March 27, 2005
Easter Sunday
I swear, I must of burned like a gillizion calories today. My friend Jazzy from CA came to visit, she might be living in Boston next year which would be totally awesome. Anyway, she, Jen, and I walked around Boston all day today. We even went to Harvard Square. I haven’t been there in forever. I forgot how much fun Urban Outfitters is, oh and how much it cost! I really have to dip into my bank account less for drinks. I’m not going out anymore this week. I need money for new clothes.
Nothing less really happened. I called my family in DE and I talked with everyone. My mom and I were really the only ones that talked cause I’m not really used to talking to my sis-in-law and my brother and my dad were both acting like the worst conversationalists in the world! Tomorrow I have to get up early so I’m calling it a night.
TTYL!
Happy Easter!
Laterz!
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March 26, 2005
The recaplet of all times...
So I haven't posted. Well I've been busy. I finished my art pieces, well for the most part anyway. So here what has been going on.
-Finished 4 out of 5 pieces for a grand total of 5 pieces, maybe will just forget about piece number 6
-Was asked if I wanted to be promoted to Braintree as Asstiant Manager, said yes
-Mary's creapy stalker MBTA cop started calling her again, went with her to police who told her to go to the office that creapy stalker guy works in to fill a complaint, big help. Mary went with Jen and me while we got our eyebrows done so that she wouldn't be alone for the rest of the day. She's thinking of moving out of state. I hope she doesn't.
-Talked with Regional Manager who basically didn't tell me if I was going to get promoted or not
-Got my hair dyed to get rid of annoying light brown highlights. Woohoo!
-Found out that Jared knows about possible move to store in Braintree, oh crap!
-Went with Vicent after getting hair dyed. We fought, we are doing that a lot. I think he doesn't like the idea of me working with Jared. I keep telling him that Jared is in love with Jen. That I know that Jared is in love with Jen and is just using me to try to get to Jen, he keeps saying why do I let Jared use me then. He does have a point. I guess the truth of the matter is that I know that Jared isn't only using me to get to Jen, plus Jared knows about the rape and child abuse and Vincent doesn't, well not as much as Jared does anyway. So it makes it easier to talk to Jared. Why is life so complicated?
-Watched Medicial Investigation, DARN IT! Would they just let Natalie and Stephen kiss already! And what about Eva and Miles, she didn't acknowledge the fact that he almost died. Okay granted she did just loose the kid she thought she was going to adopt, but come on, shouldn't she transfer all that emotion on to him! GRR! Oh and what was with that Dr. Ewing, is she going to be a new primary on the show? I hope not because for some reason think she and Stephen have some kind of past, and not the professional kind.
-Decided to skip Children's Lit 1. Too much emotional turmoil going on in my life and I don't think I can handle the demeaning state the evil vile teacher puts me in because we aren't allowed to go the bathroom when we need to go, it would brake me, it would just brake me.
-Had weird freaky dreams, finally. I haven't been sleeping well these past few days. I'm so happy to have my dreams back. But they were weird, and freaky. But I love them. I missed them!
-Woke up. Called Boston, talked to Brad. Told him to let me get ready for class. He doesn't need to know that I really am just going to go back to sleep and not go to class.
-Wrote this entry...Oh wait, we are all caught up now. Okay! :D
So now I have to find some photo paper to print my pieces on. WOOHOO! I wonder if anything is going to be open tomorrow? I mean besides resturants and church. I really want to buy some photo matts but I don't have time now. I woke up too late. We'll see how it goes.
TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 22, 2005
Sleep Walking...
Seriously I’m so tired. I feel like I’ve been sleep walking through this whole day. I got up. Couldn’t get out of bed for an hour, then I started working on my pieces for the student art show. I finished three pieces today for a grand total of five all together. There is one more piece that I’m working on. But I’m not gonna start on it until tomorrow. I already have the idea. I’m just too tired to deal right now. I’m so freaking sleepy.
Not much happening in the world for me right now. Peter said he might come and visit soon. I’m excited about that. I really should try to get a futon before he comes though. I don’t want him to have to sleep on the couch cause it sucks, and he is taller than I am, but I don’t want to sleep there either cause it hurts my back and I get to wake up with two 15 pound cats who have pretty much tried to kick me off the couch cause they think it’s theirs. Evil cats. Anyway time to take my meds and go to bed! I’m not even gonna bother trying to stay up for L&O:SVU cause I’ve already seen this one. I swear they said they were going to have the Romeo Juliet one where the kids killed their mom, but maybe I’m getting the shows mixed up. I’ll have to go check the website again.
TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 21, 2005
Artistic pressure
So let’s see. Today I was accosted, coerced, and just down right tricked into saying that I was going to submit something to the student art show that is coming up in the art gallery. I’m so nervous about it. The only people who have seen my work really are my family. I have two pieces done already but I’m trying to decide if I should resize them so they print out perfectly as 8x10. I want to print them on photo paper. I guess we will just have to see. I’ll probably just make two sizes of the prints and see which one was is cheaper to mount and frame.
