Et avec ça?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:20:37 GMT

If I'm really lucky, I can grab an apartment next year with a pretty cool person. Fingers crossed. XD

Right, an update. Um, I'm staying at my current college, no transfer for the spring. But I can defer enrollment until who knows.

I'll dabble in the social sciences next semester and try out geology next school year.

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:27:37 GMT

It would be absolutely refreshing to say, "I quit! I quit!" and for it to actually be the truth. But I know that would be a lie. I would love to quit college right now. But then what would I do and where would I live? I am waiting for the god Hades to bear me away from this place. I have a feeling he would be cruel enough to wait a couple of years before so.

I've completely lost my mind and I don't think I'm going to find it again. There was good reason, I'm sure, for it to leave. But it didn't have to be so soon...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:09:48 GMT

I miss my life or what it used to be. For the past month, I've been feeling as if I were playing a role in some unknown movie.

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:01:11 GMT

Let's just say I'm going to switch majors again. I don't really want to have to stress out over the next four years.

If I can't help myself, how am I going to help other people? And if I go into a certain field, shouldn't I be an expert in it?

So, for now and since I'm typing this down (which should mean stronger possibility), I'm going to head out and be a teacher -- something I planned to be at some point. I'm surprised it's going to be sooner, because that means my life won't be full of experiences and will vary very little. Who knows, maybe I'll have adventures every day...

A reminder

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:48:11 GMT

From Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty. I felt it was appropriate that once I found it again, I should post it as a reminder for the passage of four years.

"Fall"

We
are adam and eve
born from Chaos called
Creation
Ribbing me gave you life
Yet you forget
there will always be
a part of me
in you
Yes
I taunted and tempted
you
with my forbidden fruit
Does that make me
the serpent too?
Think what you will
but if I am exiled
alone
I know we will be
together again someday
naked
without shame
in paradise
My thanks to you
for being in
on my
sin

Sorry again Caleida

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:30:57 GMT

I know, I know. Long hiatus, but college is tough for me right now. Walking everywhere takes about 15 minutes and I don't even have time for homework. That's how tight my schedule is. In fact, I can't even get the bloody mail! That takes over 45 minutes and unfortunately, I didn't have time to wait any longer due to class. There are a ton of things I'd like to say, but I'm not in the mood to recount this week, nor will I probably in the future. But, rest assured. When the summer times come, I'll try to be as faithful as ever.

Cheers.

I've got practically a day left

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:35:31 GMT

I leave in two days and I'm not entirely ready for it. I like the quietness at night when I'm in a wide open area. I'm bringing so much junk with me, but I don't know when I'll be back. Maybe soon. Maybe not for a long time. I hope I can reserve a mailbox. Auf wiedersehen, kids.

Online Writing Challenge

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:03:34 GMT

Before I head off to college, I'd like to share a story. There's the online writing challenge during the summer and I immediately signed up for the earliest session, which was in June. I wasn't completely satisfied with the end result of my essay (politics of all things), but I finished right up to the deadline. A week later I checked my results online and after reading the first sentence, I was a little sad, but I was okay. I could get over it. Basically, it read along the lines of "Sorry, we regret to inform you that you did not test out of English 2000." The second sentence killed me. It read something like "According to our records, you tested out of English 1001 due to your ACT score, but we strongly recommend that you take that course although it is not expected that you do so." So, my impression was that I was horrible, terrible enough to the degree that I should go back to the basics and relearn everything.

Now, I recognize quite a number of mistakes I made on my essay and I was certainly curious if my own criticism was close to what the experts had to say. I believe I had: 1) Poor conclusion - I maxed out the word limit and I couldn't compress my paragraphs. I had unnecessary clutter, but I couldn't figure out how to simplify ideas. I wasn't sure how to do critical analysis presenting information and standpoints of an issue without bias of any kind, so I turned the conclusion into propaganda for voting. Awesome, right? 2) Lack of personality - Um, it goes back to being unbiased and the word count. The bits of humor I did try to sneak in I ended up leaving out to meet the word limit. 3) Tenses - I know to recount the summary of a book or story is always in the present, but other than that, I'm at a lost. I don't think I was consistent with the tense.

