OMG!!!! I completely B.S.-ed this paper and presentation for Econ. and i gor 290 out of 300!!!!! The requirement said that there was no length requirement... but then later he says that you should fit your data in 3-7 pages!! I'm like whoa! I only have one page!! But I made it into a page and a paragraph 'cuz I made a REALLY big title and changed the font to arial...LOL and get this: he told me that I did a great job on my paper! HA HA HAAAAA it was a bunch of BULL SHIT!! I had maybe one or facts in it and the rest was a bunch o' crap and my opinion and I didn't even relate it to enonomics!! And my presentation SUCKED some major ass!! My friend did like a bunch of reserch and had an awesome presentation, and he got 298/300... wow big diff. HAHA sucker! I didn't do shit! His paper was like 5 pages long! anyways... back to homework once again... I have a test in pre-calc and econ tomorrow... argh! ttyl W/love, Becca

wow. another monday come and gone. ya know, i really have nothing intelectual to write... like i ever do! I was in Kansas all weekend...(what's in Kansas?? (not Dorothy... i looked for her... she wasn' t there, trust me!) who goes to Kansas? just me i guess..) for wedding for my (here we go) grandma's twin brothers neice Heather.  It was a really pretty wedding.  However, i don't think it was worth the 8hr drive there and back and the hotel we spent like 2 seconds in. But w/e, i didn't have to pay for it.  Argh... math time... I don't get this shit!  poopy. ((one more day 'till my birfday!!! YAY!!)) ttyl, w/love, Becca

I'm gonna see Jason tomorrow night...what's gonna happen?? I like him and all... but idono. Mom doesn't really want me to date him, but that b/c she had this stupid first impression of his parents and who knows.  I think it's just b/c she would like to see me dating Brandon instead. who knows. Dad seems to like Jason, and so do the girls.  My friends are like Jason?? Why him? And I'm just like why not?? He's nice, cute, and OOBER smart! I'm kinda thinking that's a huge jump from my ex's but w/e.  I guess I still don't know him very well.  I don't think his parents like my either... : / oh well.  THey'll just have to learn to like me. i g2g eat... ttyl w/love, Becca

 Hmm... I really don't have anything interesting to share with you... my life has been pretty...well... uneventful.  OH WAIT!! I just thought of somthing!!! So, we have a TA living with us from Colima and she's like 24 (i think??) and she said that her and the other TA's are going to a club this Firday, and I've never been to one... well, actually, i have. But that was in Germany... and that was a discotec. I don't know what the difference is, but w/e.  Anyways, since I'm finally 18, she asked if I would like to go!!  I'm excited!! i think.... hmmm. So I got home today and decided that I should 'prolly practice piano 'cuz i haven't done that for the past like, hmmm 2 weeks!! And the past 2 piano lessons have been dreadful!! So I sit down and take out my repretoir, play each like once through.... yeah, then I broke out the Christmas music and started to play and sing.... LOL!!! Yeah... " way to practice Becca!!" oooooh man.  I only have my contest piece half way learned... it only has 20 measures... but it's loaded with notes!!  Argh. It's soOoOoOoOooo incredibly frusterating too. I'm just about to give up.  So this weekend i gosta fill out more college apps and sholarship forms... OMG I'm so very extreemly sick of those things!!  eeeeh, dinner is ready  (-.-)  no more typing today! humph. ttyl w/love, Becca

Quote of the day::

"nothing is impossible if you don't have to do it yourself"  (that's what it says on my PJ shirt LOL)

WOW!!! Busy night planned!!! So, in like a half hour, I have voice lessons untill 3, and then 3 to 4 I have a piano theory class, then at 4:30 I'm 'spossed to be at Kellie's house to practice singing for the Barns & Noble thingy tonight for music boosters from 6-6:30 (we're gonna suck. : /  ), then i have to eat and call Aaron to figure out what's going on tonight.... hehehe (we're going to a club... I hope it's fun.) One problem: I can't dance to save my life!!!  ttyl w/love, Becca

Quote of the day::

"take the winding road itll take longer but be more interesting dont sweat the small stuff"

Start Time: 2:30

Full Name: Rebecca Lee Swanson

Nationality: whiter than white!

Are u a flirt: I caaaaaaan be : )

Nicknames:  Berky, Shark Bait, Guppy, Becky -.- , woman

School: Cooper High

Sex: Female!!

Birthday: Nov. 10 '86

If u could change anything about yourself what would it be:   Sometimes I wish I wasn't so cruel in my bluntness, and I tend to procrastinate... a lot : /

Where you live now: New Hope

Height: 5'6" 1/2

Weight: 130

Hair Color: golden brown

Eye Color: green - blue - hazle

Parents names: Steve and Terry

The CRUSH Side*

Crush: I have a couple...

Who was your first crush?:  Ben

Your idea of a perfect date: hmm...I'm a really simple person, I like to just walk around and sit and talk.

How romantic are you?: eeeeeh,

Most sweetest thing that has happened to you: Jason asked me out in a Mad Lib he made up

The FAVORITES Side*

Food: Chinese and Ice Cream!!!

Movie: Tarzan, Mulan, Simon Birch

CD: idono

Band/Group: Matchbox 20, Alanis Morissette, Train, Point of Grace, Newsboys, Lonestar,

Favorite Song: i have a different one every month, and there's usually more than one

Day of the week: Sunday

Month: November

Number(s): i don't understand why ppl have fav. #'s

Cookie: chocolate chip

Ice Cream: pepermint bon bon

Restaurant: Chinese Buffet

Type of music: Alternative

Been on a plane?: yes

Cried in public?: yes

Climbed a tree?: yes

Fell asleep in a Movie?: yes

Met a celebrity?: no

Had an online relationship?: no

Said, "I love you," and meant it?: yes

The WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU HEAR Side

Suckers: tootsie pops

Dreams: don't come true

Love: is out there

Whipped Cream and bananas on you:  0.o

The QUESTIONS THAT DON'T MATTER, BUT I'M STILL ASKING
Side*

Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?: no

Last time you showered: Thursday

How many buddies do you have on your list?: 87

Phone number: ---

Pager:  don't have one

Cell phone: 763-213-9295

One pillow or two: none

Tattoo: none

Piercings: just one on each ear

Last CD you got:  i don't remember

End Time:  3:00

"don't talk to me while I'm talking to myself."

"Life isn't about finding yourself, It's about creating yourself"

 -George Bernard Shaw

. . . 'cuz i don't feel like spilling my guts about what happened this weekend 'cuz i've told the same stories quite a few times this weekend...

001) What time are you starting this?: 8:52
002) Name?: Becca
003) Date of birth?: Nov 10
004) Sex?: i'm a chick
005) Height?: 5'6 1/2"
006) Eye color?: Green-blue-hazle
007) Location?: mi home sweet home
008) Where were you born?: Robbinsdale, Mn
009) Do you have crush on someone?: a couple someones... : /
010) Do you have a bf/gf?: yeeeeeeeeeees...
011) What are you wearing right now?: umm, jeans, a red sweater and slippers
012) Would you have sex before marriage? nope
013) Have you ever had a crush on any of your teachers?: ehhh! NO
014) Do you smoke?: no
015) Do you drink?: ehh....no.
017)Are you a player?: Well, I don't think I am, it depends on who you ask.
018)What are your favorite colors?: Pink and Maroon
019) Favorite animal? um..... i don't really have one.
020) Do you have any birthmarks?: yeah, i got one on my right arm
021) Who do you talk to most on the phone?: Jason...
022) Do you get online a lot?: yup yup
023) Are you shy or outgoing?: Usually, i'm outgoing

024) Do u hate school?: I love school!
025) Do you have a social life?: yes, most definately
026) How easily do you trust people?: Depends...
027) Do you have a secret people would be surprised knowing?: maybe
028) Would you ever sky dive?: hmmm, i think it depends on my mood. Today, um no.
029) Do you like to dance?: well, yes, but that doesn't mean i can dance...
030) Have you ever been out of state?: yes
031) Do you like to travel?: UNDERSTATEMENT!! I looooooooove to travel

032) Do you want to get out of your hometown?: um, i'm pretty happy here
033) Are you spoiled?: ehhh yeah
034) Are you a brat?: i dont think so, but i can be
035) Have you ever been dumped?: yes i have
036) Have you ever gotten high?: no, but i occasionally act like i am
037) What's your favorite drink?: Peach ice tea in the summer, otherwise, waters good
038) Do you like Snapple?: yes i do
039) Do you drink a lot of water?: well, not as much as i should
040) What toothpaste do you use?: Crest

041) Do you have a cell phone or pager?:cell phone
042) Do you have a curfew?: usually no, but my mom likes to emphasize that i sill need to get up in the morning if i do stay out late.
043) Who do you look up to?: My grandma, Cindy Ketcher, my aunt, and my mom sometimes

044) Are you a role model?: unfortunately yes
045) What name brand do you wear the most?: um...idono. I don't even look
047) What do you have pierced? my ears..
048) What do you want pierced?: i want my ears double piersed, and i was thinking about my navel at one point, now idono

049) Do you like taking pictures?: sometimes
050) Do you like getting your picture taken?: NOOOOOOO
051) Do you have a tan?:yaeh
052) Do you get annoyed easily?: ya know, it really depends on the person doing the annoying

053) Have you ever started a rumor?: 'prolly
054) Do you have your own phone/phone line?: no
055) Do you have your own pool?: no
056) Do you have any siblings?: yea, 2 younger sisters
057) Do you prefer boxers or briefs?: Boxers
058) Have you ever been played?: um.. not that i know of...
059) Have you ever played anyone?: not yet... lol

060) Do you get along with your parents?:yeah, but it has it's moments
062) How do you vent your anger?: I talk to ppl (i really do feel bad for my friends who have to pretend to listen to me... lol)

063) Have you ever ran away?: when i was little...lol
064) Have you ever been fired from a job?:no
065) Do you even have a job?:uhh no
066) Do you daydream a lot?: yes
067) Do you have a lot of exes?: um...there's only 1 that i count as an actual ex... the others were just stupid middle school things
068) Do you run your mouth?: lol do i ever
069) What do you want a tattoo of?: i don't want one.
070) What do you have a tattoo of?: i don't have one.
071) What are your favorite flowers?: aww crap! i forget what it's called!
072) What do you look like?:....i dunno i look like me
073) What does your most recent crush look like?: HOTT
074) Have you ever been b*ed out?: bitched out?? yeah
076) Are you rude?: well, i definately can be
077) What was the last compliment you received?: that looks cute on you
078) Do you like getting dirty?:OMG I HATE being dirty!!

