I'm am a horrible blogger. Don't act like you didn't know. I can never seem to blog the right way. You didn't know there was a correct way to blog, did you? Well believe me, there's a right way and there's a wrong way. Most people who blog don't know this because they are natural born bloggers. They've never had trouble with knowing what to post about. Well I'm not that way, there's never anything for me to blog about. I'm surprised I've even had one blog comment actually..
Nothing I write is ever worth reading.
Nothing I say is ever worth actually listening to.
but for some reason I keep on typing, and I keep on talking too.
Even I don't get this, I just know what I do.
I am a boring person with few friends, and no life.
Blogs were not intended to be used by the people like me.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Careful, You May Be Over-Caring
It's sad, I realized this a long time ago, but I usually forget and don't think about it for a while, then I eventually remember again and question myself asking why I'm like this. I care about people, more than the regular care that most humans have. I am big a big supporter of the equalitiy factor. I get so irritated when things aren't fair or balanced, and if you read my last blog you probably figured that out on your own. It's a good thing I'm not the star of some heroic movie or anything, because this trait of mine would probably be what leads to my downfall.. I guess you could say that it's my Achilles heel, or would be... I'm treated unfairly all the time, and I know how horrible it feels. So whenever I can help it, I try to make things fair for everyone else. Most people are so busy thinking about themselves that they don't even notice the things that are going on with others. I'm the complete opposite, I notice everything that goes on around me, I'm usually more focused on others than I am on myself.. I'm sorry, but I don't have an example for you at this time, but I'm sure you all know what I mean.
I'm volunteering tomorrow at Cottesmore of Life Care, it may just be my last day there, I'm currently at 25 hours, I need 30 for my class. I actually enjoy volunteering there. I may keep coming back even after my hours are up. Some of the residents there LOVE seeing young faces, it means the world to them to have someone to talk to. It's sad how many times they get neglected by their families.. It's like they get put in these life care homes so their kids don't have to take care of them or ever see them again except maybe at their funerals. You know, you should volunteer sometime, somewhere, if you don't already, it usually can make a difference, and it might make you feel better about yourself for helping someone other than yourself.. :)
I'm volunteering tomorrow at Cottesmore of Life Care, it may just be my last day there, I'm currently at 25 hours, I need 30 for my class. I actually enjoy volunteering there. I may keep coming back even after my hours are up. Some of the residents there LOVE seeing young faces, it means the world to them to have someone to talk to. It's sad how many times they get neglected by their families.. It's like they get put in these life care homes so their kids don't have to take care of them or ever see them again except maybe at their funerals. You know, you should volunteer sometime, somewhere, if you don't already, it usually can make a difference, and it might make you feel better about yourself for helping someone other than yourself.. :)
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
This Is How I Know I'm Nothing
Today I went to target, to return some shitty (yes, I said shitty, I can say whatever I want on MY blog) jackets I got for Christmas that I've been wanting to return since I saw them.. Tanya was going to target to get Katrina and Trent new shoes, so I thought that would be the perfect time to finally return them since the last time I tried their computers were down at all the target stores North America.. Of course Tanya doesn't even think that I would need new shoes too (I don't like target shoes anyway), I would just like to be asked if I needed any.. I haven't gotten shoes in months, but of course, I don't matter. After they got their shoes, and I returned the jackets, Tanya said she has 13 dollars of change and asked if we'd want to go get some french fries. I screamed yes since I hadn't eaten since 11 A.M. and it was now 6 P.M. They all looked at me and I said quietly 'I mean, yeah sure..' when she pulled up to the drive-thru she ordered 3 small french fries and 3 cheeseburgers, one with nothing on it.. I first thought that was a little odd, and wondered if two of those cheeseburgers were for Katrina and Trent.. I thought we were all just getting fries..? We pulled up to pay the seven dollars or so, and Tanya gets 6 one-dollar-bills back and some change and hands me two one-dollar-bills and 40 cents, and Katrina four dollars.. First off, I have to ride the bus to school and back tomorrow. That will cost two dollars alone since I only have dollar bills and they don't break change.. Katrina has no bus fees.. She goes to high school.. I leave home at 9 in the morning, and don't usually get home until 8 or 9 at night, and we have nothing for me to take to school for lunch because I'm a vegetarian and all my food has to be frozen and microwaved, so I can't bring that for lunch at school.. What I don't get is why she gives Katrina more money than me, let alone money at all! When I went to that high school she made me eat the cafeteria food, but of course Katrina, the perfect daughter (who lies all the time about everything but never gets caught by anyone besides me) gets to have meals that aren't total shit because she says she doesn't like the cafeteria food and she stays after for cheer practice or a football/basketball game. All of this ran through my mind before we got to the next window where we get our food. Once we got the food, Tanya started handing out their cheeseburgers, then the small fries.. so Trent and Katrina each got a cheeseburger and a small fry, and I get just a small fry..nothing else. She couldn't get me medium sized fries so I could actually get full from it and not be hungry again by the time we got home, or get me a drink, I just got the small french fries.. Then they wonder the entire way home why I look upset and haven't had a single bit of my food.. Hmm.. Maybe if these kinds of things didn't happen to me every single day with each and everyone one of them, I wouldn't let it get to me as much..
