Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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11:08 am
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Hey, I just discovered that there's this thing called "Networking" on del.icio.us and I have a fan.
Weird. I think she's based her tagging system on my OCD one. That's flattering actually.
Sweet.
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10:17 am
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I didn't fail chemistry!
I did fall really hard while skating this morning and now feel like I broke my hip or something stupid like that (except not - but the whole thing's going to be black this evening), but I didn't fail the chemistry test!
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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10:59 pm - What's the difference between stressed and tense anyway?
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Yeah. During my skating lesson, my spins were awesome compared to usual because I was tightening my muscles properly... but I was nearly kiling myself on just about everything else because I was so tense and so up in my shoulders as a result.
I dunno even why I was still tense at that point.
- I REMEMBERED THE SECRET SNOWFLAKE STUFF FOR ONCE.
- WE DIDN'T HAVE CHEMISTRY BECAUSE THE TEACHER HAD A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT.
- I GAVE THE DAMN LATIN SPEECH AND I THINK IT WAS GOOD.
- MY FRENCH TEACHER DECIDED NOT TO GIVE US OUR QUIZ.
- SO INSTEAD WE HAD A PARTY AND WATCHED L'Auberge Espagnole.
- I GOT THROUGH THE HISTORY QUIZ WITHOUT FREAKING OUT.
- I RAN BACK FAST ENOUGH TO FINISH MY STUPID CERAMIC HOUSE BEFORE IT HAD TO BE FIRED.
- I DIDN'T FREAK OUT WHEN MY SECRET SNOWFLAKE DIDN'T GIVE ME CANDY.
- I GOT TO MY SKATING LESSON ON TIME. </i>
I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TENSE STILL. LOOK AT ALL THAT I ACCOMPLISHED TODAY.
SO WTF BODY?
By the way, if anyone knows of de-tense-ifyers that don't involve long soaks or really hot showers or chocolate (or pounding my keyboard really hard while playing StepMania, because I did that and it helps but also makes me tense for a different reason), I will be happy.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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10:14 pm
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The assignment says 3-5 pages. I'm at 5.75 including header and citations, not including the two pages of bibliography (that isn't finished)
Hopefully it'll be close enough. I do have about three times as much to cover.
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8:08 pm
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... Word count for Masada essay is now ~1820 words. And 5 whole pages without the header in Garamond (which is smaller than TNR). I seriously must suck at estimating word counts because no way did I add 500 words + however many I cut out from the first draft to said first draft.
I'm going to go type up the bibliography, I think.
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5:33 pm
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If horcruxes tear a soul in half, each of Voldemort's horcruxes had exponentially less of him in it. And if his first horcrux was the diary - maybe that was why it was able to take control that way while the locket was less direct - it was less of him so it was less powerful and less able to be human-like.
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
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7:00 pm
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I must be insane. Not only did I put off the indepth research for the Huge Latin Essay That's Probably About Half My Grade that's due on Monday when I already (according to both of the teachers) have been given what may be the hardest and most complex character, but I also decided to write the first draft longhand.
I've already filled two and a half pages, and haven't even gotten into the largest section or the actual final decision yet. If I'd typed it, I might have actually been done with said draft already.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
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12:59 pm
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No. This is not happening. I am totally not ditching what I do have for my ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) apocalypse_kree prompt to write the whole thing in a completely different POV and focus based off of a quick thing I scribbled down to develop the plot ONLY IN MY HEAD?
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
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11:31 am
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Wasn't there a big DCMA kerfluffle a few months ago? With the SciFi Writer's Guild or something like that? *grumbles*
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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11:35 pm
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Here's an interesting thought - at parties, girls are expected to wear dresses that are very short, very low cut, and very expensive looking. They look like they spent 2 hours on their hair and make up.
Guys are in shirs and jeans and sneakers and maybe a blazer. They look like they came straight from school.
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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9:07 am
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I think I fucked up my History test.
*is never going to get out of here*
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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9:45 pm
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*kicks lj*
It's forcing me to collapse at least "Explicit adult stuff", probably because I have no year listed in my profile because if I did I'd probably eventually end up getting blocked from a bunch of journals.
I'M ALLOWED TO LIKE SEX TOO. *pouts*
(I mean, seriously, it's like the whole sex-ed thing where kids themselves are asking for sex-ed classes. They'd rather learn about it properly than learn about it by having sex.)
*is seriously studying for big fat huge History test tomorrow*
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8:20 am
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So, um. I was going to quickly type up one last rec before school starts -
But the school has www.kekkai.org marked as "pornography", so there goes that.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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4:38 pm
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See this? This is not my resolved face, this is my I wish I was not so resolved face.
