Since August 8, 2008

I want to keep track of how many books I read between now and when I graduate. I'm kind of stealing the idea from Natasha. I don't really want to set a goal for myself though because I always seem to set my reading goals too high and then get disappointed. Plus who knows how much time I'll have for reading once the school year starts. 

Reading:
The Green Collar Economy - Van Jones
Commencement - J Courtney Sullivan

Finished:
1. What Is The What - Dave Eggers
2. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
3. The Red Tent - Anita Diamante
4. Hard Landing - Stephen Leather
5. You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers
6. Jupiter's Bones - Faye Kellerman
7. The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
8. More Than It Hurts You - Darin Strauss
9. The Little Prisoner - Jane Elliot
10. Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs
11. Say When - Elizabeth Berg
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
13. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
14. The Thought That Counts - Jared Douglas Kant
15. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
16. Justice - Faye Kellerman
17. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
18. Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
19. The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Ann Packer
20. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
21. A Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
22. One Hundred Days - David Biro
23. Innocence - Karen Novak
24. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs
25. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
26. Wicked - Gregory McGuire
27. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
28. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
30. The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett
31. Grievous Sin - Faye Kellerman
32. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
33. The Burnt House - Faye Kellerman
34. Against Medical Advice - James Patterson & Hal Friedman
35. The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen
36. Oblivision - Peter Abrahams
37. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
38. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lional Shriver
39. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
40. The Mercedes Coffin - Faye Kellerman
41. Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
42. Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
43. Inside Out Girl - Tish Cohen
44. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
45. Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs
46. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
47. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
48. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
49. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
50. Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
51. You've Been Warned - James Patterson
52. Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult
53. Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
54. The Caged Virgin - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
55. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
56. Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
57. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
58. The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
59. 1984 - George Orwell
60. A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid
61. S is for Silence - Sue Grafton
62. Good Harbor - Anita Diamant
63. Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
64. Made in the U.S.A. - Billie Letts
65. Town House - Tish Cohen
66. Person of Interest - Theresa Schwegel 
67. Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti


Abandoned:
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
Origin - Diana Abu-Jaber
The Assassin's Song - M.G. Vassanji
The Misconceiver - Lucy Ferriss
Straight Into Darkness - Faye Kellerman
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

To Read:
Spontaneous Combustion - David B. Feinberg
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Northline - Willy Vlautin
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
Naked - David Sedaris
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
What to Keep - Rachel Cline
The Properties of Water - Ann Hood
The Wave - Todd Strasser
Plain Song - Kent Haruf
Crepúsculo - Stephenie Meyer
Songs Without Words - Ann Packer
The Last Days of Dogtown - Anita Diamant
Sybil - Flora Rheta Schreiber
The Tennis Partner - Abraham Vergehese
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
The Hamilton Case - Michelle de Kretser
Run - Ann Patchett
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
Sail - James Patterson
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Truth & Beauty - Ann Patchett
All Over Creation - Ruth Ozeki
The Ghost of Bridgetown - Debra Spark
Iodine - Haven Kimmel
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Gone - Michael Grant
When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears - Dinaw Mengestu
In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution - Susan Brownmiller

Math - 99.9%...WTF?
Spanish - 95.6%
Science - 98.2%
Humanities - 103.9%
Poetry - 99.5%

A - Available?: Sort of...
A - Age: 15
A - Annoyance: many..many things

B - Best Friends?: Samantha, Maija, Taylor, Michael
B - Bar: ...
B - Birthday?: October 15

C - Crush: I honestly don't know.
C - Car: no todavía
C - Cat: Lady

D - Dead Pets: Murphy, Honey, Teddy, Zippy, Frogy...and two fish.
D - Dads Name: Paul
D - Dog: :(

E - Easiest person to talk to: Not sure...probably Samantha
E - Eggs: no
E - Email: yes

F - Favourite color?: purple, blue and black (bruise anyone?)
F - Food: trying...veggies...urgh.
F - Foreign Slang: ?

G - Gummy Bears or Worms: depends...but normally worms
G - God: doesn't exist...and if he actually does, and sends all us gay people to hell, hell is going to be the coolest place EVER.
G - Good Times: Billings...

H - Hair Colour: Blonde...what else is new?
H - Height: 5'6.''...5'10'' I wish.
H - Happy: Uhhh....haven't thought about it yet this morning...but I got to sleep in...so I guess that's good.

I - Ice Cream: Ew.
I - Instrument: guitar
I - Idol: Hahaha umm...dunno

J - Jewelry: Watch...5 earrings...4 bracelets I always wear...

J - Job: nope, not yet...cept for babysitting...
J - Jokes: no.

K - Kids: definitly
K - Karate: ?
K - Kung Fu: no

L - Love: i have absolutly no idea.
L - Longest Car Ride: to montana...
L - Longest Relationship: not applicable.

M - Milk Flavour: regular...
M - Mothers Name: i love how Samantha made all her answers up.
M - Movie Last Watched: No idea...but I watched some CSI yesterday

N - Number of Siblings: one..and then some...
N - Northern or Southern: northern
N - Name: ..?

O - One Wish: tooo many.
O - One Phobia?: downhills...being alone...Deirdre moving away...
O - Otter Pop: huh?

