I am not a very smart elephant, well, at least not today.
See, I have a big test tomorrow for English class covering Hoot. I think you can guess by the title of this post what I did.
Yes, I left my binder and notes and book in my locker.
In my defense - I have to walk home and therefore attempt to bring as few binders as possible so my bag doesn't weigh more than I do. I mean, I brought home a few other papers from that class for homework, it wasn't like I forgot the class entirely.
In opposition - I do spend about 20 minutes packing up and taking little pages from each binder and whatever. I had plenty of time to think about it.
In my defense (... yet again) - my friend was there talking to me and I was distracted. It was all her fault (just kidding).
Gosh! Nerdy elephants shouldn't forget these kinds of things! Especially Nerdfighter elephants... oh doesn't a funny image come to mind.
This has happened once or twice before. I guess I'm just annoyed that my first test in that class of the year is going to suck.
The Flying Elephant
P.S. in opposition - it probably wasn't a good idea to blog while I have other homework and now this to worry about...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Glee-ism, Spying on populars, and more
Yay! I have a follower, thanks Elizabeth!
1. So the Glee fandom is huge. I think it's a religion now, and I'll admit I was a huge gleek in the beginning. I used to go on fancast.com (like Hulu but worse quality) and there was the Glee pilot, before they were putting up previews for the first season on T.V. and then HayleyGhoover mentioned it on her blog. Well, I love musicals and the characters were funny and it was all so neurotic and dramatic the plot-line, if that makes sense. So I'd like to think of myself as a founding Gleek. Honestly, though, there are some crazy big fans that came during the spring season. That's why I drifted apart, I still watch it but I don't buy the CDs and DVD's. Yeah, I sound annoying being one of those people who refuse to watch something they like just because every one's obsessed now. It's not only that, as someone once put it "the episode plots are starting to fit the songs they want; not the plot then the songs" so it got repetitive to me. I do like the new character, Sunshine, on this season's premiere, she is fun and young and bubbly so I think it's a good addition.What did you think of the premiere?
2. Popularity fascinates me. I don't consider myself popular but I do have really nice friends. Anyways, at lunch today, the populars were sitting at the table next to mine. The head popular comes over and they refuse to let her sit and she says "that's so mean!" Why? Do they feel more powerful because they have something over her? Why are they her minions if they do that to her? So one girl in particular gets the girls next to her to scoot over so the head popular can to sit next to her. She does and then "closer populars" to the head popular walk over and the head popular runs off to sit at another table with them. The girl who was so excited to have the head popular sit next to her looks rejected. I still don't understand their species at all. Can someone explain why they are so insensitive to each other's feelings?
3. In cycle or electives or what ever you like to call it, we had the following exercise: 15 people on a sinking ship and a lifeboat can fit only 9, who will you eliminate? Then we had a list with information about the passengers, their ages, jobs, etc. One passenger was an 8 year old boy paralyzed since birth. Thankfully my group kept him on the lifeboat because the teacher was so mad at the four groups that as she put it "murdered a crippled boy". It's true though, if the kid were thrown off the ship he would've died automatically because he can't swim. And when she asked a group why they threw him off they said it was because "his quality of life wasn't as good of the rest of theirs and he would grow up and be useless" She read to us what she had overheard the groups say when we picked. It was basically a list of racist and stupid comments like "let's kill the boy, he's useless" "that's so mean! but it's true *laugh*" and "let's keep the nun, I'm a catholic so she should stay" The idea of the exercise was not to focus on who would die but how to save everyone. People were putting the strongest ones on the lifeboat when actually the weakest ones should be saved on the lifeboat because the strongest one's were adults who were in their 20's to 40's and if they could swim would survive. I thought it was really interesting but the teacher did make us feel really bad.
That was long, if you read the whole thing you win a prize! A sense of accomplishment! God, don't you hate when people do that?
