It's all just makebelieve
Sunday, February 29, 2004
keisha, meet johnny
today i was very sad when i realized that i will never see evry movie ever made. this is very tragic, i think, because i will never know everything there is to know about movies because i will never see all of them. even if i had the time to watch zillions of movies, there are lots of movies that arent released on video or dvd, that the studios just keep locked up forever. all those poor movies just sitting there feeling sad because no one watched them.
today i watched the oscars. i felt happy for lotr, but sad for keisha and johhny and that poor guy who didnt get to give his speech. but overall, i think it was good. i hope keishas not to sad. i want to write her a nice letter that says "dear keisha, you are so cute with your little new zeal-ish accent, i wish you had won the oscar. please make more good movies. love, caitlin"now i just need to find her address. im also sad for johnny but hes old and jaded so im sure hes not nearly so upset(im not so sure about poor bill, though)
also, an exciting thing during the oscars :JUST A FREIND! alison and i died of happiness
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odile was wondering if the boys noticed her breasts moving beneath her sweater
man, i hate leap days. why do they even exist?(ok, i know why. but still). i dont think most people think about how weird the concept of just adding an extra day is, but its very weird. and why do they have to add it to february? everyone know thats the worst month. at leats it feels like spring today. every year i forget how much i love spring, and then i remember when it starts getting nice and the birds chirp, and i think "ah, spring really is nice." then im happy.
also, my new goal in life is to learn the madison. i will have to study.
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Saturday, February 28, 2004
my corpus callosum is bigger than yours!
oh, yesterday was good. i got to miss chorus and go see a spider ambush on the quad. oh hooray. i felt distinctly suits-and-sunglasses-y despite the fact that i had neither suits nor sunglasses. i was a bit dissapointed at the lack of mind-melding, though.
then, it was party time with ayesha, who pretends to not be competitive, but enjoys nothing more than seeing the shock of losing on someones face. also: creepy old men.
today, i drove with ken all the way out to kickapoo, which, for those of you that dont know, requires lots and lots of highway driving. AND, it was a stick shift. so i feel very proud. i did not crash his car. good for me. then we ran six hilly miles, but i was escorted by two very cute dogs, so it was all good.
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Thursday, February 26, 2004
a flightless bird...
or a bird that does not need altitude to know flight
today at lunch i went to go see speed. he was amazing. i have no words to describe him. he was really cool. i want to go see him on the quad tomorrow, so i wrote a very nice email to mrs majerus asking her if she could get me out of 5th period. i hope it works, but i think mr murphy will be mad if i do- he thinks that i dont care about his class. oh well. speed called one of my dualities beautiful. that made me really proud. and i liked his nails.
ayesha is living with us now. yay. shes making me work, but even thiugh we started our work around 5:00, i still havent done most of my homework. possibly just because i have lots of work tonight
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
"unadulturated sunshine"
id just like to say how much im enjoying the scarlet letter: a lot. usually, 19th century books annoy me because they have those looooooong sentences that are so long, by the time you get to the end you have forgotten what the author was talking about at the begining. i hate that. but hawthorne somehow writes in this very nice style- its quite obviously 19th century, but its readable, and hes funny! i love the gossips, and how the mean one is really ugly and the nice one is young and pretty. thats so amusing. and its just a good story in general. at least, the first 4 chapters are. i hope the rest of the book is as good.
also, on a completely unrelated topic: happy birthday to paulie, who is left handed.
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enjoy the humor of the situation
aah, doing my math homework at home sure was nice. i did it again today. i german class herr w broke up with us- we think hes a shamed of us. tsk tsk. at dinner tonight we laughed at scatalogical humor. it was great. eli said "butt-hole", and mom thought he said "trouble", then she thought that he said "asshole", but we were using "bubble" as a euphomism for that. oh mom, you are so funny.
