Archive for July, 2005
Dorky Misfit

4 ways to know if you’re a misfit:

1. You live on the other side of the world..ermm..country as your friends.
2. While your friends are watching LOTRs, you are replaying in your mind Shangai Noon/Knights and Meet the Parents/Fockers.
3. While your friends are reading LOTRs you are reading National Geographics or Shakespeare.
4. Your friends watch Spongebob Squarepants and The Simpsons, while you are flipping between ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, and FOX to catch the hockey and basketball games.

If all of these things apply to you, you are labeled a dorky misfit. One non-famous person that shares this misforutnate title as you is, Veronica Love. “Know that you’re in good company.”

Newsflash!

I’m going to be taking the GED in September. Yay! I’m going to be having a busy month of studying, but I should be able to pass right? right? Please say yes. I need confidence! I need support! I have a low self-esteem. Help me out.

Quick question- Have you read “Breakfast in Bed Please”. I haven’t but a friend of mine has. If you have please tell me your opinion about it?

Deep Thought- Why is birds’ shit white?

Going MAD!

I’m currently writing a research paper on Mary Queen of Scots. It’s so freakin hard. I’ve read three books, two of which were 600 pages plus, but I can’t seem to sum up her life the way I want to. I’ve been talking about how screwed up her life was for the last 2 weeks, and I’m sure people are sick of hearing me, so I’m trying to finish up. Well I sorta have to because it’s due on the 1st. I’m 3/4 of the way through, but I feel like burning it and starting all over again. But then I can’t, because I only have less than a week. Ahh..it’s killing me! Death to essays! Chant with me. Death to essays! Death to essays! Death to essays! *voices fade into oblivion*

Warning: The above content might be a little disturbing. It was written by the decaying mind of a aldolecent teenager.

Air
Air

Aimlessly walking
Down life’s lane
Hands stuffed in pockets
Bizarrely insane

In a state of peace
Living on a high
Clown, fool, puppeteer
The bees and birds fly

-V.Love

Finally!!!

Good new, good news. Listen up. Oct. 5 will be a good day. Yes, a very good day. The NHL is back in business. Skating is in session! But the coolest thing about this is, my favorite team, the Pittsbugh Penguins, have the top draft pick. Snazzy!

Inside note- I have fond memories of the Penguins. I lived in Pittsburgh for 3 years between the ages of 3-6. For my 4th birthday, my dad took me to a Penguins game, where I got to see two of the greatest NHL players ever, Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr. Of course it’s debatable if they happen to be the greatest, but I’m bias and I think they are. Such a swell team.

About Me

I’m starting a series titled “Do you really know me?” ermm…sounds kinda corny. Okay “About Me” umm..I don’t know, I’ll have to swing it.

10 things I dislike:
-Pizza with to much pizza suace and too little cheese.
- soy products
- baseball
- golf
- overly romantic movies
- movies that cause you to believe that there will be romance….but then leave you empty handed(Like the Interperter)
- The last two Star Wars
- 7 eleven soda machines that don’t mix the bubble water and the flavoring right, and when you decide to get a soda (which you normally don’t do) all you get is bubbly water.
- Country music
- Housewife stuff, like sewing and gardening.

10 things I like:
- Watching movies in theaters
- Comedies
- Basketball
- Football
- Baking
- Mountain Dew
- Rock music
- Reading
- Showers
- Sleeping

Too much pondering…

I had to much time to think the other day, way to much to be precise. During that time I thought about this question- Will we shit in heaven?

In our present form shitting and peeing is the only way to eliminate body waste, if we didn’t eliminate we would die. But there is no death in heaven (And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death), so therefore we wouldn’t die if we didn’t eliminate. But we can still eat food, like all our hearts desires are supposed to be satisfied and for many people good food is one of their desires, and that is what leaves me baffled. Eating equals shitting for every creature in the world, It’s part of life, and a very stinky part at that. But then people say heaven isn’t like the life we know, it’s a different world, and that our body’s will be different. Anyways, yes to much thinking.

The War on Terror

I couldn’t think of anything new to post, so here’s an older essay I wrote.

