Good Day

Do you have a lot of pimples/mini bumps on your back where your hair hangs? I do, and I think it's getting worse :(  At least I'm noticing it more.  I am listening to the radio right now and have been most of the evening.  I hardly ever listen to the radio, mainly because my mom thinks there's too much talking.  I don't know what she's talking about. I mean, I know that there ads every once and a while, and the host will talk every so often but other than that, I think it's pretty good considering it's free music and it's popular music at the same time.  You know, I just realized that 95% of the readers of this blog have short hair, so you can't relate to my first question. Oh well. Try and think back to those days when you had long hair and ask yourself, did I have a lot of pimples/mini bumps on my back where my hair hung?  Today is prom, so none of the grade 12/13's were gone today (getting ready) and will be gone tomorrow (hungover).  So today in T and T we watched a movie and Mr. Darling said that there would be a question on our test about something in the movie just to 'get back' at the people who were gone.  While he was (trying to) set up the movie he was talking about his food preferences.  So now the question the test is going to be as follows: What did Mr. Darling rant about while trying to set up the movie? The answers are: he likes sweet and salty popcorn from PC, he hates V8 juice because all he can taste in carrots, he doesn't like his hot drinks cold or his cold drinks hot (worth two marks) and OMG I FORGET WHAT THE LAST ONE IS!!! How am I ever going to get perfect on my test now?

Random Tought Processes

You know, if I had enough Lego bricks, I would do this.

Today in biology while we were taking our note for some reason I thought of when I had lost my camera when my friend took me to Hershey, PA.  (I was going to say, "So today in..." but then I realized that that's how I usually start my posts so I decided to shake things up a bit by eliminating the 'so').  We had spent the previous day in the amusement park and were going back for a second day (I think).  I was going to bring my camera so I could take pictures but realized I couldn't find it.  I started panicking more than normal because when something bad happens it's always worse if it's not with your own family.  You get what I'm trying to say, right?  Anyways, my friend's mom suggested we go to the amusement park office and ask about the lost and found. Well actually they said we would have to look for it later (which cause more panic) and only when we got to the park and passed the office did she suggest that.  I remember thinking to myself, it's not going to be there, I never lose things THAT way (as apposed to having forgotten where I put it last). Only now am I realizing how...vain? Is that the word I'm looking for?...thinking that was.  The point is...well, there really is no point now that I think about it. Don't be vain, I guess? (BTW, my camera had been put in the lost and found.  I had to describe it to the lady before she gave it to me to prove that it was mine.  I remember shaking because I had never really looked to closely at it. I'm lucky I remembered that it was a Canon.)  I just made lemon poppy seed muffins. From a mix. Did you just feel a little disappointment inside?  I didn't slave over ingredients for who knows how long, I just dumped a bag of mix in and bada-boom, badda-bing. MUFFINS!!!! Mighty delicious muffins all the same though.  For some reason there were only 10 paper muffin cups left. What kind of paper-muffin-cup-making-company would do that? I think it is safe to assume that people will use paper muffin cups in multiples of 12.  So I had to go digging for more. Only to realize that the extra cups I had just found were a different size than the other ones.  So I kind of folded two together to make one bigger one.  I guess the count on those cups will be six off now, instead of just 2.  A packet of glaze came along with the mix so I spread that on the muffins.  It started dripping off onto the counter so I had to clean it up. And when I say clean it up I mean scoop it up with my finger and lick it. But then of course clean off the counter. But this way there was no waste. (the glaze was really good).  My school is having an art show this evening.  I was going to go with a friend of mine but now she's not going. I think I'll still go but it won't be as much fun without her.  Hopefully my other friend is still going. 

