Too bad, I hid a boot
I went skiing! It was so much fun! First my dad, my brother and I went to NW to see if it was OK with Ms. Muehl that I would miss practice. We spent at least half an hour searching for her, but when we finaly found her she said it was fine, and to go have fun so that was good. Then we went home, I got changed, and we left. We got to Whitetail at about 10:30 and started skiing at about 11:45. I hadn't been for about five years, so we started out on the bunny slope, then moved to a blue/green level slope ( I just realized that the word level is a palindrome!!) which is low intermediate. The first time I went down I didn't know what I was doing so I was just speeding down the slope, not out of control, but almost *_*. At one point I was going really fast for the first time and I burst out in hysterical laughter. I guess it was from all the endorphines :) The people from the lift must have thought I was crazy... watching this girl speeding down the slope laughing uncontrolably. After that first run (in which, amazingly, I didn't fall) I learned to control my speed. We did thst slope for a while, then went to go eat lunch. After lunch we came back and did that slope two more times, then went to a blue slope (which is a harder intermediate level). It was so steep! At the beginning I watched my brother ski about 20 meters, try to turn, and fall. I said to myself, "I can do it without falling", but alas, no such luck. I skied almost the exact same distance and fell while trying to turn. Then we repeated the process.... many times. Sometimes, when you fell, you would loose your poles, but keep sliding down the hill because it was so steep. Then you would have to climb back up the hill to get your poles. It was weird because whenever my brother fell, he would get hurt, but i never did. The worst I ever hurt was when my ski hit me in the shin. I will probably be sore tommorow though, which is bad because we might have intervals. So after the blue slope we had exactly one minute left on our lift ticket, so we ran..er... skiied fast... to the blue/green slope and did that one one more time. It seemed so easy after the blue one. It's not almost 8:00 and I want to go online before I got to bed, but the AIM won't connect.. pooh. Oh well, I'll probably go to bed and read. So.... the moral of the story is.... SKIING IS FUN!
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
I don't know why I came here... I need to go to bed. Oh well, it will be a short post. Tommorow my dad wants to take me and my brother skiing (my mom is in NJ) but I think I have track practice. So we are going to run by school in the morning to drop of Thomas' IIP points paper (tsk tsk..) and ask Ms. Muehl if I have to go to practice. If I don't, we will be off to the slopes... if not, they will take me home and THEY will be off to the slopes. Hopefully, in that situation, Nancy can give me a ride to practice. If not, alas, I will have to walk. Oh well, it's not that far. Soo... so far this weekend has been fun. Lots of staring at TV screens :) I have seen The Two Towers again! And Mary and I went through about half of the Fushigi Yuugi series. They are both so gooooooooood! (FU and TTT) What would we do if we weren't in the age of T.V.'s? Even I would be deprived and I don't have one.
Bed time! I will only be 15 for 9 more days! I don't know what to do for my birthday. Hmm... well... I have a week to decide...
Evil olive
I get to sleep in tommorow! I think I'll take my shower in the morning and maybe even have french toast for breakfast. Mmmmmm....
Lately I have been so happy. So very happy. Here are some of the things that have been making me happy:
1. my friends
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Harry Potter
4. animé/ manga
5. music- especially The Beatles
I hate when I'm happy and other people aren't, especially people who are close to me. It makes me think.. why can I be happy while this person is suffering? I wish I could transfer happiness... that would be a great power. I would transfer it to all my friends who are feeling down, Sadam Husein, Osama BinLaden (sorry for any spelling errors) and all those people which could use some happiness in place of hate. Heck, I would transfer happiness to everyone in the world. I think there's enough happiness in those 5 things listed above to go around :D
I am going to bed early in order to get lots and lots of sleep for tommorow. Except.. sometimes that backfires and I am sleepy if I get too much sleep. We probably have intervals tommorow so it pays to be well rested, hopefully I can get the right amount of sleep.
Reject hatred without hatred
I hate the war. It tears family and friends apart. It kills. And it doesn't solve anything except... "Oh... my country can kill more people than your country can." It's as if two children are arguing over a toy... they fight... and who ever lives gets the toy. Killing is not the way to solve things. What is? you ask. I don't know all the answers.. but it seems that the lives of the people in your country should be important enough to try and find another way. If a war starts now, it won't be like any other war that we've had. There are so many countries that have nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction, that whole countries could be wiped out. It's not worth it.... I just can't concieve any possible reason that so many innocent lives are worth some oil and some more power. Maybe there's more to it... but it's not worth human lives. I fear death because there is so much to look forward to in life. To take that away from so many people just can't be justified. ( This is my opinion... I don't know all the facts and so if I have said something untrue, please correct me.)
This is a quote from Irrisistable Poison. It's not funny, but it inspires me. I want to be able to discribe my job like this....
Harry really knew how to fly. Not just be able to zip around on a broomstick and negotiate right-angled corners without falling off, but really fly in the complete, truest sense of the word — as if he could shed the skin that gravity held sway over, as if the sky wasn't the limit but only the basis of so much more worth exploring. Even during matches, it occurred to Draco that Harry didn't seem like he was flying only to compete, but rather also for the pure love of it, and somehow the wind caught him and took him where his instincts led, as if catching the Snitch was only a minor satisfaction in the sheer pleasure of flying, just a shimmer of gold on a horizon that had no bounds.
I wish I lived in a Harry Potter book.... :D
It is now.... 8:49... and I am heading off to ge ready for bed. I am sooooo verrrrry tired. So tired. I fell asleep in math class for about 30 seconds and I had a 30 second dream... that strikes me as funny *_* I can't remember the dream, though. Tommorow I have to give my biotech presentation which I finally cut down under 4 munites. Hopefully I can go through with it tommorow. I did my spanish oral on Monday and I got an 80%......blah.... I hope I can get an A overall though. Oh yeah, Emily, remind me to help you with comment boxes! I keep forgetting :)
Egad! No bondage!
