What am i missing?? Hell if i know, because i mean, COME ON!!, im only 16

Well, i know that I'm missing something. In fact, you could say that I'm always "lacking" something, but that's part of my brilliant adolescent years O.o . Its funny this question is asked, because i really only see answers such as ; "I'm really not missing anything, I'm content". or "I'm missing happiness". Its funny, because i really don't see anything that really makes sense, because in all my mind, those are things that we control. We can control what affects us, such as happiness and sadness. For those who cant find something, please, realize you would be the most boring person ever if you were content. But its part of being a teenager, so most likely people will continue to post things like that, as will I.
The thing I'm lacking at the moment is the person who promised me that the would always care. Promised me that as long as i care, she would. Even through the hard times, even when i wasn't hers, and when she wasn't mine, we would care. It changed when i stopped waiting, and strayed across the line. I went to far from her, and she claimed me no more. I wish that it would go back to the way it used to be, and i know that's me being immature and selfish, but by God, i loved her. Sadly, it wont be that way anymore, so unfortunately, the thing im lacking is my best Friend.
Sorry, but were teenagers, and thats about the extent of what we feel we lack

obstacles

I think one of the biggest obstacles i would have is my self esteem/confidence. On the outside i try to portray confidence etc.. but on the inside i dont feel that at all. Having a lack of confidence stops you from accomplishing alot of goals which really sucks! A physical obstacle i have for sports at least is my size. this doesnt really bother me for anything but soccer which is my favorite sport :/ Playing on varsity and being smaller you get pushed around alot which often makes it really hard to get playing time.

missing...

i don't really KNOW what is missing from my life, because i don't really focus on what im missing from my life, i just focus on what i do have. but since this topic is about what i AM missing, i would probably say the patience to deal with small children for the majority of a day (would that work?). I also don't look at my life as LACKING something in my life, i just think that i have weaknesses in my life, as that I need to work on some area's of my life more then others, like not spending money right as i get it and saving it.

Lacking...

What am I lacking?? hmmm. I honestly wouldnt know. I feel like I have every thing I am needing. I dont know what I am lacking. What am I missing. I feel like I am not missing anything. I really cant think of anything. So right now my life is sorta going down the right lane in life. :)

Lacking....

I am currently missing a girlfriend... I myself am lacking self esteem and happiness. It's kinda of hard to think about other things right now... An obstacle in my life is laziness. I have been lazy all year. Mostly because homework is piled onto me everyday and I get overwhelmed. so I become lazy and just don't do all of it. I hate seven period days...

"You are as evil as you let yourself be, asnd as good as you try to be"

Well, I believe that the rational mind makes us "evil" or show the symptoms of being evil. For instance, you naturally seak out the things that you need to survive, or the tools to obtain these things. Like money. Now there are many ways to obtain money, some easier than others. Like Finding someone that has a surplus of of it, and taking some, if not all of it. Yes, it is unethical, but it's technically natural to make sure that you survive and procreate. I think?

groups

I don't feel like I fit any steriotypes, or fall into any groups. But I think that some people beg to differ. So, if you have something that I fit into, please, don't be affraid to say. I'm a big boy, i can handle.

"Spring time, for hitler"

I addore the Spring. I love how the clouds clear the night sky and let the stars shine. I love how the flowers start to bloom, and my garden returns to it's annual splendor. My favorite season however is the fall. I love the cold, i don't know why?

Topic #8

What is missing from your life? I feel like my life is missing more excitement, like i feel like im stuck in same routine. I want way more out of life then what i have in it now.What do you yourself lack? Me i think i lack not protecting meself, like i will let people in and put all my trust and hope into them and sometimes it doesnt turn out the best.What do you think is the biggest obstacle you deal with, or will have to deal with in the future? (This has to be something present, not something lacking -- you already said what you are lacking.) Explain why you think this is, or will be, an obstacle. My biggest obstacle would be moving or change, because my whole life i have been moved around and taken places where i don't know the town or any of the people so i have to make friends fast. But when i have problems i like to run from them and thats what has been easy was just moving and not looking back. I also am a big fan of change i hate seeing the same thing everyday.

What am I missing?

Umm... Well... honestly, I can't answer that question. If I feel like if I am missing something, it is probably the wrong thing. I don't know what is best for me, so I don't know if i'm missing anything. I feel like instead of thinking about what I am missing, I should focus on what I do have, and how to improve it.

!42! Topic #8: I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing . . .

For this week's blog, here's what I'm wondering:



What is missing from your life?

What do you yourself lack?

What do you think is the biggest obstacle you deal with, or will have to deal with in the future? (This has to be something present, not something lacking -- you already said what you are lacking.) Explain why you think this is, or will be, an obstacle.

Any of these responses can be tangible, intangible, abstract, concrete, anything that comes to mind (As in, what is missing from my life is a PlayStation 3. What I lack is the patience and foresight to save money. My biggest obstacle is this foolhardy, superficial society we live in. Either that or freakin' teenagers.). They can NOT all be the same thing (As in, what is missing from my life is a car. What I myself lack is the ability to drive. The biggest obstacle is my lack of a car, which is an obstacle because it means I can't drive places.) Show some imagination and consideration, please.


Responses due by midnight Sunday. Or would that be Monday? How about by 11:59 pm, Sunday night.

Spring and Hormones

I know spring is here when the kids at Lewis and Clark Elementary school start getting more fractious in a way. The girls become more ga-ga over the boys and the boys get sillier for the girls. I hear all of this from my father. Somehow the topic always comes up at dinner during the spring. That's how I know spring is hear.
I love summer, because I love the heat. Need I say more?

Groups

I am a band geek. I'm not a total nerd, but I am a geek. Yes there is a difference. People call me a nerd, but I don't agree. Nerds typically have little or no friends. I have a lot of friends (or at least I think I do) . I am social, as apposed to how people stereo type nerds as being antisocial. I am a geek because i love vide games and Band.
I generally don't stereotype at all. I usually get to know each person as an individual. I do occasionally stereotype skater kids, because usually they fit the stereotype, but not always. Horribly, I stereotype Homosexual people. I really don't like them, because they bother my spirit. I'm not violent, although sometimes I imagine a homosexual holocaust and I was the leader. Other than that, my life isn.t really affected by stereotypes.

Music

I love listening to music. My whole life my family has been musicians. So I know when thing's are in tune and out of tune.
I could never tell you what my favorite song is. When I'm in a relationship, it's the "our song" of the relationship. I really cant decide on a favorite song, because there are just way too many.
My favorite Artist would have to be Blindeside, because their songs usually express how I am feeling. My favorite Genre though, would have to be A-Capella, because I love hearing voices entwine and complement each other.

LENT (Old English for Spring)

My favorite parts of Spring are Spring Break and Easter. Spring break and Easter are what show me that Spring has arrived. My favorite season is Summer because, I get to be with my family all day every day of the week.

(Sigh. Spring break is over in ... two and a half hours and really don't feel like writing now.)

Topic 7

The only good thing about spring is spring break. Without spring break, it would just be another season.

Topic 6

I don't know what clique I'm in and I don't think I'm really in one. I hang out with people from all different cliques and not really associated with just one.

Spring means memories of hurt. Every spring shit always seems to happen to me, so im just used to being somewhat sad. I like winter and fall, because its cold, and im generally happy, till the end of winter, after i leave La Grande and my family. So i hate Spring, and Absolute HATE SUMMER. But ill get into that later

Spring

Well it's pretty safe to say that spring is just one of those...blegh seasons. I don't love it, but i don't hate it. It's just kind of there. I only really like one season. That season of course being winter because well, winter is simply amazing. Everything about it. But meh i guess springs aight.

Topics 2 - 7 because I'm really bad at remembering these.

Okay, I completely forgot about these for a while, until I saw my grade that is, :/. So here are my posts, blahblahblah...

Topic 2: Elements of...you.
When I'm reading a book, particularly one that I like and find interesting, I can get totally obsorbed in it, in all aspects of it. But I find that I get into it more when I can connect with the narrator or the main character. Especially when the story is written in their point of view.

Topic 3: Movies
I love movies. I don't go out to the movies that much, and I don't even really rent them that much, which makes me wonder how I see them all, but I do love them. My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that make me cry, or some other big response, because in my mind, if it's so good that it makes me cry, then it must be a really good movie. A really powerful one, right? Right. So that's probably why my all time favorite is Titanic. I can recite that movie word for word like it's nobody's business. After Titanic, in no particular order, there are:
Moulin Rouge
Pride & Prejudice (the 2005 version)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (don't judge me)
All Harry Potter movies (...enough said.)
Becoming Jane
Four Brothers (I don't know why I love wthis one so much, but I do.)
Sleeping Beauty (she's my favorite Disney princess)
and many more...

Also, another movie that I just saw in theatres is Remember Me. And I don't care if you hate Robert Pattinson and Twilight and blahblahblah, yeah I don't care. It was a really good movie. I read the script online before it was even casted, and I knew it was going to be good. The end made me bawl my eyes out and I loved it. And personally, I think Robert did a good job, so suck it.