Sherlock

So I just finished watching Sherlock episode 3. And might I say it was SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I think almost better than the first time because since I knew the general story line I could focus more on the little details and things I didn't catch the first time around (that's where subtitles really come in handy).  I really like the theme song so I decided to record it on my iPod so that I would have it.  But you wouldn't believe the sound it picks up.  My mom turns on a light switch two rooms over and you can hear it on the recording.  So I had to wait until everybody left and then blasted the theme song and recorded it.  :D  Now I will have it forever!  I think I might have to buy the sound track, if that exists.  I also watched the bonus features.  A little short if you ask me but very good nonetheless.  Congratulations to a close friend on her good news.  My mom asked if I had heard and I was like, "Do I know? You are the last one to know.  It almost seems like old news." Teehee.  But now everybody knows.  No more secrets! (That was the secret that I was complaining about, btw).  We are getting close to the end of the year and that means that I will have to decide what game I want to do for my final project in computer science.  Any suggestions? (I've already done tic-tac-toe and magic square btw).  Mmmmm my mom just brought up Crunch 'n' Munch, gotta go eat some! :)

Night Fury

OMG I LOVE SHERLOCK SO MUCH.  As far as I can tell (I say as far as I can tell because their website is slightly confusing), it only won one BAFTA for Andrew Scott as best supporting actor.  Very disappointing. But I don't really care about that.  It's still awesome.  I've watched two episodes so far on DVD. I'm going to try and hold out and save the last one for tomorrow. But I don't know, it's only 4:30 and I have nothing to do.  I was at a friend's house last night for a sleepover to celebrate her 17th birthday. Wow, I can't believe my friends are turning 17.  It was really fun. We made pizza, opened presents, had a very diverse cake (inside joke) and watched movies. We watched How to Train Your Dragon, which I had never seen before. And might have never seen because it's the birthday girl's favourite movie and she looked about ready to kill me when she found out I hadn't seen it.  But I'm glad I survived, because it was a very good movie.  Night Fury is so cute! I love his eyes. The close up was amazing.  I actually love this movie so much.  I can't believe I had never seen it before.  Then we wanted to watch Prom, but that wasn't available on Rogers so we watched This Means War, which was pretty funny.  Then in the morning she made us a very impressive brunch: homemade buiscuits, toast, jam, nutella, butter, hash brown, eggs, fruit, all very nice!

Friday

So since I haven't posted in a few days and I'm busy all weekend I figured I would post now evenness though I should be going to sleep. First of all, SHERLOCK FINALLY ARRIVED!!! I am so excited. I almost didn't go to youth group because I wanted to watch it. But then I thought that youth group would be really fun. We did a car rally where we were given a sheet with a bunch of clues on it and we had to drive around to a bunch of stuff to find the answers. My team came in second. Another thing is that I am freaking out now when I see emergency vehicles. The morning after my friend's sister got hit by a car there was an ambulance outside our school. Apparently somebody got hit by a car while riding their bike. Btw, the drivers were from STA again...just saying. And now I've been seeing one everywhere I go. I don't like it. I hate having secrets. Because the blog is where I tell people things that I wouldn't tell people normally. But now I have a secret that is being kept from people who read this blog and it is killing me! But I have to survive because Sherlock is waiting for me tomorrow morning. Just a question, would it be weird to get my friend a rose for her 17th birthday? She has a boyfriend, does that change anything? Too romantic from a friend? Ugh, I hate gift shopping when they say they don't know what they want.

What...?

OMG Sherlock still hasn't shown up yet and I really need something to do with my life. I started studying today for exams, there's only like four weeks left or something.  It's been a weird day.  First off, it feels like it should be Friday.  Sometimes this happens and it's OK, but today of all days when Monday was a holiday and then I was at the zoo yesterday so it didn't really count so today should feel like a Monday, but it's Wednesday and it feels like Friday.  That was a really long sentence.  Then secondly my friend's sister got hit by a car.  A couple friends and I were standing at the intersection where we split ways because we live in different directions.  Then my one friend gets a text from our other friend saying that her sister has been in a car accident.  Seconds later an ambulance, police car and fire truck come racing around the corner (a little fast, might I say).  It didn't really connect until they suddenly stopped a few meters down the road and we realized it was our friend's sister sitting on the curb.  We walked a little closer but not too close because we didn't want to be told to leave by the police.  The fire truck left obviously because they weren't needed.  The police officers stuck around and talked to people who had seen it happen and to the people who hit her.  (They were from STA, doesn't surprise me. Sorry to stereotype and be mean, but it's all part of the high school up-bringing.  You are raised to hate every other high school, some more than others.)  We talked to one girl who goes to our school and we kind of know who had seen it happen.  I'm pretty sure that my friend's sister is OK, they took her to a hospital to check for concussion and take x-rays. My friend said that she wasn't talking probably because of shock (that was right after it happened, I don't know how she is now).  I really hope she is okay.  It's one of those things that always seems to happen to someone else.  And I don't think that it helped that we were right there when it happened and weren't paying attention.  Anyways. I think this post is kind of all over the place and full of run-on sentences and probably some grammar errors and I'm sorry and I'm tired (I had two tests today) and I just want to go to bed but not at the same time. Sorry, another run-on sentence.  Ok, I'm just going to stop now. Good bye. 

