have i told you how much i like the word counterproductive? well i love it with my heart. thought you might like to know.
sorry i've been gone so long (has it been long? i don't know). tonight seems to be the night everyone is writing blogs so i thought i'd jump on the bandwagon because bandwagon jumping is something i do frequently and well. yay!
this post will probably contain a lot of random pieces of random because i have so much to say but at the same time so little. it's what happens when i'm stressed, i get even more unpredictable and spastic... sorry
this afternoon i've been doing my multi-media homework which i'm actually really proud of. i like my creative work when i put work into it, i'm actually pretty good at it. so that's a YAY.
after school while still on the premisis this arvo we got balloons. it made me exceedingly happy because i am child like and absolutly adore balloons. they're lovely and they're in my room.
i have two classics assignments to do in the next couple of weeks which is a little unsettling because i'm supposed to be starting NaNoWriMo soon and i need to have at least a little bit of spare time for it. i haven't even starting my novel planning so it could be interesting...
we have wednesday off school this week because it's bendigo cup day which makes me very happy. although i'd love to spend the day doing actual fun things i will probably have to spend it doing lots of work for school to avoid death by teacher mob bashing. :(
i've been listening to lovely music all night and although i'm stressed overall right now i'm really quite chilled out and happy.
i think that'll do us for now, i hope it wasn't too unpleasent for you to read.
Byebye, Steph
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Having a Slight Attack...
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i'm having a slight attack at the moment. it's because of my withdrawal. i was trying to do my maths homework but i had to stop and do this so i wouldn't have to think about it too much, just to get it out.
now that you al think i do drugs i'm going to give an explaination. i am addictced to writing. it's really good for getting feelings and thoughts across and when you write you can make up your own world and people won't think you're retarded or mentally ill because fiction writing is a real career and people love to read.. to escape.
the reason i had a writing attack of sorts is because i'm reading a really good book and it made me want to write. lots of things do that to me, if i hear a song i really like i want to make music, if i see a painting i want to paint, but with writing it's stronger. the thing about writing is that you don't need any expertise to do it. your writing may not be as good if you're under practiced but it will still make sense if you use words that people around you understand and story telling isn't a hard skill to pick up.
anyway i wanted to write down about how i needed to write because letting it out (and also the writing part) makes me stop having a spaz and go back to being (moderately) normal... or as normal as i can get.
i'm doing NaNoWriMo. for anyone who doesn't know what that is i can't be bothered to explain but if you do know then good for you, i'm doing it. should be fun.. all i need is an idea now. we'll get there.
so yay for writing, yay for spaz attacks and yay for fooling you into thinking i was addicted to something unhealthy (i mantain that writing is healthy... maybe not for your body but it's good for your mind).
hopefully one day i can write full proper novels and make other people go writing spaz.
Ok i'm good now, cya
Steph
i'm having a slight attack at the moment. it's because of my withdrawal. i was trying to do my maths homework but i had to stop and do this so i wouldn't have to think about it too much, just to get it out.
now that you al think i do drugs i'm going to give an explaination. i am addictced to writing. it's really good for getting feelings and thoughts across and when you write you can make up your own world and people won't think you're retarded or mentally ill because fiction writing is a real career and people love to read.. to escape.
the reason i had a writing attack of sorts is because i'm reading a really good book and it made me want to write. lots of things do that to me, if i hear a song i really like i want to make music, if i see a painting i want to paint, but with writing it's stronger. the thing about writing is that you don't need any expertise to do it. your writing may not be as good if you're under practiced but it will still make sense if you use words that people around you understand and story telling isn't a hard skill to pick up.
anyway i wanted to write down about how i needed to write because letting it out (and also the writing part) makes me stop having a spaz and go back to being (moderately) normal... or as normal as i can get.
i'm doing NaNoWriMo. for anyone who doesn't know what that is i can't be bothered to explain but if you do know then good for you, i'm doing it. should be fun.. all i need is an idea now. we'll get there.
so yay for writing, yay for spaz attacks and yay for fooling you into thinking i was addicted to something unhealthy (i mantain that writing is healthy... maybe not for your body but it's good for your mind).
hopefully one day i can write full proper novels and make other people go writing spaz.
Ok i'm good now, cya
Steph
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
ENFJ... (that's me)
blah... yeah that's you're greeting today, i'm sick give me a break,
welcome back to reading stuff.. that didn't make much sense, my mind doesn't work well when i'm ill. anyway, what i meant was, i have interent back now so you'll be able to read stuff here again. or for the first time if you havn't read it before
anyway enough prefix let's get to the guts of my post.
if you look at the title you'll see a bunch of letters, they may at first appear to be just a random bunch of capitolised squiggles, they may even at second glance seem the same but with my explaination (which will follow) you will soon see them as something that makes sense. more sense than me at the moment anyway.