Topic 4: Sports
Sports. All in all, I'm not really a sports girl myself. I played t-ball and softball until I was 12, I think, since I was 5, and I liked it, but I guess I just kind of grew out of it. Other things became more important to me. I tried Volleyball in Middle school, strictly B team, and yeah, I'm actually really glad I sucked at it. Look at how competitive and petty those girls get now? I know I'm friends with most of them, and they're fine most of the year, but come Volleyball season and watch out, because they get so crazy, I don't know how to describe it. Maybe that's stereotyping right there? I don't know. Sports in general are good, I think.. they keep us active and let people have fun while doing it. People come closer together during thir sports seasons and learn to work together. It teaches lessons, etc. So I think they are important.

Topic 5: Music
This was actually my first ever post. The questions we had to ask eachother? I asked what is your favorite song.. but I'll answer it again now.

The Scientist by Coldplay is my favorite song. I'm not a strict person when it comes to music preferences, not at all. My iTunes is chalkfull of pop, country, rap, indie, emo (although I really don't like this one, too much screaming for me), alternative, rock, etc. I think it's probably because when we got our computer fixed, every song ever on my computer, I mean EVER, showed up in my iTunes when we got it back. I didn't put half of the music on there. So I'm not picky, I'll listen to anything someone suggests. :)

Topic 6: Groups and Stereotypes
This is a tricky one...
If you're talking like, blonde hair blue eyes sort of thing, then yes, I suppose I'm in that group. But if I'm stupid because I have blonde hair and blue eyes? No, I don't think that I'm a stupid person. I think that at times, I can have my blonde moments, and I call them that, "blonde moments", so is that me stereotyping right there again? Probably. I'm not a jock, or a stoner, or a valleygirl, so I don't know... I don't hang out, or am friends with just one group of people. I am friends with the jocks, and the preps, and some stoners too. Doesn't mean I am just like any of them. I know that some of my friends are exactly like the stereotypes, and I know that some of them even try to be what they are expected to be. Or they see something on someone else, or that someone else is doing and try to be exacty like them. I'm aware that some people are exactly how they seem and some are the complete opposite, but none of this really tells me where I stand.

I guess I am in the "likes-to-wear-dresses/party-with-friends/spend-some-weekends-reading-the-whole-time/loves-babies-and-can't-wait-to-be-an-auntie" group. Anybody can join if they want!

Topic 7: Spring
I think that my favorite part of Spring is definitely Spring Break, and waking up to feed your cat Harry some food on the front porch and glancing over at the garden to see gorgeous tulips and daisies everywhere! I swear they weren't there yesterday and I love that. I grabbed my camera and took a bunch of pictures. Maybe it was last night's rain that brought them out? I also love the rain, and I'm not going to lie, I LOVE SPRING CLEANING! I love to clean, I love it. I am so excited for my dad to rent the carpet cleaner so I get to take EVERYTHING out of my room and go to town on that bitch. Oops, that really escaladed there... really got out of hand fast... My least favorite part is the fact that it means Winter is over... because Winter is my favorite season hands down. But anyways...

There. I'm all caught up. Now my grade had seriously go up or I am going to be severly mad... hahaha

Later.

Seasons :)

My favourite part of spring would be the wonderful flower smell, and the smell of new plants in the air. Even if they occasionally spur of some allergies. I know spring is finally here when the trees start getting leaves when the gnats are the most annoying and 10 of them start crawling all over you the moment you walk into grass, and when the flowers pop out of the ground. My favourite season? Well i like them all I love fall, because of the beautiful transformation from green and warm to cool and multi-red tone colored. Winter because I love the cold, and ice and snow, if we don't get any then I'm usually unhappy though. Spring because I love the new flowers and green coming back. And finally, summer because I get to go swimming there's no school it's hot enough to wear summer clothes and you can have water fights and ice cream and lie out in the sun on the grass, and soak up vitamin D.

spring break

well i like spring because that means that the end of school is getting close :) and my birthday!!!!! otherwise i dont look forward to spring to much cause it brings the end of the snowboarding season and that is the worst!

spring

topic 6 little late.

I dont know what clique i would belong in. I have out with a bunch of different people and have for my whole life. I wouldnt classify my self as a "nerd" cause i hang out with some or a "jock" cause i play lots of sports or preppy cause i hang out with the "preppy" people. I hang out with people from every different types of "cliques"

spring

I dont really mind spring, I know its spring beacuse of spring break and well the way people start to dress. Little less clothing and some not so plesant sights. Just saying. My favorite season is summer. I love it so warm and nice out. I also like it cause I go camping ALL summer. I am maybe home a total of a month. Other wise I am camping. I like the SPRING break. lol thats my favorite part.

Horray spring means track!

My tittle has nothing to do with anything im going to say, but my favorite part of spring is being able to go outside and not freeze to death, and be able to do things. i hate being inside. so spring means i can be more outside. I can tell spring is here when you can smell it. there is just this certain aroma outside that smells really good and its what u think of as spring. as for my favorite season, usually not spring or fall. i guess i just like the extremes of weather.

Topic #7

My favorite part of Spring is Spring Break. Entirely. The moment that I can see Spring approaching is when it reaches about March and it's stopped being freezing, though it's still raining.

My favorite season is Autumn, though we don't have much of one here. I love the color of the leaves and the not-too-warm, not-too-cold feel (except here, it's pretty cold).

Yay.

My favorite part of Spring is twilight because it's so... peaceful. I always know it's spring when I wake up and it's sweet and smells good in the morning and is slightly warm. The sky is clear and so is the air, it's quiet and birds fly above. My favorite season is fall because of how crisp everything is and it seems to be a big begining. :)

Hmm not spring SUMMER

The part of spring that i like best is when it ends and summer begings because i hate all this rain! and the cold! My favorite season is fo sho summer because tank top and shorts weather is definitly the best! :)

Well this is an easy one

Most people might think its hard to put themselves into a stariotype but i find it pretty easy, i'm a band geek. I love and trust my band family more then almost anyone, if i'm sad i go to the band room and automatically feel better. There is ALWAYS someone to hang out with andmost people are willing to do just about anything for a good laugh.
When it comes to steriotyping other people i guess i mostly just don't care, and i try not to. I hate when people try to put me into groups so i try not to do it to other people.

Topic #6

Ok so i really dont know how to answer this one, but here it goes i do judge people by there looks and style and things , but then i get to know them and i start to like who they are. Now i have friends and acquaintances that are all in different cliques and hang with all kinds of people. I try really hard not to judge alot of people but sometimes i cant help it. I know that sounds really harsh, i shouldnt do it cause i dont like people doing it to me. Its like the GOLDEN RULE we all learned in elementry. Ive always wanted to know what people say behind my back. Sometimes when i was younger i wishes i could read minds but it never came true.. All i can say is i really hope that you would something to say to my face about you dont like how i look or dress or talk or just me and who i am them thats your problem not mine, ive got other people to worry about making a good impression and your just one out of billions of people that wouldnt like me.. YOU CANT JUST JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!!!

SPRING

I love Spring. I love that i can open my window in the morning and the sun is shinging and the sky almost clean from clouds. Smell the Cherry Blossom trees that are in the yard next door. I love how i can feel the fresh air hit my face when i walk outside. I would diffently say that spring is my favorite time of the year. Its so beautiful and its just the rigth time where its still hot but at the same time theres a breeze. Spring also means summer is on its way and i cant wait till summer not having to wake up in the morning ( thats nice) and staying up late with friends.

Oh, the spring time

Of course my favorite season in the year is spring!
I was born in the spring, first of all. Plus, it's the time of year when the weather hasn't begun to need the air conditioners, and it's not too cold to the point where you need a thousand coats.
Spring always has the gentle breezes that makes me smile.
It's also a very optimistic month for me.

The moment that I can tell that Spring has arrived is when all the flowers are in bloom and every day makes you happy.









Oh, and I haven't been doing these posts lately, so I'm gonna answer #6.
I think most people think of me as all quiet and weird.
I wonder what people think about me.....
"I bet she has no life."
"She probably just talks to a fish all day with her loser friends..."
People always tend to stare at me, so I assume they think those sort of things.
I used to consider myself a nerd, but then I started to fail 3 classes....
I consider myself a loser, with not a whole lot of friends...
Come to think of it, I have...let's see.
Nina, Katie, Alana, Vetney, Allison, Jazmine.....
Yeah, not that many.
Anywho.....I don't care what people consider me, I just like to know just so I can laugh at them...
Muahahahaha!
Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Laugh at me. Most people do.

Spring! :)

I like spring. probably the best part about spring is the sun starts to shine and the grey and brown ugly earth turns into to all different beautiful colors. I love spring break because my BIRTHDAY is always right in the middle, March 25th if you wanted to know. lol But if I had to pick a month it would defiantely be summer! I absolutely love the sun and water and beach and everything about it. The best days of my life have been in the summer with some of the best people I have ever met. I just love summer!

topic 6

Cligues...I honestly dont know, I asked a few people they said I am a jock. It's true I love sports and I guess people might think I dress like a prep. But I dont think I would put my self in that category. I am friends with a lot of different people, I get along with a lot of people. I admit I do judge people, but I also try to get to know them sometimes. I dont really like all the stupid groups and socializing cliques. I would like everyone to respect and treat everyone the way they want to be treated, I wish I could say I always do that but I dont, im not perfect. But for the most part I try, I think I kinda fit in every where in some ways. Im fairly smart, artistic, athletic, outgoing, funny, and usually get along with pretty much everyone. So idk what clique I would be in...I think I hang out with all different kinds of people.. If I put people in cliques I would say Im friends with hicks, nerds, jocks, emo.. there a lot of different people, but I dont think people should put them in different groups.

