Bleh?

I really have nothign to write about. I could tell you whats going on in my life.

Well, I'm moving, don't know where yet. But once again We have to pick up our home and move around! Nothing new, its only the 5th or 6th time. But at least this time I get to stay at this school.

Um, I'm not going home for the holidays... WHICH REALLY SUCKS. But then again, it doesn't.

I'm glad last week is over. I had an exam that says if I have A/B's... stressful
Not to metion a 6 page paper wich SOME HOME turned out to be 11 for me... WTF?
Comp stuff was due, which I was late on because I was stressing out so much.
Oh and I'm doing my annoted bibs now... what a slacker eh?

I'm feel confident in saying, yea I should be part of the Google generation, but is it really a bad thing? I guess I'll save it for my paper... oh great, another paper.

I gues the level of the work that college, so far, has thrown at me isn't horrible, but at the same time... ITS SO MUCH WORK.

I will be celbrating my boyfriend and mines one year and 9 month aniversayon halloween. We're staying in instead of getting drunk. yay! I hate drinking. D:

I'm worried that my best friend is mad at me... I feel terrible.
I wish money could buy friendship <3

Family is annoying... and I don't know how I'm realted to them, but I love them... the blood ones taht is.

My aunt, nan, and cousing are coming down for Thanksgiving. To bad that I need to work because my bank account is um how do you say this? DRY! NOTHING! ZIP!
Unfortunatly.

I really miss my sunday school teacher... a lot. I feel like I am not as connect to the Lord as i was with her. Poop.

I have a bible study tomorrow... oh crap...

My roommates are loud...

I really should get back to my bibs, so I'm done.

Hello world, I'm ready to work

Hi! I'm Amy, and I tend to be harsh on myself.
No really, i need to work myself way over the top.
My senior year went like this:
Me: I would like to go to the University of South Florida.
Fate: Um, you are going to have to work extra hard to get past me. I kinda had a plan for you to go to community college, thats why you were a mess up your first 3 years :]
Me: No, I'll get in.

Mk so what did i do to change my fate?
I took as many advance classes as my brain could handle, made excelent grades, volunteer over 150 hours at a day camp, oh and don't forget, took more classes then i was supposed to. (I took 5 classes on a block schedual one term instead of the regular 4) Lets not forget AP CLASSES!
... screw them ...

So i was balls to the freaken wall during my senior year. I made sure i covered for every mistake taht i made my first 3 years in high school. I promise, it wasn't easy.
But it all paid off, because now i am at the only college i wanted to go to. Plus my aunt was really proud of me for getting into her alumni school :]

Anyways, so after all this hard work in high school, i figured college would be even worse. Plus, i'd have to have a job on top of everything! Well, i started out so strong. I read every word of every text book. Plus the extra readings. I studied every letter of every note too. I was going to be the best in college, i wasn't going to have free time, i wasn't going to have fun, i was here to study. I knew enough people that I didn't want to meet anyone else. I wanted to do the following
Go to class
Sleep
Eat
See my boyfriend sometimes
Study
Repeat.

Well, that was great. Untill I meet some wonderful people. They are in almost all of my classes. They showed me that i was doing college all wrong, that in fact it was easier then high school in some aspects! I'm not going to lie, Miller, your papers are ridic. But thats not to say about my other classes. My AP preached AND PREACHED about how his class was so much easier, that he gives us more then any college professor would ever give us. And so far, he has been COMPLETLY wrong.

Now, he will be right probably towards the end of my sophmore year, or even the start of my JR year. But as of now i have realized i have taken college way to seriously and it acutally hurt my grades! After i meet my new friends i realized that you have to have fun with everything or else, well, you'll fail at this game. After i started hanging out with these select few, i have realized that i do know how to study, and i should relax. And just because i don't read a chapter in biology b/c all the texts and exams are from the questions in the back of the book and thats all i really need to know... IS OK!

These people really gave me my sanity. I must thank them.

Thanks Rachel, Laura, and Deb. With out you guys I'd be even worse off then I am hanging around you guys right now ;D
Just kidding.
But truely, thanks.

Drama.
drama.
Drama!

What is drama? Well dictionary.com says this:
dra-ma

1.
a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, esp. one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.
2.
the branch of literature having such compositions as its subject; dramatic art or representation.
3.
the art dealing with the writing and production of plays.
4.
any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial.
5.
the quality of being dramatic.