alison and i also made a list of songs to download, then we(actually, she) downloaded them. they all remind us of 5th or 6th grade, so were feeling very "nostalgic"(haha, instant nostalgia, anyone?). oh, what good song all star is. and such memories. and you gotta be! i remember that song so well, but i didnt remember how i rememberd them until alison pointed it out to me.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
your smile can save our movie and the world
oh, im listening to sell sell sell, and how i love it. it is truly a great song- of all of alisons expansions, this is my favorite. i love the lyric "how well you learn to not discern... ". thats such a good rhyme. and i love how they have some line that ends in "gratuitous seeeeex" that doesnt rhyme with anything at all. its just so smart, and you know how much i love story-songs, and stories about hollywood. and its so prophetic- theres another line that talks about how " the new iraq gets more irate" it rhymes "chance he" with "roman polanski"! its really really good. ah, this weekend im doing serious cd burning- there are so many cds i want- james taylor, the royal tennenbaums, louis armstrong, etc. and of course, sell sell sell, but i dont know what ill do with it- i dont really want the rest of the cd. maybe ill make some sort of "really good mix songs" cd, but i dont know what else id put on it... hmm, thats thinking for me. anyway, right now, im enjoying it and jumping up every five minutes to replay the song(i need to figure out how to make it just repeat one song over and over)
also, on another not: i have finished my math homework before lunch time for the first time possibly all year.
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love vs. hate
last night my cat slept on me, which was really nice, because usually she sleeps on the cornor of my bed, or my chair, but last night she slept on my arm, which was snuggly, but also a little uncomfortable because i couldnt move. but it was worth it.
after school when i went to dads office, i got started straight on my math, and i felt so smart! i could do the problems, and i did them carefully, and i just felt so proud of myself! i should do that more often(ayesha, when you live with me, you are going to make me work hard, yes?). it was nice. unfourtunatly, working well does not mean working quickly, so i still have about half left. but im in such a smart mood, that maybe it will be fun.
in math class today, i was bored so i started drawing scales on my hand, which was sorta cool looking, but then i wrote "love" and "hate" on my fingers, and that clashed with the scales, so i washed the scales off during german class. then i felt very cool for the rest of the day with my love and hate hands.
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Monday, February 23, 2004
more about weird internet stuff
in my haste to write about the weird webpage id found, i didnt get a chance to dig around and find out what was going on. turns out, its part of the "establishment", which is :"a role playing game which takes place in and around an underground, international organization devoted to bdsm culture. The characters are for the most part celebrities." thats what it said on their web site. im so amused by this. anyway, thats the explination for the weirdness
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oh what things you can find on the internet...
i was searching on google for a transcript of what gael garcia bernal said at the oscars last year, because it was nice and i wanted to show it to alison. instead, i seem to have stumbled across a fanfiction LJ written by "gael", mostly about his "love affair" with diego. its very bizzare. and in the comments are all these other "celebrities", like orlando bloom, etc, only theyve been gay-ified. ok, some of them actually are gay in real life(rufus), but its just so fanfiction-y that its hilarious. these people have very vivid imaginations. here it is: http://www.journalfen.net/users/gael/
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some things i forgot to say: i choose gael as my freind any day, and also: who else hates the stupid editor of seventeen?
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dont be a [square]
"generic greeting!"
ug. i hate school and certain people at school who annoy me. but i was also happy to see freinds who had been away at habitat-hearing about how cool it was just makes me want to go more. we also sang the most ridiculous song today in chorous- basically the decleration of human rights set to music, but not even really music, more like monotone notes. god, and mr murphy kept on sticking up for it. just give up eventually, wont you?
i was reading fox trot, and i really like how when their eyes get big, it looks like they havent got noses.i also like how "self-aware" it is. thats a term i picked up from roger ebert that he uses about movies, but it also works for fox trot.i think my favorites of everything are self aware. self aware is a good way to be.
im also mourning the lack of louise in my life. waaa.
"im unaffiliated"
i was dissapointed today in history when we hardley talked about the chicago worlds fair at all. something really intresting, and he barely even mentioned it. i was so dissapointed. youd think that city planing wouldnt be very intresting, but it really is.