ENFJ is my personality type, it's from a psychological quiz, i'm not sure what it's called. it's cool because it says stuff about the personality types that relate to me very well. for example;
"ENFJs learn best in structured situations in which they are able to talk bout the lesson and interact with their peers. Because they want their teachers to be pleased with them, they attempt to be model students. They are willing to do what is required in order to become personally recognized by their teachers. Because they take criticism personally, they can either be wounded by it or be willing to redouble their efforts in order to change the criticism. ENFJs enjoy classes that have subject matter relating to people, their needs, their aspirations, and their characterizations. Many ENFJs choose the liberal arts because it gives them an opportunity to more fully explore humanity."
...it's kinda very true about me. don't get me wrong some of it is completely not me but the majority is accurite or close to. as i read it all i realised things about myself because i was comparing what the webpage said to how i think and act. one of the main things it said about my personality type is that i have AMAZING interpersonal skills. like seriously, i am the super person talker to-er and i can make ANYONE like me. then my brain said to me (here it goes again... talking) "you do make friends easily and people usually like you"
and i said back to it "but... that makes me sound a bit full of myself"
then my brain replied "i'm your brain, i don't care, also it's just the truth. you do make friends easily, and understand people"
"cool" i said "it is true isn't it. i like it"
so that was a lovely thing to realise.
here's an extra for you (it's the reason i wanted to write this but it wasn't enough for a whole post) quote from a webpage (take note of the bold words):
"When commitments are broken, ENFJs become upset because they see the breakup as a personal reflection on them and because they have idealized the relationship."
does this remind you of anything? no? well it reminds me of that post i wrote about how i idolised my friends... very similar don't you think? bit creepy.
i've been discribed as "the teacher" "the giver" (haha) and "the sage" so far... they're not as cool as alex's mastermind (i told you she was cool) but i like it, it makes me feel like i help people, which i like to do (not only in text either). so i'm smiling, i do that a lot, possitivity rules you know.
that's all, hope you could understand this because i don't think it particularly coherent. sorry. byebye
Steph
p.s. my back really hurts today, everyone who reads this should say "awwwww" in comments
welcome back to reading stuff.. that didn't make much sense, my mind doesn't work well when i'm ill. anyway, what i meant was, i have interent back now so you'll be able to read stuff here again. or for the first time if you havn't read it before
anyway enough prefix let's get to the guts of my post.
if you look at the title you'll see a bunch of letters, they may at first appear to be just a random bunch of capitolised squiggles, they may even at second glance seem the same but with my explaination (which will follow) you will soon see them as something that makes sense. more sense than me at the moment anyway.
ENFJ is my personality type, it's from a psychological quiz, i'm not sure what it's called. it's cool because it says stuff about the personality types that relate to me very well. for example;
"ENFJs learn best in structured situations in which they are able to talk bout the lesson and interact with their peers. Because they want their teachers to be pleased with them, they attempt to be model students. They are willing to do what is required in order to become personally recognized by their teachers. Because they take criticism personally, they can either be wounded by it or be willing to redouble their efforts in order to change the criticism. ENFJs enjoy classes that have subject matter relating to people, their needs, their aspirations, and their characterizations. Many ENFJs choose the liberal arts because it gives them an opportunity to more fully explore humanity."
...it's kinda very true about me. don't get me wrong some of it is completely not me but the majority is accurite or close to. as i read it all i realised things about myself because i was comparing what the webpage said to how i think and act. one of the main things it said about my personality type is that i have AMAZING interpersonal skills. like seriously, i am the super person talker to-er and i can make ANYONE like me. then my brain said to me (here it goes again... talking) "you do make friends easily and people usually like you"
and i said back to it "but... that makes me sound a bit full of myself"
then my brain replied "i'm your brain, i don't care, also it's just the truth. you do make friends easily, and understand people"
"cool" i said "it is true isn't it. i like it"
so that was a lovely thing to realise.
here's an extra for you (it's the reason i wanted to write this but it wasn't enough for a whole post) quote from a webpage (take note of the bold words):
"When commitments are broken, ENFJs become upset because they see the breakup as a personal reflection on them and because they have idealized the relationship."
also
"ENFJ's are especially vulnerable to idealizing interpersonal relationships"does this remind you of anything? no? well it reminds me of that post i wrote about how i idolised my friends... very similar don't you think? bit creepy.
i've been discribed as "the teacher" "the giver" (haha) and "the sage" so far... they're not as cool as alex's mastermind (i told you she was cool) but i like it, it makes me feel like i help people, which i like to do (not only in text either). so i'm smiling, i do that a lot, possitivity rules you know.
