January 2009
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Ew.
So I had no homework going into winter break.
But today I remembered I have a Driver’s Ed project, Spanish project AND an English project, not to mention a pre-calc review packet, practicing for my driving final and teaching myself stoichiometry.
I used to say I liked school and everyone would look at me like I was crazy. I get why they did that now.
December 2008
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WatchHaving waaaay too much fun with this.
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This isn't right.
There’s something wrong with my dad.
Since when does he want to go to Belize?
I want to know who this strange man is and if he’ll let me go on the Europe trip.
EDIT (one hour later) Okay. Maybe it IS my dad. Still won’t let me go on Europe trip.
Rosenblat's Single Greatest Love Story is a Hoax →
It makes me sad when these fantastic stories turn out to be a big pack of lies.
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Art
I went to the Art Institute today with my mom and my brother.
My mom and I were making fun of the tapestries (Which were really quite amazing.) and the paintings from 1400-1600s Europe.
“Either they’re all drunk or they’re inbred.”-Mom “Or maybe they’re just really ugly.”-Me “Maybe it’s just hard to make faces in tapestries…”-Mom
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Bum Children
I hate the bum children. A nuclear bomb of an arguement happened at my family christmas party. So my crazy uncle steve’s just a freaking asshole, pardon my french but it’s true. My mother does not let the f-bomb fly, but it was being thrown around like nobody’s business.
Basically he and my mom got into a giant argument about welfare. On a nuclear scale. If my family arguments...
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Oh no!
So I went to Border’s today and I got a calendar (Wonders of the World!) and a gluten-free cookbook.
The cookbook was written by Donna Washburn and Heather Butt. I’m hoping that Butt isn’t a clue as to how the food tastes.
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“There are five notes in a scale, right?”
– My father, who has obviously never played an instrument.
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An Odd But Amusing Conversation With My Brother.
Dan: Emily, what are rooty toot toots and rummy tum tums?
Me: Well, have you ever had a bad stomach ache?
Dan: Yeah.
Me: You take the rummy tum tums to get rid of the stomach ache.
Dan: But what about rooty toot toots?
Me: The rummy tum tums induce rooty toot toots and that's how your stomach ache goes away.
Dan: So it's Tums and gas?
Me: Well what ELSE would a rooty toot toot be?
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Merry Christmas!
Hope everyone has a good one. I know I sure have, and it’s only one o’clock!
Some Christmas highlights thus far: orange sweater (my mom thinks it will make me look like a safety cone), infra-red filter, NEW EARBUDS THAT WON’T GIVE ME A RASH, Threadless t-shirts (How to Breakdance and Infamous Mishaps Throughout History), tickets to see Spamalot and a new internet cable!
I am...
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I don't get it.
There’s a show about hot dogs on. I knew that it wasn’t right in Chicago to put ketchup on your hot dog, but why doesn’t anyone know the reason? I would love to find out.
Stoichiometry is weird. I got the sandwich example my teacher gave me. But I was lost past that. I can do my mole conversions, that’s not the problem. I just get lost somewhere in it all… I did well...
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Festivus
Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.
Cosmo Kramer: What happened to the doll?
Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born … a Festivus for the rest of us!
Cosmo Kramer: That must've been some kind of doll.
Frank Costanza: She was.
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Elf Yourself →
SNOW!
I have a snow day.
I’m so excited.
No homework now on winter break!
…Yes, I’m aware how much I will be hated because of that.
Damn.
I’m giving up on decorating for Christmas.
My mother is sleeping.
That is not conducive to “Tell me where all this crap goes so we have a place to put our tree”.
Maybe I’ll just put it up now that she’s asleep…
Homework
Today is a magical day where I have no homework.
But I have no idea what to do.
I think I’ll decorate my house, get my arms all scratched up from arranging the Presto-Pine (My family has allergies. We would love a real tree. But we’re allergic to mold. And we like to be able to breath around the holidays.), gorge on candy and maybe play Risk. (I’ve only played once, but I...
Trust
I don’t get it.
Why is it people trust me with some things that are really big, but I can’t seem to trust other people with the littlest things?
I wish I could understand my mind. I haven’t met anyone that seems to be able to come close, and if I can’t understand myself I can only see bad things happening.
Two Things
1. My band (school band. It’s hard to rock out when you play the french horn.) can’t sight read for beans. We massacred a Beatles arrangement, which is really pathetic because we’ve definitely heard MOST of the songs in there. BUT, the horn part is pretty awesome, so I’m hoping we’re better tomorrow.
2. I freaking love pirated media. I just watched an illegal copy of...
Whoo!
I think I have finally defeated the gigantic beast that is the code monster.
I might tweak it some more, but for the most part I think I am DONE.
I hate code.
WatchDr. Horrible is my favorite villian.
Code
Coding makes my head hurt.
Bear with me as I make this page work.
SHARE
Today I realized something really, really important.
If you’re having trouble with something, odds are someone else you know is having trouble with it, too. The same goes for fears in general. Or even pet peeves. (I can’t stand having people behind me when I’m typing or if I’m handwriting.)
So sharing is caring, by sharing we don’t feel like we’re so weird!
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Dreams again.
falconry:
i have big dreams. i have big ideas. i have big thoughts. i have a big heart. i have aspirations that i refuse to let pass me by. i will not accept failure in achieving these dreams. i don’t care if they build a wall and barbed wire fence. first, i’ll ask nicely for the key. and if still i fail, then i’ll climb that fucker and cast aside my ruined clothes and won’t give a shit about the...
Blagojevich
The Illinois governorship has done it again!
Another governor headed to jail for corruption!
I heard he’s the fourth or fifth one now.
Remind me to never get into Illinois politics.
Amazing.
Today I have been amazed at how many people I amaze.
In Social Studies I knew the major details of the Dred Scot Case, that Uncle Tom’s Cabin is only a second bestseller to the Bible and that Harry Potter was originally published in 1997.
People tell me that they’re amazed by the random facts that stay in my head, the variety of rashes I have and the fact that I’ve pretty much...
Dreams
Have you ever had a problem where no matter what idea you come up with, someone has to kill it?
I seem to be having this problem more and more lately.
See, I’m in high school. Y’know, that ugly building you get locked into for 8 hours a day, five days a week, with a bunch of other people determined to conform to every trend out there? And then there are those TEACHERS, that are set...
An Overview
This is the daily adventures of Fish Lady.
Who is Fish Lady? That girl that doesn’t quite fit in. She’s got all this stuff, but she doesn’t know what to do with it all.
Why Fish Lady? Well, I once saw a statue of a man with a fish. He was all “WTF do I do with this fish?” He spoke to me on a deeper level, though. In a way, we all are clueless in some area of our...