The Topic of Great Randomness

[seabiscuit1009]

Monkey: I'm the mighty Hungry now? *pictures herself with gigantic muscles* Ummm...XD? Lol about the tennis thing...my friend did sort of the same thing over the summer, except not with the tennis net...but whatever.

*huggles Cress* I'm glad you realized that he's an idiot and all that stuff. If he's like you're saying, you're too good for him.

Mel has a boyfriend? Okay, congrats! But only if you're happy about it...hey, at least you've got the first out of the way! Lol, I haven't even had one yet, so...yeah.

Standardized testing is almost over! Every morning, they have these free breakfasts in one of the cafeterias, usually a bagel or something weird like that. It's funny how weird it is. Testing is crazy weird like that. Can't wait until 11:00 tomorrow morning, when I will NEVER EVER have to take another state test IN MY LIFE!!!! Unless I fail these ones, which won't happen. A donkey could pass them. (I was going to say a monkey, but...that just sounded weird, since Monkey definitly could pass those tests.)

We had a water work-out today in track...I had to put on a bikini...uh...as I was climbing out of the pool, the bottom almost fell off. The ties had gotten looser while I was playing water polo, so...yeah...that would have been bad I would have been like this: And the guy who likes me in track (who I hate) would go like this: Need to tie the bottom tighter next time.

One more day...this week has been so long. Then it will be the weekend, and I can go party hard! Lol, not really...I don't even do St. Patrick's Day, and I'm even part Irish! It's just a party where a few friends are getting together and playing BS or poker or Apples to Apples or something like that. Oh, and chocolate fondue. Yum.

[Angel_Star]

Boyfriends are overrated. *grumbles* Okay, okay, yeah, they're wonderful and all until you break up and then the stupid idiot treats you like dirt. Heh. I guess I shouldn't be going off just one (bad) experience. It's not like he meant to hurt me like that anyways.

Apples to Apples! I love that game! I've only played it once, but it's wonderful! lol.

I'm probably going to be more of a lurker here from now on than anything else. I'm not on much anyways. I'll probably also stick the ToGR with my posts, 'cause I really can't add onto anything with the books. It's been too long since I've read them, and I can't re-read them until my friend finds my first book that I let her borrow last year. *growl* Yes, I know, the library, but I have a little problem with getting them back on time.

The band has KMEA Saturday...basically you get a rating on how well you play. 1 is best, 4 is dreadful. If there is a 4. I'm not sure. Last year (7th and 8th grade band) got all 1's. This year...I doubt we will. We'll probably get 2's, 'cause not many people in the highschool band care enough. I mean, we might get 1's because we have the potential and the talent, just not the work ethic.

Well, I'm out for tonight because it's late and I'm tired.

[aly]

[aly]

Saturdays are always so much fun! But, the bad thing is that no one comes one really early like me. Everyone must be sleeping in. Of course, time difference is a problem, too. Doesn't matter, everyone comes on sooner or later.
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Happy Friday All,
Ali

[Gryphon]

As soon as I got home, I turned on the Clincher. Like hell, I'm pissed. So you know I'm gonna vent, but I'll spare you that for a while (I don't know why I apologize for my rants; I welcome other people's :P Whatever).

So all of this... y'know... week... month... part of the year has been hectic for me. Tests and more tests, and teachers trying to cram tests in before other people's and blah blah blah. Friends are a mess too. I can't even sort out my life at home.

Phhh.. I don't even know what I meant to talk about in the first place. Logging on and making a beeline to TOGR to post was an impulse.

We were talking in bio class about getting an eyebrow peircing. It's an, "as soon as I turn 18, I will..." Part of being a teen is all of that rebellion. As soon as I can, I'm moving out of here! Some people live with their parents all their life. I can't understand that. For me, part of being a teen also comes with the need for independence, but I guess that's not true for everyone. Also, don't get a tattoo any place where it'll sag or wrinkle or get fat or anything like that. 'Cuz that's just gross. Tattoos are purely for the now, but when you get older, the tattoos start to look really not cool.

I love B. I sent him downstairs to turn on the printer and to fetch my paper. He even stapled it. ("What, am I like your slave or something?") He is. Lately, he's actually been really cool, even though he's been a rant topic for me. A few weeks ago, we all hung outside and talked about everything imaginable. And watched a movie. And ate pizza. Life is great.