that's all, hope you could understand this because i don't think it particularly coherent. sorry. byebye
Steph
p.s. my back really hurts today, everyone who reads this should say "awwwww" in comments
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
A Brief Update (and some other stuff probably... BUSY)
i greet thee,
i would really like to put some more of my story here for you to read now.... but, i have a problem. there are bits in what i've written that are highlighted, they are the parts that need to be edited. i cannot copy and paste any more of the story without editing it and frankly, i don't have the time right now.
i have school and homework and moving to do so i apologize for that.
next item, i think i may use this for telling people about things that happen in my life as well as things that happen in my head because i have considerabley less articulate thoughts than i previously ... thought.
alright, this is a short entry because i need to go to bed soon and still have maths homework and reading to do... busy busy BUSY!
ohhhh by the way we're moving tomorrow now, not today, it got postponed. i'm a bit worried. we'll see how it goes.
i can't put the new little thing here now because we're already back at school, i've told you when we're moving and i'm not listening to any music... sorry
ttfn (ta ta for now, i was saying that in a sarcastic way, i'm not an acronim type person, except cool ones like dftba)
i would really like to put some more of my story here for you to read now.... but, i have a problem. there are bits in what i've written that are highlighted, they are the parts that need to be edited. i cannot copy and paste any more of the story without editing it and frankly, i don't have the time right now.
i have school and homework and moving to do so i apologize for that.
next item, i think i may use this for telling people about things that happen in my life as well as things that happen in my head because i have considerabley less articulate thoughts than i previously ... thought.
alright, this is a short entry because i need to go to bed soon and still have maths homework and reading to do... busy busy BUSY!
ohhhh by the way we're moving tomorrow now, not today, it got postponed. i'm a bit worried. we'll see how it goes.
i can't put the new little thing here now because we're already back at school, i've told you when we're moving and i'm not listening to any music... sorry
ttfn (ta ta for now, i was saying that in a sarcastic way, i'm not an acronim type person, except cool ones like dftba)
Monday, October 5, 2009
My Book! (contains brother tricking and computers)... p.s. braces
hey guyss,
tomorrow i go back to school so i'll probably post on here much less often (which will probably be a blessing for you) so i thought today i'd give you some wonderfully amazing stuff to tide you over.
this is the start of a novel i wrote half of last year. it's not edited properly or anything so i'm sorry for any mistakes i might have made and i haven't looked at it for a while so it might have weird style changes and nonsensical bits, again, i apologize.
here we go then... at the moment it's called 10 reasons you should read this book and each chapter is one reason.. i like it, do you?
Reason #1: because it’s incredibly funny and you should always laugh at least once a day!
‘Gabby Green.’ Mum screamed at me down the hallway. We were supposed to be going to Melbourne that day, Saturday to be precise, but why waste your weekend with all that driving? I didn’t understand my parents sometimes.
‘I’m coming mum’ I went running to her. Her face was disappointed and a little suspicious. I tried to think what I’d done...nope nothing came to mind (not that it meant I didn’t do anything).
‘The cars broken down, sweetie. We won’t be able to go to Melbourne, maybe next week?’
‘Ah, yea mum, maybe.’ That’s what came out my mouth. Here’s what you would have heard in my head: ‘yahoo Yay, party!’ and then a conga line of my brain cells started and there were chips and soft drink and... Well enough living in fantasy land.
Now I had time free to, um, to...... well not go to Melbourne. It took me 2 minutes of seriously strenuous thinking to come up with playing computer games. Just one problem: Jared. My older brother Jared (who’s 16 now) is always online! The only way to get onto the computer was to be sneaky and deceitful (which is ok with brothers).
‘Hey Jared, I found chocolate!’ that did it he was out of the swivel chair and into the kitchen like lightning. Now the race was on. I had to beat him to the computer. The atmosphere was tense, Jared realised he’d been tricked. You know how in those western movies the guys look at each other and make faces just before they try to kill each other. We did that. And then... I moved, and it was on! Jared was quick out of his gate too. It was close, too close. I’ll have to make a dive I thought, so I leapt, ever so gracefully, into the air, using Jared as a spring and landed flat on my belly on the computer chair. Jared knew he had lost but I felt like rubbing it in so I said ‘ha ha you lost!’