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Sunday, February 22, 2004
joining the ranks
im in a perpetual state of confusion because after a week of agora days, im not sure what homework i have. for some reason i have a lurking feeling that i have a paper due tommorrow, but no one seems to remember this but me. oh well.
ive been having this fantasy where i sudennly have straight black hair, and then i get a louise brooks hair cut. wouldnt that be awesome? unfourtunatly, i think the only way i could ever do that would be with a wig. :-( im such a fan of that hair.
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big has a name! big has a name!
well, good day, tho i can lready feel myself returning to my old regular school mode. oh, how tiring. but, also, today i saw KCH at the sag awards, and i was so happy. she looked so cute.oh, yay for her. , then, i watched the last episode of sex and the city. im sad, but happy because everything worked out just how i wanted it to. exactly. and charlottes getting a baby!!!!!! i cried.
also, i got a good story. here it is:
mom and dad went out to dinner, so i was making us dumplings from a package of frozen dumpling. and i was boiling the oil, and then i put a dumpling in. and the whole pan burt into flames. and i mean, BIG flames, like a comic book column of flames. im not exagerating. then in a few seconds in just went out, but there was enough time for me and alison to start screaming. anyway, it didnt leave any scorch marks.
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Saturday, February 21, 2004
there are three types of girls...
... those with one type of expression, those with two types, and those with three.
aah, how much i love days when i have nothing to do. i watched a bunch of junky tv in the morning, but then i felt bad because i had to write it all down for the ratings- thingy. so i watched my life to live. o, i do mot have enough words to say how much i really really liked it. it was so excellent. i must go out and see all the movies godard ever made( he directed 88. hmmm, im sure that some of those dont really count.) ooh, but im so enveloped in excellent film making. i feel like ewie in trainspoting, but instead of carpet i have fallen into amazing movies, and im just going on doing normal stuff, but all i see is films.
i realized that tommorrow sex and the city ends. i am going to cry, i know i am. oh, so sad. what i want to happen: miranda gets happy with carrie, charlotte gets a baby by any means, samantha doesnt die and is still in a good relationship with smith, and carrie ends up with big. yes, i liked alexander, but i think big is the one for her. i know this leaves everyone in a relationship, so im sure that carrie will end up single, but thats just not how i want it. if carrie doesnt realize that she how she MUST end up with big, then i will be very upset with her.
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zowie
today was a day of mixed feelings. agora days ended. sad. i couldnt go see pulp fiction at the art. sad. i got good movies from rentertainment. happy. ok, this list is getting boring
i went to go see capacitor, this weird interprative dance thing. some of it was really pretentious and dumb, but other parts were cool. i saw cordelia afterwards and then learned about someone who doesnt like me. im so traumatized. it was just "feel sorry for me" night from then on. i went to steak and shake with kinzie and alison, and learned that not only have i not "grown up",but im also "the loud one". then i spilled coffee on my shirt. im not going to go into exactly what stupid things i did, but suffice to say that they were stupid and i am pitiful.
but good things: i quoted lots of movies( even tho no one heard me), and i decorated myself with moles. lets just say that the cindy crawford look is not for me.
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Thursday, February 19, 2004
california dreamin...
oh, good day, good day. i spent a half an hour at thats rentertainmant, and oh, what fun[it is to ride...]. i finally decided on belle de jour(good, good, good, fianlly i can appreciate blogs and not be a heathen to roger ebert) and chungking express( good good good, even though i had so much trouble telling all the charecters apart that i didnt realize that it switched story lines.but, good music and such, very nice. oh, i have such good taste. and, QT!!!!!)
i finished my scarf. it is hideous. i think its to short and fat, and its just generally not the most attractive thing ever. but-I MADE IT!!! good for me, im insanley proud of it and will wear it to school tommorrow, anyway( unless tommorrow magically turns into summer and is 60 degress out. oh, cross your fingers). hopefully, my muff will be beautiful.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
im "inspirationally dissatisfied"
oh, the joys of agora days. i discovered today that i really like earl grey, but that darjeeling and oolong are really icky. i was also enangered with herr w, when he was being an idiot about marilyn-it's stupid people like him who ruined her life. she just wanted to be respected and be considered a serious actress, and here he's going, saying she was just a dumb blonde with big breasts, and he hasn't even seen any of her movies! mr rayb was better, but im still upset with him. grrrrrrr. dont you hate it when the really good arguments only come to you after you've gone away? yup. stairwell arguments. i had several today.
