“Hey, that’s Not a Bad Idea Perhaps We Could Use It”

    I am starting another little series of blogs that will all be related to each other. They are all going to be about the many projects that have been keeping me so busy and unable to blog, but are now coming to a close.


    I was recently a chorus member in Bye Bye Birdie. That was fun, and I got to hang out with friends and make new friends. So yay! I was also involved in a class play. Specifically I was the stage manager, which was super stressful. But now it is over. Huzzah!


    Changing the subject without any transitions, I also had to take the ACT. I don’t really think you care how my ACT went, because standardized testing is repulsive. Way more important than the test was where I was sitting. Why, because I was sitting by a bookshelf, (not that they let me read any of the books) a bookshelf full of gold…in your pants. Here is a list (don’t freak out, they aren’t back) of the fabulous in your pants books that sat upon the bookshelf in the ACT room:


1. One Hundred Years of Solitude (in your pants) by: Gabriel García Márquez


2. Rash (in your pants) by: Pete Hautman


3. Lemonade Mouth (in your pants) by: Mark Peter Huges


4. Seduced by Hitler (in your pants) by: Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes


5. Master and Commander (of your pants) by: Patrick O’Brian


There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

"Like Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde”

   Why are people so different on paper than in real life? Is it because we, as people, only put insignificant things on paper? I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The different facets of peoples’ personalities can be put on paper; it’s how we know what book characters are like. So how come book characters make sense and people don’t? The best explanation I can give myself is this: characters from a book have concrete personalities, in which all of their character traits are equally important and do not contradict each other. In real life, none of this is true. Just because you can write down the ingredients of a person doesn’t give you the recipe. We all decide on the value of the different parts of other’s personalities through a filter. We all decide how much weight to give each thing, but we could be wrong. In people we like we weigh things we like more than things we don’t like. This allows bad things, things we don’t want to see in our friends, slip though unnoticed. The same principle applies to people we don’t like. We can’t handle the processing of their wrong doings and the good things they do. It isn’t about what’s there, it’s about how we see it. Others see some parts of us, filter them, and create their own image of us. That’s why the same person is different, depending on who is talking about them.


The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.