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yay! cello choir and festival orchestra tonight. yessss. so excited. i don't always get to see these ccms string peeps, and it makes me happy to play with them. like our trio last year? me and deenie and micah? we were tight. but now, i like, never see them. oh well. ooh, methinks i hear the mail truck. nevermind, false alarm. sniffletear. ah-amm. chester sat on my foot while i was practicing a few minutes ago. well, he lay down on it. and then he realized i wasn't really paying him any attention so he went to go play with a nylabone or something. i heart nylabones. i found one in my slipper today. how thoughtful.
because i'm superman...
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Teen skips gym, loses her diploma
Biology was alternative
Associated Press
May 9, 2005
BOW - A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from college in the fall.
Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student and a trumpet player in the school band and holds varsity letters in three sports, she discovered last fall she was one gym class shy of having enough credits to graduate next month.
She asked for a waiver, but the school wouldn't budge, telling her instead she had to drop a class to take gym.
"Why would I drop an AP biology class to take P.E.?" the 18-year-old said. "It's just not on my priority list."
The missing credit wasn't caught by the school last spring when Gottlieb's schedule was set. The class in question is called BEST, or Building Essential Skills for Tomorrow, and is required for all Bow students to graduate.
At the Seattle high school Gottlieb attended before moving to Bow her junior year, gym requirements often were waived for students in varsity sports. But those waivers aren't something Bow High School is willing to accept.
"Waivers vary from school to school, and they're not standardized at all," said Principal George Edwards.
Gottlieb added the class last year after the school told her she had to take it, but then dropped it when she found out it was too much on top of classes she was already taking, including two Advanced Placement classes and calculus.
Both Gottlieb and her mother said the school suggested dropping either band, chorus, AP biology or calculus. But she and her mother decided sacrificing any of those would have diminished the quality of Gottlieb's education.
"I'm trying to get into college, and someone isn't going to want to see someone drop an AP biology class a month into the year in order to pick up P.E.," Gottlieb said.
There will likely be no compromises in time for graduation. The class is not offered in the summer.
And it may not matter. Gottlieb already has been accepted to Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., where she plans to major in biology.
Trinity is aware of Gottlieb's situation and said that as long as she passes her General Educational Development test, or GED, in time, there won't be a problem.
Gottlieb said that she already has taken the practice test and, once she hears back on that, will schedule a time to take the official version of the high-school equivalency test.
Meanwhile, her mother, Ashley Warner, is planning a "non-graduation" party for her daughter.
"We realized that not graduating wasn't the end of the world," Warner said. "But it took a long time to come to that conclusion."
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What I'd Do If I:
Lost an eye
1. dress like a pirate
2. get a parrot
3. train the parrot to say random things
Met a dragon
1. make friends with it
2. go out to lunch
3. go shopping
4. make some awesome s'mores
5. light all the people on fire that I dislike
Met a unicorn
1. make friends with it
2. run through fields of wildflowers
3. jump over a rainbow
4. meet other unicorns
Lost my right arm
1. learn to play cello somehow.
2. get an awesome robotic looking fake arm
Became blind
1. set my house up with strobe lights
2. wear sunglasses all the time
2. have the walls of my house painted ridiculous colors
4. make my own artwork and sell it
5. learn how to identify M&Ms color by taste
6. wear all flurescent colored clothing
7. Get a seeing eye dog (of course.)
Became deaf
1. speak jibberish to strangers
2. sing at strangers in elevators
3. when strangers talk back, politely smile and skip away
4. listen to classical music on full volume and act all ghetto (and then be killed by gangsters)
5. dance to music that only I can hear (not that I don't already do this)
6. learn sign language swears and tell people that they mean things such as "rainbows"or "kittens"
7. set off alarm clocks and never shut them off
8. write music and be like Bethoven (and cry for not being able to hear it.)
9. go to toy stores and press all the buttons on children's toys to create lots of obnoxious noise
10. watch tv and make up my own dialogue for the characters
Became a pirate
1. steal things from people that they could care less about (like pennies)
2. say "argh" a lot
3. make an all-pirate band, where we all play classical instruments and have piratey lyrics (like "shosti is a god, arr")
4. do yoga (with my pirate musician friends of course)
5. make friends with a ninja and run through fields with my ninja friend
Became Ashlee Simpson
1. never!
Became a witch
1. build my house out of gingerbread and candies, and then eat it whenever I get hungry
2. fly on my broom to the grocery store to buy more soymilk
3. turn rocks into kittens and spread love to the world in the form of kittens that were made from rocks
4. make macaroni and cheese in my cauldron
5. turn a frog into a handsome prince for myself (teehee)
Found a platypus in my backyard
1. make friends with it
2. go swimming together
3. wear a fake bill and pretend to be a platypus
4. eat Reese's peanut butter cups with it
Realized that it was raining Skittles
1. run around outside
2. be happy that those Skittles that I planted when I was in first grade grew
3. set out buckets to collect Skittles
4. wear a helmet to not get hurt
5. find a rainbow and sit on it, then find me some Lucky Charms cereal and some leprechauns
Got pregnant
1. find out who the father is (because we all know how slutty I am)
2. name the child a very well thought out name with like, three middle names
3. be the best teen mom ever
Were in a band
1. be the crazy cellist
2. dance when I'm not playing cello
3. dance while I'm playing cello
4. dress up in crazy costumes/outfits
5. have an awesome alias
Had wings
1. fly to Paris
2. rescue cats from trees
3. hang out with some birdies
4. laugh at people when they have to walk in snow/puddles when I can fly over them
5. dance in the sky
6. "walk on water"
Moved to Mexico
1. eat enchiladas every day
2. wear awesome colorful Mexican ponchos
3. do the Mexican hat dance, whenever necessary
4. get a Chihuahua and name it bunny, or kitty
5. eat a cactus, minus the painful prickers
Turned into a cat
1. run away from dogs
2. request soymilk instead of regular milk
3. lay around all day
4. play with cat nip and go crazy
5. climb up a tree and get rescued by a HOT fireman
(stole it from KTG and edited it a tad bit.)