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Hey all. I'm in Indiana right now, pretending to be a bonafide college student. Mara and I both feel that all these kids know that we are seniors... but just wait till I wear my Indiana gear... they'll have no idea.

My Indiana adventure has thus far proved to be... tiring. Mara and I spent about 12 hours yesterday traveling. First, the put us in concourse B... the concourse they don't like. Definitely the farthest away from food, water, and people. If you can avoid it, stay away from Midwest Connect. But, this airline did redeem itself by providing freshbaked cookies for our inflight snack on one of the flights, and a surprisingly good carrot cake muffin. MMM... much better then a tiny bag of pretzels. Then... we were traveling to Milwaukee for a layover and then to IN.. but there was a fog advisory in Milwaukee and instead of leaving MSP at 2:40, we left at 5. Blah. It's what I call an adventure... and gave me some quality time to do psy... (death to Mr Goddard).

Tonight, Mara and I were invited to hang out with Jamie L and her sorority sisters. I'm excited. Lata

Today, Brynn and I went on an adventure to North Minneapolis. I didn't get lost (yey). The purpose of this trip was to get a book shelf from Ms. Butzen's house to school, and I thought that since my seats fold down, that it would fit in my car. Let's just say, I wish there had been a video camera; especially when I slipped off the curb into the mucky, fungus water. Brynn and I laughed for about 5 min after. In the end, the stupid bookcase didn't even fit in my car. But we were strong and carried it back into Butzen's house. An adventure to say the least.

Italy people: Have fun. Much not too much fun... :-)... And don't meet too many hot Italian boys

"What are these doing in here?... Are these even my pants?" --Beth Yellen

"It's the day Ceaser died."-- Carly
"And then came the salad... yum"-- Alison

I think everyone these days is really thinking long and hard about life and love and what’s going to happen in the following years. Who will we stay in contact with? Who will change the most? Who won't grow up? What's it going to be like living away from everything you've ever known? There are so many unknowns when it comes to thinking about the next stages of our lives. Clearly, tons of people go through this every year and most of them come out of it unharmed and overall bettered. (I don't think that's a word...) In some ways, I wish there was a big book that we all could look at and just know-- cut out a lot of the uncertainty. But in other ways, I know that that is completely unprobable and we just need to live our lives and see what comes our way.

I was just reminded of the letter that Herbert has us write to ourselves that she plans on sending to us in 5 or 6 years. On it, I put a list of people, which in the event I hadn't talked to or heard of in that time, I would look them up and call them. I hope that I don't have to do that, but sadly I know that a lot of us will loose contact with each other. The people we've grown up with and loved and hated and who knew us inside and out. It's kind of a strange idea, that something that was such a part of your life for over 10 years could virtually disappear, just like that.

To you all, though: Even if we don't talk until our 10 year reunion, go out there and make the world a better place. Look out world: the class of 2004 is coming and there's no telling what we'll do!

I'm in a really good mood right now. I had my first massage after school and it was really nice and relaxing. Really what I needed. Then we had our choir concert tonight. Went a lot better then I thought it would. I honestly think it was the most fun I've ever had at a choir concert. I will kind of miss singing our Disney medley. Kind of. Well, I'm off to go eat something. MMM

~I'm at a time in my life when I really wish that someone could just tell me what to do. I don't want to make the wrong decision. I don't want to be pressured in to anything.
~I've come to realize that you can love someone and have that be all there is.
~It truly is better to have loved and lost then to never have loved at all.
~Life moves on, and I will love again.
~Jewish people talk so much.
~Sometimes the things you want are really not what you can have or what you need.
~Friends show themselves when you really do need them the most
~I know that I am a pushover, and I wish I was stronger and could stand up for myself.
~I wish that I hadn't lost some of my friends
~I wish I could live by the saying: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything.
~I wish people would tell me the truth
~I wish with all my heart that my grandma pulls through.
~I don't want it deal with death
~I still wish people could just tell me what would be the best for me and make the decision for me

These are the thoughts that are running through my head.

I had a good ol' weekend. Here's a mini-revue:

Fri: Went to see Joseph at Southwest High school. Very good. Then hung out with Ms. Bream, Mara, and Nick at BP... We had a "party" there.
Sat: Slept late (mmm) and then cleaned. Hung out with Steve for a lil while. (Helped Jen with issues) Hung out with Al for a lil bit-- came back here and had a girlfriend sleepover with her and Aly and Carly. Titanic is a quality flick.
Today: But loads of HW that I keep putting off. Fam dinner. More procrastination.
Ok so it doesn't sound like all that great, but it was fun. I'm looking forward to Tues cuz I treated myself to an 1hr massage. YESS. And then it's Pi concert at school. Come on by if you can, I think this one will actually be fun.

And Al: That really means a lot.

The deal is, mark whatever you've done in your childhood years in bold.

