Istanbul, not Constantinople, happy 76th

Ok, this is too freaky not to talk about. Everytime we study something in history, it comes up on my daily "On this day..." e-mail. So, the latest one: we just finished the Byzantines and Constantinople last week. Today is the 76 anniversary of Constantinople's official change to Istanbul. Too weird!

So Busy!!

Hey guys, I have seriously NO TIME to post today besides for now, maybe later at like 10. But besides for then, I won't be here.

first and second of the first

Ooo, I thought of somethingto talk about: Frappr.

First, if you haven't joined the map, um, WHAT are you waiting for? I won't come over to your house and make you, one because I don't know where you live, and second, I feel you should join on your own accord.

Second, I've requested my password for my account a billion times, and it won't send it to me. I can still access the blog map, but not my own personal account. So that's just messed up, and I'm done dealing with it.

speaking of croutons....

OMG. I'm so bored. Like, I have nothing to do except homework (which I avoid like the plague-- and still make high honor roll, lol) and so I'm sitting here listening to back-episodes of podcasts and pining for new e-mails and comments on myspace. So talk to me bitches.

Well, I've already told you about the main part of my day, which was going to CompUSA, and then I made sure all the stuff worked, which it all did, then I ate rice and leftover chinese for lunch, and then I edited, printed, and saved my English essay, and then I played with my dog, and talked to Derek about TPANLive, and now I'm here talking to you. And I will wait here for you. Until I die. So I'm blaming you for my death. I don't know if you can follow that, but I can. So there.

my digital camera is my enemy

OK, I need to take better pictures. I hate all the pics of me on Frappr and mySpace and stuff. Yuck, I am really not photogenic, I look much better in real life. But that's not saying much.

blogger problems and scalp irritation

Yeah, you don't know this, (well, you probably don't know this) but blogger was having problems and wasn't showing any edits I made or new posts. But it's all better now. Yay.

I think I'm coming down with a cold or something because I woke up this morning and I was all "Bleh, I don't feel like doing anything." But I really don't get sick like "stuck in bed for a week unable to move or sleep unless I take NyQuil". I'm just like "oh, my throat hurts" or "oh, my nose is stuffy" Now I'm just like "If, I'm going to be sick, let me be sick. If I'm going to be healthy, let my be 100% healthy". But of course that never happens.

I'm still going to my bowling league in like 45 minutes, so that will be fun. I'm getting a lot better, and I'm excited about that because that means I can join the bowling team in school next year. Chyeah.

There's this big trip this weekend for all the people in treble chorus (9th and 10th grade girls), band, and orchestra, and I REALLY wanted to go, but stupid me decided to do *hillbilly accent* guitar *end accent* instead of chorus, so not only am I stuck wasting 5 combined days of my life in guitar, I also don't get to go on this awesome trip with my friends. Can you say -bummer-?

My scalp is really really really itchy, and I've tried everything. I can't take it anymore. None of the dandruff shampoos or conditioners or treatments I've tried have worked, and it's pissing me off. I just sit ad scratch all day long. It's SOO annoying. So, if any of you have tips as to how to soothe my tender scalp, please tell me. I will be forever in your debt.

Um, that's it for now, ttyl!

fore!

OK, so I'm looking over yesterday's post about my oven problems, and I'm trying to edit some spelling mistakes and whatnot, but when I edit and republish, the edits aren't showing up. So that's weird, and I'll try to fix it. In the meantime, know that I don't have bad grammar or spell "forgot" like: "foregot". Because that's just bad.

eyelids drooping...

Sorry about being a little lax in posting today, but I'm so tired. I really can't think straight. But I'll have plenty of time tomorrow. Seeya!

we love house fires

Hey people, just wanted to talk to you about my oven hijinks today. Well, first I left the stove burner on after I made rice. Now, just now, I left the oven on at 350 degrees F after making cookies. I think that makes me an official fire hazard. Well, at least the cookies are good. I totally forgot what else I wanted to say for today, so maybe I'll post later on if I remember. Bye!

PS: I think Schmee (or maybe myself) plugged my blog on today's Nodcast (I haven't listened yet) so thanks!! And hello if you are a new listener as a result of this plug.

pancreases and Jell-O, a fitting combination

Hey guys, I have ( I think) a lot to talk about today, so I'm going to break it up into a few posts, because when I get into my rants I tend to talk a lot, er, type a lot, and my fingers get tired.