079) Is your bellybutton an innie or outie?: innie...
080) Are you flexible?: sorta...

081) What is your heritage?: German, Sweedish, and Norweagin er.. Scandinavian
082) What is your lucky number?: i don't understand lucky numbers... i don't like numbers, their evil!
083) What does your hair look like right now?: meh... in a ponytail

084) Could you ever be a vegetarian?: i unno
085) How hot would you rate youself on a scale of 1-10?: idk i don't think of myself that way... but i'm not ugly...

yes i have... lol

1. Thrown up in public?: no

2. Made someone else throw up?: no
3. Held hands with someone?: yes
4. Hugged someone outside your family?:yes
5. Kissed someone outside your family?: yes
6. Had a makeout session with the opposite gender?: yes
7. Had a makeout session with the same gender?: uh no
8. Done a flip off a diving board?: yeah
9. Punched someone?: lol yeah
10. Been punched by someone?: yeeees
11. Lost a friendship over something stupid?:  yes
12. Gotten the friendship back afterward?: yes
13. Tongue-kissed someone?: yes
14. Shared a romantic moment with someone?: yes
15. Cursed at your friends?: ...yeah :(
16. Cursed at your family?: yeah :(
17. Cursed because you could?: yes
18. Done any drugs?: no
19. Smoked?:no
20. Drank?: yes
21. Pissed someone off before?: yes

22. Accidentally?: yes
23. Purposely?:yes
24. Had unprotected sex?: no
25. Had sex?: no
26. Spent money for the sake of spending it?:yes
27. Tried to kill yourself before?:no
28. Made fun of somebody out of boredom?:yes
29. Made someone cry?: yes
30. Been made fun of by someone?: yes
31. Been really depressed before?:no, not really
32. Been to a psychiatrist before?:no
33. Had a really freaky dream?:YES!!
34. Wet the bed?:  when i was little of course
35. Faked being sick to miss school?: no
36. Actually made yourself sick to miss school?:no
37. Had a freaky "fan girl" obsession?: eh no
38. Been in love with an anime character?:  ?! no ?!
39. Collected bottle caps?: no
40. Collected stamps?: no
41. Collected cards?:no
42. Bragged about something to make someone jealous?:  well, not intentionally
43. Stolen?:   :/ yes
44. Cheated?: yeah
45. Lied?: ..yeah
46. Made fun of a religion?: well, kinda
47. Laughed at a racist joke?: yes
48. Told a racist joke?: no
49. Visited a pornographic website?:  it was totally by accident!

50. Taken surveys like this out of boredom?: yes.

Quote of the day::

Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
--Unknown

Word of the day::

pastiche \pas-TEESH; pahs-\, noun:
1. A work of art that imitates the style of some previous work.
2. A musical, literary, or artistic composition consisting of selections from various works.
3. A hodgepodge; an incongruous combination of different styles and ingredients.

Ok, so currently I'm babysitting these kids for the first time... never met them before, but have talked to their mother who seems to be normal.  The dad is kinda awkward... the kids are almost worst! They don't do anything! They won't talk to me, they don't want to watch TV, go on the computer, play a game, read a book, run around the house (LOL :P ), have a piece of candy, color, N o T h I n G !!! They've been sitting (there's 3 of 'em: Erik's in 5th grade, and Kayla and Johnathan are in 2nd. Erik and Kayla are siblings, Johnathan is adopted.) Last time I checked in with Kayla, she was drawing on herself with these body markers... 0.o seriously, what kind of parents actually buy makers that promote writing on their body?! As you can see, I've never liked the idea. Anyways, I tried to talk her out of it.  She really didn't fight it.  Infact she didn't say anything... what am I 'sposed to do with these kids?  They'll talk among themselfs... but not to me. *rolls eyes* argh.

 I don't get it.

Currrently Listening to: absolutely nothing... quite boring i know

Currently Reading: My Sisters Voices  By Iris Jacob

I am:  who i am i 'spose

I miss: Europe... and Vanessa

I want: the cold to come so it can be gone!!
I have: quite a bit of homework to do that I probably won't get done all break
I hate: close minded ppl
I fear:  being kidnaped/raped
I play: the piano
I never: skip classes for the hell of it
I hear: my fingers on the key bored ('cuz these kids are dead silent!) 

I care: about people
I smile: less than i should
I wonder: that I should major in...
I poke: ppl in the side to tickle them and then laugh 'cuz they try to tickle me back and I'm not tickalish
I love:  ice cream!
I mess: up everything (well, actually not really. I just couldn't think of anything else to put!)
I think: ...well actually, I try not to... 
I always: manage to get to school on time even though I occasionally don't leave the house 'till 7:25 when school starts at 7:30.
I am not: a goody-two-shoes (contrary to popular belive)
I wish: that my parents could lay-off Aaron a little
I keep: certin things to myself
I can't: seem to keep myself motivated to get this damn pre-calc hm wk done!

I write: only in my blog and on hm wk
I lose: important college papers! argh!
I smell: like laundry detergent...?!

I confuse: myself
I need: some sleep!!!!!!!!!!

I should: go to sleep but I can't 'cuz i'm babysitting!!
I dance: no i don't
I sing: like a canary.... LOL YEAH RIGHT! I'm not bad though
I laugh: idono you tell me!
I cry: when people die. I don't even have to know them!
I talk: to anyone who'll talk to me!

Eeeeeh!! I wanted to go to the Juanes concert last night!! I know almost all of his songs!! But I didn't even try to ask because last night was questioning for our confirmands at church and mom needed help with stuff, and I had piano lessons and had to pick up Katie from dance class... so at like 8:2_ something, Brett decides to call me while I'm in the shower, so he leaves a messege of him at the Juanes concert.... the recording of the song didn't even work. All I heard was noice and Brett yelling in the backround saying "we're at the Juanes concert!!" LOL what a loser. Anyways... I'M GOING TO CALIFORNIA TOMORROW!! I'm excited. HAHA and guess what else!! Brandon Johnson just happenes to also be going to SanDiego over break! I think he left today... I told him we should meet somewhere, and so I suggested meeting at Mission Beach because that's when we'll probably be able to run around with out been watched like a hawk.  So, the choir is going to Mission Beach on Sunday from like 11:30 'till 5 apperently, and hopefully it'll be warm since I heard that it's 'sposed to only get up to 60 degrees and raining the whole time... which is not good enough whether to swim or even tan in! poopy.  I talked to my friend Robin from California (I met her in New York over the summer) and she said that LAST weekend was like 90's over there!! And she had also heard that same forcast. Damnit.  But it'll be fun anyways.  Even though I'm gonna miss Aaron... we're not comming back from tour untill Tuesday around midnight, and then my family's gonna drag me to Grandma's house in Mt. Lake untill Easter.  Guess I won't be seeing much of Aaron over break.  :-/  I'm gonna try and see him tonight since I have no hmwk!! YAY!! Well, don't have much else to complain about... man... I still gotta pack! argh. ok, now i'm done for sure.  ttyl w/love, Becca

|+|Word of the Day|+|
   cabal \kuh-BAHL; kuh-BAL\, noun:
   1.   A  secret,  conspiratorial  association  of  plotters  or
   intriguers whose purpose is usually to bring about an overturn
   especially in public affairs.
   2. The schemes or plots of such an association.

|+|Quote of the Day|+|

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

~Phillis Dillar

http://www.smurf.com/homepage.html

We had a homeroom day today... they baisically said that our school as increased security because of the Red Lake shooting incident.  So by "increased security" they mean our doors are almost always locked (espessially the times I want to get in and out of school... go figure) and if you open them an alarm will sound... which is exactly what happened 2 days ago when I left after 6th period out the side door like I've done ALL YEAR!!! and they just now decide to put a security system in?? humph. But the side door is so much closer to my house AND my locker. I donwanna walk to the front of the school, show them my pass to leave, then walk home the longer way.  Sounds stupid, but I have a system!! LOL anyways... ttyl w/love, Becca

|+|Quote of the Day|+|

|+|Word of the Day |+|
   magniloquent \mag-NIL-uh-kwent\, adjective:
   Lofty or grandiose in speech or expression; using a high-flown
   style of discourse; bombastic.

1. We got off the Titanic first.

2. We can scare male bosses with the mysterious gynecological disorder excuses.

3. Taxis stop for us.

4. We don't look like a frog in a blender when dancing.

5. No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the Speedo.

6. We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.

7. If we forget to shave, no one has to know.

8. We can congratulate our teammate without ever touching her rear end.

9. We never have to reach down every so often to make sure our privates are still there.

10. We have the ability to dress ourselves.

11. We can talk to the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.

12. If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are aware that we will look like an idiot.

13. We will never regret piercing our ears.

14. There are times when chocolate really can solve all your problems.

15. We can make comments about how silly men are in their presence because they aren't listening anyway.

We had our first chamber singers spring gig today!! We performed at Elim Luthern Church in Robbinsdale for a bunch of old people... but they're always our best audience 'cuz they think we're just the cuteset things in our matching dresses and suits.  LOL w/e  We didn't sing our best though.  Personally, I was at a loss of words.. :-/ Jeff kept looking at me with hiw weird face, so then not only am I not singing the correct words, but I'm at a complete loss of consentration!! argh. I give up.... well, ok maybe not.  Why can't I act? Why can't I keep a straight face unless I'm mad?!  That's kinda frusterating.

Ok, so yesterday, right when I woke up, I must've turned my head wrong or something because I had a pinched nerve all day (and it still hurts... don't worry, the story gets better!!) So then in 4th hour, I can't stand it anymore, so I ask to go to the nurse. She doesn't help me. Go figure.  She's just like take some advil or something and here's an ice pack.... -_- So then when I walk out, this black kid comes up to me and asks what was wrong with my neck. "it hurts" i said.  So then he continued my asking my name and if I would be his friend... ?! I just looked at him like "what?!" and the he asked me what grade I was in and again if I would be his friend... and I'm just like "usually people who come up to other people asking if they'd be their friend are kinda weird..."  Then he went on to say that he was new this week and that he was from Massachusets...so then he follows me down the hall way and asks me again if I'd be his friend... so i'm like  "umm, yeah, sure ok" then he asked me if I had a boyfriend... and I said yes.  Then he said "well, don't worry, i'm not trying to get wit' you, I just wanna friend... can I have your phone number?"  yeah, that was kinda weird.  So, being the naieve person I am, I gave him my cell number not thinking that he'd call me.  So last night, when I was in bed, around 10:30 this kid calls me asking if Becky was there...

and I'm like well, this is Becca. Are you the kid I met in the hall way?

and he's like yeah, is it too late to be calling you?

yes... I was in bed sleeping

oh, i'm sorry. Well, I'll see you tomorrow then

yeah... uh... see you tomorrow....  *click*

?! what the hell was that? Oh well, I haven't seen him since.  LOL

Well, I g2g ttyl! w/love, Becca

@@Quote of the Day@@

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
            -- Niels Bohr

@@Word of the Day@@
   complement \KOM-pluh-muhnt\, noun:
   1. Something that fills up or completes.
   2.  The  quantity  or number required to make up a whole or to
   make something complete.
   3. One of two parts that complete a whole or mutually complete
   each other; a counterpart.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you... As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Marianne Williamson, as quoted by Nelson Mandella in a 1994 Inaugural Address.

