4 Sep 01

This entry originally started out as a post on the bug topic at Slimu's board. But it got so obscenely long that I decided to turn it into a journal entry and cover things other than bugs in it XD But before we do any of that, the bugs.

Mleh. I dearly love spiders. The only time I mind them on me is if they get on me when I'm not paying attention and then I just look down and a spider is there. O_o()() The other day in Physics this really tiny spider was hanging from the ceiling and its thread got caught up with my hand so when I moved my arm the spider would swing around. Then I was trying to go back to writing notes (taking notes type, not "HELLO STEPHANIE HOW R U? *heart*" notes) so I got my pencil and wrapped the thread around it and then I had a spider hanging from my pencil and I was like waving it around and stuff. I was trying to detach it altogether, but it was difficult since you can't really see the thread. Then finally I got it detached. And went back to writing notes. But I hope nobody was watching me. See, the spider was so tiny they wouldn't have been able to see it. Which means I would have just looked like I was trying to cast a spell or something randomly waving my arms and pencil around XD

I. Hate. COCKROACHES.

I kind of like crickets because the name sounds cute, and because when I was younger I got this awesome magazine called "Cricket" =)~

Grasshoppers are kinda cool, but if they're too big they make me think they're locusts and then I wish to run away from the plague.

In Weekly World News a while ago (the one with gay corpses), they had a picture of this Russian guy holding a four-foot-long locust and a shotgun XD XD XD

I like ants as long as they're not inside the house. In 5th grade I used to be bored and antisocial at recess so I would go over to the anthills and watch the ants crawl around. That's how I met my best friend O_O()() Sort of, anyway. My best friend is/was not an ant.

Butterflies, ladybugs, and praying mantises are grand. Moths are gross.

Random non-cockroach beetles are not hated to the extent that I wish all would die by getting boiling water poured on them, but I heartily adhere to the opinion that such things should never ever be inside the house or in close proximity to the undersigned.

Also, bees. I like bees, but not near me. Bees are attracted to me. One time a bee flew up my pants. (I am not joking.) I only got stung once though. It really hurt. ;_; But anyway... even though I want bees to stay very very far away from me, I still like them. They're cool. And it's all noble and stuff the way they die once they sting you, so it's like they're giving their lives for the defence of the hive. Plus, I like peanut butter and honey sandwiches. But that's why I HATE WASPS AND HORNETS AND ALL THOSE THINGS. Because unlike bees who sting only to defend themselves when they feel threatened and do it for the good of the hive, wasps and hornets and yellow jackets and them as soon sting you as buzz around you, and thye're MEAN, and stinging you doesn't even hurt them at all, it's just a fun pastime X[()()() And they don't make honey! *busily hates stinging insects other than bees*

HOLY CRAP! It's raining, so I just opened the shade a little to look out, and there's this freaking enormous hairy disgusting insect on the window O____O()()()()() It's GROSS!! It's... hairy! And it's got this little brown grasshopper looking thing that it seems to have eaten or something, ewwww it's so gross and huge and hairy! XO!!!!!! *closes shade*

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that when I was like four I got stung by a bunch of wasps. So.

**insert approximate 54 hour time gap**

So like, the server was down yesterday and the day before, which is why I didn't bother to finish this entry. *blink blink* BUT NOW I WILL!

The week of Soundsations performing and everything happened and is now over. I will talk about it! Okay, so like on Monday we left school during 2nd period and went down to the convention centre to do mic set up and practise on the stage and stuff. We were supposed to wear our choir T-shirts and jeans, and we did of course, but the choir shirts don't fit well and they're really hot so nobody likes to wear them. Scurlock overheard some people talking about how they didn't want to wear their choir shirts and she was like "that tells me you're ashamed to be in choir!!!!" and I didn't say it but I was like "no, we just hate the shirts..." because the shirts are gross. Also, Gooch forgot his dress shoes. Gooch... is a pretty nice guy, but he kind of grosses me out. =| Anyway we went to convention centre and did all that stuff. We were supposed to get back to school pretty much right after 3rd period was ending, which would be our lunch, only we magically didn't get back until there were only ten minutes of lunch left >:O!!!! And the guy who was our chaperone from the American Legion was talking to us on the way back to school about how we were going to be the last live song and dance thing most of them ever saw and how they were dying every day and most of them would be dead by Christmas. It was really horrid.