Commment on my Blog and tell me if you think I belong to a certain clique?

Spriiiing

I enjoy spring, because it feels like a good weather change after three long months of the cold winter. I like how the weather warms up, the flows/trees bloom and the outside air has a new fresh scent. My favorite season is either summer or fall, because summer, well, no school for one and plus I love swimming and camping which is what I mainly do in the summer time. Fall I enjoy because of the leaves, the weather, and Halloween/Thanksgiving.

ahh....Spring

I love spring! One of my favorite things to do is go on runs right before all the trees have bloomed and then run every day after that until they have completely filled out. It's almost magical to see how much the trees change in just a few days. One of my favorite trees is the pink one on the corner of matzen where it turns onto columbia boulevard. My other favorites this year are on wildwood drive on the way home that are white with just a hint of pink to the petals. I also love all the flowers that come out today while my sister was driving me home from my grandparents hose, I saw a house with tulips and the daffodils that are white with bright orange centers. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen today.

Winter Kicks Spring's Butt

yeah that's right i said it i know i am Way cool.
i dislike spring it brings many sneezes with it and they bother me greatly. and i can tell that spring is coming because my allergies act up and that is the main reason for despising spring.

that being said i really like winter because it is cold and dismal just the way i like it. it is a great excuse for staying inside and i love every minute of it.

Spring

spring is a great season, and not just because of spring break. i'ts not the best season, just a little boring. my favorite season would have to be fall. i love seeing all the trees turning colours, and the leaves falling off. i just can't get enough of those cold dry days with a lot of wind. i love to be outside, skateboarding, or walking around of those days. when i go to portland in the fall, i feel that fall just makes portland seem like a prettier city. the winter does too, but that's only snow, and of course i can't skate in snow.

It's the time of the season for....

It seems to me a lot of people hate spring, and I don't really know why. I love it. A little known fact about me is that I love to garden and I have a huge herb garden behind my house where I spend most of my free time in the spring. Something about the solitary peace, and the fact you are bringing something to life, watching green slowly peak out from under the soil, and then using the plant to spice up chicken later in the year or make Pesto. It's an odd hobby I know, but I enjoy it.

As for my favorite season, I really love fall. The end of fall to be precise. I love the feeling in the air, everything seems closer. I don't really know how to describe it. Everything is silent and calm. It's time for everything to die. It's like the world is exhaling and then all the breath stops. There is a peace about it I love. Other than that, it opens up the ability for fireplaces and tea, which are two of my favorite things in the world. Event though fall is so cold, it feels warm. Maybe it's because the coldness of the air emphasizes the warm of everything else making it all the more special.

Now that I have been sappy enough to make you sick, I will quit talking.

'Tis the Season

Spring is here! :) yet the only way i know this nowadays is when we have Spring Break, this is because the weather the past few years has been horrible!!!
my favorite season isn't really defined, because i like the weather in between summer and Fall because the weather is perfect, it means soccer, and that means FUN!!!

Spring

Spring break has to be my favorite part of spring because its a perfect time to take a break from things. A good booster so you can stand the rest of the school year. Spring for me comes when the weather gets better.

Topic #7:

A Prayer in Spring

by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid-air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfill.

The thing i love about spring, is that it starts to look and feel like summer. i like seeing the flowers start to bloom and i especially like when it's warm out, but it's ouring down rain. That is my favorite.

My favorite season... that's hard. i like certain things about every season. In the winter, i love the snow. When there's no snow, i feel like there's no oint for winter. The spring brings all the flowers and rain. (i love rain) Summer is when you get to hang out with your friends and you don't have to worry about homework. You also get a tan. In the fall is my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.

So i've come to the conclusion that i don't have a favorite season.

Topic #6: Cliques

I honestly don't know what "clique" i would belong in.

Maybe jock, but i'm not sure. I really don't belong to just one. I'm friends with a lot of different people, not just one group. I'm friends with most of the same people that i've known my whole life. I have some "nerdy" friends, some "sporty/ jocks". So i think i belong in a few, or just none in particular.

Tip

Getting this out of the way. Right NOW

So... Spring. Nothing I find particularly great about it. I wish I could say I like the better weather and blooming flowers but with both of those come allergies. Horrible, HORRIBLE allergies. So, I think, my favorite season is Winter since at that time my allergies are at their least. If it weren't for my allergies I would love every season equally.

!42! Topic #7: Spring Is Sprung!

This week, we are moving into REAL springtime.  The time has advanced, the Vernal Equinox is this weekend, next week is Spring Break.

So let's talk about it.

What is your favorite part of spring?  What moment shows YOU that spring has arrived?

Which is your favorite season?  Why?

You may take extra time on this one, since we don't have school next week; feel free to procrastinate until the FOLLOWING Sunday, March 28.  We will have Topic #8 on the day we come back from Spring Break.

As always, feel free to post any other conversation you'd like to have, particularly anything about the book.

My Turn.

All right, since Tyler Stewart asked where my posts were -- and since I'm currently too irate to grade vocab tests, and irate enough to be honest -- here we go.
First, my opinion on sports. I think this country would be better off with more cooperation and less competition, and I think sports teach almost nothing but competition. They teach you to desire victory over the enemy; they teach you contempt for those who are not as capable -- especially if it someone on your team who is holding you back -- and they teach you to push yourself to be The Best. Not one of a team, not part of a group -- The Best You Can Be. So that, in the rarest and most extreme cases, YOU can be the one with the millions of dollars, the endorsement deals, and the apparent immunity from the law that so many professional athletes enjoy. Oh -- and the top college athletes, too. The Oregon quarterback pleads guilty to burglary, and he gets suspended for a year? Excuse me? Where's the jail time? Where's the probation? And at the very least, why does he ever get to play again at all? Oh, that's right: because Michael Vick is back in the NFL. Athletes should be glad that Shoeless Joe Jackson is dead -- and they should fear Pete Rose. But they certanly don't need to fear the American people, because we'll just keep on lying down and showing them our bellies; professional athletes are the alpha dogs, and we are their b#$%hes.
What else about sports? Oh right: they take up far too much money and time -- do you know how much this country spends on maintaining freaking golf courses? How much water gets sprayed on them so that people can whack a ball with a stick? -- away from pursuits that are much, much better for you, pursuits that develop your skills,your body, AND your mind, which no sport on Earth does. Sports teach you to practice the same movement over and over and over again until it becomes automatic -- the entire goal of sports is to eliminate the need to think about what you're doing. Now, there is a sort of Zen beauty to that, which is the real positive side of sports; but that can be accomplished in so many other ways that sports aren't worth the downside. And as for exercise? Oh, please. Sports are bad for your body. Long-term athletes end up little better than crippled from all of the injuries -- other than the ones who have career-ending injuries, or simply end up dead (rare, but not unheard of -- and when was the last time someone was killed by reading a book?). Staying in shape is a good thing, but sports don't do that. They may offer a motivation for getting in shape, but it's the running, the training, and the weight-lifting that really get you in shape, and you could do those without sports.
Not to mention the fact that jocks are jerks. And no, not everybody who plays sports is a jock, by any means -- but those who are, are jerks. I have known almost no exceptions to this, and I've been around high school athletes as long as you people have been alive. Professional athletes are probably different; college athletes often are. But then again, maybe they're just bigger jerks.
Right: now on to my favorite music.

My favorite song is either "Opiate," by Tool, or "Little Wing," by Jimi Hendrix and remade by Stevie Ray Vaughan. There are hundreds of other songs which I like almost as much, of course, but those two are the greatest. Some of my other favorites are "Lachrymosa," from Mozart's Requiem, and "What a Wonderful World," by Louis Armstrong -- especially the Over The Rainbow remix by Izzy (Hawaiian last name I can't remember.), and others.
My favorite band is Tool, though I also have to give props to The Mighty Mighty Boss-Tones, the plaidest band in the world. My favorite single musical artist is Chris Cornell, because I love Soundgarden, and Audioslave, AND his solo work -- great singer, fantastic song writer, brilliant man.
My favorite genre of music is grunge/heavy metal -- meaning Metallica, Megadeth, Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Staind, Godsmack, Shinedown, and occasionally some older metal like Iron Maiden. I hate both death-metal screaming and high-pitched wailing, though, so I don't particularly like Dio or Children of Bodom or their ilk. I love all good music, though, particularly music with good singing, since I'm a singer. I do like rap, though it has to be really, really good rap; I like some country music but not much -- I don't like the Southern twang in the vocals, so it has to be country with less of an accent for me to enjoy it. I like Johnny Cash, for instance -- though Nine Inch Nails did a much better version of "Hurt," in my opinion. That's a great song, too.

