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Sixx A.M September 24, 2007

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Nikki Sixx, from Montly Crue of course, is coming out or has come out with a book and album called the Heroin Diaries, which chronicles his once serious heroin addiction. I’m not too sure of all the details, but you should wiki it. Only reason I was introduced to this material is through a dear friend of mine. Glad he showed me.

Here’s one of my favorite songs on the album, called “Life is Beautiful”.

I urge you to check out the rest of this album etc. Ya dig?

Lemon Juice: Or How to Rid the World of Evil. September 23, 2007

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Sorry for that angst-ish post down yonder. Just tired is all.

It’s been an interesting week, to say the least. Which has left me yawning every so often, with stories to tell.

I went to the football game last (Friday) night. If it isn’t glaringly obvious, I am a student, and therefore participate in studenty things. Anyway I went with Blondie, Winston, Hamilton, and Tiffa.

Our football team sucks. They suck soooo bad. We didn’t get any baskets or whatever. Nothing! Not until the 4th part! Hamilton assured me that that is really, really bad. Needless to say our little group migrated over to a hill on the outskirts of the field. Hamilton, who is an ex-boyscout, pointed out lots of stars and something named Cassiopeia. Than we all adopted British accents and acted out an episode of Monty Python, which was recorded and will later be used as black mail when one of us becomes fabulously wealthy.

After ingesting copious amounts of sugar, rolling up and down the hill, and generally acting like hyper preschoolers, we were starting to wind down. I guess other people were bored by the game, because when I looked beyond my orange soda stupor I noticed that there were a lot more people on the hill. Also, Hamilton had gone somewhere else. Miffed, I sat up to survey the crown.

Blondie sprung up next to me, and before we could crack another sophomoric joke a boy went careening down the hill off to our right. Not only was he contorting in strange ways, but it wasn’t even remotely theatric. About to scoff at his lack of dramatic flair, it became glaringly apparent that he wasn’t messing around. Especially when he groaned and curled into the fetal position. That’s usually a sign. A few seconds later a troupe of cretins came barreling down the hill after him. Blondie nudged my ribs and off we went, down the hill to stick our noses were they didn’t belong.

Winston and Tiffa trudged after us, on edge. Winston looked over the crowd and quickly departed. Tiffa stood behind me. She is tiny, so I don’t blame her for wanting to use my freakishly tall body as a shield.

I guess the boy at our feet got kicked wherethesundoesn’tshine. Being of the female variety, I don’t know too much about the pain associated with an injury such as that. But we have all heard horror stories. The boy was practically comatose so I guess he felt pretty ouchy.

A little blonde kid, who I will aptly declare a testosterone laden wanker, continued to sneer at his pray while his gang of imps poked and prodded in unmentionable areas. Not only was I offended by such displays of unvirtuous behavior, but a lot of people must never gang up on ONE person and steal his jewels. It simply is not done.

Blondie and I were justifiably angry. Therefore we glared daggers and spewed expletives until the crowd dispersed.

I think the world would be a better place if testosterone were replaced with lemon juice. Now I’m not sure how that whole system works, but the way I see it is whenever people get nasty, vengeful thoughts in their heads they would be subjected to a spurt of lemon juice right in the old brainpan.

Problem solved!

Zombification. September 21, 2007

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Ah.

….

Ahhhhhhhh!

I don’t want to write my paper. It’s a theme, which will be entitled, “Why Communism Sucks”. I can be so intelligent sometimes. Its too bad that bravado can actually be convincing, since I only picked that topic to sound smart, only to learn that the paper is due a day later. Stare. Drool. Sigh. I know what Communism IS, but I don’t know the intricacies of it. Blaaaaah.

Sometimes I miss wandering around the house, a glassy-eyed human butt wipe who shuffles from computer to couch to refrigerator. That’s not true, but it’s times like these where I my will falters and I sigh, metaphorically glancing over my shoulder. It is nice to assimilate into a system though. You know, feel like you belong. Morph into a niche. Conform. That’s blasphemy, but a truth none the less. They don’t call the vast majority of the world sheep for nothing. I guess I’m really NOT above the rest. Hmph.