So, I'm just going to talk about my double biology class today while it is fresh in my mind. Ok, so I went to class 4th period as always, blah blah blah, and we were going to spend the first period going over our last two tests and the second doing a lab. So, as we were going over the first test, we found out that out teacher had made answer key wrong and had marked two questions wrong when they were right. And that was that for the first test.

Now, when I got back the second test, I saw that I got this question wrong:

Choose one of the following organs that best fits the statement:

1- Adrenal Gland
2- Thyroid Gland
3- Pancreas
4- Pituitary Gland
5- Small Intestine

(here's the statement:) The woman in a circus show weights 300 pounds.

I said the pancreas because she could get diabetes, but the right answer was thyroid because she has something wrong with her metabolism. Here's how it went down:

Me: How do you know she has something wrong with her metabolism? How do you know she doesn't just eat 20 cheeseburgers a day?
Friend: Because it doesn't say she does
Me: It doesn't say she has something wrong with her metabolism either. She could just as well have diabetes.
Friend: I guess
Me: Or there could be something wrong with her intestine. She could not be absorbing the right nutrients
Friend: Well...
Me: Or she could have something wrong with her pituitary that makes her bones grow out of control. Because, you know, some people aren't fat, they're big boned.

For some reason, that big boned thing just set me off. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Not just tearing but streams down my cheeks. The rest of the class and my teacher looked at me like I was a lunatic. It took me a good five minutes to calm down. Then, as we were going over it, another kid in my class had the same problem with that question, and I almost broke down again. It was the most I had to restrain myself from laughing in my entire life. Ah, good times.

So then the second period we did a lab, and the lab procedure isn't important, all you need to know is this:

1- We were testing some substance that was gelatinous
2- It turned pink for the experiment, and it looked like watermelon Jell-O
3- Part of the experiment was to cut the cubes we had, so at the end we had 10 chunks of pink gelatinous goo on our table

So, after we had finished the experiment, we were working on the questions at the table, and I took the razor we had (to cut the jello-stuff) and started cutting it, and I remarked how it looked like Jell-O and I would eat it if it was edible. Now, it wasn't, but we got into this whole thing about how it looks like Jell-O and what flavor it would be (watermelon) and how sick you would get if you really ate it. And then we cut it up into little cubes (hundreds of them) and then threw them out. It was thankfully amusing because the actual lab was quite dull.

Ok, tired fingers, more later.

fans on the map, peeps

Yes. There are officially two people on the Frappr map: me and Schmee (hah, it rhymes). Anyways, come on guys, I know you're out there, and I know you haven't signed the map. Where are all my adoring fans?

tech thingys beware, I'm always armed

Hey all y'all people!! It's time again for my pretty blog! Aren't you excited? Well, there was FINALLY a new nodcast, which I just listened to. So I guess I could go through my day. Or not. I'm a really boring person people, I don't know why you are even reading this, but you are. It's like an album cover I saw where it was just this paragraph about album covers and how they are designed to draw in buyers and how they didn't have to keep reading because they were already drawn in but it was inevitable that they would keep reading.

Ok, sorry, but I'm really distracted right now because I'm having like a music fight with the guy on AIM, and he's listing all these really old-school bands that apparently I HAVE to listen to. Or I'll die. And the little thing on the bottom of my screen just keeps blinking orange, and it's really annoying. Grr, again!!

Whew, I think I've escaped. So, today was ok, I had my global test which everyone was killed by. Probably. Actually, funny thing, there was this one question I wasn't sure about, so I put the only thing that could have been a plausible answer (Greek fire), and I heard people talking about the test, and they said Greek fire was the right answer. Yay! And my friend was helping me study beforehand, and she has a different teacher, so she already took the test, and she said one of the questions was what does "Hagia Sophia" mean, and you know what, it was a question, and I got it right. Yay again!!

Math test was easy, French quiz was ok, except I put something down for the extra credit, then changed it, but I was right the first time. Grr.

I have NYSSMA in a week, and I am soo ready. So maybe I should explain what NYSSMA is. Well, it's a music festival where you prepare either an instrumental or vocal solo, and you perform it for a judge, and they give you a score, and the you can put it on your resume and gloat and get into all-county chorus (if you do it in vocal). So, I'm doing it for guitar, and I'm going to wipe the floor with the judge. They will be blown away. And, this is the fourth time I've done NYSSMA, and my third "instrument": I've done baritone horn (uggh, for another time), voice, and now guitar.

