Geneology

E brought up the subject, and it's been following me around. I was rather interested before, but the thing is the adults are interested, they know more than me, and they have the resources. there's not much i can do- my dad is going to interview my grandmother sometime

i'm not sure why i'm interested- the stories are cool, i guess, but i like the researching part. and i make family trees for random book and people, like Henry IV's relatives for the French project. i should get back to that, mebe, but i dont really have time. i think i started to archive the stuff in my dad's scrapbook- should find that. or fix his scrapbook entirely, its about to disinigrate.

also, my paternal grandfather's sister is visiting, and my dad got out slides. some were cool. there are a few of my grandmother holding a piece of paper in front of her face- and it made me grin, because it's so much like me. now we have a digital camera, so my brother has turned paparazi, but maybe i'll be able to use it sometime.

I have had nothing to say on Blogger. Neither has anyone else, apparently.



:edit: so now people are updating. but i'm still blanking on what to say.

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town

got up real late (10ish) decided not to crash my sister's softball practice, which was a good thing, because it can canceled. went online for a while, climbed trees (stop and smell the pine needles, or you'll break your toenails) then went to the library. read manga for a little bit (strange) then went to Orient with Katie and Towanda. spent five minutes reading the menu before we even went in... talked about me being a vampire (hair strategically positioned) and such... Russian wrappers say crab, "I wish i could read the table" and human lamb. tried to go to the bookstore, but it was closed "tomorrow" but "they can't close the green, dear" so off we went. walked the fence, wandered around ("stay off the grass" and "the rope is there for a reason") and there was some flipflop switching... all in all much fun.

Moleskine

it's sunny and windy- quite windy. however, too warm to wear my coat anymore, which makes me feel strange. it became an extension of me... five big pockets, very useful. and now that my wallet has wandered off, i'm always misplacing small things, like pennies, scrunchies, and pencil sharpeners.

on the other hand, i am now the proud owner of a moleskine. it is sitting on top of my books, next to my tea, next to this ViewSonic (strange name, that) at the Howe. i have needed a little notebok for a while... i type most quotes and things onto stickies, then onto a blog i use specifically for notes, but i cant bring that with me. thus, a little smooth notebook. it does not fit in my pockets- altho it would have fit in my coat- but it is nice. it is "the legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, Chatwin." must look up Chatwin...

Chatwin: apparently the greatest novelist since Hemingway. Also, had revelation: moleskine=wallet. does not hold coins, or complete pencil sharpeners, but almost anything else.

i wanted to do O.C. icons, but that one i object to, a bit. Rachel Bilson- why start rumors?

icons

steep inclines, elections

well yesterday was awesome fun, altho it did mean abandoning a bit of hw... was still living in election-world at the beginning, what with all the new posters and such. i should have worked on my poster some more, but i did delete some potentially horrendous parts, courtesy of Woosle (much thanks.)
then classes and all, come home and wait for katie a while. my dad has stolen the tv for the news, so my mom tells us to go for a walk. turns out we fall down a rabbit hole by the river, find a wooden box, and have a devil of a time climbing back up- it was almos 90 degrees. makes you appreciate the trees even more... we saw her french teacher and a crossroads bumber sticker. more hills, and many lakes. you know the big hill on the golf course? well, try rolling down that sometime... also saw a springer and several "press for help" buttons.
came back and watched the lion king because nothing was on tv (my dad kicked us off before the O.C. started.) and then email teachers a thousand time to make sure she can come to school- except she cant. and its all crazy and i forget my i-search stuff and my speech, which i rewrite in homeroom.
feel absolutely crazed going to the auditorium (wired on espresso beans!) and end up going first, which is good, because we all end up saying the same thing, and it gets old fast. i spoke too fast, and it didnt go that well, but i got it over with. and at least ryan didnt beat me. that would have been strange... who knows. its probably a good idea i didnt get on, i'll have more than enough work next year. it was still odd tho- i didnt really care until today, and then it just- ended.

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Happy Birthday Katie!

Tuesday, that is. is it tuesday yet?

General To-Do List

1. Mathcounts
-do the effing practice tests
-do them without throwing anything
-learn to like them? *snorts*
2. softball
-figure out the upside-down changeup
-learn to pitch in the cold
-learn to like the outfield
3. I-Search
-verify/do interviews
-define topic
-spend time working instead of worrying
4. input
-buy espresso beans
-convince parents to buy caffeinated coffee
-remind parents to buy chai tea
-freeze lemon juice
5. room
-clean room
-organize fire hazard- i mean, paper storage system
-finish sanding walls
-paint walls

caffeine placebo

it was only chai tea, and it doesnt usually make me hyper. so why do i argue with everything they blather in sunday school? it just itches me. it really bugs me. i like argueing at them, sometimes, because i think i know as much as they do, in a way. not that they'll change their minds, but still. It's a little weird: i'm annoyed that they're trying to doctrinate us, but the fact that i'm allowed to argue means we're not being compeletely doctrinated. but i think they're getting tired of me. ok, i didnt raise my hand all the time, but we were pretty much having a conversation.

I really dont believe that reconciliation is at all necessary. they say if you commit a mortal sin and dont get forgiveness from a priest, you get eternal death. (we're assuming eternal death is a bad thing in this rant.) even if you're sincerely sorry, and not a Catholic. However, only Catholics get sacrimental grace (egocentric!) and mortal sin takes that away. so if you never had to to begin with, what's the big deal? non-Catholics dont sin anymore than Catholics (probably) but just because they dont use Confession, they'd get eternal death? k, the teacher thinks mortal sin is impossible. that's not what their precious book says. (I know i'm irrational, but some of this has to have some truth to it.) If reconciliation is a gift from God, that not everyone can even get, you shouldnt have to accept it. if God forgive us, no matter what, why do we need to go to a priest? stupid Church doctrine. not that we didnt know that, but... rrrrr.

Cages Within Cages

i did absolutely no hw today, but there wasnt much i should be doing,except I-search notes? science portfolio? nothing really. amazing. that never, ever happens. i slept in, had batting practice at HHS in the batting cage. The new helmets themselves are like cages tho. A girl got hit in the face at JV level last year, and it pushed through a rule where the helmets have to have masks... you can sort of see, but they fall forward, so i was propping the mask part up on my elbow when i was batting. not exactly helping...
then i went to the library and realize three of the books i'd found in the past week were ones Mr. G. had recommended. but i only like Pretties, which was ok. the rest are weird in an uninteresting way. ah well. i was able to read without thinking i should be looking for a reading journal.
and that's pretty much all that happened today. except a mathcounts test, which i got more than last time. but i'm still getting less than half right, and they always leave me... shaken? not sure of the world. i need to change how i think about them, but i can't. I would make sure my brother never does mathcounts, but he wouldnt even consider it ever, and he might actually be the sort of person who could deal with it if he did. it's weird...