eeeemmmooooo
and emu cuz thats just a cool word
labels suck. end of story. i don’t even like saying them even if they are cool words.
Austrailia. I like typing that one.
that is a good word
mississippi
ippississim
love that word
yeah. AUSTAILIA. I’ve always wanted to go there.
are you still on? just asking.
i love the Mississippi river!!
best place on earth!
that’s were i just got back from.
it’s more my home than my own home town.
cool. have either of you ever been to Canada? cus that’s were i live.
nope. that’s cool though! have you seen wild bears?
yeah Im like an honorary canada I dont live far from the border, so I go there alot
plus we have a family friends up theres whos like my uncle basicly
I meant Canadian
I g2g
time to get to bed cuz Im TIRED
even though I did nothing today other than buy socks with my grandma
bye Kenzie-la!!!
*virtual hugs*
I stayed up half the night laughing. Thinking about it makes me laugh more. It’s so funny!
Hello everybody!!!
Hello! I just updated my blog!!!!!
g2g do laundry.
You know what really stupid? My mom putting me and my brother in charge of laundry. You know why? Because neither of us have a clue as to how on earth to do it.
TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE ACORNS ARE BACK!!
Is anyone on? TREES!!!!
Where are you people? And don’t tell me you are doing something stupid such as sleeping in.
Are you peoples just leaving me here to practice oboe??? UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I officially hate the song “old mcdonald had a band”. I’m not even kidding. That’s what they called it in my method book. Do you even know how insanely stupid that is? UHHHHHHHHHHH.
oh. my. gosh. i stay off for less than twenty four hours, and it’s up to FIVE HUNDRED COMMENTS!!!
gosh u guys r fast typers.
well, as u may have guessed, i’m waaay too lazy to read it all.
gtg.
watching legally blonde 2
Okay, my mouth hurts and I want to go on a rant. WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY CALL OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM, OLD MCDONALD HAD A BAND??????????? HOW STUPID ARE THESE PEOPLE???????? CAN’T THEY CALL A STUPID SONG BY THE PROPER STUPID NAME??? UHHHHHHHH. I MEAN, HELLO, I AM NOT IN GRADE 1. IN FACT, GRADE 1s PROBABLY THINK THAT THE SONG IS RETARTED. UHHHHHHHHH.
ANYONE????????????
WHY MUST YOU PEOPLES IGNORE ME SO?
is anyone on? really, it’s almost lunch time.
Emily-wa, I know you’re on the computer…
At least you WERE. UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. When will someone come save me from the land of “old mcdonald had a band”?????????
WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE???
I think I’ll blame the pizza flying aliens.
oh. wow. this. is. all. i. can.say.
have no fear, Kay-wa is here! 😛
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought that I gonna go insane. Wait a second, I already did!
facebook is making me insane!
i’m trying to add pics and it’s being stupid.
Ah. yes. Facebook is very angry-making. I’ve updated my blog twice today already. And they were long. I was so bored, that I actually learned how to spell bored.
um….nice rant, andrea-la. teehee….
ummm…
yeah.
gtg.
I hate the song “old mcdonald had a band”. UHHHHHHHHH.
wow. congrats.
my cousin is being weird..
talking to me on facebook and he says strange things.
I found my swim coach’s email….*evil laughter*
that’s nice..
I’ve played “new world symphony theme” so many times today on my oboe that I’ve lost count. See what happens when I get bored?
i’m bored…
do you know whats really nice
waking up to a thunder and lightning storm
I love them
yeah. I like lightening.
I just updated my blog. Again. For the third time today.
i like rainny days in bed..
curling up with a good book..
with the rain pounding on your window.
it’s nice.
Yeah. People think I’m crazy because I stay inside for a sunny day then go outside on a rainy day. After drying off a book is nice.
eh
too many words my brain cant comprehend it all
I just woke up give me a break
….Im off for food, be back in 2 seconds
I’ve been awake since 8am. And I totally didn’t get to sleep until 2 last night. I was laughing too hard.