**Quote of the day**

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where
anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
            -- Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America  (1936)

Panglossian \pan-GLOSS-ee-uhn\, adjective:
Excessively or naively optimistic.

                                                     I    c a n ' t    b r e a t h e !!!!!!!!!!!!  :(

*sniff*

*rubs eyes*

*...funny face...*

*Ahh choOoOoOoo!!!*

!!!!AARON!!!!

Well, I came to school today... that doesn't mean I'm better though. However, I CAN BREATHE!! YAY!! But anyways, I'm sitting in Fashion Merch. class... picking my nose.  :-/  eh.  We're supposed to be planning a store for our final project and today we have to describe a bunch of things about it.  Unfortunately, for me, there really isn't much to describe.  I decided on doing a womans consignment store becauase I am the Queen of hand-me-down's. :-p Rarely do I have to go shopping.  So, back to my store, we have to describe what kinda things we're gonna sell, but.... I"ll be selling everything.  Every kind of womans clothing that is.  I'd ask the teacher what to do, but we have that rapping sub today.  0.o  yeah, he's weird.  I'm gonna work on other hmwk now that I missed yesterday. -.-  argh. ttyl w/love, Becca

**Quotes of the Day**

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."
            -- Robert Byrne

"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."
            -- Rita Holt

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."
            -- Marston Bates

"Living hell is the best revenge."
            -- Adrienne E. Gusoff

**Word of the Day **
   extant \EK-stunt; ek-STANT\, adjective:
   Still existing; not destroyed, lost, or extinct.

TRACK MEET TODAY!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!! humph, it better stop raining!!!

3:45... BE THERE!!!!!!!!

Last night was solo and ensamble... I thought we did great! Alyssa and I didn't stay long enough to see our scores.  I knew that Chambers would suprior, but I was unsure on what Alyssa and I got... espessially me separately.  We got back late, so I didn't do my hmwk. I planned on getting up early and doing it, but that didn't happen.  I ended up waking up at 7:30 and had a half  hour to get dressed, take a shower, make lunch and get out the door.  Yup, no hmwk got done.  Either way, I was excited to get to choir to find out our results.  Since Alyssa and I were one of the last to perform,  our scores were on top.  Mine was called first: excellent. Just an excellent.  I tried really hard not to cry in front of the whole class.  I had received a superior last year.  That's what really got to me.  Then she announced Alyssa and I's duet: superior.  Well, that's what I expected... and I was happy, but that still didn't make me feel much better about my rating.  I'm still not crying.  She kept on announcing everybody elses score, Chambers got a superior, of course.  A nearly perfect score: 39/40  So, needless to say, I am overly dissapointed.  Towards the end of class, I couldn't control my self any longer.  I started to tear up and I couldn't stop it.  I have no self control when it comes to crying.  Once I start, there's no turning back.  I wanna go home.  ttyl w/love, Becca

**Quotes of the day**

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
            -- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
            -- Katharine Hepburn

"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."
            -- Cullen Hightower

"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
            -- Dave Barry

**Word of the Day**
   cavalcade \kav-uhl-KAYD; KAV-uhl-kayd\, noun:
   1. A procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages.
   2. Any procession.
   3. A sequence; a series.

~*~Quotes of the day~*~

"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
            -- H. L. Mencken

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
            -- John Benfield

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
            -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
            -- Art Hoppe

"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
            -- Fran Lebowitz

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
            -- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   matutinal \muh-TOOT-n-uhl\, adjective:
   Relating to or occurring in the morning; early.

we have another track meet today.... it's soOoOoOoOo COLD OUT!! I don't wanna run!  I have to resort back to the spandex pants and long sleeve shits!! NoOoOoOo!! 

So, other than dreading the track meet, I'm doing fine... I suppose.  The college down payment is due on May 1st... and I still don't know which one i'm attending!! I really would like to go to Gustavus because I like it there, but as it turns out, they don't have what I'm looking for really... lol ...I know I know, way to go. So, now i'm leaning more torwards Concordia Moorhead, Bethel and Northwestern (but I need to finish applying there O.O too much work!) AHHH! This sucks.  I don't know what I want.  I just want somebody to tell me where I should go becuase they know me and think that that would be the best bet.  I'm really scared that I'll join a college and not like it there at all.  The bad thing about Concordia is that like half of our school is going there, and I really need to go somewhere where I don't know anybody and be forced to make new friends, 'cuz if i know people there, I'll become like a leech and spend every waking moment with them... and that won't be good.  I need to break outta my shell a little bit.  I'm not one to go up to a person and just start a conversation.  I've been told before, that people have thought that I was stuck up because I didn't talk to anybody... I don't think I'm stuck up, I just don't talk.  Not because I think I'm too good to talk to other people, but because maybe I don't feel competely comfertible and don't wanna just walk up to a group of people and join in the conversation.  Idono.  So I'm not as outgoing as I could be... *shrug* I think that's the back lash of being an only child for 7 years.  I didn't have many friends, I always played by myself and was content that way.  I'm still not a fan of being around lots of people.  There is a big difference between myself and my younger sisters... they are known by their whole grade and in each others grades... my whole class doesn't know me.  I may know their name, but they don't know me. 

 I just stand by silently on the side. 

I'm a wallflower.  (-_-)

That's too bad.

*shrug* ttyl...w/love, Becca

My mommy made me stay up last night untill I decided on a college... so I've finally come uppon a decision... drum roll please......... 

 Gustavus Adolphus

Yup... I think I kinda always knew that I'd end up there... I like it there.

ttyl, W/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self".
            -- Cyril Connolly

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
            -- Dorothy Nevill

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits."
            -- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
            -- George Bernard Shaw

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   detritus \dih-TRY-tuhs\, noun;
   plural detritus:
   1. Loose material that is worn away from rocks.
   2.  Hence, any fragments separated from the body to which they
   belonged; any product of disintegration; debris.

*sigh*.... so much work so little time... that's why I'm wasteing it by typing this!! LOL

23 days left of school!!!!!!!!!

ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
            -- Oscar Wilde

We're all in this alone.
            -- Lily Tomlin

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
            -- Miguel de Cervantes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
            -- Rene Descartes

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
   Lacking  in  courage  and  resolution;  contemptibly  fearful;
   cowardly.

YAY!!! I did well in my track meet today!!! I PB'ed in pole vaulting and I believe that I got 4th place... as for hurdling... well I did end up 3-stepping my whole race 100m except the last hurdle :-/  and for the 300m I did ok... but I didn't come in last! LOL It's really hard for me to say how well I did becuase they didn't give any times out. Grrr. So these are just observations based on who I was running with.  I don't know if I personally improved or not.  I also ran the 4x200m and I thought that went well.  It felt good if anything! LOL  Anyways, I'm extreeeeeeemly tired.  It's been a loooooooong day.  ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
            -- David Letterman

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
            -- Jean Kerr

When you're through changing, you're through.
            -- Bruce Barton

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
            -- Cecil Baxter

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   extol \ik-STOHL\, transitive verb:
   To praise highly; to glorify; to [1]exalt.

I'm soOoOo tired!! Yesterday, I babysat for 11 hours... O.o My left eye is twitching... it's driving me crazy!  Today is Aaron and I's 5-month anniversary... and I don't even get to see him today.  I had my last piano recital today and he said that he was gonna come, but he stayed up all last night playing at some game thing.  Apparently they paid like 30 bucks or something, and they can play at this one place all night, so that's what he did... so before church, I texed him the "when and where" info, and he said that he was gonna come and then I told him that if he thought that he was gonna fall asleep during it, that I didn't want him to come becuase I don't need to give my piano teacher another reason to give me grief.  Anyways, so he said he was really gonna try and come.... so that was at about 9:15 this morning, and I've sent him 4 texts since then, and no responce either before or after the recital... I'm thinking that he fell asleep on me.  :-/  And unless he comes over without telling me today ('cuz I'm not gonna let'em because I have hmwk to do) and I'm busy every night this week... so I texed him:  Well, i have hmwk tonight & im booked every night this week... see you on saturday-prom...i love you. :-*Becca    :'(  Oh well.  Back to hmwk.  ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
            -- Steven Wright

McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
            -- Charles McCabe

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
            -- Thomas Jefferson

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
            -- Jimmy Demaret

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   palindrome \PAL-in-drohm\, noun:
   A  word,  phrase,  sentence,  or  verse  that  reads  the same
   backward or forward.

May 12th @ Cooper HS Auditorium, 7:30 Choir Concert

May 20th @ Cooper HS Auditorium, 7:30 Senior Recital-I will be singing and playing piano

June 4th @ Northrup Auditorium (U of M Campus), 7:00 MMTA Honors Concert (Katie and Amanda playing, tickets needed)

June 18th @ MY HOUSE!!!, TBA-Graduation Party!!!!!!!!!!!!! ya'll come ova' now ya hear!!

As you can see, my family and I lead a very dull life...  hehe Questions regarding any of these events (some require the pre-purchasing of tickets, or it you need directions) please feel free to call and interrogate the locals.

AP tests S U C K ! ! ! !  Today I took the English Language and Composition and then on Wednesday I'm taking the Spanish Language one.... argh.

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
            -- Elbert Hubbard

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
            -- Ann Landers

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
            -- Jerry Garcia, (of the Grateful Dead)

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
            -- Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   supplicate \SUP-luh-kayt\, intransitive verb:
   To make a humble and earnest petition; to pray humbly.

