senior awards night. real quick. i just got back from it...and suprise! i won a scholorship! YAY
only problem is i dont know how much its for or have a check or know how to get my money...o well. i fell like its just vindication for all my hard work this year...
by hard work i mean scraping by the last few months with minimal effort... i still have yet to do my FAFSA or sign up for a place to live or a room mate or a meal plan so actually i think i'm going to go do that right now...
PEACE OUT 09
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Senior Reflection 2
for my second senior reflection post i will look back on my classes for the year and how they went compared to my expectatiions.
1. AP english...not going to lie when i found out i had mrs. jewell again i the opposite of excited because i hated her freshman year. but the year turned out to be fine and i have a new found lobve for janice and i hope we can be buddies
2.. AP Gov... dear Mr. Stroud. i'm sorry your love for me slowly diminished throughout the year and i didnt go to your class for about 3 weeks in there....
3. AP Stat. Meta =fav . actually that class was ok because she put the HW online and gave EC opportunities and i did a pretty ok job in it (uo until this last quarter....)
4. Tech theater..joke
5. Anatomy,...what was that class doing being difficult? i should have taken astronom. i'm ure the tests would have been easier and i like the way the planetarium smells.
6. AP French. Sould crushing and lifre ruining are too nice of phrases to describe this class...
7. Theater. 'nuff said
over all the year was not too bad..bit too much work and i liked all my teachers
1. AP english...not going to lie when i found out i had mrs. jewell again i the opposite of excited because i hated her freshman year. but the year turned out to be fine and i have a new found lobve for janice and i hope we can be buddies
2.. AP Gov... dear Mr. Stroud. i'm sorry your love for me slowly diminished throughout the year and i didnt go to your class for about 3 weeks in there....
3. AP Stat. Meta =fav . actually that class was ok because she put the HW online and gave EC opportunities and i did a pretty ok job in it (uo until this last quarter....)
4. Tech theater..joke
5. Anatomy,...what was that class doing being difficult? i should have taken astronom. i'm ure the tests would have been easier and i like the way the planetarium smells.
6. AP French. Sould crushing and lifre ruining are too nice of phrases to describe this class...
7. Theater. 'nuff said
over all the year was not too bad..bit too much work and i liked all my teachers
Senior Reflection 1
so for my first senior reflection post i will review the college application process as it was the defining moment of the first half of the year.
it was both jsut as difficult and no where near as hard as i tought it would be.
i did not actually have to start preparing for the applications in sophomore year as i was lead to believe... but i probably should have done some community service or gotten a job or something just so the apps didnt look so empty
in the end i got into all of the schools that i applied to so 1. i didnt need to worry about it really, because i got in on just grades and drama stuff (my SAT scores certainly didnt do it) and 2. i didnt need to spend all that money on applications (about 250$)...i should have narrowed it down to begin with so i only had to do a 5th of the work and saved 200 dollars. o well.
now i know and it doesnt do me any good at all....
it was both jsut as difficult and no where near as hard as i tought it would be.
i did not actually have to start preparing for the applications in sophomore year as i was lead to believe... but i probably should have done some community service or gotten a job or something just so the apps didnt look so empty
in the end i got into all of the schools that i applied to so 1. i didnt need to worry about it really, because i got in on just grades and drama stuff (my SAT scores certainly didnt do it) and 2. i didnt need to spend all that money on applications (about 250$)...i should have narrowed it down to begin with so i only had to do a 5th of the work and saved 200 dollars. o well.
now i know and it doesnt do me any good at all....
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Way Behind on posts #1
so current event 1... 1 of 3 which will be coming up shortly:
to save you having to read the article below it sums up as follows. Touchstone Studios is threatening to make a terrible "Coyote Ugly II" movie, yes even worse than the first. No it's not real..its an article from the onion. but it is funny.
article:
BURBANK, CA—Telling the movie-going public that it had "better start falling in line," executives at Touchstone Pictures announced Monday that if they do not immediately see a significant increase in box-office receipts they will not hesitate to produce a sequel to the 2000 film Coyote Ugly.
Unless ticket sales climb, producers say they'll redirect the funding from 16 indie films into Coyote Ugly II.
