RANTING LIKE NOBODY'S BUSINESS

I RECENTLY SENT A MESSAGE TO KROC DETAILING MY DISSATISFACTION WITH THEIR POOR CHOICE IN MUSIC--THIS LITTLE RANT WAS ONE OF MY BEST ONES YET!

Hello, my name isn't really important but, I'd like to think that what I have to say is. I'm not really a fan of radio, personally I think it's a bit outdated, but it's something to listen to. This particular radio station isn't half bad, on a very good day. Well, I was listening to KROC not too long ago when I heard an amazing song, that song was "You Found Me" by The Fray, so from that day on I had the radio on ALL DAY EVERY DAY just hoping I might hear it again. For days on end I would listen to the same old tired songs and it just hit me--this radio station sucks! I don't want to hear all of this old crap, play something new, something good! How many times am I going to have to hear Britney or Akon before I go to town on my head with a powertool? Honest to god, the overexposure is ridiculous. I've done the whole "Rate the Hits" bit and it's quite obvious that you don't really take that into account when you're deciding what pathetic excuses for music to play. I don't mean to belittle what you do for a living, but OMG switch it up. It couldn't hurt to have some variety on the air--do you honestly enjoy listening to the same thing day after day after day? This radio station almost makes the risks taken with Limewire worth it. I'm sure I must sound like a crazy cynical person, but I love music and I just wish that this radio station would play something with a bit more substance than the average "Womanizer". [Don't get me wrong, I love me some Britney--in moderation] It's a shame that this message will probably go unnoticed, I think this [verbally edited until acceptable] rant might actually be some of my best work yet. Well, thanks for taking the time to read my message and I wholeheartedly hope that you understand what I'm trying to say.

R.I.P.

On dec. 14th, my aunt, Rebecca Tulow died in a car accident due to faulty breaks. I would just like to extend best wishes to her family as they mourn her passing. The other woman in the car, Mary Kok, survived and is currently in the ICU at St.Mary's. I would also like to extend best wishes to her and her family. In the midst of this tragedy, I've seen just how quickly a community can come together and support one another. Thankfully, we can all move past this tragic accident together and work together to make the lives of the children left behind a little bit easier.

MY FiNGER!!

today, dec. 8th, i have permanently scarred my left middle finger. during clothing class i was trying to backstitch on a pair of pajama pants we were making. i began to panic cuz i went to far with the stitch and i had to flip the pants and attempt a different backstich from the other side. well, most of you don't know this, but i am not the worlds greatest backstitcher, in fact i am horrible. the second attempt was going horribly and it looked like the machine was about to "eat" my fabric. i decided to pull my fabric back, but while trying to save my pants i made the dangerous mistake of not watching my fingers...with a loud, sickening crunch, the needle on the machine went through the center of the nail of my middle finger, twice! i quickly pulled my finger back, which broke the needle off the machine and left it in my finger. picture this: a bloody finger with a cracked nail and a needle sticking out of the side of it. sick isn't it? i stared at my finger for a quick second and started crying. by now people have started to gather around me and gasp at the horrible, mangled finger. next, the teacher walked me to the nurse and tried to calm me down the whole way there, but i just kept tearing up and looking at my finger. the nurse told me "i'm sorry, there is nothing i can do for you. i don't have the proper equipment to take the needle out. you'll have to call a parent to take you to the emergency room" i called. i waited for almost 30 min cuz my dad misunderstood the nurse and went to my sister's school. during my long, tearful wait i was comforted by many nice people. thank you. i went to the doctor, she took out the needle [blood was gushing out of my finger & it hurt like a mother!] and ordered an x ray to see if there were fragments left in my finger. there were a few itty bitty pieces, but she said it would not be worth it to rip my nail off, dig through my finger and possibly come back empty handed because the pieces are so small. now i'm on antibiotics for a week and i'll have to check in with her again in a few weeks. my finger is still throbbing so i'm walking around with it above my head to make it throb less and now i have to go soak my finger in warm, soapy water. bye!

when is enough, enough?