Speaking of pizza parties, we got bio teacher to promise that she'll let us have one on Weds! We've still got to bring in the money, order it, and all of that, but whatever. We seize every opportunity we can to throw a party in school.

On Thursday or Friday, I got Fruits Basket 10 from M! It had been so long since I had read the last one that I was partially afraid that I wouldn't remember the characters' names anymore. I love how manga artists/authors have really developed characters -- or it could be just the manga series that I've read. The characters are even better than our most belove'd author, DD. I suppose what's important all depends upon the form of entertainment: books, movies, music, whatever. I love action movies. And funny movies. And maybe even a chick flick everyonce in a while. But all of those cooking shows and house make over are really boring; I'd sooner watch a reality tv show (nooo, Gryph never watches reality tv. Of course not. XD ).

:P I feel in such a great mood now that I don't even feel like ranting, but I know that if I don't talk about it, I'll explode.

Oooh, there are chewy sweetarts in my candy leftover from Halloween...

I hate it when people try to bitch and complain, but, truly, they're just lying to themselves. Like there's this girl in bio class who thinks she's friends with everyone. Don't get me wrong, she actually does have friends; it's just that, if she doesn't have a friend around, she'll attach herself to the crowd she thinks is the most popular, like K. Walking away from the girl I was talking about (G), she said, "I don't know why she thinks she's my friend." Anyway, back to the point I was initially trying to make. When bio teacher comes around to collect our test corrections, G turned to me and said, "Well, I, like, didn't do mine because I didn't get it." They're test corrections. When you do test corrections, you take home the entire test, along with your bio textbook and notes, and you write down the answers that you think are correct and a line or two about why you think it's correct. It's easy; most of the questions are straight from the book, such as, "Where is the nucleas?" "The nucleus is in the cell." And even if you couldn't find it or didn't care if you did it right, well, that was fine, as long as you wrote something. The teacher doesn't actually check the answers on any assignment we do. She just skims it over, but not in detail. So what, then, did she not understand? I knew for a fact that she was aware of all of the above.

The truth was, she didn't do it because she was that lazy. So just shut up and stop complaining; you're lying to yourself.

Oh... that wasn't even my rant. XD I got sidetracked again.

It really sucks to be betrayed. Oh yeah, it hurts like hell. I don't even know how to feel about it; you don't just pick up where you left off when you're stung by friends, and it's even worse when they didn't mean anything by it, but they weren't thinking about you either.

I really don't want to do this rant here. I'll e-mail a friend or let it out in chat.

I've got a friend whose parents are in an arranged marriage. She was like, "they didn't meet until their engagement day. And they got married the next day." That's... a strange topic to think about. I'm American; I watch American movies, live in an American culture, an American life. So for me, marriages happen for love, or at least that's the base to all happiness. Just like you don't marry anyone you hate, you wouldn't marry anyone you've never known before. But often arranged marriages turn out okay. Because they weren't the impulse of a temporary feeling, they're not gonna break as soon as any sign of trouble comes up. There are a lot of divorces in our country.

I didn't realize I had so many sweetarts. XD I don't really like them, but I'm not a fan of M&Ms either. I mean, they're good and all, but... I like mini M&Ms. I don't know how they're different from the normal kind, but I like them better. Ohh, and you can carry them around and pass them out during flashlight tag.

Wow... I think my post might've been really incoherent. As if that's anything new. :P *huggles!*

[Angel_Star]

*huggles Gryph* Yeah, betrayal kills.

I didn't have the greatest day today, but it wasn't horrid. Instead, it was only slightly dreadful. On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the most horrible, I'd have to say that it was around seven. I may be exaggerating slightly. Six and a half. Oh dear...P must be rubbing off on me. He and his crazy scales. Well, anyways, I spent a ton of time working on this project we had to do for English, and I ended up making a 94% on it. Yes, it's an A, and no, it's not bad, but I spent a goodly amount of time on that monstrous thing. I really worked hard. It kind of bites when someone else gets a perfect score on that when they just put it together the day (or two days) before it was due. So, yeah, I ended up taking my frustration on the one such person who happened to do that and also happened to be a close friend of mine. I called her "perfect", not meaning it in a very friendly way 'cause I was pretty ticked, and she got hurt. I mean, it's not her problem that I just couldn't do a project to save my life. I just took it out on her, and now she's upset with me... I'm the kind of person who can't bear to hurt other people. Usually, anyway, at least when the person means something to me. And so, I almost broke down after lunch in 5th period. That was baa-aad. Yeah...

