*_*

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! (())_(()) <- in case you can't tell, thats a face with pumpkin eyes.

The weeks go by so fast when you're busy! The work load seems to be getting a little bit smaller, but that might be because I don't have soccer any more, so I have more time to do it. IM SO HAPPY!!! I GOT A 'B' IN AP GOVERNMENT!!!!!! I'm so proud of myself *_* I got a stupid 'B' in stupid math though. My teacher, Mrs. Taylor, is not very good. To teach us things she does problems on the overhead. She doesn't even explain what she's doing until someone asks, and even then, she doesn't explain very well. I understand everything, but.... yeah..... I don't know. I do allllll my homework, but does she collect it? no... arg... Next semester I have Mr. Weinstein and I heard that he's good. The next scary thing in my school life is the campaign project for Ms. Muehl. We have a biography of Ms. Muehl who we are supposed to pretend is running for the Senate for Maryland and we are competing to be her campaign manager. We work in groups, but it's scary because there is only one 'A' given out, to the person who she would choose to be her campaign manager. eep.

I am so bad about updating. I always have a whole bunch to write, but not enough time or energy, so I just tell myself I'll write later. Bah.... Well, on Friday I went to the International Horse Show which was sooo awesome. So awesome. I don't have time to write about it now because I have to go babysit, but you can go read Mary's blog and find out all the wonderful details. On Saturday I did my only homework, my Biology paper. It was amazing I didn't have any work. I guess it was because I had tests in almost all my classes, so the teachers didn't give homework. On Sunday I went to an irish dance competition in Virginia. We gotr there right after my competition, so I danced up, with the age group above me. There were only 4 people in the competition, because so many people cancelled out when the sniper was at large. I made the number of people 5 which was good because Tara (a girl from my dance school) got her second first and there has to be 5 people in the competition for it to count. Now she gets to move to the next level, which is the highest. I got 3rd, which I was proud of. I have another competition this Sunday or Saturday, forget which day, and I hope I'll do well. Now I am late for babysitting, bye!

Music: The Beetles- "Let it Be"

Haha... I was reading my other post, and I realized I said they were talking about migrating birds. Well, they are, but I meant to say migrating coconuts. Thats an example of how my brain works faster than I type, so I'm typing one sentence and thinking about what I'm going to type next, or something totally different, and I start typing what I'm thinking. I also realized that I left out part of that scene, so I will add it for maximum enjoyment.

P.S. I'm sorry sorry I made you read this if you don't enjoy mindless humor *_*

My brother set the computer so that it plays different sound bytes from "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" when ever certain things happen. So whenever I open a program my computer says, "Hello, uhh, can we have your liver?" Hehe...funny.. but it could get annoying. In "Monty Python", I like it when they are talking about migrating birds. For your reading pleasure I have included the script from my two favorite scenes. Just remember that nothing has to make sense....*_*

VILLAGER #1: We have found a witch. May we burn her?
CROWD: Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
BEDEVERE: How do you know she is a witch?
VILLAGER #2: She looks like one.
CROWD: Right! Yeah! Yeah!
BEDEVERE: Bring her forward.
WITCH: I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.
BEDEVERE: Uh, but you are dressed as one.
WITCH: They dressed me up like this.
CROWD: Augh, we didn't! We didn't...
WITCH: And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
BEDEVERE: Well?
VILLAGER #1: Well, we did do the nose.
BEDEVERE: The nose?
VILLAGER #1: And the hat, but she is a witch!
VILLAGER #2: Yeah!
CROWD: We burn her! Right! Yeaaah! Yeaah!
BEDEVERE: Did you dress her up like this?
VILLAGER #1: No!
VILLAGER #2 and 3: No. No.
VILLAGER #2: No.
VILLAGER #1: No.
VILLAGERS #2 and #3: No.
VILLAGER #1: Yes.
VILLAGER #2: Yes.
VILLAGER #1: Yes. Yeah, a bit.
VILLAGER #3: A bit.
VILLAGERS #1 and #2: A bit.
VILLAGER #3: A bit.
VILLAGER #1: She has got a wart.
RANDOM: [cough]
BEDEVERE: What makes you think she is a witch?
VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt.
BEDEVERE: A newt?
VILLAGER #3: I got better.
VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway!
VILLAGER #1: Burn!
CROWD: Burn her! Burn! Burn her!...
BEDEVERE: Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether
she is a witch.
VILLAGER #1: Are there?
VILLAGER #2: Ah?
VILLAGER #1: What are they?
CROWD: Tell us! Tell us!...
BEDEVERE: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
VILLAGER #2: Burn!
VILLAGER #1: Burn!
CROWD: Burn! Burn them up! Burn!...
BEDEVERE: And what do you burn apart from witches?
VILLAGER #1: More witches!
VILLAGER #3: Shh!
VILLAGER #2: Wood!
BEDEVERE: So, why do witches burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of... wood?
BEDEVERE: Good! Heh heh.
CROWD: Oh, yeah. Oh.
BEDEVERE: So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her.
BEDEVERE: Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #1: Oh, yeah.
RANDOM: Oh, yeah. True. Uhh...
BEDEVERE: Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1: No. No.
VILLAGER #2: No, it floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!
CROWD: The pond! Throw her into the pond!
BEDEVERE: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Uh, very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Uh, gra-- gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Uh, churches! Churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead! Lead!
ARTHUR: A duck!
CROWD: Oooh.
BEDEVERE: Exactly. So, logically...
VILLAGER #1: If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of
wood.
BEDEVERE: And therefore?
VILLAGER #2: A witch!
VILLAGER #1: A witch!
CROWD: A witch! A witch!...

