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When you start polishing your pages, you might have a need to either add some static pages with just a text or change the layout of your dynamic pages. Both tasks can be easily done by using page templates
Because you do not add "Page" object yourself, you can't specify 4th argument. You will need to know how Application is loading those templates. Behaviour may vary depending on the API used.
Page Template handling in ApiFrontend
ApiFrontend is most popular API and is used for public applications as well as administrative back-ends. ApiFrontend determines page by the URL used. For example if the URL which was used is http://yoursite.com/disclaimer/moreinfo.html the page will be "disclaimer/moreinfo".
Static Pages
Static pages does not have their own class defined. They will be initialized using prototype of default "Page" class. You can globally change this by setting $api->page_class property.
If page/disclaimer/moreinfo.php was not found, then ApiFrontend will attempt to load template from templates/default/page/disclaimer/moreinfo.html. Actually it will look into atk4 folder as well as "shared" skin there.
Create such a file and put all the text you want in there. Do not forget to use a place-holder for ID in the same way how we did it for views in previous chapter.
<div id="<?$_name?>"> <p> disclaimer text here........ </p> </div>
Always use <div> with id of _name on pages. You may at some point to dynamically load pages and if elements in different pages do not match, there might be some confusion.
You can redefine $api->loadStaticPage if you wish that static pages are loaded differently.
Catch-all pages and 404
If page class can't be loaded and template is not found method $api->pageNotFound() will be called as a last resort. By default this method throws exception, but you can use it to either load and display or redirect user to a 404 page. Below are examples for both.
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Pages with Template
Page class is derived from view, therefore it has many thing in common. One thing is that it also uses defaultTemplate() method. You can redefine this method to explicitly define which template to use for the page.
function defaultTemplate(){
return array('page/disclaimer/moreinfo');
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Study the Panther!
For Rilke, too, the Ding now became paramount. For him, "the history of endless generations of things could be sensed beneath the history of mankind," and his ambition was "to be a real person among real things" and thus cure himself of what he wonderfully called his "breathing difficulties of the soul." It was Rodin, so the story goes, who urged Rilke to take himself to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and pick one of the animals in the zoo there and study it in all its movements and moods until he knew it as thoroughly as a creature or thing could be known, and then write about it. The result was "The Panther," one of Rilke's early masterpieces and as revolutionary in its way as anything by Eliot or Pound.
Despite what he had learned at the marble knee of Rodin, however, Rilke had no illusions about the solitariness of the artistic project, or its difficulty—"we must hew to what is difficult; everything that lives hews to it"—and was determined to impress his young correspondent with the hard facts of the creative life:
Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There's only one way to proceed. Go inside yourself. Explore the reason that compels you to write; test whether it stretches its roots into the deepest part of your heart, admit to yourself whether you would have to die if the opportunity to write were withheld from you. Above all, ask yourself at your most silent hour of night: must I write?
Thus we see, behind this admonition, the journey into the self that Rilke had ventured on, and the complex aesthetic of inwardness that would find its comprehensive and triumphant expression in the Duino Elegies. The world of things is there, ineluctable, irrefutable, yet waiting on us and our transformative powers to help it achieve its ultimate apotheosis:
Erde, ist es nicht dies, was du willst: unsichtbar
in uns erstehn?—Ist es dein Traum nicht,
einmal unsichtbar zu sein?—Erde! unsichtbar!
Earth, isn't that what you want: to arise within us,
invisible? Isn't it your dream
to be wholly invisible someday?—O Earth: invisible!7
For Rilke, life and the world are all potential. In an extraordinary passage in a letter to Kappus from Rome in December 1903, the poet responds to what must have been an expression of religious doubt by the young man,8 chiding him for saying that he had lost God—"Is it rather," he asks, "that you never possessed him?" The God Rilke speaks of is "one who has been coming, the one imminent for an eternity," and therefore we must live our lives "as a painful and beautiful day in the history of a great pregnancy."
If he is the most perfect one, must not lesser things come before him so that he himself can choose from this fullness and profusion—Must not he be the last in order to embrace everything within himself, and what significance would we have if he, for whom we long, had already been?
In a similar vein he inverts our idea of carnal love, denying that it is, as we imagine, "a merging, surrendering and uniting with another person," but on the contrary "a sublime occasion for the individual to mature, to become something in himself." This notion of love as consisting of "two solitudes which protect, border, and greet each other" leads him on to a radical reassessment of the destiny of woman, who eventually will cease merely to "imitate male conduct, bad and good," and become her true self, free of the "distorting influences of the other sex." His thoughts here merit extended quotation:
Women, in whom life abides and dwells more immediately, fruitfully and confidently, must indeed have become in essence more mature human beings, more human humans than men, who being light and lacking the weight of bodily fruit pulling him down below life's surface, undervalues in his arrogance and rashness what he claims to love. Carried to term in pain and humiliation, this humanity of woman will—once she has shed the conventions of the solely feminine through these changes in her external status—become evident, and those men who cannot feel this coming today will end up being taken by surprise and vanquished.
Hearken, o Mensch!
Heidegger once remarked that he was only trying to do in philosophy what Rilke had already achieved in poetry. On page after page of these masterly letters we are given ample instances of the depth of Rilke's thinking and the philosophical reach of his imagination. In The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics Heidegger dwells at length—how else?—on the central function of boredom as a spur to human action, as a state of purest potential, a kind of affectless waiting as the spirit gathers itself for the leap into deed.
Rilke, anticipating the philosopher by some decades, writes from Borgeby Gård, his refuge in rural Sweden, in a letter to Kappus in August 1904, of the importance of being "solitary and attentive" because "the seemingly uneventful and static moment when our future enters into us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and fortuitous moment when the future happens to us, as if from outside." In another passage, that could be from Emerson or William James, he urges Kappus, should he feel there is something sickly in his nature, to consider that "sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from foreign matter," and the organism, instead of being treated with curatives, should be helped to be sick, "to experience its illness fully and to erupt…."
Above all, these letters give the lie to the idea of Rilke as hopelessly self-regarding and cut off from authentic, "ordinary" life. His tone may be elevated and his manner at times that of a dandy—he was elevated, he was a dandy—but the advice purveyed in these letters, and the observations and aperçus that they throw off, contain true wisdom, and are anything but platitudinous. Franz Kappus was a fortunate young man to have found such a correspondent, and we are fortunate in his good fortune. Despite all the moaning and complaining; despite the lists of illnesses, mental and physical; despite his constant urge toward transcendence, Rilke was thoroughly of our world. In the ninth and perhaps greatest of the Duino Elegies he asks why we should persist in our humanness, and offers this beautiful answer:
…weil Hiersein viel ist, und weil uns scheinbar
alles das Hiesige braucht, dieses Schwindende, das
seltsam uns angeht. Uns, die Schwindendsten.
…because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way
keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.