And next day we actually performed *_* We had to be at school by 6.45 though >:| Then we went down and sat and hung and performed and stuff. The CD screwed up and would randomly pause for a few seconds and then come back in, but it only did that... twice I think and we got right back on. And we got back to school during 6th period (B day equivalent to 2nd period) which is my Study Hall =)~ and everyone wore their Soundsations uniforms to their next class (it's green shiny vest, white tux shirt, black tux pants, black bow tie, black dress shoes for guys and black character shoes for girls). Surprisingly, nobody commented on my interesting mode of dress in study hall O_o() *pause in story while Silla runs to fetch a box of Kleenex* *story resumes* And then in 7th period, which is our Soundsations class, we got a pizza party!!! w00t! This one chick Kim.... well, she's thin and everything, right? And she eats. SO much pizza. Earlier in the summer people had some pizza, and she had like 13 slices. And at our party, she ate NINETEEN PIECES OF PIZZA. And she's so thin! It's like, where does it all go?! Well, what I mean is, she's not like TOO thin, like skinny or anything, she's just thin, as in, not fat. Average size, I guess. *blink* I guess she's about my size. Although I tend to think she's thinner than I am, but that's probably just because I'm a teenage girl. ANYWAY.

Wednesday we went back to American Legion to see President Bush :O Only we didn't get a nice charter bus, we had to ride a dumb schoolbus and it was raining XO And we couldn't leave the windows up because it caused the bus to fog up XO So anyway, at the American Legion convention, General something Shelton had a speech, and it was really good. President Bush had a speech and it was good too. Laura Bush had a speech that was also good. But something Perry, the governor, had a speech and I seriously fell asleep and so did like two other people in Soundsations o_o() Then we all stood in a row and got our hands shook by da president. Groovalicious.

Soundsations pictures for your happiness! Here are the girls performing "Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me" on Tuesday, a picture that was published in the paper. And here's all of Soundsations on Wednesday. By the way, I don't tell you which one is me, you have to guess. It'll be like a game, and next week I reveal the secret answer, right? Of course, right!

Also, during the more boring parts of the various speeches, I was sitting next to Lauren (random nice chick) and Greg/Agent West/White G and they had these big news cameras that they kept panning over the audinece. So whenever we saw the light, we sat up straight and looked attentive and turned and nodded in affirmation at appropriate spots in the speech. It was amusing to us. I don't think we made it on the news though ;_;

MY WEBMASTERING TEACHER IS A PSYCHO!!

Friday in English we had our test over East of Eden. I was one of many people who didn't finish the essay portion in class, so I went and finished it today during study hall. I remember referring to East of Eden as being full of "creamy delicious allegory" at some point. A guy I know later told me that the teacher had been telling their class about my essay later in the day as an example of a good essay O_o() The objective part of the test disgruntled me however because I got question 1 wrong and I didn't think it was really fair even though it kind of was but also wasn't. Okay, it's a multiple choice, right? And it says "the first two chapters are a description and history of Adam Trask's birthplace, which is... a) Virgina b) California c) Connecticut d) Maine" Now, you see, the first two chapters are a description and history of California, but Adam Trask was born somewhere in New England. I couldn't remember which state exactly, but I knew it was NE. So I asked the teacher about it. And she said to go with the birthplace one. So I guessed that it was Maine. Then later after everyone had turned in their scantrons, the teacher said how she was sorry about question 1 and that I had pointed out to her an error in that, and how if anyone had put B (California) she would count that as correct because the first two chapters *are* about California, and she would also count C (Connecticut) correct because that was Adam Trask's birthplace. Makes me cry because I still got it wrong, and if she hadn't told me to put the birthplace one I would have put California and got the question right XO!!!! But whatever. It's one question.

Today I realised that I sort of feel like I have to be better than everyone else. It's not that I actually think I am better than everyone else, I just feel like I should be, and if I'm not I'm doing something wrong. Weird.

Last Sunday's episode of Andromeda was weird. The stoned out chick raped Rev! Ewwwww!! Plus Trance and Harper weren't even on it. Bleh. Okay, she didn't really rape him, but it was still creepy. She drugged him, extracted his genetic material, and used it to impregnate herself O_O()()() And earlier in the episode she had said to Dylan "Let's make children!" and I was like "YOU ARE A CRACK WHORE". I feel sorry for Rev because he wants to eat everyone all the time.

Probably, there was other stuff to say, but I either forgot it or don't feel like taking the effort to type it all out... drive safely, eh? Oh yeah, one more thing. I'm sick. I have sinus infection. Bleeeehhh. But I still went to school today o_o() AND ALSO!! I have an abnormally low body temperature. My body temperature is fully two degrees cooler than normal human body temperature (FOR SERIOUS). In 1st grade when I used to get sick all the time, that was a problem since the nurses never believed I was really sick when I had a 98.8 fever XO They were like "oh, that's barely above normal" and I'd be like "not for meee" and they thought I was just tryin' to get out of school. Fiends.

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