Anyway now I have to get all of this done before next week. Eeps! Well I guess we’ll see how it goes. TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 20, 2005
Sunday life days…
So I’m such a bad Christian today because I didn’t go to church. But I hung out Jen today and let me tell you why. Last night I was suppose to hang out with Jen, Mary and Janice, this other woman who comes into the VS all the time. The only thing is that Jen worked in Boston and I was working in Braintree. Boston closes at 7pm which means you get out at 7:30pm. Braintree however closes at 9pm meaning you don’t get out until 9:30pm. Well I was working with Jared who was borrowing someone else car so he was going to have to go back to Sherborn. So I didn’t want to have in to drive into Boston and then drive back out. So I called them and told them that I wasn’t sure that I would be able to go.
That’s when things started to get complex…
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March 19, 2005
Buggin' out
Hey! So I've been working on setting up Annabelle's site. Which let me tell you is so not fun. I have a color scheme and the images that she sent but trying to get it into an MT format, ugh. Oh and I promised to make it skinnable, double ugh! Thankfully I have all day tomorrow to work on it too. I promised I would get it done by the time school starts up again. She finished a new fan fiction, a Law & Order: Criminal Intent one and she said she won't let anyone read it until I fix her site. I understand punishing me, but why punish the public. And she said it was a Goren centric fic, oh she is so mean! *pouts* she probably knows that I'll go looking for it and then won't work on her site. Darn it! I'm only human! My biggest problem is that she knows me too well. Grr!
Anyway back my rant about working on her site. I’ve been sitting playing with the CSS style sheets, trying to make everything so it’s all CSS style coded, but then I decided to just do it the old way because I don’t have time to teach myself all the CSS code out there right now. I’ll just go back later and upgrade after I’m done. So while I was working on this I realized something. Not everyone has their screen set to 1024*760. I forgot about this because for some reason whenever you have Windows XP it sets your screen settings to 1024*760, you don’t have to change it or anything. So I’ve been designing sites at this setting. Now I feel bad because went to look at Damaged-girl.net today and saw that I made a big mistake. The graphic is 800px wide which means if you have your screen set to 800*600 there is some overflow in the first two skins. Oh well. At least Annabelle knew what she was doing when she designed her graphics. *pouts* I’m suppose to be the designer! She’s supposed to be the writer. Laney as to the mouse as Anna is to the keyboard. Our little simile, meaning, I use my mouse to design and Annabelle uses the keyboard to write her stories. *sigh* I guess sometimes things just get a little backwards. At least I speak better English!
Okay back to work! I have to get going soon too. I’m working in Braintree again today, probably for the very last time, woohoo! And darn it! Ana, no not Annabelle Anna, Ana my old roommate Ana, tricked me! I thought I was supposed to be working with her. Last week she said she was working a double last Saturday and then again on this Saturday since Jared got his headlights stolen. God that seems like ages ago, I can’t believe it’s only been one week. Anyway, I called to see if Jim, our regional manager, was cool with me working there this Saturday and she called me back and told me yes. Jared was going to pick me up. DAMNIT! If I had known I would have just worked in Boston with Jen and Brad. Oh well, Ana so owes me! I don’t know when I’ll collect, but this has got to be some karma points for me, or something!
So before I trek over Braintree I have to drag my sorry self to Boston because I have to pick up my pay stubs. Brad gets mad when I leave too many of them in the safe cause he worries that someone may take them and open them. Please I make less than anyone else there cause I’m part-time. Well this time I really am going back to work. But I probably won’t post again tonight cause Jen and I are suppose to hang out with Mary again. I don’t work on Sunday so I don’t care if I get really drunk again. I’m going to 5pm mass, there is no way that my butt is getting out of bed before 8am on a Sunday. Sorry god, I’m not that devoted, but I’m trying.
Well ttyl!
Laterz!
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March 18, 2005
Humanity scares me...
Jen went out last night, sans me because I was still feeling sick plus she was hanging with her friend Priscilla. Anyway they went to some bar but there was a coat check place. There was no one there in the coat check room, you just kind of left your coat there. Anyway they go back after drinking and Jen's coat is gone! It had her house keys it too. I feel so bad for her.
She called me this morning and I was like, girl just take the day off work. You need it. She had been up pretty much all night. She had to spend the night at Priscilla's since she couldn't get into her own apartment. She is back at home now. We are gonna go see The Ring 2 later.
Anyway, I just do not understand why you would go in and steal someone's coat. It's just mean. I mean you all are at a bar to have a good time and then you go and do something stupid and hurtful and steal someone else's coat. It's just wrong. Plus she had a key chain in there from her first date with her ex-boyfriend, sigh. I feel so bad for her. Evil coat stealing scum! I hope you are really hung over today!
