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good lord ;__; all my pets have been dropping dead lately. first the no-name snake, then godzilla, now moss...x.X poor moss...he was always a sickly little guy...i was so happy that he survived this long. he used to get these weird open sores on his body. gah. i made dad come and take him out of the tank for me. i just glanced in there on a whim and he was belly-up ;__; and i could tell right away. urgh. r.i.p. moss ;__; gone on to turtle heaven where there are worms galore and crystal clear water that's always at the right temperature XD
let's see. lots of things have been goin' down that i've neglected to put in here. let me work my way back from most recently...
well, last night danielle slept over and we really didn't accomplish anything. we fell asleep after watching 'what not to wear' for a while.
oh, and my ipod broke :/ damned nanos...the screen cracked. someone told me that they'll fix it up for free at the apple store in woodfield. i'll have to check into that.
we got our puppy on thursday after school! shadow. the pup was an angel on the ride home. didn't get carsick, just laid on my lap or on the seat and peered out the window. her first night was okay...she didn't bark too much, i don't think. i may have just slept through it XD she's extremely mellow and calm, but very playful too :3 seems to be a very smart puppy with lots of potential. and she's sooo cute ;__; unbelievably so. pictures later! ^_^
so, then on friday a bunch of people came over to see her XD lyndsay, krupa, danielle. everyone loooves her :3 except dakota..x.x she's already had two encounters with dakota's mean side...and dad's freaking out because some idiot at his work told him that he had a dog who hated other dogs so much that it killed two consecutive puppies that he brought home. i think we're just pushing her too hard too fast. she needs to adjust to a puppy too...o.O i think it'll be all right. i took the two of them for a walk on friday and they played nicely when i let them loose in the tennis court. well, kinna. dakota ran around and the puppy followed her eeeeverywhere XD she even sat down when dakota sat at the corner before we crossed the street X3 sooo cuuuute!
oh, also on thursday kelly and i had our interview at renz addictions center for our civil service project in english. we talked with deb howe, the lady who runs the passage program [a rehabilitation program just for women] at renz. kelly and i were dressed up..all...yaknow :3 business formal. and this lady walks in with dirt under her fingernails in a pink t-shirt with tousled hair and blue jeans. and you know what i thought..? =x "i knew it." XD kelly wanted us to dress up, so =x whatever. it was a nice, eye-opening experience ^_^ the lady was sooo helpful and we have plenty of material with which to write our papers now.
nothing too eventful on tuesday or wednesday...oh, but they're combining the freshman and j.v. teams for softball. COMBINING. what the fuck? supposedly there aren't enough people who are 'dedicated'. too many people are 'injured'. oh, no, not injured! because that's so completely under a person's control, whether or not they get injured. stupid idiots. i say the coaches are just lazy. so now we're going to have this huuuge team. and all the girls, like me, who haven't been getting playing time are going to get even less. you don't combiiine teams. if you need a few extra players, you take from the freshman team. if they have no players, it doesn't matter. j.v. is more important XD ugh, it makes me mad. thank god there are less than ten games left.
monday i took the ap english language exam. it was all right. the multiple choice part was tough, but the essays weren't so bad. i was done about forty-five minutes early. i'd give myself a four out of five based on my writings :3 but who knows about the multiple choice =x
sunday, nothing memorable :3
saturday! saturday morning, i woke up and got ready to go downtown with sam and amy. sam picked me up around four, we rushed to go pick up amy...made it to the train station in time to see the train coming in the distance...made it to the platform-...and were on the wrong side :3 so we had to watch as people boarded the train and we were stuck on the side where they don't open the doors XD ugh. so we went to portillo's instead XD had dinner there. as we waited to catch the six o'clock train, a big black guy who looked like he worked in construction got off one of the trains coming in from chicago and offered to sell us some train tickets that he didn't need for a discount price. so we bought them :3 and it turned out that he wasn't ripping us off, so that was really nice of him. then, another guy approached us too and offered me two bucks to use my cell phone XD he said he had a service that he needed to pay by the minute for and he didn't have the cash to pay the bill for that month. i took the two bucks and handed him my cell phone. i felt a little bad because-..:3 i have free weekend minutes on that phone...XD but whatever. the money came in handy later, as you will see =x so! we finally made it downtown around seven and headed over to grant park. it was odd to be in the city at night. everything was closed o.o it was surprising. when we first got there, this lady approached us...a homeless lady. to ask for money. i'll post the conversation here later, i wrote it down somewhere, i just have to find it >.0
so we made it! to the gnc! :O the global night commute. it was amazing, it was phenomenal. incredible, beautiful, superb. but it was not at all glamorous. it was raining and dark. everyone was huddled and damp among the trees at grant park. but we were all there for a good reason. the gnc was a world-wide gathering of people in over 150 different cities. it was organized by these three guys who went to africa to make a film about children in uganda who are suffering the effects of a horrible war. each night they have to walk about five miles into town to find a safe place to sleep. the rebel forces in uganda are partially made up of children that they've recruited from surrounding villages. kids. little kids toting guns and killing people. gah, anyway. we made posters and letters to ugandan children and wrote letters to the president and our state senators, in the dark and the rain in the middle of downtown chicago. the gnc was meant to signify the ugandan children's walk that they make every night just to sleep somewhere safe. hundreds of people slept outside in grant park and all around the world that night, on april 29th. sadly, we couldn't stay x.x it was rainy and we had planned to go home around ten. we caught the last train and arrived back home around eleven.
anyway...i feel really good that i did that. i didn't think we would go. but we did. and it feels great to have finally done something to stand up for what i believe in.