Alright, that's fine. But how do you define drama? I define it as pointless interaction. Why do people want to act this way? Do they want the attention on themselves? Do they have a rush when they get themselves into drama? What ever the cause, only them themselves can answer that.
But for me, honestly, drama finds me. I'm not going into details, but here's the thing. I'm tired of drama! So why is drama caused?
Because "he said she said that THEY said that you said this about me."
...
We all know how this goes. All of us have been in this situation more then one time, and if you haven't then your lying.
So why can't people just be mature and come to the person they are having problems with? Why can't the person who said something just to the person they are talking about and be like "Listen, I heard you were dealing crack. Are you?" (It's a joke, haha?) That way person A and person B can talk it out. Well, I place blame on person C, person D, and the group E for getting involve and spreading rumors. Sure, its in our nature to tell a boyfriend or to tell a close friend, but if they go around spreading you information around I got news for you, they ain't that great. I've learned through my high school years just to go up to that person and talk to them, and I've been doing that, but SOMEHOW persons C,D, and group E ALWAYS GET INVOLVED! Why can't people just keep their mouth SHUT? Jesus people, its not your business, STAY OUT! If we wanted you to know, we'd post it on a blog. (... [: ...) Anyways, it just makes me really upset that everyone must know my business. And when someone finds out, its ALWAYS the wrong information.

Take a step back, and as much as you say "I hate drama!" Do you cause it sometimes and never stake the blame? I will take the blame for shit I have said, no lie. If I said it, then I meant to say it. Now, how someone hears it might be a different story. I won't lie to you, there is no point. So from now on, make sure you know your facts before you jump down someone throat

K thanks :]

Really Random

So I honestly don't know what I want to write about.
Well, actually, I do. I want to write about polics. I know my friends, who aren't involved heavily in politics, are sick of me talking. Frankly, I'm tired of the people who talk about nothing. When I mean nothing I mean they have nothing to support what they think. I saw two McCain supports pretty much attack a friend of mine who is a support of Obama. While, and I'll say it, I HATE OBAMA I wouldn't go as far as they did. BUT! She ask the McCain supports "Why do you support McCain?" I looked at her and go "You just opened the flood gates." She kept asking them quetions and asking them more questions, she kind of opposed them, and kind of had some ways to defend her candidate. Yet, she held back. DON'T HOLD BACK PEOPLE! If you support someone, and you are openly supporting a certain canidate, be ready to have a come back. Theres a video everyone should watch and I'll attach it to the end of this blog but seriously, this is what makes my blood BOIL!
Anyways, if I keep going I'm sure I'll piss of the WRONG person in my class, maybe even my teacher. So lets stop there... Just please watch this video. In the video multiple people say that they can't name a single issue that Obama supports. A SINGLE ISSUE BUT THEY ARE STILL VOTING FOR HIM! One girl and her boyfriend even say that they are voting for Obama JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK! Come on, no matter WHO you are voting for, thats wrong. Its just as wrong to not vote for him because he is black!

KNOW YOUR ISSUES!
KNOW YOUR FACTS!
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SUPPORTING!


What if your canidate does win? Lets say McCain wins, lets pick on me. Lets say I was anti war, I was for natural uses of energy (like wind and stuff) and I was for major tax cuts. But I supported McCain just because my boyfriend told me hes a good guy. And I voted for him, and he won! Then he got into office and he completly does NOTHING that I like and he ruins the country. GUESS WHAT! I supported that! I supported ruining our country, I supported everything I hate.

Here's what I do support.
McCain. McCain's ideas, McCains views, McCains everything. Go ahead tell me what he has done wrong! Go ahead, post a comment and tell me everything hes done wrong in congress, I will go TOE TO TOE with you with everything Obama has done wrong too. Candidates are human, they will make mistakes. Thats why in elections I say "Vote the lesser of the two evils."


Do whats right, know what you want and you don't want. Then vote for the canidate who supports the most of these ideas. For once, but away what you have heard and vote for what you believe is right.


Thank you,
I'm off my soap box now.