Long Day (18 hours, 50 minutes and 7 seconds to be exact)

Today has been a long day. Starting at precisely 4:36:17AM I woke up (I'm not actually sure about the seconds). I lay awake trying to convince myself to fall asleep again. Then I dozed off a bit. Key word there is dozed: I never did fall back to sleep.  At 5:30:46AM (again, not sure about the seconds) I was laying awake waiting for my alarm to go off (which was set for 6:10AM. Usually I get up at 7:00:00AM [positive about the seconds this time] but I had the zoo trip today and had to be at the school for 6:45:00AM [I'm getting better at this seconds thing :)].)  I find that whenever I change my alarm I have this fear that it won't go off and I'll miss whatever it is that I'm waking up early for.  Because of this panic that rests inside of me, I was unable to fall asleep again.  So I decided to just get up.  Or at least stop trying to fall asleep.  Then at 6:51:39AM (maybe I'm not as good as I thought...) I arrived at school.  We boarded the coach buses. Unfortunately our one friend is in a different Grade 11 Biology class and so she had to be on the other bus.  But I still had two friends with me.  And as the clock on the bus ticked on by (which was showing 12:14AM (no seconds :() we waited for the late people to show up.  Finally after deciding that the other people weren't going to show up (or got on the other bus, I'll never know) at 12:34AM (according to the bus, we didn't actually wait 5 hours for them) we set off.  After a painful 3 hours on the bus we arrived at the Toronto Zoo (I'm not sure what time...)  and were told that there would be two (TWO) assignments that had to be completed, one in the morning, one in the afternoon.  The first one we had to fill out a chart about two animals of our choice (ie. how do they move? {with legs???} where are their eyes {on their head???}  etc, etc, etc.). The afternoon assignment was to watch an animal for half an hour and record what it did every minute (you chose ten actions and then marked down which of those actions it did in the minute).  We (the four of us were quickly reunited after getting of the buses) thought this would be boring and a waste of time. Anyways, we found an animal that was inside so we didn't have to sit in the sun. We chose the tree kangaroo. Honestly the cutest thing I have ever seen (overdramatication, but not by much). We named it Claude.  By the end of the half hour we were glad we had been given the assignment.  Although without it we could have seen the penguins (we ran out of time before we got to them) it really made us slow down and appreciate the animal.  Before we would have stopped for 30 seconds (approximately), said it was cute and then moved onto the komodo dragon.  There was a sign in the exhibit to please be quiet. The only problem was that it was around the corner from the door. So people came charging in and yelling. We would shhhh them and then they would look at us like, "what authority do you have over me?" And then they would turn the corner and realize that they needed to shut up or leave.  We started feeling very protective of Claude (did I mention Claude has to be read with a French accent?). We were sad that there was only one tree kangaroo. I don't know if the other one was inside its little house thingy (you know how zoo inclosures work, there's a viewing area and then an area where they go at night kind of thing) but it seemed lonely.  We were also sad to leave but we also really wanted to see the other kangaroos.  Eventually (after waiting 15minutes for people who didn't realize the bus was leaving at 2:30:00PM (supposed to leave, that is)) we set off for home.  We got back around 5PM, just like they said they would.  I was really tired after walking all day and really wanted to have a shower and then go to bed (you know, since I was up at 4:36:17AM (again, not sure about the seconds)). But then reality set in and I realized that I have two tests tomorrow and a bunch of math homework that I haven't even heard the lesson on. So after struggling through studying (not really) and figuring out my math homework (my math teacher posts all her lessons online, makes my life so much easier) and having a shower, I decided to come blog about it all. And it's taken me much longer than I expected it to.  Today was definitely one of those days where I kept thinking about something and then thought that I should blog about it.  But since it is now 10:26:09PM (according to the computer), I should go to bed. Good night to you all!