Mary beat me to it, but....
NO SCHOOL TOMMOROW!!!! AHHHHHHHHH At the dinner table we were discussing that it would be nice if there was a 2 hour delay, but we didn't think it would happen. I went to the MCPS website and had to read it over about three times before I could convince myself it was true. Now I can finish my english and my math, plus read some of IP and maybe draw or something. So happy! except my parents will probably make me do my biotech project all of tommorow.. Oh well. I'm just glad I finished my current event before I found out there was no school. I would have stopped and would have more to do tommorow. Oh yeah... I thought the title was kind of fitting, because we are bonded to school, but not tommorow! no bondage, no bondage, la de da de da da!
Draw, O coward!
This is a survey that Jason had on his blog a long time ago.. oh yeah, I fixed the two that i mentioned in the comments, so you can ignore that comment now *_*
Your name spelled backwards: anna! hehehe that's so special.....well, i think so....
Where were your parents born? Washington DC and England
Heart broken? nope :)
What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer? "Love Me Do" by the Beatles
Last time you swam in a pool? oohhh... hmm.. durring the summer?
Do you believe in yourself? yes
Have you ever been in a school play? no :( I've always wanted to try, but I'm too busy with other things...
How many kids do you want? 2 or 3
Type of music you dislike most? humm.... random noises? no that would be funny.... music that makes fun of people based on stereotypes
Are you registered to vote? not old enough
Do you have cable? nope
Have you ever ridden on a moped? no but they're all over France and you can drive them when you're young and that would be so cool!
Do you like the ocean? yeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss
Ever get a parking ticket? i've never driven a car, so i can't say ive had the chance
Furthest place you ever traveled? France
Last time you cried? My uncle's funeral
Does everyone deserve a second chance? well, i think so
What's your favorite comic strip? Calvin and Hobbes
Biggest regret? I don't know, I hope I don't have any... if I do I can't think of one
Do you have any enemies? i hope not
Once a cheater always a cheater? nope
Best movie you've seen in the past month? Lord of the Rings
Have you ever punched anyone in the face? nope
Have you ever been in a beauty pageant? no, can't say I have
Who was the last person you went out to dinner with and where did you dine? mary, jason, and sharoo at the star diner, yum!
Have you ever won a trophy? irish dancing ones
Are you a good cook? yup and I plan to get better!
Is there anyone at the moment who makes your heart beat faster? noo
Is birth control worth it? can't say i have experience in that area
Last thing you bought at a pharmacy? i don't think i've ever bought anything at a pharmacy
Ever throw up in public? yup in elementary school
Would you prefer being a millionaire or find true love? hahaha... who ever says millionare needs to set their priorities straight
Who was the last person you visited in a hospital? my grandpa
When was the last time you were in love? never been in love
Did you have a lot of hair when you were a baby? yes ahaha. there's a picture of me as a new born with lots of dark hair
What's your all time favorite Saturday Night Live Character? I don't remember the last time i saw SNL
What was the name of your first pet? Lydia and Abby, 2 calico cats
What is in your purse? if purse=my greeen box bag thingy, which i suppose it does, money, a notepad thingy, chapstick assorted pencils/pens and trash :D
How many songs do you have downloaded onto your hard drive? ummm... a hundred something?
Favorite thing to do before bedtime? brush my teeth : ) it's when i'm actually in bed that i think...
What is one thing you are grateful for today? that everyone i know is pretty happy and healthy right now
We had a track scrimage against ourselves today (sophmores and juniors vs. freshies and seniors).. it was so cold and we all did so badly.. blah. And since it was so cold, Ms. Muehl took out the hurdles and all the relays. It was good because that meant we weren't out in the cold so long, but we didn't get to run the hurdles :( Nancy and I ran the 200, 300 and 800. It wasn't so bad until the 800, which was the last event. We were so tired and so cold.. I don't think anyone had a Personal Record today. Nancy's 800 was 20 seconds slower than usual and mine was 12 seconds slower than my PR.. It was all blah... My 200 and 300 weren't all that great either. Nancy and I were origionaly supposed to run the 200, 400, and 800 but we got lucky. We were sitting under the bleachers out of the wind, beause we thought that the next race was supposed to be the 55 meters which we weren't running, when we saw a bunch of girls take off for the 400.... which we were supposed to be running. So we walked over to Ms. Muehl, terrified, because she hates when you miss a race because you're not paying attention. It turned out they skipped the 55 and were going straight to the 400, but Ms. Muehl just said "Oh! I'm sorry, I forgot that I took you guys out of the 300, not the 400!" So that was good.
When I got home I ate alot of food, took a shower, and tried to start my homework, but I was too tired. So I read "The Catcher in the Rye" which I have to finish by monday and do 6 response journals..... I also have my current event, biotech project, 20 pages to read for AP government (and these pages are not easy reading), and studying for spanish. Tommorow is going to be a busy day. Atleast biotech isn't due until Friday and I've already read Catcher in the Rye. I love that book, everyone hates it, but I love it. I think it's because he's such an interesting person, plus, I love when people tell me stories, and the book is just like Holden telling us one story with a whole bunch of little stories inside it. I really want to finish Irrisistable Poison before the last chapter comes out too. AND I want to read this book I got my dad for christmas, "The Lost Beatles Interviews" which has a whole bunch of interviews with The Beatles. (Haha I read some of them and they're so funny and random at times :D) Okay, i'm gonna stop whinning now. I feel like my problems are so insignificant compared to most people's, so why do I complain?
music: "Something"- The Beatles
