Little Steps

From 10,000 ft in the air, at 3 'o clock in the afternoon,  I could still see Times Square shining as bright as it had at midnight on Xmas Eve when i was standing right in front of it. And as i touched down in Pittsburgh International Airport 4 hours later, I could faintly see the outline of the Cathedral of Learning (helping drunk kids get home since 1908) in Oakland among the mostly nondescript Pittsburgh skyline. 

Sometimes when i cant sleep at night, I look out my window at the traffic lights changing down Forbes Ave, one of the two busiest streets in Pittsburgh. Life changes just as easily.

I guess what I want to say is that sometime when you try to take a step back and get a better look at a situation, it looks the same. And thats because there isn't more to it than what meets the eye, it is what it is.

Life is real.

And it takes more than a plane ride to get a change of scenery.

Be Nice.

So i'm on the train from northern Westchester to new york city, looking at all the pretty scenery, and i start thinking about the earth. Pretty vague, i know. But i was just thinking about the Hudson river, and how it was at one point prolly just a bunch of mountains. Then something happened, like a huge earthquake or whatever, that caused a canyon to form. Im just guessing this because of the palisades cliffs and stuff, im not really going for a full scientific evaluation here. So anyway a small stream slowly eroded all the rocks to form the hudson river valley, yay! Basically the earth's been shaped for the most part by the natural progression of eroding and creation and growing and evolving, blah blah blah, duh. So here's the point of all this rambling. Thousands of years later a bunch of Rockefeller and Trump like dudes decide to come along and knock down, burn to the ground, blow up, kill, drain, and destroy billions of years worth of Mama Earth's hard work. And I mean, there's nothing anyone can do about it, most of the damage is done and its still going on and its not going to stop, i know. But it just started to really bother me.

So then the day after Independence Day, i went to see Wall-E with some friends. I actually had no idea what it about, so i didnt know what to expect, but lets just say i had tears in my eyes like 10 minutes into the movie. It wasn't as if something catastrophic had happened, it was just that it was soo, soo sad. I'll try not to ruin it for everyone but basically the world was one big landfill. Which is a litter and pollution issue, not so much development, but it's all connected. That movie was soo good by the way, i think everyone should see it.

I think I've rambled enough for today so i'll just say that I dont think anyone should be a crazy environmental activist living in trees and stuff, no one should have to be. Just put ur trash in a garbage bin (please), recycle and reuse (its not that hard), and unplug chargers and other stuff ur not really using (just helping youu out - you'll save a ton in electric bills). Be a little nice to our planet, if you can. Or else.

Gone, Daddy, Gone

Winter is absolutely endless.

That said, umm i havent written on here in foreverrr. I guess i just havent really had time, and when i did i probably didnt have anything to say. Not that i have anything in particular to say now, or free time. Theres load of stuff i probably should be doing now, but such is the story of my lifee. Speaking of my life, whats been going on?

Well, for starters after a long period of going through hell and high water to send out all my applications and financial information on time, i've gotten into my top two schools! University of Pittsburgh, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva. Now i just have to choose between a huge research university in a big city that i like, and a small liberal arts college that not many people know of in Somewhere Upstate, NY that has a small-town lakeside campus that im totally in love with. I've always been bad at making decisions.

I'm recovering from the Black Death, which sucked when i had it but is getting much better now. My dad's in Ghana, in Africa, so ive been home with my impossible brother and my trying, but needy mom for about two weeks ....and can look forward to two more! I'm supposed to be researching George Washington Carver for this reading im supposed to do on him this sunday. Im also supposed to be writing a three page poem, and interviewing six adults about thier careers, and reading up on invertabrae, and having a meeting about my girls scout gold award... i shouldve slept in.

Mostly, im waiting for spring to come back. Winter just sucks cause its cold and theres no light and everyones sick and its depressing, really. At least i have some things to look forward to, like Prom and graduation from high school which couldnt come fast enough. Anyway, im going to go sort my life out, maybe ill write again soon...maybe not, but youll get over it.

I Feel It All -Feist

Much Too Much

Mars 2112 with a bunch of girl friends
Hershey Park with my Girl Scout troop
Dylan's 18th at P.F.Changs
Dominique's BBQ Pre- Hot Tub Hoppin'
Chillin with Madonna at Madame Tussaud's NYC
My future boyfriend Gato, he lives at Toky's house
This chick I've been hanging with about 15 hours of every day
Mimi and Kiwiz
♥

Sooooo I'm going on vacation to the beautiful, green, mountainous cheese state of Vermont later today, and I wont be back till the 31st. I'm visiting my ex-surgeon granduncle and German grandaunt, and their cats and various tamed mild animals. They are the cutest things ever. I'll be in the mountains and I wont have any internet and I probably wont have service so I probably wont have any contact with the outside world till Saturday [yay!?]. Cya then, with pictures and stories and such ♥