7 The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982), pp. 200–203. Mitchell's are the most satisfactory Rilke translations, although Edward Snow's The Poetry of Rilke (North Point, 2009) is indispensable also. ↩
8 It is a misfortune that Kappus's side of the correspondence has been lost, for there are numerous places where it would be illuminating to know what exactly were the questions and observations that Rilke is responding to. ↩
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell (Random House, 1982), pp. 200–203. Mitchell's are the most satisfactory Rilke translations, although Edward Snow's The Poetry of Rilke (North Point, 2009) is indispensable also. ↩
It is a misfortune that Kappus's side of the correspondence has been lost, for there are numerous places where it would be illuminating to know what exactly were the questions and observations that Rilke is responding to. ↩


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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Byrne Risk takes Flight!
But I put my blog-cation to good use: I finished the edits on Byrne Risk (my middle grade science fiction novel) and have flung it out into the querying world.
*deep breaths* *deep breaths*
Tao, or The Way, a concept that figures prominently in the Mandarin-dominated culture-of-the-future in Byrne Risk, where a thirteen-year-old girl tries to save her clone caretaker from the Peace Police.
Pondering the Tao of the Publishing also helps to calm my querying nerves, but mostly I just like the way the character looks.
The amazingly talented K.M. Criddle, who visited Ink Spells during Art Appreciation Week, drew this picture of a murinda for me. Murinda are the small genetically engineered pets that Kate (the protagonist in Byrne Risk) uses for her cloning experiments.
Could he be any more cute?
Thank you, Marie!
I'll just gaze at this critter while I obsessively check the email box, I mean, move on to writing my other books.
p.s. I've joined a team blog called The Scribbler's Cove, filled with pirates, professional liars, and awesome. I'll be posting over there when the whim strikes me, for example today, where I further ponder the Tao of Publishing.
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Best wishes for your querying journey. It sounds like a wonderful book!ReplyDelete
Loving the kitty drawing! Good luck with the query process.ReplyDelete
@KarenG Thanks! I hope the agents/editors like it too!ReplyDelete
@Sheri Isn't KM amazing? Thanks for the well wishes!
Good luck with the new book. I'm sure some smart publisher will come running up to you soon, begging to publish it!ReplyDelete
@Carl Thanks! I won't make them beg, I promise. :) (and I'll try not to do too much begging of my own)ReplyDelete
Hey! Welcome back and congratulations on getting those queries out there.ReplyDelete
congrats on the querying adventure! The murinda is ADORABLE. I want one!ReplyDelete
Congrats on finishing your revisions! Byrne Risk sounds like something I'd really enjoy, and your murinda is very cute. Are you querying agents or editors? Either way, I hope someone loves it!ReplyDelete
@C.Lee The querying was both more nerve-wracking and easier than I thought it would be. *deep breaths*ReplyDelete
@Vicki IK,R? My kids all want a murinda too. I ended up buying them a tribble when we went to the Star Trek exhibit in LA! :)
Welcome back. :)ReplyDelete
The Murinda is adorable.
See you at KarenG's blog BBQ this Friday!
Querying is a fun and exciting place to be! Remember to start working on something else and keep your chin up! Hope we hear good news soon!ReplyDelete
@MT See you at the BBQ! :)ReplyDelete
@Laura Right you are! I'm diving right (back) into my (long neglected) other WIP, which hopefully will reap the benefits of my undivided attention. :)
Good luck and keep us posted, Susan! Sounds really interesting!ReplyDelete
Eeek, querying time! Fortunately I don't have to worry about that evilness until later this month (maybe a little longer). I'm sure YOU'LL have some great news to share with us soon. :DReplyDelete
Cute dude, btw!
Thanks for the link for that article!ReplyDelete
Good luck querying Susan!
I knew I wanted a murinda from the first momment I read about them...now I'm desperate for one!ReplyDelete
Best wishes with querying...(Fingers, toes and eyes are crossed for you. Of course you don't need it, you've got all kinds of talent.) :-)
Good luck with the querying. I have a feeling more good things are around the corner for you!ReplyDelete
It must feel great to have finished and sent your queries out (that's what I'm working on this month). I hope you get some positive responses.ReplyDelete
@Laura Kaye I'm sure you'll hear my screams of joy on the internet if BR goes anywhere! :)ReplyDelete
@Stina I'm excited you're getting close to querying too! Let me know if you want to swap crits sometime!! :)
@Ali Thanks! And that article rocked my socks ... I'm still thinking about it.
@Sharon The murinda are surprisingly irresistable. :) Thanks for the well wishes and sweet words!
@Sherrie I like the way you think! :)
@Andrea Good luck on your queries! Man, it takes a lot more time than I thought, the actual querying itself (not the waiting, which is crazy).
Yay! You really have my interest peaked on Byrne Risk. I hope you get some bites on your query. Cute little critter!ReplyDelete
Just noticed that one eye is ringed, now I'm REalLY intrigued!ReplyDelete
Hoooooray!!! Congratulations on finishing edits and the fling into the world! I'm sending all sorts of good writerly vibes your way. Can't wait to read Byrne Risk and point at it in bookstores and tell everyone that walks by "I know her. She's awesome."ReplyDelete
Good luck!
That murinda is the cutest ever! And I will totally picture them that way when I read it in print :)ReplyDelete
@Margo I just adore that picture Marie made, too!ReplyDelete
@K. Marie You are so sweet! I printed out a copy of the version I'm querying now, so the family can read the latest. Only now it's got an awesome cover too! Thanks!!
@Charity Thanks for the positive thinking!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :)
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- For the municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora, see Tepache, Sonora
A glass of cold tepache served at a taco stand in the Tacubaya neighbourhood of Mexico City
|Place of origin
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Tepache is a fermented beverage made from the flesh and the rind of pineapples, and is sweetened either with piloncillo or brown sugar, seasoned with powdered cinnamon, and served cold. Though tepache is fermented for several days, the resulting drink does not contain much alcohol. In Mexican culinary practice, the alcoholic content of tepache may be increased with a small amount of beer.
In Mexico, tepache is usually sold as a chilled drink by street vendors. In the U.S., it is sold in juice bars in the Mexican American communities of Southwestern United States. The fermentation process for making tepache is simple and quick, which makes tepache a drink readily produced at home.[1] Culturally, tepache is a drink common to natives of Mexico and the Mexican immigrant communities of the U.S.[1]
Tepache dates from Pre-Columbian Mexico, as a popular drink among the Nahual people of Mexico; in the náhuatl language, the word tepache means "drink made from corn". Originally, corn (maize) was the base of tepache, but the contemporary recipe for tepache uses pineapple rinds as the foodstuff fermented to produce the tart drink that is tepache.[2]
Because of the popularity of tepache in Mexico, the drink is now being produced commercially as a non-alcoholic soft drink. There are a few different brands of tepache including Tepache from the Frumex Corporation.
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The drink tepache is mentioned in the popular Spanish-language quebradita song La Niña Fresa ("The Spoiled Girl"), by Banda Zeta, in which the spolied-girl character is offered several types of drink — including tepache — yet she refuses them all, for being beneath her social status.[3]
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Thousands of growing credit unions owe a debt of gratitude to the fallen leader who will be honored with the 2009
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Decades before most credit unions learned to "reach out to new markets" and "serve the underserved," Sterner was teaching these concepts around the world.