also: gates of heaven. oooh. how i love the feuding brothers and evil rendering man. aaah, such intresting people we have! one more movie off the list...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
oh, bradley!
yesterday:
celebrated QT on alias and had a good cry over marilyn.
today:
had fun with gender, drank tea, had speaking problems, learned about hot nerds, celebrated my old age at thats rentertainment, had the urge to pack up and fly to novia scotia, rejoiced over three magazines all on the same day, discussed the movie cliche of getting your name chipped off a door, and noted diffrences in rain levels.
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Sunday, February 15, 2004
whats another one? solara!
for some reason, im really afraid that someone will ask me a question in my marilyn class that i have no idea what the awnser is. then i will feel stupid. im sorry marilyn! tommorrow ins a fun day of watching marilyn movies and possibly some other stuff, but also a day of doing my math homework. ick.
my new favorite commercial: the toyota one. you must see it.
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Saturday, February 14, 2004
ever been bit by a dead bee?
oh, i feel like im on a really long vacation even though its just three days. but three good days, you must admit. today, i watched giant, and fell re- in love with james dean. oh, jimmy, how you are the most wonderful person ever. no james franco could ever replace you. then i watched swimming pool and had fun with alison and ludvine, but i was upset when it got all mullholland drive-y. but still good. then, best of all, i went to go see to have and have not at the virginia with my dad and eli. ooh. how great are luaren bacall and humphrey bogart? infinatly great. i love them so much. lauren bacall is just amazing. and she was only four years older than me. wow.(jowly woooow).
now i bet you think that i just watched movies all day. thats only mostly right. i also finished david ives, and then started fear and lothing in las vegas. just the perfect way to spend a saturday when i have nothing to do. oh yay
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Friday, February 13, 2004
ode to happiness
things which are happy:
the wonders of modern medicine. suits and sunglasses, mafisio, lindenbergh baby and thirty year old czars. rosa and sammy. chris cooper. marilyn. book reading time. comfy chairs. sons of preacher men. movies which are every bit as good as you hope they will be. lime diet coke. poo-shups. loving the old guy. beds which contain entire offices. 90 minute takes. english tests. independent studies. hot chocolate. gender studies. walks to kenney. writing spontainously. eavsdropping. singing in bus stops. good phone calls. my favorite cd. teenager-y feelings. eugene mirman. when animated people are even better than real life ones. daddy daughter date nights. tomasina. agora week plan. sister time. the almost spring-ness. me and ayeshas german idea. food food food. kittys who are cute. discovering new movies. film festivals. big screens. summer. ewie when i graduate. sharkbate oo-haha. maws of uncertaintity. hoity toity books. the seminary book store. tiny rooms with warm light. space heaters. internal rhymes. starting the scarlett letter after agora week. almost finishing my scarf. cd case. hopes for a double indemnity dvd. mr brown. ewan. verbal valentines. spring break. freinds. understanding honeybunny. IFC. big screen for marilyn. bye bye baby. (bell). ezekiel 24:17. do yuo know how to whistle? stones which are little soilders. books just waiting for you to read them. my hat. fara. having more time than i thought. getting mail. running out of time. wearing your kidney on your sleeve. people who recognize bad arguments. "dschungle". paulie. wondefully pitiful things. the white album. having people understand my references. songs with no words. the elevator. playing card. mcsweenys. remembering my doll house.
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i love marilyn
oh, today is a very very good day, even though it is friday the 13th. oh, so so good. everything worked out wonderfully and all the pressures gone and i get to relax and then have agora days! i went to go see triplets of belleville with alison. it was every bit as good as i had hooped. i esp loved the boat and the mafisio and the dog, who is a fat gracie. and the song. and the glenn gould. and the josephine baker. oh, i just liked all of it.
i am also hoping that me and dad can have a valentines day outing to go see to have and have not, if only we can get rid of eli... im plotting.
also; i need to watch niagra, so i can teach it in my class, yo. yea! yummy thoughts surround the movie. im so excited. but, im sad that my mascot is too big to go to school. shell be there in spirit, im sure.
oh, im just in a really good mood, i guess. i feel crafty and creative and cool and RELIEVED. yay!!! oh, good times will be had by all, im sure.