There was an email address given on the website for the online challenge that I could email to request the criticisms, scoring, and comments of my essay. I sent them an email, but I haven't received a response yet. There was also an option to give permission in allowing teachers and staff at LSU to sample parts of my writing in their classes for educational purposes, but I was too embarrassed and I did not give permission.

Last Friday, partly out of boredom, I decided to log-in to the online challenge website. I figured maybe they posted the criticism and scoring with my results. Lo and behold, the first words that popped to my attention was "Congratulations!" Now, I recalled my first results and there was nothing to be congratulated about that. Then I wondered if maybe I accidentally logged into someone else's account. I scrolled to the top of the webpage and there was my name, but I was still confused. I then scrolled back to where my results should be and it said I did test out of English 2000. I'm excited now, but I'm not Brittani and I'm not Devon. I cannot shell out good essays in two hours. In fact, my results could switch on me and it could change in a month. But, I thought it was amusing and interesting to share that I got probably the worst and best results. I'm also glad I got it in that order. Imagine what I would have felt if it were the reverse!

Sorry Caleida

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:19:24 GMT

I spent a week in Carthage, MO camping and what are the words to describe it? Wet, wet, and muddy wet. It rained practically every day. Nothing too eventful happened. My sister from ULM came with my family and that was pretty exciting. She's a fun person to be around. I was bored to sobs and so many kids! God, there must of been some kind of Asian baby boom or something, running all over the place. I'd like to raise little robots.

Leaving for college in 8 days. It hasn't hit me yet, but that's probably because then I'll be cramped in a tiny room and traveling all over campus. To me, college seems busy. Busier than high school? I don't know, but I hope not. Who knows when I'll have something interesting to recount. So adios for now. Let's hope it will be soon, though. ;I

The End of July

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:21:17 GMT

Sorry but I've been busy for the past few days. I watched The Dark Knight with Einstein, which was AWESOME. It was very dark and it had, for me, a sad ending. So if I had to choose what movie I would watch again (between the 1st and 2nd Batman), then I'm going with the first. The Dark Knight is clearly the better movie with better acting, storyline, etc. But I like happy. I like positive and Batman Begins is definitely a lot cheerier plus I like Cillian Murphy. As much as I don't really care for Maggie Gyllenhaal or Katie Holmes, I like Rachel Dawes even less and to me, Katie Holmes fits that loathsome role. I wish she'd have taken it. But, she wanted Mad Money, so hooray for her.

I went bowling with Einstein and Bretagne Sunday. It was fun. I haven't bowled in years, since maybe the sixth grade. I got five spares compared to my first and only one seven years ago. We played three games: Bretagne won the first and Einstein, the last two games. I completely threw my last bowl (shame on me) and lost by one point. !! There's always next time. :P We also went to Starbucks and talked for a bit. I tried a Mocha Mint frappucino. Never again. I don't know why I go for mocha, because I don't really like it. But, between that and caramel...

I got a letter from Mercutio yesterday, finally...I thought he lost my address or something. God, I laughed throughout the entire letter. He's deprived of sweets and TV, which must be an absolute nightmare. And no gum, what is he going to do? I hope my letters cheer him up.

My mother bought me a book of stamps to replace four stamps that she borrowed from me. Lovely woman, I got an entire book for free!

Hmm, I've watched Wanted in addition to Eastern Promises. Wanted was okay. It wasn't as great as I expected it to be, but I probably added all of this hype because we're talking James McAvoy. In my opinion, he should stick to the English roles. His American speech didn't seem accentless. Eastern Promises was not all bloody guts and gore as my sister painted it to be. Well, I did cover my eyes and skip over the death scenes, but there were two? No, make that three with the steamroom. It was a good movie, not great for me, but something like The Painted Veil. It deserved praise, honors, and recognition for the spectacular acting. Now, Memento was something else and for me, I thought that movie was great, unique, and clever. I don't love it though like Amelie. I might not remember it in a few years, but hey, I like happy movies.

Ok, the end.

Two weeks until...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:08:47 GMT

Marian Days! It seems like forever. And I definitely need something to get me out of this lazy slump. Einstein and I plan to watch The Dark Knight this weekend and we'll also lunch or dine with Bretagne, too. Odds? Not among good friends. Besides, I like to listen.

