Snow day

I'm actually kind of pissed off, haha.
This is the first snowday I've been angry over, simply because we took the first part of our regents yesterday. I felt like I did a good job on the the whole thing. The multiple choice was a sinch, and I think my essays were worthy of sixes. But guess what....
they no longer count!
>:[! According to the wonderful state of New York, both parts of the regents must be taken in the same timeframe. So since we couldn't take part two today on account of school being closed, we have to take the ENTIRE test again in June. I'm outraged. So not only did everyone besides our grade receive a nice half day yesterday, while we stayed for testing, but now those tests are garbage. There's nothing I can do about it, but wow, I'm mad, haha.

I think I'll take today to catch myself up with things. I keep forgetting about this letter I have to send out to parents and students about collecting bottles and cans. Prom is coming up in not too long, and we're broke. We're bascially starting from scratch, it's sad. Most of the weeks available to funraise are taken up by other classes too. Like seventh and eighth graders who don't NEED the money, while we're nearing our Junior Prom with empty pockets. I'm the treasurer of the class, so essentially this falls down on me a bit. I'm trying to think up ways to make money, but it's difficult, I could use some input from you guys :).

A couple groups of guys at school have started up bands, Dilluted and Zero Climax, so my only idea so far has been to host a small concert type deal, featuring these guys. That way alot of kids from school would want to go see their friends/classmates put on a show, and it'd get more publicity for them, because they're both good bands made up of awesome guys. I'm thinking if we make money like this outside of school, we can "donate" it to our class, and work around not having fundraising weeks available. Other than that, I guess we're hosting a Valentines Day Dance, going to attempt a Junior Auction, and our only available, real fundraiser is Yankee Candle, in March. Hopefully that along with bottles/cans will make us some money, but our school is small, so it's hard to accumulate any decent amount of revenue from things. IDEAS??!!! :)

I think the majority of today I will spend cleaning, with my nose in my book, and finishing up things I've neglected. I've made some changes to the blog, hope you like 'em. All of the pictures are either taken by/of me, except for like two, haha. Which are the artsy ones, like the book heart and the hand with writing. I'm not so clever with my camera yet. But the rest are mine. Have a good one & enjoy your snowday if you got one!



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Firstly, I want to thank Nicole for the Fabulous Blogger Award she gave me :). When I began blogging I kind of assumed noone would read anything I had to say, I just thought it'd be a way to put my thoughts down, without using my horrendous handwriting. But come to my surprise, intelligent, fantastic people actually stay up to date with my ramblings! Awesome :D. So thanks Nicole, and now I'll follow the rules and award some fellow bloggers myself. I don't have that many people I keep up with, haha. So I'm narrowing my awards down to five, it's supposed to be 10 :P.


Aren - I believe she was the first to comment me, and she has such deep and profound things to say, check out her blog and be amazed.
Natalie - I love reading about her adventures and all of the crazy shananagins her and her friends get into :P. She's such a nice, fun blogger.
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Amanda - Hah, she never blogs. But she's my best friend, so obviously I'm going to mention her :D. She's the greatest, I couldn't imagine having anyone else as my best friend.
Nicole - Hah, I realize she already has one, and gave me mine. But whatever, she deserves it :). She has so much ambition, and alot of interesting things to say. Not to mention how stylish she is, check her out on deko&posh.


Anywaysss... :)


Today was pretty nice. Amanda slept over last night and we spent our time watching the food network, and laughing over the various wacky things we find amusing. The next day after grabbing some breakfast we headed out in my car to cruise around. I consigned some old dresses and pants to this thrift shop, Forgotten Treasures. I hope I make a little money :D. I'm not expecting much though. Then we shuffled on to the library. I just got a card yesterday, so I didn't need anything, I'm going to read Dead Connection, I'll let you know how it is. Afterwards we drove around and got a few groceries and lunch at, you guessed it, PANERA'S. :). I swear, that place is my favorite destination for food nowadays.
So then we didn't feel like heading home quite yet, so we drove to this tourist town nearby, that is basically a ghosttown once winter strikes :P. We checked out this hippie store and headed to the outlets. It was a nice time, I love going places with her.