(he looks kind of mad in this picture, but he's actually really cute)

...what?

                                                 I've decided to change my reading goal for this year from 50 books to 52 books; one for each week of the year.  I've always thought it was funny that there are 52 weeks in a year and 12 months in a year, and 4 weeks in a month. But if you do the math, it doesn't add up.  Our new neighbours have been outside in their backyard all morning. I can't blame them, it's a beautiful day. But I can blame them for making an obscene amount of noise.  Their kids have been yelling and screaming and barking (well, that was more of the dog...) around in their blow-up kiddie pool all morning.  I wouldn't be surprised if my brother exploded from annoyance in the near future.  Oh wait, it just stopped.  Maybe one of them got hurt so now they have to go inside. Not that I would wish injury upon anyone....  Nope, there they go again. I knew it was too good to be true.  I pre-ordered Sherlock Season 2 on DVD and just found out that it has shipped!!!!!!!!! This is serious cause for celebration.  Although I'm slightly confused because it doesn't come out till the 22nd.  Not that I'm complaining.  So I don't know if they have it ahead of time and then ship it so that you have it by the 22nd...?  On Amazon.ca's website it has been in the top 100 DVD Bestsellers for 53 days.  (It's currently second to Lord of the Rings, which has been there for 430 days...more than a year).  Which is pretty good considering it only came out in January.  But if you're shocked that Lord of the Rings has been there so long, The Big Bang Theory Season 3 has been there for 649 days, almost two years?!?  Wait, that doesn't make sense. How long has season 3 been out for...? I think they're on season 4 right now....  Hahaha. I just realized something.  I was on Amazon.ca's site because I thought I ordered it from there, and I was really confused because when I had pre-ordered something before it didn't ship until the day of. So I was looking on my account for the shipping tracker thingy.  But the order wasn't there. But I just realized I ordered it from BBC Canada instead.  Brief panic attack there.  That's probably why it's been shipped already, so that I have it on the day of.  I guess...?

Finally

It's finally the weekend.  (spelling 'the' in that last sentence took me like 5 tries :$).  It's going to be a quiet weekend.  My dad is working and my mom and sister are in Niagara Falls for a dance competition.  So it will just be me and my brother.  Joy.  There's no youth group tonight.  We have been youth group deprived: no youth group two weeks in a row!  I don't know how I'm going to make it.  I'll have to go burn some energy at the gym.  Hahahaha. The gym.  I'm going to the Toronto Zoo on Tuesday for a biology field trip.  There are four down sides to this. 1) We have to be at the school for 6:45. 6:45AM.  That is way to early. I don't even get up until 7AM. 2) We have to spend 4 hours on a bus probably watching a stupid movie. 3) We have to do a work sheet while we're there. And 4) I have attended every single T and T class. And that is a major accomplishment for that class.  The highest attendance we've had is 24 out of 26.  I am the only person who has shown up to every class.  And that will be ruined.  I googled myself today.  I didn't show up as far as I can see.  It makes me feel immune to the internet.  Mwahahahahaha your reaching claws (read: search engines) cannot reach me!!!!!

Long Day

I'm not actually swearing here.  Or saying that I'm fabulous (although I am).  I am merely showing you this gif I found of Benedict Cumberbatch.  I think the saying suits the picture perfectly.  I'm babysitting tonight.  Today has been a long day.  I had two tests this afternoon.  I don't think my math one went as well as I had hoped.  Wow, watching that gif flashing is really distracting.  I should probably go eat dinner.  We are having lasagna, one of my favourites.  We are having our roof redone right now so there is lots of banging going on.  My parents (ie MY FATHER) decided to get bigger air vents for the roof than the ones we had.  And I mean BIG.  They stand up and everything.  I really don't like them but wasn't complaining because they are going on the back.  But then I found out that there is one going on the garage roof as well.  This means I'll see it every time I look at the house.  OR OUT MY WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm actually so mad.  I do not want to see that thing every time I open my blinds in the morning.  "Oh, I think today is going to be a great day. (starts opening blinds) I'll read some of my book and perhaps do some...(sees vent).  Ugh. My day has officially been ruined.  By some PLASTIC." Seriously, that's what it's going to be like.  I found online some instructions to build a Lego TARDIS.  (That's one down side to Lego: they have every popular franchise EXCEPT DW!!!)  But since I'm pretty sure I don't have all the pieces, I'm going to have to buy the individual pieces.  (You can do that online.)