You should have seen the look he gave me then. I know it sounds cliché but seriously if looks could kill I would be dead and you would be very lucky this is a book not a movie! He was going to get me back for it but I had plenty of time later to worry about that, now the computer.
so hopefully you enjoyed that. i might be back soon (probably since this is really good way of procrastination). yeah....
news of the day: my braces were taken off! yay!
days til school goes back: .5
days til we move: 1.5
music in my ears now: one week-bare naked ladies
cya
Steph
p.s. i would like to know your thoughts about my writing and stuff.. please? i like feedback :)
p.p.s. retainers are annoying
tomorrow i go back to school so i'll probably post on here much less often (which will probably be a blessing for you) so i thought today i'd give you some wonderfully amazing stuff to tide you over.
this is the start of a novel i wrote half of last year. it's not edited properly or anything so i'm sorry for any mistakes i might have made and i haven't looked at it for a while so it might have weird style changes and nonsensical bits, again, i apologize.
here we go then... at the moment it's called 10 reasons you should read this book and each chapter is one reason.. i like it, do you?
Reason #1: because it’s incredibly funny and you should always laugh at least once a day!
‘Gabby Green.’ Mum screamed at me down the hallway. We were supposed to be going to Melbourne that day, Saturday to be precise, but why waste your weekend with all that driving? I didn’t understand my parents sometimes.
‘I’m coming mum’ I went running to her. Her face was disappointed and a little suspicious. I tried to think what I’d done...nope nothing came to mind (not that it meant I didn’t do anything).
‘The cars broken down, sweetie. We won’t be able to go to Melbourne, maybe next week?’
‘Ah, yea mum, maybe.’ That’s what came out my mouth. Here’s what you would have heard in my head: ‘yahoo Yay, party!’ and then a conga line of my brain cells started and there were chips and soft drink and... Well enough living in fantasy land.
Now I had time free to, um, to...... well not go to Melbourne. It took me 2 minutes of seriously strenuous thinking to come up with playing computer games. Just one problem: Jared. My older brother Jared (who’s 16 now) is always online! The only way to get onto the computer was to be sneaky and deceitful (which is ok with brothers).
‘Hey Jared, I found chocolate!’ that did it he was out of the swivel chair and into the kitchen like lightning. Now the race was on. I had to beat him to the computer. The atmosphere was tense, Jared realised he’d been tricked. You know how in those western movies the guys look at each other and make faces just before they try to kill each other. We did that. And then... I moved, and it was on! Jared was quick out of his gate too. It was close, too close. I’ll have to make a dive I thought, so I leapt, ever so gracefully, into the air, using Jared as a spring and landed flat on my belly on the computer chair. Jared knew he had lost but I felt like rubbing it in so I said ‘ha ha you lost!’
You should have seen the look he gave me then. I know it sounds cliché but seriously if looks could kill I would be dead and you would be very lucky this is a book not a movie! He was going to get me back for it but I had plenty of time later to worry about that, now the computer.
so hopefully you enjoyed that. i might be back soon (probably since this is really good way of procrastination). yeah....
news of the day: my braces were taken off! yay!
days til school goes back: .5
days til we move: 1.5
music in my ears now: one week-bare naked ladies
cya
Steph
p.s. i would like to know your thoughts about my writing and stuff.. please? i like feedback :)
p.p.s. retainers are annoying
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Stuff ( with new features!)
G'day,
today i'm here to talk to you about events in my life, which isn't a common occurence here but for today i think we'll let that slide.
we're moving house in a few days, it's not to a totally new location, just a new part of the same area, into a rental. as you could expect in this situation, we've been packing lots.
my room has just been packed up, literally in the last 3 hours. it's very empty and it feels weird to go into a room that no longer looks like i live in it. i have a very crowded way of living, i'm constantly complaining that i need more space but the reality is, if i had more space i would find a way of filling it because i like to have my things near me.
the exact opposite of that is the days before you move. all my toys and books and decorations are boxed up and i don't have any chargers, so my phone might die, same with my ipod and my nintendo ds. this would be tragic, yes.
i find it strange though, how you can live without things you used to think you needed. last week our computer was brocken so we didn't have it for a while. i would've always said i couldn't live without the computer but when i didn't have it i found that it wasn't quite as bad as i'd expected. i did have a little bit of interent on my phone but severly less than i would normally have.
on a completely different note, we will be able to get our stuff out of storage soon! we're actually moving to a bigger house (not a lot bigger though) so we get some of our stuff back. i'm especially excited about getting out the saxophone, keyboard and violin. i've recently become more interested in music and particularly in learning to play something. i have all theses instruments but nobody in our house actually knows how to play them properly. i have a friend lined up to teach me saxaphone and i'm hoping that i'll be able to teach the other to myself. YAY!
overall feeling: happy
days 'til school goes back: 1.5
days 'til we move: 2.5
song in my ears: blink-chameleon circut
ok byebye now
Steph
p.s. i really like the little thing up there ^ what do you think of it?
p.p.s. i keep forgetting to ask questions, i've given you one today :) please make me happy and answer it (and comment on anything you like or dislike in this post)
today i'm here to talk to you about events in my life, which isn't a common occurence here but for today i think we'll let that slide.