Well ttyl!
Laterz!
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March 17, 2005
Ladies' night is just so much fun…
Jen, Mary, and I went out. We got so drunk, well Jen and I did anyway, Mary barely finished one martini. Oh yeah I think I told Carle last night that we had margaritas but I was drunk at the time so can you really blame me? Anyway I had about 2.5 strawberry martinis rode the T home with Jen and then got online and started talking with Peter and Carle. I remember about half of the conversations that I had with them last night. Weird huh? Anyway today was awful! I swear I had food poisoning, that or I ate something that really did not agree with me at all. Seriously my stomach was in so much anxiety it was pretty awful.
Peter, my wonderful friend has decided to give me the nickname of “Kid”. Don’t ask me why. Well I have given him a nickname too, but in order to find out what it is, children please let your parents read this before you do…
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March 16, 2005
People, come on!
Okay seriously today at the Vitamin Shoppe today some guy came in and started yelling at us because he said he brought a multi-vitamin there and it was already open, oh he didn’t have a receipt by the way. Anyway he said that he could of died because he was hypoglycemic, don’t ask me how taking a multi-vitamin from an open bottle could effect hypoglycemia because I don’t know. So he wanted his money back, a new free bottle, and to keep the old bottle because he needed it as evidence. Whatever, do we look that stupid? He didn’t get anything. We told him to call corporate office and then come back when Brad comes back next week.
What people will do to make a buck makes me sick! I mean really is it that hard to get a job? I don’t have anything but a high school degree and I have two jobs! People scamming other people is just wrong. I mean I understand that sometimes it is hard to get a job if you don’t have the right look. Well go home, take a shower, find some clean clothes, try not go fill out an application drunk, and then get an interview. People it’s not that hard. If you are walking around with a cell phone then you have money somehow. Don’t go ripping off other people, it’s just rude.
Tonight I’m going out with Mary and Jen. We are going to get drunk at a local bar, cause there are about a billion of them. Woohoo! Well ttyl!
Laterz!
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March 15, 2005
Ladies and Gentlemen the former President…
Of Ireland. I’m not kidding. The former President of Ireland came to our college today and talked about all the things she went through to make her country a better place. Guess what? I got to sit in the gallery the whole time and wait for the 400 people that were sitting listening to her to come out and maybe come inside the gallery. Fun! But on the bright side I did get a lot of free food and I got to try Irish breakfast tea for the first time. So the day wasn’t a total waste. I made to put all of my stuff under one of the food tables though so I couldn’t work on my laptop from 11am until around 3pm when the whole thing was finally over.
Oh well. Any interesting and profound thoughts today? Well just this one. When is the point of free speech too much? How can we protect kids but at the same time save free speech? We self-censor, but is that a bad thing? If we self-censor too much are we holding kids back? I think it really depends on when you stop censoring.
I think you have to censor children until around the age of 6. Why 6, well because then the start going to school and you know they are going to hear about things from other kids. Do you really want your 7 year old to find out about sex, tampons, breasts, and so on from another child who doesn’t know that much about it in the first place? My mother taught first, second, and third grade. When she was teaching second grade, that’s around age 7 or 8, there was a little girl in her class who started telling some of the other kids in the class that her mommy had her tubes tied so she couldn’t have any more babies when her mommy and daddy had sex. Age 7 or 8! OMG right? Well it happens…
So we have to figure out a way to make kids stop talking about things like this, right? Well that would be nice, in a prefect world. But guess what, no prefect world.
The best way to deal with this is to talk with our children, be open with them. If we are not then will get their information else were and it may or may not be the right information.
God I wish we had a prefect world. It would make life much easier. :D
Oh well! TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 14, 2005
It's a beautiful life...
And it's a beautiful world
And it's a beautiful time
To be here
To be here
I got to listen to this song all day today while I was working the gallery. It was boring for me today at the good old gallery. Anyway the song really made me think. The world is beautiful but there is still a lot of bad things out there and we can't turn our eyes away from it.
I've been thinking about some things that I'd talked with mom about. How when she was little she would go to the store for her dad and such. Now a days we don't think of sending our children out by themselves. We worry about the pedophilia or serial killer next door too much to allow our children out of our sight, or at least many of us think we should. Those of us who don't are accused of allowing our children to run of and do drugs and join gangs. I'm not sure if any of this is true, but if we don't start developing some way for parents to have a support system within their own neighborhood there is no way our children will ever be able to have a good life. The saying it takes a village to raise a child doesn't come from thin air. A stay at home parent because over stressed and without that network of other parents they start not being able to deal and put their child in front of the TV.
There is no easy solution for this. But isn't it time we start looking for one?
Sorry working at the gallery when there is no one there makes my mind wonder.
Laterz!
