Anyway, starting to do stuff for getting accepted into Puget Sound (or hoping to).
Random picture of the day:
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Gnff
Random title is random.
Anyway, starting to do stuff for getting accepted into Puget Sound (or hoping to).
Random picture of the day:
Anyway, starting to do stuff for getting accepted into Puget Sound (or hoping to).
Random picture of the day:
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
GAH
Have to make this quick, 'cause my net's turning off soon.
End of quarter on Fri.
+ Counsiling yesterday
+ Grades today
= Stressed me
End of quarter on Fri.
+ Counsiling yesterday
+ Grades today
= Stressed me
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Halloween Update
So, yeah, updating daily = failing, BUT I'LL STILL TRY.
So, Hallow's Eve I went trick or treating.
So, Hallow's Eve I went trick or treating.
Pics taken after done trick-or-treating
Freaking awesome pumpkin I saw
Can't really tell, but this was a guy about my age (older teen) dressed as Ash Ketchum, who was also trick-or-treating. -^^-
Monday, October 25, 2010
FFFFFFFF YEAH
Sorry, I know I said I'd be posting everyday, but when I get lazy, I get real lazy...
I was going to talk about how Kirby got sugery last night, how I couldn't sleep, etc., but...
I GOT THE NEW SHAN BOOK AND THAT SEEMED MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING.
I was going to talk about how Kirby got sugery last night, how I couldn't sleep, etc., but...
I GOT THE NEW SHAN BOOK AND THAT SEEMED MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Cyanide and Gay-ness
Or happiness, whichever you prefer. ^^
Anyway, yesterday we had an early relase. I came home for about 45 minutes, then had to go to a counsilor's appointment.
After that we went to get L-phonse and Asian. They came back to our house until about 10. L and I watched different videos on YouTube, and then L narrated my Lily pictures...
These are Lily-s, if you didn't know:
She is an amazing artist, all credit goes to her. However, she closed her site after people began stealing her art and claiming it as her own.
Today I watched my mum's friend's two kids.
I didn't get paid yet...
...
Second time I've babysat for them and not gotten paid...
~ Muffins-Weasley
Anyway, yesterday we had an early relase. I came home for about 45 minutes, then had to go to a counsilor's appointment.
After that we went to get L-phonse and Asian. They came back to our house until about 10. L and I watched different videos on YouTube, and then L narrated my Lily pictures...
These are Lily-s, if you didn't know:
Today I watched my mum's friend's two kids.
I didn't get paid yet...
...
Second time I've babysat for them and not gotten paid...
~ Muffins-Weasley
Thursday, October 14, 2010
I Didn't Blog Yesterday...
...for no real reason.
Anyway, today was Latin club. Afterwards we picked out senior pictures. :-)
Yay, short blog!
~ Muffins-Weasley
Anyway, today was Latin club. Afterwards we picked out senior pictures. :-)
Yay, short blog!
~ Muffins-Weasley
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Bullying Gay/Les/Bi-s, It Gets Better, U of M Trip
Maybe not in that exact order...
U of M trip first. Hour and a halfish on a coach bus up to the Twin Cities. Got bagels from Ms. Whitney on the way, from Panera.
First class thing: Online Media Trends, taught by Tom Hutchinson. It was fairly boring, the only reason I went to it was because I was following some people from my school who seemed to know where they were going.
Second class: Brainstorming Stories, taught by Kelly Zwagerman. This class was interesting, and I got to sit next to a really cool girl. ^^ Our first example for how to BS was starting with the big topic of Gay Teens being Bullied (and then commiting suicide), which I will come back to later.
Waiting for my third class, in an overcrowded room while sitting on the floor, I realized that this was just like Anime Detour. My third class was Some Journalists Don't Enjoy Their Lives, and was taught by Scott Winter. He was a really funny instructor. Some quotes from him, to show his awesomeness:
"I'll try to make this awesome..."
"Meetings should be like mini-skirts; long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be interesting."
"Journalists are smarter, better looking, and more interesting than everyone else."
His class was, essentially, 758 ways to make things more interesting".
Then, because he let us out early, I went downstairs to wander. And I found this outside:
Here, they were selling gay/les/bi buttons and shirts, and handing out candy. I bought a few before going back in to my fourth class, and managed to get my new friend's e-mail.
Fourth class was an award ceremony and Liz Collin talking. It was... okay...
What I bought:
Anyway, perhaps you heard about this:
(Found on TwinFool's blog, reblogged about a billion times)
An eighth grader in the Houston area, Asher Brown, has committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied at school for being gay.
