driving directions on the mobile marathon…
“world order” by henry kissenger – wonderful book – really great framework for understanding how the world works – why china does what it does – why the middle east is messed up – the adage, those that don’t read history are doomed to repeat it – we’d do well to listen to statesmen and their wisdom instead of making up policy as we go
“1D” – their autobiographies – the soccer references were awesome – one got to rehab at chelsea football club – jealous
“100 sideways miles” – recommended YA to me – but i can’t recommend it – not a great book – but hey, the author is well on his way in the world now so he doesn’t need my ringing endorsement (one thing that bugged me, he made a point in his “author information” to say that he doesn’t watch TV – still, he wrote the stupidest book i’ve read in a long time – so was the TV thing supposed to mean he was smart???)
“jeter: unfiltered” – photo books are awesome – i “read” 240 pages in a day – i love baseball anyway – obviously, i would’ve liked more of jeter’s story – he’s getting his feet with publications though so i may get the story eventually – class act
sorry i’m late
maf
first???
You know how you’re supposed to make new years resolutions? And you know how many people make them and then don’t ever keep up with them? Well I was reading about how this originated. Apparently the earliest recorded celebration of the new year was around 4,000 years ago in Babylon.
Did you know the most broken resolutions are:
Losing Weight
Making—and Saving—More Money
Working Out
Getting a New Job
Eating Healthier
Stopping Smoking
Managing Stress Better
Improving a Relationship
I feel like all these are things that everyone kind of wants to do but they’re so “big” in their minds that it would take too much time or that they don’t have enough incentive. Like i feel alot of people would like to be slimmer and they’ve dreamed about it forever but they don’t have enough incentive or maybe they just don’t have enough will power to turn down those fries. New year’s resolutions are things i like people write down to make themselves feel like they have control in their lives. It makes them feel has if they can change things about themselves in a snap and they think they can do it. But usually people even forget about doing things or they just say “oh ill do it next year” Usually people just procrastinate things they need to do and then make it their new years resolution the next year. But then is it really a NEW year’s resolution or is it just another thing you can’t control in life if you don’t try hard enough.
Dang it, 2nd or worse
howcould i have been so late even though im always #10 or worse pretty much
“Book of mordred:Nimue”;LineS:”Merlin could do it”,”I am not Merlin”
Commentary:Mordred wants Nimue to push her magic past it’s limit. Inside I think Nimue wants to be more like Merlin and she disappoints herself when things like this come up.
WaspMan Out
Heyy My Bunny PEEPS
line: jimmy was so weird. he was almost invisble
Commentary: Jimmy was a kid at a highschool who was so weird he used his socks to make nests for the birds or he would put his lunch in the fountain for the fish… but one day he moved and school wasnt the same even though he was weird he pretty much an entertainment for the whole school.
Creative Writing
I know I always creative write about sports but its in my blood. 🙂
:42 seconds to play for Alabama to score. They were down 3 to #1 ranked Kentucky. Coach Anthony Grant wanted the ball to Senior and team captain Levi Randolph. So the inbound pass was made to Levi and he quickly pulled up for a three and drained it. Kentucky, now with :30 left wanted to ball down low and try to get a foul. And they succeded. Harrison made both at the line. Ball back to Bama with :14 left. Inbound was made with full-court pressure coming from Kentucky. They ran through there offense quik and Randolph drained a three. :01 left and Kentucky tried to get a foul but he got blocked! Alabama wins
Book: The Shadow Project
Prompt: Dialectical Journal 1
Line: It was the weirdest collection he’d ever seen: cabinets and displays of African masks and jujus, ceremonial swords, Egyptian ankhs, chalices, brass discs, wands, thuribles, and a load of other religious junk, along side-and this was the really weird bit-a bank of scary machines like the things they hook you up to in the hospital, a control console that must have come from outer space, and one of the coolest sound systems he’d ever seen, with speakers that were actually bigger than he was.
Commentary: This sentence is more complex and longer than it appears on the surface. It means more than just a list of things in the room. It expresses Danny’s amazement, fright, and confusion. It also is the first impression we get on the room, therefore making a great impact on our view on it.