The Flying Elephant
1. So the Glee fandom is huge. I think it's a religion now, and I'll admit I was a huge gleek in the beginning. I used to go on fancast.com (like Hulu but worse quality) and there was the Glee pilot, before they were putting up previews for the first season on T.V. and then HayleyGhoover mentioned it on her blog. Well, I love musicals and the characters were funny and it was all so neurotic and dramatic the plot-line, if that makes sense. So I'd like to think of myself as a founding Gleek. Honestly, though, there are some crazy big fans that came during the spring season. That's why I drifted apart, I still watch it but I don't buy the CDs and DVD's. Yeah, I sound annoying being one of those people who refuse to watch something they like just because every one's obsessed now. It's not only that, as someone once put it "the episode plots are starting to fit the songs they want; not the plot then the songs" so it got repetitive to me. I do like the new character, Sunshine, on this season's premiere, she is fun and young and bubbly so I think it's a good addition.What did you think of the premiere?
2. Popularity fascinates me. I don't consider myself popular but I do have really nice friends. Anyways, at lunch today, the populars were sitting at the table next to mine. The head popular comes over and they refuse to let her sit and she says "that's so mean!" Why? Do they feel more powerful because they have something over her? Why are they her minions if they do that to her? So one girl in particular gets the girls next to her to scoot over so the head popular can to sit next to her. She does and then "closer populars" to the head popular walk over and the head popular runs off to sit at another table with them. The girl who was so excited to have the head popular sit next to her looks rejected. I still don't understand their species at all. Can someone explain why they are so insensitive to each other's feelings?
3. In cycle or electives or what ever you like to call it, we had the following exercise: 15 people on a sinking ship and a lifeboat can fit only 9, who will you eliminate? Then we had a list with information about the passengers, their ages, jobs, etc. One passenger was an 8 year old boy paralyzed since birth. Thankfully my group kept him on the lifeboat because the teacher was so mad at the four groups that as she put it "murdered a crippled boy". It's true though, if the kid were thrown off the ship he would've died automatically because he can't swim. And when she asked a group why they threw him off they said it was because "his quality of life wasn't as good of the rest of theirs and he would grow up and be useless" She read to us what she had overheard the groups say when we picked. It was basically a list of racist and stupid comments like "let's kill the boy, he's useless" "that's so mean! but it's true *laugh*" and "let's keep the nun, I'm a catholic so she should stay" The idea of the exercise was not to focus on who would die but how to save everyone. People were putting the strongest ones on the lifeboat when actually the weakest ones should be saved on the lifeboat because the strongest one's were adults who were in their 20's to 40's and if they could swim would survive. I thought it was really interesting but the teacher did make us feel really bad.
That was long, if you read the whole thing you win a prize! A sense of accomplishment! God, don't you hate when people do that?
The Flying Elephant
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Whaaaaaa?
I was bored so I thought, hey, why not blog? WARNING: this may be totally pointless.
Here are some good riddles I learned from some guests staying at our house. Feel free to use them to stump your friends:
1. A man walks into a restaurant, looks at the menu, and orders seagull soup. After taking a sip he goes home and shoots his best friend. Why? What's going on?
2. A man in a truck parks outside a hotel. He has 1,400 dollars, one minute later he's bankrupt, why?
3. A man goes past a window, hears a phone ring and screams, why?*
The internet rocks - oh wow, elephant, that wasn't vague. Don't appreciate the awful sarcasm, third person.
No, I'm serious, here's a few examples:
1. I pulled up a tab right next to this and googled 'blogging ideas' here's what I got: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/02/04/starting-a-blog-12-ideas-for-blog-posts/
Here's what I did: started making a list, #10
2. One time my itouch froze up, you know white screen freezing. So I googled 'my itouch froze, help' and five seconds later I was clicking the home and on buttons at the same time and it began to work.
3. YouTube - what isn't awesome about YouTube? Besides the copyright infrigments, hater comments, and innapropriate conntent... okay, it's not perfect but the platform for getting your ideas out there - incredible.
That's all I got today,
The Flying Elephant
* answers
1. The man and best friend were marooned on an island. The ship had crashed and the wife didn't survive. The friend didn't know how to break it to the man so he said he'd make him seagull soup. He chopped up the wife's body and fed it to the man. Later, when the man ordered real seagull soup he realized what his friend had done and killed him.
2. He's playing a game of monopoly - his game peice is the trucck and he lands on an opponent's hotel, the owner takes all his money.