A US college student committed suicide the day after authorities say two fellow students surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the internet. Tyler Clementi of New Jersey jumped off the George Washington Bridge, a lawyer for his family said. His body hasn’t been recovered.
Seth Walsh, a student at Jacobsen Middle School in Tehachapi, Calif., was found unconscious and not breathing on Sept. 19 after he apparently tried to hang himself from a tree in his backyard, according to a police report obtained by The Bakersfield Californian. Friends said that Seth had been picked on for years because he was gay. He later passed away.
Okay, stop. Seriously, people. When has taping someone when they're having sex ever been a good idea? (Besides porn, which more often than not is scripted, and therefore fake.)
Things like this are seriously NOT okay. Just because someone is gay/les/bi does not give the right to harrass them. Those in the gay/les/bi community don't go around harrassing straight people until they commit suicide. Do they not have the same rights as everyone else? What happened to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Oh, wait, gays/les/bi-s don't have the same rights as everyone else, that's right. Only five states ( Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.) allow same-sex marrage. Did you know that more states allow first cousins to marry w/o special restrictions than allow same-sex marriage? (About 19 allow first cousin marriages).
Moving on...
Wear purple on the 20th, in remembrance of those that have taken their lives due to the bullying of being gay/les/bi. I'll be wearing the shirt I bought today: "Gay? Fine by me".
That's also the day I plan on doing a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.
What is "It Gets Better?"
(Cpoy-paste from the project's YouTube channel):
"Billy Lucas was just 15 when he hanged himself in a barn on his grandmother's property. He reportedly endured intense bullying at the hands of his classmates—classmates who called him a fag and told him to kill himself. His mother found his body.... I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes. I wish I could have told Billy that it gets better. I wish I could have told him that, however bad things were, however isolated and alone he was, it gets better.
"But gay adults aren't allowed to talk to these kids. Schools and churches don't bring us in to talk to teenagers who are being bullied. Many of these kids have homophobic parents who believe that they can prevent their gay children from growing up to be gay—or from ever coming out—by depriving them of information, resources, and positive role models.
"Why are we waiting for permission to talk to these kids? We have the ability to talk directly to them right now. We don't have to wait for permission to let them know that it gets better. We can reach these kids."
Read Dan's entire column here:
http://tinyurl.com/3xmu4le
So, in summary, the project is pretty much to support gay/les/bi youth, and tell them "Hey, life may suck now, but you know what? IT GETS BETTER. Just hang in there, because people love you, no matter if you're gay or not." Most people are even including the number for the 4U Trevor number (link to it: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/). I encourage all of you to join. Create a video and submit it to YouTube. Easy as pie.
Anyway, love you all.
~ Muffins-Weasley
U of M trip first. Hour and a halfish on a coach bus up to the Twin Cities. Got bagels from Ms. Whitney on the way, from Panera.
First class thing: Online Media Trends, taught by Tom Hutchinson. It was fairly boring, the only reason I went to it was because I was following some people from my school who seemed to know where they were going.
Second class: Brainstorming Stories, taught by Kelly Zwagerman. This class was interesting, and I got to sit next to a really cool girl. ^^ Our first example for how to BS was starting with the big topic of Gay Teens being Bullied (and then commiting suicide), which I will come back to later.
Waiting for my third class, in an overcrowded room while sitting on the floor, I realized that this was just like Anime Detour. My third class was Some Journalists Don't Enjoy Their Lives, and was taught by Scott Winter. He was a really funny instructor. Some quotes from him, to show his awesomeness:
"I'll try to make this awesome..."
"Meetings should be like mini-skirts; long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be interesting."
"Journalists are smarter, better looking, and more interesting than everyone else."
His class was, essentially, 758 ways to make things more interesting".
Then, because he let us out early, I went downstairs to wander. And I found this outside:
Fourth class was an award ceremony and Liz Collin talking. It was... okay...
What I bought:
Anyway, perhaps you heard about this:
An eighth grader in the Houston area, Asher Brown, has committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied at school for being gay.
A US college student committed suicide the day after authorities say two fellow students surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the internet. Tyler Clementi of New Jersey jumped off the George Washington Bridge, a lawyer for his family said. His body hasn’t been recovered.
Seth Walsh, a student at Jacobsen Middle School in Tehachapi, Calif., was found unconscious and not breathing on Sept. 19 after he apparently tried to hang himself from a tree in his backyard, according to a police report obtained by The Bakersfield Californian. Friends said that Seth had been picked on for years because he was gay. He later passed away.
Okay, stop. Seriously, people. When has taping someone when they're having sex ever been a good idea? (Besides porn, which more often than not is scripted, and therefore fake.)