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Don't you come near me
I had to read an essay called "Behind The Formaldehyde Curtain" for my english class, and it made me come to a certain conclusion...
When I die, I either want to be cremated,
or go straight to my bloody coffin the moment I'm dead.
no Embalming for me, thank you..
So if I die anytime in the near future, before I have a will written out..
make sure whoever it is who's dealing with my death and burial, knows that I don't want those damn people who 'makeover the dead' anywhere near me.
The essay is pretty good.
I was amazed that it was a woman who wrote it. haha.
*Edit:
I forgot to add that it's illegal in the U.S. to not be embalmed, unless you are cremated within I believe it was 48 hours of dying.. Meaning I have to die out of the country.. Or be burned to ashes a day after dying. :D
When I die, I either want to be cremated,
or go straight to my bloody coffin the moment I'm dead.
no Embalming for me, thank you..
So if I die anytime in the near future, before I have a will written out..
make sure whoever it is who's dealing with my death and burial, knows that I don't want those damn people who 'makeover the dead' anywhere near me.
The essay is pretty good.
I was amazed that it was a woman who wrote it. haha.
*Edit:
I forgot to add that it's illegal in the U.S. to not be embalmed, unless you are cremated within I believe it was 48 hours of dying.. Meaning I have to die out of the country.. Or be burned to ashes a day after dying. :D
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Dave Douglas
is amazing..
Even though I made a goal for 2008 to not miss Dave anymore, I still miss him.. just thinking about all the future shows rk will have without him makes me bummed out.
oh well, maybe when Gypsy Parade posts new songs or starts touring I won't miss him as much..
eep, Dave kept the stuffed horse!
I'm so happy about that,
Even though I made a goal for 2008 to not miss Dave anymore, I still miss him.. just thinking about all the future shows rk will have without him makes me bummed out.
oh well, maybe when Gypsy Parade posts new songs or starts touring I won't miss him as much..
eep, Dave kept the stuffed horse!
I'm so happy about that,
Friday, January 4, 2008
By defnition
ok, so I hate having to explain this all the time,
so I decided to wikipedia search "running start", and by golly it's on there!
so here it is.. Now whenever someone asks about how I started college at 16 I can just give them a link to wikipedia, or send them to this blog post..
I'm sick of people thinking I'm super genius or something,
thousands of kids in Washington do this.
It is pretty common here.
In my city alone there's 130 people in this program. (there's two schools in my city by the way..)
The Running Start program is an effort by the state of Washington to reward high-performing high school students by providing them with early admission to college.It is very similar to dual enrollment programs common at public and private colleges and universities in other states.
Piloted in the early 1990s and officially approved to begin in the fall of 1993, the Running Start program offers up to two years of paid tuition at any state-run community college or four-year university to students in their junior or senior year of high school. Juniors who can pass the entrance exam for a local community college may take part or all of their coursework at the community college. Their tuition is fully covered by the state, and successfully passing a course earns a student both high school and college credit for the course.