"very small rocks"...."build a bridge out of her!".... it kills me!! hahahah....good times...... OK and here's my other favorite scene (its the opening scene):

[opening music]
[wind]
[clop clop clop]
KING ARTHUR: Whoa there!
[clop clop clop]
SOLDIER #1: Halt! Who goes there?
ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot.
King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!
SOLDIER #1: Pull the other one!
ARTHUR: I am,... and this is my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the
length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in
my court at Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.
SOLDIER #1: What? Ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
SOLDIER #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
SOLDIER #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em
together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land,
through the kingdom of Mercia, through--
SOLDIER #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?
ARTHUR: We found them.
SOLDIER #1: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
SOLDIER #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the
plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to
our land?
SOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.
SOLDIER #1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
SOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple
question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one
pound coconut.
ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that
Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
SOLDIER #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow
needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
SOLDIER #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
SOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!
SOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow.
That's my point.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!
SOLDIER #1: But then of course a-- African swallows are non-migratory.
SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah.
SOLDIER #1: So, they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway.
[clop clop clop]
SOLDIER #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?
SOLDIER #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
SOLDIER #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!
SOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
SOLDIER #2: Well, why not?




I am not suggesting that coconuts migrate, but turtles sure do *_*

If you are a dork like me and want to read the whole script (or atleast part of it), go here
P.S. Just in case you were wondering, I didn't type that all out, I copy and pasted ~:D <- hahah! the face has hair!

Yesterday was crazy but fun. In the morning I practiced my irish dancing and took a shower. Then I went with Mary and Bryan and Mary's friend Beth to Kentlands and we went into the Whole Foods market and ate lots of samples. Fun fun fun! After that Rebecca and I went to get our hair cut. She got hers curled and I was gonna wear mine straight, but she said "We've all seen you with straight hair, do something different" So the lady said she would make it wavy, which turned into curls, which I didn't like that much. Next year I'll just have Katie's sister do my hair, she loves to do it, it's free, and she is really good at it. So then we went to Emily's house to get ready and eat. Then we went to the dance which was fun. Katie was convinced that she had a brain tumor because she kept seeing flashes of light (which, she insisted, were not the camera flashes, they were across her vision) and she was hearing things (which she said were not the little voices). After the dance we went back to Emily's and slept over, and then in the morning I went to have a riding lesson, yay! In the night at about three o'clock in the morning Rhea and Emily were asleep and Rebecca, the Katies and I were just falling asleep when we heard a "weeoo weeoo" and saw a light flash. It was just two sirens, but it was right outside the house so it woke us right up again. We went to the window and there was this police car that ahd pulled a drunk driver over onto the side of the road. I'm not quite certain what happened, but we heard the police talking to the driver, and whenever the guy in the backseat tried to get out of the car, his friend (the driver) told him to get back in. They gave the driver the breath test and I guess he was fine because he got to get back in the car. Then, suddenly, they pulled the guy in the back seat out of the car and started wrestling to get handcuffs on him. I don't know what he did, I know he was drunk, but I don't think you can be arrested for being just plain drunk. He must have said something or created trouble and was being arrested for disorderly conduct. But it took a while to get him out of the car, and one of the police kicked him. Meanwhile about 4 other police cars had showed up. Anyway, I'm not sure what happened but it was interesting....

My calves are killing me because of my shoes, which weren't even that tall. It was crazy because when we were looking for shoes, they all had at least 3-inch heels. Those would have really killed my calves, plus I would hurt in other places from falling over. I'm glad we found my nice little one inch heels, but I should have taken them off. They were annoying, flip flops would have been better *_*. Oh, hehe, once Seva stood up from his seat and Rebecca took it and Seva was like "Hey!" but I told him she deserved it over him because he got to wear nice, not-so-uncomfertable shoes. Now my dad is yelling at me to go to bed, bye!

