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Are you willing to risk your life to move on?



Make it messy.




AGE: 17
SEX: Female
LOCATION: Michigan
BIRTHDAY: January 17th
GRADE: 11th




My pastimes:

Reading, writing, researching randomly, homework, NHS, Environmental Club, community service, DDR, building up my iPod, ID’ing polished stones, IMing it up, speaking/thinking in Spanish, reading the newspaper, going on sex-drive-fueled missions to find a place that will sell/rent Season 1 of The L Word to minors without credit cards, pulling all-nighters to see who can stay awake the longest, feeding my turtles lettuce, and whatever else I feel like doing.



My reading tastes:

† Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
† The Crucible by Arthur Miller
† Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
† The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (a good book for women to read)
† Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
† Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card
† The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
† Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
† The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
† Lord of the Flies by William Golding
† The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
† Life Inside: A Memoir by Mindy Lewis
† The Pendragon Series by D.J. MacHale
† Obsession; Possession (sequel) by Wendy Morgan
† The Wind on Fire Trilogy by William Nicholson
† The Old Kingdom Series/Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen) by Garth Nix
† The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini (Hm…Interesting.)
† The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
† His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
† The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (illustrating the interesting philosophy of objectivism, and with the best characterization I have ever seen besides)
† The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (Lestat, Claudia, Mekare, and Maharet forever!)
† The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
† The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
† The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
† The Sorority (trilogy) by Tamara Thorne
† The Lamb Among the Stars Series by Chris Walley (Christian sci fi, but/and VERY interesting)



My musical sounds:

~ AFI ~ Apocalyptica ~ Cradle of Filth ~ Creed ~ DBSK ~ Diablo Swing Orchestra ~ Disturbed ~ Eminem ~ Evanescence ~ Godsmack ~ Good Charlotte ~ Hellogoodbye ~ Jacks Mannequin ~ Jem ~ Korn ~ Lacuna Coil ~ Linkin Park ~ Mago de Oz ~ Malice Mizer ~ Marilyn Manson ~ Maroon 5 ~ The Medic Droid ~ Mindless Self Indulgence ~ Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics ~ My Chemical Romance ~ Nickelback ~ Nightwish ~ Nine Inch Nails ~ P.O.D. ~ Papa Roach ~ Queen of the Damned Soundtrack and Score Albums ~ Rata Blanca ~ The Ring and Ring Two Soundtrack ~ The Rolling Stones ~ Seether ~ Slipknot ~ System of a Down ~ Thousand Foot Krutch ~ The Unicorns ~ Tribal Ink ~ Wicked Wisdom ~



My visual pleasures:

~ The 10th Kingdom ~ An Inconvenient Truth ~ Armageddon ~ Bambi (the music in the raindrop scene is so pretty!) ~ Baraka ~ Blood Diamond ~ Boogeyman ~ Bowling for Columbine ~ Boys Don't Cry ~ The Breakfast Club ~ The Butterfly Effect ~ Carrie ~ The Rage: Carrie II ~ The Crucible ~ Con Air ~ Dinotopia ~ Erin Brockovich ~ The Exorcist ~ Finding Nemo ~ The Fountainhead ~ Girl, Interrupted ~ The Grudge ~ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (only one, mwahaha!) ~ Hide and Seek ~ Holes ~ Hotel Rwanda ~ I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry ~ The Island ~ Joe Dirt ~ Juno ~ Jurassic Park (all 3) ~ The L Word (I love corks!) ~ The Lion King (I and II) ~ Lord of the Rings (all 3) ~ Man on Fire ~ Moulin Rouge ~ Pirates of the Caribbean (all 3) (“REAL MEN WEAR EYELINER”) ~ The Prestige (Hey, as long as the cat’s still alive…) ~ Princess Mononoke ~ The Ring and The Ring Two (Samara forever!) ~ Rosemary's Baby ~ Saw and Saw II (I haven't seen III yet ...) ~ The Shining ~ The Silence of the Lambs ~ The Sixth Sense ~ The Skeleton Key (The BETTER twist since The Sixth Sense!) ~ Stir of Echoes ~ Sybil ~ Thirteen ~ Tremors (I, II, III, and IV) ~ Twister ~ V For Vendetta ~ The Village ~ War of the Worlds ~



Stealing others’ words:

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down." - Kobi Yamada

"Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone." - T.S. Eliot

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” ~Bradley Millar

“I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.” ~Christian Barnard, surgeon

“Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.” ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990

“Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.” ~Leo Rosten

“Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.” ~R. Lerner, letter, Sierra, March-April 1991

“When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.” ~Marv Levy

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?’” ~Jeremy Bentham

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” ~Ellen DeGeneres

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.” ~Albert Schweitzer

"When you know the LORD you have no need for masturbation." -- Brice Wellington

“A tyrant much put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion” - Aristotle

“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.” ~Lynn Lavner

“Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass?” ~Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987

“War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?” ~The Value of Families

“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.” ~Francis Maude

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.” ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

“Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.” ~Judy Carter

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." -- Harvey Milk, a politician and gay rights activist who was later shot November 27, 1978 by Dan White, who spent only five years in prison.