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Sterner's vision was to "promote new and sustained membership" in cooperatives. Yet he paved his career path in a different direction than most cooperative pioneers. He blazed his first trails internationally, then nationally, before settling into a single state and local community.
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Sterner began his professional journey in the 1960s, when he worked for seven years with the Peace Corps in South America. Serving his first three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader and Program Training Officer, Sterner helped villagers in Colombia and Ecuador establish financial cooperatives.
He was then asked to serve as Regional Country Director for Columbia and Ecuador. He spent the next four years coordinating efforts between Peace Corps volunteers and the US State Department in working with local councils to build their economies.
"Here was a man who, without motive other than to serve, gave his all to support those who worked with him," related international cooperative development consultant Carol Schillios, who later went on to earn the 2007 Wegner Award for Individual Achievement. "Bill knew just how to inspire, nurture, motivate, and share lessons to help others succeed. He was the epitome of a leader who put others above himself to create success for the end result… Others, like me, who were given public acclaim, owe much to the quiet support of mentors behind the scenes. Bill was a powerful teacher and mentor…"
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Sterner successfully advocated for federal legislation establishing Biden-Pell grants that empowered credit union leaders to launch the DE program.
"When the DE program began in the US, there was little or no support," recalled Dean Mahon, who shared a Peace Corps bond with Sterner. "The exception was Bill. Bill was one of the most critical reasons why the DE program survived and therefore exists today. It would have been easiest for him to, at best, provide perfunctory support. Instead he stuck his neck out, gave us cover when needed, and protected the DE program at its most sensitive stage. Ultimately he was the only person who could have done this. Given his background, he got it – and because of that, the DE program survived political challenges. We owe him an enormous debt of gratitude."
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Sterner led the Moonshot program for four years. He trained countless credit union league education directors, Development Educators, and other outreach leaders. He broke new ground for credit unions by building the first credit union template to reach the Hispanic community.
When it became clear that the goal of 100 million members could not be reached within the decade, Sterner recommended that the Moonshot program be discontinued. Yet he continued to work with credit unions to help build their memberships.
Nearly two decades later, Sterner's national efforts endure – even with leaders who have joined the credit union movement more recently. "What the Moonshot program did engender," observed Dill, "was a renewed commitment by credit unions across the country to reach out to new markets and use more competitive products and services to reach those markets."
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In 1997, Sterner dedicated himself to putting what he taught into practice at the University of Colorado (U of C) Federal Credit Union in Boulder.
Initially as the Vice President of Marketing, Sterner worked to reach out to everyone in the field of membership -- especially young people.
In 2000, when the credit union's CEO position opened up, Sterner was named the Interim CEO.
"Bill's leadership skills, knowledge, and way with people made him a natural choice to fill the role," explained Immediate Past Chair Lynn Walloch. "After an extensive national search, Bill was selected from a competitive field of highly qualified applicants to serve as the permanent CEO."
Over the next eight years, Sterner and his team:
Expanded the credit union's field of membership;
Changed its name to Elevations Credit Union;
Won an exclusive contract as the financial provider for the University of Colorado's student access/ID card;
Developed an innovative mortgage down payment assistance program for University of Colorado faculty;
Partnered with a non-profit housing agency on the American Dream Campaign raising nearly $2 million from local businesses to create 750 permanently affordable new homes;
Initiated a 0% bicycle loan for students;
Became a founding sponsor of the "Buffalo Bicycle Classic" bike tour, which raises over $250,000 each year for student scholarships;
Increased the credit union's assets from $340 million to $790 million;
Increased the credit union's membership to 76,000;
Oversaw community giving valued at $750,000;
Earned recognition as Boulder's "Best Financial Institution" every year.
"Bill's underlying operational focus was on the basic credit union tenets: providing for the underserved and meeting the needs of members," Walloch remarked. "Operating according to the 'People Helping People' philosophy set Elevations Credit Union apart and contributed to being voted 'Best Financial Institution' for nine years in a row. Bill's passion for social mission continues through the many ongoing community initiatives supported by our Community Relations Committee."
Statewide Volunteer
Under Sterner's leadership as Chairman of the Credit Union Association of Colorado (CUAC), the association produced a small credit union initiative and an award-winning branding campaign. Both were designed to promote credit unions' growth. To honor his memory and help perpetuate his commitment to financial literacy, CUAC has named the new Education and Training Center in the association's new building as The Sterner Center.
Sterner also volunteered as a director for SunCorp Credit Union, the primary corporate credit union for Colorado and many other states. "Bill agreed to join the SunCorp Board of Directors and provide sound strategic leadership at a critical time," reflected SunCorp President & CEO Thomas Graham. "In remembering Bill, you also have to note his integrity. He was a man of his word. With only a handshake, you knew where he would stand."
From 2000 to 2008, Sterner also served on the board of Credit Union Service Network (CUSN), a credit union service organization that provides shared branching in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming. "Shared branching is built on a foundation of trust and cooperation," pointed out CUSN President/CEO Douglas Burke. "These are the same traits Bill demonstrated starting at the Peace Corps and through his distinguished credit union career."
Full Circle Career
Sterner's career came full circle in 2004, when he renewed his international efforts. Sterner traveled to Asia and South America to consult with executives who were organizing and managing cooperative financial institutions. In these expeditions, Sterner underscored the importance of cooperative ATM networks and shared credit union branches to help developing credit union movements leverage resources and economies of scale.
"Bill's ripples have become waves of energy at so many levels," concluded Barbara Main, President of Main Communications and one of Sterner's former colleagues at CUNA. "His presentations caused many talented young credit union professionals to maintain and do more in their credit union careers… internationally, nationally, in states, associations, organizations, credit unions, and with an untold number of individuals."
About the Wegner Awards Dinner
The 21st Annual Wegner Awards Dinner will take place on February 23 at the Grand Hyatt Washington on the opening night of CUNA's 2009 Governmental Affairs Conference. Award winners will be:
Lifetime Achievement
Bill Sterner, late President/CEO, Elevations Credit Union, Boulder, Colorado
Individual Achievement
Rita Haynes, Manager/CEO, Faith Community United Credit Union, Cleveland, Ohio
Tom Sargent, President/CEO, First Tech Credit Union, Beaverton, Oregon
Outstanding Organization
Montana Credit Unions for Community Development, Helena, Montana
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At least this time he passed the NST! Yay! I was worried about little motion last time. Cervix has not progressed, but his head is WAY DOWN. So strange. I had LEEP in the past, so the expectation would be for some dilation by now. He thought I'd be at a 5 by now with that in my chart. I'm so discouraged every time they check and I have had no noticeable contractions since the 5-6 hours of regular contractions I had on Tuesday that were totally ineffective. He did mention inducing today, but I told him I'd like to try to go naturally. It may not happen though. :( I'm going to load up on pineapple today and maybe that will help. I ate a lot of it last pregnancy. I know it's unlikely, but I'll try anything at this point for some progress. 39 weeks tomorrow. I have been drinking red raspberry leaf tea which is supposed to make contractions more effective, but I think I wasted my money. Of course, not having any contractions lately, I guess it can't really help. It's weird. Suddenly, I don't even have any discharge whereas Tuesday I was having loads of it.