As my slightly (utterly) scatterbrained mind follows down rabbit trails, please excuse my wanderings.

I somehow woke up with this scratch on my face. Right on my cheek. Niiice. It's rather lovely. Not. *shudder* My skin's bad enough as it is; I don't need anything else to mar it. So, in Spanish (5th), C goes, "Did your dog scratch you?" I say, "um...actually, I'm not sure where it came from. It was there when I woke up." M, the idiot that he is, says, "Maybe she's dying!!" So I say (as I'm about to cry...bad timing.) "Heh. I wish." Then E said, "That sounded suicidal to me. Did it sound so to you?" They went on to say how I cut myself on the cheek because I'm suicidal... *shakes head* I'd probably be the last person to be even depressed, next to Annelle. She's the happiest and most cheerful person I've ever known. But actually, I haven't really been myself in months. I've kinda become more cynical and...just generally mad and sad and all mixed up inside. I really don't like it at all. It's not me.

Whoa. Sorry, I got wayy off topic.

Anyways, so as soon as I got in the car after school, I sobbed. I couldn't stop until after the twenty minute car ride home. It's really not just that; it's a lot of things mixed up all together. I'm so competitive. Not when it comes to sports, but say, grades. And looks. I want to be the best. I have this need to feel special, like I'm unique. I want to feel loved...as stupid as that sounds. And even as bad as it sounds, I loved to be at the center of Zach's world when we were dating. I loved that feeling of being...well, loved. I relished in the fact that I came first. Finally, I was the best at something. I don't think that makes much sense, but that's the only way I can put it. Now, I'm no longer the best. There's always someone who's better than me, no matter what I do. I know it really doesn't matter, but today it kinda hit me really hard.

I feel like such a bad, hypocritical person. I value things that shouldn't impact me at all, but I don't know how to detach myself from these trivial little things that won't matter in the end.

I'll end this on a good note. Hah! Note! Wait, you don't get it yet because I haven't said why it's funny. Whoa... *yawn* The highschool band got straight 1's at KMEA. Wheee! So, we're going to the State thing or whatever. Technically, we got a 1 in sight reading, and two 1 minuses and one 1 on our piece. But anyways, we're still awesome! The lovely wonderful spectacular Seniors brought in donuts today. Yum! There are only four Seniors in band...heh. So, yeah. Band is like, the highlight of my day. How...odd.

Edit:*wince* I managed to submit something that apparently had trigger words in it. Heh. The thing I find amusing is that if what I think triggered it actually did trigger it, I was completely joking... Tee hee. Well, I'll assume that it will go through eventually, then I'll just merge the two posts... Ain't merge such a fun word to say? Merge.

Edit (again. well, kind of): See? I did merge 'em! lol.

[Mel]

Today, I feel selfish. The last few weeks, I have been and now I hate it. Starting right more, no more "I"s in this topic. That one didn't count, hah.

*huggles Angel and Gryph* understand. Completely. Ok, not really, but...sort of. My realationship with my friends has been questioned lately, but we worked it out. My sincere wish is that you work out this betrayal thing, and get OK with it eventually. That sounds weird, and you'll prolly be mad with me, but the right words to make my words coherent don't seem to want to come. Just, I (ahh, I'm horrible at this. I broke it already!!) hope you work it out.

Angel, I don't have much experience. All I can say is sorry. It's lame, but true.


Hmm, now....Oh yes! I have a new favorite band!! (which I haven't had for like 3 years), but the real shocker is (I'm sorry!) It's not country!!! The world is ending!!!

It is now The Veronicas. They are awesome Aussies (yay, Alliterations) twins. I got their debut album, The Secret Life of the Veronicas. I'm completely in love with it.
Angel, your situation reminds me of the song, When it All FAlls Apart. Check it out sometime.

Urg...Piano Certification t'morra!! *is completely freaked* the Bflat and Eflat major scales and cadences are far from tight, and my arpeggios need some work...which mean typing is not good right now...but no matter, I need a break. I have to sing at the Confirmation today (hence the half-day). Poo..

"Hold on tight! I am! I'm a revolution!
Close your eyes! I am! I'm a revolution!
I'll blow your mind! I am! I am a revolution!!
Why do I have to explain
Who I am again and again?!"

whee, awesome song!!

man, I really luff this CD....