“Here. Quick. Slip under my cloak of boringness. No one will even notice we're gone.” – Bette, The L Word

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“Quick, get under my cork of boring!” – Lauren

“Erica, you’re…a Skittle…because Skittles are all rainbowy and yummy.” – Keana

"You elbowed my boob!"
"YOU boobed my elbow!" – Mara

"So I finally got a pet for my little boy. He thinks he kills all his pets…'cause he does. …Heh." – Millar, Spanish

"You can't be mean to subs, because they're not real people." – Millar, after reading in monotone a report from the substitute teacher

[Talking about white-out corrections] "Blue-out exists, and I'm gonna prove it" - Millar

"You don't snort chalk!" – Millar

"PARTY AT HERRR HOUSE!! B.Y.O...water." – Millar

[On a morning when NHS is holding a blood drive] "Alright, let's listen up for the morning announcements...Or else you give blood." - Millar

“Life is a teenage squirrel” – Millar

“I’m trying to squeeze the juice out of the rock here” – Millar

“Pablo Neruda eats babies” – Millar

Kid: Millar, that was longer than a minute.
Millar: No doubt, lake trout.

[Rock enters class tardy]
Millar: ‘I don’t have my book and I didn’t do my homework. My bad.’
Rock: My bad.
Millar: Repeat after me: ‘Soy pan tostado.’ [Translation: “I am toast”]
Rock [having no idea what he’s saying]: Soy pan tostado.
Millar: Muy bien.

"How egotistical do you got to be to say...When I die...I want a pyramid." – Mrs Armstrong

“You just never know, when I turn like…40…and everything starts saggin’, I’m gonna lift it back up.” – Armstong, during discussion about plastic surgery and breast implants

"Don't you just love when you wax your car?" – Mrs Somers, AP Bio teacher o.o

Somers [talking about water as a universal solvent]: If your body's solvent was alcohol--
Kid: YES!!
Somers: I'm not talking about that kind of alcohol!

"Thus quoth the raven, you must leave it under the radical." – Mr French, math teacher

"Do you think I got to be a teacher by smoking weed and being a hippie?" – Mr French

[An office aid guy enters, bringing in a note from the office for someone]
French: Howdy-doo-dy, Judy? ...Oh wait, you're not Judy.
Kid: You're a dick. [walks out]
[French reads the note, hands it to the girl it's for]
[Class: O.O ]
French: ...What did he just say?
[French goes out into hall]
French: Hey!! My name's not Richard!

Kid: You said we were watching a movie today.
Mr Carrier: What?
Kid: You said we were watching a movie today.
Mr Carrier: Uh, zero.

"How many poetry students does it take to take a TV back?" - Carrier, when Andy and 2 other kids left to go take the TV back

" 'You dog-sized bird, you.' " – Brian's poem, poetry class

"Chicken is like President Bush 'cause when you chop of their heads they kinda run around and don't know what they're doing." – Kyle

"I don't hang out with moose very often." – Mr. Carrier

“Do you all see that, my eye twitching like that? Isn’t that annoying?” – Mr C

“Theresa pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease! One, two, threeeee, Mitchell, I see, quiet-y.” – Mr C

Mr C: Speedrunner!
Andy: He brought his entire folder up there.
Brian: I wrote it on my folder.
[laughter]
Brian: Okay, are you ready for this, this is bad.
Kyle: Bad as in good, or bad as in bad…?
Brian: Bad. As in like…terrible.
Mr C: Bad as in Michael Jackson bad?
Brian: Bad as in like 3 minutes.
Girl: Bad as in shut up.
Mr C: …..WOW!! The anger…is all around it.

“Will there be guards?” - Andy

Mr C: Halterman!
Laura: Whaaaat?
Mr C: …You bring poem para…us
Laura: I didn’t do it!
[talking]
Some kid: You gotta go up there and say that
Laura: Oh yeah
Mr C: …You committed it to memory?
Laura: No, I didn’t do it. You said I had to come up here and say I didn’t do it.
Mr C: …Uh..
Laura: So I didn’t do it.
Mr C: I didn’t mean you had to go up there and say it.
[pause]
[whole class applauds]

