Life

I’m starting to think that Reverant Hale is right “Confess to witchcraft and save your life.” If life is prioritized before telling the truth, then how would you live with yourself when you do lie and save your life? How would you live with the guilt of lying? Or would the fact that it saved your life be enough to justify lying to God? But perhaps God understands why you are lying, and therefore forgives you for your sin? What if you committed murder, but, under the circumstances, you had to for your life was in danger. Would that then be forgivable? Even if the law system proclaims you free of charge because you acted upon defense, would you forgive yourself? Could you forgive yourself for killing another person, even if it was justifiable? Thinking about the Crucible.

This junior year has been incredibly stressful. What with all the AP classes, PSAT coming up (which I have not studied for) and swimming, life has gotten pretty hectic. Yet Prerna sent me something today, and it made me laugh (scared at first but humor after). It was a picture of a drawn pig. Then, once you clicked on the pig, it went beserk and screamed AHHH for approximately 20 seconds. It was a great stress reliever because I know that the pig is going through the same stress as me. And if I am not allowed to yell and scream my frustrations out, well then the pig can voice my opinions. I know, it was only for a bit of a laugh, but I felt like the pig at that moment. It made my day.

Plus I really like the thing on Prerna’s page “Life because its where we’re at right now” or something like that. It is unbelievably true.

AP US History

Did you know that Jefferson believed in universal education and that Jackson wanted all white males to vote? I HATE APUSH! Seriously, how am I supposed to remember what happened to Jefferson? Why does this all matter? Yes, to make sure that we do not make the same mistakes as we did in our early lives, but like seriously, I was probably Hitler in an earlier life (hey we share the same the birthday) and this is why I am writing my contemporary issue on teen violence and how we should ship them all to a concentration camp in Greenland right? So all I have to do is not actually gain political power and install a concentration camp. I can do that? Plus I love all races! =) Peace and Prosperity. The Second Great Awakening brought about the end of..the quakers. and the rise of the Catholics? And the end of the Protestants I believe. So much memorization. And this meet this weekend was horrible! I don’t think I added less than 5 seconds for each event! =( oh well though. Ohh I just sliced my eye open with a piece of paper. This weekend has been so stressful and PSAT are coming up and everything is going to be coming so fast I don’t know what to do! I hope that I will have time to swim this week. I HOPE on a more positive note, I hope that Frances you and your study group did well. I know Dixon’s site is down, so maybe he’ll postpone the test!! But he probably won’t. Boo freaking hoo (copyright Frances Bo) And so I must sleep now and I leave with one lasting note:

Jefferson believed in a weak central government and a strong state government in which each state would essentially run itself and take care of its own issues. He believed in a strict following of the Constitution, which he totally disobeyed when he authorized the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson also impeached Samuel Chase because he was a Federalist. That’s not mean.

A Contemporary Issue

So I am currently thinking of what to write about for my contemporary issue in AP English. Should it be about the invisible children in Uganda? Or the Northern Ireland Catholic vs. Protestant issue in….Northern Ireland. What affects me the most? Well, to be honest, none of this stuff really affects me. Maybe I should write about the AIDS epidemic. How this AIDS epidemic is rapidly spreading, and there is no cure! So what should we do to stop this? NO! Illegal human trafficking in…the US? or in Africa? Let’s search online. Human trafficking in the Middle East. And how this is like caused partially because many women are trying to flee the Iraq war and get into…prostitution! dun dun dun. How to fix this? We join in on the party! No no, that’s not a good idea. Something satirical. Something extremely ridiculous…like eating Irish babies. Perhaps, to help control human trafficking and eventually stop it, we must…I got nothing. Maybe I should switch my topic to abortion, television violence, gambling?