Im good, I got pretzals
I’m eating lunch…mmmmmm…noodles….hahahahahaha
Im thinking a lil personal pizza for lunch
noodlehead……..
hahahahahahahaha *continues crazy laughter until falls off chair*
madusa
that’s fun..
i woke up at 9:46.
i had a nightmare about school….
i did this really awesome collage..
and i used it for 2 classes..
and my teacher fell into a big lake..
and then she came and graded mine..
and told me if i didn’t use original ideas for her class she would fail me….
and it was finals week..
and i tried to make my abstract collage out of fabric…
and i only had one day… and i was like freaking out..
and i was in some strange house..
it was weird.
ummmmmm. yeah…
my wierdest dream was I was in a volcano observatory and suddenly there was an interpitive dance group dressed as a Denny’s grand slam breakfast, then the volcano erupted and we used an rope to escape the observatory and the volcano, then I woke up
I didn’t have any dreams last night. I laughed until 2am….it was so funny!!!!!!!!!!!
that wasnt last night it was like a month ago
I know….sometimes I can’t sleep because I’m laughing too hard. Does that happen to anyone else?
Ill just be smiling like a maniac
but yes
I was making really weird squeeky sounds to keep myself from laughing like a maniac. I could even breath I was laughing so hard.
could=couldn’t
peiple can die laughing you know
that would be a nice way to die. i would bet money that’s how I’m gonna die.
g2g. Babysitting. Again. uhhhh
bybye
*virtual Hugs*
bye Andrea-la!
i don’t know what my weirdest dream was…
there was one with a giant grasshoper trying to eat me…
that was a long time ago though.
oh not that long ago i had a dream that me n my friends were at my elementry school and we were visiting our old teachers and i went to go say hi to my fave teacher and she turned into my grandma.. and then these giant monsters came and ripped the ceiling off the school and me n my friends stole cars to escape… they were weird cars like egg shaped and stuff.
O.odd
people can die laughing?? I didn’t know that. or heard of it. was there like some band war going on a couple hundred comments back? if so FLUTES ROCK!!!!!!!!! Ok, got that out of my system. I wonder who our new band teacher will be? oh well, guess we’ll find out.
Why does this say July 4th when it’s the 3rd? weird…..
yay tomorow is 4th of july, for american pyros thats awsome
That’s a weird dream Kay-wa. My best friend once had a dream that a Leprochaun ate her sandwhich *laughs*
Ha, don’t even get me started on dreams. Seriously.
lol that’s funny.
hehe hi
hello
whats up
Hi Kenzie-la!
HI
hey everyone, hey, its not july 4th! tomorow is. woah.
yah i have the wierdest dreams too…
AMERICAN PYROS ROCK!!
i’m one 🙂
but i don’t like this fire in the mountains…too close for comfort…
Hey, peoples.
hellos
anybody on?
I updated my blog again. Honestly, It’s like you people disappear whenever I come on!
oh come on. I know SOMEONE must be on.
whatever. g2g
wow. that weed thing is kinda weird, but, anyway, is anyone on now?
ugh. okay, conservative rant.
global warming is a ploy. Scott-sensi, that is the ONLY thing i dislike about the Uglies series.
exploring new ways to use energy is fine, but lets face it, the reality is that we won’t be able to use it for x amount of years, so untill then we need to use oil.
liberals WANT oil to go up so peple stop using it becasue they hate big industry. oil is a HUGE industry. of course their slaming it!
Check it out, when it gets warmer, scientists say ‘proof for global warming’ when it gets colder ‘proof for global warming’
HELLO!!! that isn’t science! that’s wanting something so badly (because you WANT to destroy our economy) that you’ll make ANYTING quote ‘prove it’.
Obama voted against drilling ofshore even tho it would help ‘working class americans’ like he pretends to care about.’
sry for the rant, but i’m not sry for the truth.