Getting ready for...

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:18:18 GMT

College. What do I need? What should I get?

I went to Wal-Mart today and browsed around the store with my mom. She seemed more enthusiastic than me. I guess because she's the mom and knows what's what with shopping for basic everyday needs. I tried imagining what I needed, but I had no idea what the dorms looked like, so I decided to wait and see what it's like before I buy a bunch of things I won't have room for. I got a toolkit, which is awesome. I now have my very own hammer, screw driver, pliers, wrench, measuring tape, a level thing I don't know the name of, and several other tool pieces I don't know anything about. There was this coil of wire that really puzzled me. Safety glasses also came with it and honestly, it was clearer and better than anything I've used in my chemistry classes, which is great.

I also bought a webcam since Einstein is going to another state. She had one built into her laptop. It functions great, but I haven't tried it through AIM yet, so I'll have to wait until then to see if forty bucks was worth it. There isn't a terrible time lag that the previous webcam I bought had. Adieu kids.

Rediscovering Eisley

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:16:54 GMT

It will almost be a year since my sister introduced me to Eisley and most of the songs she liked I rejected quickly, save for two, "Memories" and "Go Away". Listening to the rejected songs again on the full albums Room Noises and Combinations, I recognized the tunes, the melodies, because they sounded wonderful and my mind subconsciously recorded them even though verbally I said I didn't like them. They were and are good songs. I don't know why I turned away from them in the beginning. They include "Telescope Eyes", "Invasion", "I Could Be There For You", and "Ten Cent Blues. The music videos are strange, not to mention the singer's lips do not sync well with the actual lyrics. The mouth doesn't move the way it should in my opinion, but maybe that's how she actually sings.

Electricity was out for two and a half hours today. I missed History Detectives unfortunately, so I'll have to stay up until midnight for that. I'm surprised that the series finale of Foyle's War will not air at the normal 8 pm slot this upcoming Sunday night. Due to "special programming" slated in its stead, it gets pushed back to 2 AM next Tuesday. ??? I don't get it. I wanted to watch it where I did the first time I came across the series three years ago: in my parents bedroom. But, they'll be sleeping, so I'll have to make do with my room...I know, I'm a little kid at heart. Call it Peter Pan complex.

Exciting day for Ossila

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:57:40 GMT

The following explains it all:

CaveCate: so ossila's this big youtube blog fan
CaveCate: one of the peeple she subscribes to are daniel and david gardner in brazil
Tae Kwon Doe: ok..
CaveCate: they are brothers btw. they sent her a free dvd of the best of their videos because she was in the first 100 to sign up or something like that. anyway, the gardner brothers did a live blog broadcast today to interact with their fans
CaveCate: this was on blogtv. fans and guests can type up responses and questions and etc. well ossila thought about a joke s.t. had told her and asked the gardner bros: why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
CaveCate: daniel gardner (the older bro) said "because the monkey wanted to scrape his knee?" and ossila responded: b/c he was dead
CaveCate: the younger brother david started laughing hysterically
CaveCate: and then both brothers started laughing hysterically, it was more fun to watch them laugh at ossila's joke than the joke itself in my op
Tae Kwon Doe: lol wow...
CaveCate: they also gave her two more nods throughout the show though ossila interacted less than others
Tae Kwon Doe: What the hell nod?
CaveCate: there was this magic card trick they were doing and the thing was, one of the bros would show a card to the audience (the camera) and the other brother said "i know i can get 'help' from special friends implying they would type him the card shown. viewers typed the correct card, but ossila lied and said ace of spades
CaveCate: a nod is a mention/reference directed toward someone
CaveCate: the first time during the magic card trick, whoever was guessing the card said the right card. the second time they did the trick, whoever was guessing the card said ace of spades though that was wrong
CaveCate: he was referring to ossila's comment b/c it was obviously wrong
CaveCate:the second time was when they said their goodbyes. out of courtesy one of the brothers said goodbye to everyone listed as watching the vid. but when they came to ossila (tomynose), they both said goodbye and started bowing and saying it was great stuff. one of them pronounced it "to my nose" which is correct, the other said "tommy nose"
Tae Kwon Doe: lol
Tae Kwon Doe: I'm happy for her :-)
Tae Kwon Doe: She gets recognition !
CaveCate: yeah, the brothers i guess plan to do the live broadcasts regularly, because the next one is monday
CaveCate: all of this happened today
CaveCate: do you want to see that part in the video?
Tae Kwon Doe: sure

If you want to see it, go to blogtv.com and type in danielgardner in the search engine. There, go to the July 18th broadcast and you can see this tiny part of the segment around 26 or 27 minutes. Check it out.