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So...given that MS have said they can't ensure that data won't leave the EU where do we stand with O365?
Can either Google Apps or O365 be used and comply with our responsibilities? *head spinning*
Just as Microsoft say they won't. They're both claims made, and Microsoft can happily change the terms at their leisure.Google had stated they didnt mine email but updated the terms I believe to remove that and have literally declared in California they do mine pupil email data to target ad's.
So...given that MS have said they can't ensure that data won't leave the EU where do we stand with O365?
Can either Google Apps or O365 be used and comply with our responsibilities? *head spinning*
So they mine emails for ad targeting.
What is so bad about that?
The fact the terms were updated stealthily without clarity really doesn't help, the only reason I think it was picked up on was because Google had to state before the court in California what happened with pupil data.
Just to add, Google was being sued in the USA for this but the class action fell apart as there were too many parties with different scenarios I believe, it will be curios to see if the apps in edu lot reform their own direct class action. Non-Gmail users suing Google for "wiretapping" denied class action | Ars Technica
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I don't use any cloud based solution - they're all too risky now IMO.Well Google did it on the quiet, have you been getting consent from parents for the scanning as Google (I believe) requires in the USA?
Currently as things stand Microsoft state clearly they won't and they state they will inform you if anything changes terms wise, Google on the other hand has been caught stealthily updating terms and being forced to admit "yeah we mine apps email to target ad's on other google platforms, it cant be turned off" which is kinda the opposite of what a lot of people thought.
You may believe MS will do build a new advert platform, update everyones terms on the stealth and have no option to prevent the mining in the future but I doubt it myself.
EDIT: w00t finally I got a double post to help diagnose that problem
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Which is a change in position to where I stood 2 years ago when I was a lot more pro-GApps etc...
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I'm pretty sure it's not just Gmail that is a Data Protection headache for Schools in a relationship with Google. Google is also a search engine, and students make extensive use of it to search and follow links from. Google analytics follows them all over the web, in school and at home. Data we have provided to Google in order to provide us with a service is now linked with a particular browsing history. Is any of that browsing history part of our DPA responsibility? What about the history on personal devices which might be associated with a GA4E school logon?
We have advertising turned off on the Domain and we don't use GMail. But I still get advertising to my work email from Google. A few items have really had me scratching my head trying to figure out how they knew things.
What about when Granddad is served an Ad telling him what his granddaughter needs to help her at school so he can buy it from these sponsored links for her birthday next tuesday? We provided some of that data to Google to provide a service to us and if a data subject demands that we delete all the instances of that data, or correct it, we are powerless. Half the time we can't even make a meaningful contact at Google to get them to sell us something. You need to be a government to get Googles attention, even they seem to struggle.
Part of the problem is perhaps the law. The DPA is 15 years old (grumpy teenager), relevant European regulation is only slightly more recent. How well do they really stack up in a Big Data world?
-so the only way of them getting the money back to fund this is through advertising.-
But they do not serve adds to education.
Starting to think a few posters might work for ms.
That kind of comment is commonly known as ad-homien, it doesn't address the points raised, just tries to attack the posters. "a few" isn't even brave enough to single out individuals, let alone a whole post or a single point. Come on edutech4schools, step up to the plate and tackle the actual issues here! Otherwise we might start to think you work for Google!Starting to think a few posters might work for ms.
I have seen targeted ad's based on my gmail email I have got and not just targeted on gmail, it applies across all google services and google adsense which is everywhere.
Im sorry but I don't understand the fuss. Google offers to store potentially hundreds of Terabytes of data for free and you didn't think there was a catch? I know there is a case of giving up civil liberties and all but for what we get, a few targeted adverts really isn't a big deal in my mind.
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i totally want to watch y's night a hard da(a hard day's night, for those who don't get it). i hope my mommy got it for me for christmas.
i took a nap today. totally. i watched some of amelie, then got a headache(no doubt from reading subtitles) and fell asleep. totally love that movie to bits. when i woke up from my nap, my mommy was there with a mocha for me. we watched oprah. that damn oprah! she went to south africa and gave every kid in this little village a new wordrobe and toy for christmas! i love her! after oprah, we got bored and decided to go to southcenter to look for my cousin's present. we thought it would be so bad there, but it actually wasn't bad. we went straight to fye to get my cousin a legolas standee thingy. that shit freaks me out, man. he looks at your with that intense 'hey, i'm legolas. everybody loves me.' attitude. you can totally tell he's wearing contacts. freaky ass elf. so we went to the toy store and got the star wars version of 'the game of life' for my other cousin. i loved it. i stood holding a legolas standee and a star wars board game, wearing my one ring. such a great geek moment at the mall. we went and got fries and milk shakes from mcdonald's and ate them there, then went back to the car. we had a pretty good parking place, too. not too far from the food court. we were driving out of the parking lot and this ass hole beetch drove through at about 35 miles per hour(in a parking lot!) and honked at us. slow down, fucker! i mean, if you're in a mall parking lot the monday before christmas, there's going to be a little traffic! the backup wasn't even half as bad as when amanda, laura, and i went. that shit was bad.
we went and picked up my sister at work, she got off at 9:15. we got there at 7:30 because we didn't take a long time at the mall. we just sat in the car until we decided time would pass more quickly if we just shopped for groceries, so we went and shopped for about 2 hours. really slow. it was fun. the coffee grinder spat coffee at my mom. lol. it was funny.
after we shopped, we sat in the car and talked about my mom's old job. she used to work at this burger place when she was a teenager and her boss was a huge bitch. she made her lock up at 3 in the morning. she beat her kids. she wrote my mom bad checks. she was just a huge bitch. one day, when her boss was hosing down the parking lot, the water splashed up onto her own legs. lol. she wore leg make-up, so she looked like a lepor(sp?).
my mom told someone that i want the anthology for christmas, but she didn't know how much it cost. lol. i'd be happy if that was all i got. just that. ...and y's night a hard da. love that fucking movie. my mom didn't know it wasn't the beatles voices in yellow submarine. she didn't know. neither did my dad. crazy old people. she told me that hearing that from me was like hearing there's no santa clause. lol. crazy!
i have to go and finish amelie. i love the ending. it's the best part of the movie, when she's cooking and imagining what's his face. it's so sad... then, he comes and it's all shy and pretty and she goes to her room and sees... okay, i have to go and watch. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
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|Tuesday, December 16th, 2003
ewan came on my tv at exactly twelve last night, then proceded to talk about the house he used to live in being haunted. love that damn man.