If

I've been thinking about a lot of if's recently.  Sometimes when I'm doing homework I think about if I went to this school or that school.  Or if I hear an announcement or there is a electronic sign I think about if loops from computer science.  I'm actually doing that a lot now, imagining the code for how different things operate.  It's made me think that that's maybe what I should go into since I'm thinking about it so much.

Disbelief

I would have posted last night, but I was to STUFFED FULL WITH SUSHI!!! A couple friends and I went out to Sushi Galore last night for all you can eat sushi.  It was realllllllllly good.  I was feeling slightly sick afterwards, but it was well worth it.  I tried a hand roll (see picture).  It's pretty much the same as a normal sushi roll, but it was more fun to eat :) So you know how sushi places always give you too much wasabi? You always think, "Who would ever use that much wasabi?"  Well, my friend used it all.  Every last drop.  I couldn't believe it.  Neither could my other friends.  I was really shocked. I can hardly eat the little bit that sticks if I stick my chopstick in the wasabi.  Anyways.  We were doing presentations today in T and T and they were pathetic.  There were spelling mistakes EVERYWHERE.  They obviously just copied information from the internet because they didn't even know what they were reading.  One girl didn't even bother to try reading one slide, she just said, "Yea, these are some interesting facts." I couldn't believe it.

The Weekend Has Reached It's End

So I went to Camp Hermosa yesterday.  (I almost wore a Forest Cliff Camp t-shirt, but then I decided against it ;)).  We (when I say we, I mean my dad, brother, a family friend and I) went up to help build a new cabin in our friends' name.  But it turned out to be a bit of a long day.  More people showed up than expected and they had more construction experience than we did.  So that meant that they had a higher priority to be doing work.  Also, they were working on the roof, and you can only have so many people on a roof at once.  So we ended up standing around for most of the day.  The funny thing is that a lot of the people that were working are over 60 years old.  You would think the middle-aged men would be working over the grandpas.  It also started raining so that cut work short a little but.  I haven't done much today.  Last night after we got back from CH we watched Angels & Demons.  I was really disappointed when the speech I really liked wasn't in the movie.  Anyways, we didn't get to bed till after midnight.  So I was really tired.  My mom and sister had been in Hamilton for a dance competition and didn't get back till after midnight as well.  So since I knew my mom would be tired and want to sleep in I figured I would sleep in as well.  I didn't get up until 11:30.  Then we had breakfast for lunch and my entire day has been thrown off.  We are going to go out for ice cream later.  Whenever we do this it is a bit of a fiasco.  My brother is allergic to peanuts and so places like Marble Slab and Cold Stone Creamery aren't good places for him to go.  But the rest of my family loves those places.  When my brother was younger and a little less aware of what was going on in the world we would just get him something at McDonald's.  But now he realizes that McDonald's isn't really an even substitute.  So we tried Kiwi Kraze.  But then my parents didn't like that.  So now we are generally stuck with Dairy Queen (I really want to try their Blizzard of the month right now) or Baskin 31 Robins.  You know you are pretty well off when the biggest issue your family has is where to go out for ice cream.  Had you noticed that B31R incorporated the number 31 into the BR of their logo? Pretty snazy.

