Boombox Brain

I'm pretty sure everyone gets a song stuck in their head from no where. Its like your mind turns on the music and lets only a small part of the song actually play. Then some reason you can't remember really what the rest of the lyrics are even though you know the song.

Let my world into the sunlight

Every second is a highlight

Daddy dancing in the moonlight

Listening to Domino by Jesse J and typed some of the lyrics and they all rhymed.

At least letting other music play in your head helps... sort of... It'd be nice to know where the off switch is.

I gotta let it gooooooo

We found love in a hopeless place

We found love in a hopeless place

We found love in a hopeless place

We found love in a hopeless place

We found love in a hopeless place

Rihanna repeats that phrase a lot lot lot lot. I think we get it. You hate being single.

That reminds me during our business class last week. After we finished the search thing, most of looked up knock knock jokes. It was AWESOME! And really funny. Here are some of them:

Knock Knock

Whos' there?

A little old lady

A little old lady who?

I didn't know you could yodell.

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Knock Knock

Who's there?

Interupting cow.

Interrupt-?

Bark.

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The second one I made up. =)

Happy Halloweens!

I don't know about who ever reads this but my pumkin got stolen two days before Halloween. :'(

Not only did the floods take our pumpkins but a weirdo... I know pumpkins are sacre people but really?! So on the spooky day, my mom took a plastic pumpkin candy basket thing and put a candle inside of it. Teachers have the best out of the box ideas. :)

My street consists of college kids and old people. So its only natural that we get five bags of candy that end up in our stomachs. We hardly get any trick-o-treaters so its only natural we get a ton right?  I love that reasoning. Though I'm going to start doing a lot more than pilates once a week as my exercise cause of my stupid foot. I have yet to get an MRI....

My cat is freaking out today...

Also RIP to James and Lily Potter

Ballet Rehearsal

Today I had class 11-1:30, then Jr Company rehearsal 1:30-1:50, a break, School performance rehearsal 2-3, then waited there for like thirty minutes until my mom asked one of her friends to take me home while she dealt with the little kids as she volunteers.

FINALLY HOME!!!!!

I love Saturdays even during Summer Vacation

Now just listening to some tunes and going to play Sims 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes I feel blogging is just a longer body of space for words to describe Facebook stuff....

Like how your day went. You don't answer to your parents but you blog about it to random people or put it as your status -short version of course- to your friends. Unless you're friends with your parents....

I'm friends with my aunt and distant relatives as neither of my parents are on Fb which I'm kind of glad very happy about ;)

Last

So I've been gone with school and ballet over-drive = very busy

I've been drawing again after much failure in doing so. I'm focusing more on shading and more portraits of faces. Not the best but it helps prepare for next year's IB Art class...

We tested blood type Friday, I am A negative (A-)

Its apparently on the rare side, AB- being the rarest and A+ the most common

According to the Red Cross, apparently 8% White, 4% African American, 4% Hispanic, and 1% Asians have A-.

I hate when people use the term "white"

I'm not white, I'm fair skinned or a light tan or sometimes red. Also I'm American mutt of European countries so the more correct term for me should be Irish-Swedish-English but for some people it falls under "White"

There are tanned whites out there. But according to everyone else, we're a piece of paper. Personally I'm more like a peach :)

However with summer around = tanning season!!!!

Friend's War Story and Writing Process

My friend wrote a story and posted a part on her blog. So I decided to read it over and edit. Yes I know it was a draft and it had many mistakes in my opinion, -such as repetitiveness- but thats what revisions are for.

My English teacher stressed much on the whole writing process. The main parts are: Braintstorming, Drafting, Revising, and Final.

Brainstorming to get your ideas out on paper and to scramble them into something that makes sense. This part should be done so well the next part flows evenly without much struggle.

Drafting to "properly" write out your thoughts into grammer structured and strained sentences. The trick is not go ahead to the next step during this process. I forget the exact reason why, but its something along the lines of not breaking the thought flow from your mind/brain to your hand through your pencil to the paper. Also you can edit later, just get everything out.

Revising is the most painful part. They are many things you should to think of: diction [replace repetitive/weak/plain/boring/redundant words with better/stronger/flavorful words]; sentence structure [not always using the same order of clauses/parts of a sentence] and length [long/meduim/short]. These are jsut a few things to think of and also largely affected on style of writing. If you are writing for a "first grader" audience, don't go and use puerile or pusillanimous, use stupid/dumb kind of words. SIMPLICITY! Think of your audience basically. Also infect the paper with your own style or a certain stlye such as old talk [something formal/Shakesphere/poetic] or southern [y'all/howdy/+'um].

Final. The last draft you have that you believe is presentable.