I think my plan to join the FBI is going to work. I’ve got a lot work to do, but right now it seems like it’s a good direction to shoot for. Right after I write the Next Great American Novel and become a Rock Goddess.

Sigh.

The Fall of Summer. September 18, 2007

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I love fall. What I don’t love is an empty oil heater.

Gawrsh it was cold today. I love how fickle people are, myself included. You know, the age old temperature preference. When it’s summer, we wish it were winter. And Winter, vice versa. The Indians had it right, moving around all the time. I’d totally dig that. Except for all that hard work.

Just got back from my first ever singing lesson! Thankfully no one was maimed and/or seriously injured. Also, I think I met Mickey Rourke’s illegitimate brother. Seriously. He ever had the accent. Major coolness.

Everything just feels really good right now. Warm and comfortable. I have a lot of cool shoes to try on: a band, a book, and some great friends. If I could lean back and sip a Pina colada I would. I totally spelled that wrong…

Anyway I’ll have a lot to share on the ole blog. This Sunday we’re adding a pianist to the band. Cha!

Beware the Ides of Nostril. September 14, 2007

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I’m blatantly stealing that phrase from one of my teachers. Once classes began, nigh upon 3 weeks ago, that was the first thing that dropped out of his mouth. He’s a bit strange, but very amusing. Anyway, he put a foot on a nearby chair, assumed the Captain Morgan stance, and proclaimed with an air of Shakespeare that it would behoove us to consider doubling or even tripling our vitamin C intake. I heeded his warning. For a couple days I made it a habit to drink my weight in Orange Juice. Oh Orange juice. What love hath thee bore for me? For thou hath bestowed none of thine’s properties upon mine body. Oh! What ill will doth thou harbor! And for what reason should the purity of my soul! My soul, Sir! Be tainted by filth!

That’s the cold medicine talking.

Between bouts of sneezing I’ve been pondering this whole…*waves arms around*….thingy.  Being in a building, in very close proximity to other people, begs the question: What am I inhaling? What spores lurk, invisible, and suspended in the air? What infectious little devils float jubilantly, waiting for their next victim?

In the long run I reckon that’s a good thing. Sure, being sick downright sucks. If you’re completely ruined, that is. When you’re moderately sick, it’s only a matter of enjoying your day off and feeding off the sympathy of others. I kind of wonder what the impact of anti-bacterial products are. And vaccines. You watch. We’ll all be happy frolicking in the future, pumped full of anti this and preventative that. Then we’d be wiped out by a big, nasty, simple, borderline ironic bout of the common cold.

I imagine that it’s important to get sick every once in a while. Build up your immunity and all that happy crap. So here’s my advice. Go have a picnic on the bathroom floor. Not only will you be strengthening your immune system, but you’ll be reinforcing family values. And if you’ve got kids….well, you don’t really have to do anything. As you’re probably well aware, kids are germ magnets. When they walk down a hallway, or clutch a sink faucet, not only are they collecting a menagerie of evil little germs, but they’re also adding to the mix. Sharing is good, eh?

Diplomatic Distraction. September 13, 2007

Posted by aleksy in Academics, Journalism.
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I conducted my first interview today.

When 6th bell rang I poked my head out of my maths book. Donning a wide, slightly creepy grin, I gathered my books hastily and scurried to my journalism class. I dropped down into my chair with a hearty sigh and turned to my friend Cate, who was to be my partner in crime. We whipped out our identical notepads with authority and compared the questions we would interrogate our interviewee with. We agreed that I should never, under any circumstances, write a transcript; I could hardly read my own handwriting. Even if God himself should demand I write, I would have to abstain under penalty of extreme professional embarrassment.

Ahem.

