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[Oct. 17th, 2005|06:24 pm] |
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I bought new heels ::big smile:: the heel is thinner than my normal ones, I'll need practice. |
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[Oct. 2nd, 2005|07:47 pm] |
Tomorrow will be hard-- damn. I can't believe it's been a year
Bastards |
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[Sep. 29th, 2005|09:41 am] |
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| Did I post this already? |
[Sep. 27th, 2005|08:29 pm] |
1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe we need to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. |
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[Sep. 25th, 2005|08:37 pm] |
--Isn't it nice when a guy quits smoking pot, drinking alcohol, and doing drugs just for the chance of having sex with you?
I feel powerful |
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| Ugh |
[Sep. 25th, 2005|10:26 am] |
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| | Being Alive | ] |
Yeah, this next week is going to be tough. I wonder how Kelly and Ashley are doing. I knew those girls since freshman year, and I can't help think about them, I hope they are ok.
Yeah, the 3rd will be make it one year--
Anyway, to snap me out of my nostalgia-- it's chilly here. Autumn is my favorite season, because in Jersey it lasts for a while, right? It might take awhile for the temperatures to drop, but once they do, it's nice until November. It's 54 degrees here right now, thursday it's going to be maybe 55 degrees. The low-- 33. I'm not ready for this. I want my fall!
I just need coffee.
Oh, and also-- my range has shrunk-- a lot. I can't even hit the high "A" any more with out really warming up. This saddens me. And while I was semi-bad at tone accuracy, I'm really bad now. I can tell that's I'm bad.
This is depressing, as I was once considered a good singer, until 10th grade. Hey, that's when I started having absence seizures-- maybe I can blame this on being dropped on my head!
Nah-- |
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[Sep. 20th, 2005|10:03 am] |
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Why found out what's wrong with me.
I'm bleeding.
Yup, everytime I have my period I'll have minitremors and small convulsions. The estrogen level(which is kinda low to begin with) in my brain drops, and that simply doesn't help.
Now talk about that for PMS. You might get cramps. But I have seizures! Ha! Beat that.
And yeah-- I umm-- failed my calc test. Yeah, I don't like things with math. Maybe I should switch my major. To something like-- I don't know-- English. Yeah, English wouldn't have too much math in it. |
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[Sep. 16th, 2005|07:47 pm] |
1.Pass My Shotgun
2.Psychotic Mood Shift
3.Perpetual Munching Spree
4.Puffy Mid-Section
5.People Make me Sick
6.ProvideMe withSweets
7.Pardon My Sobbing
8Pimples May Surface
9.Pass My Sweatpants
10.Pissy Mood Syndrome
11.Plainly; Men Suck
12.Pack My Stuff
13.Potential Murder Suspect |
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[Sep. 15th, 2005|04:31 pm] |
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My roommate is going to celebrate her three year anniversary with her boyfriend this weekend. I'm going to be lonely ::pouts::-- ::evil laugh::.
She's so cute.
A little blonde blue eyed girl-- who giggles. And I adore her. I know, scary isn't it?
Anyway, anymore "Kill Jerry" volunteers? |
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[Sep. 15th, 2005|01:33 am] |
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Ok, if you would like to do me a favor and know my Jessi, please either yourself, or someone else, who knows that Jerry( aka Jesus) is an asshole, please find a way to casually mention that to her. I'd appreciate it. It might be hard contacting her, but if you would like to help: comment/ im/ whatever. Or contact Woody or Billy for further plotting. |
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| I so didn't expect this to happen here-- |
[Sep. 12th, 2005|06:21 pm] |
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| | Children Will Listen- Into the Woods Original Cast | ] |
Earlier today, I was walking around campus and there was caution tape all over the place, along with police and an on-scene photographer. I was rather confused, and pretty curious.
Then I checked my email-- and I got this:
September 12, 2005
To Faculty, Staff and Students;
On Sunday, September 11, a threatening call was recorded on-campus. Once the message was received, the Ashland Police Department was called onto campus to investigate the situation.
Since then, a suspicious package has been located and is currently sitting on the lawn south of the Ponzio Campus Center. Ashland Police are on-site and working with additional experts to determine what is inside the package. The area immediately around the package is taped off and I am asking students, faculty and staff to stay away from that immediate area. At this point, no buildings are being closed and classes will continue tonight as scheduled.
Um-- yeah, I didn't expect crap like that to happen here. I thought there would be a bunch of calm, almost hippish people. You know, guys who don't bathe, women who don't shave, a bunch of science nerds, and a few band geeks. I've found all of those, but I didn't think there would be a bunch of chauvanists, over the top party sluts, and the occasional hypocrite. That girl who was bitching about gays on the trip has completely overreacted to what I told her. Word has returned to me from another girl who was on the trip, who I've become friends with, that Girl A is amusing herself by saying that I tried making out with her on the ride home, and that everytime I see her, I check her out.
Um-- no.
