June 2010
94 posts
in response to the comments
@emily: yeah, i think my sanity was on the run as well. but hopefully i’ve regained enough to be functional at school tomorrow.
@kira: it’s been gone for a while… and i can’t remember if my name is in it. can i see it tomorrow? if you have it that would pretty much make my week.
i hope i find all the things on my list. and don’t add too many more.
things i've recently lost:
my power of one book
my chemistry notes notebook
my eraser
my left earring
my super glue
my ability to type
my confidence in my being alive on june 11th
any motivation
my mind
if you know where any of these things may be, please let me know.
May 2010
55 posts
now i'm glad i wrote it all down
all semester i’ve typed up all my study guides before putting them on my notecard. all semester, people said it was pointless to put in all the extra effort, since i didn’t even put everything i wrote on my notecard. guess again, my friends. now that the final is here, i can put them all in one big document and search for the words i want, like “arrhenius” or...
it's quite overwhelming how much i don't want to...
but alas i guess i should. i’ve procrastinated enough— our written final is on thursday. it’s close enough that i should be studying yet far enough that i am totally unmotivated. we’ll see how well this pans out, but the thought of doing chemistry is just revolting.
fun at the bookstore
i’ve not been to a book store in a long time, so when we went today it was really fun. i like book stores.
however, the teen fiction books suck. they all fall in to three categories, for the most part: random book that no one’s ever heard of or would ever want to read, books about mean girls living in some big city who complain about other girls stealing their boyfriends, or...
conspiracy theories 9/11 style
i just finished watching a two-hour show on 9/11 conspiracy theories. it was verrrry interesting. the conspiracy theories are interesting… mostly saying that because every single stinking detail has not been explained or that every single stinking detail does not fit what these random, non-expert people would think is acceptable. they have no idea what they’re talking about, but yet...
“A group of BP executives were on board the platform celebrating the project’s...”
– Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via zachrose) (via readmorewikipedia)
insane hairdressers
today i got a hair cut. i got it shorter because it’s summer soon, so now it’s about at my shoulders. my hair is pretty curly when it’s really short, and my hairdresser decided that she was going to make it as curly as possible. sighhhhh. she put this awful gunk in my hair that was supposed to make it stay curly (now my fingers stick together if i touch it, jeez.) and it was...
oh shruthi,
you might thing that you “owned” me, but you’d be wrong.
first, i’m using my cookie money to get there, smart one.
second, it takes a lot more than the few hundred dollars i’ve made to install wifi on a bunch of islands miles off the coast of ecuador— where there are only about 300,000 people. efficient? i think not.
third, if i were to be poisoned, i would...
galapagos
no, i am not bringing any poisonous plants back from ecuador.
can’t put them in my bag, x-ray will catch them
can’t put them on my person, i’ll die of the poison
can’t get the antidote, i’ll be without internet access
plus that’s just stupid.
owned? not me. sorry.
fun stuff
today i actually enjoyed myself (shocking). besides my two mini heart attacks, of course (french and cellphone… phew).
i went to ana’s house after school and we watched dear john and drank russian tea that was actually british. it was pretty good, and it made her day that i was all hard core and didn’t use any sugar. the movie was okay… the first half was better than the...
it's 11:11
make a wish!
mottos to live by
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
No one...
Paying Homage to Mrs. Auch
The STENTORIAN voices carried the INCANTATIONS through the crowd. The witches, as they were labeled by the wary townspeople, walked through the gathering with COPIOUS numbers of amulets and talismans hanging off their traditional robes. They were considered by the tiny town to be bound for PERDITION; their tribal religion was very much out of line with the Christian views of the town’s only place...
buddhist extremists →
well so much for the no buddhist extremists theory. it took me about 30 seconds to find some… i had no idea they were out there. and for those hindhus in the audience, here’s another link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5186703.ece
no religion is without fault. it’s kind of a depressing thought.
catholic church →
yeah, i know, i’ve posted a lot of links lately. but i read these articles and decided to share them.
sighhh… religious extremists are messing everything up. moderately religious people are not the problem, they are just getting a bad rep. if religion makes you a nicer person or gives you hope, then i think it’s a really good thing. the problem is people who are too caught up in...
you know what i love?
how i always become so popular right before an essay is due.
when i go online, it’s always “hey ellen, what’s up?” we chat. then, the ”hey, do you want to grade my essay?” comes inevitably.
now i know at least one person’s gonna have to comment and say how no one likes me for anything but my editing. yes, you can have at it, but you’ll be wrong....
girl scouts
@abdul: i was more referring to the vast population of people who think girl scouts are all dorky. you just made me think of it. :D
@the world: girl scouts are not dorky. at least, not all of them. yes, i agree, the girl scouts who sell nuts and earn badges and wear uniforms and say girl scout pledges are exceedingly dorky. i would not be caught dead in an official girl scout uniform.
my girl...
in one month...