we're moving house in a few days, it's not to a totally new location, just a new part of the same area, into a rental. as you could expect in this situation, we've been packing lots.
my room has just been packed up, literally in the last 3 hours. it's very empty and it feels weird to go into a room that no longer looks like i live in it. i have a very crowded way of living, i'm constantly complaining that i need more space but the reality is, if i had more space i would find a way of filling it because i like to have my things near me.
the exact opposite of that is the days before you move. all my toys and books and decorations are boxed up and i don't have any chargers, so my phone might die, same with my ipod and my nintendo ds. this would be tragic, yes.
i find it strange though, how you can live without things you used to think you needed. last week our computer was brocken so we didn't have it for a while. i would've always said i couldn't live without the computer but when i didn't have it i found that it wasn't quite as bad as i'd expected. i did have a little bit of interent on my phone but severly less than i would normally have.
on a completely different note, we will be able to get our stuff out of storage soon! we're actually moving to a bigger house (not a lot bigger though) so we get some of our stuff back. i'm especially excited about getting out the saxophone, keyboard and violin. i've recently become more interested in music and particularly in learning to play something. i have all theses instruments but nobody in our house actually knows how to play them properly. i have a friend lined up to teach me saxaphone and i'm hoping that i'll be able to teach the other to myself. YAY!
overall feeling: happy
days 'til school goes back: 1.5
days 'til we move: 2.5
song in my ears: blink-chameleon circut
ok byebye now
Steph
p.s. i really like the little thing up there ^ what do you think of it?
p.p.s. i keep forgetting to ask questions, i've given you one today :) please make me happy and answer it (and comment on anything you like or dislike in this post)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Why Can't We All Just Chill Out And Give Us Some More Freedom?
greetings,
i have a problem. it's a brain problem. i could probably get over it really easily but i would prefer if it just went away. here's the backstory: i really like to do things. i spend pretty much all my time doing something, when i say doing something i mean reaching something or making something or writing something.
my problem is i can't do things when i need to. if i'm told i need to write an essay by i certain date my brain goes "i don't like deadlines. I DON'T LIKE DEADLINES! we can't do this!" and i agree with my brain because it is the boss. i try, of course i do, i like getting things in on time and not getting in trouble, but i always have a struggle.
the holidays are my worst avoiding time, i get lots of time off so there's no hurry and i don't do my work, then it gets to the last few days, which i have left free so i could do my work, and i sit down and..... i open twitter and facebook and youtube and a game. i am the ruler of procrastination. i can always find something more important than that essay i have to write or the maths exersizes that are due. i really wish i didn't do this and a week later my brain always says "oh we should've just done it when we got it, it would be over by now if we did" but then next time i put myself in the exact same position.
i'm having this issue now, there are two days of holidays left and i have three things to get done. none of them have been started. i'm a little bit nervious about not being able to get them done or not doing them well enough because i hate to get in trouble but the laziness and avoid-reflex (that i seem to have) heavily outweigh it.
obviously i don't have trouble writing things (i just wrote all of this) and from the reading list i built up over the last couple of weeks you can see i don't have trouble readin things either, my only issue is when it's compulsary or there is a deadline.
what i've realised over the last few years is that i'm enjoying my learning way more but i'm getting tired of going to school. the pressure of exams and results are making learning stressful and un-enjoyable. i love to go to my classes and listen to what my teachers say because i think they're smart people with interesting things to say, but i don't like having to take everything they say down in notes, i don't like to do endless repeditive exersizes and i don't like working all day at school only to come home and work for hours more just to keep up.
our society has become so advanced that we now have to go to school for 13 years to survive in the world. we don't get any time to rest or play. we don't have enough freedom in our learning. we get tested and analysed. it's not how i would like the world to be.
so, yeah. i have issues with the world. not that many, don't get me wrong, i'm really happy and stuff, but there're a few things i would change if i could. this is one of them.
i'm going to try and write that essay now. i'll see if it's any easier now that i've complained a bit. hopefully i can just get through it and do my best. BYE
Steph
i have a problem. it's a brain problem. i could probably get over it really easily but i would prefer if it just went away. here's the backstory: i really like to do things. i spend pretty much all my time doing something, when i say doing something i mean reaching something or making something or writing something.
my problem is i can't do things when i need to. if i'm told i need to write an essay by i certain date my brain goes "i don't like deadlines. I DON'T LIKE DEADLINES! we can't do this!" and i agree with my brain because it is the boss. i try, of course i do, i like getting things in on time and not getting in trouble, but i always have a struggle.