Lastly: my clique? I'm halfway between a rocker and a nerd. I look like a rocker -- or maybe an angry loner with a gun under his overcoat, but y'know, to-may-to, to-mah-to -- but I think like a nerd. I love video games, reading, playing D&D; I am obsessive about homework and schoolwork and my writing; I prefer to be by myself and hate parties and partying and attention; I love Monty Python and Weird Al Yankovic and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Then most frequent mistake others make about me is the drug thing; it comes from the rocker appearance, and the fact that I know the slang terms -- like Mary Jane, which is another word for Marijuana. In actuality, I have little more than contempt for drugs, since they make you stupid and then they make you dead, and I'd rather not be either one of those things. I don't really mind the misconception any more; I think it more funny than upsetting.

I do stereotype people, but never by race or gender. I stereotype based on appearance, mostly based on the things people want to be judged by - when you dress like a gangster, I will tend to think of you as a gangster. Or, if you're a teenager in St. Helens, as kind of an idiot. But I've known far too many people who break stereotypes, and been one myself for far too long, to judge people in any way other than the behavior they show me.


There. That's better.

I can honestly say that I have been avoiding this topic all week.

I think I fit the maniac stereotype. I'm a weird one. I know this, I accept this. I am what I please to be. I am a theater/performing arts nerd, a lover, and a person who likes their alone time. Yet, I am decent at socializing with the general public. Though, I couldn't party to save my life... Hmm... I think stereotypes are unavoidable. They're going to happen. I know I've stereotyped people in my life. It happens. I think we all do it in our lives. Um. Well I need to go do laundry now so... yeah.

4, 5, and 6 A little late :/

Topic 4:
Sports! I personally love sports. I think they are a fun way to exercise and socialize with other people. Sure sports aren't for some people, which is okay, but when you play sports you're with people who have that in common with you. That goes for any school activity that you like to do. I also like watching sports, like football games, basketball games, and well, anything! I also like the Olympics, but only some events. I personally like the summer Olympics better than the winter, but both are good. It's fun to watch people who are amazing at what they do. Personally I love volleyball, but I like playing many other sports such as soccer, football, and basketball, even though I'm the worst basketball player ever. Either way, sports are fun competitively and non competitively.

Topic 6:
Groups and cliques. I don't really think our high school is that bad with this. Of course we have some groups, but I think everyone talks to who they want to talk to. Or at least I do. I'm not really a fan of all the clique drama and stuff and I don't get involved with any of that, but to me it's a part of high school and something that will make you appreciate college a lot more. Honestly I don't think that because you don't necessarily hangout with someone outside of your school that you can't be friends with them. That's how I look at it. I think that if people have certain cliques and groups and have that whole "I'm better than everyone but my friends" attitude, then they are judging people for no reason. Of course that's going to happen at this age, but not with me, I know that for sure. The way I look at it is that everyone is on good terms with me until you do something to really hurt my feelings or i guess hurt me in general. haha.

Topic 5:
Music. I love music, and I think that music is probably one of the best things on this planet! I find it amazing that music can alter your mood, and connect with people. Sometimes I try to think what the world would be like without it. EVERYTHING would be altered. Commercials, no radio, No ipods or stereos, any of that. I can't imagine anything without music. Music is so important. I heard someone say one time that music is like their meth which is ironic because meth releases the chemical in your brain that you get when you listen to a song you really like and feel like you have to repeat it... But that's kind of off topic, so I'll just continue. I think that I appreciate different things in different styles of music and I love that music is so diverse and can be anything you want it to be. I find if funny looking back at music and seeing how much it's changed and I wonder how it will be generations from now. I wonder what crazy music I'll tell my kids to turn off because I can't stand. It's kind of exciting to look forward to.

Lauren
:)

groups and cliques and lame labels

okay.... me? I'm not quite sure how to "classify" myself in the world of school labels. Let's see, what is there to choose from? Nerd, geek, jocks, preps, corner kids, crack/pot heads, skaters, band geeks, drama nerds and it goes on. I've been told several times that I'm a nerd and seriously i could care less about what others think of me because all that matters is what i think of myself. Being a true dork is fine with me because I'm happy with the way i live. someone once told me i was a prep and all i could do was laugh. I truly think labels are the worst thing anyone has to go though in high school because really none of them are true! they are ridiculous and i believe people should be able to be who ever they want to be, liking and having passions and desires of what ever they want without being judged down by others just like themselves. Anyways i love to learn. I love to read and write and do math (when I'm not stressed) i like nature and physical activities and sports. I love swimming and i thoroughly enjoy working. i keep a journal. i like spending time with my family. i like computers and building them with my dad. I enjoy wood work and building. I love animals. I enjoy bike rides. I really like thrill and excitements. I like deep conversations. I love painting and drawing and art. I love and live in my religion. I support our country. I care a lot about this world. I try to help others. I set goals and achieve challenges. I am obsessed with crazy organization and planning. NOW...here is my question. This is only a small look at who i really am. If this is what a nerd truly is...then yes that's what i am. But no...a nerd is so direct and to me quite an insult. If you are going to label anyone with something then label them with their name!!!!!!!!!!! call me a RACHEL. Because that's what and who i realllllly am! cliques are also an insult to me. i may have close friends but i am 100 percent open to befriending anyone who would like to be friends. This is how i really feel about group and stereotypes.

Cliques, stereotypes, groups, who really cares?

I friggen hate talking about cliques and groupings and all that stuff. To me, you can only be stereotyped by others if you stereotype yourself first. You only belong to one group if you choose to belong to one group. It's all really up to you. I myself don't try to act better then others but I'm not gonna hide the fact that I am in what you guys would call the "popular" group. But I also consider myself friends with all the other groups. I don't care how I am stereotyped and I don't care what everyone thinks. I feel like if everyone else felt the same way we would never have to have this discussion.

What others stereotype me as really depends on the person. To some people I am just a know-it-all, to others I am really smart. The reacurring one seem to mainly be tall, bookish, smart kid. I guess I could put down geek or nerd but really what is the point? It seems to be something that most people classify themselves as and so has somewhat lost its meaning. Really how descriptive is it if it supposidly applys to ~90% of the people on this blog?
Other than these I don't know of any stereotypes that I fit in. People don't often tell me what they think of me except Tyler calls me a genius, and Eldon calls me a hacker (jokingly. I like to mess around with the source of computer games) and Sadie Masterson calls me poindexter. (semi-jokingly. I proved her wrong in math class)
Ι don't think that I generally steriotype people, nor do I think it good to. If you tell people what group you think that they fit in you either get called rasist, a jerk, or both. I also noticed that the more I get to know someone (generally) the less prone I am to stereotype them.

Topic #5 Late.

Music, music, music, music, I love music, I breathe music, I want to eat music. I like to find new and original bands and listen to them til I can't anymore. But because of my love of music I really could never choose just one favorite song and I'm not even going to attempt that impossible feet, however I do have a favorite artist, Daniel Hunter, whom I admire so much. He was the lone member of his debut band playradioplay! and has since then created beautiful music and transformed the original PRP! into his new band Analog Rebellion which is even better than his original. My favorite genre is hard to choose as well, it really depends on my mood. I like a lot of indie bands, low-fi electronic, dance, jungle, tribal, and underground rap. 

Topic #4 is really late.

I personally LOVE watching the Olympics. It's amazing to see what us as humans are able to achieve. I wish I could do some of the stuff the olympic athletes could. If anyone has a problem with the Olympics they have got issues that they need to work out. I think the Olympics is a pretty friendly competition between countries, there doesn't seem to be much rivalry caused by it. 

I love running and baseball and playing sports but I can't really just sit down and watch sports on tv cuz I'm adhd like that and I get too bored. but playing sports I think is fun and teaches everyone things.

Topic #6: Groups

I belong to the "outcast/loser" clique (no offense, Maggie :P). What stereotypes do I match? I don't know, because I don't really pay attention to current stereotypes. Stereotypes will affect me if I discover that I match a bad one. Ooo, I just thought of one! Computer geek... yeah, I totally match that stereotype except for the pocket protector and taped glasses. Or is that computer nerd? Whatever, same difference. Most of the time, if people put me in a category, it's simply from not knowing me well enough. Stereotypes do not inconvenience me until it affects how I make friends. I am perfectly happy with my social group at the moment, and I would not do anything to change my close group of friends.


On the topic of labeling others, I tend (or try) not to do this. You can never, ever, predetermine what someone's personality will be. When I do add others to a social group without hearing it from them firsthand, it's normally convenient (I hope), though I will not deny that I have put people into potentially harmful stereotypes.

Cliques

I don't see myself as being in a clique/group, because I'm friends with anyone who can make me laugh and isn't rude/selfish. I don't know what stereotypes I match, I guess you could say I'm a jock, because I'm usually thinking/practicing basketball, but thats the only sport I play....I really don't know. Then again I spent about a week over the summer locking myself in my room reading Harry Potter and crying over one of the books which you could say is a little nerdy. I've never heard rumors about me or what people think I am. If I do, I'm just the quiet, tall kid to people.