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Thursday, February 12, 2004
layola
im feeling sad because i have too much homework and a dialouge due tommorrow, and my week is not yet over, but happy because tommorrow is triplets of belville and the the weekend, and then agora week, and also because babys are adorable and because i finally know the origin of the phrase "poo-shups".
i also disocverd that my entire german vocabluary is limited to "du bist so suss, du bist so klein." extensive, huh?
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
o, the mysteries of the blog...
today has been not typical. i learned that my most unique quality is that im well read. then, instead of going home and getting on the computor, i read my david ives(it came in only 2 days! wow!) and then a college book i checked out from the crc. coincedence? yes. also, im not listening to music, and havent all evening. weird. and, im mourining the loss of the best game ever invented-crystal quest. oh, what a good game. i wish i had it.
dont you hate it when people are vauge in blogs and wont explain themselves?
the end
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004
mr sutton, super hero
i am really maddened because of a letter to the editor that i saw today. it was complaing about soem writer who compared columbus to hitler. it said that columbus was a "fine christian with good christian morals" who would never commit genocide, and that hitler was "a man who hated christians". first of all: HELLO! do a little bit of basic reaserch and you will discover that columbus killed or had thousands and thousands of people killed in south america. just because he's a "hero" doesn't mean that you can just ignore this kind of stuff. i mean, what this guy said was just plain wrong!if he wants to go off bending the facts, fine, i can yell at him for that, but if he doesnt take the time to reaserch what hes saying to make sure that its actually true, as opposed to just stuff he belives from way back in grade school, he shouldnt get to be published in the news gazette. the letters publishe in there should be well thought out, well reaserched ones, not something that this guys just throws down without bothering to see if its actually RIGHT! also. i hate it when people think that because someone is a "fine, upstanding christian", this makes him someone who could never harm a fly. have you ever heard of the crusades????? people going out and massacreing thousands of people in the name of christiantiy! dont these people take any history classes??? obviously not. i think a lot of the worlds problems could be solved if people only had decent histroy classes. also, i hate the way he describes hitler as a man who "hated christians", as if that automatically makes him the most evil person ever. now, im not debating that he is the most evil person ever, but there are much better arguments you can use...
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Monday, February 09, 2004
im so-o-o tired...
my computor is going crazy and twitching. i dont know whats wrong with it, but i hope that its just thinking in there...
i sent a very heavily thought over email to ms ridenour asking to do stage crew for the play. i hate sending emails to teachers, esp when theyre teachers that i dont like, but i hope that this one was good. and i hope that i get to do crew. i dont think that shakespeare has to much for crew to do, so thats why im asking early( or at least, i hope this is early. i hope tyhat she hasnt had crew for this play picked out since the begining of the year.)- so that i can be first on the list.
also: last night, i discovered my new favorite writer (well, definatly up there): david ives! my god, he is amazing, i want to go out and buy everything that hes ever written. im planning on buying something he wrote from amazon.com- i have a gift certificate there. oh boy! im insanley excited. you have no idea how much i love him( or maybe you do...), but hes really really genius-ical.
ooh, and henry finally told me the dirty joke that he started last week before mr rayb made him stop. my rayb was right- it was very immature boy-ish. but i still enjoyed it.
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Sunday, February 08, 2004
i want to put my pants on two legs at a time.
i ran a measly little 3 miles today, when i was supposed to go 6. sad for me. but i got new shoes and am blaming my running problems on the old ones.
only 2 episodes of sex and the city. i am hoping that this is not enough time for samantha to die, but unfortunatly, its probably also not enought time for carrie to get back with big. oh well. i like alexander, too.
i am feeling sad and sleepy. i took and afternoon nap, and im hoping that this counts as "sick" so that i dont have to go to school tommorrow. cross your fingers.
also, i am in heaven because my dad bought heath klondike bars and cherry garcia ice-u cream-u and yummy soda, so i am in heaven. i had all three. do you ever eat an abnormally large amount? yes.
oooh, and today i saw the most gorgeous car- the new thunderbird. AHHHH. who else loves big grills? me! it was so beautiful, but im told that it actually kinda sucks. thats so sad when that happens.