the holidays are my worst avoiding time, i get lots of time off so there's no hurry and i don't do my work, then it gets to the last few days, which i have left free so i could do my work, and i sit down and..... i open twitter and facebook and youtube and a game. i am the ruler of procrastination. i can always find something more important than that essay i have to write or the maths exersizes that are due. i really wish i didn't do this and a week later my brain always says "oh we should've just done it when we got it, it would be over by now if we did" but then next time i put myself in the exact same position.
i'm having this issue now, there are two days of holidays left and i have three things to get done. none of them have been started. i'm a little bit nervious about not being able to get them done or not doing them well enough because i hate to get in trouble but the laziness and avoid-reflex (that i seem to have) heavily outweigh it.
obviously i don't have trouble writing things (i just wrote all of this) and from the reading list i built up over the last couple of weeks you can see i don't have trouble readin things either, my only issue is when it's compulsary or there is a deadline.
what i've realised over the last few years is that i'm enjoying my learning way more but i'm getting tired of going to school. the pressure of exams and results are making learning stressful and un-enjoyable. i love to go to my classes and listen to what my teachers say because i think they're smart people with interesting things to say, but i don't like having to take everything they say down in notes, i don't like to do endless repeditive exersizes and i don't like working all day at school only to come home and work for hours more just to keep up.
our society has become so advanced that we now have to go to school for 13 years to survive in the world. we don't get any time to rest or play. we don't have enough freedom in our learning. we get tested and analysed. it's not how i would like the world to be.
so, yeah. i have issues with the world. not that many, don't get me wrong, i'm really happy and stuff, but there're a few things i would change if i could. this is one of them.
i'm going to try and write that essay now. i'll see if it's any easier now that i've complained a bit. hopefully i can just get through it and do my best. BYE
Steph
Friday, October 2, 2009
I "Heart" Rice (or Vocabularies Rule!)
hey,
just before we move into the main point of this post i would like to appologize for my blogging habits, what i usually do is write 4 or 5 blogs in one go, have tons in one day, then not write for about week or more. so here it is: i'm sorry.
now as you may have noticed from the previous post i have been on youtube today. i found another video i want to talk about, this one is quite different from the first though.
it's about a website called www.freerice.com it's very cool. there are several reasons i like this site; 1) it gives rice to people who can't afford food and such, 2) youo don't have to pay anything to give this rice, 3) it makes you learn while helping 4) it's vocabulary learning.
what you do is, you go to the site, on the front page there is a question that looks like this:
convalescence means:
recuperation
inquiry
hearty laugh
stack
you answer the question, if youo get it right 10 grains of rice will be donated for you. more questions will keep coming and 10 grains of rice will be donated for each correct answer.
here's a video explaining it really well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiVfJjn7fw&feature=channel_page
i love this site because i love to help people and charities and stuff and i love to learn and expand my vocabulary. you should go have a look at it too, it's lovely.
LETS SAVE THE WORLD!
thanks for reading... i know this was probably boring for you. cya,
Steph
just before we move into the main point of this post i would like to appologize for my blogging habits, what i usually do is write 4 or 5 blogs in one go, have tons in one day, then not write for about week or more. so here it is: i'm sorry.
now as you may have noticed from the previous post i have been on youtube today. i found another video i want to talk about, this one is quite different from the first though.
it's about a website called www.freerice.com it's very cool. there are several reasons i like this site; 1) it gives rice to people who can't afford food and such, 2) youo don't have to pay anything to give this rice, 3) it makes you learn while helping 4) it's vocabulary learning.
what you do is, you go to the site, on the front page there is a question that looks like this:
convalescence means:
recuperation
inquiry
hearty laugh
stack
you answer the question, if youo get it right 10 grains of rice will be donated for you. more questions will keep coming and 10 grains of rice will be donated for each correct answer.
here's a video explaining it really well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiVfJjn7fw&feature=channel_page
i love this site because i love to help people and charities and stuff and i love to learn and expand my vocabulary. you should go have a look at it too, it's lovely.
LETS SAVE THE WORLD!
thanks for reading... i know this was probably boring for you. cya,
Steph
We Are All Animals
hello my friends,
let's look at this video together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTjuXCB_z0&feature=sub
ok now that we've all seen that i think we can discuss it. i like to think, i really really do which makes this appeal to me a lot. psychology and biology and such are very interesting to me. i think this video has a great deal of truth in it, or at least plausable ideas, i know i agree with most of it.
one thing that i didn't think was right was when he talks about love being a rationalisation for sex. i am aware that i may just be romanticizing things, which i am prone to do being a writer and a teenage girl, but i feel that love something of it's own.
i agree more with this comment than with the video...