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March 13, 2005
Sunday...A week of chaos begins
So Brad, our manager, is gone for the week. He won't come back till Saturday. He left and Mary, our assistant manager, closed the store, left $400 out of the deposite sending Ray, our other assistant, into a tizzy, which resulted in him leaving some change out of the deposite and the deposite slip once he had fixed Mary's mistake.
So basically my whole day was filled with listening to Ray bitch about Mary. I finished Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry though, which was a good thing because I thought I was never going to finish that book. It was okay, but it made me sad, and I found it really hard to read the Southern, eubonics, written speech. That was probably the most evil part about the whole book.
So all and all my day was not very filled. I had to work at Vitamin Shoppe, I mean what kind of post did you guys want from me? I did call Jen cause she and I haven't hung out for like ages. I am very sure that she brought up Jared. Weird huh? Anyway we were talking about something and I was telling her about Ana. Then she said something about Jared. I can't remember now. Damn why does that important bit of info have to be so freaking fuzzy!
Oh well. Brad told me that Jen thinks I like Jared. Grr! So evil, and so wrong. I don't like Jared. I wish that Jared and Jen would date. Hello, that's the only reason I'm talking her up to him. Then Jared just started to annoy me because about 75% of our conversations end up being about Jen, what were her SAT scores, where is she going to be living, where is going to be working, what did she think about this. GOD! I like Jen, but I am not like her personal assistant or anything, how on earth am I suppose to know this stuff.
So Sue has come up with the solution. When Jen and I hang out do not tell Jared about it till after the fact. Cause if I say something to him before hand he is going to give me this puppy-dog-eyed look that just makes me want to cry because really I think he has no friends at all. And I will feel sorry for him and ask if he would like to come with. No more! I will not enable Jared's obsession any more. I will be a better friend to both of them by not playing middle man to their stupid mind game. Hell! I may just stop talking to Jared all together. He is really starting to piss me off because I really feel like I'm the one being used here. I hate being used. And people do it to me all the time because the know that I like to feel needed. Stupid mothering instinct, gets me in trouble all the time.
But honestly, if you want to finish reading my rant about this, please click on....
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March 12, 2005
Ear candles and Boris...
So my new favorite song is called Take Me To Heaven by Boris. I've been listening to it non stop since yesturday. It's such a good song.
I went to work in Braintree today. Woohoo! I love working with Ana, even though we were both really tired we had fun. I bought this ear candles which are like the coolest thing ever. You put them in your ear and the suck out the wax. I mean it's kind of gross but its fun too. I have to buy more. I'm sure I didn't get out all the wax but my ears feel better which is really cool!
Nothing much else happened today. I had to go to CL1 which was awful. Students were mad at the teacher because she was a bitch and she tried to explain why she was such a bitch meanwhile I'm just thinking can we please stop talking about this I really would rather just be at home asleep. On the plus side she is letting us redo our papers,the one that she gave me a C+ on but my other teacher when he looked at it gave it an A-. So I'm gonna work on that over the break.
Well it's time for bed now. I only got three hours of sleep last night. I was up talking to Sue and then Carle so sleep didn't seem like something I really needed. Plus I was working on my homework.
TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 11, 2005
The world has been realigned...
The best thing possible in Vitamin Shoppe history has happened. Hillarie has been demoted from her position as District Manager back to store manager of Framingham. I'm so excited! Seriously we have been waiting for this to happen since the day she got promoted. She is such a royal b**ch! She would always be making promises to the home office saying things were done when they weren't done. Evil vile woman.
I told Brad that he had to go talk to the new RM and Marsha, who has some position that I don't know about, and tell them that he wants the job. He said he wasn't sure if he does. I told him that is what he said last time and looked what happened, so the only thing he has to do is try for it and act like he wants it, then when the offer it decide if he really wants it.
Hillarie lasted longer than I thought she would. She got promoted in December of 2003 and she lasted until last week. I really thought she would have been fired sooner. My bet was July 2004 but she hung in there. In the end the right thing happened. She wasn’t an effective district manager. She was mean and vile to the staff and she got what she deserved. A one way ticket back to a store that now hates her guts.
So what else happened yesturday...
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March 10, 2005
Snapping Bubbles!!!!
SnapBubbles.com - Virtual Bubble Wrap
You have to go there! I love it! They have this new version it's great!
Ha! So I'm on a natural high today. I love life! I'm going tomorrow to get a library card. Life is good.
Nothing much really happened today. I watched Interview with a Vampire and The X-files movie and now I'm watching F.P.S. of L&O: CI which I think is such a good episode which of course I've posted before. Oh Vincent D'Onofrio is so cute in this episode! *sigh* I love it when he smiles and does his giggle thing. I still feel bad for Detective G. Lynn Bishop cause she never lived up to Eames in the viewers eyes or in Goren's. Oh well.
Nothing really happened today so this end of this entry. LOL! TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 9, 2005
Happy Birthday Peter!