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Cahloo Cahlay
Oh, what a movie-ful day yesterday was. those kind of days make me very happy. first, i went to go see lost in translation with ayesha, and we drank gallons of soda and talked really loudly. good movie. then, we went to gsa movie night, which wasn't as much fun, but good movies. ahhh, ewie. we watched velvet goldmine, while jack gave a running commentary("this isn't really part of the movie", "uhoh, bit of a parental advisory scene coming up", "ooh, this is my favorite scene". well, that was help ful. why dont we watch and find out together.). it was a good movie, tho. also: priscilla! yay. i can already tell, tho, that today is going to be much less movie-ful. thats sad.
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Friday, February 06, 2004
"six to eight black men"
yay! short day. went over to dan hedins house and watched donnie darko with lots of cool people. also watched herbew hammer, and i am newly in love with comedy central. i must wacth it so that i can see the movie in its entierty.
alison and i came home an hour and a half late, and then mom gave us a lecture and siad that she would have to keep us on a "shorter leash" if we did something like that again. as if we have a "long leash" at the moment...i also made a stupid comment to her about how i didnt think that YA novelists actually remembered what it was like to be in high school, which, of course, she took great offense to. i should have known better.
i also listened to david sedaris and rediscoverd for the zillionth time why i love him so much.
and, finally, i registerd for the SATs and ACTs. finally. good for me.
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Thursday, February 05, 2004
what rhymes with "desired"?
i finally finished my junior questionare,and now im trying desperatly to finish the last 4 lines of my sonnet, but they hate me and wont come out. part of it, i think, is that im getting irrational fears about stupid stuff that no normal person would worry about, and if they did even think about it, they wouldn't be worried. thats just me being dumb, i guess. i get in these moods sometimes where everything just seems to be a huge problem, a matter of life or death, or at least something almost as importent, but its really not, it's just me being irrational and worrying. anyway, i cant concentrate, but hopefully my feeling will go away soon, and then i can write my last 4 lines.
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at least tommorrow is short
i thought today was friday and then i was sad all day because it wasnt. also: i embarrased myself several times in english today. you know those days when everything you say comes out sounding somehow snottier( or something to that effect) than you ment it? that happened to me. several times. my mouth and brain just dont connect. luckily, i dont really care about most of the people in my english class, so hopefully i wont haunt myself for too long over this.
i also have a whole sonnet to write tonight. it will be terrible and i will be up very late. wish me luck.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004
my whole day-week, actually- is ruined because i just found out that triplets of bellville isnt coming to the art untill the 13th. it was going to be the highlight of my week, i was looking forward to it so much, and now i have to wait another week. im not sure why this movie means so much to me, maybe its because ive had such a long week, but this change has totally crushed me. i went from really happy and excited about the weekend, to very sad, even though my weekend will still be movie-packed. i guess triplets was just special.
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my family talks about weird things, part two
today at dinner my mom was talking on the phone with her brother about politics, which is a hopeless battle. tehn eli started throwing random LOTR trivia at me and alison, and alison started throwing random marilyn trivia at him. god, what a weird family we have (and who says that you are the exception, huh alison?)
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"describe what marcellus wallace looks like..."
i swear, pat brady is stalking me. its a little unnerving.
today: me and alison got off the bus a block after we were supposed to, so we had tp walk past dr howard. i wanted to cut across it, but alison objected ("isnt that illegal?"). but we got to remenisce about our cute days in dr howard.
stupid barbie site still isnt working. alison thinks im stupid, im sure, for making such a big deal about that site, but she just doesnt realize how great it is...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
3 days and counting
some things i want to say to procrastonate even more:
1) i think i just heard the redberrys song mention "freedom fries". go figure
2) i am impressed at mark for using the word tintinabulation, but also mad at him for stealing it from me before i got a chance for its big debut.
