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okay this blog is NOT going to be grammatically correct! i just need to get out there that morgan and i talked about everything and we made up and we are both sorry and we are back being best friends just like before! THANK GOD! i seriously cant live without this girl! I LOVE YOU MORGAN!

So most people always see me happy, and I love that about me. I try to make everyone’s day because I hate to see people sad. What gets me is why would someone want to see me sad? I’ve tried to be a good friend to everyone. I really have! This will hopefully be the only time you will EVER see me hurt. I know for a fact people are going to criticize me and make fun of me for writing this in my blog, but it’s the only way I can get people to actually read it and know how I feel… and that’s if people have to make comments on it. I know we weren’t assigned a free blog, but I’m doing this anyway.

                I’m falling out with all of my friends. I really don’t know what the hell is happening. It’s like I’m not good enough for them, especially for Morgan. She has been treating me like she is better than me since the beginning of the year when she wanted to seem like a cool person in front of people. All she does is just poke fun at me and we never laugh anymore. Or at least I don’t. I miss the way things used to be so badly. I used to talk to Morgan everyday on the phone during the summer and before that, and I barely even talk to her now. She doesn’t realize how much she is hurting me.  It breaks my heart every time I even think about thinking about this. It’s like her goal is to actually hurt me. And it’s working, so she must be happy now.

                As for the rest of my friends, I don’t even know where to begin. I let them walk over me all the time and I don’t know what to do anymore. There are only a few people who actually care about the way I feel. One of them being Taylor and I love you for that girl! I feel bad for not talking to her that often. But she means a lot to me now.

                I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve tried everything, but it seems like nothing works. No one likes to be left out you know and yet here I am, feeling like I did when I went to Livonia, the worst time in my entire life and its happening again. I hate that. I want it to go away and I want things to be the way they used to be.

Again, I’m sorry for being all emo and all, but what else can I say?

                This week has been an awesome week in English III. I love the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I learned that it is not a novel, but not a short story either. It is known as a novella, which has the same language and type of writing style as a novel, but it’s simple like a short story. I learned a lot by looking things up outside of class, such as information on what inspired Stevenson to write his novella.

                Another thing that I learned in the class is the Victorian era! It is my favorite era so far because of all the poetry and just the way that Stevenson writes. The language that he and the poets use just floors me with inspiration. I am utterly excited to write this Victorian short story that is due the next time we go to class. I love to write short stories and I do it on my spare time, if there ever is any considering I am always engaged in something more important such as school or work.

                One of the most important things that I learned this week was that when I annotate I need to write everything I think right then and there! I used to read the entire assignment and then write down my thoughts. I discussed with some of my friends about it and they suggested that I write down what comes to mind when it pops up. I tried it and I was surprised to how much I could remember about the book! It helped tremendously with the way I read now and I can’t wait to read Frankenstein.

I LOVE CHOIR! there is no doubt about it! Well we are learning tons of songs. My goal each class is to get better in each one. Friday, i did amzingly well! Jules Dellinger and I are on the top of our game! We know all of the notes in the songs that we need to know and we sound awesome! We went into the lobby on Friday and i noticed that the othe basses were listening to us so the could know what notes to hit. Jules and I work really hard! Jules used to be a tenor and i was just like “grrrr! i hate being the only bass who tries so hard!” but Hubby made him a bass just a few weeks ago…. and now Jules pushes me to get better! Even though he is my friend, he is competetion. hahahaha! jk! But Jules helps me a lot. When i was a tenor he helped me and now that he is a bass, we are just a team! hahaha! i think we play off each other most of the time and i think thats hy we are so good at what we do. We rocked “Save the People” and “Sing Lullaby” The two main songs that we are working on.  My goal for next class though is to have “sing lullaby” mostly memorized. I am about to practice after i finish ths blog. so ttfn!

well, i decided that instead of posting the 2 blogs on two different days, i wrote down notes and blogged about the classes on the same day since i dont have time except for a couple of hours of the week.

One class i chose to so was DRAMA! It’s one of my favorite classes and you can NEVER learn EVERYTHING there is to theatre. We are working on a scene with one scene partner. My partner is Jon Chetta and our scene kicks some serious butt if i do say so myself. We are performing a short exerpt from “The Odd Couple: The Male Version” There are two editions to this play… The Male Version and the Female Version. Im not too keen on the female version, but the male version is awesome! In it there are two guys (Oscar and Felix) who live together. Oscar is divorced and Felix’s marriage is ending. Felix is kicked out of his house by his wife and Oscar gives him a place to stay. So in our scene, Felix has spent the whole day cleaning a cooking for a double date that they are to have. Oscar ends up coming home an hour late from work and they get into an argument. In our scene I am Oscar and Jon is Felix. Our scene is so much fun and it is really funny!

So on Friday we performed our scene in front of the class and we were critiqued by the other actors. We have learned a lot this year and we get to apply everything that we learn to our scene and to others. So after we performed our scenes we ran out of time and we talked about it on Tuesday.

