Sometimes You Will Drop Something, Be Stung By A Bee, Or Be Distracted In Some Other Way

Holy cow, guess what I just did for an hour? I took a nap! I was reading the Hot Zone, which is pretty good, and I was getting really tired, so I just decided to close my eyes for a little while, nothing wrong with that, and the next thing I knew it was five thirty. Lucky me, I now have big puffy red eyes and a sleep deprived mind that is still begging me not to wake up.

I keep on trying to psyche myself into doing a workout for Fitness for Life, and it's just not working. I can barely keep my eyes open while I'm typing this. I know that falling asleep on the elliptical is one experience I don't want to have to go through.

Shifting gears now, ooh I'm going to have to remember to use that next time I talk about cars. Anyway, shifting gears, I watched Catch Me If You Can the other day. That is a really good movie. I find that often the best movies are the ones without gore or horrible things happening, but the psycological ones that you just get trapped inside of. If you haven't seen the movie, it's based on a true story about Frank Abagnale, a teenager who fakes checks and manages to get about 1.3 million dollars out of the bank system before he's caught. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks are the main characters in this movie. Sorry Kati, but I do not think Leonardo DiCaprio is cute at all. In Catch Me If You Can he plays a sixteen year old kid, and he actually looks sixteen which, to me at least, is a little bit freaky.

I really like that movie, but, as you've probably noticed, I have a thing for criminals.

My brother has strep throat and he woke me up last night at 3 in the morning because he was... to put this sweetly, "sick to his stomach." I'm just hoping I don't get it now, because the only thing I hate more than being sick is missing school because of the sickness. I don't know why, but it drives me crazy when I miss school. Right now, school is pretty much my purpose in life, and without it I get really bored really easily.

Okay I know I keep saying I'm going to upload the videos of my kitty, but I just don't really feel like it and therefore I probably won't do it for a little while. Those videos will appear eventually, but not in the near future, at least from what I can tell. I've been too busy with other things like schoolwork and converting VHS to DVD to think about doing anything else.

The VHS -DVD converter we got which I told you about yesterday finally worked last night at about 9:30. We were able to successfully save a video on to my computer, but now we are unable to watch it again. I'm going to have to keep looking at it to see if I can figure out what to do. It says that the correct Codec is not installed, so if anyone reading this knows what a codec is, feel free to leave a comment.

If anyone were to watch me type right now they would see a direct correlation between sleepiness and brain activity because my fingers are having a really hard time hitting the right keys. I can't tell you how many words I've got the letters mixed up in this little entry. Okay, I'll try to tell you. How about we settle on "A lot."

I'm really tired...


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How Did You Cheat On The Bar Exam?

I wanted to start this off by saying how proud I am (for the first time in a long time) to live in America. How cool is it that I got to live during the inaguration of our first black president? I just think it's pretty darn cool. Apparantly someone asked President Kennedy when he thought we would have a black president and he said "40 years." Obama was elected 40 years after that. That's pretty creepy if you ask me.

Oh, and the next person to mention the end of the world gets a slap upside the head unless they can give me a legitimate reason.

In spirit of the inaguration I was going to upload some videos of my cat and her campaign to become president. I'm not really sure how that started in my family, but we call her president Peter now and we imagine the kind of laws she'll enact as President of the United States of America. Or rather, the United States of Peter which she will undoubtedly change the name too. The trick with her is that she's too darn cute to get mad at, so she'll become a dictator in no time at all. There is nothing we can do to stop her! Her fluffy little paws are too powerful!

In other news, I'm very excited about this new device called "Dazzle" that my parents bought for me and my brother. We are making a very exciting, full length movie whose title I'm not going to give out because it's just too cool. The only problem with making said movie is that we have this really old video camera that records onto VHSC tapes. This dazzle thing is a little boxish shaped object that hooks into your computer and into your video camera (regardless of whether or not it has firewire) and then transfers whatever is on those tapes onto your computer, or even directly onto a DVD. This is really exciting because we'll be able to put our movies onto a computer to edit them with Windows Movie Maker. Oh and the best part? It's originally $90 and we went to Office Depot to find one and it was that price, but then we realized that Circuit City is going out of business and so we headed over there. We got it for $45!!! That's like half off, and we got a whole bunch of blank DVDs and it ended up being only a little over $50. That's the best thing ever, finding things on sale. The only drawback is if it's broken we can't return it because Circuit City now belongs to a liquidator company that doesn't take returns.

There was this lady in there while we were looking for the Dazzle thing, and she was trying to return a broken Guitar Hero controller and they wouldn't let her. That would make me really mad.

I was watching the credits to The Dark Knight and there was one credit that went to some guy, but it was labeled "Fat Thug." I think I would be really bummed if I was on the credits labeled as Fat Thug...

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If You Really Want To Thank Me, Pay For My Med School!

First off, I AM SO HAPPY HEATH LEDGER WON A GOLDEN GLOBE!!! Mr. Nolan's little acceptance speech for him made me cry. It is such a bummer that he died. What really annoys me though, is the way people still refuse to believe his death was an accident just because he played a homosexual and a homocidal manaic. There were like a bazillion independent studies made and they all proved that his death was an accident. COME ON!!!