The original movie—which follows a small-town girl who supports her songwriting dreams by taking a job as one of many scantily clad barmaids at a New York City hot spot—was widely considered by critics to be a vapid cultural travesty. According to Touchstone Pictures president Peter Zaiff, however, if the nation doesn't continue to blindly accept all products distributed by the entertainment industry, he'll produce a sequel to the film that "makes the first Coyote Ugly look like On The fucking Waterfront."
"We are dead serious, you assholes," Zaiff said. "You're going to like what we tell you to like, end-of-fucking-story. Now fill up those seats, or so help me God, it's Coyote Ugly II: Get Uglier."
"I'll get Rachel Bilson to star in this piece of shit right now," added Zaiff, sneering and brandishing a BlackBerry. "She's the worst."
Zaiff said that not only would Touchstone do everything in its power to make the sequel the most repellant, soulless, pandering film ever released, but that all of the resources of the studio, as well as those of its parent company Walt Disney, would be dedicated to promoting the film.
If you think Tyra Banks won't sign on for this pile of garbage again, you're dead fucking wrong.
"For six months you won't be able to do so much as buy a cup of coffee without having to stare at ads for this pile of puke," Zaiff said. "We'll inundate you with so many promotions and cross-promotions, you'll see the logo in your nightmares. Anytime you look at a screen it will be completely plastered with the faces of whatever MTV rejects we decide to cast in this abortion."
"Get ready to herd your fat asses in to watch it, you fat fucks," added Zaiff, promising to release the movie after awards season, but before summer blockbusters arrive, so there will be nothing else for moviegoers to see.
Zaiff threatened that LeAnn Rimes, who scored a major pop hit with the song "Can't Fight The Moonlight" on the soundtrack of the first film, would record a new song for the sequel titled "(Still) Can't Fight The Moonlight." Additionally, industry insiders have indicated that Coyote Ugly II will have so little respect for its audience's intelligence that everyone who appears on screen will wear a Pepsi T-shirt at all times.
Zaiff emphasized that even the most discerning movie fans will have little choice but to watch the new film.
"And for all you snobby fucks who say you wouldn't come within a mile of this fucking movie, we've got plans for you, too," Zaiff said. "You're not safe from this shit-show. Who's your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich? We'll dangle so much money in front of his face he'll sell out faster than a five-dollar whore."
"Just try us," Zaiff continued. "I swear to God, I will personally dig up Stanley Kubrick's rotting corpse and attach him to this project myself if I have to."
If his studio's balance sheet doesn't improve, Zaiff has promised to use his connections to ensure that a shot-for-shot remake of Fast & Furious appears in theaters the moment the original version heads to DVD. Still, he maintained that his company's vitriol was about more than financial profit. The threats, he said, were primarily intended to let the nation know exactly what the entertainment industry is capable of.
"You sorry bastards don't get it, do you?" Zaiff said. "It's not about the money. It's about who calls the shots. I'll burn the fucking profits—I don't care. Or we'll use it to make Coyote Ugly III. And Coyote Ugly IV. How would you dicks like that? Get it through your thick fucking skulls: You do what we tell you to do."
The response across the country has been largely compliant, with many Americans apologizing publicly and promising to see every film released, regardless of quality.
"For the love of God, anything but a Coyote Ugly sequel," said filmgoer John Deenan, who vividly remembers suffering though years of the first film on cable. "Please, I'll do whatever they want. I swear."
"Although, I'd probably go see it if they made it," Deenan added.
to save you having to read the article below it sums up as follows. Touchstone Studios is threatening to make a terrible "Coyote Ugly II" movie, yes even worse than the first. No it's not real..its an article from the onion. but it is funny.
article:
BURBANK, CA—Telling the movie-going public that it had "better start falling in line," executives at Touchstone Pictures announced Monday that if they do not immediately see a significant increase in box-office receipts they will not hesitate to produce a sequel to the 2000 film Coyote Ugly.
Unless ticket sales climb, producers say they'll redirect the funding from 16 indie films into Coyote Ugly II.
The original movie—which follows a small-town girl who supports her songwriting dreams by taking a job as one of many scantily clad barmaids at a New York City hot spot—was widely considered by critics to be a vapid cultural travesty. According to Touchstone Pictures president Peter Zaiff, however, if the nation doesn't continue to blindly accept all products distributed by the entertainment industry, he'll produce a sequel to the film that "makes the first Coyote Ugly look like On The fucking Waterfront."