Cliquetastical Funness

i don't really know what other people perceive me as or what clique i belong in because i hang out with a lot of people. in my eyes i am a big nerd i love being on the computer and am always playing video games and people know that. but i just like technology so i guess i am a nerd.

Topic 6

I don't like to put myself into stereotypes, but I suppose I'm a geek. I obsess over really nerdy things. That's just what I do. Most people don't know the full extent of that though, so to most, I suppose I am just there. I could also be called the artsy one, since I am really into painting and music. That's a stereotype I wouldn't mind having. Other than that, I'm not really sure. I try not to stereotype people, but it's a little hard when that is the primary aim for some kids (their aim is to be exactly like one another).

steriotipical stereotyper

hmm... its hard to put yourself in someone elses shoes to look at yourself ... i'd say im nerdy..and preppy

i dont really like to judge other people but i do. when i walk down the street and i see someone i judge them. you may think "oh.. bad amanda" but we all do it.

stereotypical stereotyper

you see everyone around you
you know the basics
you don't care to know more
so you leave as is
and stereotype

you stereotype yourself
not for who you are
but someone better
you think your perfect
but your not
no one is

we all do it
it can't be helped
but it can
we can start
looking at people differently
we can change
the monsters we've created
within ourselves
we can listen

my

i don't really know how people see me. i'm always putting out stereotypes and labeling people but i don't know how they label me. i would think it was something stupid like punk skater. i don't mind that it just sounds kind of dumb. i don't hang out with a certain "group," i just hang out with my friends. cliques don't affect me in anyway, and i don't care for them. i don't appose them either. it just wouldn't be highschool if there weren't cliques.

topic 6

Hmm i guess i have never really thought of what "clique" i am in or whatever. I do realize that i stereotype people alot sadly but i have never thought about what stereotype i fit in. Its pretty hard to think about yourself in that way and i honestly can't think of what clique i would be in :( But in a way im kinda happy i cant think of one, but i would love to know what people would stereotype me as...? ;)

Cliques

Well, I'm pretty sure most people find me as the nerdy asian stereotype. Good at math, likes anime and video games...Stuff like that. And for me it's pretty much all true. I don't mind it at all that people think that because I don't really care what people think of me. I try not to stereotype but some people just fit it perfectly.

stereotypes

I don't really know how people see me. I feel like most of the time people don't really notice me enough to put me into a specific stereotype. I think I'm kind of a crazy/geek/loner/corner kid, but I don't know. It changes day to day. Sometimes I'm quiet and alone, but sometimes I'm really loud and psycho. I act differently depending on where I am and who I am with, so I think I fit more than one stereotype, and I don't think I am really what most people expect if you saw me outside of school. So, basically, I have no idea what my stereotype is.

Cliques.

I can remember 7th grade. I can remember that everday during lunch, I would sit at the very end of a table, usually one closest to the middle of the Cafeteria, and eat my lunch that my mother so diligently packed for me... Alone. I didn't have friends. My last name was Hooker. This happened until half-way through the year, where, through the insistence of one of my teachers, I met some people, my friends still, today. Cole Charbonneau, his twin Will, and Nate Swearingen.
At this time (7th grade) I was most probably classified(by others) as a "Quiet Kid" a "Nerd(or geek, whichever you prefer* and *HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA HIS LAST NAMES HOOKER, LAUGH AT HIM!!!!!!*(sorry, that hurt back then, I couldn't care less now).
Anyways, through the influence of my new found friends, I became interested in things such as Band(in which I now play the Alto Sax for Concert Band).
While my friends have gotten me interested in new things(which is good). I have always been running. I love to run. I've been running in Cross Country/ Track since 4th grade. Its fun.

So, if I were to choose stereotypes that I fit in it would probably be
"Nerd/Geek"
"Crazy"(I like running, so sometimes Im told that, but oh well)
"Loner"(I still am sometimes)

I sometimes stereotype people often(or did). I have found that my views on people have changed, because, everyone is changing all the time. I have for, I don't know, two and a half years been out of the presence of many people that formerly, I did not like for one reason or another, and often find that I can talk to them easily, and I believe, even come to like and befriend them, If I took the effort to.

One thing Im having a little trouble grasping is this however;
Who decides what actions or looks go to which specific stereotype? Who would want to?
Who decides who fits what stereotype? One person might say person "A" fits in one stereotype, but another might say that they fit into another.
Can somebody fit into one stereotype? Or can they fit into two, or three?

As I wrote these questions, I came to one conclusion. Everyone is different. Everyone. Therefore, could we not have, if someone can only fit into one stereotype, almost seven billion (7,000,000,000) different stereotypes?

Topic #5; Music

My favorite song right now is "Rock N' Roll and Pensacola" By Joshua Stevens
My favorite artist is Brad Paisley
The genres are country and rock

Topic #4: sports

I am a fan of sports. Volleyball and Swimming are my favorite.
I don't think everyone should like sports, because sports aren't for everybody. A lot of people enjoy the physical activity, like i do, but others would rather read and hang out with friends which is okay in my book.
Just because you don't play a sport doesn't mean you are lazy. I hate when people say that.

Topic #3: late

My favorite movies.

Some of my favorite movies are Grease, Alladin, Lucky Number Slevin, and Troy.
I grew up watching Grease, so i've loved that movie since i was about four. i know all the words to every song and i can say most of the lines.
Alladin is my favorite disney movie, i'm not sure why, i think it's because i used to watch it all the time with my brothers.
Lucky Number Slevin came out a few years ago and it confused the heck out of me the first time i watched it, but after that i loved it. And Troy because it has a lot of action and it's set in the roman times.

Cliquety Clique

I have never ever seen myself in a specific clique. I know i used to be a steriotypical biatch, but I like to think that has changed. I open up more to people now and I think that specific steriotype comes from me not really caring what people think of me. I am who I am and that isn't about to change just to amuse people or satisfy their desires. Now, I think I just learned to laugh a lot more and brush off drama. What is the point? I am deffinately still learning but I mean, if someone throws out a put down, they are obviously insecure. If they are checking out your bf/gf smile because that person chose you. If life kicks you a few times, even admittedly hard sometimes, get back up dance your way thru the obstacles. I think cliques are too much about the way you react to life, and nobody has a certain way of handling EVERYTHING. I don't hang out with only the dorks, geeks, preps, jocks, clowns, or outcasts. I have friends all over the spectrum and I thnk everyone has a little bit of everything in them. So as far as cliques, they were only invented because the types of people that get along the best started hanging out in groups, why wouldnt they? That makes sense. But then it only lasts so far, because we all have different people in our lives throughout life.

Cliques

Stereotypes and cliques i find kind of funny. In middle school and before then i never really noticed cliques, but high school it was like "bam" they just show up... for me anyway. I guess i don't really fit into any specific cliques. I don't like to. I suppose i hang out with the sports/geek type of people. I am for sure a geek, even if i don't show it much. Heh, well that's all i got for now. Later.

Me, A stereotype? Bah, im a somber, sad, passionate kid

Im not sure if i fit any stereotype. I mean, come on; im kinda a loner. I mean, i really dont have a designated group of friends im always with, all year, every year. I dont really do anything that qualifies me as a "jock", other than the fact that im really good at athletics (not being conceded, just going of what people say). I mean, i dont want to die, so you cant call me a Goth/Emo (Emo is so overrated. I mean, its fake as hell, and kinda depressing that people like being called "Emo"). Im not really a prep, because im neither annoying in the sense that im very "preppy" or uncontrollably energetic. im not super creepy, like watch you at night.
So, Ive tried to come up with a list of things that describe me, and this is pretty much what i got.


-Im a heavy thinker
-Im extraordinarily passionate
-Im empathetic
-Im usually sad
-I have a sad aura (make others kinda down)
-I believe in myself.
-I love school
-sports make me miserable, and happy at the same time.
-I love Books
-I love to write.
-I bring as much as i can to all classes
-I love hard, and fell hard
-I am not religious, at all
-I dont like people.
-I dont like stereotypes
-I dont compromise, EVER
-I want to be a Teacher
-I love Europe, especially Ireland.
-I want to be successful in my own eyes.
-I want to know who i am, and be that wonderful person everyone says that they see. I want to love myself, as much as i love the people who mean something to me.

So, i dont think that you could successfully place me in a "stereotype", because i refuse to be put in one. I think that in my honest opinion, no one EVER fits a stereotype, we fit ourselves to them.

Music.

I listen to all kinds of music. I don't have a favorite group or genre. I'll listen to just about anything.

Sooo Stereotypical.