The system was designed to make it possible for a motivated high schooler to take all their classes for their final two years of high school at the community college: at the end of those two years, the student would have completed the necessary credits for high school graduation, as well as having completed the necessary college credits to receive an associate's degree. In practice, many students choose to take only a few classes at the college, partly because of the difficulty of college coursework, and partly to keep from missing out on the social life at high school. Students are only eligible to have 18 credits per quarter paid for, and they may only have tuition covered in the fall, winter, and spring quarters of their junior and senior years in high school.They may, however, attend during the summer quarter as long as they come up with their own sources of money for the tuition costs. In most cases, students are responsible for paying any fees, transportation, and book costs as well.
When the program first started it was greeted with some initial resistance at community colleges and universities by professors who feared they would be teaching to sixteen year olds who neither had the maturity nor academic discipline to excel at the college level. This skepticism was quieted at first due to the fact that most of the students participating during the first few years of the program tended to be among the top academically in their high schools and took the college courses very seriously since most were there to prepare for transfer to a four-year university.
[edit] Colleges
* Bates
* Bellevue Community College
* Bellingham
* Big Bend
* Cascadia
* Centralia
* Clark
* Clover Park
* Columbia Basin
* Edmonds
* Everett
* Grays Harbor
* Green River
* Highline
* Lake Washington
* Lower Columbia
* Olympic
* Peninsula
* Pierce Fort Steilacoom
* Pierce Puyallup
* Renton
* Seattle Central
* Seattle North
* Seattle South
* Seattle Voc Institute
* Shoreline
* Skagit Valley
* South Puget Sound
* Spokane
* Spokane Falls
* Tacoma
* Walla Walla
* Wenatchee Valley
* Whatcom Community College
* Yakima Valley
so I decided to wikipedia search "running start", and by golly it's on there!
so here it is.. Now whenever someone asks about how I started college at 16 I can just give them a link to wikipedia, or send them to this blog post..
I'm sick of people thinking I'm super genius or something,
thousands of kids in Washington do this.
It is pretty common here.
In my city alone there's 130 people in this program. (there's two schools in my city by the way..)
The Running Start program is an effort by the state of Washington to reward high-performing high school students by providing them with early admission to college.It is very similar to dual enrollment programs common at public and private colleges and universities in other states.
Piloted in the early 1990s and officially approved to begin in the fall of 1993, the Running Start program offers up to two years of paid tuition at any state-run community college or four-year university to students in their junior or senior year of high school. Juniors who can pass the entrance exam for a local community college may take part or all of their coursework at the community college. Their tuition is fully covered by the state, and successfully passing a course earns a student both high school and college credit for the course.
The system was designed to make it possible for a motivated high schooler to take all their classes for their final two years of high school at the community college: at the end of those two years, the student would have completed the necessary credits for high school graduation, as well as having completed the necessary college credits to receive an associate's degree. In practice, many students choose to take only a few classes at the college, partly because of the difficulty of college coursework, and partly to keep from missing out on the social life at high school. Students are only eligible to have 18 credits per quarter paid for, and they may only have tuition covered in the fall, winter, and spring quarters of their junior and senior years in high school.They may, however, attend during the summer quarter as long as they come up with their own sources of money for the tuition costs. In most cases, students are responsible for paying any fees, transportation, and book costs as well.
When the program first started it was greeted with some initial resistance at community colleges and universities by professors who feared they would be teaching to sixteen year olds who neither had the maturity nor academic discipline to excel at the college level. This skepticism was quieted at first due to the fact that most of the students participating during the first few years of the program tended to be among the top academically in their high schools and took the college courses very seriously since most were there to prepare for transfer to a four-year university.