"We are dead serious, you assholes," Zaiff said. "You're going to like what we tell you to like, end-of-fucking-story. Now fill up those seats, or so help me God, it's Coyote Ugly II: Get Uglier."
"I'll get Rachel Bilson to star in this piece of shit right now," added Zaiff, sneering and brandishing a BlackBerry. "She's the worst."
Zaiff said that not only would Touchstone do everything in its power to make the sequel the most repellant, soulless, pandering film ever released, but that all of the resources of the studio, as well as those of its parent company Walt Disney, would be dedicated to promoting the film.
If you think Tyra Banks won't sign on for this pile of garbage again, you're dead fucking wrong.
"For six months you won't be able to do so much as buy a cup of coffee without having to stare at ads for this pile of puke," Zaiff said. "We'll inundate you with so many promotions and cross-promotions, you'll see the logo in your nightmares. Anytime you look at a screen it will be completely plastered with the faces of whatever MTV rejects we decide to cast in this abortion."
"Get ready to herd your fat asses in to watch it, you fat fucks," added Zaiff, promising to release the movie after awards season, but before summer blockbusters arrive, so there will be nothing else for moviegoers to see.
Zaiff threatened that LeAnn Rimes, who scored a major pop hit with the song "Can't Fight The Moonlight" on the soundtrack of the first film, would record a new song for the sequel titled "(Still) Can't Fight The Moonlight." Additionally, industry insiders have indicated that Coyote Ugly II will have so little respect for its audience's intelligence that everyone who appears on screen will wear a Pepsi T-shirt at all times.
Zaiff emphasized that even the most discerning movie fans will have little choice but to watch the new film.
"And for all you snobby fucks who say you wouldn't come within a mile of this fucking movie, we've got plans for you, too," Zaiff said. "You're not safe from this shit-show. Who's your favorite actor? Frank Langella? Malkovich? How about John-fucking-Malkovich? We'll dangle so much money in front of his face he'll sell out faster than a five-dollar whore."
"Just try us," Zaiff continued. "I swear to God, I will personally dig up Stanley Kubrick's rotting corpse and attach him to this project myself if I have to."
If his studio's balance sheet doesn't improve, Zaiff has promised to use his connections to ensure that a shot-for-shot remake of Fast & Furious appears in theaters the moment the original version heads to DVD. Still, he maintained that his company's vitriol was about more than financial profit. The threats, he said, were primarily intended to let the nation know exactly what the entertainment industry is capable of.
"You sorry bastards don't get it, do you?" Zaiff said. "It's not about the money. It's about who calls the shots. I'll burn the fucking profits—I don't care. Or we'll use it to make Coyote Ugly III. And Coyote Ugly IV. How would you dicks like that? Get it through your thick fucking skulls: You do what we tell you to do."
The response across the country has been largely compliant, with many Americans apologizing publicly and promising to see every film released, regardless of quality.
"For the love of God, anything but a Coyote Ugly sequel," said filmgoer John Deenan, who vividly remembers suffering though years of the first film on cable. "Please, I'll do whatever they want. I swear."
"Although, I'd probably go see it if they made it," Deenan added.
Monday, March 23, 2009
editorial #6?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032201455_pf.html
AS we can plainly see, this week’s article, from the Washington Post Online (which, fun fact, is just the print edition, in web formatting,) is about the changes President Obama is making to Food Safety regulations and inspections based on the salmonella scares in recent years. There have been several outbreaks of Salmonella in spinach, tomatoes, and peppers. With the latest appearances of the illness in one company’s peanut factories and products, a congressional investigation was called to inquire of the company in question. It was revealed that the factory where the infected products were being made and shipped out was operating far from FDA standards, with rats, bugs and other animals running around the factory and infecting the products being shipped out. It was at this time the president decided it was time to take action. He created the Food Safety Working Group. Though their official job is not yet cleat, the group will contain the former New York City health commissioner and other highly qualified individuals and will hopefully be getting the slipping standards of some companies back into shape, for the good of the public.