Argh. I don't get it. I've been looking forward to my senior year in track for... oh idono... since forever!! I've always loved track. Maybe I'm just bitter because my left kneee HURTS LIKE HELL!! Naaaaw, that couldn't be it! LOL We had a track meet today at Hopkins. In my 100m hurdle race... haha funny thing: I always brag that I can 3-step the whole way because that's how you're 'sposed to do it, and Tolu is too short, she has to 4-step, but still manages to be faster than I am... anyways, I decided to 4-step today because I was too tired to 3-step it, and I ended up getting a faster time! LOL Go figure. That's actually kinda irritating. Anyways, I didn't do so hot in the 4x200m either... I was comming in 4th place... and then this one chick just wizzed past me and we ended up comming in 5th. Grrr. Stupid fast people... :-P In pole vaulting I started out really strong... and then I had to leave for the 300m hurdles and sucked. That race was a waste of my energy. By the time I got back to pole vaulting, they were waiting for me. I was the last person at that height (8 ft) so I had to take all 3 tries at once, and I was already outta breath from my last race. So on the first try, I completely ran through the box. -_- Then on my second try, I ran into the pole! >_< owch. Then on my third try, I just knocked over the bar with my shin... >-@ POOPY!! So, then right when we got back to school, I had to get dressed quick, 'cuz choir had to sing at the band concert at 7:30... We sounded good! lol So now I'm just sitting here "doing hmwk" waiting for Aaron to call... *sigh* ok, I'm done complaining. ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. "                  -- Charles Caleb Colton

"We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong."                          -- Sir Arthur Eddington I

"invention is the mother of necessity."                                                                                          -- Thorstein Veblen

"Americans never quit."     -- General Douglas Macarthur

~*~Word of the Day~*~ l

abile \LAY-byl\, adjective:

1. Open to change; apt or likely to change; adaptable.

2. Constantly or readily undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown; unstable.

 hehe, I just googled my name, and this came up!

About BECCA

BECCA began in 1986 as an informal network of controls and countermeasures experts brought together by William M. Johnson during research for his book, "Who's Stealing Your Business? - How To Identify and Prevent Business Espionage." Proceeds from the sale of the book were used to start, fund and support the association. BECCA is based on original concepts, training materials, educational and professional development, and certification programs to which William M. Johnson retains exclusive copyrights.

BECCA was incorporated on June 22, 1990 as the Business Espionage Controls & Countermeasures Association, a nonprofit organization in Washington State. All association business is conducted through the Shoreline, WA office.

The purpose of the association is to research and exchange information about business espionage controls and countermeasures; to establish and encourage a code of ethics within the profession, and to promote our professional image within the business community through a Certified Confidentiality Officer (CCO) program. It is organized exclusively for, and will be operated for scientific, literary and educational purposes. (Articles of Incorporation, Article III, 1990)

BECCA members include business managers, counterespionage experts, and others concerned with espionage issues in both the public and private sectors. They are concerned about safeguarding critical business secrets and preventing thefts of intellectual property, including property protected by copyrights, trademarks and patents. They know that no business is immune. If you have a product or service to sell you have something worth stealing.

William M. Johnson wrote the first issue of the BECCA newsletter, "The Business Espionage Report." in 1990 and more than 100 of the monthly issues since then. There have been many contributors along the way. We thank them all, and value their contributions.
We identified four primary areas of risk as one of our first BECCA research projects. We called them the "Four Faces of Business Espionage," a term now widely used by controls and countermeasures experts. These risk factors are Pretext Attacks, Computer Abuse, Technical Surveillance, and Undercover Attacks.

"The Business Espionage Report" has changed with the times. The first issues were typeset with Digicon software, contained graphics, were printed on a commercial printer the size of a small car, and sent out by snailmail. We now do everything online and publish by text-only e-mail to meet the requirements of our members in government service and others working in the field.
We focus on the human factor, an acknowledged weakness in government intelligence gathering, and in the private sector. "The Business Espionage Report" (TBER) provides actionable information and practical controls and countermeasures to help protect trade secrets, intellectual property, marketing and business plans, research and development activities, and more.

A lot has happened since 1990, but our goals remain the same. To further these goals BECCA stopped charging annual membership dues on 9/11/2001 as part of our contribution to Homeland Defense. Membership in the Business Espionage Controls & Countermeasures Association (BECCA) is now FREE to qualified applicants.

http://www.becca-online.org/pages/664918/index.htm

wow... I have 10 min to catch all you guys up:

Prom:  OMG prom was awesome!! I had such a good time!! So it all began that Saturday morning when... wait, I take that back.  It started Friday night when Alyssa, Aaron, Keira and Emily came over and we did nails (except Aaron wouldn't let me do his *Pout* LOL) so then on Saturday, mom woke me up at 8 (that's not the good part) and had me clean the damn house... but anyways, Sarah Lazke came over around 12:30 and I did her hair, then Alyssa at 1 and Keira at 1:45-ish, and I did my hair sometime before we left... I LOVE doing hair!! So then we all got ready together! It was soOoOo much fun.  Then around 4:15 our dates came and we took TONS O' PICTURES I'd put'em on here right now, but I'm at school and I don't have'em with me :(  So then at prom, we danced the night away.  I wanna do it again!! LOL Who's in for crashing AHS's prom tommorrow?! LOL  So after prom, we went to Perkins for ice cream (of course) and then just Keira, Sam, Aaron, and I went to my house for the night and slept over.  My family, Aaron and I had to leave at 9 to go to my g-ma's house down in Mt. Lake so I had to kick Keira and Sam out, but they were already awake (did they ever sleep? :-P)  So I got to sleep on Aaron the whole way to g-ma's and back.  He met the family (well, part of it) and we had a good time.  I taught him how to play Skip-Bo! LOL My family's addicted to card playing. 

Track:  Could be going better, but I reached my PB pole vaulting once again on Tuesday at the Eden Praire meet!!  I haven't gotten it since that first time... :-/ I'm getting weak!! NOOO!! LOL On the hurdles.... well, let's just say that I can do better 'cuz I was faster last year...

Chamber Singers: Ok, so when we performed at Sacred Heart, so sucked some major ass!! We were soOoOoOo incredibly horrible I wanted to cry!! (no serious! It was REALY BAD! Almost as bad as our varsity madrigal singers!! :-O )  So then yesterday, we performed at the BestPrep Banquet at Earle Brown Heritige Center and we kicked ass!!  We had our best and our worst just a couple days apart.  Then after we sang, they fed us! LOL It was really good!

Today: :'(  *tear*  My last choir concert is tonight!! *sniff*  I'm totally gonna cry!!  I'm really sad, but really excited at the same time.  We're gonna do really well.  We are really prepared... it's gonna be awesome and everybody better come!!!

15 days left of school!!!!!!!!

ttyl!

W/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
            -- George Bernard Shaw

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
            -- Woody Allen

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
            -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
            -- Henry Adams

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   concomitant \kuhn-KOM-uh-tuhnt\, adjective:
   Accompanying; attendant; occurring or existing concurrently.

GAAAAAAAAW!!! >-@  Stupid bra!!! It broke!! :-(  It was my favorite one too!!!

How does one deal with gossip?  I've never really had this problem before.  Usually, I tell my friends when that happens to them that they should just ignore it and usually I try to prove to them that I don't think that way and that they should not've said what they did.  Unfortunately, I find this one particularly disturbing.  I got an award last night, and apparently, there are several people who don't think I deserved it... one person in particular.  I certainly didn't expect the award, and it was an award that the teachers choose... so it's not like... oh idono.  By doing this I could just be gossiping my self because I haven't heard it outta the persons mouth... but I don't doubt it.  Apperently, this person whom I'm not naming got the whole first hour physics class talking about how I didn't deserve this particular award, along with this other one I recieved.  Apparently, I'm not good enough for one of them, and I'm too skinny for the other one??  I'm not sure what the skinny part has to do with it... but alright.  Anyways, it all evolved into how I "can't sing" and how I "should never've gotten into chamber singers" and how I'm "too skinny" (?).  Well bah humbug to you too!! LOL  Is it too caty to just go up to her and ask if she needs to tell me something, and if not, to shut up and forever hold her peace?  LOL  I called Jason Anderson (my local Bible reference guy besides my pastor), and he apperently thinks that since I have to deal with her sure for sure in class, that that would be my best bet because it's short and sweet.  Please tell me what you think!!  ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
            -- Groucho Marx

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
            -- Mark Twain

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
            -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
            -- Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951

~*~Word of the Day ~*~  

menagerie \muh-NAJ-uh-ree; -NAZH-\, noun:
   1.  A  collection  of  wild or unusual animals, especially for
   exhibition.
   2.  An  enclosure  where  wild  or unusual animals are kept or
   exhibited.
   3. A diverse or varied group.

blah.  So I went into choir today and sat down awaiting for my little gossip spreader to enter.  When she finally did, I looked at her right in the eyes, and she turned around and sat in front of me.  So I decided that that was as good a time as any.  So I just went and stood in front of her and asked "is there something you would like to tell me to my face?" and of course she played dumb.  She's like "what are you talking about?" So i'm like "don't act stupid ____! I know your not."

"No, serious! What are you talking about?"

"I heard you were saying stuff about me and I would like to know the reason for going behind my back and not telling me to my face"

"Are you talking about the choir award thing?"

"yes! Do you have something to tell me to my face?"

"oh, well do you want to talk about it right here now in class or later?"

"NOW! What ever you have to say can be said in front of the choir because your whole physics class already knows about it so why not!"

"Well are you sure? I think we should talk about it later"

"Fine, whatever"

So I didn't expect her to be like that, and I also didn' t expect her to actually talk to me later... so during choir, Alyssa and I practiced our duet and my solo untill the bell rang and so I needed a pass for class.  Right when I came out of the practice room, she was right there...

"do you want to talk now?" she asked 

"well, I would like to get this cleared up before tonight.... yes."

"let's go in this practice room"   *she sat down* "so what all did you hear?"

"I heard that  you said that I don't deserve the award and that you think that I can't sing and shouldn't be in chambers"

"Well, I don't think you deserve the award.  The award is for leadership, dedication, enthusiasm (and a bunch of other stuff I don't remember)..."

"But the certificate says...."

 "I know what the award is for because I've gotten it the past 2 years! I'm not saying that I'm jealous of the award.  I just thought based on the description and criteria that ___ or ___ should've gotten it.  You are not enthusiastic in choir and espessially not in Chambers.  In fact, you look like you don't want to be in chambers.  You don't talk to anybody, and you can't always expect people to approach you to talk.  It looks like you don't enjoy choir."

I'm not done... I'll finish telling you guys later.

This is really mean of me.... buuuuuuuuuuut...