It's Pete's birthday! Happy Birthday Pete! I love Pete! If you roll over the Calender (the one that says Powered by PHPCalender) in the menu you will see that's his birthday and that LOCI is on tonight but that's not the point of this post.
LOL. Sorry I feel totally awake right now cause I basically slept like 10 hours. Of course I'm a straving and the only thing I have to eat are my chocolate filled oreos. Ugh!
Anyway Peter is on of my friends from High School and since it's his birthday I figured I should make an entry on how we met and explain why I love him so much, he's just so damned cute! LOL. I'm just kidding Peter is like the older brother I should have had. That's why I love him. Speaking of which I really need to call Todd today!
Okay back to Pete. We met because my friend Vicky and her friend Gina (I'm actually not sure what the girl's name is right now) wanted to join TV crew which was probably about the dorkest thing that we could all ever do but I didn't have anything better to do and I figured hey why not. Anyway Peter and his friends were all already members. The reason I got into it was because the whole crew as made up of guys! I thought, in my teenage youth, that that was completely sexist so I stayed on and tried to work with this people who I thought were just a bunch of geeks. Funny geeks, which is what made it worth my while to stay on there and come back once I'd finished Spring Track and Field. We had this council thing that made decisions on silly things like who was going to be an anchor and such. Well I didn't even know what it was but some how after my first year there I was selected to be put on it. The teachers running the this afterschool program wanted me on there. I figured the only reason behind that was because I was a girl and it would look good but oh well what was I going to do.
Peter was also on that council and he would drive me home sometimes after the meetings since all the buses were gone once the meetings were over. Anyway we started talking and found we actually got along. I'm not sure how but anyway we became really good friends and I'm super glad that I know him.
Whenever I go back to MD I always try to get in touch with him. Oh and I sent him a birthday card which I really hope he gets today.
Well since my day hasn't actually started yet I have nothing else to really write about so I'll probably post again later. TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 8, 2005
Grr! I'm so mad at NBC!
Okay so I finally decided that I was just gonna fall asleep while watching Vincent D'onofrio and I turn on the TV and NBC is showing Will and Grace! Un-freaking-believable! On their website it says that Law & Order: Criminal Intent is suppose to be on! What happened!
Anyway it finally came, I finally got my period! After how many days of freaking PMS. 5 days! Geez! That's just so wrong! So now I'm watching She's All That and I can't a 16-year-old can pull of the forty's style dress that Mackinze, the girl who gave Laney the make-over, is wearing. Also where did Laney get that instant clevage?
So you all know that I had to miss Children's Lit2 last night because of my PMS evilness. Well I e-mailed my Professor and told him I had the stomach flu, cause what am I suppose to do, tell him that I'd been PMS'ing for the last few days and could barely move. Anyway he came to the art gallery today. Grr! So I told I was feeling better but I had to be there cause Laura, my boss didn't have anyone else to cover, which is true, and she had be running around getting read for the concert tonight. I was going home once everything started.
Anyway thankfully he didn't show up again and Gina who works as Laura's aid showed up with food which she very kindly gave to me since I hadn't eaten since yesturday afternoon. Then I covered for her while she was doing her homework in the computer lab since Laura wanted her to hang up signs.
The opening started at 5:30 which was great because by then I was straving and thirsty. They had furit, crackers, cheese, little chicken things, it was all so yummy I had to leave before the concert though. I didn't want to chance running into my Professor again.
I'm glad I left when I did though cause it was snowing and windy. I went to CVS and got chocolate filled oreos, which are okay and I'll finish them but trust me don't bother. The orginals are still the best.
Well that's it for now. TTYL!
Laterz!
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March 7, 2005
Vincent called today...
AT 7AM AFTER I ONLY WENT TO BED AT 4! I swear that boy has no sense of time. He's on his way to work so I must be up. But it's okay I needed to get up anyway. I had to get ready to go work at the Art Gallery. I was a little late cause I was looking for my writing prompts which I didn't find until later tonight. Oh Well! I spent my time in the Gallery just writing, not important. Maybe I'll show you guys later.
Anyway I updated the PetCams and the CityCam today since I didn't go to class. I should go check my e-mail and see if my Professor wrote back to me yet. I hope he got the e-mail okay. I BCC'ed to myself and looked okay when I did that.
So what happened after Vincent woke me up...
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07.03.05 CityCam
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07.03.05 Mortimer
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07.03.05 Johnson
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07.03.05 Emmitt
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Hello all my wonderful fuzzy friends...
Seriously I couldn't sleep last night. My skin was all clamy and yucky and I still feel sick. This PMS stuff is seriously demented. Although I don't have it as bad as some people. There was this girl in my Nutrition class this summer who got it so bad that she even had black outs. They made her go to the hospital. I guess she was like really anemic so getting her period made her iron levels way too low. The weird thing is that she was a nurse. I wouldn't have liked to have her for a nurse, if she can't figure out when she needs help herself what good is she to me?