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yeah! today was so chimp arse, man! i can't think of anything that bothered me a lot besides third period. man, i want to buy a hard day's night. i should have recorded that shit last time i rented it. i'm cheap like that. if i did have money, i would buy it, but i don't, so it's all different. you want to hear about my day? too bad! here:
first period:
french. we watched a video on paris. it was kind of dull, but i didn't care. we just had to right don't answers to questions in the video. it was nice. we did progress reports today. i got a 'c' in french. that's only because i be's not havin ma test done, yo! ok, sooorry. lol. i swear nobody in this class knew that oscar wilde was gay. lol. idiots. damn i love that movie... so gay. and jude law. my baz.
second period:
math. didn't do my homework once again. in class, we worked and shite. i can't remember. all i remember is a lot of numbers and stuff. that's all. i have a 'b'.
stayed mostly in math with laura, warren, and kelly. that girl is seriously always on crack. that crazy ass put her vibrating ferry boat on my forehead. my eyes numbed. lol. it was fun.
third period:
world history. did group stuff all period. i don't really know what's going on in this class. nobody knows. i got an 'n'. lol. yeah, i don't care. mr west better start teaching again soon. i don't like it when the student teacher teaches.
fourth period:
lol. BOOYA! we talked about our 'projects' all period, basically. it was fun, but pointless. we already know what we're doing. i got a 'b' i think.
after school:
i took my french test. sooorry, eliza. i'm not going to get an 'a'. i should have studied right before. that usually helps. i did pretty well for a person who just missed three days in a row of school. well, i guess i did. i took the bus to rite aid, then talked to myself, hopefully freaking people out, on my way home. fun. when i got home, i got some nuts(lol. nuts.) and coke. and started to listen to rubber soul and copy sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band. baz, eliza! baz! i got them all copied. all four. thank you so much, man. you just saved me so much money, and now i don't have to give michael jackson a penny! MWAHAHA! lol. white woman with no nose. anyways, i went to target when my mom dropped my sister off at work. it took my forever to find bend it like beckham! i was all fast, too. people probably thought me strange, i was walking so fast all around. yeah, so i bought it and i had like 25 cents left. i'm so good. i brought $22 for a dvd that costs $20 and i figured out all of the tax and shite. ok, so i just guessed, but whatever. i'm cool like that.
baz, i love this song. anyways!
after i watched and taped bls(i got homw from target right as it was about to start. that's why i was in such a hurry) i watched bend it like beckham. baz, i love that dern movie! it makes me feel about as good as when i watch amelie, but not quite. plus, there's jrm. yeah. hehe.
so, yeah. that's about all i did today. i just got finished watching bend it like beckham, and now i feel good. i couldn't stop laughing a few minutes ago. i have no idea why. yo amanda and laura! either of y'all want to borrow bend it like beckham? i know you do, bitches! i'll bring it tomorrow just in case you do. laura, i need 'help!' tomorrow. it's due. i might watch it when i get home, because it's early dismissal and all. i like those days.
man, i need to read. when i'm done with mrs dalloway, i'm going to attempt lotr! that'll be crazy. or rather, cizazy! i'm so getting down right now. i'm having way too much fun. i'm going to end this now and check my friends list at lj. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Monday, September 29th, 2003
hey, all. i need to start writing long entries in here again. i have too many thoughts! lol. my thinking too much.
'eliza' is letting me borrow some beatles cds! woo! i think i've been listening to them a little too much lately. wait, no. never! NEVER!
i'm really bored. i'll tell you guys about my day, i guess. i have a while until i can put my clothes in the dryer and go to bed.
first period:
french. changed seats. yes! i sit on the end of a row! i don't have to pass a bunch of crowded tables to get to my seat now! so happy. we learned some foods and stuff. i don't really know. i can't think about first period. it's too far away from now.
second period:
math. had a fire drill. kinda boring, but it was nice to get away from the classroom for awhile and see peeps. did some math...
stayed in math a bit. some stupid people were retaking tests, so laura and i had to be quiet. i love when she comes in when i'm at lunch in there. it's so pleasant, but i think ms escame thinks she slows me down, which she doesn't. she just gives me her answers. lol. hey, it makes me go faster, doesn't it? if it works...
third period:
world history. good baz, this class is so boring and bad. i seriously hate it. mr west doesn't even teach it. the student teacher does. she can't speak english very well, so i get headahces from the people around me asking her to repeat shit that i understood perfectly. think headed people. and stupid. we did africa maps and stuff. had to label water bodies and shite. all i missed was a river that started with a 'z', but that's only because i didn't have an atlas.
fourth period:
health. we took notes about drugs mostly. boring. i spiced it up by using a green highlighter, then changing the colorto pink half way through. my life is sad. i'm one of those people who has more than one color highlighter in their backpack. lol. anyways, we have to do this thing where we make a label for an over the counter drug or whatever. our's is caled 'booya!'. but, people! say it with a southern accent! that's how you're supposed to say it! i think i scared the teacher a little when i started talkin' lak thaaat. lol.
...drop of a hat, she's as willing as, playful as a pussycat. then momentarily out of action, temperarily out of time...
i forgot to go and take my french test after school. shite. i think i'll do well on it, too! i studied in third period a bit, like eliza told me to. i get everything. fucking memory! i walk right by the class on my way out, too! it makes no sense! *hits head*
after school, i took the bus to rite aid with my sister and she bought me some stuff. she wouldn't buy me the 'weekly world news' with osama bin laden and saddam hussein's gay wedding pictures. i don't know why. %50 of or something like that, for nail polish, people! crazy! i can't find the nail polish remover. people are really making me mad today. mainly, my dad. he's just so fucking annoying! ahh! he's kind of like my sister in a way. grr.
i have pretty much nothing to say. my clothes should be done in a bit, i'll just try to watch the rotk trailer for that amount of time. i've tried to watch that bitch about 5 times already! i heard it all the way through, though. lol. at one point, to screen was just white, and the sound was playing, but i was seeing nothing. bitch computer.
i'm going now. i want to go and look at beatles pictures. i found the book that i checked out from the library a while ago. it's called 'the beatles files'. man. so many pictures! i hope they don't put those security things in the renovated library. i don't like checking things out. too much work. too much remembering.
i'll bring 'help!' tomorrow for amanda and laura to fight over, then bring back to me on wed., when it's due. i've watched it twice. i still like a hard day's night a lot better. i don't know why. it's just so innocent and great, then there's music and shite. i love it.
ok, i'm really going now. no, really. i am. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Sunday, September 28th, 2003
yeah, i think i'm going a little crazy with this whole thing with the phone and taking pictures. i mean, i took a picture of the movies i rented! lol. and my lamp? and dvds? i actually like the one of rosie. she's so cute, yes she is! her stupid ass sister wouldn't stay still enough to take a picture of her. lol. ( Read more... )
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|Saturday, September 27th, 2003
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|Friday, September 26th, 2003
today was fucking tops! i loved it! loved it loved it loved it!
first period:
french! did some stuff and stuff! i'm going to make up the test on monday! eliza, don't call me! i don't care what the teacher said! don't! the phone will eat me! stupid phone.
second period:
i actually understand all this math stuff i think... i think... whatever. i was really lost yesterday and i didn't get it until rebecca explained it on the board. she'd make a chimp ass teacher, man!
stop yelling in the microphone! people abuse their microphones too much! lol... thinking about that whole thing with derek and amanda. lol. yeah. that boy should stop.
third period:
we went to the library! i'm never happy about that, but i got to sit away from people and frown a lot! i took a lot of notes. i think the teacher told me not to take that many notes. i don't care. i'm a rebel! grr!
fourth period:
health test thingy. being gone three days from school can't be good on a person's grade... but who cares, cause i'm a stahh!