I GOT IT. Okay this is my modest proposal: To stop teen violence from disrupting our hard working society, we must relocate them and place them in a “concentration camp” (just not as evil as Hitler). Perhaps in Greenland? Haha what a nice place to live. Okay I’m going to go write this now. Perhaps I will post this up later…LATER

This Weekend

This weekend is going to be so much WORK. Okay, so here is the schedule:

1) Swim Meet

2) ALL THIS HOMEWORK

3) Tutor (Two kids)

4) sleep (if possible)

This is almost ridiculous. How am I supposed to finish all this in time for Monday? I’m just glad that there is no Chem test next week…or is there? I hope not. But there is a math test. What the freak? And now this kid Justin (name changed for confidentiality =D) is accusing me of spreading rumors about him. And who tells him that? Another kid named Nathan (name changed). So Nathan is, in fact, spreading rumors about me saying that I’m spreading rumors about Justin. What sorts of rumors? “Justin asked Raven out” Like what the heck? At least it should be a fun rumor like “David wants to sleep with Oprah” =D That one is actually true. Haha just kidding. But seriously, people need to get their facts straight before they go accusing people of things they didn’t do! And we should not trust everyone since people we may think are really cool, REALLY REALLY AREN’T! But, a side note, for Joe (who will never read this until I tell him to), bring me cupcakes! Because I’m dying for one right now. And some hot chocolate while we’re at it. We should have a party in AP Calculus. I’ll bring the cheese! =) And there is this kid named (of course guys, the name’s changed =D) Brian who is in TWO of my classes and, by the way, is a very attractive person. So my life story is, he is wayy out of reach (unless he’s out of blood, weak, and vulnerable) and this is totally unfair. I really miss my friends from this summer camp I go to, and I really can’t wait to go back because this time…we’re going to MARYLAND! And away from sickening Philadelphia. I really wish it were the end of May because AP testing would be over, high school swimming would be over (which is sad because high school swimming is like the best time of my life) and I can party every single freaking day because I will have my license!!! =) I will have Heroes marathons, Dr. Who marathons, and possibly watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail again and again until I’m sick. And play monumental amounts of Guitar Hero and Wii Wario =) I am TOO excited. Too bad May is 8 million bagillion years from now. Until then…it is back to the art of memorizing AP Biology and pretending to understand AP Chemistry….and trying not to fall asleep in AP English.

Until the day I can finally rest and do NOTHING…peace

What a stressful day

Haha Hi Frances! I got one just for you…and well me, but you have me goin on this one! So I’m still pretty confused about what is happening in this place, but I will soon find out…or not. Oh man, okay so like I have told a LOT of people, I lost my binder today (but I found it 6th period!). My binder has my life in it. It has all my history notes and all this homework and everything! So I can’t find it today, and I have to turn in my chem problems today! So I spent the entire 1st and 2nd period copying chem problems from some people and NOT paying attention in class. I don’t really like copying everyone’s homework because I feel bad that I didn’t do it, but I DID DO IT! I did do my homework, I just couldn’t find it. So I copied that all in time, but then I had this history chart thing that we did in class that we needed today, and guess where it was? IN MY BINDER. So I spent ALL of lunch copying someone else’s history chart, and at this CSF meeting about absolutely nothing (well about something). Then afterwards, I had to haul a LARGE amount of money in my backpack in fear that it might be stolen and go to history where I thought my binder may have been. BUT IT WAS NOT! It was not in my history class, and then I began to worry. If it wasn’t there, then I HOPED it was in 6th period. History managed to pass by with some goodness seeing as how the history packet is now due Monday instead of TOMORROW. That would have been a history packet and a bio test to study for. What’s the point of bio? NO what’s the point of Metabolism? I absolutely hate these conceptual pointless chapters, and I haven’t started to study for it yet. =( This is gonna be SUCH a long night. This weekend I have SO much work to do. I have to do my history packet and study for my history test. I also have to do two English assignments. And I have to study for a math test, review for chem (because I am never prepared enough) and..that’s about it. This weekend is going to be killer because I have a swim meet on top of that. =( Plus my mom is trying to tell me that switching $500 of 5s, 10s, and 20s into 5 $100 bills is easier, but then I tell her NO! but then she says “Don’t argue with me” and it becomes a blood feud. Yes, with the blood involved. Perhaps…perhaps tomorrow will be better…after biology.