And wow, failing self-tests is easy, 'specially in certain random posts....right...

Well, playing piano would be good now....but checking mail is better.

'Bye, and good luck to those who need it!

[seabiscuit1009]

Just got back from babysitting....ummm...I'm very cold, and wet, and I can't wear my jeans again tomorrow. I had to give the boys a bath, and they decided to start a splash fight, and then I got all wet. Grrr...I think I need to ask the parents for a raise; the kids are a handful. Except I don't think they'd go for a raise...but I only get $6 an hour, which is...actually, I don't even know what the rate for babysitting is! Whatever, I'll worry about it later.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is taking over my thoughts right now. I'm seriously thinking of it all the time, which is just weird.

I need a nap, and nothing interesting has happened in awhile in my life...hopefully that means that soon something interesting is going to happen. I sure hope so, since life is getting pretty boring around here...here being my city, not the boards.

Edit: forget that, plenty of interesting things are happening at my house. It's just that all of them involve my mom yelling at me for stupid things...and I don't get why. It's not my fault she's not home when I'm home, and it's not my fault that I have track when she's at home. Even when we are home at the same time, why would I want to spend time with someone who keeps criticizing me, and blaming me for things I didn't do (things I KNOW my siblings did!) It's not fair. And it's making me angry that she's doing this. I may be a teenager, but I'm a person too...she needs to realize this. I am a very patient person when it comes to Mom, but she's beginning to push me over the edge. GRRRR

[alla]

Weeelll... I'm finally home with enough time to make a post, althought I should probably be catching up on lost sleep after last night .

Gryph: *huggles* I know what you mean. I'm 18, and I'm still at home, because it costs too much to move out. Rent, food... I'd need to be working around 20 hours a week (at least) to support myself, and I just can't be bothered. Its nice to know that you can rely on your parents - that you'll get meals and so on. That being said, however, I have started to think about moving out quite a bit - even to the extent of pondering moving out next year. I haven't broached the subject to mum yet, it really just depends on what happens towards the end of the year - and how much money I can save between now and then. Even though that money is meant to be going towards an overseas holiday at some stage.
Anyway, long term plan for me is, as soon as I actally have a job, I'm moving out, and looking into getting a morgage on a unit somewhere near the city. I want that independance, and I'm getting it to a certain extent. Mum's not questioning my going out with friends anymore and so on. *shrugs* I have my rebellious moments... now, at least. I was a 'good little girl' when I was a pre-adult teen.

I know what its like to be betrayed by friends too, but I've learned to live with it. I have better friends now (at uni) than I ever really did at school. We all just 'click' much better. And its easier to be an idiot around them XD.

Angel: *huggles also* I understand totally And congrats on the band stuff

Well, now for the good bit I went to a concert last night HIM was playing in Brisbane, and one of my friends wanted to go, and me and another friend tagged along, because she didn't want to go alone . It was totally awesome I want to go again, but the other two concerts they were doing in Aus. are sold out . Not that any of us can afford to fly to Melbourne or Sydney. Anyway it was awesomeness embodied in music. Sounded much better than the recordings *bounces around*

Anyway, I must go now and catch up on missed sleep

Alla

[kaiba4ever]

It's almost Spring Break! Yay! I can. Not. Wait! xD I'm going to sleep all break long, and get out my habit of only getting a dreary 5-hour average. I can't wait. Too bad it's only one mere single week long.

Yay for Gryph on getting new manga! Furuba (nickname for Fruits Basket) is a great series! I'm up to like volume 18-ish and it's getting so much better and darker right, (nearing the climax!) Kyo is hawt. >D

Math test tomorrow. I must prepare for failure. (Well, of course I'll do crappy with an attitude like that >_&gt. Evil evil math...

We're finishing up our Romeo and Juliet unit in school soon. Shakespeare is such a pervet. -_-;; And he's also kills all the cool characters. At least in this story. We also watched the movies, too, and the new version with guns and cars is totally whack, but amusing. xD

I haven't been on in a while. But whatever, it don't matter... because the world is orange. Yes, it is. And randomness is a disease, in which only cool people worthy of catching it catch it. Yay! Suger-coated frog legs rawk! (Ewww. >_&lt

[seabiscuit1009]

I need a break...when is spring break!!!?! Seriously though, I feel so stressed right now, and everyone's mad at me for various reasons (which, not to sound rude, are not my fault) and I'm just exhausted. Oh well...maybe I'll sleep on Saturday. Or not...whatever. I should be doing my homework, but I just...don't care right now.