That's all folks.

I thought it was Swedish...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:02:33 GMT

I first heard about The Album Leaf, a band, a year and a half ago. I thought it was Swedish. Today, I've corrected my mistake. I had a single song of theirs, "Always for You", which sounded stranger than any American music I've listened to. Yet, it is in fact the solo project of an American guitarist from the band Tristeza. He's based in California and his music has been in several tv shows and commercials.

I'm listening to their album right now and many of the songs are different from "Always for You" with no vocals, more instrumental--completely fine for me.

Les Retrouvailles and OSC

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:16:07 GMT

I'm listening to the beautiful music of Yann Tiersen, his album Les Retrouvailles. Except for the seventh track "A Secret Place", everything is perfect for a serene background hum. And unlike the music (new and old)* composed for soundtracks (Amelie, Good Bye Lenin!) which sounded similar, the tunes on this CD are different, lacking anything over-the-top.

* = An interesting fact about the movie soundtracks: the music compilation is made up of new tracks, but also old ones Tiersen composed before.

When I was a freshman, I anticipated my school's newspaper The Grit due to a single author, a single journalist (whose writing was worth it). His articles were not of extraordinary merit, but it was great writing and carried a sense of humor, sarcasm if you will. It was refreshing and complementary to my style of writing at the time, which has abandoned me and no longer exists. I'm crippled from its departure but also to the prevention of growth of essay-writing my junior year. I can't have both, creativity and formality. I excel in one or the other - in this case, neither.

But after the first year of high school, The Grit died and never resurfaced to its original glory. I never read another article from that journalist, whose work I admired, again. But I learned of Orson Scott Card, his website, his column, and eventually Rhino Times where his articles are posted earlier. I found myself another author whose work I admire and anticipate daily.

The Seasons by Tchaikovsky

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:13:40 GMT

Yep, I totally have it. All twelve tracks. I'm excited & pleased with today's accomplishments. I finished DLM. For a cancelled show, I think it had a pretty good last episode that didn't really scream "THE END." It was nice.

The Seasons by Tchaikovsky is a collection of twelve short pieces of music commissioned to reflect the twelve months of the year. I first heard of "Juin: Barcarolle" from Daisy (film and soundtrack). I later looked it up and voila! -- learned about the other eleven months.

Ciao. I should go clean now...

But, thirteen days since my last "walk" on the track. I got up at 6:30 this morning and the atmosphere was a lot better than if it were an hour and a half later.

Coincidence?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:29:51 GMT

Dead Like Me used to air on The CW in the morning block before noon everyday. I caught an episode within the past three weeks about a serial killer wreaking havoc on Halloween. Little did I know that was the last episode of the series and also the last time it would be a rerun on the telly. I've been having my marathon and like Roswell, I don't understand why people aren't hooked. To be honest though, Roswell didn't party favor with me in its second and third seasons. With Tess, the death of Alex, and the introduction of the young lawyer (Rodriguez?), the series ran out of good storylines, not to mention things were just getting worse and worse. There was no clean way of resolving problems for the characters to go back to the way things were.

Perhaps with high school, Roswell lost its glamour to me. I believed my experiences would be great and I would have so many adventures. That idea, that hope for excitement propelled me to choose an easily excited attitude. I tricked myself. But ignorance is bliss and for one year, I had an adventure every day during fourth period. Dead Like Me is so frank, unbelievably real that I just wish it existed. At the present, I care a lot about the characters. I see the good and the bad, which makes the personalities realistic. I believe it.

The series is three years old now. But it could continue today. That's something I could see on my television now. Where would it go? Where would the plot lead us? What is the objective? Maybe that was the problem about it. There was no main objective. So many storylines criss-crossing that at the end of an hour I just wanted to know more about the history of the reapers, their lives. I didn't care too much about the surviving Lass family. I thought they were annoying and could be eradicated from the script. I also noticed that Roxy was MIA in several episodes though on IMDB, she's listed as being in every episode. I wonder why that is.