I was designated as Asker Of The Questions while Cate jotted down notes since neither of us thought to bring a tape recorded.

As Asker Of The Questions, I was going to grill our Headmaster regarding a very hard hitting topic. The outlandish 1$ water bottle!?!?! What is this, a movie theater? An amusement park? Outrage! And, to top off this evil cake of capitalist monopolizing, students aren’t allowed to bring in water from off campus? Blasphemy! Cate and I were going to march into the office with vigor, demand an explanation, than begrudgingly allow him the honor of apologizing to the whole student body with free water, dammit.

Needless to say things didn’t go exactly as we imagined. As it turns out, I don’t have as respectable an attention span as I previously thought. Actually, I theorize that administrative heads have a magical charisma that automatically makes you forget what you went into their office for in the first place. He prattled on about the 4th French district or some jazz. Buttered us up. Than we got perfectly rounded answers to each of our (intense?) questions. He was casting explanations without missing a beat. I had close to 15 queries in all, but he knocked out several at a time without prompting. Ow. Ego. Not only did he dispel all theories involving conspiracy, monopolies, and aliens, but he even had me nodding my head in agreement! I got so lost in one of his answers that I forgot what I was supposed to ask him next. I’m telling you, that guy is some kind of wizard.

Once Cate and I left the office the spell was broken. We both shook our heads and then snapped our fingers. We reassured each other that our conspiratorial ideals could not be broken so easily!

Although we were given the diplomatic runaround, we’re still convinced that there’s foulness afoot. We did find out a lot of interesting information, including but not limited too, the instillation of video cameras in hallways, spy janitors, and a ’shift of priorities’. If you were sitting in front of me right now you would totally see me lifting my eyebrows. Oh the intrigue!

Section 8 September 13, 2007

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Okay it’s time to whine.

Schools baffle me. The objective is to learn, right? To extend your horizons and all that jazz? Alright, that’s established. We go to school so that we may have our skulls crammed full of practical information. So, logic would lead one along the train of thought that a school newspaper, which is a facet of learning, would be held to just as a high a standard as the curriculum itself.

Mrs. F___, who seems to be the poster person of apathetic teachers, read over my article for the October edition and promptly told me that I have to ‘use smaller words’. Um. Indicative is not a big word, is it? Shouldn’t we, being niegh upon full fledged adulthood, know what the word indicative means? Or sans? Or collective? I’m not blowing my own horn here, honestly. Anyone who has ingested a book above an 8th grade reading level should have as reasonable a grasp on vocabulary as I do. So screw that. If no one reads my article because they don’t know how to use the dictionary, I get an immense ego boost. I’m a martyr, dammit!

Anyway, now that that’s out of my system.

I stayed home from classes today. I’ve been sick. :( After I got my head chainsawed enough times, and after I got my fix of westerns, I decided to curl up in the fetal position, lap top poised precariously on my knee. I was clicking through blogs rolls, becoming more and more annoyed by my lack of lucrative activity. I mean, jeezus, that one Russian guy wrote a whole book in his head when he was in prison and I can’t even muster the mental fortitude to scribble a poem or too? Sheesh. Self deprecation aside, I was reading a post I randomly found in an archive and that person was angry about being sick. Hey! Small world! Someone commented about how you should clean stuff once you feel well enough. My eyes wandered fearfully in the direction of the bathroom. I could actually hear the toilet growling.

Needless to say the bathroom is shiny and I have have regained my self worth.

Degeneration Stirs Anew. September 12, 2007

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So here I am. Joining the ranks of voices unheard. Again.

This is generally where I should proclaim my intent, I suppose. See, the thing is I don’t have one just yet. I’m not exactly at the ripe old age where anecdotal stories fly from my fingertips, nor am I worldly to the point where I can spew useful, heartfelt advice and commentary.

So what’s my selling point? How do I ensnare readers without becoming  a complete blog whore? Um. I dunno. Basically I’m going to present a viewpoint of the world from a…unique vantage point. You’ll see.