… i will be in ecuador. quito, ecuador, at this very moment, i think. yesterday (in one month) i will have flown to miami to meet all the other girls i am going to travel with. tomorrow i will go to the galapagos islands. yeah, those galapagos islands. iguanas and giant tortoises and penguins. the real thing.
see? take that, girl scout haters. i, a girl scout, get to go to ecuador on a girl...
confused
i keep getting notifications from tumblr (like the little red 1 appears) but then i refresh the page and nothing changes. i am confused.
religious tolerance →
aaaand if you’ve got too much time on your hands and feel like reading more articles, here’s another good one. it’s not as long this time, i promise. and this guy (a dalai lama) has got a view that the jews and muslims in israel and the west bank should embrace.
zionism and the israeli-arab conflict →
this is a pretty good article. it’s long—and i mean long—but it addresses a lot of things we’ve been talking about in core. it’s biased towards the palestinians, though it was written by an orthodox jew.
i am definitely leaning towards the palestinians on this particular conflict. not being a religious person i cannot understand the jews’ need for the sacred...
my choir audition song~
If I loved you Time and again I would try to say All I’d want you to know If I loved you Words wouldn’t come in an easy way Round in circles I’d go Longing to tell you But afraid and shy I’d let my golden chances Pass me by Soon you’d leave me, Off you would go In the mist of day, Never never to know How I loved you If I loved you.
-carosel.
the...
“If you drink a glass of water every morning for 36,500 days, you will live to be...”
– CHS Planner (a.k.a. the “No DUH” handbook)
once again i win
… the idiot prize. again. guess who forgot that the schedule was different again? that’s right, i showed up to math class five minutes late. again. timmreck was in the middle of a lesson. again. aaaawwwkward.
i also win the lack-of-a-name prize again. you all know that i am frequently called by names that aren’t mine. for example, my name is about 2/3 ellen, 2/9 kira, and 1/9...
must love cheese
my grandma got a new dog! i was not supposed to know about him, because my grandma was going to take him to our house as a surprise one day, but my dad leaked the secret so my grandma came over this evening for a little while to introduce her new dog to us. his name is toby and he is absolutely adorable. he is a two-year-old pomeranian-jack russel terrier mix. he looks like a golden retriever...
men in skirts
well, the maker faire was fun. and yes, “faire” has an “e” on the end.
there was lots of cool stuff. there were homeopathic hula hoops, bikes that had been cut in half and glued back together backwards, and tons of weird but cool art, from sculptures made out of soda bottles to cars decorated with fur. there was also a lot of techonology stuff, like computers or...
off to the faire
today we are going to the maker’s faire. you might remember it from the tech challenge… they were the ones with the little blue lights. my family’s gone for the past few years. it’s pretty much the geekiest place on the planet, but it’s really fun. really cool robots, life-sized mouse traps, and merchandising galore… i wonder what cool things we’ll see...
unheard-of fun
today i decided to go to the french extra credit activity, where the 8th graders taking french at hyde came to see tino and meet madame. i had a great time. i got extra credit and had fun.
first, ana (yeah i know she spells it anna but everyone knows who im talking about when i say ana, and anna g takes too long), sophie, and i packed up some books for madame, and she said we could have any...
i win...
…the idiot prize.
today i was running late and was worried about being late to math second period, which i have with timmreck. i have no first, so i come at 8:25.
not today.
i totally and completely forgot (until i saw that everyone was already in class) that second period started at 8:15. it was 8:30. so i went to the office to get a late pass, and then walked in to timmreck’s...
joy/sadness
the school year is almost over. of course, i can’t wait for summer… sleeping in, no homework, traveling. but i am still terrified of the fact that this year is almost over.
this year has been really great. yes, i’ve had a heck of a lot of homework and some less-than-stellar teachers, but overall this was one of the best years i’ve ever had. i’ve made so many friends,...
subtle hints
i use google chrome, because firefox and internet explorer mess up chat and are slow. i love chrome mainly because of the new tab screen, which has got my top 6 most visited sites. i’ve got the usual— facebook, schoolloop, yahoo, things like that. but for some reason, my facebook bookmark disappeared yesterday. and what showed up in its place? another schoolloop bookmark.