Yes I rambled a bit in the middle.... Now here's my version and go to the link for her original version. (I have permission to do something like this as we do know each other and I have asked to help edit :3)

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http://imaginarythoughtsofagirl.blogspot.com/2011/03/war-story.html

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“Joëlle!”
A voice shouted her name. She rolled her eyes.
“Joëlle!”
This time, much louder and sterner. Joëlle stood up from her chair and grabbed her rabbit. She walked out of the library and down the hall, running into her mother quickly.
“Where were you?”
{The queen asked.}
“No where important”
The young girl replied. Her mother kept her gaze; her daughter just stood there.
“Very well, it matters not” said the queen. “But what does matter is that Prince Abelard will arrive soon. It will be your duty to accompany him”
“Will his Uncle be coming as well?”
“Yes. Why?”
“It is just that I enjoyed his company the last time he visited”
Her mother smiled slightly.
“Well then, I expect to see you at supper tonight.”
At that her mother turned and walked away. Joëlle sighed and continued through the halls of her palace without any thought. She knew every corner and room, having grown up exploring all the nooks and crannies. Her favorite room was an old forgotten library of books rejected from the newer library built years ago. The library had a sense of emptiness with no visitors other than herself and dust collecting over the years. The small room allowed her to break down her thoughts and expose herself emotionally when she wanted to escape from her life for a little while. She glanced up at the ancient grandfather clock in the corner. Quarter to six, nearly time for supper. She sighed, another evening of sitting quietly and speaking only when spoken to.

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The {} is a part where I think should be either added to the first paragraph or at least to the part before the dialogue. Or given more information such as appearance of the queen.
Also as this is just a segment, some things I left alone such as the last sentence, because I would need to ask for an explanation of the purpose/feeling of the sentence. an example of one thought is that I remove the comma and insert 'to'

Tired

My thoughts weighed down by my mind
Creeping ever slowly across my brain
Troubled chains closing my eyes
My heart pulsing inside my chest stretching throughout my body
My blood circulates through the sea as a jellyfish

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I'm very tired, maybe cause I did nothing for the hour-and-half Spanish class; we had a sub and the teacher didn't leave any work and I had already finished my hw from my other classes. Then I went home, and two hours later took a breather of laying down on my bed and falling half-asleep. Now I feel I just woke up from a nap, which I hardly ever do.

Friends in Japan

Everyone knows of Japan's three recent earthquakes, the last one a 9.8 and triggered a tsunami and several aftershocks (like hundreds). Also apparently officials have reported that a second tsunami may be on its way. Now, how does this affect me, besides the two feet waves and the eight feet shift towards the U.S.?

I have two friends in live in the region of Sendai, Japan - where it hit.

I'm really scarred bexcause we can't contact them, so we just wait for a reply from the email. I do have her cell number, but power lines are down over there. I just hope they're okay in Japan's worst diaster since WWII.

Earth, please get settle down.

Japan, please get better. (in the sense of recovering from the earthquakes/tsunami)


In other news, the Hairspray play has been going okay... we had set building earlier today of spraypainting boxes with letters. We apparently got a lot more done than the others yesterday.

New Classes

Today we changed classes and it went great until the last period. If I had dance then this set of classes would get an A+ but instead it gets a B due to Spanish 5 (/6). The teacher isn't very helpful teaching us anything about spanish when everyone in the class hasn't had Spanish in a year or two. So we're all rusty and she acts like we're all fluent in it. YO NO HABLO ESPAÑOL EN UNO AÑOS!

Excuse my bad langauge speaking.

Well writing anyway...

Also big news: I have one subscriber :D

Today. Good to Bad

Today was the last day before the new semester where we would get new classes. I have four classes as we are on the four by four schedule: Seminar English, Muscial Theatre (Dance), Seminar U.S. History, and Chemistry.



English: Our teacher lets us ask any questions we want which he'll answer though to the best he can. He answers pretty much all of them except for like some very touchy topics, an example is not religion. However this can only be done on the first and the last day we have him; today was the last in case you haven't read the little parapgraph above already. Today he was suppose to give an oral final and we managed to ask him questions for the whole period (about an hour and forty minutes) leaving no room for the final. Success.



Musical Theatre (Dance): We finished watching Step Up 3D and watched part of Chorus Line. I worked on the dream story, got like the third draft of it for the like the first chapter? Not sure how far I'll go in that but I'll try to go far. I also found out my grade on a paper in English that I thought I would get an F but I got a A- which surprised me and he saida ll sorts of compliments which made me really happy



U.S. History: We turned in the extra credit project Music and History, which was fun cause I did the 1970s. HIPPIES! I still had to put it together and do a title page. I also turned in my history book today before school which I was almost late to but I think I made it in time... I hope so :) We then did something I can't remebmer exactly. Then we took the final that he had given us the night before. We didn't have enough copies so we paired up and were allowed to talk with our partner about the answers but quietly which turned into an quiet open-talk test which was awesome. We had to take a district test two days earlier which had questions on all the stuff we went over in breief little presentations over one week; all modern era and what the test was about. We only study the pre-civial era of U.S. Hsitory cause we'll talk about the rest of the U.S. History in IB History. Then we passed out chips and brownies and did stuff. Again I worked on the story.



Lunch: The Special Ed took our spot so we all split somewhere else. I just went to the library with a friend to work on the story. And returned my Chemistry textbook.



Chemistry: We watched a movie, something like _____2100. It was about how the world would be in a couple of years, worst case scernio. It freaked a lot of people out, but I wasn't affected by it. We turned in the WordSearch and she gave us back our graded Notebooks and Bellwork. And I worked more on the story.



After School: I got a ride which was nice. I watched some Ellen (DeGeneres). Then my dad was trying to get me to call my mom who had left ehr phone home. My great-aunt had passed away. Chaos.



Moral: ALWAYS KEEP YOUR CELLPHONE. TRying to get ahold of someone for thrity minutes is stressufl when its a family emergency. I eventually did get ahold of her by going through her contacts and finally having someone from her work pick up their phone; the two were talking when I called.



Does anyone have these kinds of days?