Monty: holy shit its so funny
Monty: i don't remember it, actually
Monty: but that's the general just of it
Monty: motherfucker speaking of communists
Monty: daycare
Monty: is fuckin undermining todays youth with communist ideals
Monty: so i was like 5-6 or something
Monty: sentient right
Monty: yeah
Monty: so i was sittin around, and they brought out some blocks, right
Monty: and i go over there
Monty: take a shit load of blocks cuz I got there first and was bigger than the rest of the fuckers
Monty: then the daycare bitch, shes like
Monty: 'monty you have too many blocks, the other kids dont have any'
Monty: so they took like half my motherfuckin blocks
Monty: gave them to the WEAKER little kids who didnt earn shit
Monty: REDISTRIBUTION OF PROPERTY BY FORCE
Monty: FUCKIN
Monty: COMMUNIST
Monty: DAYCARES

Miyu: I have cinnmon bread and miiiiiiiilk~
Miyu: b/c I'm good like that~
Miyu: I'll just dipdipdip meh bread~
Miyu: In meh lovely milk~
Miyu: ..
Miyu: xDDDD
Miyu: I didn't mean that
Miyu: like that

Miyu: XXDDDDDDDDDDDD awh, summer camp.. we should do that XXDDD or like sign up as consolers... but not really watch over anybody.. just like makeout under the stars and during hikes and stuff xDDDDD
Me: i can see us now...the lesbian summer camp counselors! XXDDDDDDDD
Miyu: 888DDDDDDDDDDDDDD fo sho!!! we could even be an influence to future generations XXDDDD like when they come out tho their parents they start out like "Mom... lemme just start by saying it was the totally sexah counselors fault DX"

Miyu: .__. .. well then we'll make a rule U: we hafta wash our mouths out with that mouthwashgrrbacteria stuff everytime we plan to have lunch U:
Miyu: unless we're eating out.. in which case..
Miyu: those listerine strips'll work
Miyu: : DDDDDDD that might feel weird too..
Me: XXXDDDDDDDDD
Me: O.o;;
Me: you meant that all....as a metaphor, right?
Miyu: XXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[In AP Calculus]:
Robert: Ewww…limits are yucky!
Other kid: Limits are the brussel sprouts of math.

“Creative thinking is NOT ALLOWED” – Zents, AP Calc teacher

Girl: I have a question… Do you watch Spongebob Squarepants?
Mrs Zents (AP Calc teacher): It’s not on my viewing list.
Girl: ‘Cause you sound like Mrs. Puff.

“I would appreciate it if you don’t annoy me today because you will make me angry and that will create bad karma so when I’m reborn, if I’m reborn into one of the hells, then I will blame it all on you.” – McDowell, World Religions teacher, talking about the hells in Buddhism

“God is. He is the is-ness of is.” – Guy on “The History of God” on the History Channel

“Most of you didn’t even know there’s sidewalk spirits...that’s why you’re tripping all the time.” – McDowell, World Religions teacher

McDowell: We do not have class tomorrow--
Computer (President Bush’s voice): And that’s bad news for Al-Qaeda.

[Religions class is in a computer lab, but another class needed it, so we switched rooms with them. They had a tiny, windowless storage room for a classroom, and because we also had no computers to distract us, our full attention was on McDowell for the first time ever] [nervously looking around] “You can tell I haven’t taught with students on top of me all year” – McDowell

“HWEEEEEEE!” – Ms. Ash, Adv. American Lit teacher. She gave an I.C.E (In-Class-Essay) for homework…so it became a HomeWork Essay – a H.W.E.

“Was she afraid of the dark?” – Jesse, asking about Anne Bradstreet, a Puritan writer. We were told that Puritans believed that the devil lived in the woods, so they were afraid of going into the woods.

“God’s no fun” – Erin, talking about how Puritans believed dancing was a sin and God didn’t like it

“My slave sense is tingling” – Jesse, making fun of something said by Tituba in The Crucible

“I signed the book” – Jesse. In the Salem witch trials, the women falsely confessed to signing the devil’s book and joining him in order to be forgiven.

[I brought these Gummi Lifesaver Fruit Splosions things, which are basically like fruit gushers, over to Jackie’s, and we were eating them]
Lauren: I wonder if I can lick this until I get to the juices.
Me: …Is it cherry flavored?

[Looking at a piece of labradorite (it’s a stone) in Wisdom of the Ages]
Lauren: Look, it looks like Utah!
Me: …You mean Idaho?



Miscellaneous (because I feel like it):

I participated in NaNoWriMo 2004, and achieved 25,159 words;
NaNo 2005 - 37,037+;
NaNo 2006 - 25,283
NaNo 2007 – 39,748

If you’ve never heard of NaNoWriMo, it stands for “National Novel Writing Month”, and takes place from November 1st to 30th every year, where you have 30 days to write a 50,000-word novel. It’s a ton of fun, even if you don’t make it that far. If you’re interested, ask me about it and I can tell you even more, or you can just go to www.nanowrimo.org .