I guess no matter how far you go, you can't escape that which you wished to run from. |
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[Sep. 6th, 2005|05:13 pm] |
Lauren Lamourine
c/o Northland College
Ashland WI
54806
Alrighty, feel free to send me things like food and soap. I need those. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2005|07:01 pm] |
I love my roommate. She is fucking hilarious. She's calling one of her camp leaders "Nazi Cell Phone Bitch"
I like this girl. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2005|06:29 pm] |
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Yeah, I don't know if I like this place that much now.
My orientation involved rock climbing--
as in, we were hiking in the woods, that I liked, we checked out the rapids, that I liked, we had to do some manuvering to get up and down hills, that I liked.
Then we had to climbing up and over wet slippery rocks and had the potential to fall about 20 feet down onto more rocks--
Yeah.
The place only had things like hamburgers and veggieburgers for food, and then lunchmeat to make sandwiches. So I lived for three days on potato salad and bagels.
And then climbed rocks.
As I look back on this, it was fun. But I do not intend to climb rocks again.
And this one girl-- ::growls:: she's such preppy girl who was raised in a bubble. She began talking about how she is really uncomfortable around gays and lesbians, and one of the guys said "fag" a few times. She acted as if you were a girl and liked girls, you'd go hump any female around you. So I looked her directly into the eye and said "I'm bi". The look on her face was my favorite part of the trip.
This one girl is a doll though. She's from Texas, and is a very open girl. The first thing she said afterwards was, "That was great" and when I said that I was attracted to people not based on looks, but on the feel of said person's aura, she understood me right away.
But the other girls pissed me off, they were simply personified steorotypes. I was able to bite my tongue the entire time. Be proud of me.
And nobody got my random bits of sarcasm. It makes me sad. (random voice in my head) "So be it. Come Patsy!"
I really want food from Friendly's though--
Well, anyone who wants pictures comment on this! I have some pretty spiffy ones. |
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[Sep. 2nd, 2005|04:48 pm] |
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This place is gorgeous. I walked down to the center of town, and the sun was shining off of the lake, and light fog floating over it.
And I just finished meeting with my orientation group, got back here to watch Gilmore Girls, and decided to update this.
I miss you guys, but--
I feel really free here, the wind sings, and the deer don't run away. It's just-- I can't describe it.
Well, I love you guys |
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| I'm here |
[Sep. 1st, 2005|10:05 am] |
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Well, after going through hell at the airport, more hell at the airport, a plane that was so small and so crowded I had a panic attack that caused a seizure, I'm at college. And so far I love it. The campus is small and gorgeous. The town is a little ways up-- and I forgot to take my meds, shit. Well, technically this is the normal time I take it. Nevermond, I can go back to do that in a sec.
Well, I miss just being to call you guys up and say "I'm bored" and the like.
I'll post pictures.
And I love ya'll |
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[Aug. 30th, 2005|12:01 pm] |
SAT Math Scores Hit Record High
By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer
1 hour ago
The high school class of 2005 recorded what officials say are the highest-ever average scores on the math portion of the SAT college entrance exam, a modest jump from last year that comes amid conflicting data on the math skills of American students.
Seniors who finished high school last spring scored 520 out of a possible 800 on the math section, 2 points higher than the class of 2004. Average scores on the verbal section were unchanged at 508, according to results released Tuesday by the College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT.
The College Board also released preliminary results from the first three sittings of the new SAT, which features for the first time a writing section. Members of the class of 2006 began taking the new SAT last spring. They scored an average 516 on the writing section, which includes an essay, compared to 519 on critical reading (the new name for the verbal section) and 537 in math.
The record 1.48 million members of the class of 2005 who took the SAT were the last to take the old version, which had only verbal and math sections. Full results for the class of 2006 will be released a year from now. The College Board emphasized that students who take the test as juniors are typically more highly motivated, so average scores could decline.
For the class of 2005, scores improved for all ethnic groups, though significant gaps remain. Composite scores for black students rose 7 points to 864, but that remains more than 200 points below the average composite score for white students.
Average scores for boys rose 1 point to 538, while girls' scores rose 3 points to 504.
College Board President Gaston Caperton said the improvement in math was encouraging, but the flat trend in verbal scores indicates the need "to emphasize the core literacy skills of reading and writing in all courses across the curriculum starting in the earlier grades."
The results come at a time when a variety of tests _ on students of varying ages and measuring different kinds of skills _ are presenting mixed signals about what if any progress American students are making in math.
Figures released in July from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed the nation's 9- and 13-year-olds recorded their highest math scores ever, though scores for 17-year-olds were flat. A study released in December found U.S. eighth graders closing the gap with international peers in math and science.
However, that study found fourth-graders slipping further behind. And another study released at about the same time found the United States below 20 of 29 industrialized nations in math.
The ACT college entrance exam, a rival to the SAT that is more popular in about half the states, reported earlier this month overall and math scores for the high school class of 2005 were unchanged from a year ago. Most colleges accept either test.