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Writing Assignment: Out of the Dust
Note: If you are my Professor and you have found this paper please be assured that I did not copy it from someone else. This paper was written for Prof. Tim McLaughlin at BHCC for his Children's Lit 2 class for the Spring of 2005.
Writing Assignment: Out of the Dust
Hardships come in so many forms and many times adults seem to forget how these situations effect children. Karen Hesse, the author of Out of the Dust is able to give us insight on what a child would go through if they had to dust bowl times of Oklahoma with dried farms and in the middle of a drought. Billie Jo is the daughter of a farmer and her courage throughout the book compels you to keep reading and to be hopeful for her.
After Billie Jo loses her mom, brother, and for the most part the use of her hands she keeps going, perhaps out of rage or defiance against her father who will not even look at her because in her eyes it’s his fault they were lost. “But as long as I live, no matter how big a hole digs, I can’t forgive him that pail of kerosene left by side of the stove” (78). Still even after everything that has happened and still happens she keeps going and even manages to find the strength to come back to her father after she left him. She realized that she left out of fear and had the courage to go back.
However, her greatest act of courage came after she came back home to her father. “I am forgiving him, step by step, for the pail of kerosene. As we walk together, side by side, in sole-deep dust, I am forgiving myself for all the rest.” (206). The fact that after everything it seemed that she put herself through and her father put her through she was able to forgive herself and him as well shows great courage.
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Writing Assignment: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (completed)
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Writing Assignment: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (completed)
Today it’s hard to even get a child to pick up a book let alone read it. Children want to be stimulated visually but not words on a page, they want flashy visual effects to flicker across a screen. With the growing success of turning movies into loosely based versions of books a child sees no reason to read the book when they can flip open their laptop, open up their favorite internet browser, and add the movie to their online rental queue. With all these other sources of entertainment it’s no wonder that when a parent stops reading to a child because of their age the child feels no need to keep reading on their own. J.K. Rowling has given children a reason to pause in between clicking the send button on their instant messaging system and made them reconnect with the written world and have given them a chance to rediscover reading.
Part of the reason that Rowling has enjoyed so much success is because of her characters. We are able to connect with them, feel for them, and even hate them when we are supposed to. Harry becomes endearing to us and we are able to watch him grow and over come obstacles that he faces in his live that still parallel what any child goes through. When the book starts Harry’s concerns are that of a normal teenage boy. He is a little low on self confidence even though, and probably because everyone seems to expect great things from him. Despite his fame he does not really know how to handle himself which we can see when he encounters the girl he has a crush on, Cho Chang. “She waved and smiled at Harry, who slopped quite a lot of water down his front as he waved back” (84). Even though we can laugh at this we still manage to feel embarrassed for Harry and that quality is so much a part of the appeal of this series.
The series of events that happened though caused Harry to grow in unexpected ways. While he still doubted his abilities and compares himself to others around him he becomes more able to handle traumatic situations that his peers are not able to deal with. Which we see when Harry is one of two students who make to through to the end of the Tri-Wizard Tournament but the only one to make it back alive. Even though he had to deal with the trauma of watching someone else die Harry was able to bring back his dead classmates body to his family. Still for Harry “The worst, perhaps, was meeting with the Diggorys that took place the following morning” (716). Despite everything that he has been through Harry is still able to make reflections that a child his age would and does not become over mature instead he just adapts as the situation calls for.
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Writing Assignment: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (ch. 1-14)
Note: If you are my Professor and you have found this paper please be assured that I did not copy it from someone else. This paper was written for Prof. Tim McLaughlin at BHCC for his Children's Lit 2 class for the Spring of 2005.
Writing Assignment: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (ch. 1-14)
During an age where movies and video games are children’s primary source of entertainment J.K Rowing seems to have struck some special cord with her Harry Potter series and each year more and more children start to read because of these books. In her fourth book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowing takes her readers further into the world of wizards and magic that she has created and allows the reader more insight into the character of Harry who seems to have such a mysterious past.
The first half of this book begins with a chapter in which Harry has no involvement in until the very end which feeds into the second chapter which in turn does not give too much insight into the character of Harry at first but slowly the reader starts to get a small review of the events that have occurred in his life up until this point. Starting the book this way gives the chance for readers who are new to the series to catch up while at the same time giving older readers new information. All the while keeping the story interesting by introducing elements from the magic world and showing the differences between that world and the world of the humans, or muggles.