3. The man has jumped off a building after realizing a nuclear bomb has hit his city, he thinks he is the only survivor. When he falls past the window with a phone ringing inside, he screams because it means someone else is out there.
Here are some good riddles I learned from some guests staying at our house. Feel free to use them to stump your friends:
1. A man walks into a restaurant, looks at the menu, and orders seagull soup. After taking a sip he goes home and shoots his best friend. Why? What's going on?
2. A man in a truck parks outside a hotel. He has 1,400 dollars, one minute later he's bankrupt, why?
3. A man goes past a window, hears a phone ring and screams, why?*
The internet rocks - oh wow, elephant, that wasn't vague. Don't appreciate the awful sarcasm, third person.
No, I'm serious, here's a few examples:
1. I pulled up a tab right next to this and googled 'blogging ideas' here's what I got: http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/02/04/starting-a-blog-12-ideas-for-blog-posts/
Here's what I did: started making a list, #10
2. One time my itouch froze up, you know white screen freezing. So I googled 'my itouch froze, help' and five seconds later I was clicking the home and on buttons at the same time and it began to work.
3. YouTube - what isn't awesome about YouTube? Besides the copyright infrigments, hater comments, and innapropriate conntent... okay, it's not perfect but the platform for getting your ideas out there - incredible.
That's all I got today,
The Flying Elephant
* answers
1. The man and best friend were marooned on an island. The ship had crashed and the wife didn't survive. The friend didn't know how to break it to the man so he said he'd make him seagull soup. He chopped up the wife's body and fed it to the man. Later, when the man ordered real seagull soup he realized what his friend had done and killed him.
2. He's playing a game of monopoly - his game peice is the trucck and he lands on an opponent's hotel, the owner takes all his money.
3. The man has jumped off a building after realizing a nuclear bomb has hit his city, he thinks he is the only survivor. When he falls past the window with a phone ringing inside, he screams because it means someone else is out there.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Why I love to Hate Michael
I had a great experience at camp this year and I'd like to summarize the battle between an elephant, or in that case, a cheeky monkey, and an oaf. It's one of the greatest times I've ever had and I'd like to document it in some way. You're confused but bear with me.
Let's see... it started in Batik. Batik is the art of dying and waxing. A counselor named Michael just so happened to work there and we met. At first we were the best of friends but it quickly turned into a who could annoy who the most contest. Literally we would just make "nah nah nah and la la la I'm not listening to you" sounds, so much that people in the room complained
Besides Batik I was checking out P.A.S.S. or printing and silkscreen where I met Katie, Jenna, and Emma (who I liked mostly because she liked Charlieissocoollike). They were having a print exchange. 50 people make 53 prints and then exchange to each have a collection of 50 different prints, it's really fun. There I met a lot of counselors who had signed up for it, including Michael - *cue scary music*. At that time I was stirring up trouble between P.A.S.S. and batik by sending messages from Michael and Emily to Katie and Jenna. I came to the conclusion that Michael "fancied" Katie but was very, very, wrong.
Sometime after the letters, there was henna day. I got Jenna to henna "I love to hate Michael" on my arm and soon the war was between him and I. He quickly retaliated by Batiking a sign saying "I love to hate ___". Between that and his next move he seemed to think I called him a fat oaf (oh, the silly British) and I managed to convince people to be on my side of the war. Also at that time, his "mate" Aaron called me a cheeky monkey after being told what I was up to. Then Michael put up wanted signs with not-so-flattering photos of Jenna and Katie saying last seen with the cheeky monkey.
Finally on the last day of camp I attacked from all sides with t-shirts of his face and a red circle-slash sign on it and 14 posters depicting the same thing, that I made at P.A.S.S. So I won the war... Yeah! Beat that Michael oh wait, I already did.
It was a fun summer - hears to you Michael.