'pep assembally':
i think this is why i'm in such a good mood. making fun of the cheerleaders is fun. stupid people wasted money on a mascot costume! lol. woo. wildcats. go. yeah. we're the wiggers, i tell ya. the whole school is just wiggers, and some black people that act white. it's wrong. so wrong.
after school:
cathryn gave my sister and i a ride. kind of. we went the long way, which is really in a circle, all along alki, then over to cathryn's house, and back to my house. it was good. cathryn played justin timberlake, like, the whole way. that was kinda weird. not that i don't love my son, it's just... there's a line.
ahh! i love today! i think all i've listend to all day is the beatles! i love it! thank you so much for letting me borrow your abbey road cd, amanda! i love you! i've listened to it like four times already. think that's too much? no, i don't think so.
when i got home from school, i layed on my bed and listened to the beatles, layed on a ball(lol) and listened to the beatles, and played crazy taxi. good times, people! good times!
watched and recored bls! good thing i checked how mch time there was left on my tape! there was exactly one minute left. now, you know i used that minute!
my mom and i went to pick up my sister from work! that was fun! we picked her up, then my mom and i switched seats and i got to drive in the vacant "marshall's" parking lot. my first time behind the wheel of an actual moving car! i drove in circles and madde all of these jokes about me driving home. it was fun. i want to do it more, but not on the actual road. i parked a lot. it's a parking lot. my mom had to pee, so we switched seat again. she said the seat was really warm and i told her that i was so nervous and peed. lol. i think she actually believed me for a second, then i told her i only do that in my room. lol.
we just went to hollywood video and i spent a little time in there looking around for good movies. there are too many! i just couldn't choose! i should work there, man! movies all day! movies! ahh!
and now i'm home! home! movies! about to watcxh movies(i rented 'help!' and 'birthday girl'!). beatles and nic! my loves! my babies! *runs into a wall*
i need to go now! i realize that i've abused exclaimation points in this entry entirely too much! i'm just so happy and good feelin'! i'll probably feel the exact opposite tomorrow, so i'm enjoying it! *runs and watches tv*
bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
LONG LIVE RINGO STARR! (and for the third time in this entry, i'm a stahh!)
make ralph money...
psst! call me if we're doing anything tomorrow, amanda and laura!
|Wednesday, September 24th, 2003
*gets down*
yeah, stayed home today again. it's only a half day, though.
...team fresh! team fresh! yeah!...
yeah, today's episode was great! i'd never seen the whole one before. i love bls. abc family bitches!
i don't feel very well. i just cleaned my room. *insert laura laughing at me*
i just wanted to show you this. not only did she spell 'poll' wrong, but there's something else... ( Read more... )
i'm going now. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
make ralph money!...
edit--> woah. that was bls-tastic!
|Monday, September 22nd, 2003
sorry, people. i didn't go to school today. my head's just too fucked up. my nose is all congested and drippy at the same time along with a headache and ear ache. yeah, i'm fucked up right now. i'll be at school tomorrow, though. well, half of the day. i have a dermatologist appointment at 8:30. bah! i have to miss my two favorite classes! i hate that! those are the ones i was doing well in, too! grr! i'm a big, scary bear! lol.
yeah. be pround of me, bitches! i read big fish yesterday! i was bored. i can't watch tv anymore, because everything just pisses me off. the only thing i can watch and not get mad is the brendan leonard show, but that's just cause they're special like that. i brought down more elton john records from my parents' room. i love those! there are like four or five. oh my baz. i just wish my dad had beatles ones! the only beatles one is my mom's that she got from an ex boyfriend. yeah. i love that. it's the white album. my love. i want to buy more, but i can't spend any money until i get more. i want to make sure i can buy the dvds that i want. i'm going to buy la boheme and bend it like beckham on the 30th. i hope amazon.com still has free shipping then. i love that. free shipping on anything over $25. now, that's a deal! i think i lost my money somewhere...
i need to buy that 'interview' magazine! i want two. those pictures are so beautiful!
when is the homecoming assembaly(sp?)? if it was today, good! i hate those things. there's so much spirit! fuck you, spirit! fuck you! wow. being sick kinda makes you grumpy, eh? lol. i'm canadian. ok, not. but still. ok, i'm soorry aboot that, eh.
i've been reading mrs dalloway for a while. i can't remember when is started, but it's going really slow. it's really hard to read books written by british people, i think. you kinda have to read in a british accent. lol. laura would probably read it in a lisp. lol. if you read in a french accent, it's fun, but it kind of takes away from the reading. lol.
we have no food. i'm hungry. all we have is chips. and cake. ew. together. lol. that makes me laugh.
...a friend with breasts and all the rest, a friend who's dressed in leather...
yeah. now i'm just babbling. it's fun.
...a friend in need's a friend indeed, a friend who bleeds is better. my friend confessed, she passed the test and we will never sever...
...pure morning...
i have nothing to type. i don't want to go back to the book. not that it's bad, it just kind of makes my head hurt. you have to read it kind of fast, or you'll get bored and stop. well, it's that way in my case. of course, i never read, so that may be part of it.
somebody broke into my mom's office kitchen again. they did it a couple of week ago, when it was my job to clean up. they stole a coffee grinder and coffee. come on, people! coffee! please. last time, they stole beagles* and cream cheese. lol. but this time, they jimmied all of the locks on the mail boxes(it's also an apartment building) and stole some mail. some people just have too much time for this shite!
school gets out in 35 minutes, now. maybe i'll just type until then. lol. i'm really bored! call me, laura. lol. that's your name! i love that! call me, laura! i guess i'll go, now.i'll read. i'm sneezing. damn you, nose! bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
edit--> *bagels. lol. beagles and cream cheese! kinky! and very wrong.
|Sunday, September 21st, 2003
god, i love this song('pure morning' by placebo. it's so random and moody!
i'm just updating because i'm bored. nobody's up yet. i can't bug anyone here, so i'll bug you! yes, you!
i'm scared to go to my friends page. someone posted a picture of tom! no! no. no tom! bad! *hiss*.
i can't find my placebo or velvet goldmine cds! this is really pissing me off! i want to listen to both of them so badly(yay for grammar!). my room is cold. there's no heater. my mom broke it when she was taking up the carpet. i wish i had a heater. lol.
god, i love brian molko's voice so much! it's so... velvet goldminey(well duh, kelli! he was in the fucking movie!). but still. it's so great!
that was fun last night, making the guys cover their eyes. well, no. we didn't MAKE them. they did it all on their lonesome.
oh! now i have a reason to update! i forgot. the last time i watched moulin rouge(two days ago), i wrote down random things that i just love about the movie:
-toulouse's 'stevie wonder head sway' when he's hanging from the elephant, looking inside at christian and satine.
-the way satine's eyes go to christian when she say's 'you're' in 'now you're in the world.'