I am not a bunny peep
tacopire is going through tough times .losing members as fast as they are joining .new organizations and empires spring up just to ally with Quennation. I didn’t want to have to say this but THE TACOPIRE DECLARES WAR ON THE C.S.O. it’s not good more and more people refuse to join. i have a target for the next taco minion. Please join
I have noticed kate is under the ditzy illusion that she herself didn’t admit that i conquered Katetopia. it’s mine now just look in my name it says leader of Katetopia.
“Book of Mordred:Nimue”;Line:”I don’t be evan or halbert”
Commentary: Nimue has discovered that “wystan” wasn’t himself it was Halbert disguised as him. TWIST. I don’t understand how this could work out but this book is getting good!
We still think you guys took our idea from our sixth grade year.
– Eigth Grade
The Nazi Hunters
ON the last day of Passover, gendarmes came to Zeev’s door, they were from hungarian police. They working for the Germans. Zeev was 21 years old and lived with his brothers and sisters also his mom and dad. The men at the door woke them up and told them to start packing. They said, “You can bring clothes, food, bedding and ONLY 50 km a person. Zeev’s family was confused. The men beat the people in to trucks.
The Nazi Hunters
Over the next few days 14,000 Jews from the city and surrounding regions were forced into an old factory. They were told by the German troops that they were being moved away from a “military operational zone” so they would “be protected from the Russians. This made Zeev uncomfortable, because him and his family were now living on factory grounds, in a “shelter” with NO walls. Also with a small amount of food (potato soup).
And it came over 2 Chelsea kids too. And Chicken Supreme for dinner. Life is good.
Nerves
They can kill you or help you do great things,
Pressure of the moment helps you go far.
A couplet in Iambic pentameter.
yeah first chair
you know our county is classy when they kick victoria out
Dear King of dead baseball players,
as leader of this 6th grade revolution i can say that if you can’t spell the grade you’re in correctly you couldn’t have ran a country very well and such is why we still have functioning system ( or at least some of us) and you don’t.
With much insincerity,
WaspMan,leader of the Tacopire
ok so here’s another poem – maybe i’ll actually write one good enough for the lit magazine at some point.
Happiness
Lots of people think that they determine the level of this.
When in reality, its the people that we place around us.
Whether or not you can be yourself around them means a lot.
Whether or not they improve your character means a lot.
Whether or not they are truly your friends, means a lot.
Lots of people tend to make friends for the moment.
These friends may be there to laugh and cut up with you,
But they won’t be there in your times of need.
They will be present in your sucess,
But not in your hardships along the way.
Happiness IS depending on the people around you.
Choose wisely, because they will also change you.
With these friends, you resort to trying to make yourself happy with them.
You stress yourself beyond comprehension to be happy.
You don’t gain happiness out of being around them,
So you strain yourself to with all of your might.
But when you are filled with joy without effort,
When you are with a select group of people,
That is when you find the one and only formula to happiness.
i feel like this should be on a extremely big cat poster, but okay.
“Book of Mordred: Nimue”;Creative:Let’s play…Why is Lancelot Knocking?
1.word got to camelot quickly( nearly impossible)
2.to visit bayard in the middle of the night( halbert’s theory but impossible)
3.Halbert forced him to come with magic( likely)
4.it’s not lancelot( extremely possible)<—my best guess
WaspMan Out
And olivia… Yeah… Somethings not right with our system.
this is for tuesday i forgot to blog i had CHEER practice
so of course me and the great david vick are in trumpet and he likes to get first chair so i am now second chair
When life gives you lemons return the lemons politely and demand
for baby lasagna…—Kate Mckeller
cheer is not easy when an 8 year old is in your class and likes to act like a dog… and almost licks you.. i just have to keep positive thoughts and think what if i was a bunny right now. and i ask myslef that question alot..
OK so Mr. Prather was driving behind us today so uf course i stuck my head out the window and waved but oh NO NO he doesent do That simple wave BACK he HONKS at us all the way to my house and im like flipping out cause all you can hear behind us is BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP so that was just fantastic.
THANKS
anyway…
Life gives you lemons,
but sometimes it gives you a twin brother,
wich you cant return like a lemon,
so you have to make lemonade and sit back,
and watch at how your supposed to live with…it..
but sometimes he is a joy and makes the TONE of life,
fun i guess…
Alexa and the group went outside to eat. After about half way though eating it started pouring down rain and so they decided to come inside so that they didn’t get a cold.
