…Ramblings of Liz

The definition from Webster is:

1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain2 a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b: the use or language of sarcasm

An Irish playwriter, author, and poet declared that:

 ”Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

Here are some steps, according to Sarcasm Society, on how to be sarcastic:

Before I begin, I would like to point out that I am fully aware that some of the writing on this site is not even close to being sarcastic; but that is ok, because this is my web site, and I can do with it as I please.

Now that we have that cleared up let us get to the topic at hand. I should, however, include another caveat in order to avoid emails from idiots thinking that I am indirectly singing my own praises.

By no means do I consider myself intellectually superior to you. Just because I am trying to teach you something that is usually innate and comes easy to those who are clever and intelligent, or at least quick-witted, does not mean that I presume to think myself your superior, and expect that you genuflect before me.
As mentioned above sarcasm is usually innate; however, if you would still like to attempt developing this ability, your chances of success would be greatly increased if you are intelligent, or at the least not mentally incapable of detecting and reproducing sarcastic remarks. Because if you cannot make your very own sarcastic comments, you can still pass as having some grasp of this art by being able to recognize sarcasm when it is produced by someone else, and be able to retain it in memory long enough to use it at a later time when that particular sarcastic remark would be relevant.

The reason I decided to put a little sarcasm blog up, is because I’m sitting here with Michael in the Comp Apps room and he’s as sarcastic as ever.  I don’t like it.  That’s why…sarcasm, right now, sucks

Do you have any idea that summer is almost 2 weeks away?  Next week and the week after that are the last weeks of working school.  The third week is finals and ultimately summer.

Within the next two weeks, so many people have projects to finish and AP exams to study for.  Whether it be Hero Journey movies or Holocost and Genecide end assessments or tedious physics projects, students are more stressed out than normal.  Oh boy. And if you were on K68, then there is no doubt in my mind that you have at least 2 to 3 make-up tests or quizzes scheduled to make up pronto. 

My advice: make use of your PRTs and breaks.  Work and study hard, but keep in mind that your slumber is one of the most important elements of your academic performance.  Value sleep and make sure you get enough of it.  If you don’t normally use a planner, use one now (just to make sure you’re getting it all done).  It will take a toll on your mood and valuable sleep if you miss or forget an assignment and have to stay up later to finish it or (even worse) take a zero.  So use the planner, better safe than sorry.  Get it done, do it well, and sleep away everything else. 

You have more time in the day than you think.  People complain about not having enough hours in the day, but really it’s just that they can’t manage time up to Time’s standards.  Okay?

Have fun.  And summer’s around the corner!

While being bored the last weekend of Spring Break, I picked up our Xbox controller.  I thought back to when I bought the Xbox for my brother/me; with purchase came two games: Kung Fu Panda and Lego Land something.  I had never touched either one of the “kiddy” games. 

But on that day, I held in my hands Kung Fu Panda and it spoke to me.  “Play me Elizabeth, play me.”  So I put it in and began to kick, punch, wahhhh-chaa, and panda rolling.  For some strange reason I was intrigued and wanted nothing but to keep up my Kung Fu training via Po.  I..uhem..beat the game.  It was a short game, but I beat it.  And now! I’m a Kung Fu Master!  I’m the Dragon Warrior!  I’m…such a loser…hahahahahaha

But seeing that I beat the game, I found it necessary to watch the movie.  So I rented the movie from On Demand the other day.  I sort of liked it.  Actually…I thought it was really cute.  So I did like it. 

My boredom lead to greatness..aka Dragon Warrior.

ha

I wanna see this

When we were first assigned this, Mrs. Haffley had me at “Scavenger Hunt.”  There should not have been questions or any need for explanations, it was a good ol’ scavenger hunt.  My mindset: Let the game begin!

At first, I wanted some Humor on my journey. But my timing was all off.  Every time I went to find Señora Jackman, she was out and about.  It wasn’t until the next morning that I found Humor cross my path.  Sitting Indian-style in front of my locker, as I do every morning after zero hour, Señora casually walked passed.  “Señora!”  She backed up, “Yes Margarita?”  I then proceeded to ask her if she just so happen to have some Humor on her person.  Smiling, she pulled a smiley face from her pocket. 

Most of my medicines were discovered in this fashion.  I had already figured a good guess of who had the certain medicines, and that person happen to cross my path. 

The very first medicine I received was Courage, which I find very fitting.  You need Courage to start your journey, so…there you go.  Mr. Hicks was the keeper of Courage, he found me in the Pub Lab the Monday?/Tuesday? that we were assigned the Hunt.  In his class, it took me a lot of Courage to get up there and speak in front of my class.  I wasn’t very courageous about it.  I got through it and…WHAT DO YOU KNOW!?  I’ve got some Courage!  He gave me a crayon.  I picked the color: Gold.  The color of champions…duh!

Another one I liked was Wisdom.  Mrs. Sharp had me pick a strip of paper from random.  I pulled out the definition of Love.  This was my favorite medicine.  I didn’t feel like it was so much about Wisdom, but I felt more attracted to the Love part.  On any journey, Love is needed.  Loved ones, the love of something, the love of someone…it’s what motivates anyone to do anything.  Whether it be for the Love of you parents, the Love of the game, the Love of knowledge, the man/woman that you have fallen in Love with, the Love of competition, the Love of life.  We do everything for some Love.

Faith was a tough-y.  I had to think.  But after a little pondering the clue, where faith in yourself grows from much hard work and many revisions, it became clear.  I thought either Hawkins or Burgun.  Burgun was yearbook and etymology, Hawkins was newspaper.  Uh…hello!?  Hawkins.  Faith in yourself is necessary for any journey, especially the Hero Journey or more importantly the Journey of Our Lives.  Faith is like trust.  And everyone knows that trust in yourself, as well as others, is mucho importante. 