-christian's 'evil maharaja' look. it's so... EVIL!
-the way satine looks back as she's acsending the stairs of the elephant.
-satie's scarves. i want those damn scarves!
-satine's expression during 'if i should die this very moment...'
-the terribly thoughtful expressions on the dancers right before they break into 'like a virgin'.
-those pigeons! they just remind me of little voice so much!
-how songs sort of have 'evil twins'. (your song and come what may, like a virgin and roxanne, and the obvious; diamonds and hindi sad diamonds)
-the lighting of 'roxanne'. it's just so dark and light and dusty and great. i love my baz.
-the choreography of 'roxanne'.
-nic's 'but... the show' look. (i don't care. i don't care about the show. we have eachother, that's all that matters.)
-'the truth is, i am the hindi courtisan. and i choose the maharaja.'
-'...i know about art and love. but only because i long for it with every fiber of my being! i know it! i know she loves you.' 'go away, toulouse. go away. go away!... i wanted to shut out what toulouse had said. but he had filled me with so much doubt. so, i returned to the moulin rouge one... last... time.'
-'she's mine!'
-satine's headresses. especially the wedding one. oh my baz.
-all of 'hindi sad diamonds'. how could you not just adore this part?
-'tell our story, christain. that way... i'll always be with you.'
-the way the camera goes to christain at the end, before he says all the ending stuff and shite
-the 'truth, beauty, freedom, and love' thing after the credits. that baz. that baz!
ok, i think i'm going now. i just sang 'can you feel the love tonight' to my cat again. she smells like she just took a bath in an ashtray. yuck. plus, i have this nasal drip thing going on. i think i might be sick.
bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
...when i say that i don't care, it really means my engine's breaking down...
...i crumble into pieces on the ground...
|Saturday, September 20th, 2003
yeah. good times, tonight. yeah! laura, happy birthday, yo! happy birthday. my side hurts. i loved tonight. just a lot of giggles and talking about naughty parts of the body.
in a nutshell:
six and a half hours, 'asian theme'(so inventive! is that even a word? heh. i thought not), light sabers, duct tape(my knees are were so sweaty! go eliza!), laura hitting me for getting her presents that she actually wanted(i don't get it!), people(me, laura, amanda, eliza, micah, warren, victor, gordon), victor talking shite about his ex, strip go fish(you bloody whores. lol. that makes me think of jack the ripper!), ted golfalot, suzie iceskates, a lot of stuff i can't remember. either too much pop, or i just have a bad memory. i think it's the second one. all i really remember the most is telling people to shut the hell up when people were talking in the end of ttt. bitches.
yeah, i have more to type, but i think i'll do it tomorrow. i'm watching the bad, edited version of velvet goldmine on bravo. lol. so bad. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Wednesday, September 17th, 2003
today was bleh...
i got up early. stupid sister. she had to be at school early to go on a fucking feild trip. bitch.
first period:
pretty normal and uneventful. just a language. eliza told me i have the highest grade in the class! i'm happy. that's never happended to me before. i like it. i know it's going to change, though. it's only the third week of school. second whole week.
second period:
math. ms escame killed me. she hasn't done that since last year. anycrap, we did math in there. just math. and i kind of get the homework, too.
i stayed in ms escame's room. stupid freshmen were retaking tests, so i couldn't concentrate. they're so cocky and loud! at about 11:13, i walked down to me homies in the lunch room thingamajigabob. i think amanda saved my life with those fries she gave me. thank you, love!
third period:
world history. bleh. i hate this class. annoying people. jackie kept throwing paper in my general direction(i fart in your general direction!). i don't know why. i think whe was 'passing notes' with tommy or something like that. we spent the period working out of the book and shite. boring. for about ten mintues, i covered my ears and i could actually think! wow!
fourth period:
i always forget what happens in this class,. will someone tell me please? i totally forgot.
after school:
i was going to look for my sister, but then i went to the bathroom(i really had to pee!). then i walked down to the bus stop and saw my mommy there in the van, so i crossed the street and got in there and shite. we waited for about ten minutes, listening to one of my dad's beatles cd's. i sadly have none of my very own. i need some. i chickened out of buying sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band at target saturday. it was only 9.99, people! that's crazy! but i want posters. i want two beatles ones. i want this one where they're walking and shite and one later where they're all standing and shite. ok, i can't describe them, but whatever. i'll edit and put the links to the pictures of the posters.
i'm just sitting here. listening to bls songs. i better not miss today's show! laura said it's the pirate one! i haven't seen it. i love pirates!
whatever. i'm going now. i have nothing else to say, really. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
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|Tuesday, September 16th, 2003
i'm sad. i'm tired. i need much rest. on friday, i'm walking in the door from school and going to sleep. i can't do anymore than i'm already doing. i get up, get yelled at, go to school, sit in a chair being talked to all day while other chatter happens around me, try to find a ride home, and dome home and get yelled at more. i hate this.
...crawling down the alley on your hands and your knees...
i hate that i always have to wash more and more clothes. every other day. clothes. washer. dryer. i know what i'm buying with my birthday money. pants. i need more pants. i need to watch moulin rouge. that will make me feel better. a good musical tragedy. yeah. ewan. nicole. my loves.
fuck school. i don't care if i fail. i hate it. most people at school are so fucking annoying! in third period, the person in front of me who shall remain nameless(*cough*tommyfletcher*cough*) uses my area as an arm rest, contantly moving my binder and book towards me, while the person next to me is always on my side of the table, moving around and talking to himself. that has to be my least favorite class. that's why i'm always so happy when i get to fourth period. i'm not in third anymore.
first and second period are fine i guess. just rather boring.
i have space issues. i need air. if somebody's standing next to me, l'll move away. i don't like human contact(well, most. i love hugs).
i just can't stand when people don't care about annoying the people around them.
homework! i always have to be reminded about school when at home, don't i? stupid. we're in a class for two hours. you'd think that would be enough for one day, but no. homework. bitches.
i'm too tired to do anymore typing. i shall make my exit. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Saturday, September 13th, 2003
well, i rented movies last night. WOOT! i rented ride with the devil and a hard day's night. lol. i love that movie. it's just one big joke on ringo's nose, i think. that man can dance! the best dancing i've seen since jai. i can't believe i hadn't seen it. it's under 'special interest' at the video store. somehow, i always seem to go over there. i almost rented fiddler on the roof, but then i saw a hard day's night and... yeah.
...for once, there was a land full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes. a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream. a land where all things are perfect... and poisonous...
man, i have to watch velvet goldmine tonight. and moulin rouge. i think it's good lookin' british men day in kelli land. and it's always nicole day, so i have to watch to die for or something. i have to.
...if i could, i would fill your entire room with pineapples...
i tried watching ride with the devil last night, but jesus. southern accents at midnight? snore. so, halfway through the movie,(it's like 3 hours long!) i put in a hard day's night and watched it. that kept me awake. god, i love us.
"who's that little old man?"