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE."
2. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air."
3. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.
4. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
5. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
6. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.
7. Two words: M.C. Hammer.
8. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock."
9. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars.
10. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales."
11. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
12. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
13. You saw the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen.
14. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
15. You made your Mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side
16. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House)
17. You wore Jordache Jean jacket and you were proud of it.
18. L.A. Gear
19. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten.
20. You remember reading "Tales of a fourth grade nothing" and all the Ramona books.
21. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF."
22. You wanted to be a Goonie.
23. You ever wore fluorescent clothing.
24. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off.
25. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
26. You took lunch pails to school.
27. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
28. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
29. You remember Hypercolor T-shirts.
30. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
31. You thought She-Ra and He-Man should hook up.
32. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets.
33. You ever owned a pair of jelly shoes.
34. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know what you are, but what am I?"
35. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
36. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
37. You have ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
38. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
39. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonald's.
40. You've gone through this list occasionally saying "Totally awesome"
41. You remember Popples.
42. "Don't worry, be happy"
43. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
44. You wore socks scrunched down.
45. "Miss MARY MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK" Or, Ms. Susie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell Ms. Susie went to heaven, the steamboat went to...
46. You remember boom boxes vs. CD players.
47. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies.
48. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!"
49. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales.
50. You thought Doogie Howser was hot.
51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell," the ORIGINAL class. BEST SHOW EVER!!
54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi.

When I found this out, I was very unsettled by it. I'm out to prove it wrong... you just wait and see:

Height May Make or Break Your Career
Oct. 17, 2003 -- Tall people may the have upper hand when it comes to financial and career success, and not just on the basketball court.

A new study shows that tall people earn more money throughout their lives and are more successful in their careers than short people.

"Height matters for career success," says researcher Timothy Judge, a management professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, in a news release. "These findings are troubling in that, with a few exceptions such as professional basketball, no one could argue that height is an essential ability required for job performance nor a bona fide occupational qualification."

Height Matters to Career Success

Researchers examined four previously published studies in the U.S. and U.K. that followed thousands of people from children to adulthood and tracked details of their career success and personal lives along with their height. The results are scheduled for publication in spring 2004 in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

After controlling for factors such as gender, age, and weight, researchers found that a difference of mere inches in height made a big difference in terms of annual income. In fact, every extra inch added up to an extra $789 in pay.

For example, someone who was six feet tall earned an average of about $5,525 more than someone who was seven inches shorter.

"If you take this over the course of a 30-year career and compound it, we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnings advantage that a tall person enjoys," says Judge.

Researchers also found that height was most closely tied to success among occupations that rely on appearance and stature as a measure of success, such as sales and management. Height was more also predictive of earnings in blue-collar jobs than in professional-technical jobs such as engineering.

"If height has the social status we think it does, it stands to reason that tall people would sell more cars because they're seen as a more authoritative source on the matter," says Judge.

Researchers say that people's perceptions of tall people may be a remnant of our evolutionary origins.

Judge says that continuing to rely on those outdated perceptions may not only cause unfair discrimination, but it could have serious economic repercussions.

"If we're giving great weight to an attribute like height that's irrelevant to performance on the job, then we're introducing error in our hiring and promotion decisions that causes inefficiencies in our economy," says Judge.

My snow day was one of the best days in a long time. I mean normally, if there is no school, you'd find me sleeping 'till noon. Yesterday, I found myself wide awake at 7:30am with someone else in my car. Both of us were like, omg, we have no school. This is amazing. What do we do? Seeing that it was his 17th birthday, I suggested a birthday breakfast at Perkins. We ate some grubb and as we were finishing up, about 50% of SLPHS showed up. Good timing? Just adding to my good day. Then were ran some errands, thinking what we were actually going to do with this amazing day off. Then we were off to Ridgedale cuz he wanted new shoes. I wasn't aware that it opened at 10am. We got there at 9:45 and just walked around. I was pleasantly suprised to find that Jamba finally opened (yesterday was actually it's first day) and they were giving away free Jamba's for the 1st hr. Then we went in to Payless and I found a pair of shoes that I love. And they were cheap! Then Steve got a pair of Orange high tops. They were cool. Then I took him home as he wanted to hang out with other ppl on his birthday. No hard feelings. Went home and cleaned my long-overdue room. Took a nap. Went to the Doc. Watched some TV. Went to dinner with my family to give support to all of them in our time of much-needed family support. Then hung out with Joel. What a good day. We should have no power more often!

BTW: To Mac and Alison and whoever else feels this way: Why don't you approve? Don't leave me in the dark with your feelings towards this fucked-up situation.

Ok, we're going to try this again since it didn't work last time:

Will y'all take this survey for me?

http://www.blunttruthgame.com/takesurvey.cfm?uid=828259

Haha:


You're Exotic Dancer Barbie. You have some moves,
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Hockey boys, I love you. Thank you for the great times and for bringing some intense ruach to SLP.

Grease was the word! What a fun time! Thank you to everyone who came and saw it! It really meant a lot that you came and supported it! I'm so glad I was given that opportunity and I had so much fun!

I need to do hw... screw this... blahhhh

BOYS ARE A STUPID SPECIES! I wish they would just say what they want and not beat around the bush.