I finished my poptarts, they were really good.

Tea made in the microwave is just not as good as when you boil it in a kettle. That's the word, right? Kettle?

I am not safe around computers with liquids in my mouth, not even saliva. Just like before with the tea on Tuesday, I spurted my computer with spit. It was unpleasant.

Uhm, I should probably be doing my English paper on Elsewhere. I really don't want to get into the book, because it's a little wacky, so I'll just say that a girl dies, goes to elsewhere, where she ages backwards from how old she was when she died. There's a little romance, a little sci-fi, it's perfect for my assignment, which was romance/sci-fi. You're supposed to pick either, but where's the fun in that?

why did they change the time?!

Aaah, Bones was on at 8, not 9, so I only saw the last 15 minutes. Dang it all!!

talking about bones...

Woah. I just realized that Bones is on tonight. So now I have to go do all my homework and studying in the next 40 minutes so I can watch it. And speaking of bones, my dog goes crazy when I say the word "bone" because he thinks he's getting like a milk-bone, so one day, I was stiing with my dog and I said "DC, you know what show is on tonight? Bones!", not even thinking that I was kind of teasing him, and my mom got really upset. So now, every wednesday I say "DC, you know what's on tonight?" and my mom gives me this death stare, but I never say "bones". Maybe you just have to be there. Anyways, go watch Bones on Fox, it's a great show.

there's no good title for this

Even though I could just edit my last post, I just wanted to say "Yay, my dad's going out and getting Carvel, even though it's only 20 degrees out". So there, I said it. And now Bob will be happy because I've posted twice.

Don't get me started

So, it's time once again for my blog. Well, today was as normal as any day, so I'll tell you my thoughts about these things in general:

1- I woke up at 6:13 am after waking up with my alarm at 5:40 and having my mom wake me up. I really don't have to get up until 6:15, but I like to lay in bed, and my mom went on a business trip this morning and so she wanted to wake me up. So, just letting you know that my mommy doesn't wake me up every morning.

2- I got dressed, ate, and went to school. And I have a very exact schedule for this:
6:10-6:15--- Get dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, and whatever jacket/sweatshirt is clean or is required for my jeans (this is a whole other thing that I won't get into now)
6:15-6:35--- Eat breakfast in my den while watching the news (Fox 5, in case you were wondering)
6:35-6:42--- Pack my backpack and make lunch
6:42-6:49--- Brush my teeth, put on my shoes and jewelery (again, I have a jewelery thing that I can't get into now)
6:49-6:55--- Feed my dog, put on my coat, get my keys.
6:56-------- Out the door and to the bus stop
6:59-------- The bus arrives
7:15--------- The Bus arrives at school
7:24--------- The first bell rings, signaling the rush to get to class on time
7:25-7:27---- I arrive at my 1st period class (see below)

3- We finished acting out Romeo and Juliet in English. Yes folks, acting, as in each scene in each act is cast and then every grumpy person in my 1st period class who was cast agaisnt their will goes up and reads the lines with as little enthusiasm as possible. Then my teacher talks on and on and interrupts the "actors" and then she says "im telling you important stuff, I don't know why you aren't taking notes" and then we all take out or notebooks and pretend to write stuff down because, really no one cares. And we all hate our English teacher. I mean, she tries to be nice and pal around with us, but it just doesn't work.

4- Another pointless period of guitar. I swear, I really hate that class. Stupid me chose that over chorus, and now I'm wasting over five day's of my life in guitar with retards and ... literal retards. Some guys in my class are just stupid jock guys, some guys are just stupid, 2 of the only seven girls are from the special ed class, and the girl who sits next to me plucks her strings so hard they twang and I think they're going to snap. Plus, I'm two years ahead of everyone else, even the ones who have taken guitar before.

5- Lunch. Yes, I have lunch third period, which is at 9:05 in the morning. I kid you not. So, I had sushi for lunch today, provided by my local grocery store. It was OK, and it had good caviar on it, so I didn't need soy sauce. Which is good, because they never put any in the thing, it's an extra thing that my mom always forgets to pick up at the sushi kiosk. After eating, my friend and I went to the library as we always do and passed the rest of the period in practically silence, doing homework, listning to iPods, or reading. Some relationship, right?

