Brain Stuff

I'm back again,

it's now 2:45am and i'm feeling very teenagery, i am not sleeping. don't fear for my health though, as it is holidays i will just sleep in tomorrow. i know, i know, you're thinking "that will mess up your sleeping patterns". this is true for the most part it will be harder for me to get up early but really i shouldn't be getting up early. i have a little confession to make at this point, i'm a bit of a science nerd. point is, the teenage brain is different from other age groups in tha we get our sleeping hormone (i forgot what it's called) released much later. so our biology wants us to stay up late at night (although not too late) and get up later in the morning. sadly the world is cruel to us and makes us opperate on the same times as everyone else even though it goes against our biology, but we've gotten off track.

i'm acually writing this blog because i was lying in bed and then my brain said "you know how your username/blog title is weird? people probably won't get it." and i said "oh yeah, thanks brain, i might explain that" so here we are. (i'd just like to point out i don't have voices in my head i just explain the phenomenon of me having a thought in this way because i think to my self in sentences). I am neither from Oklahoma nor am i a giraffe. i do have some interesting stories as to the origins of this name though, so let's hear about them:

The Oklahoma part dates back to last year. my friends and i watched "friends" on tv each night as it had replaced the Simpsons and held a time slot that we were accustomed to watching tv for. also it's a really funny show. one particular night we all watched (from our own houses and although simoltanious it was not together) and on this episode the charcters played a game. i can't remember what it was called, something along the lines of "Chandler's states game". the next day at school we discussed it.

the idea of the game is you try to name as many states of america as you can within six minutes. we tried this and failed so miserably alex (one of my friends) and i hatched a plan.

the plan was to learn all 50 states of america in alphabetical order so that if we ever had to play that game we would win. we were very successful with this plan, both of us can recite, in alphabetical order, all 50 states of america. i'll throw them in here for you:

alabama
alaska
arizona
arkansas
california
colorado
connecticut
delaware
florida
georgia
haiwii
idaho
illinois
indiana
iowa
kanas
kentucky
loiusiana
maine
maryland
massechuettes
michigan
minesota
mississippi
misouri
montana
nebraska
nevada
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new york
north carolina
north dekota
ohio
oklahoma
oregon
pennsylvannia
rhode island
south carolina
south dekota
tennessee
texas
utah
vermont
virginia
washington
west virginia
wisconsin
wyoming...the end

now i know there's no way i can prove i typed all of those out from memory just then but i did. anyway that's not the end of the story. this year we've been saying the states a lot and one day we were talking about naming our children after the states (if we had 50 children that is). when i got a new giraffe toy and didn't know what to name her i eventually decided on Oklahoma. we call her Okie. that's her:

now there is a giraffe side to this too and i think i need to share it with you. i have a love for giraffes. they're so cool really. they have long necks and are really tall and are really pretty and their tongues are blue. they are my favourite animal. so i collect them.just toy ones not real giraffes but i have soft toys and magnets and statues and a mobile (baby toy thing) and so many other things. the one called Oklahoma was from my aunty for my birthday.

i would take a guess that after reading this post you would have decided that i'm weird. i mean, not many people memorise states and collect giraffes. i completely agree with you, i would call myself weird but i wouldn't say it's a bad thing. what do you think?

that's all for this one. thanks for reading to the end if you did. if you jsut skipped ahead then you don't deserve my thanks but i can't stop you from getting it. Goodbye

Steph

p.s. i'm going to try to ask a question at the end of each blog. tell me if you like this idea. also i would like it if you replied to my question. :)

p.p.s. although you may not think the title is very discriptive i would argue that at the start i said things about brains and memorising things in done in the brain AND i think about giraffes in my brain.