I am applying to Bard Early College at Simon's Rock. *dies*
WHY I ask myself. I now have... about a month and a half to do what my sister has been working on for half a year - and hopefully to the same level (though thankfully not to the same degree - this is it, I'm not applying to a dozen colleges. I'm not applying out of my school so much as into a new one, if that makes sense).
Anyway. One of the essays is to write about a current issue - and send it to a newspaper or whatever.
Call me crazy, but I'm considering doing the DMCA. One of the things Ms. L emphasised was to not do one of the big big issues - gas prices, global warming, iraq war - but to maybe do something a little smaller where you're bringing peoples' attentions to it, educating, whatever. Something where you may even have to explain why it's important to be aware of. And I immediately thought - DMCA.
Anyway... It's the 28th. I have 6 or something like that more recs I wanted to get in, and one I have to. Damn.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
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9:50 am - People make me want to strangle.
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To all the Americans - happy Turkey day!
Now. Yesterday, I got the AM newspaper. I do this a lot. The AM is a free, NYC newspaper, so, you know, it's nice because it deals more with the local and less with the national - and it tells me what the hell the trains are doing this week.
But yesterday, in the Letters section, I found this:
Stagehand strike has no perit
You want to know why you can't see a Broadway show for less than a hundred bucks? Just take a look at the current strike. Stagehands want to be paid when they don't work and hired when they're not needed. It's not the producers who are the greedy Grinches here. You think it's easy to produce a Broadway show? Without producers risking one of the most shaky investments in the business, these guys wouldn't have a job. Just like the subway strike, all it takes is one stubborn union leader to lead his or her members down the road of ruin. Thankfully, it looks like the unions are starting to blink and Broadway will be up and running again soon. In the meantime, maybe Broadway will take a cue from Wal-Mart and tell the unions to take a walk for good.
Michael Chimenti, Bayside
You wanna see a Broadway show without stagehands? Without stagehands, you don't get lights. The mikes don't adjust. People aren't even wearing mikes because, you know what? It's not the actors who put on their mikes. Without a stagehand, the lazy actors go off stage and don't know when their cue is coming up. The people backstage don't have people to tell them where they are in the music, because normally? You don't memorize much more than your parts and the parts around your cues. You don't have people to run props from one side of the stage to the other, or to bring props to the stage to begin with. You don't have people to operate trapdoors or change the sets. There's no one to fucking OPEN THE CURTAIN.
So go ahead. Go watch a show without stagehands. I'm sure you'll have a lovely time watching a rehearsal-lit curtain with a bunch of unmiked people running around behind it.
*sigh* I'm going to go and think about Pastor F.'s sermon yesterday, because I should totally be putting it into practice here.
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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2:38 pm
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STUPID PLAN.
You know, they said it would be loads shorter than the PSAT.
LIES.
*dies*
AND THEN THEY MADE US DO NORMAL CLASSES. AND I HAD TO DO MY GIBBONS V. OGDEN REPORT.
*dies some more*
AND MR. D TOTALLY GOING TO FREAK OVER HOW SHITTY WE WERE AT THE FINALE YESTERDAY BECAUSE THE ONLY REASON HE DIDN'T THROW CHAIRS AT US YESTERDAY WAS BECAUSE HE WAS TOO FAR AWAY AND HE WAS TOTALLY STUNNED BY THE SHITTINESS.
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I AM TOTALLY NOT TWITCHY RIGHT NOW. *twitch* *twitch*
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
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4:00 pm
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I got an A+ on my in-class History essays.
A fucking A+.
No way.
I am so totally dancing right now.
And she said such nice stuff! She said my Marbury v. Madison essay was amazing! She said it was clearer than anything she'd ever read about it before! She said the question was creative and subtle enough to satisfy her! She said the second essay on Federalists and Anti-Federalists was great too and I totally threw that one together right before because I had concentrated so much on the M v. M one!
*dies*
*dances some more*
Ooh. I have to, like, figure out what I can do with this. At the very least, I am totally entering the M v. M one to our Historical thingys publication thingy. Which one is that one, Clio?
*dance dance dances*
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8:50 am
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My school doesn't offer the Chemistry AP anymore. And they're discouraging us from even considering studying to take the SAT subject test. They say it's too hard. It doesn't help that our school's science curriculum sucks, and that people tend to be less dedicated to the hard sciences than to the soft sciences (the English AP is the one 'everyone passes' according to Ms. L last night at sophmore college night).
Anyone know just how much bullshit this is and want to tell me?
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
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12:49 pm
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