We have loads of my grandparents’ and uncles’ old stuff stored away in our basement.  And we’re planning on getting our basement redone this summer so it all has to be sorted through and taken out. 

1. Recycle all the old magazines in the garage (we found 1979 Playboys…hilarious)
2. Take all of my uncles 1960s/70s clothes of yellow plaid man shorts we found in the basement to Goodwill
3. Yardwork..it’s almost spring and I want some flowers
4. Go see Kole, Kendall Krienhagen’s (aka the girl’s head basketball coach’s) newborn baby.  I love him. He was born Monday.
5. Naked Tchopsticks…again.  It’s still yummmmmalicious.  (oh god, that word). Spider Roll will always be my favorite.
6. See I Love You, Man.  (I did.  It was hilarious, bromontana! you should probably go see it)
7. Do homework…nehhhh
8. Walk my dog, Java.  It’s nice out.
9. Watch the year’s BEST WEEK OF BASKETBALL (my bracket is ruined, damn Wake Forest). 
10. Clean my room, which mostly consists of sorting dirty and clean clothes
11. Get ready for SB09 yayyyyyyyyy
12. Find someone to tell me what’s the medicine bag blog supposed to consist of.  I lost the paper booo

I’m taking the SAT for the first time this Saturday at Carmel.  I’m not so much nervous for it, but I’m sorta anxious to take it.  I haven’t finished my SAT Prep class, but I’m not worried about that.  Honestly, all I really want to do is get a feel for it.  So whether I do do great or not so great, I’ll know what to expect next time.  I’m almost…excited!  So I’m doing the little homework I have tonight and then spending the rest of it looking over books, vocabulary, and practice tests.  Yaaahooo! 

Here:

Find a solution:
	(A) -(-2)
	(B) -3
	(C) 6
	(D) -6
	(E) 8

Taking the SAT soon?

A) You wanna know something?  Naked Tchopstix is a no-fail date place.  It’s always good.  Get an appitizer and then get sushi.  Spider rolls are my personal favorite.  Then the Playboy roll is fun to get.  It comes to you on fire.  It’s nummy.  Yes, nummy.

B) I wanna go spend some time at the Humane Society soon.  I’ll do that.  I wanna go see the puppies/dogs there.

C) I’ve finally found another class I can take with Mr. Lo.  East Asain Studies! So I have to sign up for it.  Right now, I’m signed up for English ACP, Yearbook, Precalc, Stat AP, BioTech Honors, Socialogy, Drawing 1, Intro to Philosophy, Econ, Gov AP, and Health.  I didn’t take health this year.  But I’d rather take East Asain Studies over Socialogy I think.  I would rather take Anatomy/Phys instead of BioTech instead too.  And I wanna take English AP instead of ACP now.  So I’ll switch it around sometime in the future.

D) I really want to go buy the True Religion perfume.  I’ve always worn Ralph Lauren Rocks, but ayy there’s nothing wrong with switching things up.

E) I secretly hate writing my name in cursive.  Elizabeth in cursive is annoying.  Big E Big L small I downward looping Z little A Big B little E tall T big H.  It’s annoying.

F) I think I’m going to Arizona/California with my mom for Spring Break.

G) I need to apply for a job.  I want my own money now, I’m tired of asking my parents or breaking into my…secret stash.  The secret stash IS secret.  Don’t tell my parents or siblings, especially my parents.  They’ll stop giving me lunch money or shopping money or whatever because they’ll know I have a stash. 

H) I cannot wait for this summer.  Or just the sunshine.  I’m so done with this winter weather.  Did you know that Alabama got like 4 inches of snow yesterday.  And  Washington DC is supposed to get like 8 inches of snow today.  What is this!?  Snow snow go away come again NEVER.  Bring on the sun!

I) My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate.  With sprinkles.  I like mint chocolate chip, but the big thing is the sprinkles.  I’m a big sprinkles fan.

J) Facebook pisses me off.  I hate getting on it nowadays.  The #1 reason I get on it now is to say something IMPORTANT to someone or get homework via facebook message.  I have officially weened off of the book.

K) I’m not sure if I want my hair to grow out or if I wanna cut it again.  I like my hair longer in the summer, but I’ve never really had shorter hair.  Earlier this year when I cut off 9 inches, that was the most I’ve ever cut off.  Holy cow.

L) I forgot to grab a pack of gum on my way out of the house this morning.  Booo

M) I hope this week goes by quickly sort of.  Today’s a Day 2, so it SHOULD be a good day. I like Day 2s.

N)  I need to go purchase a good belt.  I have old belts, but I need a practical belt that doesn’t draw attention or whatever.  Just a plain, normal, chick belt. 

O) I have 14 community service hours done…yay.  That’s like..half way!  And then I have 3 religion community service hours, I only need 10. 

P) I’m taking the SAT on March 14 at Carmel Highschool.  I guess I should start looking things over.

Q) I want to go to the zoo.  Or to like a theme park again.  I think I’m gonna plan a Kings Island trip with Brooke.  Like..Me, Mike, Brooke, Hebe, VanWinkle, his girlfriend Cara…maybe.  Maybe in the summer.  We’ll think about it.

R) Sometimes it bothers me that when we hang out with all of Mike’s friends. I feel like the baby of the group.  This weekend, VanWinkle handed me a sippy cup..jokingly.  But still.

S) I need to go purchase a calendar I can hang up in my room.

T) I’m really not looking forward to Spanish class in about 15 minutes.

U) I really wish I could finish my ABC’s, but I have to go finish Spanish homework pages

Que que na-to-ra
You will understand
Listen with your heart
You will understand
Let it break upon you
Like a wave upon the sand
Listen with your heart
You will understand