Dead Like Me

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:47:33 GMT

I'm having a Dead Like Me marathon. It's fabulous so far.

J'adore la musique

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:38:57 GMT

I'm picking out songs to finally burn into a collection of my favorite music. I'm filtering through all of my junk--that is to say, my files on my flash drives. Yes, I have more than one flash drive. Actually, I kind of have four...

So what will be playing on my ipod once I get one (hopefully within a month)?

1) Yann Tiersen - his Amelie and Goodbye Lenin! composed soundtracks
2) Maksim Mrvica - Tango in Ebony/Handel's Sarabande/Croatian Rhapsody in addition to everything Johnny Weir skated to
3) my french music: Chopin, Erik Satie, Alizee, Emily Loizeau, Camille Saint-Saens (singularly The Swan)
3) Sixpence None the Richer, Sarah McLachlan, Dido, Within Temptation, Eisley, Sheryl Crow, The Cranberries
4) OneRepublic, Switchfoot
5) of course, the soundtracks from Gosford Park, The English Patient, Mansfield Park, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Full House (Korean), My Sassy Girl, Il Mare, Pride and Prejudice 2005, Thumbelina 1994, Windstruck, & Daisy
6) my anime: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, Cardcaptor Sakura, Gundam Wing Mobile Suit
7) and odds and ends here and there
8) & Lettie's music once it hits the stores!

Ciao mes belles fleurs

Ha!

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:31:32 GMT

I did it! I barely remember yesterday, but I fulfilled something I was meant to do and I feel elated now. Wow. I should really hook up the printer to this pc I'm typing on...Maybe tomorrow. Adieu.

I could do with some Caesar salad

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:23:15 GMT

After trying Caesar salad at my former history teacher's house, I liked it...a lot. Or so I think... This is a little over a month ago so I can't quite remember the exact taste, but I didn't hate it. So this weekend, Einstein and I have decided to either eat at Ruby Tuesday or Chili's. I haven't been to either but I'm willing to eat some more Caesar salad.

There is a strong possibility that I am going camping the first week of August at.......Marian Days! I really look forward to some quiet, isolated time, not to mention feeling completely comfortable in a sea of sixty thousand Asians. Plus, I'd like to get used to the hot weather for the fall. I might not be able to dig up that time capsule, but who knows in twenty or thirty years? The ~~band kids~~ choir will be in our usual spots unfortunately, so we'll have to find a new area to camp. I love watching the apartments. Two stood side by side in symmetry.

Toodles for now

Tomorrow...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:53:23 GMT

Can I make it happen? Can I not post tomorrow out of respect for the deceased? We shall see if I forget. I hope not, because that's poor quality on my part.

Seven minutes kids. 7 minutes. 'A' avec un accent grave vendredi.

Auf wiedersehen. I am fairly multi-cultural, just to say. :)

Save Target As...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:51:36 GMT

When I try to save files, directions on a website sometimes say "right-click on object and select 'Save Target As'". Yet that particular option is usually disabled and I have no way of saving that file. For the first time in forever, I went to this music storage server which just happened to have the Foyle's War Main Theme as an audio on Qucktime (which I do not have the Pro version and could not save the music file because of...). When I checked out the address and went to the main page there were links directing to the audio files and by right-clicking on them, the fabled "Save Target As..." option was available. I was/am ecstatic. Besides that, I got a few other songs from movies/television that I love, such as Seaquest, Matilda, the funeral song in Firefly, Last of the Mohicans (tribute to English I/II/ & 1/2 of III teacher) among others. Ciao kids.

Being an idiot, I accidentally inhaled something from an aerosol can and I can't get rid of that smell from my nose. I just wanted to smell the scent and did so right after spraying it. It's an aerosol can, how dumb can you get? It's like inhaling hair spray and who wants to do that?

Kids, be safe. Be Wary. Keep it secret forever & always. Honest. Like, seriously. Kidding, I'm bored to tears. Can you tell?