*eyeroll*
Facts are facts. Temperature has risen and fallen before, true, but not at the rate at which they are rising now. Even if you don’t think that’s a bad thing, it’s true that the Earth is warming.
What makes you think it’s a hoax? There has been no peer-reviewed scientific paper that refutes global warming. Since when are you smarter than the entire scientific community?
And please don’t get me started on the entire ‘liberals want to hurt the economy’ BS. I suppose the economy is good, if you want rampant inflation, skyrocketing oil prices, {ohwait, /I’m/ supposed to be the persons who wants that} and record defecits from record surpluses. I don’t know about you, but that’s our economy with a CONSERVATIVE president, and it seems to have been pretty darn hurt.
And as for the Obama argument, why should I care? I supported Hillary.
okay, lol to the Obama arguement,
but take a look back to the 1970’s when the world’s temp was LOWERING at a greater than normal rate. that of course meant we were going into the next ice age. R i g h t.
our economy would be loads better if the democratic senet would stop giving our tax money to causes that should be individual American’s rights to give or not give to.
do ur research! liberals/democrats WANT taxes to be raised! yet they are supposed to be all for the average american. President Bush is doing a fine job considering the senet he has.
i;’m sorry for implying that ALL democrats/liberals want to ruin our economy. i’m just a bit ticked
Bush had six years before the democrats had a majority, and he wasn’t doing a fine job then IMO.
But whatever. Let’s talk about the series and forgat all this political discussion.
Do you like Uglie’s fanfic/fanart?
Ok guys I had a though based off this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrESt2iR8Vc
go to my blog for more
hey. hey. hey.
Kenzie-la i’ve watched or had the free hugs video playing in the background probably like 50 times today.. as soon as it ends i hit replay! lol it’s so great! thanks for showing it to me! and me n my friend joined the movement. 🙂 i love it!
it doesn’t feel like midnight.
i’ve been on the computer wayy too much today.
facebook is wayyy to addicting!
i finished Eclipse for the 2nd time last night.
i don’t know what book to read now..
cuz whenever i read a book after i read any of the Twilight series books the other books (even though they may be a great books) seem not so good. so what do i read?
do i reread a book that i loved.. but then what if it turned out in comparison to the Twilight series it wasn’t so good?
or do i read a book that i haven’t read before?
…i tried that last time… i read One For Sorrow.. and i gotta say i really didn’t like it too much.. i didn’t even finish it.. half way through i was like ahhh i miss Twilight.. and this book is boring me to tears… so i went back to reread the Twilight series… and now i’m back where i was before… help. me.
If we can do that to weeds, why couldn’t crops adapt in the same way?
What if someone did a controlled experiment with crops? Like, treated them as weeds for a few decades…would they adapt as weeds have? Even though weeds have had thousands of years to adapt, wouldn’t that make just a little progress?
Because it seems to me that weeds, over the last several…millennia, have learned to quickly adapt to a changing environment. So, they’ve adapted to be able to adapt quickly…does that make sense? If we could do the same to crops, we would have a food surplus.
Yes, I realize that would take an insane amount of time. And might not work, with all the genetic changes crops have had since we started farming way back in the Mesopotamian days.
But wouldn’t it be better to start now? It’s worth a try. It’s not like things could get worse than they already are.
lori-wa: i haven’t had a chance to read any uglies fanfic. if u know of any let me know! hmm….i haven’t seen much uglies art either…..
i don’t really have a lot to say on this weed thing. i just wanna know exactly how fast our climent must change for this to happen.
i think the problem w/ adapting crops is that other things eat them, if we made some sort of super crop or something it may have a less than desireable effect on the food chain.
Hellos. I’m on. Is anyone else?
Oh! Abigial-wa, you are probably still on!
yes i am! hello!
Happy fourth! seriously, i’ve been thinking a lot about the army and stuff. hard to believe they’d fight for ppl they didn’t even know. :]
personally i wanna be in the national guard.
but i’m sick for the day so…….