Stereotype: v. -a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
So basically you're assumption of what or who a person is without ever really knowing them. Something sound wrong with that at all? Example: When someone walks up to you that you don't even know and asks you, Why are you emo? One-why would you assume that? Is it because of what I'm wearing? Why do you automatically assume that because I'm wearing what I'm wearing that I'm "emo", why I quite possibly could have been wearing clothes from the latest line of American Eagle yesterday. Does that make me a prep? Two- Does it matter? Will it change your life any more to shove me into any of your specific 'categories', that you insist on having, why? Three: What you wear doesn't apply directly to who you are. The true meaning of 'emo' is short for emotional. Which has been stereotyped into dressing in scene,punk, or gothic style clothing, and or cutting oneself.
I have been asked that before, which is why I brought that particular example up. I may have fit it's stereotypical description briefly, but that's psychotic, not emo. I know thats only one form of stereotyping but that's really what irks me in a horrible infuriating way is when someone takes the stereotype and applies it to someone who fits it, just based off how they look.
I will not put myself into any specific category, I wear all styles of clothing, though I favour hot topic's selection. I wear things that I like and I dont have a particular style. I don't hang out in any particular group of people. Before I had a boyfriend I would bounce around between groups of people or walk around school alone. Alone most of the time though.
There are some types of stereotyping that are necessary, like walking around town and the man or group of men that seems to act strange and you think he/they look(s) dangerous is the good kind. It keeps you out of danger.
All I'm trying to say is that the over the top stereotypical assumptions are wrong, and that I think group stereotypes like preps jocks and all that jazz is crap. Simple conceptions of a person, like 'her smile is nice I think she must be a very friendly person' or he seems like he's a really quiet person' are ok...we do these naturally to pick out the people we want to be friends with.

cinco--un poco tarde

My favourite song..? Do I even have one? My boyfriend seems to think that "I want to grow old with you" by Westlife should be my favourite song, but just because its our song does'nt make it my favourite song. In response, he says 'well that's harsh'. I suppose. However, my favourite song(s) changes from day to day or month to month at random. Right now it seems to be 'I swear this time I mean it" by Mayday parade and 'Cut' by Plumb.
My favourite band is Evanescence, and I can't wait for their long awaited new album to come out October 2010.
According to my ipod..the genre I download most from is alternative, so I suppose that that is my favourite genre.

Topic 4 late

I really dont care at all about sports. But, from my perspective it seems to be more about popularity. I know this is'nt true for everyone but I know that there are some people that join so they can get into the "cliques". The people that don't join for those purposes that honestly just love being good at something I think do it for they're own enjoyment and satisfaction at being good at something. I also don't like the competitiveness that a lot of people get over some things. Just playing games in P.E. was horrible because any time anyone messed up you'd get yelled at. It's just a game.
sports-competitive activities in which you require skills that you will not need for life besides learning to work with or yell at fellow human beings.

Take it on the Run

    My favorite song would be hard to pick because most of my favorite songs are very similar to one another. I guess my favorite song would be "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos.  My favorite bands are mostly rock/progressive rock bands and they include REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey, Boston, Toto, Little River Band, Billy Joel, and Wings.
    I can listen to REO Speedwagon over and over and over and over and ... again without getting tired of it. I know this for a fact because my dad had one of their albums and played in the garage 24/7 along with a couple other albums by another artist, and I was in the garage often for long periods of time and constantly had their songs stuck in my head. However, I still like them more than ever...



My top three:


"Layla" by Derek and the Dominos



"Take it on the Run" by REO Speedwagon



"Keep on Loving You" by REO Speedwagon

Eldon R.

I think that there are a lot of stereotypes about me ranging from awesome athlete (im not) to a nerd (mabey a little). Here's a few i can think of though: great soccer player, nerd, big scary kid, cool kid, freak, geek, A Jesus Freak (very true), etc.
I know i stereotype a lot, but it's to people i don't really know at all. I also label people i do know, but I don't think that's stereotyping, it's just callin' 'em how I see 'em.

stereotypes

I hate stereotypes....in eight grade I wrote a this i believe paper on how I disliked stereotypes. but I give them anyways and I get them also. I'm not sure what groups I'd be placed in. Band, running, Redneck in training (ryite burd?), christian, eco enthusiast, biking....I'm not sure though.

music

I can never have a favorite song for longer than a couple of weeks because I love music....right now my favorite song is crazy love by Michael Buble. I like the chorus and just the way the song sounds. My favorite artist(s) are owl city, Michael Buble,and Coldplay. I think those are my top three right now. My favorite genre: I have no idea it really depends on my mood. If I'm eating waffles it's ella fitzgerald but pancakes and ella fitzgerald don't work for me. If I'm singing with my sister it's anything beacause she has a beautiful voice and I love hearing how our voices blend together. I like singing heart and soul with my brother while we are playing the duet on the piano but whenever I can get my nine yearold brother to sing with me it's fun. I listen to the soft rock radio station usually though.

Eye em te redneek.

I feel that for me, there are no stereotypes that fit me even close to completely. i feel that im probly a little weird. im a runner, i pretty much lives in goble near a bunch of freaks, i take pride and care into my school and do plenty of extra cirricular activities, and since im also a redneck i love taking my jeep up in the hills and muddin it. i got my school and redneckness. pretty weird. most people think of me in three ways i think. either a redneck, a runner, or a freak. but hey, i really dont care. they can think whatever. its not my problem. i'll admit, i steriotype other people, usually the ones i dont know. usually, its just me sorting out people from people. its just a convienient thing for me to do.

!42! Topic #6: Groups

This comes out of the discussion we were, well, trying to have in class today -- and we need to do something about that, because it seems to be completely falling apart in this class.  Maybe we'll try having silent discussions.

At any rate, I realize that this is a difficult topic, and one that requires some real self- analysis, but I do want you to give it a genuine attempt.

What clique do you belong to?  What stereotypes do you match?  It may be enough if you simply appear to match the stereotypes, since much of this comes from how others perceive us, but it can be very interesting to see who actually does fit the categories.

If others perceive you/refer to you as matching a stereotype, if others put you into a clique, do you think it is at all accurate, or is it simply stuff and nonsense?  Do stereotypes affect you at all?  Do they harm or inconvenience you?  (Try to think about all stereotypes: those of race, gender, and age, as well as those of social group and so forth.)

Lastly, in what ways do you tend to stereotype other people?  Are your stereotypes, in your opinion, harmful or simply convenient?

Every night I see you standing on the corner Shaking that thing like you're playing Pop Warner

well my music preference changes quite often but currently i like HELLOGOODBYE... i like most of their songs except "jesse buy nothing... go to prom anyways" its all screamoey .. and just rly creeps me out .. but its not that bad. probably my fave. song is "baby, it's fact":

Just in case their wondering
They've got us pinned terribly
They don't believe our love is real
Cause they don't know how real love feels
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And They'll believe us to soon
Baby, it's fact
That our love is true
The way black is black
And blue is just blue
My love is true
It's a matter of fact
Oh, and you love me too
It's as simple as that
Baby, our love is true

They may say some awful things
But there's no point in listening
Your words are the only words
That I believe in afterwards.
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And They'll believe us to soon
Baby, it's fact
That our love is true
The way black is black
And blue is just blue
My love is true
It's a matter of fact
Oh, and you love me too
It's as simple as that
Baby, our love is true

It's true
Oh oh oh
It's true
Oh oh oh
It's true
Oh oh oh
It's true
Whoa oh oh

Baby, it's fact
That our love is true
The way black is black
And blue is just blue
My love is true
It's a matter of fact
Oh, and you love me too
It's as simple as that

Baby, it's fact
That our love is true
The way black is black
And blue is just blue
My love is true
It's a matter of fact
Oh, and you love me too
It's as simple as that

Baby, it's fact
Our love is true
Baby, it's fact
Our love is true
Ohhh
Baby, it's fact
Our love is true
Baby, it's fact
Ohhh
Baby, it's fact
Our love
Our love is true

its amazingness!
i don't actually have a specific genre of music that i like, basically it's whatever sounds awesome to me

soccer, soccer, soccer

i would die if there wasn't sports, but i don't really like school sports, i luv community sports like my spring soccer team is sooo fun. the whole time we work hard, have fun, and improve are soccer skills. during the high school season i dont improve at all in my soccer skills so the spring season is were i improve and become a better athlete.

i luv my movies

1. way, way, way too many

2. alice in wonderland, i actually ducked while watching it in 3-D

3. what's a "boy- flick"

4. I like all chick flicks so i cant really pick one

5. "lifes like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get" -Forest Gump

6. 101 dalmations, remember one day during winter break i watched it about 7 times in one day ... it was soo fun. i almost know all the lines... and i noticed some little details like when they turn off the t.v. the guy on the television maks a :O face

Mr. Humphrey

I think you should give us a little bit more time for our Book and Movie essay/paper/summary. make it due like next monday would be really really cool of you.

Please

Music :)

Mhm...I dont know. This is kinda a tough one for me. I absolutely love music, but I cant really say one type or genre I love. Because I love tons and tons of different types. Lets see... Country, Hip Hop, Soft rock, Rock, Jazz, Rap... I think it depends what mood im in... i like listening to a lot of different music. The ones I dont really listen to would be Hard Rock and Metal, also like oldies and stuff like that I dont really like. But yeah thats pretty much it. Oh and having to do with music I LOVE to sing! haha Im not very good at it, but thats okay...because EVERYONE is good at singing Rubber Ducky your the one, you make bath time so much fun, Rubber Duckyyyyyyy!!! See theres always a song to sing :)

Music

hmmm..... I like lot of music. I can tell you what I don't like. lol. I don't like rap, metal, heavy metal, rock or anything that's just loud. I like soft rock, classics, some pop, LOVE country, oldies, classical/instrumental and weird music haha. I pretty much listen to the radio. I really like Taylor Swift, and Owl City!!! I love listening to people play the piano, guitar, or any other instrument. Gives me chills lol. I thoroughly enjoy Emily Bishops singing voice!!! =) And my sisters and Megan's duets. They write music and it's awesome! Blake.... of course you and your guitar!!! lol I like uplifting music or just any that makes me happy when it comes on.