P.S. MARY AND I MADE TRI -M!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *_*

Ooohhh I used alliteration in my last post.. "selfish snipers struck" *_* We're learning about literary devices in English. There are too many....I'm nerVous and excited about Homecoming. It will be a different experience for me. In our group there are six girls and two guys, onle one couple (except I don't think anyone is supposed to know that they are going "together", so it's not even like they're a couple. Anyway.. It's me, Rebecca, Emily, Katie B., Rhea (who lives in frederick) Katie W. & Seth (the "couple") and Seva. It should be fun (I hope). All the girls are going to Emily's house to get ready and eat and then we will meet the guys. We are so disorganized... we aren't going out for dinner and I'm not sure if the guys are even eating with us...hehe funny... And then after HC the girls are going back to Emily's to sleep over.

The sniper shot someone else today. I don't even know if they were killed. I can't keep all the shootings straight. I just want to go back to 3rd grade where no one was getting shot, ther was no September 11th, there was no possible war and everything was just peachy.

Music: Weezer- "Buddy Holly"

Those selfish snipers struck again. This time it was a 13 year old boy.... I don't understand what could make someone want to kill like that, or think they had a right to. Was their life mission to learn to be a really accurate sniper and then kill as many people as they can before getting caught? Atleast the boy wasn't killed, even though he's in surgery still....hopefully he'll make it.

We also missed ANOTHER game because the schools were under Code Blue. And this just happens to be the day that I have the smallest amount of homework I've had all year. So on the days I have a game or practice I have a whole boatload of homework, and then on days where there's no soccer...I have nothing. It's not right I tell you, not right.....
So now I'm supposed to go practice my irish dancing. We're going to Texas in December for the regional competition, last year it was in Florida, which was awesome, but Texas should be fun too.

Yesterday I had a riding lesson! Yay! I haven't had a lesson since before the fair last summer. I rode this really slow horse which used to belong to my instructor, but she had to get rid of him because he was too posesive of the mares and would beat up the other a geldings (and he wasn't even a stalion). He was really good, happy to go out and work, happy to come back, and just had a great personality. But the person she sent him to didn't want to go fast and whenever he would speed up at all she would say "Woah woah" and slow him down. She would also let him stop and scratch his face whenever he wanted, and basically pampered him. So now that Sue (my instructor has him back) he's this lazy little thing (or big). We ride him with spurs (not the sharp kind, the dull ones) and a crop and he still is slow. When I was riding I could even feel it in my lower back. He hardly notices the spurs. It's really hard to believe he used to be a race horse and win alot of races. But he's still really sweet and I'll learn alot on him. Wheeeee I love riding......

music: Creed, Six Feet from the Edge

Hello everyone welcome back to my working blog. Fixed by....the one...the only.... Mury Clapp! Thank you Mary!!!

I am still busy, but it's Friday, horray!!!

Yesterday FIVE people were shot in random sniper attacks. Its scary and angering. Scary because it was just random people. For pleasure or revenge or for just making a point.. But they were random...that means next it could be my brother, me, my friends, my parents.... you are just walking along and then your life is over... atleast when you die when you are old you have accomplished the things you want to... And it makes me mad because they are so selfish. Who takes someone else's life away for pleasure? Well... they might have had a reason.... but it was random.... and no reason could justify what they did.

My friends have convinced me to go to homecoming. I don't go for the whole get dressed up and dance around thing, but everyone says its fun and it will be something new. We have to go get a dress this weekend. I haven't worn a dress since third grade. And then my mom said "we have to get a dress and shoes this weekend" and i was like "shoes?" I forgot about shoes.... Arg...Is it really worth it? We'll see....

There is a person that never talks to me any more and I don't know if they are mad at me or just don't want to talk to me or what.. but I miss talking to them. I would say their name but if they really just don't want to talk to me anymore I'd feel bad because.. I don't know, I'm confused. I'm just thinking and writing what I think...and it might just be mme or my imagination. I know I should talk to them about it... but I don't know how to go about a conversation like that. But this person is pretty reasonable so I think they would understand if I talked to them. Hmm..

We had a test in AP gov today and it was hard hard hard. Ahhhhhh... I want to do well in this class..... bah...... I'm really hoping to keep my grade at a B or above. Bah........

Anyway... its the weekend, time for sleepeys!!!

Music: Avril Lavigne: Things I'll Never Say

Bwahahaha

This is Mary, and I am the clown that came to town to fix Anna's blog so people can read it! Heh. I'm done now.