She Found Out

O. M. G. My BFFLAAT found out about my blog. I'm kind of freaking out right now. I always knew she would find out about it at some point, but I never imagined it would happen quite like it did. So her mom was over scrapbooking and my BFFLAAT and I had just got back from seeing our friend in her school production of Annie. My BFFLAAT's mom wanted to see my room because she hadn't seen it since I had redone it. So we went up to see it. In fact, we all went up to see it. Like, my entire family was in my room. My BFFLAAT briefly looked around but wasn't really looking because she's seen it before. Then she opened my cupboards. I had recently put a card that my BFFLAAT's mom had given me in there. It was the one that had the 'I'm more interesting on my blog' quote on it. My BFFLAAT thought it was a little strange that I had that card so she read it. In the card my BFFLAAT's mom had asked me to telly BFFLAAT about the blog. And there you have it. My BFFLAAT officially knows about my blog. Whether she will be able to find it is another story altogether. I'm sure her mom will tell her how to find it( I think she's the most relieved out of all of us. She had almost blown it so many times). The thing is, it's not like it's some random URL address that no one will ever find it. I mean, if you know what you're looking for, it can't be that hard to find. Now on an even bigger note, I get the gift that my BFFLAAT's mom said she would give me if I told my BFFLAAT about the blog. :). I'm really excited about it. But at the same time, I'm worried I'll be disappointed by it I'm not sure how far she would go to make me tell my BFFLAAT. Oh well. It's been a long day. I had a bio test this morning. Last night I had realized that we never went over the format of the test in class. So I was worried that didn't know what I was going into. Clearly there was no need to panic because it was 30 M/C and 6 true/false. Probably the easiest unit test I've ever written. SOTD is Long Time Coming by Oliver James. (see previous post).

Chain Reaction

I just finished watching the movie What A Girl Wants.  It's all part of a large chain reaction.  On Friday night after gardening I was flipping through the channels on the TV and I saw Hilary Duff.  Since I hadn't thought about her in a while, I decided to watch it.  It turned out to be the movie Raise Your Voice.  I had never heard of it before.  It wasn't bad, an average chic flick.  But the more important thing is that Oliver James was also in this movie.  Since it was a movie about music, he was singing in it and it made me think about when he sang in What A Girl Wants.  This cause me to look him up and fall in love with him all over again.  ( I can see the shock on my mom's face as she reads this already).  So I YouTubed his song and the only video that showed up was the clip from the movie which wasn't the entire song.  So then I looked on iTunes and there it was.  And you know how once you buy song they give you recommendations? I saw some other songs and here I am $2.97 poorer.  Not really, I had a giftcard.  But still.  So then I was thinking about What A Girl Wants, so I figured I'd watch the movie.  I had forgotten how much I liked the movie.  But watching it again also kind of ruined it.  Now that I'm older than when I last watched it, I've noticed how some of the things they said are really cheesy. 

Time Flies

OMG I didn't think it had been that long since I last posted! But I guess it makes sense.  Although I didn't go to youth group on Friday, I was outside doing some gardening.  I really enjoy growing vegetables (even though I don't really like to eat them).  I was moving some of our compost into the vegetable garden.  I was thinking that using soil from compost is kind of like cannibalism.  The plants are using the nutrients from their former selves that have now decomposed into soil. :$  Anyway, my uncle got me started on growing potatoes a couple year back and I have absolutely no regrets.  Seriously, best potatoes I've ever had.  They make especially good mashed potatoes. Just earlier today I planted some more.  I've found that if you want to get bigger potatoes, you need to "accidentally"  miss digging some up at the end of the summer so that as soon as it gets warm again they start growing.  Anyway, on Saturday morning I cut the grass and spent a lot of time reading.  We had some friends over for dinner and we were playing bola-ball and croquet.  On Sunday we went to church (9am is WAY too early to have a church service) and then my dad spent the afternoon rebuilding our veggie garden bed.  It was rotting and falling apart.  Literally.  I was pulling the boards apart with a shovel. And I am not particularly strong.  Also, my grandma came down for the weekend.  We played Rummikub (read: Rummy-cube).  Usually I win.  And I'm not trying to brag or anything, but seriously.  I usually win.  Especially against my dad. But this time my mom won.  And then she won again.  But only because I had a joker.  Of course you have no idea what this means, but I'm telling you anyway.  I was told recently by my BFFLAAT's mom that I text her more than my BFFLAAT does.  I'm sure this is true with most teenagers.  And, since they have phones now too, kids.  And that is if they text adults at all.  I hardly ever text my mom.  What my BFFLAAT's mom and I usually talk about is related to the blog.  It's not like we have conversations.  Not that there is anything wrong with having conversations with your BFFLAAT's mom.  But it's just kind of weird.  And more annoying because usually it's about something funny and so I'll want to tell my BFFLAAT about it.  But since she doesn't know about the blog, to her there would be no reason for me to be texting her mom.  I want to get a new phone.  My dad bought me a Canadian university guide book today.  He handed it to me and said, "Just some inspiration." Ugh.  I have been more seriously considering what I want to do (I'm thinking either eye doctor or something in graphic design).  But I really don't want to be thinking about that kind of stuff already.