Personally, I think it’s nice the President can take enough time off the talk show and college basketball circuit to get some work done. Seriously though, it may seem like another superfluous department for taxpayers to pay for, only necessary because the old one wasn’t doing its job, but this one might be necessary, for the time being, considering just how much accidental salmonella has been getting into the people’s food.
AS we can plainly see, this week’s article, from the Washington Post Online (which, fun fact, is just the print edition, in web formatting,) is about the changes President Obama is making to Food Safety regulations and inspections based on the salmonella scares in recent years. There have been several outbreaks of Salmonella in spinach, tomatoes, and peppers. With the latest appearances of the illness in one company’s peanut factories and products, a congressional investigation was called to inquire of the company in question. It was revealed that the factory where the infected products were being made and shipped out was operating far from FDA standards, with rats, bugs and other animals running around the factory and infecting the products being shipped out. It was at this time the president decided it was time to take action. He created the Food Safety Working Group. Though their official job is not yet cleat, the group will contain the former New York City health commissioner and other highly qualified individuals and will hopefully be getting the slipping standards of some companies back into shape, for the good of the public.
Personally, I think it’s nice the President can take enough time off the talk show and college basketball circuit to get some work done. Seriously though, it may seem like another superfluous department for taxpayers to pay for, only necessary because the old one wasn’t doing its job, but this one might be necessary, for the time being, considering just how much accidental salmonella has been getting into the people’s food.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
editorial #5598787
so once again the editorial is coming from the washington post online...because i am too lazy to read a real newspaper. this weeks one is about genetic research, more specifically embryonic stem cell research. Last week Mr. Obama declared he would be lowering the restrictions set forth by the Bush administration on stem cell research. as i believe everyone is well aware, there is a huge controversy over this particular form of genetic and disease research becuase the stem cells must be harvest from aborted fetuses at a certain stage of embryonic develpoment, which directly ties into the heated abortion debates and pro-life vs.. pro abortion arguments. During his speech on relieveing the restrictions, Obama failed to give any details on how he will respond to the issue of ontaining the fetuses or the relating abortion argument, but did say he would try to address these problems sometime in the not-too-distant future. as for now, scientists are celebrating their new found freedom, stating that the restrictions prevented the Untied States from being a forerunner in the scientific field and that with increased research ability, they can now expand their field, and are hoping for breakthroughs in the field of genetic research and disease control.
Friday, March 13, 2009
editorial post ...4?
so..this weeks post comes (yet again) form the Washington POst online. this week it was kind enough to recognize little ol' Fairfax county and the radical movement to open school times a little later. According to the article, the group SLEEP has been, for the last five years, petitioning the schools to open one hour later, to save the poor children from their O SO GREULING SCHEDULES. well, other than the fact that the kids can get the hell over it and stop being babies, the group is finally getting somewhere. the county's schools are seriously reconsidering the school start time, and moving it in the high schools from 7:20 to 8:30. they cite the average teenager's need to have a good 7-8 hours of sleep each night for a variety of health reasons. the down side to this, that no one seems to be considering is that, while MAYBE getting people more sleep, it will RUIN THEIR LIVES. there will be no more swimming. internships will end. and the arts programs will be severly cut back. by starting schools later, all the county will be doing is cutting hours out of the day for kids to participate in after-school activities, usually the only part of school anyone actually enjoys. kids will get one more hour of sleep, or procrastination, or whatever (but most will still wake up at 3 am to finish papers like i have done every year since 7th grade) and just have one less hour in the day to get work done.
Parents will also suffer trying to adjust their work schedules to fit the new school schedules, something they probably can't afford to do right now, because they are too busy trying to keep their jobs in the current economy. THE END
Parents will also suffer trying to adjust their work schedules to fit the new school schedules, something they probably can't afford to do right now, because they are too busy trying to keep their jobs in the current economy. THE END
Saturday, February 21, 2009
editorial post #2 [not a very creative title]
so, this week's editorial, from the Washington Post Online, is about how the declining state of the american economy is effecting other parts of the world, namely china.