how bad are things going to get before they get better? the economy, global warming, civil rights, and terrorism. the attacks on mumbai were devastating, i literally watched the news with a dropped jaw. how many of these terrible incidents are going to occur before we, as people, put a stop to it? my eyes were just recently opened to how apathetic people can be to the plight of others. one of my dad's friends was over and i asked him how he felt about the attacks. his response was quite unexpected. he said "good, i'm sure they deserve it" what could the innocent people have done to deserve such an inhumane attempt to execute them? he then said "why should i care about them dying, when nobody cares about the genocide in darfur, or the people suffering in south sudan?" i understand where he's coming from, but....they're innocent people. Just because many people are ignoring the genocide/suffering in africa doesn't mean we should ignore the suffering of ALL people. maybe if we care enough about other people, then somebody will care about the africans. sometimes i make other peoples' suffering, my problem. sometimes i am so naive, that i think compassion will save the world. how stupid is that? its a cruel world out there, and i envy/pity the activists who try to shed light on their cause knowing that their efforts will most likely go unnoticed, yet they keep on trying. i guess we can't expect much from each other, as people. hopefully people wake up and see that unless everybody is involved we cant solve any of the problems afflicting us.

laughably ambitious

i've recently noticed that i am laughably ambitious. i tend to start projects with big goals in mind then i never get around to finishing them. for example, the butch dynamite chronicles--yea thats not happening :] today i started a story about a person who was a spy-type super agent who worked for the us government in a pre-apocolyptic world, [the calm before the storm kind of feeling]. the setting was centered around the "war" which is reminicent of the Iraq war, but in this alternate reality the war sparked mass paranoia throughout the world and the US was pretty much the "bad guy" of the story. we occupied the entire world and took the whole "global power" thing to a whole new level. we sent out spies, called patriots, to these countries to execute "coup de tats" within the foreign governments to create reluctant allies. we didn't have presidents anymore, we had Chief Wyatt "the enforcer" Leaghton. Leaghton was a super-dictator and his rise to power was actually a pretty interesting story. he gathered followers by preaching his outrage and opposition of the war and we won over the citizens of america. after the citizens forcefully booted the president they gave leaghton absolute power and he ran with it. he slowly yet surely strangled individual freedoms because they "posed a threat to the security of the american people". he began systematically lying to the people and he controlled the media so the people couldn't see just how bad everything was. the only people who were aware of the treachory were the people who worked directly for the government, like the main character. the main character then decides that she has to do something about it. she would rather be the unsung hero than the vigilante who gets credit so she decides to give the US's secrets [ Leaghtons plan to nuke countries deemed dangerous and inferior to his ideals and to create a brand of overly obedient citizens who are void of free will] to britain and their resistance program so that they can save the world. with the newly spilled secrets, the resistance plots a systematic demolition of the facade Leaghton has put up and ultimately return the free world to its citizens. the end. lol i don't think i'll ever finish this book, but its something to think about. I never really thought i was cut out for journalism, and the idea has been amplified by taking j10. i'm more of a fiction writer, i make up these amazing tales of morally grey, broken people who then save the world and in the process find themselves, or hilariously funny comedies that seem to have been written by a person under the influence of hallucinogens, but not really news stories.

MOViE CRiTiC?

i RECENTLY WENT TO SEE "TWiLiGHT" AND i MUST SAY, iT WAS BETTER THAN i COULD HAVE iMAGiNED! ROBERT PATTiNSON WAS EXTREMELY TALENTED AS EDWARD CULLEN, HE WAS REALLY DEDiCATED, DOWN TO THE PAiNED FACiAL EXPRESSiONS HE KEPT THROUGHOUT THE ENTiRE FiLM. THE CHiCK THAT PLAYED BELLA WAS ALRiGHT--i GUESS, BUT THEN AGAiN i COULD JUST BE JEALOUS! TAYLOR LAUTNER WAS AN UNEXPECTED FAVORiTE. WHEN i HEARD ABOUT THE CHARACTER 'JACOB BLACK' I THOUGHT "STANDARD NATiVE AMERiCAN" BUT BOY WAS i WRONG....[HE iS RiDiCULOUSLY HOT!]. OVERALL THE PLOT WAS GREAT AND THE iNTENSE ACTiON SEQUENCES ADDED MUCH NEEDED FiRE TO AN OVERDONE LOVE STORY. THiS FiLM OFFERED SOMETHiNG THAT iTS HARRY POTTER NEMESIS COULD NEVER DO, iT OFFERED RELATiViTY! ONE COULD PUT THEMSELVES iNTO ANY OF THE CHARACTERS' PLACE AND COMPLETELY BELiEVE iT....i WiLL PROBABLY SEE THiS FiLM AGAiN [PROBABLY 8 TiMES!] GO SEE TWiLiGHT! HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE IS SET TO BE RELEASED IN JULY OF 2010!