Sports.... 'lil late

Okay I think that sports are a GOOD thing! The only negative things I see in them are over competition and pressure, and possible injuries. Other than that sports are workouts (healthy for your body), self esteem and confidence builders, and often times team work. My favorite sports are swimming, basketball and track. Swimming is like thearapy to me. I love it! I can get in the water and leave all my problems are worries on the deck. I can work super hard and keep going, it's great. It feels so good to swim. Basketball is just exciting! I enjoy watching and playing. I like to figure out plays and play defense. Im always thrilled when things work out perfectly, like passes and scoring. Track is also great. There are several events! My favorite are the hurtles. All I can say is I'm relieved when I cross the finish line and see I completed the race haha. But that was mostly middle school. I think that sports are a good thing because they can make people happy and feel good. Anything that is posivite for the physical body, enjoyable and fun to do or watch can only be a good thing=D

Music.

My favorite music is Prince's 80's songs, because they have a unique beat and a meaning. Other genres I enjoy are: Indie, R&B, and Alternative. I do enjoy rap if it has a tolerate beat, and I like some country songs.

MuSiC

I can't say I have a favorite in anything. I like all different kinds of music and all different artists. I listen to music a lot and wish I could more, not always, but more often. I take two choir classes, one EM, so I have vocal jazz, psychology, a capella. Every day ;). Music has been a big part of my life and I think it all kicked off when I met my best friend, Katie. When I was four I moved here across the street from her and we have been inseperable ever since. She's 22 so some people think it's weird, but we are like the same person. Music always makes me think of her. She is always singing and listening to music. She plays piano and guitar and takes choir classes and has a vocal instructor. We always sang kareoke when I was younger and she always encouraged me to join choirs and keep music in my life. Now it is, and music is more than noise to me. Disney movies when I was younger stuck with me too through the music. The little Mermaid soundtrack still plays in my head while I shower because my God Mom used to sing it in the shower all the time. I can't emagine life without music.. What would life be without it? Mine wouldn't be anywhere near what it is right now.

Lalalalallalalala

My favorite song of all time has to be "Demons" originally sung by Guster but in my opinion the UofO acapella ensamble does a much better job of preforming it. I like it because it's beautiful and full of emotion.

Marching band IS a sport

This isnt exactly the question you asked for topic 4 but i think it will still count becasuse i have A LOT of emotion on this subject.
People seem to think that marching band is not a sport and we just walk around a field playing, but in actuallity with the hours and intence physical demand it is a LOT harder then other "sports". One of the things i bring up is " WE have daily doubles and have to run a lot!" That of course is an INCREDIBLY easy thing to counter, durring band camp we have 12 hour days with only 2 hours of breaks! This lasts for 2 weeks in the burning sun. Last year we marched for 3 hours in 107 degree wheather. Another thing people seem to think is that marching is easy...trust me IT"S NOT!! Any one who is not in band i would like to see them try to march and end up failing terribly.
UGH well thats all the time i have to talk about this but be sure you know that i have a LOT more oppinions on this subject and would love to sit down and talk to anyone who thinks it's easy!

Topic 3 also late blah!

My favorite movie quote would either have to come from V for vendetta or from four weddings and a funeral. The one from four weddings and a funeral was also the poam i read for english.
"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone..." It really feels exactly how i feel about my dad dying.

Topic.. wow didnt realize how behind i was... :(

When reading a book i focus mostly on the charecters in the book, i try to find a way to relate them to myself and everyday life. I noticed that i focas very little on the setting of the book which is something i need to work on because i don't think i fully enjoy books that i don't pay as much attention to because i miss things.

Topic 5, Music.

Oh music... .. I like music. I do, i'm not obsessed with it though. I find it funny how some people HAVE to listen to music, 24/7. When they go to bed, in the shower, when they're eating, etc etc. I find music to be something that gets rid of the silence, makes things...less mundane. So, here we go;

Favorite Genre: Alternative rock, Rap/hip hop

Favorite Artist/band: Modest mouse, hands down no question in my mind. Some others i like are Primus(Les Claypool), Saul Williams, Gogol Bordello, Kid Cudi, Tech N9ne, AC/DC, Aerosmith...the list goes on.

Favorite Song: Hm. This is a very very rough question. So hard to answer. Hm. I would have to say Dramamine by Modest Mouse. I like this song a lot because they are talking about getting high on dramamine (my take on it) which i find hilarious, and the guitar part of the song is amazing and was the first song i learned on guitar. But still i like a lot of songs equally as much.

Well, that's that.

Music

Considering it's late, and I want to go to bed, I am only going to give you a BRIEF overview on a subject that would generally take me a LONG time to cover. I suppose you could say I have unconventional music interests. Most everything I listen to is at least 30 years old. I despise most new music, especially rap. Rap makes me want to hurt things.

Favorite groups/artists:
Pink Floyd
Simon & Garfunkel
Queen
Lou Reed
Iggy Pop
The Velvet Underground
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
David Bowie

I could go on and on. Music is such a huge part of who I am. ( *shudders* So....cliche)

And of course, everyone knows I love love love The Beatles. That's no surprise.

As for a favorite song...no way could I pick one, that would kill me.

Voice of Truth

-Probable my most favorite song is 'Voice of Truth' by Casting Crowns.
-I don't really have any other FAVORITE songs but i do have favorite bands (not in any particular order):
1)Casting Crowns
2)Group One Crew
3)Steller Kart
4)Flyleaf
5)Skillet
6)Aerosmith
7)Van Halen
8)Bon Jovi
9)Kiss
10)AC/DC
those are only a few of them
-Favorite Genre:
Christian Rock
70's & 80's Rock

Topic #5: Music

Music is amazing. I haven't been really listening to that pop crap that always on the radio as of late; I listen to rock and soundscapes. Soundscapes are basically just those really mellow piano instrumentals. I like listening to them a lot more than rap or pop (which nowadays is basically rap).

If I do listen to pop, however, I listen to the 2000-2007-type stuff, rather than music today.

I listen to Matchbox 20, Imogen Heap (who is not that old, but I like them), Before Their Eyes (no idea who they were until Christmas), Breaking Benjamin, and others.

My favorite song right now (sad to say that Mr. Zmolek introduced the class to it) is the CD version of Hallelujah by the Canadian Tenors. Some people might recognize the song as being in Shrek, but sung by Rufus Wainwright.

Tyler's Music

I relate to music with my moods. When im sad, i listen to sad music. It always works that way. Intresting enough, i havnt found any modern music that i enjoy anywhere near as much as i used to. I pretty much only enjoy the music that i listened throughout middle school.
List of my favorite artists and albums i listen to;

Avenged Sevenfold (REST IN PEACE JIMMY)
-Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
-Waking the Fallen (Second Heartbeat**, Unholy Confessions, and Chapter Four)
-City of Evil
- Self Titled (Least Favorite)

Anti-Flag
For Blood and Empire
The Bright Lights of America (was during my "into the wild" obsession, Thanks Nick)

Bad Religion
-The empire strikes back

Cky (Favorite Band)
-Camp Kill Yourself Vol.1 (96 Quite Bitter Beings**)
-Infiltrate - Destroy - Rebuild (Escape from Hellveiw***, Sink into the Underground***)
-Carver City (Hellions on Parade)

Flyleaf
-Self Titled Album (Cassie, Sorrow, All around me***, I'm So Sick)

Flogging Molly
-Drunken Lullabies (The Son never Shines on Closed Doors***, Rare Ould Times)
-Swagger (Salty dog, Selfish Man, The Likes Of You Again, Black Friday Rule!***)

The Fray
-How To Save a Life (Vienna**, Hundred, How to Save a Life*, Heaven Forbid)

Hollywood Undead! fairly new 2008
-Swan Songs (The whole effing album! Paradise Lost**, N.5, Young**, The Diary**)

Jack Johnson
-In Between Dreams (Breakdown, Banana Pancakes, Do you Remember?*)
-Sleep through the Static (Sleep through the Static*, Angel, Same Girl, If I Had Eyes)

Kid Cudi (very new)
-Man on The Moon (Soundtrack 2 My Life, Day 'n' Night)

Linkin Park
-Meteora (Numb, Figure 8, Breaking a Habit)
-Minutes To Midnight (The Little Things Give You Away**, What Ive done*)
-Hybrid Theory (In the End*, Papercut***)

My Chemical Romance
-Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Helena, I'm Not Okay (I Promise), The Ghost Of You***)
-The Black Parade (Welcome to the Black Parade, Dead!, Famous Last Words, Mama)

Paramore
-Riot (Hallelujah, When it Rains)