Heh,and to think, my SATs were 640 math and 690 verbal. I only needed ten more points to go to Rutgers for practically nothing. And then I would have just stayed in state. I'm starting to wish I am. |
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[Aug. 29th, 2005|07:09 pm] |
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Oh my fucking god! The rates for my college went up, and I just recieved a loan and whatnot. I borrowed 9 fucking grand from citibank, and today I just got a letter saying the school has not recieved enough money, because now I need to give them almost 10 grand.
The thing that pisses me off is they didn't bother sending this shit until a WEEK before school starts. A WEEK! Fucking assholes. Do I call citibank and ask for another grand? Should I just call my grandmother and ask her to write a check or something?
And here's another question, it says to check how much money I owe them online, and it says I still owe them the full amount. And then on another page, it says all my scholarship money and yada yada have been accepted.
It's just GRRR! I don't fucking need this. First, I can't go because I have no money, then I can't go because we don't know what's fucking wrong with me, then I can't go because we do know what's wrong with me, and then I can FINALLY go, and now I need more money.
I so should have just gone to Rutgers, or CCC, or hell, I got into fucking Penn State. I should have went there, I'd be paying almost the same amount now, and I just don't like the big classes.
I'm pissed, can we tell? Fear me assholes. You're going to get a very angry PMSing femal with scar tissue in the part of her temporal lobe that controls emotions. And right now she is LIVID! |
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[Aug. 29th, 2005|09:43 am] |
DIET: Coffee Reported to Be Top Source of Healthy Antioxidants
By Randolph E. Schmid The Associated Press
Published: Aug 28, 2005
WASHINGTON (AP) - When the Ink Spots sang "I love the java jive and it loves me" in 1940, they could not have known how right they were.
Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released Sunday.
Of course, too much coffee can make people jittery and even raise cholesterol levels, so food experts stress moderation.
The findings by Joe A. Vinson, a chemistry professor at the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, give a healthy boost to the warming beverage.
"The point is, people are getting the most antioxidants from beverages, as opposed to what you might think," Vinson said in a telephone interview.
Antioxidants, which are thought to help battle cancer and provide other health benefits, are abundant in grains, tomatoes and many other fruits and vegetables.
Vinson said he was researching tea and cocoa and other foods and decided to study coffee, too.
His team analyzed the antioxidant content of more than 100 different food items, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, spices, oils and common beverages. They then used Agriculture Department data on typical food consumption patterns to calculate how much antioxidant each food contributes to a person's diet.
They concluded that the average adult consumes 1,299 milligrams of antioxidants daily from coffee. The closest competitor was tea at 294 milligrams. Rounding out the top five sources were bananas, 76 milligrams; dry beans, 72 milligrams; and corn, 48 milligrams. According to the Agriculture Department, the typical adult American drinks 1.64 cups of coffee daily.
That does not mean coffee is a substitute for fruit and vegetables.
"Unfortunately, consumers are still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, which are better for you from an overall nutritional point of view due to their higher content of vitamins, minerals and fiber," Vinson said.
Dates, cranberries and red grapes are among the leading fruit sources of antioxidants, he said.
The antioxidants in coffee are known as polyphenols. Sometimes they are bound to a sugar molecule, which covers up the antioxidant group, Vinson said.
The first step in measuring them was to break that sugar link. He noted that chemicals in the stomach do the same thing, freeing the polyphenols.
"We think that antioxidants can be good for you in a number of ways," including affecting enzymes and genes, though more research is needed, Vinson said.
"If I say more coffee is better, then I would have to tell you to spread it out to keep the levels of antioxidants up," Vinson said. "We always talk about moderation in anything."
His findings were released in conjunction with the annual convention of the American Chemical Society in Washington.
In February, a team of Japanese researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that people who drank coffee daily, or nearly every day, had half the liver cancer risk of those who never drank it. The protective effect occurred in people who drank one to two cups a day and increased at three to four cups.
Last year, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health found that drinking coffee cut the risk of developing the most common form of diabetes.
Men who drank more than six 8-ounce cups of caffeinated coffee per day lowered their risk of type 2 diabetes by about half, and women reduced their risk by nearly 30 percent, compared with people who did not drink coffee, according to the study in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Bonnie Liebman, nutrition director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said she was not surprised by Vinson's finding, because tea has been known to contain antioxidants.
But Liebman, who was not part of Vinson's research team, cautioned that while many people have faith that antioxidants will reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease and more, the evidence has not always panned out. Most experts are looking beyond antioxidants to the combination of vitamins, minerals other nutrition in specific foods, she said.
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I win! |
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[Aug. 26th, 2005|11:16 am] |
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I get to go to college!!!! Yay!!! ::happy dance:: Oh yeah, nothing can bring me down!!!
So, we found out what's causing my seizures though, I have some scar tissue on my temperal lobe. I'll see somebody in December, and I might need to get it removed. Ha, Jess, your doctor said you might have had ovarian cancer (which you don't. Yay!), but I might have to have brain surgery! Beat that!
I'm going to college! I'm leaving this time zone! I'm going to be stuck on a tiny tiny plane. Oh well, at least I get to go.
I'm leaving Weds. morning. I'll miss you people ::sniff::. But hey, we have so many ways of keeping in contact. And I promise to keep this journal up to date. |
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