i think...
my theory
so i’ve been paying attention in core this year. we’ve not gotten to pick our groups for any substantial projects yet this year, so i’ve formed a hypothesis about how they make our groups. we already know they are heterogeneous (blatantly obvious), but there is a system for how they make the groups. in groups of four, there is one smart person, two average people, and one...
someone else's kid
today in class, my teacher told us a story about her son. basically, when he was born, he had a tumor that wouldn’t stop bleeding. there were times when she didn’t think he was going to make it. she said that her son lived because of the massive amounts of donated blood he used.
it was really sad. she’s one of my favorite teachers, and it was really heartbreaking to hear that...
ellen, the one with no name
i’ve been called kira, megan, susan, allen, elaina, helen, erica, erin, and countless other names.
i was wrong in thinking “ellen” wasn’t that hard of a name. at least once a year a sub calls me “allen” and then is surprised when a girl answers. a couple years ago a teacher made the mistake of putting an allen, elena, alina, and i all at the same table. boy,...
a sure-fire way to gain ellen points
i want to not wait till the last moment. (yeah, i know, an idle wish. but a girl can dream, can’t she?)
well, the point is that i’m going to do as much editing as i can. and, as with any essay, peer editing is greatly appreciated. i know that each and every person who will read this long, drawn out request is a great writer. so if you feel like taking out maybe 20 minutes of your...
my procrastination
my essay is quite boring,
this fact i can’t deny.
it’s bound to leave one snoring
and makes me want to cry.
poetry is not my calling
because i cannot rhyme.
yet though it may be appalling,
it’s using up my time.
i’ve edited and edited
and edited some more
this essay can be credited
with dirty looks galore.
for no one in their right mind
likes to write...
you guys are kill-joys
well, indiana jones is over, and i don’t regret watching it one bit. it was, as i said before, time well spent. but now i’m done being irresponsible. essay, here i come.
evening well spent
it’s a monday night and i’ve got nothing due tomorrow. am i using this time to get a head start on this week’s coming assignments? no, i think not. you may then ask what i am doing instead. i am taking full advantage of the time, this i can assure you. i am watching a movie. not just any movie, but one of the best. “indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark.” it...
sandwiches
i really don’t understand this sandwich joke craze. whoever started it is, i am sure, a jerky single guy. has anyone besides me noticed that the majority of people who like the jokes are guys, not girls? i am pretty sure that’s not a coincidence. because really, ha ha ha, who wouldn’t want to be told to go make a sandwich for someone else, ha ha ha, i mean come on. i’m...
i write like a guy
i have messy handwriting. when we were writing on handouts as a group in history on friday, eric said my handwriting was messy, for a girl. our writing looked pretty much the same on the sheet. if you’ve seen eric’s writing, you know how sad that is. then eric said something about making sandwiches, but i don’t remember what. yes, my handwriting is messy for a girl. that’s...
laptop amazingness
here i am, sitting in front of my laptop once again— but it is different from the last time i did this. that’s right, my laptop has been fixed! after a week of repairs, it is back and better than before! the screen used to short out at certain angles, and the charger stopped working. it was pretty bad, so my dad took it to a laptop repair place. they fixed it, and then today, my dad...
san francisco
i just spent the day selling soda, candy, and chips to girl scouts to raise money for my trip to the galapagos islands this summer. seven and a half hours. holy cow, that was a long time. at least it was at the presidio on a gorgeous day, so the golden gate bridge and alcatraz were beautiful. at the booth i was working at, there were at least four signs on the front that said, “all drinks...
percy jackson and the lightning thief
my brother is an intense percy jackson fan. i’ve been meaning to go with him to see the movie, but due to all the stupid homework we’ve been getting, i’ve never had the time until now. my whole family went to bluelight, the movie theater by the oaks near memorial park, that plays movies that are out of theaters. the film itself was bad because it was old, but then again, so was...
what the heck?
i just had a very odd conversation with my dad. he said that he wishes i spent less time studying, because he doesn’t really get to spend that much time with me anymore because i’m always doing homework. he also says my mom agrees. he said, and i quote, “find ways to cut corners.” i’m in shock. i don’t actually study all that hard… or do all that much more...
dear research paper,
i hate your guts. i am trying very hard to write you, but you just refuse to cooperate. i am petrified of plagiarizing without knowing. i am using the same words over and over. you are just so annoying. i’m trying to be analytical, but it’s just not working. at least help me with that, will you? it’s the least you can do. i’m trying to make you eloquent and logical, but you...