3)my cat is just the cutest little thing i have ever seen, and i love her so much for being just a little person
4)i forgot to listen at dinner to alison
5)i am obviously stealing from alison
6) i just saw janet jacksons boob. must say, i am unimpressed by floppiness and jewelry. whats the big deal, exactly? those brits are much more sensible than us.
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too much
im feeling overwhelemed with homework and planning spring break and such. i swear, this is the 4th time my mom has told me "we need to talk about what colleges you want to visit over spring break", and every time i give her the same answer, but i dont think shes listening to me. also, i have this whole list of things i need to remember to do, like: 1) register for sat, 2)register for act, 3)buy passes to ebertfest, 4)apply to uchicago summer program, and some other stuff that i forget but should obviously be remembering because it's importent and the clocks are ticking...
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Monday, February 02, 2004
my family talks about weird things...
so, at dinner, we were discussing giving books to fara, for each year, like "this book is for you when you're 3", "this book is for you when youre 7", etc. so, eli says, "when shes 10, we should get her eragorn", which is a book he read recently. then, he said, "well, that may be a little too hard for her when shes ten. after all, not every one is 5 years ahead of their reading level." my god! i cracked up laughing at first, it is pretty fun, but someone needs to talk to that boy about such a thing as modesty, and also how test scores like that work, i dont think he understands that his grade reading level is not the reading level that most people in his class read at, or most people he knows for that matter.
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i could have a world record in 40 years...
today in math class i hiccuped for 40 minutes. how humiliating, with no sympathy from my sister!i think im somehow predisposed to hiccups, i seem to get them more than anyone i know. anyway, as i always do when i hiccup for more than ten minutes, i started to have nightmares about how i would hiccup forever, and my life would be ruined becasue i would always be hiccuping. i couldnt go to movies, they would kick me out for being a disturbance. and i would have no freinds... id just be alone my whole life! luckily, they stopped.
also, today it snowed like the polar express. i was really happy untill it turned into mushy rain.
also, i made a mental note to myself NOT to go to carnegie mellon or duke... or the mccormick convention center, but i cant do too much about that one if i plan on going to the chicago marathon next year...
also, i went to the dentist. i swear, those people dont even know you exist, they just talk over your head and it drives me crazy. plus, they poke your teeth, and stick things in your mouth to hold them open. i put in my own silent rebellion by biting down on the prop-up-y thing, so that it would slowly slide down and i could close my mouth. i felt like a little rebel, fighting in some revolution for the right to close my mouth.
also: i just want to say, 4 days untill triplets of bellville!
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Sunday, February 01, 2004
be my yoko ono
why is it that on weekends i get even less homework done than on weeknights? i dont know, either, but guess who still hasn't done her homework!(me)
im daydreaming about how if i were a director, id be wes anderson. seriously. or a coen brother. whats with all the brother teams? no sisters? some sisters need to get in the buisness, yo(and this is not a hint to alison that we should get to work... im just commenting)
im singing be my yoko ono in my head to the tune of hero. it fits very well, but i think i should either be singing one song or the other. maybe i should just give up and sing little green bag. or the jack rabbit slims song. me and alison danced like grownups to that song today, it was fun. we should do it more often.
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weekends are waaaay too short
sorry about my stupid blog not working. i accidentally published that last thing twice, and i havent been able to make either of them go away. its being dumb.
we went to go see little farah yesterday, and may i just say that she is the cutest little baby ever. shes so adorable.
saw barton fink today.very good, i love the coen brothers. just millers crossing and blood simple left untill ive seen all of them now, i think... unless im forgeting any. who knows.
im sorta sad because i wanted to go see lost in translation with alison today, but im aparently not high up enough on the priority list. but, ive put my bid in for next weekend, so hopes are high(if its still there, that is).
i feel like i havent gotten enough done this weekend- i just slept through a lot of it, i think. NO SLEEP! its completley useless. i mean, there are much better things to be doing, you know?
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