6- An uneventful double period of bio, tarnished only by the fact that I had to work with my partner. I swear, that girls is such a twit. I mean, I know she's in honors bio, but she's all like "I'm so cool, I have tri-colored hair (don't get me started on her horrible highlights), I'm always flirting with Joe* (my former-ish crush)." Argghh, I really don't like her.

7- Global. I reallt like global, I don't know why people hate it. My teacher's nice (at least to me) and funny, and I do ok. Plus the class is really funny. I love it. Except we have a test tomorrow, but I'll get to that at number 10.

8- Math. Don't get me started on my teacher. I am going to kill him. He says he'll give us plenty of time to do our proofs, but two minutes later he's explaining the problem and talking and I can't concentrate on what I'm doing and I get really upset. Also, we have a test tomorrow. Maybe I won't have to listen to his voice.

9- There isn't enough time to complain about French, so I'll just say we have a quiz tomorrow. However, I have a funny story about French grades. These two guys in my class, Paul* and Jay* have a need to get higher grades than me. I don't know why, but they do. They have a good chance in global and math (which they are also in the same class as me), but it is REALLY tough to beat me in French, seeing as I almost always get a 100. So, we got out latest quizes back today, and the conversation went like this:
Paul*: Sam, what did you get?
Me: A 100.
Paul*: --groan-- But you got a question wrong. I saw!
Me: I got the extra credit right.
Paul*: Damn.

10- Remedial for global. Don't make fun of me, it's really a fun time, and I can study for our test. Every remedial before a test, almost everyone comes to extra-help and we talk about stuff and joke around, and today, we were talking about the Vikings and suddenly we were talking about Scotland and Norway and pretty much every place except Constantinople and Russia, which is what the test tomorrow is on. But it was still a productive period.

11- Got home, checked e-mail, talked with shedtroll, had 2 cups of tea (no spurting this time), listened to music, watched tv, ate dinner, typed my blog.

So that was my day and me general opinions on my daily stuffs.

*Name was change for the protection of the person.

the same road block again- slavic slaves

Hey guys, just finished my homework (about the Vikings, who later became the Russians, and who sold slavic slaves to the Byzantines and who were conquered by the Mongols, in case you were wondering) and I thought, now would be a good time to blog. So I am.

Well, today my friends took another chunk of life out of me. I swear, maybe I should just dump them. Well, only one of them, the one that doesn't talk to me unless it's mean and condescending and rude and somehow blaming me for all our problems. The other one's ok, except she never talks to me when the other one's around. So basically I spend a half-hour every morning acting like these girls puppy dog while they ignore me. That's is what my life has come to.

Well, I might be going to London instead of France next February break. I don't think enough people are going to sign up for the France trip, so I may sign up for the London trip. It sounds almost as good as the France trip, plus at least they speak English there. And it's centered around theater and Shakespeare, so there might be more of the "theater crowd" going. But, a lot of the theater crowd are going on the choir trip to Italy the same week, which is the same road block the France trip hit into. Damn.

So, Prison Break last night was AMAZING, but I do think they are going to execute Lincoln. There just isn't enough time for the people to review his case and let him off. But the good thing is that they are still planning to break out, because I guess Micheal has made a lot of enemies in the prison, and he doesn't want to be there for another five years. Heck, who would. Plus, the guys he's breaking out with are on his back saying they helped him plan it in exchange for a ticket out, and that they'll do stuff to him if he doesn't get out. So there's that.

I found out today that I have two tests and a quiz on Thursday in three consecutive periods:
6th- Global Test (Byzantine Empire, all the noise that goes with it, including Ashton)
7th- Math Test (Formal geometry proofs with Parallel lines, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rectangles, rhombusi --or is it rhombuses?--, and inequalities)
8th- French Quiz (Vocab from a stupid story in our textbook)

House and Gilmore Girls are not on tonight, so I can catch up with my podcasts.

I found a new flavor of Slimfast Bars that I love.
I found a new flavor of Dreamery Ice Cream that I love.
Coincidentally, it's Strawberry Cheesecake for both of them.

There are two birthdays this week: my aunt (50) and my cousin (3). They aren't mother and daughter, fyi.

All the life just left my fingers, so I think that's it for today.