Guess who totally couldn't sing at the senior recital on Friday night!! LOL It was my little gossip spreader!! She got up on stage for her solo, looking all pretty in _____'s prom dress, her hair done, and the piano intro began to play, and when she tried to sing, she croaked! Literaly! LOL and it wasn't only in the beginning of the solo, she had to clear her throat like 3 times in the middle of the song while she was supposed to be singing and not just standing there looking pretty.  I was 1 more person after her, so I was backstage getting ready, so I saw her walk off smiling, and then when she hit the curtain, she started balling! She went in the hall with Ms. Brame, and she tried to console her because she had another act comming after I was done with my solo (which went very well by the way! :-p) Ms. Brame is like, "it's ok ____, people don't think you can't sing! You got through it wonderfully! You did an awesome job!" LOL I tried really hard not to laugh. I'm sorry, guys, this is REALLY mean of me... but to see ____ like that (this is worse) made me day! I'm horrible.... and I feel really bad...BAHAHAHA!!  Anyways, I did 4 things in the recital.  I went first on the piano (which wasn't my best, but I got through it... it wasn't nearly as bad as ____'s!), then my sisters and I did a number, then my duet with Alyssa, then my solo.  Both my grandma's came, along with my God-parents, and my cousins other grandpa (?!) who lives with my God-parents...idono.  So, yeah, I did well.  I felt good too.  I wore my prom dress (as many did) and put my hair up an' all.... oh yeah, Aaron, Tony, Big Chris and Charlie came too... but they were late.  They only saw my duet and my solo.  I told him not to be late 'cuz I was the first and 4th act, and he's like, "I won't be late!" *rolls eyes* yeah, he was definately late, and definately missed me.

Oh well.

So then on Saturday, Aaron and I filmed a part of my project for Comp.3 while skipping the Chamber Singers picnic with the newbies.... "I had a death in the family...." *shifty eyes*  I wasn't about to spend the afternoon with people who don't like me, espessially when I had reserved Aaron for the whole afternoon... :-p  LOL Then later that night, we went to see the Comedy Sportz show at my church.  It was really good! It's a professional improv. group.  Before the show, they fed us a lasagna dinner, and my sisters and I were the background music...*shrug*

~*~Quotes of the Day ~*~
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
            -- Elaine Boosler

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
            -- Herbert Agar

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
            -- Orson Welles

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
            -- Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   abnegate \AB-nih-gayt\, transitive verb:
   1. To refuse or deny oneself; to reject; to renounce.
   2.  To  give  up  (rights,  claims,  etc.);  to  surrender; to
   relinquish.

OMG!!! Is there anybody else that is having their graduation party on June 4th?!?! I've been invited to 6 (and their might be a seventh...Kari??) parties that day, and I don't think I'll be able to go to half of them because my sisters will be playing piano at Northrup Auditorium that night at 7... and during the day, I'll have to practice with them, as well as dress them, and make their hair perdy. Argh, I'm gonna try and hit all of'em with out wasteing time by getting lost (yeah, I seem to be really good at it. Isn't that right Justin? LOL) So, as a FYI, and as a reminder, my grad. party is June 18th from 3-6. a'ight... ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
            -- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.
            -- Adrienne E. Gusoff

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
            -- Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
            -- Arthur Schopenhauer

~*~Word of the Day~*~ 
   suffuse \suh-FYOOZ\, transitive verb:
   To  spread through or over in the manner of fluid or light; to
   flush.

I suggest your go into a field that
centers around working with others such as a
doctor, baby-sitter, psychologist, lifeguard,
or Teacher. If none of these occupations
interest you, it is okay then. I am sure that
there are plenty of oppertunities out there for
you.

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*yAAAAAAAAAAwn* -.- OMG I'm soOo incredibly tired.  I only got one hour of sleep last night.  Aaron came over around like 9:30 last night, and didn't leave untill 5:15-ish!! LOL Within that time, *snicker* we ended up planning our wedding!! LOL  No, I'm not getting married any time soon people.  I swore to myself a loOong time ago, that I would not get engaged untill after college, and my virginity is also supposed to last just as long... Anyways, so our tentative wedding will be on June 1st, 2010.  Mark it on your calendars! You're all invited!  LOL  The wedding colors are off-white, burgendy/maroon, and black and I have a dress style in mind... LOL  The wedding will be held up north somewhere by Aarons grandparents house (it was like 3:30, I don't remember what city he said. I started with an "S" I think... I hadn't even heard of it before, but he convinced me that it is this beautiful place by a lake that starts with a "M" I think...) It will be a HUGEMONGOUS outside Lutheran wedding.  Aaron said that we're gonna have a red velvet cake (I've never had it before I don't think) apparently, the outside looks plain white, and in the inside is red (hence RED velvet?) but I said that that would clash with the burgendy/maroon color, so then he said that we can get a different color in the middle. LOL *shurg* My bridesmaids are Alyssa Peter, Keira Hayes, Katie Burbeck and 'prolly a roommate from college that I got along with (LOL I'm just supposing that I'll hit it off with at least one of 'em!) and of course my Maid of Honor, Emily Helgerson.  Aaron said that it'll be hard choosing his best man because he has like 3 close friends that would totaly fight for it, so at the moment, he's planning on haveing best men. LOL I believe those guys to be Tony, Dave, Chris,  Charlie and maybe Keith (if he stays on his good side. He's running low on brownie points apperently).   So then when I went to school today to share my night's experiece with Alyssa, she said that she was gonna plan my bachlorette party. LOL In 6th hour, I told Katie about it, and she said that her and Keira would HAVE to plan the bachlorette party, but I told her that she would have to conveign with Alyssa. For our honney moon, Aaron suggested Australia, and I agreed.  I've always wanted to go there.  My parents went to Wisconsin Dells for their honney moon... LMAO But apparently, it was a cool thing back then 0.o ...idono. That's just what they had said. 

OH man, this whole thing is getting a bit outta hand after this point. 

So then I mentioned to Aaron, that when we move into our first appartment, that my grandparents have us covered.  They have all my furnishings in their shed out back! LOL I have china, a couch, a washer/dryer, a Dunkin Fife kitchen table and chairs, a TV, a fridge, freezer, and shelfing.  But then he said "no no no no. we're not living in an appartment.  we're gonna design our own house!" Oh, ok.  LOL I'm like, well you better get a good job then!  He said that ever since he was younger, that he swore to himself that he would get a job that supported the whole family, so that his wife would have the option of staying home if she wanted or working a part time job, and that he would have decent hours so that he could be home with his children (O.O ?!?!) and not be married to his job... sounds like a good plan to me, but if that's his plan, I think he had better get a crack'in on that education of his that would allow his plan to be an option. *shrug*  So of course, after that, we got to talk'n children... he only wants one, but I want more than one and less than 4.  He says that he's drawing the line at 7... O.O I think I'd get my toobs tied before I got to that many!! So then we discussed names.  I'm figuring that I'll have all boys.  My families generations have gone boys, girls, boys, girls... ect.  My dad was a boy generation, and he had the girl generation, so... that leaves me with boys.  *grumble grumble*  LOL No, I'll be happy with what I get in the end.  Even though it's likely that I'll have boys, I don't have any boys names picked out... if I have a girl, her name will be Emily Ann (after Emily Helgerson) even though I'd like my first girl to have my middle name (Lee), I think Emily Lee sounds funny... anyways, the other name I like is Ellen.  Aaron likes those names too... Idono, this is all very in depth, and this is getting to be friken' long!  ok... I'm done.  ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
            -- Franklin P. Jones

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
            -- Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
            -- Lenin

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
            -- Robertson Davies

~*~Word of the Day ~*~
   artifice \AR-tuh-fis\, noun:
   1. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity; inventiveness.
   2. An ingenious or artful device or expedient.
   3. An artful trick or stratagem.
   4. Trickery; craftiness; insincere or deceptive behavior.

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Becca
2. Bec's
3. Rebecca

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. swansre7
2. hotbikinichick
3. BeccasImGroundedAddress

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my hair

2. my 6-pack 
3. my pipes!! LOL

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. the chest area... LOL

2. my thighs
3.  my ski-sized feet :-P "all the better to bare-foot ski in my dear"

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. German 3/4
2. Swedish  1/8
3.  Norwiegen 1/8

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. being kidnaped
2. somebody breaking into my house
3. walking by my self at night

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. CLOTHING!!!
2.  FOOD!!!
3.  WATER!!!

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. black Gustavus sweatshirt

2. jeans
3. flip-flops (I love saying that...)

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1.  Alanis Morissette!!!
2. Matchbox 20
3.  Train

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
1. Trust
2. Respect
3. Love

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. my sisters are a 'spitten image of me
2. I'm going to school for cosmotology
3. I used to look like a poodle in elementary school

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSTIE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. build

2. how they hold themselfs (like presentaion, how they stand, posture ect)

3. their smile

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. HAIR! 
2. playing piano
3.  singing

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Talk to Aaron

2. Go see Aaron
3. Sleep!!

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED:
1. chiropractor
2. teacher (uncertain of which sort)
3. attourney

THREE KID'S NAMES YOU LIKE: (boys/girls)
1. ??/Emily
2. ??/Ellen
3. ??/??

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Go back to Europe or visit Australia

2.  "be fruitful and multiply" (LOL)
3. do something meaningful and actually made a difference

I don't get it.  Why do some guys grow rat tails?? There's this kid at school that has one, and it REALLY irritates me. It makes me wanna sneek up behind him and cut it off!!

OH! I have a funny story to tell you guys... but argh! I don't have time. TOMORROW!!

ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day ~*~
1. Never tell everything at once.
            -- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
            -- Euripides

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
            -- Louis L'Amour

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
            -- Peter Ustinov

~*~Word of the day~*~

saturnine \SAT-uhr-nyn\, adjective:
1. Born under or being under the astrological influence of the planet Saturn.
2. Gloomy or sullen in disposition.
3. Having a sardonic or bitter aspect.

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!

4 days left of school!!!!!!!!  CRAZY!!!

Anyways, as I was saying earlier, about my funny story...

Ok, so yesterday we had a track meet at Burnsville H.S... so we don't even start races yet, and guys pole vault had just started when the announcer says that EVERYBODY has to get off the field immediately and go in the gyms right away.  Ok, fine. So we did.  Apparently there was lightning, and according to the "book", we can't run for a half hour after the last sighting of lightning. Ok, fine.  So after about 20-25 min, they start getting everybody out of the school and back torwards the gate to the track... as soon as some kid tried to go back on the track, this guy came up and yelled at him because we wern't supposed to go on the track for another 5 minutes or so.  So during those 5 minutes, they had us standing underneath the MEDAL bleechers because apparently the RUBBER track wasn't safe to run on for another 5 minutes yet... are we really that much safer 2 feet away from the track on cement underneath the bleechers than on the track.?? I think not. So, in that waiting time, my mom called me asking what I was doing, in the locker room so early.... LOL and I'm like, well, I'm definately not in the locker room, I'm at a meet and yadda yadda yadda I told her the story.  Anyways, she said that there was more bad weather comming our way.  So we all get back on the track, and my this time, they had made an announcement that they were gonna vault the boys and girls together.  Ok fine. We only got 15 minutes to warm up, and I was about to take my first run through, when they saw more lightning, and had us all go back inside once again.  So, then the meet was about an hour behind schedule and we'd be there all night long.  So, to make this shorter, meet was cancelled and traffic getting home was horrible... the music booster award night thingy started at 7, and we pulled into Cooper at 6:50 and I'm still in my track uniform.  So I drive home, change, and leave.