The Cheeky Monkey (just for old times sake)
Let's see... it started in Batik. Batik is the art of dying and waxing. A counselor named Michael just so happened to work there and we met. At first we were the best of friends but it quickly turned into a who could annoy who the most contest. Literally we would just make "nah nah nah and la la la I'm not listening to you" sounds, so much that people in the room complained
Besides Batik I was checking out P.A.S.S. or printing and silkscreen where I met Katie, Jenna, and Emma (who I liked mostly because she liked Charlieissocoollike). They were having a print exchange. 50 people make 53 prints and then exchange to each have a collection of 50 different prints, it's really fun. There I met a lot of counselors who had signed up for it, including Michael - *cue scary music*. At that time I was stirring up trouble between P.A.S.S. and batik by sending messages from Michael and Emily to Katie and Jenna. I came to the conclusion that Michael "fancied" Katie but was very, very, wrong.
Sometime after the letters, there was henna day. I got Jenna to henna "I love to hate Michael" on my arm and soon the war was between him and I. He quickly retaliated by Batiking a sign saying "I love to hate ___". Between that and his next move he seemed to think I called him a fat oaf (oh, the silly British) and I managed to convince people to be on my side of the war. Also at that time, his "mate" Aaron called me a cheeky monkey after being told what I was up to. Then Michael put up wanted signs with not-so-flattering photos of Jenna and Katie saying last seen with the cheeky monkey.
Finally on the last day of camp I attacked from all sides with t-shirts of his face and a red circle-slash sign on it and 14 posters depicting the same thing, that I made at P.A.S.S. So I won the war... Yeah! Beat that Michael oh wait, I already did.
It was a fun summer - hears to you Michael.
The Cheeky Monkey (just for old times sake)
Annoying books rawr... i mean the noise elephants make
I am a huge bookworm. I'm the kind of elephant who has two stacks of books next to their bed and who's camp counselors get pissed when I still have my flashlight on at 12:00 am. But when a teacher assigns Hoot by Carl Hiaasen for my summer reading assignment, I'd rather twist my trunk into a knot. There are so many things that bother me about that book!
Here's a tip I like to read by: it's a crappy book when you hate the character you're supposed to like. Now, I know there are exceptions but generally and in most cases it's true. Try naming a book where you liked reading it but disliked the characters. Part of enjoying my reading experience is falling in love with the characters and caring about them. I seriously cried when Beth died in Little Women.
Besides wanting to strangle the hypocritical main character who's character traits were misleading I thought that the book was very much outdated. It was written in 2002. Obviously Shakespeare's plays aren't outdated, they're timeless. Yet if the teacher picks out a book because it's 'modern and relatabale', and characters are saying to each other "No way Jose!" she is seriously mistaken. Harry Potter is a hundred times more relatable than that! It could just be poor dialogue, Stephanie Meyer wrote that Edward said to Bella "Do I dazzle you?" for example. Hoot isn't even my level of reading, or my grades!
Sigh, now I have to go write essays about what parts were relatable and summarize conflicts. Isn't school fun! Supposedly teachers want constructive criticism when, really, if I were to hand in something like this they'd fail me. Yes, the brilliant authoritative figures at my school who give us only 10 minutes to eat lunch resulting in malnourishment.
The Flying Elephant
Here's a tip I like to read by: it's a crappy book when you hate the character you're supposed to like. Now, I know there are exceptions but generally and in most cases it's true. Try naming a book where you liked reading it but disliked the characters. Part of enjoying my reading experience is falling in love with the characters and caring about them. I seriously cried when Beth died in Little Women.
Besides wanting to strangle the hypocritical main character who's character traits were misleading I thought that the book was very much outdated. It was written in 2002. Obviously Shakespeare's plays aren't outdated, they're timeless. Yet if the teacher picks out a book because it's 'modern and relatabale', and characters are saying to each other "No way Jose!" she is seriously mistaken. Harry Potter is a hundred times more relatable than that! It could just be poor dialogue, Stephanie Meyer wrote that Edward said to Bella "Do I dazzle you?" for example. Hoot isn't even my level of reading, or my grades!
Sigh, now I have to go write essays about what parts were relatable and summarize conflicts. Isn't school fun! Supposedly teachers want constructive criticism when, really, if I were to hand in something like this they'd fail me. Yes, the brilliant authoritative figures at my school who give us only 10 minutes to eat lunch resulting in malnourishment.
The Flying Elephant
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