Tea Geyser

Oh man, I need to start out by saying that although I almost choked to death, it was soooo worth it.

I was sitting here at my computer not five minutes ago when I took a gulp of tea. For some reason I coughed and almost all the tea spewed out of my mouth all over the monitor. Then I started to laugh, because when does that kind of thing happen, right? Well, there was still some tea left in my mouth, and I started to choke on that so much that I almost had to spit it out onto the carpet. When I finally swallowed it, I was in tears from laughing/coughing so hard. It may not sound funny to you, but I really felt the need to tell you guys that. Talk to you later on tonight.

I am the Master of html

YAY!! Just wanted to let you know that I have figured out how to put links in the sidebar. I'm sure in the days to come I will master html in the blog, but bear with me in the meantime. Thanks!

Be careful of whiplash

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I've been wanting to do a podcast for awhile, but seeing as I don't have a mic and my podcast would be an audio blog anyway, I thought "why not just start a blog?" So now I have! Aren't you excited? I sure am. So, onto my day...

First, however, I must put in a disclaimer saying that the subjects in this blog tend to change rapidly and at random. Be careful of whiplash. Or eyelash. HAHAHA, eyelash, woah, I'm like tearing I just laughed so hard. Anyways, onto my day (at last).

Today was Monday, and we all know what Monday means: back to school. However, today was somewhat different because we had a field trip. And do you know where we went? To see Romeo and Juliet at Hofstra University. Now, I thought this production would be way better than it was, and I also thought it would be less artsy and just stick to the Elizabethan era. But no, they had to be all modern and (I can't think of the word.....) but they were very unconventional. I also thought they would have a bigger cast. I mean, Hofstra is all drama people, it's a big performing arts school, and the production was a big draw (as in there were a lot of people there) so I think they could have had a larger cast.

My friends and I got a little lost afterwards, so that was kind of fun. We were all stressing out like "Oh no, we can't find our class." But we did and we caught the bus before it left without us. Then when we got back from the play we got a little confused. Before we got off the bus, my teacher made a point in saying we could just hang out for the rest of the day because we had our last period off, and it was already ten minutes into the last period. However, they made an announcement saying that all freshman had to report to their eighth (sp?) period class. So my friend and I, being the good girls that we are, got our stuff and went to our class. We were the only ones that went back. I don't know where everyone else went, but they totally cut class. If I had known everyone else was going to cut, I probably would have too. Damn.

So then I came home and listened to the four new podcasts I had, and I must share my story avec vous. So, I had sent an e-mail to the hosts of a podcast about something they had talked about in the previous episode, and I had signed it Samantha from Old Bethpage NY. So, during the podcast, although they didn't read the e-mail, they did say hello to me like they do with most people who write in, and they got off onto the funniest tangent ever about my town. It was hilarious. I don't want to infringe on their copyrights, so I'm not going to transcribe what they said, but if you want to subscribe to "Zee and Zed" and listen to the latest episode, you an hear the whole thing starting at 31:11.

My brother and my dad just got back from the store, and have informed me that they bought a new ink roll for our new ancient typewriter. We got it from our aunt, and it had belonged to my grandfather who died when my mom was around my age. It's pretty cool, but the ink had been practically all used up, so the words came out really faint. So I guess now it's all fixed.

Yikes, I didn't realize that blogging takes this long. I've been typing for almost 30 minutes. Yikes! (I typed the last yikes in about 30 seconds after the first one, but totally forgot it was there. So I'll keep it in because it's very funny)


Aah, I am soo excited for Prison Break tonight! It's the first new episode since like November. It feels like I have been waiting my whole life for this. And it's especially special since all my other shows are on hiatus, ranging from 2 to 5 weeks in duration. I think. Yeah, Gilmore Girls is on a 5 week hiatus (5 weeks btw shows), House is on a 3-week hiatus, and 7th Heaven is on a 5 week hiatus, so it's more like between 3 to 5 weeks.

I really need a new mouse. It's really ticking me off that it doesn't roll around properly. And pop-ups also tick me off. The pop up, and stop whatever I'm typing, and since I'm one of those people that look down at the keys when they type, I have no idea that my typing isn't doing anything, and I have to do it all over. **pants** Well, that was my rant for today. And I guess that was my blog too. I'm tired. Talk to you guyses tomorrow!!