the journal is back!
whee!
oh boy! oh boy!

Don't get *too* excited now.
hehe

YAY!!!!

I FINALLY GOT A JOB!!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGH! Dis paper stay killin me la dat. I like give up da kine already.

"Da kine = whateva you like say La dat = like that"

As if life couldn't get any more complex and packed full of trials, we now have a flea infestation in our house. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok..back to the hiatus. heh

Yes, the tragedy of the towers and the pentagon hurts.

What is hurting me more now is the way so many ignorant people just want to "get rid of them all." "Them" supposedly means those violent fanatics but the implied feeling is just to kill all Arabs. That in itself hurts and angers me. How can our country be full of such ignorant, racist people? Yesterday a man called the radio station calling for all of "them" to be shipped out of the US. After the Japanese internment 60 years ago you would think we would've learned.

With these things occurring, I'm starting to see the dark side of America and am wishing just a bit that I just lived somewhere else.
It's definitely a sad time.

I feel more American and more love for my country than I have ever in my life time.

It is a time for mourning, and it is disheartening that someone would try so very hard to tear apart the foundation and freedom of our country.

My prayers are with our country and all its citizens.

These are the only feelings I can express in words...

Met my mentor teacher today. It was okay but I just need to exude a little more confidence and uhh...personality i guess.

That and I need to make myself look at least 5 years older. She said "You look like a student." Ack!

Start the observing Wednesday. I'll be taking roll. Next week she mentioned something about me going over homework. Pray for me.

hehe

Did you know...

[regarding cats]

Tortoise-shell males are rare ones. This is due to the fact that the genes controlling the particular colour-form are carried on the X chromosomes, the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other. The catch is that only females have two X chromosomes, so only females can display the red plus non-red tortoise-shell combination. Males have instead one X chromosome and one small Y chromosome, which means that on their single X they carry either the red OR the non-red gene, but cannot have both. Therefore they are either all over red tabby or all over black.

Tortoise-shell males are occasionally born, but are always born sterile. (They develop with the combination XXY.)

and did you know...

[re cats again]

97% of orange tabbies are in fact male. Usually the females are calicos. For a female to be orange, dad has to be orange, and mom has to be orange (100% chance of passing the O gene) or tortoise shell (she then has a 50/50 chance of passing on the O gene.)

My parents are back from a 3 day hiatus. dammit.

I have way unfinished homework that is due in 2 days. shit.

I haven't felt in the mood to share much recently. sorry.

till next time i guess...

I'm caught in the middle of an embittered battle between my mom and my aunt now. Why my mom has to pick fights with people in our family I'll never know, but why the hell do I always have to get dragged into it? shit.

Grant is my guardian angel. All he wants to do is take me away from all of this and make me happy. That was definitely the one thing I needed to hear tonight.

I'm alive and trying to do homework. bah. I think I'm still in vacation mode. Not a good thing.

Okay..back to toiling away. laters...

Dammit. I hate feeling bitter and irratated and all this negative shit.

Tonight my mom decided to give away all her jewlery. First it was going to my aunt. Then I protested and so I was to take what I wanted. But being the goddamn fair person I am, I opted to wait for my sister and then we'd split it. Well, even though I got the nicest one of it all, I'm still super bitter because I wasn't aggressive enough and my sister ended up with all the nice shit. She has a majority of it all and now I'm so very bitter at it all.

I'm so bitter and mad at myself not only because I feel cheated and jipped but also because I know I shouldn't be this materialistic over such stupid things.

ARGH!!!

Besides the lingering Starbucks craving, I also have this great need to go travelling again. Not just travelling though, I reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaally want to travel on a plane with someone I know, preferrably Grant. There's nothing like killing those 5+ hours with someone else. It sure as hell beats flying solo. That's the worst. So my sole reason for wanting to travel is because of the company. Go figure.

damn. it's pretty dang scary when you find a blog that belongs to your high school friend's younger sister. it's especially scary when you only remember that girl as a young, small, kinda chubby [but still cute!] kid and now you see her as this pretty high schooller that acts just like how you'd expect a high schooller to.

I feel old now. >O.o<

I suddenly have this huge craving for some starbucks. Say some white mocha? I'd even be happy with some steamed milk with a shot of vanilla. ooh. Or maybe a caramel frappuccino.

Dammit! I need to get out!!!

I'm going through a royal fix right now. It must be because of Princess Diana's death anniversary...

Did you know that Schlesweig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is genealogically the royal family's last name but the Queen gave a decree some years ago saying that it would be Windsor for royals with title from then on. Those without title would take on the name Mountbatten-Windsor.

That's so cool.

Oh! And I think that Prince William is like the ONLY white guy I find extremely attractive. He's a cutie. ^_^

...damn. I just found out that the princes can't marry anyone who's Roman Catholic but protestant, non-divorced Americans are technically okay. Maybe I should consider converting. hahaha