It’s the fourth of july??? Sorry, I’m kinda oblivious to such things.
lol, that’s okay. the only reason i remembered is that i have a picnic (ugh and it’s raining) and the skating rink is closed.
I only know that today is ummmmm…friday. I think…
g2g
me too. have a funolicious day!
I like that word.
Anyone on right now? Or should I just go update my blog again?
I”M ON! but idk if you are or if you left. Hard to tell when you posted with these weird times at the top of the blog…
YAY!!!
I updated my blog (again). lol
g2g again. pet store.
i saw. i was reading it.
Pet store? Why Why Why?
oh and your blog isn’t letting me comment on the recent…est… blog entry! Rawr!
Pet store. Guinea pig food. I’m back now though. Are you still here?
Wait a second…my blog isn’t letting you comment??? UHHHHHH.
It’s the end of the blog-related world!!!!!!!! Sorry, just HAD TO say that.
i’m here. I had some lunch and did my personal Bible study, i had to do yesterdays and todays because i didn’t find the chance to yesterday…
Yeah…I don’t have a daily bible study. I just kinda open up the bible to a random spot and read it…
So, my blog didn’t let you comment??? Again, END OF THE BLOG RELATED WORLD!!!!!!!!
Try again, try again!!!
lol. Reminds me of what my math teacher used to say-
If something impossible, whether it was related to math or not, he always said, “(insert impossible thing here) happens, yada yada yada, the denomenator of all fractions is zero, blah blah blah…” lol. Because you know, you cant have the denominator of a fraction be zero. It’s just not possible.
lol. just lol. I like math. Especially fractions…
Shall I assume that you are still on my computer, just ranting on the comment section of my blog?
we called fractions the ‘f’ word in math class, because my class can never work with fractions. so whenever someone said fractions, everyone gasped and someone usually said “you said the F word!!!” lol….
your blog doesn’t want me to post my opinion apparently. my testing comment got through, but my opinion never came through. So here’s what i wanted to say-
you’re going to TEMPORARILY show your roots, and be who you know you shouldn’t be? It’s still unfathomable to me why you cant just wait for God’s plan to be shown to you. He has a plan, you don’t need to go looking for it yet, you’re only, what, 14? Just live, laugh, philosophize and such if you want, spread God’s word and love 😉 (ok cheesy christian girl thing there. But still, you should.) Don’t worry about who you are, God will show you if he needs you to know. You’re Andrea K——. You’re probably the best friend i’ve got on this blog, slightly above TZ and a couple others. hehe…
HA. the andrea K part was supposed to have the same number of dashes as are letters in your last name… guess it didn’t show up. I was just kinda showing off i guess lol.
I think i might go play Sims2 fairly soon.
U there still? or did you leave?
Look, the scientist in me just would like to take over for a second. This experiment is not only about finding myself but it is also about experimenting with the rewireing of the brain. I find the human mind utterly facinating and I have tried to be a variety of people. It’s nice that we are best web buds. BWBs. I like that. I know that God has a plan for me and I kinda might have a little bit of a glimps about what the idea of this plan is. And I will be living and laughing. Only two weeks, will be abit more sciency. I’m a scientist and therefore prone to experiment.
And yeah, I’m still here. Obviously. Or no, I’m typing using my super powers, I’m really swimming across the ocean to Europe. Where do you think I am??
i thought you left… my bad…
k u do that. Hopefully you’ll be able to snap back into yourself.
I’m off to play sims2.
byeses, BWB….
Sims??? Love that game….of course I’ll be able to snap back into myself. I think.
Anyone on right now??? Or am I all alone?
I feel so abandoned!!!
I’m off to my cottage. See ya after the weekend!
Don’t forget to read my blog!
Okay, I’m leaving for real now. DON’T FORGET TO READ MY BLOG!!!
Don’t want to stop typing, but I am going to my cottage now…BLOG.