Sad to see me go? Enjoy some Justice while I'm gone. Justice vs Simian: We Are Your Friends

It's Raining Inside

I'm going to have to retire this shirt soon, as that statement isn't true anymore. Though I think it'd be kinda funny if I wore it when I go take my road test..maybe. Anyway, learning to drive is just one of the five million and two things ive been trying to do this summer. This ridiculously long list includes searching for scholarships, doing summer assignments for school, looking at and figuring out what unviersities i want to go to then finding out if i could get in then writing about 5 hundred essays and filling out aplications for them, working with senior citizens, trying to find a part time job for the school year, not going broke, shopping, reading...and the list goes on. I dont even want to start on the things that I'm supposed to be doing but haven't gotten around to yet, that would just be asking for another stress-induced nosebleed. But anyway.

Fun is great! I love having fun, don't you love having fun? What isn't fun is having dirty rumors spread about you as the result of some totally harmless funtime. Especially when those rumors are the fabricated fantasies of the clearly over-active imagination of a fat ugly pathetic football playing loser whom I wouldnt even be bothered to be associated with if it wasn't for a supposedly "good" long-time friend of mine who, when people are talking crap about me, obviously doesnt care enough to defend me, or find out if its true or not, or even let me know! So some of that was a little mean, but you dont know what was said about me, and I'm sure not going to tell you. Don't worry about me though, I'm having a blast planning some serious payback...

In other news, I am SOOO sick! I'm a little better, since I've stopped feeling like an incubus of viral plague. But this weekend I'm going to Hershey Park and a really dont want to be all sickly and stuff. I'm not doubting I'll still look hot in my new white bikini, sniffles and all, but nobody likes germs...except stupid meathead football face, apparently... moving on, it's sure to be a good time no matter what, and I'm looking forward to spending time with a bunch of my gal-pals cuz all of them except one are going off to college soon. Plus, I love riding rollercoasters, and swimming, and havent been able to do either so far this summer. Which reminds me that summer's almost almost over, nooooooo!!

So thats about it. Go hunt down some pizza or something, it's Friday!

Me No Digo, Pero Me Digo

Dyl says I have to write in this more often, so I will. Once a week is more often... Anyway, a few things to cover. Today is like, Hispanic Appreciation Day or something in my brain. Hugo Chavez is my new best friend, and I'm going to dress up as Shakira in this video for Halloween, purple hair and all. Now for some random videooos, just because [i have nothing better to do].

Keeping with the pro-spaniard theme here..

There are subtitles in this video, but they're in Spanish (and incorrect spanish too), which makes no sense because the song is already sung in Spanish, unless its for deaf people who can only read phonetics. I would say something about that, but I dont think I will... Where did all this random Spanishnish come from? Why had this song been stuck in my head all day? I couldnt explain it all even if I wanted to. Moving on...

Mmm, Chromeo.

Mmmm, Tenderoni.

Now for something not as appetizing...Wonder if this guy is gay, straight, or Parisian?...

I really hope you didnt sit there and watch that whole thing. Anyway, that was too weird to keep to myself...

I think thats about it. I should be sleeping. I said that two hours ago. I don't have any pants on.

[I Am] CosmoGirl of the Year 2007

I should be writing an essay about all my contributions to the good of the community and the country and the universe and stuff, but surprisingly, talking about how wonderful i am seems really boring right now. So then I was like, 'Oh, I've been thinking about writing on my blog for like, forever. Maybe I should.' And now I am...Anyway this week has been pretty eventful! It was one of those weeks which seemed to go on forever except in a kinda good way. It was my birthday [see above picture] on wednesday and I just hung out with some friends, so that was fun. We saw Transformers, which is a really good movie. I think everyone should see that movie. I also think that my cell phone is a transformer, but I guess you didnt need to know that, did you?

I also saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, which was pretty good, it's probably the best one they've come out with yet. That same night i got chicken quesadillas at Applebees, those are pretty good too. Even later that night me and a friend wanted to go to the Harry Potter party at Barnes and Nobles, just for fun, we didnt even want to get the book. I'll admit that the real lure was the glow-in-the-dark Harry Potter glasses they were giving out, I wanted one! Anyway, this [above] was the line in front of b&n at 11:30, and some of those people had been waiting out there since 5. Which meant no nerdy glasses for us :(. This old lady kept talking about playing quidditch and flying and stuff, which kind of freaked us out because she seemed completely serious... We went to A&P at 12 to get something caffeinated and ended up getting the book in fifteen minutes, just to have something to do. The people who had been sitting outside b&n for 7 hours kept giving us dirty looks and pointing their wands at us. We had more fun than the party would have been, even though I never did get my cappuccino. Oh yeah, and I finished all 759 pages of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at 8pm the same day I got it. You didnt need to know that either, I'm not exactly sure if I'm proud of that or not haha.
So maybe I should jump on that essay now. If I win I get to go to college... Yay.