The whole group that was at the volleyball lock-in got into groups of five so that they could play volleyball. Alexa, Jalyn, Jordan, and Cameron were all on a team And then another girl was on their too and she was really good!
In the very end Alexa, Jalyn, Cameron, and Jordan’s group won by fifteen. Once again they won t shirts and they loved them and wore them all day like they were bragging and they were really.
They were so happy. Chrystal handed out prices of papers to put the names of the favorite part of the lock-in and the favorite person. Alexa said singing around the campfire with all the people and Jalyn. Jalyn did the same but voted for Alexa. Cameron said playing around and Jordan. Jordan said playing basketball and voted for me.
you could hear the clinging of something. After about ten minuets the lights turned back on and Chrystal said ” Is everyone okay?”
every one said yes and somebody said ” what did they steal?”
After they said that everyone just ran around panicking and trying to find out what they stole but no one could figure it out quite yet. Alexa, Jalyn, Jordan, and Cameron all thought they knew what it was ( the wildcat )
Alexa screamed ” they stole the wildcat! OMG what are we going to do?!” Lets call the police! Dont just sit there and do nothing! THE WILDCAT IS MISSING!”
Jalyn, Jordan, and Cameron had to hold Alexa back before she could bow up on this girl that was crying.
Chrystal had called the police to report the missing wildcat and alexa, jordan, cameron, and jalyn went to see if their was any evidence.
They found a note and opened it. The note said ” you will never find me I am in a place far away from Columbiana alabama!”
I turned in “The Nazi Hunters” because it was hard to blog on, (because I cannot spell have the words in the book!!!!!!!) so now i am reading, “January” 🙂 😉 🙂
January
Cal was sitting on a boat with his Uncle, (Uncle Rafe) then fireworks started to explode and people started screaming, “Happy new year!” Cal was aware that it was a “new year” but he said it was anything short of happy. He then noticed that other small boats started to leave or disapear, and Cal said, “Uncle Rafe, there is a big squall coming up, we should get back now. Then Cal started noticing more boats leaving so he said, “Rafe, start the motor now!”
January
Then Cal said, ” The squall is going to hit any minute. We have to get back!” Cal pulled out the life jackets and threw one at Rafe. “Cal, don’t you think you are worrying to much?” Rafe said. “The squall is going to hit any minute, you have no idea how fast the squalls move in..” said Cal. Rafe had only been to the lake house a few times. “Trust me…”
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.(Margaret Walker)If you have not a lot of money but you have friends and good manners then you basically have what you need.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'(Martin Luther King, Jr)You can have a good job and a good life but if you aren’t helping people then you aren’t doing your service
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.(Sun Tzu)if you can stop the enemy without fighting then you’ve won without the need to spill blood
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.(Winston Churchill)
Winston is prepared to die but if God doesn’t want the ordeal of meeting him then its a different story
I just walked up and down Washington street with (well, beside actually) the Shelby County Marching Band. In the freezing cold. without a jacket. While they marched we stopped cars.
Hey,
I’m currently working my way through “Macbeth” by Shakespeare. So far I’ve finished acts 1&2. I find in this drama that Shakespeare has bent gender roles. Lady Macbeth wishes for the Evil to “unsex” her or remove that which was of her character to be caring and compassionate. This creates a very evil aura for Lady Macbeth. Macbeth’s conscience still stands, yet she continually persuades him and bully’s him into planning further and producing these Evil acts. Macbeth, is derailed by these horrible deeds; however, Lady Macbeth was willing to commit the crime herself with no guilt. She shows him her bloody hands, the same “color” as his, however, she would feel “shame” to bear a “heart so white”. Macbeth is controlled and manipulated by Lady Macbeth. In order to get her way she challenges his love for her, demasculates him, and calls him a coward, and due to this he does whatever she pleases. Through this she gains more power. Any power Macbeth gains she gains as well. Thus creating a very uncompassionate power-hungry evil “women”- personally I think she’s a witch.
Now the other work I’ve been doing has been focused on getting me into college, and my actual job- Firehouse. So I’ve been busy.