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i was just studying anthro so here i go-i don't think that love is a purely cultural thing or that love is something created to stop ourselves from always having sex. Its common to all humans, meaning its a naturally selected behavioral trait.hominids differ from apes in mating especially we mate one female to male and live in groups. I think bonding (ie love) was a behavioral adaptation to prevent having sex with other members of the group and prevent interbreeding. that just what i think..
these are just my thoughts on the matter. of course if you didn't bother to watch the video at the start you'll have no idea what i'm talking about. i think i'll leave it there.
just one last thing from me, be proud to be an animal.
Steph
let's look at this video together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOTjuXCB_z0&feature=sub
ok now that we've all seen that i think we can discuss it. i like to think, i really really do which makes this appeal to me a lot. psychology and biology and such are very interesting to me. i think this video has a great deal of truth in it, or at least plausable ideas, i know i agree with most of it.
one thing that i didn't think was right was when he talks about love being a rationalisation for sex. i am aware that i may just be romanticizing things, which i am prone to do being a writer and a teenage girl, but i feel that love something of it's own.
i agree more with this comment than with the video...
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i was just studying anthro so here i go-i don't think that love is a purely cultural thing or that love is something created to stop ourselves from always having sex. Its common to all humans, meaning its a naturally selected behavioral trait.hominids differ from apes in mating especially we mate one female to male and live in groups. I think bonding (ie love) was a behavioral adaptation to prevent having sex with other members of the group and prevent interbreeding. that just what i think..
these are just my thoughts on the matter. of course if you didn't bother to watch the video at the start you'll have no idea what i'm talking about. i think i'll leave it there.
just one last thing from me, be proud to be an animal.
Steph
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Compulsive "F"-ing of "L"s
heyo,
i was just having a conversation with alex (the cool one) about he acronym "FML". it mean f*** my life and i have a large amount of hate for it (alex does too).
tons of people i know i have started to to say fml often which is stupid because the sentiment of the phrase is that your life is really bad which i know theirs aren't. my point is ok you maybe lsot your phone but you can get and new one and you had a phone in the first place.
here's an extract from our conversation that sums up how i feel (and how alex does):
Alex says:
look at me i'm your average typical teenager that thinks their life is a million times worse than EVERYBODY else's!
Steph says:
god it's so annoying
Alex says:
and you can tell their just waiting for someone to say "Aww, what's wrong? Tell me allll about it." Not happening.
Steph says:
you don't see people who die in poor countries buying computers and sitting round all day going "FML" and they have a reason to
Alex says:
FML? I bet kids in third world countries aren't saying FML even though they have absolutely no food or drinkable water and their family's dead.
Steph says:
i know
Alex says:
and also, half the time they're saying fml...nothing's actually happened to them, they're just being emo because they WANT to be miserable.
it annoys me.
so please don't ever say fml. people should just get over things and be happy. some people have reason to be saying it but they're the ones who get on with their lives and try harder, if you're not trying it's your own fault your life sucks.
the end
p.s. sorry for being kinda mean-ish, i just hate this a lot.
i was just having a conversation with alex (the cool one) about he acronym "FML". it mean f*** my life and i have a large amount of hate for it (alex does too).
tons of people i know i have started to to say fml often which is stupid because the sentiment of the phrase is that your life is really bad which i know theirs aren't. my point is ok you maybe lsot your phone but you can get and new one and you had a phone in the first place.
here's an extract from our conversation that sums up how i feel (and how alex does):
Alex says:
look at me i'm your average typical teenager that thinks their life is a million times worse than EVERYBODY else's!
Steph says:
god it's so annoying
Alex says:
and you can tell their just waiting for someone to say "Aww, what's wrong? Tell me allll about it." Not happening.
Steph says:
you don't see people who die in poor countries buying computers and sitting round all day going "FML" and they have a reason to
Alex says:
FML? I bet kids in third world countries aren't saying FML even though they have absolutely no food or drinkable water and their family's dead.
Steph says:
i know
Alex says:
and also, half the time they're saying fml...nothing's actually happened to them, they're just being emo because they WANT to be miserable.
it annoys me.
so please don't ever say fml. people should just get over things and be happy. some people have reason to be saying it but they're the ones who get on with their lives and try harder, if you're not trying it's your own fault your life sucks.
the end
p.s. sorry for being kinda mean-ish, i just hate this a lot.
Some Notes on Various Topics (including a book and some awesome)
hello all,
the last few days my brain kept saying "i've done quite a bit recently, i should write a blog about it" but now i have decided against it.
the reason for this is that i already have a diary thing. it is a real one that i can hold in my hands and it has my actual handwriting it in and i have all sorts of awesome stuff stuck in there. i don't want to write another one here because it means i may stop writing there.
the thing i will use this for is books and writing and music and things in my brain and not so much things in my life. you may not see the distinction but i do and really it doesn't matter so much if you don't see it.
let's move into the books and thoughts stuff. ok so i have this friend called alex. i think she is really cool and stuff and yay! she sent me an email about my last post on here and said she loved my writing and was jealous of me, it was someting along those lines and it made me very happy. my brain was like "ahhh she thinks i'm cool, she's so cool, ahhhh!". this brings me to my book reference: Paper Towns by John Green.
it goes like this.. kinda:
Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends- is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber-cool.