"he's pauls!"
i have a mocha. it's nasty, though. i wish this place would make better ones. it's kinda cold, too. it was like that when i got it. yuck. and it's not even full. they filled it up to one and a half inches below the top. psh. coffee bitches. i mean, this is seattle for ringo's sake! you'd think they could make a simple mocha.
i'm bored. off to watch velvet goldmine! yes! bisexual glam rock singers, here i come! bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
LONG LIVE RINGO STARR!("books are good.")
|Friday, September 12th, 2003
so, it's friday. thank god. school. ugh. i am caveman now.
first period:
french. got %100 on the oral thingy(that sounded naughty!) and we took a quiz. i think i did pretty well on it, but i was kinda freaked out about eliza watching me almost all period. good times, though. i have to remember to make her the velvet goldmine cd! first i have to find it, though. i lost it, and this morning, i resorted to listening to my daniel bedingfeild cd.
second period:
math. ms escame lied to us when she said we'd have a quiz today. tricky, ms escame! very tricky! actually, she postponed it until monday when the environmental science academy bitches come back. i missed gordon today and yesterday. no sarcasm. bah.
evidently, i won't make a very good spy. damn. oh well, i can allways be a prostitute. lol. yeah right.
third period:
we did stuff in groups all period.it was pretty boring until somebody in my group started reading the grafitti written in the books. apparently, two people must have shared the book. they were fighting in words. it's funny. there was something like 'your mommy's a buttface'. lol. i wrote some lines from velvet goldmine on my bookcover(which is black) in pencil. i can see it. nobody else can. it's like magic! and i like it...
fourth period:
tolerence movie. werd. just werd. why can't people just stop being stupid and just co-exist?
did you see all of the big words i used in that? i'm shocked and disarayed at my choice of words. jesus. anyways, i think i'm going to lose this if i write any longer. fucking computer is messing up. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Thursday, September 11th, 2003
i'm doing this shite because 1, i'm bored and 2, i'm, umm... bored.
.lkjls;dsa;hdjlh;kjkjdj dklkl klldklikjli? huj! nuy? hoimal! lol. ahem. bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
LONG LIVE RINGO STARR! (i'm write i really long entry tomorrow. friday! i can't wait!)
|Tuesday, September 9th, 2003
ba ba ba ba ba. ba ba ba ba ba...
such deep lyrics.
...would you help me stand if i saw you in heaven? i'll find my way through night and day, cause i know i just can't stay here in heaven...
this train don't stop. this train don't stop. this train don't stop there anymore...
sorry for the britney, eric clapton, and elton john. it just came out. anyways, today:
first period:
eliza gave me back velvet goldmine and the class did little dialogues with little two people groups. i kind of like that class so far. that's all i'm going to say, though. it's only tuesday of week two. lol. two. tue. lol. ahem.
second period:
i turned in my messed up pow. stupid pow. i'm never doing one of those again. they suck ass! oh, and we worked on something. i can't remember. i don't pay attention to ms escame when gordon's talking rubbish.
my sister made me peanut butter and jelly when we had turkey! what a cheap bitch! anyshit, i haven't seen matthew in forever before today. his sister and their friends are kind of annoying, but i'm sure he knows that already. he 'bought' chips from of one of the vending machines and it got stuck. that was funny. i'm going to laugh if it's still there tomorrow. matt cracks me up. especially in chatrooms. lol. crazy bitch with his crude jokes.
third period:
some book stuff. i don't love that class anymore. mr west makes too many cracks about french people and the guy next to me thinks(lol. methinks.) everything he says is funny.
fourth period:
i think laura distracts me too much in this class. today, she stole my movie and so did amanda! bitches! i'd kick your asses(yes, you have more than one) if you were here. seriously. i would. no. really.
after school. *sigh*. i hate after school. i called my brother to pick me up and his lazy ass wouldn't go get me, so i got fifty cents from my sister to take the bus, which was WAY too full. i got off at the same stop as teak. lol. his name's teak! he was named after a fucking tree! come on!
when(or if) i have more to say, i'll edit this shite. i just need to get myself away from the computer. in the last week, i've downloaded britney spears, elton john, prince, eric clapton, george micheal, and spice girls. not that they're bad, or anything. i just have too much free time.
...come on, falling star. i refuse to let you die. cause that's wrong. and i've been waiting far too long. that's wrong. i've been waiting far too long! for you to be... be... be... be... be mine. for you to be mine. be mine. for you to be mine! and that's wrong. i've been waiting far too long. that's wrong! i've been waiting far too long. for you to be... be... be... be... all the centrefolds that you can't afford have long since waved their last good-byes. all the centerfolds that you can't afford, you've long since faded from their eyes. so, be... be mine. so, be... be mine...
bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
|Monday, September 8th, 2003
people asking questions. lost in confusion. well, i tell them there's no problem. only solution. well, they shake their heads and look at me as if i've lost my mind. i tell them there's no hurry, i'm just sittin here doin' time...
i love john lennon. if he wasn't dead... *makes thoughtful face* yeah. ok, ew. i know he'd be like 60, but still. it's john lennon. what's up with all of the beatles bein married, yo? that's messed up. crush millions of women's dreams, why don't you? i mean, even ringo! that just blows my mind. i bet she just pets his nose all the time. lol. ok, i need to stop talking about this, it's kinda freaking me out.
...make love, not war...
i think i'm going to print out a whole bunch of beatles pictures and put them on the back of my 'end of the day' binder. you, know, the one with all the nicole pictures. man, i have problems! i need to stop it with all of this nicole love before it kills me. i don't really know how that would happen, but still.
...all we are saying, is give peace a chance...
god, i love this song. i love john lennon. ok, i don't want this to happen again, kelli! *shuns self, then wimpers*
today was pretty uneventful.
first period:
french. brought velvet goldmine for eliza. you better bring that back to me tomorrow, ho! i'm not kidding. i'm going to hug it when you give it back. i know how long you kept amanda's four disc fellowship of the ring.
i love this song, too! hey! maybe that's why it's on my playlist! duh...
second period:
i'm a rebel! grr! ok, maybe not. i just didn't do my pow. pow! ha! ...
stayed in the math room to work on my pow. maybe i'm not such a rebel after all. :(
third period:
took notes and stuff. no movie today. i hope we finish monty python and the holy grail, though. i love that fucking movie.
fourth period:
i love this class. maybe it's because i have it with so many people that i love. *insert all going 'awww.'*
yeah. cathryn(my sister's friend that always plays justin timberlake in her car) gave us a ride home, so that was hella nice. i had a brownie when i got here, then came to internet myself more. now i'm bored. i think i'll go now. i shall not take up anymore of your precious(your precious!) time, people. so bye bye bye, see you on the line, i'm GONE...
edit--> i love gordon for trying. he tried to help me with my pow. i'm just so confused.
here's what he told me:
now the first person opens his eyes and sees a blue and red (in order)- and passes cuz he dont know- the 2nd person opens her eyes and sees blue red (in the order) and since she sees the red on the third person she knows if she had red on that the first person would have guessed right ecause he would have seen to reds but because he didnt the second person knows she has blue so she guess- thats what goes on in the 3rd persons head and how she knows she cant possibly be red so she must be blue.
i don't get it.
Blurty for Kelli.