Apparantly the U.S is the largest consumer of chinese goods. China was in the process of expanding their industrial work force to meet consumer demand, therefore the rural population was moving into the cities to find work in factories. now with consumers in america cutting back on buying foreign products, the chinese economy is falling apart. The workers have been forced to return to their thrird-world rural housing, which, for some, does not even exist anymore, and thousands of jobless and homeless roam the cities of china. Chinese exports have dropped 40-70 percent, depending on the product, and those exports are the base of China's expansion and de-isolationism at this moment in time.
for me, and hopefully for others, this article opened my eyes to how inter-connected the us economy is to the economies of other countries. right now the american economic depression is not that bad for the majority of the country. the same can't be said for the countries which are directly invested in the US, who cant afford any turn down in either our or their economies.
Apparantly the U.S is the largest consumer of chinese goods. China was in the process of expanding their industrial work force to meet consumer demand, therefore the rural population was moving into the cities to find work in factories. now with consumers in america cutting back on buying foreign products, the chinese economy is falling apart. The workers have been forced to return to their thrird-world rural housing, which, for some, does not even exist anymore, and thousands of jobless and homeless roam the cities of china. Chinese exports have dropped 40-70 percent, depending on the product, and those exports are the base of China's expansion and de-isolationism at this moment in time.
for me, and hopefully for others, this article opened my eyes to how inter-connected the us economy is to the economies of other countries. right now the american economic depression is not that bad for the majority of the country. the same can't be said for the countries which are directly invested in the US, who cant afford any turn down in either our or their economies.
Friday, February 13, 2009
editorial post #1
wow..i had already forgotten how to use this silly website. i had also forgotten my password... oops.
alright so the editorial i found is nt about anything too serious because if you know me, i dont like to think about how the econmy is failing, how we have a new president who stepped in at the absolute worst possible time and is a bit of a socialist and wants to turn america into the soviet union, but whatever.
the editorial i found was on the pardon and how president Bush did not pardon anyone. the article cited president Clinton's very controversial last-minute pardons, of his deliquent brother and what-not, and set up a few good reasons for why he may have chosen to do this: 1. Bush may have been trying not to cause a stir at the end of a very rocky presidency, and just leave quietly, 2. he did not want to pull a clinton, and have just one more unpleasant addition to his resume. either way the article gave him shit for being too stingy with his mercy, and talked about how the new president should try to pardon a few more people during his time in office.
whatever.
pardons should be for people to clear records for which they have been proven innocent of, not to get crack dealers out of jail for finally getting caught. but that is a whole other tirade. the end
alright so the editorial i found is nt about anything too serious because if you know me, i dont like to think about how the econmy is failing, how we have a new president who stepped in at the absolute worst possible time and is a bit of a socialist and wants to turn america into the soviet union, but whatever.
the editorial i found was on the pardon and how president Bush did not pardon anyone. the article cited president Clinton's very controversial last-minute pardons, of his deliquent brother and what-not, and set up a few good reasons for why he may have chosen to do this: 1. Bush may have been trying not to cause a stir at the end of a very rocky presidency, and just leave quietly, 2. he did not want to pull a clinton, and have just one more unpleasant addition to his resume. either way the article gave him shit for being too stingy with his mercy, and talked about how the new president should try to pardon a few more people during his time in office.
whatever.
pardons should be for people to clear records for which they have been proven innocent of, not to get crack dealers out of jail for finally getting caught. but that is a whole other tirade. the end
Friday, January 16, 2009
Current event political cartoon part...whatever
so..there is a veritable plethora of political cartoons explaining the momentous event about to occur: the presidental inaguration! the passing of the torch from one exhausted, weather-beaten, media-harrassed, shoe-thrown-at and unpopular president to the black messiah...o look! here's one RIGHT NOW::::
o wow..it's everything i imagined it would be... and better. it's in color.
as stated, its a visual representation of the event about to occur, the baton here representing ht presidency and all the wonderful things that currently wil go along with it... like the economy and the war and the economy and the nationa debt and stuff, which in the cartoon, must weigh a lot and are what has made bush so tired in the race.... the end.
o wow..it's everything i imagined it would be... and better. it's in color.
as stated, its a visual representation of the event about to occur, the baton here representing ht presidency and all the wonderful things that currently wil go along with it... like the economy and the war and the economy and the nationa debt and stuff, which in the cartoon, must weigh a lot and are what has made bush so tired in the race.... the end.
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