Even though this story takes place in another world it part of the reason it is so good is that the characters still have the same type of concerns and believes that we do in the real world. This gives the book a humanistic aspect to it instead of it being all about magic. In one scene Harry and his friends, Ron and Hermione, find out that their meals at the school are being made by a group of house elves, who are basically like mini servants in the wizard world who are bound to do whatever their masters ask of them by magic. This really disturbs Hermione who believes that all creatures should be treated equally and fairly. When she found out she, “[…] looked down at her hardly touched plate of food, then put her knife and fork down upon it and pushed it away from her” (183). While Harry and Ron seem not to be disturbed by this Hermione’s believes cause her to start a sort of protest against the fact that these house elves are being used at her school. Her reaction is something that a non-magical person with her same believes would have and adds to the book even though it seems to only be a sort of sub story point because it shows that even though these characters seem to have advantages over the rest of us they still face some of the same challenges as we do. Having story points like this through out the book show how well crafted is even in it first half and adds to the already enjoyable experience.
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Writing Assignment: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
Note: If you are my Professor and you have found this paper please be assured that I did not copy it from someone else. This paper was written for Prof. Tim McLaughlin at BHCC for his Children's Lit 2 class for the Spring of 2005.
Writing Assignment: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
In the past when stories were written for children they were not created for entertainment but rather instead to teach children how to behave and what values to believe in. These types of stories and poems were popular to have children learn or memorize around the time that Lewis Carroll first published Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Children were expected to behave as mini adults, always calm, collected, and obedient. This of course is not a child’s nature and Lewis Carroll saw this and was able to create a story that children wanted to hear, full of nonsense and turning poems that they were taught as lessons into silliness. In the book when Alice is feeling overwhelmed she tries be serious as an adult and scolds herself for being idle and not finding a way out of her situation. Doing that is difficult for Alice because she is just a child but the trails that she goes through make her believe that she has changed much since she fell through the rabbit hole. She believes in these changes so much that when the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon she encounters ask her to tell them about her adventures she replies, “I could tell you my adventures- beginning this morning […] but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then” (119).
Alice has changed some but not enough to say that she is a different person. In the beginning whenever Alice would get herself in trouble she would start to cry. However at the end of the book when the Queen of Hearts yelled at Alice to, “Hold your tongue!” (140), Alice yelled back at her that she would not. Part of the reason she did this was because she realized that she was bigger than everyone else there but the other part is because she had started to see how silly everyone there was being and she was not scared of them anymore. By learning to overcome her fears Alice has changed but she is still a child at heart which we see when she tells her sister of her dream that even though parts were hard for her to deal with she still had enjoyed it. Showing that she is still a child but she has learned how the difference between being silly and being to serious which can make you look silly.
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Site plugs and snoring ferrets
Mortimer is snoring again. He is really the cutest little ferret in the world! I'm feeling a bit better. I've managed to con Annabelle of TheGifted1.net (sorry not a blog just a Fred site) into including my blog into her signatures at the end of her e-mails cause she always e-mailing fic authors and such. Anyway she did it for me because I told her I would get the set-up of her new MT blog done this week with skinnable templates if she promised to plug me plus she feels bad for me cause of the PMS thing
Anyway miss Annabelle of Middle-of-Nowhere, USA has given me the link to the funniest LOCI (that's Law & Order: Criminal Intent) fan fiction ever. So I'm sharing it with you all. If you don't watch the show you really should. I love it. It reminds me of Mulder and Scully from the X-files in a why. God I miss that show. *sigh* Anyway here is the link Touched by Tres Mechante It's a really good story. I wish you could leave feedback on that site for the other but you can use a PHP mail form. And you should if you like the story. (note to self: send PHPMain to Tres M)Because authors love feedback and as a friend of an author, Annabelle, I have to tell you they get pretty wacky when you don't feedback them. Just Kidding! But really send your praise.
I mean though when you think about it someone like JK Rowling spends what like two years of her life writing a book and then we read it in a day or less even. Two years of your life so that someone can walk into a bookstore and pay 7.95 for a paperback copy and that's it. That's all you get. Being a writer just doesn't seem that rewarding to me. That's why I'm all about being an advocate for feedback whores like Annabelle. Seriously feedback is like a drug for her. She's crazy. She stopped writing due to like of feedback *pouts* She said the muse just left her. Well here I am plugging her FanFic.net stuff. Annabelle's FanFiction.Net Bio Sometime this year her website will be back up. Okay I know you are probably lurking there Anna, I know I said the end of the week but come on, I have work! Spring break is next week. I promise I'll try to get it done around then if not sooner.
Bah! Why do I brother. She won't comment her. She is on strike till I get her site back up and running.
Anyway hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow. It's suppose to snow this Friday into Saturday maybe my Children's Lit 1 class will get cancelled and I won't have to deal with my evil CL1 teacher.
Laterz!
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March 6, 2005
The wonderful world of PMS and chocolate doughnuts
I surprise myself more and more everyday. I am totally serious. I wasn't really sure that I could spell the word doughnut but I wanted to use it for the title of this entry and I spelt it the way I thought it should be, then I did a google search. Unbelievable, I spelled it right!