[edit] Colleges
* Bates
* Bellevue Community College
* Bellingham
* Big Bend
* Cascadia
* Centralia
* Clark
* Clover Park
* Columbia Basin
* Edmonds
* Everett
* Grays Harbor
* Green River
* Highline
* Lake Washington
* Lower Columbia
* Olympic
* Peninsula
* Pierce Fort Steilacoom
* Pierce Puyallup
* Renton
* Seattle Central
* Seattle North
* Seattle South
* Seattle Voc Institute
* Shoreline
* Skagit Valley
* South Puget Sound
* Spokane
* Spokane Falls
* Tacoma
* Walla Walla
* Wenatchee Valley
* Whatcom Community College
* Yakima Valley
Monday, December 31, 2007
Feelin very listy..
It must be the whole end of the year thing.
I think we all know what's coming..
A list of my favorite albums of the year.
Last weekish I was talking with Chris, and I realized I only had boughten about 10 albums from a store.. Most music I downloaded Illegally, or from iTunes, I hate iTunes.. This year I really only downloaded specific songs, and not really albums. I bought 16 albums at most, if you include album purchases from iTunes. I'm short on cash. haha. Ok, that wasn't important to say.. Half of the albums I DID buy this year, didn't even come out this year, so I'm gonna pull a Hoopes and just do my favorite albums that I've gotten in 2007. A bunch of albums I did buy weren't even that great, I might add a few at the end of the blog. Along with albums I wish I had. Eh, ok?
Top ten albums of 2007
According to.. me.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
2. Relient K - Five Score And Seven Years Ago
3. Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child
4. Army Of Me - Citizen
5. The Color Fred - Bend To Break
6. Bayside - The Walking Wounded
7. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End
8. Straylight Run - The Needles, The Space
9. Over It - Step Outside Yourself
10. Dear & The Headlights - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
Ok, so Brand News cd, I actually got it in 2006, a week before Christmas. But I didn't make a list last year, and I needed to put that album on some list.. :/
I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child came out in December or November last year, but I didn't get it until this year, so it's gonna be up here, too.
I also didn't get Over It's cd until this year..
a few cds I wanted to put on the list but had no room for:
Dashboard Confessional - Shade Of Poison Trees
Ruth - Secondhand Dreaming
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Sherwood - A Different Light
Some cds that I regret buying this year when I could've gotten something else are:
Silver Chair - Young Modern
Norma Jean - Redeemer (it ain't for me, man.)
The Academy Is... - Santi
cds that I wish I had money to buy this year:
Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
Mae - Singularity
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Eisley - Combinations
Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
tons of others, too..
Happy New Year,
I love you,
I think.
I think we all know what's coming..
A list of my favorite albums of the year.
Last weekish I was talking with Chris, and I realized I only had boughten about 10 albums from a store.. Most music I downloaded Illegally, or from iTunes, I hate iTunes.. This year I really only downloaded specific songs, and not really albums. I bought 16 albums at most, if you include album purchases from iTunes. I'm short on cash. haha. Ok, that wasn't important to say.. Half of the albums I DID buy this year, didn't even come out this year, so I'm gonna pull a Hoopes and just do my favorite albums that I've gotten in 2007. A bunch of albums I did buy weren't even that great, I might add a few at the end of the blog. Along with albums I wish I had. Eh, ok?
According to.. me.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
2. Relient K - Five Score And Seven Years Ago
3. Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child
4. Army Of Me - Citizen
5. The Color Fred - Bend To Break
6. Bayside - The Walking Wounded
7. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End
8. Straylight Run - The Needles, The Space
9. Over It - Step Outside Yourself
10. Dear & The Headlights - Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
Ok, so Brand News cd, I actually got it in 2006, a week before Christmas. But I didn't make a list last year, and I needed to put that album on some list.. :/
I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child came out in December or November last year, but I didn't get it until this year, so it's gonna be up here, too.
I also didn't get Over It's cd until this year..
a few cds I wanted to put on the list but had no room for:
Dashboard Confessional - Shade Of Poison Trees
Ruth - Secondhand Dreaming
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Sherwood - A Different Light
Some cds that I regret buying this year when I could've gotten something else are:
Silver Chair - Young Modern
Norma Jean - Redeemer (it ain't for me, man.)
The Academy Is... - Santi
cds that I wish I had money to buy this year:
Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
Mae - Singularity
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Eisley - Combinations
Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
tons of others, too..
Happy New Year,
I love you,
I think.
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