P - Parents, are they married or divorced: married
P - Part of your appearence you like best: none
P - Part of your Personality you like best: i dunno

R - Reason to smile: none right at the moment...but friends.
R - Reality TV Show: no i'm good thanks.
R - Right or Left: argh. left. i wish.

S - Song Last Heard: don't remeber
S - Season: winter!! yay!!
S - Sex: uhh Female? duh.

T - Time you woke up: 6:30 abouts I think.
T - Time Now: 7:12
T - Time for bed: no.

U - Unknown Fact about me: nothing interesting
U - Unicorns: right...
U - You are? no.

V - Vegetable you hate: all of them.
V - Vegetable you love: none of them.
V - View on Politics: republicans should burn in hell...cept that's a mean thing to say.

W- Worst Habits: lots of things...
W- Where are you going to travel next: the tv? i dunno. and dad's saying we can go to honduras over spring break.

X - X-Rays: a couple
X - X-Rated: no

Y - Year you were born: 1990
Y - Year it is now: 2006
Y - Yellow?: For you I bleed myself dryyyy

Z - Zoo Animal: Panda
Z - Zodiac: Libra
Z - Zoolander?: okie dokie.

I don't feel close to anyone anymore, like I really matter.

And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just the chance that maybe we’ll find better days

Cuz I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings
And designer love and empty things
Just the chance that maybe we’ll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight’s the night the world begins again

I need someplace simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And that’s faith and trust and peace while we’re alive

And the one poor child who saved this world

And there’s ten million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight’s the night the world begins again

I wish everyone was loved tonight
And somehow stop this endless fight
Just the chance that maybe we’ll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight’s the night the world begins again
Cuz tonight’s the night the world begins again

Sammie I missed you at school today!! I hope you're better tomorrow!!!

Happy Bday Maija!!!

She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
Can't walk but she's trying

Oh think twice...

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cos she didn't fit in there

Oh think twice...

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is "Wrong"



1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3)
Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and
can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans

Please post this in your journal if you are for gay marriage.

I walked to the viewpoint and read my book and wrote some stuff so I just thought I'd post it in here...

"why would you illegalize something so beautiful?" I don't know and the more i think about it, the more i realize how much hardship there really is for gay people in society. Before i didn't understand why some people are afraid of being gay and hate it so much but now i understand why. this world is so messed up - what if homosexuality becomes illegal? then where would i be and others like me? thoughts like that are what scare me, make me angry. no one should have the right to decide who i love, who i'm with, but me. it's unfair that a few people have all the control over everyone else. and i know that a lot of this goes on because straight people are scared of gay people. i wish i knew why this is so. they say it's because of the bible or because it's just plain wrong but that's all bullshit. they have no valid reasons. sometimes i think it's because they're afraid of change, afraid of people who are different, but thinking and feeling that way won't get you anywhere because changes are always happening and no two people will ever be the same. everyone is different whether they're gay or not. sometimes i think if they just gave us a chance and took the time to get to know us that things would be different. that they'd think and feel differently, but maybe no, maybe it's just narrow mindedness that can never be changed - and that's scary. hate against gays is bad enough, who knows what could happen next.

"EMP guitars"

We just went to Costco and I got a new stereo.

I think my privacy means more to me than opening myself to people so I think at least for a while I'm going to start locking my journal again.

I left my cell in my mom's car...shit,...haha

Today is going to be an awesome day. The weather is perfect, i get to have the colours changed in my braces (it may sound like I'm being sarcastic about it being a good day right now, but I'm really not kidding). Then I get to see Deidre...and have a few hours of free time...haha I can't believe I'm so busy that I've started having "free time". And then...I didn't even know this until my mom brought it up this morning because of the weather but I'm going to see Michael and Sam and their families this evening because we're having a barbeque.

* tired * I think thats all I have to say this morning...I just got up and I went to bed around 12:30. It was actually amazingly easy to get out of the parking lot. I called Em while we were at the concert and they were there too so I met up with her and Rianna and went and sat with them and Colin and Tristan for a while...it was a lot nicer than sitting with my dad and they were on the lawn...but then when Coldplay started I went and sat with my dad. anyways yea the concert was pretty school...don't know what else to say...i have an ortho appt. in 2hours...

godamnit. I just typed my rant about the center school but it didn't post. I don't feel like typing it again but anyways i fucking hate the fucking center school.

I can't find my Dubrovnik keychain...it's not with my key like it normally is...good thing I have my key...I looked on the porch and my keychain isn't there...and for some reason it feels really special...I'm kind of worried that it might be at the house of the people I babysat for yesterday - I'm going to call them. oh shit, i have more to say but i just realized that I really have to get out of here. long story short - I'm afraid the little girl may have taken it out of my bag.

MY schedule for this week:

Tues:

BGC 7:30 - 3:30, Coldplay concert...have to leave at like 5 or 5:30

Wed:

Ortho appt. at 8:30, Spanish/guitar @ 11

Thurs:

BGC 7:30 - 3:30

Friday:

Spanish/guitar@11

NWC 3-6

I'm actually not too tired today... I hope it doesn't get too hot because I'm wearing jeans.

Of course I wake up late today...since I have to volunteer. I left my blinds open hoping to get up at 5:30 but oh well...I got 9 hours of sleep which is good since I'm going to be staying up really late.