Anyway today I finished reading Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse for my children's lit 2 class, which is tomorrow night. Not a bad book and I can see why it won the Newbery Medal. I really liked it because even though it is like 227 pages each page wasn't full of words. They were kind of centered like you get when you do a blockqoute. The only parts I didn't like where when it was suppose to be the girl's dreams and the words were all floaty on the page, it made it hard to read because my eyes had to jump all over the page.
So the reason for the title of this entry. Well you are just going to have to click and find out...
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March 5, 2005
The longest day.... (NC-17 content)
Hi world! I've marked this entry NC-17 because the extended entry is going to be graphic and I don't want to offend any little kiddies. But now for the G-rated portion. Okay today was another winner. LOL. Seriously I finished my Children's Lit 1 homework at like 2:30am but it was because I kept playing with my blog instead of actually working and then I was reading Carle's blog too so it's not totally my fault *grin*, okay so it is but still...
Anyway I got another evil grade on my reading logs for Children's Lit. A check minus. Unbelievable. I worked so hard on them. I swear the teacher just hates me. Maybe she is reading my blog... Hmm. Oh well. I'm taking my logs to my other Children's Lit teacher and I'm going to have him go over them and see what he thinks. He's the head of the department and I know he really likes me so...
Work was fun. I worked with Ana today. I actually did work. I hardly ever do work at VS but I worked my butt of today even though I was going through major PMS. I seriously almost got up close and personal with the trash can in my hallway on my way back to my apartment. But I started to feel better once I was at work and I did have fun. Ana were joking a lot and we made fun of everyone we work with. We just have fun making up stories about people. It lets the time pass. Plus Ana drove me home which was really cool.
I have to go to work tomorrow though. I thought I might have the day of because I'm suppose to work with Jared tomorrow. Well the only way I was going to be dragging my sorry butt to Braintree on a Sunday was to have him drive me. I called and left to messages and he hadn't called back. Finally around 9pm right before Ana and I were going to close the store he called. He said the headlights from his car had been stolen, again! So he wasn't going to be able to drive his car since it would be after sunset when the store closed. But he was borrowing his friend's car, so if I wanted he could drive into Boston and pick me up. He was trying to make me feel guilty for the fact that he's in the freaking suburbs right now and it will take him a half hour going in the wrong direction to pick me up. Please! I told him that it was up to him, I didn't really need the hours, but that if he didn't pick me up tomorrow he was going to be working by himself because that's the only way I'm going to Braintree on a Sunday. He said that should like it was good for him, the he laughed and said no, he would come and pick up. I was so hopefully for about 2 seconds that I wouldn't have to go to work (side note: Morty just barked in his sleep, totally cute!) But no, stupid Jared is going to come and pick me up. I told Ana after I hung up that I was praising God when Jared said he wasn't gonna pick me up and that I would have even gone to Church because I was so thankful. Seriously I'm PMS'ing. I don't want to work. Anyway now I'm not going to church because there is no way I'm going to make it back from mass before 10am because there is no way I could get my sorry butt out of bed before 8am on a Sunday, it's just evil to be up before 8 on a sunday, evil!
Well here comes the portion of my log that is not rated for little kiddies. If you are under the age of 17 please do not read any futher...
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March 4, 2005
Snoring cats and MP3 players
I have another reader who is commenting! WOOHOO! Thank you so much Carle. I really appericate someone else out there who knows what I've been through reading this. I have a very personal post that I'm going to make hopefully tomorrow, I've been putting it off because it brings back bad memories but I hope you will come back and read it. Oh I've added you to my links too! Thanks again :D !
Okay so I didn't finish my homework which means I'll have to go to class to hand it in tomorrow, but I'm thinking of just going and handing it and saying that there was a death in the family and the funeral is today so I won't be able to stay for class cause my uncle is picking me up and taking me to CT so I can go. I wasn't planning on going but I don't have a choice now and I'll make up the class on Wednesday night. Even though I don't want to. Oh hell! I'll just drink a gallon or so of coffee it's just not worth it! I mean seriously my teacher is such a freaking bitch!
This really drives me crazy....
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March 3, 2005
Skinnable, it's so yummy
Well I have been very busy... Okay not doing what I'm suppose to be doing but hey, can you blame me? I found the php stuff that makes my site skinnable and well I had three skins so... I like all my skins but I think the 3rd one is nice because of the soft colors. What's your favorite?
Not much going on here, it's freezing outside so I really don't want to go out but I have no food so I think I'm gonna have to. Time to buy a T-pass, ugh. I feel like I waste $44 every freaking month. Well that's it for now. I'll write again if anything else exciting happens!
I have decided to add more to this entry, so please read on...
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March 2, 2005
WOOHOO!
I've fixed this site so now it's pretty much working the way it should be! This is very exciting for me. All the Archive pages are working the way they should be. Yea!
I'm working on some skins for this site. I have to get some good color schemes first so this whole thing may take while. Plus I have to find a new way to display my links and stuff. Hmm... This is all very exciting. Woohoo!
Oh yeah my life outside of the internet....
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