This Early Wednesday

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:41:03 GMT

It hadn't crossed my mind until now that Mercutio left for Georgia a week ago. We had our last conversation until seven months passes. I recorded it because I'm obsessed with remembering details of my life when I more or less "have" one. There will be a time when I'm alone, isolated with no friends and I want to be able to reminisce about the time I did have some. The conversation was pretty interesting. Actually, the "last phone call" was actually the third. Thus, I recorded the "3rd to last" one. Confusing? I hope not. I listened to the audio recording two nights ago and it was as if it happened the day before. I wanted to say a cliche, but I'll refrain. Instead, I'll say that since I replicated our voices, it sounds as if it's happening now, then, when I played it.

That's the great thing about movies where the time frame doesn't really matter. If it spans a year, it's cool, you can watch the film any time of the year. But it doesn't make much sense to watch Christmas movies when it's not Christmas or Halloween ones when it's not Halloween. Again, I veered off subject. I tend to do that a lot lately and I find it an endearing quality that there's sort of a flow, not appropriate for English essays where you should always stick to the main idea. That's my biggest problem with essays. I veer off subject but I don't really catch it, because to me, it fits. Editing my own work doesn't really seem to help me much. But there isn't anyone's opinion I can ask excluding strangers.

Chances are, I'll record the text messages anyway. Yet, I find it funny enough to post it everywhere. Here's a brief text convo with Einstein I had today. Another example of my dark humor:

Einstein: What are you doing this weekend?
Me: Maybe introduce a serial killer into the sims 2 community. Why?
Einstein: That sounds horrible! Do you want to get together? Maybe we can do something if we're both free?

And my answer ran along the lines of "sure...we could possibly watch a movie too." Of course I don't really eat anywhere outside of fast food restaurants. I ate at some burger place once with Bretagne and the burger was delicious, but it was ten dollars and that was probably two BK value meals, which are perfectly fine to me. Plus, since I'm not really working and have no source of income, then yeah using whatever money I do have on me frivolously isn't ideal. But we'll see what happens.

There have been a few changes with Hell's Kitchen this year. 1) the season finale was split into two one-hour blocks and not the normal 2 hr season finale; 2) the pre-run off between the finalists usually predict who the winner is from past experiences. interestingly enough, the more stable (in my op) finalist wins as well (in this case petrozza). but my favorite in the competition, christina, won. i preferred the female finalist last year too. her name completely escaped my mind but she lost, although i feel she is very similar to christina. petrozza's great. he will definitely go somewhere. i thought the top three (petrozza, christina, and corey) were fantastic and talented. the toughest competition so far; 3) i don't recall seeing the usual poll predicting who would win by the audience unless it appeared on the telly when i blinked or something.

I'm thinking about a kid I nicknamed Max Evans because he reminded me of the character early my freshman year in high school. This thought leads me to imagining what the hell will happen next year. Because the people who matter to me, the people who have positively affected my life are going to different places. It's not one or two friends, but all. It should be easier to make friends the first year of elementary/middle/high school or college, but one thing's different in my case and that is that instead of being more outgoing over the years, I've kind of crawled into a shell and become more shy. Already, I know this will cause a problem I will regret the next four years, but I hated high school. This is what it did to me, surrounding me with enemies from broken friendships and people I couldn't get away from. I hid in the library and isolated corridors people rarely frequented. I wanted to run away but I couldn't really. I was stuck and one teacher offered me sanctuary, but I politely declined. There was this strange kid whose name I shall not reveal (it rhymed with mow) who has been plaguing my Gifted years since that bloody trip to I'm not even sure I remember, some museum or other dealing with NASA. It was a mock set-up of "mission control" and I was a Data Interpreter who didn't really do anything. I just sat in a chair whirling it around while the other gifted kids had a blast. Yeah, can you tell I hated elementary too? Because I did. Oh, and middle school. God, I really hated school! But it was mainly because many of the people in authority tried to control or dictate what I could do, the opportunities I was given, which wasn't very much because it was always second string to another group of kids.

This is too depressing. I started typing feeling sort of elated but I'm too gloomy. Everything ends gloomy. Kids, don't read this. Stop! It is completely depressing. Play the Sims 2 or something, like Crash Team Racing. That's a fabulous game. Cheers!