At the beginning of my scene i walk into the room and i am floored because everything is clean and there is a strong arouma of London Broil. Well i think that they beginning of the scene is so stupid and its so hard to act natural. So i walk into the room and i am basically talking to myself. Just ask Jon, it’s stupid. So I walk into the room and i talk to myself for about 2 minutes straight. And i am supposed to interact with Jon, but his character is ignoring me since he is angry at me. But When Jon starts to say his lines and everything, we actually get into the scene. And we have fun and we can do the scene with no problem. So after when the class was talking about it they said that i “needed to be more natural” in the beginning. And i agree! I feel extremely awkward when we perform. Only because I dont know how to interact with someone who is not listening to me.

We wrote down notes and tomorrow we are supposed to work with Mr.Halliday on the scene. My goal for tomorrow is to be open to everyone’s ideas and try my hardest to act natural. But then again i am contradicting myself because you can not try to act natural. so i am just going to listen to Mr. Halliday and do what he says. Right now i am thinking bout it and i think i am going to think as if i am walking into my brother’s room ad see that everything is completely clean! hahaha! I dont know. Jon and I will figure something out.

well, my paper, as most of you know is on Hullabaloo. i tink i am starting to understnad and come to a conclusion of the book. I havent finished it quite yet. but im getting there… My thesis would be along the lines of  the caste system…. I think that Sampath’s Father is a jerk. i really odnt think he loves his son, just the attention he gives the family. mr. Chawla could be wiped from the face of the earth and i wouldnt miss him. I think im gonna go with that. That Sampath can’t really accept his placement in society, and neither can his father. Mr. Chawla lives through his son because he is greedy and doesnt care about anyone but him.

on the other hand, im kind of scared that my paper is going to be extremely crappy. I mean, sure, my thesis int really made yet and my outline doesnt exsist, but hey lol! Im worried that its going to be turned in late (no doubt about that) and that its going to be crappy altogether. I wonder what else i can do in order to make my paper be a success. if anyone has any suggestions, please comment and let me know! i would gladly appreciate it! and another thing, WHEN exactly is the last final FINAL draft due?? Im always busy and i need to make enough time to read and write.

well, yesterday i was sitting in math class talking about Smoothie King…… as always, and i got this text message (i know that its against school policy, but mrs. sabotkke doesnt really care too much if we arent working on any material) so i looked at it and it said “Can you come in at 6pm tonight?-Kim” (kim is my manager) so i sent a text saying that i dont have my unifrom with me and that i had some things to do before i go in anyways…. i asked her what she needed. and the least likliest text was sent back to me. kim had sent “i need you to come in so i can show you some things about closing the store…. ms. shirlene wants to promote you!” it was dead silent in the class and of course being as excited as i was, i made this like high pitched squeaky kind of noise. hahaha! lizzie asked me “are you alright” and i told her the good news! she was like “OH MY GOD CONGRATULATIONS!” and the whole class had to hear the news. i think it was funny because i was talking baout smoothie king right before i got the text message.

so i do the things that i needed to get finished and i went to Smoothie King. Kim showed me some things and i am being trained this weekend on how to close out the cash drawers and such as well as the store. you have no i dea how excited i am to get this promotion! MY FIRST PROMOTION AT THAT! So after kimberly showed me some things, she gave me some sets of keys to go to wal-mart to get copied. If you know me, you know that i can not have any boring keys… that HAVE to be exciting, so i got them specially made! IM SO EXCITED! I got this “neat-o” the chain thing that i get to keep! AHHHH! (sorry i cant contain myself) but other than that, another funny thing happened the night before, and i have already told all of my friends so i am basically repeating myself.

but anyways, i was working the drive-thru the other night and i like to burst into song when i am bored and we were slow that night so i decided “hey, what the heck!” so i started singing and this woman came through the drive-thru. I didnt want to stop singing….. so i didnt. my other manager (heather) knew what i wanted to do and she dared me. sooooooo….. i did! i sang “WELCOME TO SMOOTHIE KING, HOW CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDEEEEEEEEER!” My customer started laughing and she said “ummm a carribean way medium please?” i sang back “IS THAT ALL FOR YOOOOU?!” she laughed and said yes…. a few minutes later a guy pulled up… i did the same thing….. he wanted a light and fluffy and i sang back “A LIGHT AND FLUFFY??” and he sang nack to me!!! but when he sanf “fluffy” he went in to folsetto! HAHA! I HAD A KICK OUTTA HIM! lol! so that made my entire night! actually my entire week.