Mr. T, if you read this, doesn't homo mean "the same" so, what does homocide literally mean? Killing of the same species? I'm not sure, anyway...

I have also decided to make it a point to listen to all of the soundtracks nominated for a golden globe, because that just sounds like something interesting to do that I won't have anyone to talk to about. Because of this lack of a soundtrack loving companion, I will be able to spill my love of classical/soundtrack music all on this blog and I'll actually have something to write about for once. I must say, I was a little sad about Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard not winning an award, but I haven't listened to those particular albums... so I guess I really shouldn't say anything. The Dark Knight should have been nominated though, it's so incredible. It definitely would have won...

Ah, I've reached another wonderful block. A writer's block I suppose. I always forget how much I enjoy writing, but I have a little bit of ADD whenever I do it for more than a sentence, so I kind of stop writing and start thinking to myself instead. It's really annoying because when I finally get on a roll I run out of things to say, so I just end up sitting there wondering when I'm going to start writing again. Most of the time I don't resume the writing for a couple of days.

Mammal is a hard word to spell. I couldn't remember how to spell it earlier, so I kept spelling it mammel. or mammle. or mamle. It's just a difficult word. You know what I discovered though? There is a spell check on this little editing post page! How neat-o is that? That always drove me crazy (not to have a spell check), so I'd write my blog entries in Word, but then when you copy paste them back into the text box the HTML coding would get all messed up and I would be lucky enough to receive bizarre spacing in my paragraphs.

I am almost done with Fitness for Life. Or at least the first term... but thank goodness! I was kind of freaked out at first because we only had seven weeks to finish the term, but thanks to winter break I got most of the work done in a couple of days. It was kind of stupid though because there was this one worksheet where you had to go to a gym. So I make my mom take me to work with her so I can use her company's equipment, and then the little chart you have to use to find your 1RM starts at 30 pounds! I can't lift a thirty pound weight in one arm! I can barely lift it with both my arms and a second person! So that assignment took about 10 times as long as it should have because we had to figure out which resistance machine to use and then find the 1RM. It just took forever.

Oh and uh, thanks for my newfound paranoia of the word "get" Mr. Thompson.


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I'm Outta Here Nancy

Happy birthday to Brendon James Waters! He was born today, seventh period.



Carrying him home from school today pretty much broke my arm however. He was ten pounds four ounces, and I do not enjoy carrying him about. My arm feels like jell-o now, and its kind of freaking me out. I really wish I could find my carrier. This class has convinced me once again not to have children. They are pretty much the worst financial decision you could make. I think I understood the purpose of the baby assignment before it was even given to us.



I went ice skating over winter break, and I'm not very good at it. Whenever I skate my feet are turned inward, like I'm leaning on the blade, so I always get a really bad blister. Also, I never wear high enough socks, so you would think I would figure it out eventually. But no, I just forget every year to wear socks. In any case, I got this horrible blister, and the scab came off the other day. Imagine a stretched out fifty cent piece, and thats about the right size of the blister. Needless to say, it was bleeding pretty bad.



Ha ha, Bailey is on this list!

I'm taking fitness for life online right now, and I have to find a gym so I can go work out, which doesn't really sound like fun. I'm almost done with the first term thank goodness. The only good things that have come out of taking this class are (1) I can breath after running up stairs, this really is a miracle and the only good thing ever to come out of exercise, and (2) it's gotten me prepared to start training to be a superhero.

I've been reading an interesting book called Becoming Batman by this kinesiologist/martial artist and it is very intersting. What is really odd about it though is that everything I read in that book I have previously read or am going to read about it in my fit for life textbook. Basically I couldn't have picked a better time to read this book because every time I wouldn't have understood a question on a test I think about that book and it makes a heck of a lot more sense. It's kind of sad really when a book written by a doctor directed at adults makes more sense than a textbook directed at my age group. I've decided that in some cases more detail is not helpful, but in even more cases it makes it easier to understand.

Okay, that rule isn't true for chemistry and biological processes. Obviously the more simplified it is in those subjects, the easier it is to understand. Sometimes I wonder how I am getting an A in biology because I understood none of Kreb's Cycle, or Calvin's Cycle, or any of the chemical compunds associated with those cycles.

In other news, my dad brought home a Davis Darts "Newspaper" and reading it through once has convinced me that I have to be on that staff, because it was just about the worst paper I've ever read. No offense to the "Reporters" but shame on the editors. I found 4 or 5 errors in every article I read. Not only that, but some of them were just plain stupid articles. I read one that was about how wonderful Christmas music was, and their example was something like, "For instance, angrier music will make people act angry." Ummmmmmm, What!!!?? I'm willing to bet that some of that girls friends listen to "angry music." I listen to angry music, (obviously not what is on my playlist right now) but I am not an angry person. I'm sarcastic, and maybe a little mean from time to time, but I would not consider myself angry. I'm pretty free flowing. Apparently this girl didn't do her research.

The other articles weren't that much better, just for the record.


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