The War on Terror

On September 11, 2001 three hijacked airplanes were used by terrorists to attack the U.S. Two airplanes targeted New York, knocking down the Twin Towers, and the other damaged the Pentagon. In the aftermath of these attacks President George W. Bush declared a “War on Terrorism”, vowing that it would be the goal of his administration to root out terrorists around the world. Bush’s “War on Terror” began in Afghanistan, looking for Osama Bin Laden, who was supposedly the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. A year after deposing the Taliban regime and installing our handpicked successors, we were not any closer to finding Bin Laden then before. Then the focus of Bush’s “War on Terror” shifted to Iraq, and the public forgot about Bin Laden. We were now looking for Saddam Hussein, who the President assured us “was a bad, bad man”, an evil dictator who oppressed his people. After rejecting all possibilities of a diplomatic solution, the “Coalition of the Willing” (America and the UK) went in to depose the “evil” dictator Saddam, free his poor “oppressed” people and rid his country of terrorists. Not long after our “victory”, we found him hiding in a hole in the ground, disgraced and defeated. We (the American public) were then happy that we had found the “bad, bad man”. But did his capture help us in our goal of defeating Terror?

A year later, we are still stuck in Iraq. The Iraqi economy and infrastructure is still in shambles. The Iraqi government (former exiles) is mistrusted by its people, and its law enforcement capabilities are practically nonexistent leaving them totally reliant on “Coalition” Forces, which consist of us (the American military) and our “allies” Britain, and other countries that were described by former presidential candidate John Kerry as the “Coalition of the Coerced and the Bribed”. Our occupation of Iraq inflamed the Muslim world, reinforcing their belief that our “War on Terror” was not a war on terror at all but really a war on Islam. This has resulted in the growth of an insurgency that as of November 18, 2004, has cost the lives of 1,217 Americans, 74 British, and 72 soldiers from other countries, and countless Iraqi’s. And what has that done for us, for America? Let’s face it — We are now alienated from the rest of the world. Our traditional allies now hate us, and the rest…. Well let’s just say if we didn’t have such a big army…

Jacques Chirac, the President of France, was quoted as saying “The Iraq War has made the world more dangerous”. And it’s true. We have not only opened the way for more terrorists to attack, but we have created a whole breeding ground for them – Iraq. More seriously however, we have made the use of a “pre-emptive strike” an acceptable military doctrine. If we (America) can just go into any country and use our military might with blatant disregard for international law to get what we want by force (beware Iran, Syria and anyone else who Bush happens not to like), what is stopping China from attacking Taiwan or India from nuking Pakistan?

Our “War on Terror” has not yielded Osama Bin Laden and is unlikely to do so in the near future because, to quote our learned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, “he doesn’t want to be found.” But we do know that he is still around somewhere because he keeps producing video tapes. We still do not know for certain who planned the terrorist attacks. But we do know for certain that they are in the Middle East, because well, Halliburton said so.

Fly away…

Emmy-

“In the arms of an Angel, far away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here”
- Sara Mclachan

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We, as in Katrina (aka. Kevin T’s mom) and myself, went downtown to do some touristy stuff on our freeday(heh, which happens to be today). We saw Thomas Jefferson’s memorial, the Washington Monument, and the American History Smithsonian. Hopefully we’ll be able to see the other stuff on our next couple of freedays. It’s funny, because I’ve seen most of this stuff numerous times, but they always seem to be adding new stuff. Plus well, there’s nothing else to do on freedays, so this adds some spice.

The special story of the day. Kat and I were eating our lunch, which consisted of a sandwhich filled to overflowing with lunch meat but it was great was great I’m not complaining. It’s just that as soon as I take a bite of this massive sandwich, a group of 10, yes I counted, semi nice looking guys, my age!, walk by. I’m thinking holy dong. They’re thinking haha..what a dork!. “It was like so not cool.” And then, and then, as they walked past they started laughing at me. At ME people! It was devastating. Haha

Anyways, pictures follow below. Enjoy!
***Picture above, one of the presidential pianos.