The Strangers is a film by Bryan Bertino. I think he did an okay job with this movie. One strong thing that i noticied that he had in his movie was the music and sound! it seemed that every sound was intensified which is what needs to happen in every movie! the scary parts were, well, not so scary i thought. There were only a few instances where i was a little frightened. It takes a lot to get me scared, 3 stars is pretty good i think. There are two thinkgs that really popped out, i dont know if this is what i learned in drama class, but i noticed that when the couple (james and Kristen) were at the wedding reception, James came up to Kristen and she was laughing, he smiled and the smile went away, the angle changed, and the smile was back but it went away the exact same way it had disappeared the first time. That i thought was a reason to lose half a star, and then something else happened again, Kristen had fallen in the movie and had an extremely bad limp, but then it miracuoisly goes away for about 2 minutes, and then it comes back. That lost it another half star. The reason i take one more star away is because the movie was typical! “OH NO! SOMEONE IS BANGING ON THE DOOR! IM GOING TO WALK VERY SLOWLY (CREATING SUSPENSE) AND I WILL UNLOCK THE DOOR AND SEE WHO IT IS…… OH NO KILLER! I WILL NOW SLAM THE DOOR, LOCK IT BACK, LEAN AGAINST IT, AND SLIDE DOWN TO THE FLOOR TO WEEP” c’mon! i love horror movies, but sometimes they get so boring! and i didnt really like the ending… im not going to give it away, because you should watch it.. im not saying run out and BUY it! i think you should RENT it and watch it. Great movie to watch on halloween night though! CAUTION: WATCH WITH FRIENDS…. IT’S BORING WATCHING IT BY YOURSELF. And dont watch it before you go to bed.. YOU WILL BE PARANOID! lol. All in all, id say watch it. You might like it.

my opinion on the first quarter…… ehhhhh. well i have a b in the class! lol! thats nice i guess… ive tried hard in the class, but i never have time to do anything for anyone… not even myself. i really like the class and everything, but having to read so much is really hard for me. I cant even watch movies or tv shows. I dont remember the last time i got to watch a movie or tv show. but having the play done and over with is a big load off my chest! now there is dance, but im sure i can handle that!

I know that in english, you are expected to read, and some people just blow it off and they have all the time in the world! me on the other hand, i dont. you start to appreciate the things (even homework) that you never have time for.  i would KILL to have just a coupe of hours to read, but i am too busy dealing with other things. with my room de-doing underway and work between school and home, i never have that time to read. i only have time to do a little homework. the first quarter was hectic, and i know that its going to get worse, but i will try my hardest! You’re probably thinking, “why dont you just quit?” i dont want to quit number one, and number two, i owe some people some money that i borrowed to go on a crusie this summer (500 dollars) and i am also paying for all of my own stuff.. my mom doesnt pay for anythign i want to do anymore. I am even helping pay for my class ring.

First quarter all in all… well i really like Mrs. Duke. there are days when i feel like going crazy and i walk in her class and i finally meet someone who has more problems than me! lol! i dont know how she does it. although she doesnt hold back her tongue like tend to do most of the time, which relieves stress right then in there, but im not like that. i hope that the secind quarter is better. i also plan on doing these blogs sooner, instead of waiting sunday night after work to do them… like i am now.

okay, so as everyone knows, we were all hit by that dreadful and stupid hurricane… honestly, i hate hurricanes but kinda like them hahaha. well anyways, I have been begging my parents for the LONGEST time to let me re-do my room. I want new everything! new curtains, new color, new florr, new ceiling…. new everything! seriously! My parents were always like “if its not a need, there is no need to do it.” so of couse my room is completely fine… or well it was until the hurricane hit. So, i was all excited (and i hate to admit it and i feel really wrong for feeling this way) but i was excited that we might lose our house… BUT!!!!!! im really not a bad person for being excited about that. You see…. i live in the middle of no where. ask elisabeth, she knows, and i have always wanted to live in baton rouge, but wont because my family always wants a big yard with room to run around and ave a loud party without the neighbors hearing. (You can have world war three over here and no one would really notice)

well anyways, so after the hurricane hit, EVERYTHING on our property was destroyed… except our house. talk about irony. (btw, i had a barn, a shop, and two sheds and they were all gone when we returned home) so we get home and we clean for about a week or two and the insurance company finally took a look at our house (everyone wanted it condemned because we all wanted to either move or start over) unfortunatly that didnt happen. but we did gt reimbursed for a lot of the stuff that was destroyed in and on our home. my room was a total wreck when we got home. our roof was torn off and a lot of water had gotten into our house. so now we are replacing a lot of things and redecorating. so now i have the option of re-doing my entire room.

One dilemma…. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM GOING TO DO WITH MY ROOM! i want it to be my sanctuary. soemwhere i can go and relax and forget the world and be myself. somewhere that its easy to fall alseep. some peopel were like “YOU SHOULD PAINT IT SOME LOUD COLOR!!! IT WOULD TOTALLY MATCH YOUR PERSONALITY!” the thing is, i want it to match what i think would feel relaxing…. honestly, being me is a hard job and even i get tired of myself sometimes. I just want a place to feel welcome and have this warm sense of……. well warmth. I go tomorrow to look at colors of paint. IM EXCITED! What i do want to do though is have a BIG picture of all of my friends on my wall, past and present. They are the ones that have shaped me to who i am and who i shall be. and i also want a small pink ribbon painted on the bottom corner of a wall somewhere. My grandmother was one of the most loving people i know and hving that trhere would really have me feel that i have her with me.