Creative writing:
Black Birds sitting and singing too
On the dark tree above the dew
they rustle their feathers in the cold
and think of time that is lost in the old
with a gust of wind they move around
switching spots up and down
the branches standing tall empty
except the birds the fly aplenty
-Liv
Monday- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.”
Willie Nelson
When you have negative thoughts you get negative results. You always thinking about what could go wrong so your not focused on being good. When you have positive thoughts you get positive results because your confident in yourself
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
Jim Rohn
You must have discipline to finishing anything mainly your goals. Procrastination is your enemy your have to tell your self to do something and not stray.
Sarah B. you spelled ‘half’ incorrectly in your blog it was spelled ‘have’
just saying.
“Book of Mordred: Nimue”;Creative: Prediction Day 2
Note: prediction day is now on Thursdays! if i want it to be.
i predict that Halbert will reappear
i predict that nimue will get merlin out of his safe place
i predict halbert will steal Mordred’s body
i predict that Lancelot throws mordred in jail for killing halbert
WaspMan Out
Sports Illustrated-Alabama Football(thanks mayfield)
The X-factor for Alabama is punter JK Scott.
JK Scott is a punter, who is a really small part of something big. People forget about how the punter really is a big part in the game. People always forget about small people and they are left out.
“If you make these grades, you will never play at a D-1 school. It is impossible. They will not take you.”
This is what Blake Sims was told during high school. He had scholorships from Alabama, Tennesee, and Georgia. His wanted his dream to live on, so he had to improve his grades. If your an athlete your always a Student-Athlete. Student first and that’s what Blake had to do.
Wow, just wow, I just typed a whole paragraph and my internet was just like, nope. Well anyways im reading the book Huck Finn by mark twain and it’s definitely a really good book, and at the same time a very different book with its strange words it uses like warn’t which I’ve never heard of but apparently auto correct has and it just shortens a lot of words also. Im to the part in the book where Huck is in a club that they founded in a cave and they’re supposed to be robbers but it’s pretty much all just fake because they’re just pretending to rob diamonds from Arabs and then keep them in the cave and keep the women and treat them as royalty in their cave so they will be nice to them.
The ever-so overused concept of “cliff hangers”.
The books that an author write are papers of their wills and leberties. But, though there is freedom of the press, so would argue that the liberties taken might be a little to harsh or offensive towards someone or some group. Example, the news paper with the cartoon dipiction of Osama Benladin. And in the some cases, the person or group may become hostile and retaliate (also part of the french news paper incident). But some of these liberties taken may not be that harsh. But to an certain extent, it can be a little confusing, both one why they did it and how it chops up the book, instaed of letting the story flow smoothly.
The not-so-smooth configuration of the chapters with in the 5th book of the “Keys to the Kingdom” book, “Lady Friday”, jumps from one main character (Aurthor) and another (Leaf), leaving the readers quite confused from the sudden lurch from one life state to another. Though two seperate stories are being told, they seen to work around each other. Example, ending on story with a question and answering it in the first sentence of the next pick-up chapter for that specific story.
Line: I turned ten years old today
Commentary: Callie is reading a diary one of her family members wrote many years ago. The first sentence said “I turned ten years old today.”
Line: Thanksgiving came with the normal rush of excitement
Commentary: Callie is helping her granny prepare for Thanksgiving dinner. She heard a knock at the door. She rushed to the door. All of her family was standing there waiting to see her and her granny .Thanksgiving came with the normal rush of excitement, Callie thought to herself.
Line: The next few weeks were busy for Callie
Commentary: Callie had gone back to school and had an assignment to do for one of her teachers. She had to write about something from her history like her ancestors or great grandmothers. She decided to write about her diary one of her family members wrote. She had more homework to finish also. The next few weeks were busy for Callie.