"go to invisiblechildren.com, if you remember. it will change your life."
let's see. lots of things have been goin' down that i've neglected to put in here. let me work my way back from most recently...
well, last night danielle slept over and we really didn't accomplish anything. we fell asleep after watching 'what not to wear' for a while.
oh, and my ipod broke :/ damned nanos...the screen cracked. someone told me that they'll fix it up for free at the apple store in woodfield. i'll have to check into that.
we got our puppy on thursday after school! shadow. the pup was an angel on the ride home. didn't get carsick, just laid on my lap or on the seat and peered out the window. her first night was okay...she didn't bark too much, i don't think. i may have just slept through it XD she's extremely mellow and calm, but very playful too :3 seems to be a very smart puppy with lots of potential. and she's sooo cute ;__; unbelievably so. pictures later! ^_^
so, then on friday a bunch of people came over to see her XD lyndsay, krupa, danielle. everyone loooves her :3 except dakota..x.x she's already had two encounters with dakota's mean side...and dad's freaking out because some idiot at his work told him that he had a dog who hated other dogs so much that it killed two consecutive puppies that he brought home. i think we're just pushing her too hard too fast. she needs to adjust to a puppy too...o.O i think it'll be all right. i took the two of them for a walk on friday and they played nicely when i let them loose in the tennis court. well, kinna. dakota ran around and the puppy followed her eeeeverywhere XD she even sat down when dakota sat at the corner before we crossed the street X3 sooo cuuuute!
oh, also on thursday kelly and i had our interview at renz addictions center for our civil service project in english. we talked with deb howe, the lady who runs the passage program [a rehabilitation program just for women] at renz. kelly and i were dressed up..all...yaknow :3 business formal. and this lady walks in with dirt under her fingernails in a pink t-shirt with tousled hair and blue jeans. and you know what i thought..? =x "i knew it." XD kelly wanted us to dress up, so =x whatever. it was a nice, eye-opening experience ^_^ the lady was sooo helpful and we have plenty of material with which to write our papers now.
nothing too eventful on tuesday or wednesday...oh, but they're combining the freshman and j.v. teams for softball. COMBINING. what the fuck? supposedly there aren't enough people who are 'dedicated'. too many people are 'injured'. oh, no, not injured! because that's so completely under a person's control, whether or not they get injured. stupid idiots. i say the coaches are just lazy. so now we're going to have this huuuge team. and all the girls, like me, who haven't been getting playing time are going to get even less. you don't combiiine teams. if you need a few extra players, you take from the freshman team. if they have no players, it doesn't matter. j.v. is more important XD ugh, it makes me mad. thank god there are less than ten games left.
monday i took the ap english language exam. it was all right. the multiple choice part was tough, but the essays weren't so bad. i was done about forty-five minutes early. i'd give myself a four out of five based on my writings :3 but who knows about the multiple choice =x
sunday, nothing memorable :3
saturday! saturday morning, i woke up and got ready to go downtown with sam and amy. sam picked me up around four, we rushed to go pick up amy...made it to the train station in time to see the train coming in the distance...made it to the platform-...and were on the wrong side :3 so we had to watch as people boarded the train and we were stuck on the side where they don't open the doors XD ugh. so we went to portillo's instead XD had dinner there. as we waited to catch the six o'clock train, a big black guy who looked like he worked in construction got off one of the trains coming in from chicago and offered to sell us some train tickets that he didn't need for a discount price. so we bought them :3 and it turned out that he wasn't ripping us off, so that was really nice of him. then, another guy approached us too and offered me two bucks to use my cell phone XD he said he had a service that he needed to pay by the minute for and he didn't have the cash to pay the bill for that month. i took the two bucks and handed him my cell phone. i felt a little bad because-..:3 i have free weekend minutes on that phone...XD but whatever. the money came in handy later, as you will see =x so! we finally made it downtown around seven and headed over to grant park. it was odd to be in the city at night. everything was closed o.o it was surprising. when we first got there, this lady approached us...a homeless lady. to ask for money. i'll post the conversation here later, i wrote it down somewhere, i just have to find it >.0
so we made it! to the gnc! :O the global night commute. it was amazing, it was phenomenal. incredible, beautiful, superb. but it was not at all glamorous. it was raining and dark. everyone was huddled and damp among the trees at grant park. but we were all there for a good reason. the gnc was a world-wide gathering of people in over 150 different cities. it was organized by these three guys who went to africa to make a film about children in uganda who are suffering the effects of a horrible war. each night they have to walk about five miles into town to find a safe place to sleep. the rebel forces in uganda are partially made up of children that they've recruited from surrounding villages. kids. little kids toting guns and killing people. gah, anyway. we made posters and letters to ugandan children and wrote letters to the president and our state senators, in the dark and the rain in the middle of downtown chicago. the gnc was meant to signify the ugandan children's walk that they make every night just to sleep somewhere safe. hundreds of people slept outside in grant park and all around the world that night, on april 29th. sadly, we couldn't stay x.x it was rainy and we had planned to go home around ten. we caught the last train and arrived back home around eleven.
anyway...i feel really good that i did that. i didn't think we would go. but we did. and it feels great to have finally done something to stand up for what i believe in.
"go to invisiblechildren.com, if you remember. it will change your life."