Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Stupid Scam People Wasting My Time!!!

Here I will do a community service and say that if you received a postcard that looks like the one below and was postmarked from San Diego California, ignore it! :P You might already do so but if you're a conscientious person like me, you have to verify everything, so I'll save you the trouble. I wasn't stupid enough to call the number on the card, but I did call the REAL loan center just to be absolutely certain it was a scam. Which it is. So that's 20 minutes of my life wasted because some moron decided to rob people with student loans. It's not bad enough that we're in debt, you've decided to try to take the money we don't have! To whoever sent this to me, congratulations, you are officially scum.


Luckily they didn't get my money but my time is just as precious to me. So I would now really like these people to do my presentation that's due tomorrow which is ironically about finding a HELPFUL solution to the wealth divide... On second thought, nevermind; these people would only mess it up.

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Writer's Question of the Week

Writers often must ask themselves strange questions when they write such as whether or not someone would die if an elephant sat on them or the average time it would take a unleaden swallow to fly north. Here's my writer's question of the week:

Would a small glass ink pot shatter if it was thrown in someone's face or would it just leave a heck of a bruise?

The beauty of writer's questions is you don't necessarily have to be right. You just need a general consensus because the whole idea is that someone doesn't read your book and then say to themselves "That wouldn't happen!"

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Shout Out To...


Kelly who got married yesterday! Congratulations! It was a beautiful ceremony full of love, light, and ...pumpkins.

And personally I think EVERYONE should have a Hello Kitty wedding cake!

Monday, October 23, 2006

Picture of the Week and News!



This is a rather blurry picture but it looks good that way. I took it in Taiwan at a place called Tiger Head Park. It reminds me of one of those fast action camera tricks they do on TV when all the cars turn into streaming lights.

In Cherie News:

I started serious editing on my novel today. I already separated the scrap from what needs to be kept but since I dropped dozens of characters and made several changes much of it needs to be rewritten. Starting with the entire beginning. I was going to start on Saturday but I was so daunted by the fear of doing something wrong and once again messing up the story that's been my life's work that I decided to write in my children's novel instead. But today I actually started the new beginning and I'm feeling really optimistic about it. I just hope it stays that way because I'm too lazy to learn to be good at anything else. Writing's all I've got.

On a somewhat related note I've decided that I quite like surrealist French poetry. This is a nice surprise since I thought I'd hate it more than the classic poetry considering I generally dislike modern artistic movements. It's best in French, though, so I recommend you all learn French to read it.

Friday, October 20, 2006

It's a Grey, Grey World...

Yes, I like to spell grey with an "e." Deal with it. At any rate when I look outside my window from my bed all I see is white-grey abyss. It's liked my entire house has been wrapped up in a giant somber cottonball.

On the upside, I've realized recently that I really love my job tutoring at the elementary school. I still don't want to be a teacher, but I think one of the reasons I enjoy tutoring is because for a few hours each week people look up to me and I can give them knowledge that's important to them as opposed to the general college standard of not knowing what the heck I'm doing half the time and never being sure if I have anything useful to add.

In other news, one of my mid-terms got pushed back to Monday so the pain's not over yet...

Monday, October 16, 2006

Because I Have Ceased to Be Interesting...

I'm going to feature someone who is! Ever wonder where all my time goes on the internet? So do I! But I can attribute at least a small percentage to looking at pics by this fabulous Harry Potter fan artist. And I'm sure she needs my endorsement...(sarcasm) But nonetheless perhaps some of you will enjoy her work. I've already probably bugged most of you to look at it.

http://acciobrain.ligermagic.com/

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Pictures of the Week Return!


Yeah...kinda took over a week blog hiatus and probably lost my entire readership. Anyway, I wish I had some funny pictures or something interesting but here's just some natural beauty of Granville and Denison. On the top is the village in it's fall colors and the bottom is the Swasey Chapel spire and Burton Morgan in the moonlight.






In other news: Mid-terms approcheth and my sanity goeth...

Friday, October 06, 2006

Pictures of the Week:Old School...Literally.















This is a historical park I went to in California with my Dad. Click on the picture below to read it. It is a list of digressions coupled with the number of lashes each would earn you. The glare unfortunately covers up #10 a little which is either "sewing" or "swearing." I'm hoping it's "swearing" because I just don't feel like sewing should be worth 8 lashes. However, boys and girls playng together clearly merits 4 lashes...

Japanese Tourists?

There are many places you expect to see Japanese tourists: famous monuments, grand museums, big cities, giant balls of twine...

But one place you don't expect to see Japanese tourists is Granville Elementary School. Nontheless a bunch of Japanese men and women dressed in suits randomly came in while I was tutoring and started taking pictures of the students.

This story has no point and I still don't know why they were there but it's a good addition to my list of strange observations.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

It's National Fire Prevention Week!

...To which I ask, don't we want to prevent fires every week?

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Things that aren't as good as they used to be: The mints in my cafeteria. At least they still have them, but the wrappers of the old mints were very good whereas these wrappers start sticking to the mint if you leave them in your pockets for even short periods of time. Probably an evil scheme to stop students like me from hoarding the mints.