Rise Against- This Band is extraordinarily special to me. Their music has continued to heal, entertain, and move me over the years, and my love for them is as strong as it was back when it was just me and Pat.
-The Unraveling (Everchanging, Six Ways 'Til Sunday, Reception Fades)
-Revolutions Per Minute (Like the Angel, Black Masks and Gasoline, To The Core, Torches)
Siren Song of The Counter Culture (Swing Life Away*****, State of the Union, Blood to Bleed, To Them These Streets Belong, Dancing For Rain)
The Sufferer & The Witness - My Favorite Album by any band. Ive listened to every song hundreds of times, and for three years and it still isn't Old.
Songs for The Sufferer & The Witness
Chamber the Cartridge
Injection (Best Song when your lost)
Ready to Fall (best song when your ready to give up)
Bricks (when you wanna break shit)
Under the Knife
Prayer Of The Refugee (When you need a reason to Hate)
Drones (describes my feelings for this school)
The Approaching Curve (beautifully written, and I have a personal connection)
Worth Dying For (Motavational, makes you want to stop evil-Its a challenge to God)
Behind Closed Doors (my Favorite song of any album. Very personal connection)
Roadside (makes me cry. So true)
The Good Left Undone (reminds me that im still human, and that i dream that im drowning in an ocean, and angels arnt the kind with Halos, but the kind that bring you home, when home becomes a strange place, so i shout it out)
Survive (We all are creatures of Survival)

Appeal to Reason - A let down after an amazing Album, but still good none the less
(Savior, Re-Education (Through Labor) From Heads Unworthy)

Tech N9ne - Very new
Everready (Caribou Lou , Riot Maker)
Sickology 101 (Sickology 101, Dysfunctional, Red Nose- Favorite Tech song)

Three Days Grace
One X
It's All Over
Pain
Animal I Have Become
Never To Late
On My Own
Riot
Get Out Alive
Let It Die
Over And Over- Personal Connection
Time Of Dying
Gone Forever
One X

Thats about it. I love my music, and it moves me. Always. Else, i wouldnt care for it.

MUSIC!!!!!!!

favorite song right now: daly city train by rancid
favorite band: the clash
favorite genre: punk/alternative
I love music so much, i practically can't survive the school day without listening to music. it just helps me drown out all the annoying obnoxious noise. i'm not a musical talented, i have never played a instrument, can't, and don't want to, i just listen to it. i listen to punk a lot because i like what they sing about and stand for. political punk bands are always fun to listen to. it can get me pumped up, or some of it can relax me. i'm going to put a list of all the bands i listen to.
band:
agent orange
anti-flag
babyshambles
bad religion
badlands
blink 182
choking victim
citizen fish
the clash
cock sparrer
crass
dead kennedys
del the funky homosapian
dropkick murpheys
eddie vedder
the exploited
flogging molly
gorillaz
joy division
the libertines
leftover crack
mgmt
mindless self indulgence
the misfits
nine inch nails
operation ivy
rancid
rise against
the velvet underground
the adicts
social distortion
against me
bad brains
the ramones
sham 69
stiff little fingers
street dogs

music

My favorite band at the moment is Cash cash. Most people have never heard of them, but they are kind of techno and I don't know how to explain it, but it's awesome. Although I have recently been getting into Hawk Nelson too.

I guess my favorite genre is rock, but I like most kinds of music, except for country.

I don't really have a favorite song, mostly because whenever I find a song I really like, I overplay it until I'm completely sick of it. But if I had to pick, I think I would say California by Hawk Nelson.

# 5

My favorite song right at this moment would have to be either Low by Tech N9ne or When I'm Gone by Eminem. This is mainly due to the fact that i don't have any of my normal music cause my ipod is gone. Normally it would be a rock song :)

My favorite artist would definently be Flyleaf by far!!! Lacey the lead singer is absolutely amazing and has some powerful lyrics. Especially on their song Cassie (acoustic is the best) which is about a true story of a girl named Cassie in the Columbine shootings.

My favorite genre would have to be rock because i love blasting it and nothing is better to blast than rock! :P

My favorite Music

Well, My favorite song is "More than a Feeling" by Boston. This song, well it makes me think. I have been able to listen to it many times in a row, and not get tired of it(this is why its my favorite song, among other reasons).

Im not sure who my favorite Band is at the moment, though if it were purely by a point basis(and only ranks 1-10 get points) then it would be Boston, because every one of my 'top ten' favorite songs are from different Bands.

I couldn't say what my favorite Genre of music is, though I have what I call it, others would call it something else.

By the way Elvis Presley was not the "King of Rock 'n Roll"

MUSIC!!!

My favorite song is a time between Perfect by Simple Plan and Hicktown by Jason Aldean. I like the song Perfect because its like mine and my real dads relationship. I also really like that song bacause it was always on when I was growing up. I like the song Hicktown because as of right now that is my theme song to my life. (says all my close friends and family) When ever my friends or family call or text me out of school I am usually mudding or shotting guns or fixing trucks. Bronco's to be specific.

My favorite musical male artist is Jason Aldean and for musical female artist is Miranda Lambert. I like these artists because I like the beat that goes to there songs and there voices. They have nice up beat songs that are easy to get a foot tapping going or a head nodding and they also have slower songs that can be calming and relaxing.

If you cant already tell my favorite genre of music is Country. I grew up to country. I also think that country is better then rap and hip hop or hard metal because most of the messages that come from the country songs are about life. And usually the messages that come from hip hop or r&b is all about how the girls has nice butts or sex and drugs. I am not really into that, I still listen to it sometimes but its not my favorite.

Technoticasoneationalism

i made that word up yes
but i don't really pay attention to music so i would have to say the only "music" i listen to is electronic IE techno and dance club mix type stuff
the reason behind this is because it sounds weird and gets me pumped for some reason and i can fall asleep to it other than that music is just something in the background to me

Just realized that I ate all of my mum's Ben and Jerry's. Shoot.

My favorite musical artist is Elliott Smith. Elliott Smith wrote and performed beautiful acoustic music with even better lyrics. He's dead now, he killed himself in the 90's but hey, it happens to the best of us. My favorite band is definitely AC/DC. Kill me, shoot me, I don't care. I've always loved them.

My favorite song... That's difficult. Okay... For lyrics, I love "Werewolf" by CocoRosie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51K4cUTuvc0

For music, I love "On The Bus Mall" by The Decemberists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-fC-iQjg8

For both? Well... Probably "Those You've Known" from the musical Spring Awakening. I love all of the music from that show though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAVYbNz7dMs

If you want to watch this vid, watch the entire thing, so you can understand the song which starts about have way through. Wendla is played by the female (who has died), the male from the begining is Melchoir (who is still alive) and the boy who enters second is Moritz(who has died.) It's crazy. I want to perform it next year at Acting competition. I just need decent boy singers. haha

My favorite genre is plainly put, indie. I also enjoy acoustic and alternative.

Music is not people lives! Just a part of it

My favorite song: Aftershock by Van Halen. There's no particular reason that's my favorite song. I actually don't have a favorite song. It was just the first song I found that I like A LOT while going through my ipod on shuffle.
My favorite band is definitely The Beatles. I like them so much because they were so influential and (most of) their songs have meaning and feeling.
And lastly, my favorite genre of music is either rock, alternative, or metal because, to me, those kinds of music make me feel kinda empowered lol

What is your favorite song?Who is your favorite musical artist?What is your favorite genre of music?

My favorite song is Amazed by Lonestar because it makes me feel like everything is at peace, i can sit in my room with no ease or intrruptions when i listen to that song... My favorite musical artist i cant really say who my favorite artist is, i thought hard about this one and i just cant name anyone, but i think for me some artist have amazing voices and lyrics that i really like but i dont have a favorite artist. My favorite genre would be the 80's and 90's cause its just better....

Best song is a pretty hard choice to make. But i have come to the conclusion that "Land of Confusion" by Disturbed is the best song. probably because it about war and how the people uprise against the government in a nuclear holocaust situation. after they take over the government the peopple begin to rebuild society and it sounds good to. Now favorite band is an even harder one. but in the end, id have to say System of a Down are the best because they sound great and thier songs are easy to bang your hhead to. Favorite genre of music is 100% hard rock and metal. its a great feeling to listen to something so angry and violent and you just get lost in it.

Sports.

I like sports. I play them. I follow just about every sport. Except hockey.

Music

I don't really have a favorite song nor do I have a favorite artist. There are too many good bands that I know so it's impossible to choose. My favorite genre would be indie rock because it's usually very interesting to listen to because it's usually different from all the things that are on the radio.

!42! Topic #5: Music

My name is Dusty Humphrey, and I endorse this message. This is indeed your topic for this week.  I'm editing this into Tyler's post simply to show my power.  That's right: I can edit any of your posts, any time I feel like it.  Fear my wrath.



Humphrey's New Topic for the week
I know i posted it, but im his TA for seventh peroid, and im being productive.

Because I realized a student already asked for this topic, I'm going to give him preference. We will get to the other fun topics in the weeks ahead.

So for this week:

What is your favorite song?

Who is your favorite musical artist?

What is your favorite genre of music?


Defend all of your choices with something more than "Cuz I likes it" please.


--Humphrey

Got tired of waiting for it to appear on our blog, so i copy and pasted it to ours.--Link