OK, so I over-did the story, and the punch-line was in the middle...and it really wasn't that funny... I got a little carried away... LOL  Guess ya had'ta be there!

ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
            -- Russell Baker

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
            -- Katharine Whitehorn

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
            -- Randall Jarrell

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
            -- John Blake

~*~Word of the Day~*~

lionize \LY-uh-nyz\, transitive verb:
To treat or regard as an object great interest or importance.

Mom said that we're going to the Lynx game tonight... *scrunch up face*  I'm not really sure why though.  We NEVER go to anything like this.  It's always orchestral hall, the Guthrie or the Old Log Theater or something... but the Lynx game?! Come to think of it... what sport do they play?? LOL I'm serious... this is horrible.  I really don't know.  I was offered tickets for the comming 19th too and sit in the luxury suite, but I dono if I wanna go... well, I'll know after tonight.  Main reason I don't wanna go tonight is that I have homework I neeeeeeeed to do.  Argh. Sorry if someone out there is a big Lynx fan and would love to have my tickets and be in my situation and actually enjoy it... I know how that can be when someone has something that they don't care for, that you'd absolutely love to have... it sucks.  *shrug* Well, time to go... ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
            -- William Ralph Inge

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
            -- Robert Benchley

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
            -- Samuel Butler

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
            -- Thomas Hardy

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   pliant \PLY-uhnt\, adjective:
   1. Easily bent or flexed; supple; pliable; adaptable.
   2. Easily influenced; yielding readily to others.
 

Basketball!!! That's right... the Lynx are the womans b-ball team!  :-p  LOL  I had to think about it...

I'm actually getting stuff done today!! I have most of my multi-genre project done... I just have the grunt work left to do.  After lunch, we took a field trip to Minnehaha Falls and I invited Aaron, and got Dave too! (as a bonus I guess) LOL It's soOo pretty there! And there were hardly any bugs... just the ones that kept crawling up my legs... LOL Anyways, we stayed 'till supper and had a subway picnic supper. Mmm! So now I'm back home and back to doing that nasty grunt work.... ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Life is just one damned thing after another.
            -- Elbert Hubbard

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
            -- Harry S Truman

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
            -- Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
            -- George Burns

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   dissemble \dih-SEM-buhl\, transitive verb:
   1. To hide under a false appearance; to hide the truth or true
   nature of.
   2. To put on the appearance of; to feign.
   intransitive verb:
   To  conceal  the  real fact, motives, intention, or sentiments
   under  some pretense; to assume a false appearance; to act the
   hypocrite.

3 days left of school!!! :-) 

We get our yearbooks today!!!

So I finally got that damn genre project done and my fashion merch. project!! I feel soOoOo much better!! I feel  like I've lost 100 pounds!! That thing was soOo much stress!! So now I'm worried about my final speech tomorrow, and my Spanish final... argh.  But those seem relatively small compared to those last 2 projects.  Actually, I still have to present those projects, but I'm not worried about it.  It's not like it's speech class.

*sigh*

We're almost done...

ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

            -- Unknown

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
            -- Sir Barnett Cocks

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
            -- William S. Burroughs

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
            -- Kin Hubbard

~*~Word of the Day~*~

recreant \REK-ree-uhnt\, adjective

1. Cowardly; craven
2. Unfaithful; disloyal

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OoOoOoOoOooo!! :-D I'm soOoOoOo excited!!! :-D This'll be the second best day! 2 good days in a row!!! I'm ona roll!! LOL  Today is Aaron and I's 6th month anniversary, and today is also the track section pre-limbs!! I just found out yesterday, that I'm seated 3rd in pole vaulting, and in order to go to state, I need to get second... Coach says that I can beat her, but if you think about it, why would he tell me otherwise?  LOL That's horrible, I know.  Maybe I actually do have a chance at geting 2nd.  Who knows... obviously, I'll up-date after the meet and then you'll know what happened too! LOL Anyways, Mallory, Brittany and I are walking around school with matching tie-dye shirts that say "we get high altitudes" on the front, and our last names on the back followed by "sections '05".  So everybody wish us luck!! ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
            -- Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
            -- Joan Baez

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
            -- Aldous Huxley

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
            -- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   fetter \FET-uhr\, noun:
   1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a bond; a shackle.
   2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

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...continuance of a wonderful day: 

Ok, so at the section track meet, I didn't place in the 300m hurdles, (I still managed a PR though) and I got 5th place in the pole vault (also a PR!).  Only the first 2 places go to state, but I honest to God didn't want to go to state.  I just wanted to be close... like 3rd place.  Not to put words in your mouth, but you're 'prolly thinking: "now isnt't that the main goal, to go to state?"  Well, tecnically it is, but that day would not've worked out for me.  State is the 10th of June, and the whole night of the 9th into the morning of the 10th is our senior party, and if I was competeing in state, then I'd have to leave early.  And do you know what else is the 10th?! The Alanis Morissette concert at the Orphium and guess who has tickets!!!  :-D ME!!!! OMG I LOVE Alanis!!!! And do you know who got me the tickets?! hehe Aaron!!! For our 6 month anniversary!!!!!!!!! OMG I LOVE Aaron!!! LOL I'm SoOoOoOoOoOooooOooOoOooooOOOOOoooo

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incredibly excited!!!! Even more excited than I was for the section track meet!  You guys have NO idea how incredibly extatic I am!! I'm about to burst!!  Oh! and you know what's even cuter?? He came to my track meet, AND the card he gave me with the tickets inside, he made himself and it was very cute!! "Ma! I think I struck oil!!!"  :-P  *sigh* I really gotta go to bed (not like i'll be able to sleep... but maybe I should try)  ttyl!w/love, Becca

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ONE MORE DAY LEFT OF SCHOOL!!!

Ok, so on my way to lunch after Spanish, I was talking to Alex Muller on the circle stairs kinda walking backwards.  So then I turn around to finish walking down the steps when I slip and go tumbling down on my ass... but the funny... er, actually it's not that funny... thing is that my butt is fine, but my forearm landed square on the last step and if hurt like hell!! OMG did that hurt... it STILL hurts! So anyways, people came to my rescue, and I told them that I couldn't bend my right arm.  So this random black chick (sorry) came up to me and grabs my arm and starts bending it for me!! While I'm totally screaming "OWW!! THAT HURTS!!" but she's like "well, I don't think it's broken, so you need to move it so it doesn't get stiff!" and I just look at her like: don't touch me!  LOL Anyways, Alex is like let’s take you to the nurse! So he took my books 'cuz I sure as hell couldn't!  By the time we get into the nurses office, and sit down, I was balling! It hurt soOo incredibly bad I was starting to think I fractured it or SOMETHING! I immediately started to worry about my 4x2 race tomorrow.  I needed to tell them that they might need a replacement... so since Alex is still with me, and is in track, he told'em. Anyways, the nurse is like we need to call your mom and go see a doctor! So mom came and got me (she's all worried and when the nurse called her she started crying assuming the worst).  Apparently, I was the 2nd person this week to fall down the steps! LOL  Mom drove me home, I iced my arm and ate lunch and I got in the doctors office at 3!  Even 2 1/2 hours later my arm still hurt... and currently still hurts.  The doctor said that I'm fine, no break, and she doesn't think there's a fracture. *whew!* She just told me to take 3 IBProuphan (sp?) 3 times a day O.O that's a lot of drugs! and then she said that if it still hurts, to take tylenol on top of that and ice! Oooh man!  After the doctor visit, mom droped me off at school so I could talk to the coaches, while she went to Sam's club.  I just walked home w/o any keys 'cuz they were in my backpack on my bed... argh.  So while I was awaiting the arrival of my sisters, I called Katie Burbeck and apparently she heard that I broke my arm (?!) LOL wow word travels fast!! and then I talked to Aaron the remainder of the time.  Finally my sisters bus pulled up, but only Amanda got off, and she didn't have a key.  Argh.  But she checked the garage (which I figured would be locked, but APPARENTLY it wasn't!) so we got in after all. Hmm nice day huh? LOL Ok, my arm can't take this anymore.... ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
I am not young enough to know everything.
            -- Oscar Wilde

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
            -- John Barrymore, last words

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
            -- Voltaire

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
            -- Edward R. Murrow

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   tumid \TOO-mid; TYOO-\, adjective:
   1. Swollen, enlarged, or distended; as, "a tumid leg."
   2. Bulging; protuberant.
   3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; inflated; bombastic.

ok... so it's been a while since I up dated. *shrug* I've been sOoOo busy!!I think I was less busy when I was still in school and track! LOL  I'm all partied out!! So many parties so little time!! But'cha know whats really cute? Aaron!! He went to almost all the graduation parties with me!! He's so sweet. AND we had sooOoOoooOoooOoooooOOOOOO much fun at the Alanis Morissette concert last Friday!! OMG I loved it!!!  And what made it even better was that Jason Mraz opened!! :-D AND as a graduation present, his mom gave him money to buy me a shirt!  YAY!! Which reminds me... I have yet to see her and give her an overwhelming hug...

GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I GRADUATED!!! LOL :-D :-D :-D I'm still just taking it all in... and the senior party was really cool! I had lots of fun.  The hypnotist was great! Jeff Curtis was absolutely hilarious!! I really wanna be there when I sees the movie! Which reminds me... I need to send in that form saying I want a copy... anyways, time for bed.  ttyl! W/love, Becca

P.S. My grad party is this Saturday!!! 3-6!!!

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
            -- Elbert Hubbard

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
            -- Tom Lehrer

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
            -- Margaret Millar

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
            -- Frank Lloyd Wright

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   blandishment \BLAN-dish-muhnt\, noun:
   Speech  or  action that flatters and tends to coax, entice, or
   persuade; allurement -- often used in the plural.

my mom is driving me up the wall. All of a sudden, she's telling me what to do... how much to eat, where to sit, what to eat with... OMG!!