Song project

Flobots is an up and coming band known to the most of the music world and their listeners. They are activist who, through their music, “tell it like it is.” They have been struggling to get onto the music scene for some time, but once Jonny 5, the lead singer, meet up with his other band mates, magic happened. Every band member was not activists until they joined the group. Now, they are all openly against the government and they openly criticize the government what they do, how they do things, what they don’t do and how plans are executed. The easiest song that exemplifies this is their newest hit “Stand Up.”
The easiest part of the song to show criticism of the government is the chorus, of course. If the chorus didn’t show us the this, the song wouldn’t make sense. The first line, “Stand up,” in the chorus is referring to government to stand up and take charge of other things in the world then just what they are worried about now, such as “…a child with no socks and shoes.” This part of the chorus shows the compassion that we should have for people and not just go to war with others, but actually care for them. “…by a women dying for a loss of food.” All the hungry people out there, its unfair that the government can’t pay any focus to them, but they can fight and fund and fight a war, discussed later on in the song. “We shall not be moved/ if you got more to give then you’ve got to prove/Put your hands up and I’ll copy you.” The people can’t do anything to unless the government does something first. It’s not a single, or a few person, movement to help world hunger; it needs big funding and millions of people to help. And that’s what is being shown here in this quote. Also, the line from the song is showing that if the government would do it first, then “[We’ll] put our hands up and copy you.”
The song gets into the root problems that America is having to. Katrina is the first issue the song mentions. “We still don’t understand thunder and lightning… Now our whole damn city’s torn asunder man” Thunder and lightning are the warning signs that were brought Katrina, so now New Orleans is under water. “We see hurricane spills overrun the land/ through Gaps you couldn’t fill with a 100 tons of sand/No we still don’t understand.” We see all the hurricanes coming and we watch them take over our country, but we don’t try to fix them, we just try to fill the gaps with sand. And now we, the people, still don’t understand what the government is trying to do. Another issue the song tackles is the terrorist attacks, on us and on other countries that directly affects the United States. “We’ve seen planes in the windows of building crumbled in/ We’ve seen flames send the chills through London.” The first line involving planes through windows is talking about the world trade center and when the terrorist attacked us. How the planes are through the windows is how a lot of pictures from 9-11 are shown - all the planes crashed high into the windows. And the second part about London refers to the terrorist attack made on them in 2005, the 7 -7 attacks. Since the United Kingdom is our greatest ally in the war on terror this directly relates back to us. “And we’ve sent planes to kill them and some of them were children.” In this line is talking about how “we” meaning the United states, have sent planes to kill them, meaning the terrorists. But the United states are killing innocents, like children, as well. Because the U.S. has sent planes to kill the terrorist and defend ourselves. Theses lines are all showing the fact that our country will take out innocents and not even recognize the fact that maybe these are some problems with they way we are trying to fix things. We are not paying attention to Katrina, so hurricanes are taking over our land, and we are watching these terrorist attack us but as we are trying to get to them, the government, or U.S., is killing innocents.
A major theme through out the song is the side comments and critizism of the United States government. Such as “Criticize they but who the fuck are we?” In context this means that criticizing other countries about how they are politically and physically set up. This is something we should be doing in our own boarders. This is supported by the previous line “We sit back and wait for the government team.” Another line that helps this is “And who’s we anyways Quimo Sabe?” Quimo Sabe was a nick name Tonto called the Lone Ranger in his Television Series. Lone Ranger was kind of like a police man for all, like the United states is some times called “The world police.” They song also states that “The people want peace but the leaders want war.” Government wants the war and they are not listening to us, “we the people.”
The song is set up to criticize just how bad the government is treating not only us, but the world around us to. The government never stops and tries to ask for our opinion, “we the people did not want war.” The government also tries to bully other countries and show them what they are doing wrong, but never stop to look at our selves, “criticize they but who the fuck are we?” Also, the government will try to fix things that our out of our land, but when it comes to home town problems like poverty and Katrina, they are virtually ignored. This song shows that the government should reevaluate everything, stand up, and actually care about something important. Then the rest of the country will follow as one. “Stand up/ We shall not be moved/ except by a child with no socks and shoes/ If you got more to give then you’ve got to prove/ Put your hands up and I’ll copy you/… So if you’ve got a dream and a lot to do/ Put your hands up and I’ll copy you.”

What pisses me off the most.

During this time of when our, our meaning college students, vote the means the most we don't take the time to actually sit down and LOOK UP WHAT EACH CANDIDATE STANDS FOR! Why WHY WHY WHY would you go through this whole presidential race and support someone you're not even looking up what each candidate stands for! I KNOW WHAT I AM SUPPORTING. I refuse to talk about it with you though, because no one wants to "talk" with me, everyone wants to debate me and tell me why I am wrong. I am tired of hearing people support their candidate and not knowing what the hell they are supporting. I am not just talking about people who are supporting the person I don't want to win, I'm talking about the people who only go by heard say. I believe that it is your duty as a voting US citizen to KNOW what you are supporting.
I will admit that I do not agree with everything that I support from my candidate. BUT! I truly hate everything the opposing candidate is doing and proposing. I am not saying that every candidate is perfect, YOU CAN'T BE! We are all human! But at least you can vote for the person that you think relates to your idea of right and wrong the most.
Just please, if you get ANYTHING out of this whole blog posting project, PLEASE RESEARCH YOUR CANIDATE! Even if it doesn't change your mind at least you know what you are truly supporting.
Thanks :]


(This isn't 500 words, but I think I got my point across.)