One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo, dressed as a ninja, persuades him to partake in several hours of mayhem. Then she vanishes. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance, Q follows Margo′s string of elaborate clues - including a poem about death.
Q′s friends, Radar, Ben and Lacey, help with the search, and a post turns up on a website: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. The race is on!
After an epic drive through the night, they catch up with Margo, and Q learns first-hand that the way you think about a person isn′t the way they actually are
the relivance of this book is only noticable if you've heard him talk about the themes and such. the idea is that Q doesn't see the way Margo really is, he idolises her and makes up a person as a reflection of himself that he thinks is her. the word Speigelman actually mean mirror maker in some language, i can't remember which. so Margo is seen by everyone as a fun house mirror reflection of themselves, each characters sees her differently.
i think idolise alex, all of my friends actually. it's hard to imagine somebody else the way you imagine yourself. you might see yourself as smart but not too intellegent and kind of good at sport, you're a little of overweight but a nice person and people should like you because you make funny jokes and can cook really well. others might just see that you're smart or that you're fat or they could idolise you and just think that you're really good at cooking and can play sport and are smart and think you're the coolest person ever. it's hard to see every aspect of a person, put their good and bad qualities together and create a whole because you're not living in their heads.
so yeah, i get excited when i see that someone i like said my work is good or if someone i idolise is talking to me on msn it makes me happy but i'm try to see people as people and i don't think a little bit of mis-imagining will hurt anyone, as long as it doesn't get out of hand.
there is a blog for you. please read paper towns and stuff, yay, end. byebye,
Steph
the last few days my brain kept saying "i've done quite a bit recently, i should write a blog about it" but now i have decided against it.
the reason for this is that i already have a diary thing. it is a real one that i can hold in my hands and it has my actual handwriting it in and i have all sorts of awesome stuff stuck in there. i don't want to write another one here because it means i may stop writing there.
the thing i will use this for is books and writing and music and things in my brain and not so much things in my life. you may not see the distinction but i do and really it doesn't matter so much if you don't see it.
let's move into the books and thoughts stuff. ok so i have this friend called alex. i think she is really cool and stuff and yay! she sent me an email about my last post on here and said she loved my writing and was jealous of me, it was someting along those lines and it made me very happy. my brain was like "ahhh she thinks i'm cool, she's so cool, ahhhh!". this brings me to my book reference: Paper Towns by John Green.
it goes like this.. kinda:
Quentin Jacobsen - Q to his friends- is eighteen and has always loved the edgy Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, they′d discovered a dead body together. Now at high school, Q′s nerdy while Margo is uber-cool.
One night, Q is basking in the predictable boringness of his life when Margo, dressed as a ninja, persuades him to partake in several hours of mayhem. Then she vanishes. While her family shrugs off this latest disappearance, Q follows Margo′s string of elaborate clues - including a poem about death.
Q′s friends, Radar, Ben and Lacey, help with the search, and a post turns up on a website: Margo will be in a certain location for the next 24 hours only. The race is on!
After an epic drive through the night, they catch up with Margo, and Q learns first-hand that the way you think about a person isn′t the way they actually are
the relivance of this book is only noticable if you've heard him talk about the themes and such. the idea is that Q doesn't see the way Margo really is, he idolises her and makes up a person as a reflection of himself that he thinks is her. the word Speigelman actually mean mirror maker in some language, i can't remember which. so Margo is seen by everyone as a fun house mirror reflection of themselves, each characters sees her differently.
i think idolise alex, all of my friends actually. it's hard to imagine somebody else the way you imagine yourself. you might see yourself as smart but not too intellegent and kind of good at sport, you're a little of overweight but a nice person and people should like you because you make funny jokes and can cook really well. others might just see that you're smart or that you're fat or they could idolise you and just think that you're really good at cooking and can play sport and are smart and think you're the coolest person ever. it's hard to see every aspect of a person, put their good and bad qualities together and create a whole because you're not living in their heads.
so yeah, i get excited when i see that someone i like said my work is good or if someone i idolise is talking to me on msn it makes me happy but i'm try to see people as people and i don't think a little bit of mis-imagining will hurt anyone, as long as it doesn't get out of hand.
there is a blog for you. please read paper towns and stuff, yay, end. byebye,
Steph
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