I was telling mom about the physical I got on Tuesday and how I had a birth control argument with my doctor (she really wanted me to go on the pill for some reason and aren't there nasty side effects too?) and how I said that there's no reason for me to be on the pill beacause I can't get pregnant if I don't have sex and that I'm not having sex untill I'm married and she baisically laughed at me to my face like there was no way that I'd get through college without having sex. Obviously she wasnt married a virgin. AARRGGHH!!

Aaron left for Georgia with Charlie on Tuesday for 2 weeks and 2 days.  He flew down, and apparently is planning on driving back some kinda car.  He said he'll be home on like July 7th or something... we'll see. I'll believe it when I see it.  That man doesn't do anything on a schedule.  I miss him soOoOoOoOo much!!!

I'm going to bed now. I'm tired. ttyl  w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
A witty saying proves nothing.
            -- Voltaire

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
            -- Kurt Herbert Alder

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
            -- Artemus Ward

Life is too short for traffic.
            -- Dan Bellack

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   voluble \VOL-yuh-buhl\, adjective:
   1. Characterized by a ready flow of speech.
   2. Easily rolling or turning; rotating.
   3. (Botany) Having the power or habit of turning or twining.

These words are my own

Threw some chords together, the combination D-E-F
Its who I am, its what I do, and I was gonna lay it down for you
I tried to focus my attention, but I feel so A-D-D
I need some help, some inspiration, but its not coming easily

(bridge)
Tryin to find the magic,
Tryin to write a classic,
Dontcha know, dontcha know, dontcha know?
Wastebin full of paper,
clever rhymes- see ya later

These words are my own, from my heart flow,
I love you, i love you, i love you, i love you,
There's no other way to better say
I love you, i love you

Read some Byron, Shelley and Keates,
recited it over a hip-hop beat
I'm havin trouble sayin what i mean,
with dead poets and a drum machine

You know i had some studio time booked,
but i couldnt find the killer hook,
now you're gonna raise the bar right up,
nothin i write is ever good enough

These words are my own, from my heart flow,
I love you, i love you, i love you, i love you,
There's no other way to better say
I love you, i love you

These words are my own, from my heart flow,
I love you, i love you, i love you, i love you,
There's no other way to better say
I love you, i love you

I'm gettin off my stage
the curtains pull away
No hyperboles to hide behind
My naked soul exposes
woaaaaah

(repeat bridge)
These words are my own, from my heart flow,
I love you, i love you, i love you, i love you,
There's no other way to better say
I love you, i love you

I'm too tired to write anything.... g'nite ya'll

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
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I am a deeply superficial person.
            -- Andy Warhol

So little time and so little to do.
            -- Oscar Levant

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
            -- Jeff Valdez

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
            -- Edward Abbey

~*~Word of the Day~*~
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   callow \KAL-oh\, adjective:
   Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.

Well, I went to the Lynx game tonight with Janet and the Lynx won!! The ending score was 63 to 53 against San Antonio.  They're really short! lol Anyways, I'm quite tired. nighty night. ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
            -- Steven Wright

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
            -- Will Rogers

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
            -- Will Durant

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
            -- Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption

~*~Word of the day~*~

woebegone \WOE-bee-gon\, adjective:
1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking; dilapidated; run-down.

Don't drink milk after eating pinapple!

Don't drink cranberry juice after brushing your teeth! (or anything after brushing your teeth! bleh!)

Don't mouth off to your mom after... just don't do it!

Don't get up too fast after sleeping or relaxing for an extended amout of time!

Don't drink water after eating something hot/spicy! (drink milk!)

Don't open the top file drawr after you already opened the bottom 3!

Don't go driving after something bad happened when you are vounerable to crying!

Don't go to bed after a fight with out resolving it first!

Don't ____________ after____________________!!

Tell me YOUR advice!!

"Don't ask me how I know"

I MISS AARON!!!

I'm soOoOo excited for college!! I went to Gustavus this morning to take the spanish placement test (this major is gonna be no problem!!) :-D So I have my schedule all worked out... but it's still pretty tentative. All I have to do now is wait for the info. on my roommate and which dorm I'm in! Otherwise, I think everything is about ready to go!! YAY!!  ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
            -- Henry Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
            -- Woody Allen

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
            -- W. H. Auden

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
            -- Samuel Johnson

~*~Word of the Day~*~

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   abscond \ab-SKOND\, intransitive verb:
   To  depart  secretly;  to  steal away and hide oneself -- used
   especially   of  persons  who  withdraw  to  avoid  arrest  or
   prosecution.

"I'll Stand by You"

Oh, why you look so sad?
Tears are in your eyes
Come on and come to me now.
Don't be ashamed to cry,
let me see you through
Cause I've seen the dark side too.
When the night falls on you,
you don't know what to do,
Nothing you confess
could make me love you less
I'll stand by you,
I'll stand by you,
won't let nobody hurt you,
I'll stand by you.
So, if you're mad get mad,
don't hold it all inside ,
Come on and talk to me now.
And hey, what you got to hide ?
I get angry too
But I'm alot like you.
When you're standing at the crossroads,
don't know which path to choose,

Let me come along ,
cause even if your wrong
I'll stand by you,
I'll stand by you,
won't let nobody hurt you,
I'll stand by you.
Take me into your darkest hour ,
and I'll never desert you.
I'll stand by you.
And when, when the night falls on you baby ,
you're feeling all alone ,
You won't be on your own,
I'll stand by you.
I'll stand by you
I'll stand by you,
won't let nobody hurt you.
I'll stand by you
Take me in into your darkest hour
and I'll never desert you
I'll stand by you.

~The Pretenders

Today is our 7 month anniversary!! YAY!! 'cept Aaron's still in Georgia. *pout* BUTT I love him anyways!! ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
            -- P. B. Medawar

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
            -- Lewis Thomas

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
            -- Robert Benchley

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
            -- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

~*~Word of the Day~*~
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   garrulous \GAIR-uh-lus; GAIR-yuh-\, adjective:
   1.  Talking  much,  especially  about  commonplace  or trivial
   things; talkative.
   2. Wordy.

"My Baby Loves Me"

Don't need no copy of vogue magazine
Don't need to dress like no Beauty Queen
High heels or sneakers, he don't give a damn
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am
He never tells me I'm not good enough
Just give me unconditional love
He loves me tender and he loves me mad
He loves me silly and he loves me sad

He thinks I'm pretty, he thinks I'm smart
He likes my nerve and he loves my heart
He's always sayin' he's my biggest fan
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

And when there's dark clouds in my eyes
He just sits back and lets 'em roll on by
I come in like a lion go out like a lamb
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

He thinks I'm pretty, he thinks I'm smart
He likes my nerve and he loves my heart
He's always sayin' he's my biggest fan
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

He thinks I'm pretty, he thinks I'm smart
He likes my nerve and he loves my heart
Don't see no reason to change my plan
My baby loves me just the way that I am
My baby loves me just the way that I am

~Martina McBride

"Fall to Peices"

~Avril Lavigne

 Good news everybody!! Aaron's home early!! I didn't expect him 'till Thurdsday... but yesterday after I got home from work, I sat down to practice piano for a while, then I heard something, and I turned around and I saw him walking up my drive way!! What a pleasent surprise!! I (of course) ran out and tackled him and I swear we just sat there remenissing for an hour... but it really wasn't that long. LOL  I love him soOoOo much! and I missed him to the point where I was going nuts.  I started irritating people to the point where they wanted Aaron to come home too just so I'd shut up!  LOL  I didn't realize how much I actually hung around Aaron untill he left and I had to make plans with other people... I kinda feel bad.  :-/  Anyways, I'm sOoOo happy he's home!  I missed him soOoOo much I was about to go crazy!  I don't know how I'm gonna handle next year only being able to see him... uh... I don't even know when I'll be able to see him.  Just the weekends I suppose.  But I'm sure I won't be able to see him every weekend... although I'm gonna want to.  I have a feeling that I'll be torn to whether to stay and do fun stuff/activities at college, and going home to see Aaron.  Humph.  I'll just have to get him to come visit me and participate in some of out events.  LOL  We'll see.  ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
            -- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
            -- E. M. Forster

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
            -- Raymond Chandler

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
            -- Ellen DeGeneres

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   rictus \RIK-tuhs\, noun:
   1. The gape of the mouth, as of birds.
   2. A gaping grin or grimace.

If God Was One of Us

If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets

And yeah yeah god is great yeah yeah god is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
He's trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome

And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the Pope maybe in Rome

~Joan Osbourne

"I Love Your Ways"

(I love your ways)
You're sweet in every single way
My baby, yeah
(I love your ways)
Complete in every way, hey, oh yeah
Gave You the kiss of life
And then You came my way
True love it's been a while
Baby, stay
You said when you love me
You feel so free
(Feel so free)
Take Your time and
You'll realise is it really worth losing me
(I love your ways)
Baby, I love your ways, yeah
(You're sweet in every way)
You're made for me
(I love your ways)
Baby, I love your ways, yeah
(You re sweet in every way)
Constantly on my mind
You are the one
Just need you by my side
Till the morning comes
(* Repeat)
(I love your ways)
Baby, I love your ways, yeah
(You're sweet in every way)
I love you, babe
(I love your ways)
Baby, I love your ways, yeah
(You're sweet in every way)
(** Repeat)
Oh yeah
Baby, I love your ways)
Yeah, yeah,
I love your ways
Eh eh, baby, I love your ways)
Hey, yeah, every night and every day
Sing, sing, baby, I love your ways)
I love your ways
Oh I, baby, I love your ways)
Baby, you must understand
That I m loving your ways (Oh sing)
Baby, love your ways)
Eh eh, baby, I love your ways)
It a been too long
Sing, sing, baby, I love your ways)
My loves too strong to let you go
Oh I, baby, I love your ways, oh sing)
I'll be somebody
If you're looking for love
You better look for me, me
I'll be somebody
With me be who you re longing to be, be
(* Repeat)
(I love your ways)
Yeah, baby, I love your ways
(You're sweet in every way)
'Cause there have been bad times
I look for the good times, baby
(I love your ways)
And don't change
'Cause I love your ways
(You're sweet in every way)

~Shola Ama

"I Had the Time of My Life"

Now I've had the time of my life
No I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
and I owe it all to you
'Cause I've had the time of my life
and I owe it all to you

I've been waiting for so long
Now I've finally found someone
To stand by me
We saw the writing on the wall
As we felt this magical
Fantasy

Now with passion in our eyes
There's no way we could disguise it
Secretly
So we take each other's hand
'Cause we seem to understand
The urgency just remember

You're the one thing
I can't get enough of
So I'll tell you something
This could be love because

I've had the time of my life
No I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

With my body and soul
I want you more than you'll ever know
So we'll just let it go
Don't be afraid to lose control
Yes I know what's on your mind
When you say, "Stay with me tonight"
Just remember

You're the one thing
I can't get enough of
So I'll tell you something
This could be love because

I've had the time of my life
No I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

~Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes

"Head Over Feet"

I had no choice but to hear you
You stated your case time and again
I thought about it

You treat me like I'm a princess
I'm not used to liking that
You ask how my day was

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

Your love is thick and it swallowed me whole
You're so much braver than I gave you credit for
That's not lip service

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

You are the bearer of unconditional things
You held your breath and the door for me
Thanks for your patience

You're the best listener that I've ever met
You're my best friend
Best friend with benefits
What took me so long

I've never felt this healthy before
I've never wanted something rational
I am aware now
I am aware now

You've already won me over in spite of me
And don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet
And don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are
I couldn't help it
It's all your fault

~Alanis Morissette

Sorry guys, I went lyric happy today. :-P  LOL

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
            -- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I

Sanity is a madness put to good use.
            -- George Santayana

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
            -- Sir Arthur Eddington

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
            -- Ronald Reagan

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. 
            -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   somnolent \SOM-nuh-luhnt\, adjective:
   1. Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
   2. Tending to cause sleepiness or drowsiness.