Things like this are seriously NOT okay. Just because someone is gay/les/bi does not give the right to harrass them. Those in the gay/les/bi community don't go around harrassing straight people until they commit suicide. Do they not have the same rights as everyone else? What happened to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Oh, wait, gays/les/bi-s don't have the same rights as everyone else, that's right. Only five states ( Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.) allow same-sex marrage. Did you know that more states allow first cousins to marry w/o special restrictions than allow same-sex marriage? (About 19 allow first cousin marriages).
Moving on...
Wear purple on the 20th, in remembrance of those that have taken their lives due to the bullying of being gay/les/bi. I'll be wearing the shirt I bought today: "Gay? Fine by me".
That's also the day I plan on doing a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.
What is "It Gets Better?"
(Cpoy-paste from the project's YouTube channel):
"Billy Lucas was just 15 when he hanged himself in a barn on his grandmother's property. He reportedly endured intense bullying at the hands of his classmates—classmates who called him a fag and told him to kill himself. His mother found his body.... I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes. I wish I could have told Billy that it gets better. I wish I could have told him that, however bad things were, however isolated and alone he was, it gets better.
"But gay adults aren't allowed to talk to these kids. Schools and churches don't bring us in to talk to teenagers who are being bullied. Many of these kids have homophobic parents who believe that they can prevent their gay children from growing up to be gay—or from ever coming out—by depriving them of information, resources, and positive role models.
"Why are we waiting for permission to talk to these kids? We have the ability to talk directly to them right now. We don't have to wait for permission to let them know that it gets better. We can reach these kids."
Read Dan's entire column here:
http://tinyurl.com/3xmu4le
So, in summary, the project is pretty much to support gay/les/bi youth, and tell them "Hey, life may suck now, but you know what? IT GETS BETTER. Just hang in there, because people love you, no matter if you're gay or not." Most people are even including the number for the 4U Trevor number (link to it: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/). I encourage all of you to join. Create a video and submit it to YouTube. Easy as pie.
Anyway, love you all.
~ Muffins-Weasley
Monday, October 11, 2010
Essex Park
I'm at Barnes & Noble right now, typing one handed while eating a Turkey and Cheese panini (Mmm... Food...). Anyway, today, children, I teach you about Essex Park.
Hard to believe that that little stream was flowing over the road just a few weeks ago (Senior picture, BTW :D ).
Even harder to believe that when I was just a wee sprout, mum's friend James's body was found in it. Such a beautiful place, and at first glance, you wouldn't have even guessed it.
There's a park nearby that littlewolf me children play at...
No one would even know that a body was found at this beautiful place if they weren't friends with the decessed...
That's one of the reasons I chose to get my senior pictures done there. I may not remember him well (at all, actually), but when I was really little I knew James. (Like really, really little) It's a little rememberance. A solomen story of a beautiful place, contained within a few pictures.
Now we live nearer it, and I hope to see the leaves as they turn, and perhaps do a few more photoshoots there.
~ Muffins-Weasley
[All photos courtesy of Lower Photography. That's me and Kirby in the pictures, too. :D]
Even harder to believe that when I was just a wee sprout, mum's friend James's body was found in it. Such a beautiful place, and at first glance, you wouldn't have even guessed it.
There's a park nearby that little
That's one of the reasons I chose to get my senior pictures done there. I may not remember him well (at all, actually), but when I was really little I knew James. (Like really, really little) It's a little rememberance. A solomen story of a beautiful place, contained within a few pictures.
~ Muffins-Weasley
[All photos courtesy of Lower Photography. That's me and Kirby in the pictures, too. :D]
Sunday, October 10, 2010
So I Ended Up Doing /Some/ Stuff
After I posted the last entry, I got dressed and we (Asian, Mum, Zak, and I) went to ShopKo. Driving there we saw... *drum roll* A FREAKIN PARACHUTER, WITH A RAINBOW PARACHUTE!!! :D
Then we got what we went to Shopko for (a puppy toy thing for a one year old who's mother plays Yu-Gi-Oh/Magic at Panera). And on a whim I got two packs of Pokemon HG/SS Undaunted cards... I opened it and... I GOT A HOLOGRAPHIC FLAREON!!
Now I only need Jolteon...
And I saw shiny Entei and Suicune cards. Like, Shiny. Like:
Then we got what we went to Shopko for (a puppy toy thing for a one year old who's mother plays Yu-Gi-Oh/Magic at Panera). And on a whim I got two packs of Pokemon HG/SS Undaunted cards... I opened it and... I GOT A HOLOGRAPHIC FLAREON!!