Creative:
I was outside playing volleyball with my friends and enjoying summer break. When all of a sudden hail started falling from the sky. My mom ran outside and yelled “Everybody hurry inside so you don’t get hurt!” Me, Kate, And Mollie hurried inside and thought of what to do because my mom said no volleyball inside. We decided to play Rummikub. Then we looked outside the windows and the hail had gotten bigger. Me and my friends called their parents and asked “Can we stay the night for one more night since it’s raining hail?” Their parents said yes. It finally stopped raining hail so we went outside and played volleyball again. We found other stuff to do before they went home in the morning. Before we knew it, it was morning. They went home and I was bored again. With nobody their to play volleyball with or Rummikub. My mom doesn’t like Rummikub and volleyball. I just watched TV until it was time for bed. Then for the next few weeks I read books and watched TV.
ok so for my last blog of the week, i’ll give a summary of what i’ve read this week.
i’ve been reading this book that i picked up in mrs. boyd’s class once because i needed something to do, and it turns out that i haven’t been able to abandon it yet. it’s one of those compilations of war stories, and i’ve been enjoying it. its a pretty easy read and all, but it’s pretty neat to hear these stories of heroism that have never been told before, and have gone virtually unnoticed.
i’ve also always been a fan of action/adventure books, and this, being true stories and all, takes that to a whole new level. knowing that these stories really happened, makes the traits shown so much more incredible.
Tuesday- “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
John Lubbock
When you worry its wears you down it wears you out. When you worry about something your focusing all of your energy on it. When you focus all of your time and energy its drains you not just physically but mentally also. This can have the equivalency of a week of work and you know when its draining when the work doesn’t matter.
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men who are ignorant have a lack in knowledge or are not aware of general information. They are so to say uneducated. Since they are uneducated they ask questions that have already been answered.
so im gonna do a poem about baby lasagnsa prepare for inspiration
The noodles so wavy
they look like hair from a baby
the sauce is delicious
it looks like a baby..thats vicious
hope you enjoyed your baby lasagna
NOW IT WILL ROT YOU FROM THE INSIDEEEEEEE
TONE TONE TONE….
🙂
Wednesday- “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
Helen Keller
When your in the dark even if its an inner challenge or what ever that person is facing the fact that they are accompanied by a friend makes the darkness seem more appealing to them rather than being in the light alone. People need other people they need to be around one another it doesn’t matter the stakes or situation.
Wednesday- ” A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
You don’t have to have this huge elaborate garden or many things that make up your world like art, people, music, etc. When you love something and hold it dearly to you it doesn’t matter how big how small or what it is for that matter it is YOUR world.
Forgot this one.
Thursday-“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
Mencius
They connect on and emotional and intellectual level. When your best friends with some one its like they know what your going to say before you do, your one person split into two and that’s why you connect and understand each other your really just the same person.
“Your friend is your needs answered.”
Khalil Gibran
Your friends are there for you when you need to cuddle or need to eat your heart out. When you need ” a pick me up” or any like that they are an answer to your prayers we don’t realize this because we take it for granted but everything we need in life we can count on our friends to be that thing or be there.
my day has been made with a poem from olive-a
i remember macbeth from laundry advice:) that, and watching it with vincent kids at one of my first sub ventures
so very glad i can be in comedy land with Shakespeare – the tragedies are similar – it’s just that the luck turns the other way – but yeah, Shakespeare hasn’t really bent the gender roles if the point is that Lady Macbeth is a witch (which i agree with, pun intended) – it just reinforces that women shouldn’t act like men – that they should stay in their roles
which i had a cool poem to contribute
Am I too late to blog this week?
Btw, i’ll make sure to tell my evil brother about how he’s “missed”.
🙂
ooh, by the way mr. maf, guess what i just finished learning in my English study?
the middle english and anglo-saxon era and how to read both.
it was actually kinda hard, but i got the hang of it. and now in order to pass, i have to have at least a B average. if i have a C, i don’t pass.
talk about high expectations!
🙂
ooooooooh and i also forgot that now since i’m sort of part of a private school (my mom says it’s called a cover school–that they do the dirty work for you like mailing your tests and stuff to the state) that i can study the bible as one of my courses!
YAY!
*happy stalker dance*
there’s a happy stalker dance??? wow, i never knew this… 🙂
isn’t there a levitivical law vs. dancing??? 🙂
middle english and anglo saxon is tough – you have my sympathies blue hood
never too late to blog though – hey, i’m still waiting on keaton for this week… and i’ll probably wait on keaton forever
we now have a mardi gras tree in class – it’s pretty
still missed le blue
Hi I need to be famous! 😮
I shall overcome the mighty elijah and rule the blog FOREVERMOOOOOOOOORRRRRRe