Remeber me? I havent been on here 4ever, but im still obsessed. I´m trying to think of ways to decorate my locker ugly, pretty, special, extra style! Oh to do with how the books are starting to be all real life like my dad rode a meg lev train! He said they go fast. LOL
Click my name
anyone on?
I am! Happy Fourth of July! That is…unless you don’t live in the U.S., then just Happy Friday!
woo the day for freedom and pyros
woooooo!!!!!!
ah rawr…
it’s too foggy out to see the fireworks…
happy 4th everyone!! 🙂
i’m bored.
and i want to text my friends…
but i went over my limit this month.
..so i can’t.
rawr.
Hey, everyone. Happy 4th to all US citizens.
I can hear fireworks where I am but not see them… ;-;
same here. i’ll probably go outside in a little while and watch cuz a lot of the people in my neighborhood do big displays.
Lucky. I’m at camp, like I have been for the past 3 July 4ths
last night was the worst 4th of July i ever celebrated. It was so foggy i don’t think we could have possibly seen the fireworks about a mile away, and we watched the ones on TV for about 15 minutes. Why do they bother putting them on TV if they aren’t half as fun watching? You have to agree, things on TV like concerts or fireworks aren’t half as fun as actually being there. I guess that’s what’s so great about fireworks. It’s not actually the fireworks themselves, but being there.
wo are you like all from the states
canada day was so hot it was awesome
I’m from Canada!!! YAY!!! hehehe.. lol!!!! *evil laughter*. *Starts getting thretened to be tied to chair.* *Being told to “send it”. *
Screaming contests on the phone are very fun…hehehe…
haha how’s your sleepover, Andrea-la? Having fun being threatened?
tell your friend(s) I said “Yo-la Peeps who iz friends with Andrea-la!!!!!!”
rofl andrea-la… is this to people you know… or prank calls…?
To people we know…hehehe….we sent her very disturbing pics from a really old lord of the rings book…
You still on??? This computer has kinda slow internet…my friends keep on telling me not to yell on the phone…apparently saying the number 169 over and over again is very annoying…
g2g…this is gonna be funny!
haha ok. I’m updating my blog. be sure to look in a few minutes!
This is actually Nata-la now
im with andrea-la
im talking to you peeps
LLAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tee Hee!
i love using three phones to call people
it makes it fun
we are all competing for the pho-
ANDREA-LA!
stop!
DO NOT YELL 169!
sorry
at least now darklings will EVER come here, not with how loud andrea-la is
byes!
yes, i can tell she is a loud person. Even from never hearing her 🙂
woot woot. Updated blog. New template. Cool stuff…
i gtg to bed soon. My mom is going to yell at me for being on the computer soon, I just know it…
ooh! ooh! llama reminds me of a song!
heres a llama
theres a llama
and another little llama
fuzzy llama
funny llama
llama llama duck
did you ever see a llama
kiss a llama on the llama
llama llama
tastes like llama
llama llma duck
half a llama
twice a llama
not a llama
farma llama
llama in a
car alarma
llama llama duck
now this song is over
and i’ve run out of luck
time for me to retire now
and become a duck
wow. typing all those “llamas” is making my head spin. and not in a good way either. who else is meant to be, but is not doing right now, their homework?
hey I’ve heard that song before. XD I love it! It’s hilarious!
answering to the original topic here…thats creepy that we might be actually growing the weed that killed everything else in the rustie’s time in the series!!
but then, if weeds help GW, they actually might be GOOD…
this is all too confuze-making for my totally non-bubbly brain right now…
teehee i love talking in pretty, its so fun-making!!
There is a kid in my school, JD, who loves llamas. He is obsessed. Its sorta scary
hey!
Hahahah alison i totally forgot about JD!! Wonder how hes doing
that is sooo freaky
I knoww I knoww! its insane isnt it?
yes very
gosh i miss him.. well maybe not but like its the saying that counts. He would deffinatly be another pain in my butt like tommy and nick and well everythinngg
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