Now I only need Jolteon...
And I saw shiny Entei and Suicune cards. Like, Shiny. Like:
Which is something I'd never seen before.
Anyway, then we went to Panera and I drew pretty pictures of Sclea and a zombie Jesus. Then we took Asian home and went to our house.
For dinner, mum and dad decided to take us to Buffalo Wild Wings, which I'd never been to. I'm not a big wings fan, or a sports fan. I'm apathetic towards sports. But when we got there, I found myself drawn into the hockey game going on. It was Minn. v. UMass, and there was one or two larger fights while I watched, with a bunch of smaller ones. I didn't finish my burger and fries (which were very good) because I didn't want everyone else who was finished to be waiting on me, and I was getting very distracted by the hockey game. I think I was the only one watching it there, too, cause there wasn't any cheering at appropriate parts of the game... And there was only like two out of like twenty TVs on the game. When we left, the score was 4:3, Minn leading.
We ended up winning 5:4!!! :D
Then we all came home and played 15 turns of Mario Party 8 (? The Wii one) and Bomberman on Xbox 360.
~ Muffins-Weasley
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Mmm... Fishcakes
Random title is random, no?
Anyway, I'm bored right now... No one's really on dA. I -should- go through my folder of "to upload" and check what has and hasn't been uploaded and on what...
Kinda waiting for lunchtime, then I'll take a shower so I can be fresh and clean when we go to Yu-Gi-Oh at Panera S. Mmm... Panera...
Ah... I should also do some more of the stuff in my "to do" folder. Hence its name... And sew some stuff... And pin down a design for a Disney (animated) Cheshire costume...
I love making Cheshire gijinkas / different versions of Cheshires. I guess you could technically count Cloud (Cheshire Cloud Cat) as my first Cheshire gijinka....
And then, just recently I made a female (real female, not gender confused Cloud) Cheshire. And she's just called Cheshire.
That cat is also her cat form.
I feel like I should change my phone's background... I mean, Kurai is nice and all, but it's hard to read the time on her...
Anyway... So, I think I'll do something now.
~ Muffins-Weasley
Anyway, I'm bored right now... No one's really on dA. I -should- go through my folder of "to upload" and check what has and hasn't been uploaded and on what...
Kinda waiting for lunchtime, then I'll take a shower so I can be fresh and clean when we go to Yu-Gi-Oh at Panera S. Mmm... Panera...
Ah... I should also do some more of the stuff in my "to do" folder. Hence its name... And sew some stuff... And pin down a design for a Disney (animated) Cheshire costume...
I love making Cheshire gijinkas / different versions of Cheshires. I guess you could technically count Cloud (Cheshire Cloud Cat) as my first Cheshire gijinka....
I feel like I should change my phone's background... I mean, Kurai is nice and all, but it's hard to read the time on her...
~ Muffins-Weasley
Friday, October 8, 2010
First Post~
Ah... Wonderful, wonderful posts~
Anyway, I decided, in order to get a bit of writting in everyday, I'd keep a blog seperate from my dA journal, which I use for BIG things and really tiny things like memes. Yes, this will be a meme free zone, at least in that sense.
So... What did I do today? Well, I submitted my Halloween article to the features editors of my school's paper. Best quotes of article:
Anyway, I decided, in order to get a bit of writting in everyday, I'd keep a blog seperate from my dA journal, which I use for BIG things and really tiny things like memes. Yes, this will be a meme free zone, at least in that sense.
So... What did I do today? Well, I submitted my Halloween article to the features editors of my school's paper. Best quotes of article:
“I’m going to dress up as a banana, and Mike ---- is going to dress up as a Gorilla and chase me down the mountain,” ~Nova
“Don’t go outside, lock your doors, and pray the seniors don’t find you.” ~Greece
[Nova] admits that the craziest Halloween event he’s been involved in has been Halloween strip Twister...
XD Yeah, those are deffinately the best quotes of the article.
Other things... There's so much that I want to say, but it didn't happen today!! >.<;;; Oh! Here! I got a reply from the assistant of admissions for Puget Sound, who came to my high school Tuesday. Man, I really want to go to Puget Sound, but... It's super expensive and I'm not sure I can get in... It's about $50,000 per year, and teaching requires 5 years there... That's $250,000. That's 133.3% of the cost of our house (roughly). And I don't know how much scholarship I can get... My grades aren't exactally the best... :<
*sigh*
Not much else happened today, besides the backlash of Nova's stupidity muffin question to the MN Supreme Court...
~Muffins-Weasley
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