*sigh*

Aaron- I love you!!!!!

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
            -- Samuel Goldwyn

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
            -- George Jean Nathan

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
            -- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
            -- Nicholas Chamfort

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   mien \MEEN\, noun:
   1.  Manner  or  bearing,  especially  as  expressive  of mood,
   attitude, or personality; demeanor.
   2. Aspect; appearance.

50 days 'till I move out for college!!

O.O

I'm so anxious

and jittery

 and scared

and nervious

and excited

and apprehensive

and frantic

and overwhelmed

and energized

and eager

and impatient

and restless

and...

tired.

ttyl. w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
            -- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
            -- T. S. Eliot

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
            -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
            -- Thomas H. Huxley

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   introspection \in-truh-SPEK-shuhn\, noun:
   The act or process of self-examination; contemplation of one's
   own thoughts and feelings; a looking inward.

... "Hum di dum di dum" ... *looks around* ... *makes funny noises* ... *scratches face* ... *spins on chair* ... Got any better ideas?! I'm awaiting my man to come and pick me to and go to a car show that started 20 minutes ago... go figure. And supposedly he's in it! We're going to the TGI Friday's car show that they have every Wendesday (apparently) in the spring/summer... idono. w/e. *sigh* ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
            -- Albert Einstein

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
            -- Will Rogers, Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
            -- Aldous Huxley

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
            -- Sir William Osler

~*~Word of the Day~*~ 
   malfeasance \mal-FEE-zuhn(t)s\, noun:
   Wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior, especially by a public
   official.

about yesterday... apparently Aaron felt so bad that he drove past my house 5 times last night before going home playing with the idea of tapping on my window (he does that sometimes) but he never did last night.  I'm glad he didn't 'cuz I was sleeping and I would'a been mad at him even more. So then he wrote me an appology/love note at like 2am and delivered it and droped it in my car window at 4am which I later found on my seat when I left for work.  Then I talked to him a bit on-line at work and we worked things out and some how we came to the point where he's comming college shopping with mom and I later after supper... so then I got off work at 4 today, and found a (wilted sunburnt) rose on my windsheild!! Too bad it looked like shit... but it was the thought that counts. LOL anyways... ttyl w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Things are only impossible until they're not.
            -- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
            -- Rita Rudner

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
            -- Peter McArthur

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
            -- Marquis de la Grange

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   fealty \FEE-uhl-tee\, noun:
   1.  Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the
   tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
   2. The oath by which this obligation was assumed.
   3. Fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness.

Well, I'm leaving today for Brainard and not comming 'till Friday and then leaving again Saturday morning for our cabin on Leech Lake returning... uh... the next Saturday. and Aaron's gonna come up sometime that week too!! Mom said that he could come up and spend the night!! YAY!! I'm excited!! anyways, ttyl!

w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
            -- James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
            -- J. Paul Getty

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
            -- Plato

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
            -- Gracie Allen

~*~Word of the Day~*~

apparition \ap-uh-RISH-uhn\, noun:
   1. A ghost; a specter; a phantom.
   2. The thing appearing; the sudden or unexpected appearance of
   something or somebody.
   3. The act of becoming visible; appearance.
   4.  (Astronomy)  The  first  appearance  of  a  star  or other
   luminary  after  having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed
   to [1]occultation.

yup... I'm finally back from vacation... not that I'm any more relaxed than when I left... argh. I don't know what it is about by family that makes them think that vacation has to have some kind of schedule. It's absolutely rediculous! We always need to leave at such and such a time and rush rush rush... breathe....go go go... everything has to happen NOW for maximum fun. Whew. But I did manage to get quite a bit of reading done thank God! Well hope ya'll are having a great summer!! I really don't have much to tell ya'll without getting into something and making this a very long entry. ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~ Quotes of the Day ~*~
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
            -- Emo Phillips

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
            -- Frank Leahy

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
            -- Dorothy Parker

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
            -- William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   wastrel \WAY-struhl\, noun:
   1.  A person who wastes, especially one who squanders money; a
   spendthrift.
   2. An idler; a loafer; a good-for-nothing.

YAY!  :-D

Yesterday was our 8 month anniversary! Aaron was so cute! He kidnapped me from work and brought me to Lake Rebecca! LOL  I love you Aaron!!! MUAH!! :-*

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
            -- Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukelele.
            -- Bagdikian's Observation

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
            -- Oscar Levant

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
            -- James Thurber

~*~Word of the Day~*~ 
   Zeitgeist \TSYT-guyst; ZYT-guyst\, noun:
   [Often  capitalized]  The  spirit  of  the  time;  the general
   intellectual  and  moral state or temper characteristic of any
   period of time.

GUESS WHAT!!! Aaron's making me a promise ring!! and I'm gonna get it on out one year anniversary (which is December 1st)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm sOoOooo excited!!!! 

Oh! and I finally got a hold of my rommate!! YAY!! Turns out her name IS Russian, but she's from India.  She graduated from Breck High School. She only went there her senior year.  Her parents and brother live in India, and get anut, uncle and grandparents live here.  She seems really nice!  ttyl! w/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
            -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
            -- Robert Frost

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
            -- Lenny Bruce

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
            -- Bertrand Russell

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   beholden \bih-HOHL-duhn\, adjective:
   Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.

YAY!! My computer for college just arrived!  I got a Dell Notebook  I'm so excited!

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
            -- Gustave Flaubert

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
            -- Bob Hope

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
            -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
            -- Peter Ustinov

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   sojourn \SOH-juhrn; so-JURN\, intransitive verb:
   To stay as a temporary resident; to dwell for a time.

Life's good...

                       ...for the most part anyways.

I went to the Chiropractor again today to get an x-ray of my neck this time.  Last time I went on Monday because Sunday I had a horrible horrible headache and I couldn't drive.  So he adjusted me and told me to come back.  So now I'll be going in again next Monday to make sure the adjustment stayed.  Anyways, since I got off work to go do that, and becuase the Chiro. is so close to home, I went home for lunch. I had lasagna and made a smoothie for the road.  I got all the way back and set my cup down to get out of the car and spilt it all over my floor!  This is a dairy and fruit smoothie just sitting out there smelling gross by now I assume.  I couldn't clean it up very well 'cuz I had to get back to work argh. Well, I have nothing else to complain about... LOL ttyl! W/love, Becca

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~

"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions."
            -- Robert A. Humphrey

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
            -- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
            -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
            -- John Adams

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   ubiquitous \yoo-BIK-wih-tuhs\, adjective:
   Existing  or  being  everywhere, or in all places, at the same
   time.

So I e-mailed the CC coach at Gustavus telling him my situation on joining... well here, I'll let you read it since I'm too lazy to re-type it:

Question: Is there a fee to join CC? 
 
I was just curious because I saw a $173 activity fee on my little bill thing and if there is a fee, I won't be able to join.  I would really like to join because I'm not good at working out by myself and I need a team support type thing.  It has been hard for me to train this summer due to me working as well as heat and injury.  My mom says that since I'm not putting forth enough effort to work out daily, that I shouldn't join college CC because I won't be able to keep up and I'll just die (which I don't completely disagree with).  However, I do plan to join track for sure as a pole vaulter.  I need to get in shape during school some how... sorry about getting you involved, I just realized that I'm kinda just unnesessarily spilling the beans, but that is my situation.  I know that I won't be of real big value to the CC team meet wise, but I do work hard and can be a good motivator.

~Becca Swanson

 and so this is what he responded with:

Hi Becca,

Thanks for being honest with me.  The activity fee on your bill shows up on every first year students bill at Gustavus.  It is a fee that helps cover all activities across campus.  This includes campus movies, plays, bands that come and perform, etc.  If you take advantage of all of the great things that are going on around campus, then the activity fee is well worth it.  Whether you attend any activities or not, you still pay. 

As for Cross Country, I won't expect you for early camp, but if you would like to come join us when you come for orientation on September 3rd, you are welcome to do so.  Or you could wait this fall, join track and reconsider next fall.  Track practice begins in late October, so you'll have training partners to work with then.

Don't hesitate to stop by my office when you arrive in the fall and ask questions.

Take Care,

Jed

So instead of moving out on the 31st I'm moving out on Sept 3rd. Damnit! I wanted to be on the team!  Well, there goes all my plans! My rooommate moves in the 30th, and my CC friends that I've talked to now on-line for a while are still moving in on the 31st! BAH!!!!

*whimper*

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   enmity \EN-mih-tee\, noun:
   Hatred; ill will; hostile or unfriendly disposition.

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
            -- Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
            -- Pierre Beaumarchais

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
            -- Kelvin Throop III

They always talk who never think.
            -- Matthew Prior

YAY! I joined FaceBook.com! You guys should join too!! All you need is your college e-mail address!!

~*~Word of the Day~*~
   numinous \NOO-min-uhs; NYOO-\, adjective:
   1. Of or pertaining to a [1]numen; supernatural.
   2.  Indicating  or  suggesting  the presence of a god; divine;
   holy.
   3. Inspiring awe and reverence; spiritual.

~*~Quotes of the Day~*~
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
            -- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
            -- Queen Juliana, of the Netherlands

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
            -- Charles Baudelaire

A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.
            -- Rodney Dangerfield

I'm SoOoOo excited for college I could kiss you all!!!

*MUAH!*