There's a concert at my school tonight. This singer that I really like is singing, and the show sold out before I even knew that there was a show! So I'm a bit mad about that...but on the plus side, right after track I was walking past the auditorium, and I heard him doing a sound check thingie! And he was singing into the mike, and I was going "OMG, I wish I had tickets to this!!! I love this song!" But I'm listening to his cd right now, so it's ok...but I still wish I was there! Ok, now I'm going to go do homework, adios.

[Olivia]

Mel-I just got that cd today, all of the songs are already on my iPod! I think they're awesome, and... yeah. idk why, but I really like Secret. That's just a good song... Well the chorus is good. I like kinda fast songs so... yeah.

Kay, anyway, I'm kinda in a ranting mood. I mean, I hate how my parents say that I only think about myself, how I don't even know what some kids are going through, somewhere on this planet, how I don't even care. They're really wrong, they'd be shocked if they knew where all my money was going. My school is helping a school in Ghana, and I'm amazed at the difference between the schools. They have few classrooms, and there are 2 or 3 grades to a room. The rooms are really small, and the kids are all cramped in there. One of my teachers went to the school and taught there, and she told us a lot of things about the kids, and showed pictures. The kids there really love going to school, and my teachers said that they get really excited, just to get a new pencil. They write with theirs till they can't possibly use them any more, while people in my classes sharpen theirs every 5 minutes. It's amazing, the things we take for granted. My school is raising money for the school, so they can add classrooms, and get more supplies. A lot of the moneys is sending kids (who normally couldn't afford it) to school. So far, we've raised a fair amout, (I can't remember exactly how much right now) and, it feels really good. Each advisory class is getting pictures of the kids that we send to school, and it's really great.

Oh yeah, I just don't know anything about anything on this planet. I'm just an ignorant kid. Psh

[Gryphon]

For all of those people out there who have never read Furuba/Fruits Basket, you've got to. I first heard about it from Aurie, followed by a ton of members here who absolutely loved it. Then my friend leant the first book, and then I started borrowing the next ones from A, who, then, was a friend of a friend, but now she's my friend. XD I never knew her before Fruits Baskets. S was like, "I only have book one... You'll have to get the rest from A."

Then they hooked me on Saiyuki, which is ungodly amazing and addicting. S just got the newest one, and I'm waiting for her to finish.
Saiiyukiiiiiii

Saiyuki's guys are hotter than Fruits Basket's. XD

I've also read some of:
Ranma 1/2 -- as Aurie put it, "Fruits Basket on crack."
Descendents of Darkness
Legal Drug
And a full four pages of Full Metal Alchemist! XD

In my music world, my mom's borrowed Rammstein and brought it to work. And they _loved_ it. And my parents thought _I_ was scary? Mad scientists listening to German industrial metal...

Anyway, I want more of their CDs. :P But to get the special edition of their newest CD costs $40!!

Olivia: I mean, I hate how my parents say that I only think about myself, how I don't even know what some kids are going through, somewhere on this planet, how I don't even care.

*huggles* It's a big world out there, and we're so tiny compared to the entire universe. The thing is, you can't possibly spend all your life thinking how miniscule you are or being concerned about those who are less fortunate, etc etc etc. You can reach out to help them, but you shouldn't feel guilty because you're better off. Wooh have I gotten off topic yet? (I think I started out off topic :P) That's awesome, it's always great to hear stories like that, because the kids in Africa and poor countries are so grateful for the help they get. In Iraq, the troops come and pass out teddy bears and things like that to little kids. We did a beanie baby drive at my school for them, and then another for the soldiers themselves. I don't support the president's motive, but I care about the troops and the good things they're doing. <3

*huggles monko* I'll hope to see you soon!

[agfish92]

MONKEY YOU CANT QUIT CHAT NO WAY!!! *pulls mky back* nononono

[Dragon Writer]

Wow, something really weird happened the other day! We had a glass with some soda in it on the counter, and we left it there. In the other room, we heard a crash. So went into the kitchen, and there was the glass. It had been split percisely and cleanly in half. One half stood on the counter. THe other had crashed on the floor along with the soda. Weird!