I'd make a more involved post of wordly importance, but I don't feel like it. Hahah, sorry. I'm putting this blog award to shame aren't I? I have an english regents tomorrow though, and I'd like to cram some review time in before [H]ouse comes on tonight, so I've got to keep this short & sweet. Thanks for reading, have an excellent week people :).

When the air that we breathe
becomes air that we choke. When
the marsh fever spreads from the
swamps to our homes.
When your home on the range has been torn down
and paved, When the buffalo roam to a slaugherhouse grave.
What more will it take for us to know, this is not a test. Oh no,
this is cardiac arrest. Of a world too proud to admit our mistakes.
Kissing the ground, as we all fall from grace.
Collapse- Rise Against, Appeal to Reason album.

Seeing how my last post was nearly a week ago, I figured it's about time I write another halfway thought-provoking post. Plus I haven't been doing anything particularly interesting with my life :P. So.. Anyways.

I feel like we have the power to make a change. Our world today just seems so fueled by self interest and money, the two usually intertwining. We're slowly destroying the world we live in, day after day. We're ruining it physically with scrounging it for more natural resources than we actually need, polluting without valid reason. I'm not innocent, I know that. I drive a car driven on gas, because guess what-- I can't afford a hybrid :P. I like to doze off in a nicely heated bedroom in the wintertime. I'm certainly no self sacrificer, but I atleast realize we have an issue at hand. If everyone just cuts back a little, that will at the least buy us some time to fix the mess we're making. I think green energy is a great idea. I just lack the knowledge on it currently, and I need to do more little things to improve on my own. Noone should be expected to just plunge into saving the world, all out. But small things done by just about everyone adds up pretty fast. So, just turn off those lights/heat when you're not using 'em, and try to be a little more enviormentally friendly. I'll begin to do my part as well.

Vegetarianism?
No, I'm not one :P. I just feel like raising the question-- how do you people feel about it? Personally, I think it's a fantastic idea. It's healthy, and spares lives of the animals, but I personally don't know if I could do it, enjoyably. I'm not some huge carnivorious fiend, but I am the kind of girl who likes a variety. Choices are important to me. I have no problem with eating meatless entrees, I like trying new things. I was reading a post my friend Steve wrote about why he became a vegetarian, and it raised a lot of good points. My question is, if the majority of the population switched their diet to plants, what would we do with the excess animals? Obviously livestock die of natural causes too, but so many go for slaughter, so what would become of those animals? I don't think we have enough land for them to graze along with our population growing as well. I dislike animal cruelty, but I don't know. I don't really think a full on vegetarian is the diet for me. Maybe I'll just be primarily vegetarian, I already don't eat meats very consistently. I just don't want to necessarily limit myself to one choice.

Society.
I said earlier that our demise, physically is starting to show effect, but I think we have a possibly bigger issue-- society. To start with, I'm estatic that Obama won the election and was inaugerrated into office :). I find it kind of sad in a way though, that having our "first black president" is such a big deal. The whole color thing in theory, shouldn't matter. Hopefully his term will go well, and as a nation, we'll improve. It just seems like so many people just-- don't care. People just do what they want, regardless of the effect it'll have. So many people don't seem to have bigger issues on their mind than their latest breakup or their new handbag. Plus I can't stand how much people like professional athletes and poparatzi whores make so much money, while people who do intelligent, beneficial tasks make nil in comparison. I like entertainment as much as the next person, but it's a bit rediculous. Just take a look at the television. Alot of people are so easily amused by low budget reality shows. I can't believe an imaginative show like Pushing Daisies was booted off of the air. I'm all for enjoying life, and living it up to it's full potential. But we have a duty, to keep this playground of ours useful for the future that's upon us. Other people are going to inherit the earth after us, we might as well keep it usable. I just wish we lived in a happier, more intelligent, productive time. I think however, our generation's going to be the one to do something. If we take the initiative, we can.



Let's start a revolution.
oh yeah, the beatles are definitely thumping in my head now :).



For youuuu, Nicole :). If this is what you meant. If not, correct me.
http://lifeinsidetheolivejar.blogspot.com/2009/01/sick-sick-sick.html