Trash

One of my friends is in OakRadio, which is the group of people at my school who read out the announcements at the beginning of the day.  All the other people in OakRadio are graduating this year, so basically my friend gets to choose who is one the "team" next year.  (They are having auditions next week).  She was mentioning today some of the people who were trying out.  As she went through the list, she was telling us whether they would make it or not.  They haven't even auditioned yet.  She is making a decision for the school and she is choosing based on her personal opinions on people.  I do have to admit that there are some people on the list that I would rather not work with, but this is one of those situations where you make decisions based on their performance and not your personal distaste for them.  This is when one of you makes some comment about oh you should tell her what she's doing is wrong, etc, etc, etc.  But depending on what mood she's in, she will blow me off and say something like, well I'm the one who decides, I'll do what I want.  If she's in a forgiving mood, she'll tell me, I know, I'm going to give them all a chance, and then go decide like she was going before (lie to me, basically).  I feel bad for my one friend who is trying out but none of my friends really enjoy the company of, especially this one friend I've been telling you about.  After the major breakthroughs I had with my computer programing, I have hit another wall.  The program runs fine, but I know I will lose marks if I hand it in how it is now.  My teacher will want me to condense the code and make it more efficient.  Tomorrow I am going to ask her which is a higher priority, condensing this program, or starting on the next one she assigned a few days ago.  This is one of those classes where it is easy to fall behind in if you're not careful.  I feel bad for my friend, she's missed 2 weeks of school.  Today in T and T we watched a video called We Built This City: New York.  It was a very well done documentary about NY came to be.  It reminded me of a show called Trashopolis, where major cities have their worst garbage secrets revealed.  Did you know that most of Lower Manhattan is built on garbage? This is the description of the show:
"When the Dutch bought Manhattan, the island was nothing but a swampy marsh. Trash, however, in the form of enormous mounds of giant oyster shells, helped build the New Amsterdam Seaport into the most profitable port in the New World. For many years garbage and recycling became big business-controlled by crooked politicians, and New York’s most ruthless gangsters. Urban planner Robert Moses used trash to build New York City’s expressways, bridges, and parks. Today, a group of activists known as “freegans,” survive on nothing but trash thrown out by supermarkets, and an artist stuffs trash into small plastic boxes and sells them as art. A 50 million dollar project in Brooklyn used a new kind of trash to build a park on the shores of the East River."
Pretty crazy, huh? If it's ever on and you're not disgusted be a little (or a lot) of trash, I highly suggest watching it.   

Sexy

This is one of my favourite quotes from DW:

(If you want context, go here.)

Sunshine On My Shoulders

I think you should all listen to this song:

I love the lyrics.  If you just read them they are like a poem.  Love it.

Letters

Have you ever had someone who you used to be close with but now because something has happened, you aren't and its (really) awkward when you see them? I mean, you still want to be nice to them, but you can't forget what happened that caused you to no longer be on good terms.  Had that experience today.   Not something I really want to repeat.  The sad thing is, that's probably when they need someone the most.  That is not the case in today's experience, but you know what I mean. Right? I have started to try and write my t's with a little curl at the bottom.  At first, my handwriting was all sticks and angles.  Then my y's got a curl at the end and my 2's became more loopy. My u's lost the little stick on the side, etc, etc, etc.  So now I'm trying to change my t's.  But I think that may be taking it too far because it looks really girly.  I'm not sure if I like it.  Did you know that I have always hated writing the letter i? But only uppercase.  Because if you just do the one stick than it could look like a one.  But it's so much effort to draw the two other lines straight.  So then if you get the top edge crooked then it does look like a 1.  Ugh.