Ideal color(s) : White and Pink Ideal Friend(s): All the Angels Ideal Weapon(s): No Weapon Ideal Element(s) : Water

~What Type of Angel Are You~.: Amazing Anime Pictures :.
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You are a Lonely Angel You are neither good
nor evil. You can be either. You are shy, scard
and lonely. You try to talk to people but you
get to hurt before you get a chance. Weather
it's mentally or emontialy. You do find love
but can't seem to summon the guts to tell that
some one.

Ideal Color(s): Dark Blue; White Ideal Friend(s): Pure Angle Ideal Weapon(s): Your Body Ideal Element(s):
Watter;Rain;Snow

~What Type of Angel Are You~.: Amazing Anime Pictures :.
brought to you by Quizilla i also got this one because i was divided on my answers. i agreed to 2 in every question. oh well
you know all about him

do you know everything about hiei
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you know kurma and shiichi very well i do say.

how well do you know shiuichi or kurama
brought to you by Quizilla okay, so i did this one alright.....

My #2 result for the SelectSmart.com selector, Anime Hero Representation, is Ashitaka (Princess Mononoke)

yay! i got ashitaka!!!!^^

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/bleh_more_quizzies.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_public_mindsay_service_announcement.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-17T03:07:46-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_public_mindsay_service_announcement.mws so i've been told over the past few weeks that i say sorry too much. welll... ummmmmm..... i apologize for this and will try to limit myself to being just an oblivious idiot that i normally am. if i do say "sorry" more than i ought to, please, please do me a favor and shout at me for doing this. really. it's a bad habbit i want to be rid of. this has been a public service announcement for your(and my) own sanity. please comply and there will be no need to bow frequently.(no this is not a joke.) and i will try to stop the quizzies. they are lousy updates, and it's cruel and unusual punnishment to update with them. some of them are fun though. i get really bored sometimes.... -.-;;

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_public_mindsay_service_announcement.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bon_jovinow_you_have_to_listen_until_this_entry_leaves_the_page.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-17T06:07:45-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bon_jovinow_you_have_to_listen_until_this_entry_leaves_the_page.mws

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/bon_jovinow_you_have_to_listen_until_this_entry_leaves_the_page.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=31 pirogoeth805 2005-07-20T12:07:25-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=31 today is another *wonderfull* day in minnesota. hot and humid. yay. today is a catch-up day. i might be on aim later on today. okay. i'm giving you all fair warning, the first 2 weeks of august , the blog is gonna suffer due to camps. i would appreciate it if i don't get swamped with comments while i'm gone. it means spending an hour plus catching up, reading, replying, et cetera. please be nice. this time would go towards my actually getting sleep before my swim season starts- right after the second week of august. what joy to be sooooo busy.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/31 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=32 pirogoeth805 2005-07-20T07:07:40-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=32 still bored.... oh well. the humidity is bearable now- if only it would be only 75 degrees, then i would be happy.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/32 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_feel_stalkeddeet.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-20T11:07:15-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_feel_stalkeddeet.mws this is an unedited aim with some perve i dont know. keep this in mind. Deetawww: yo Deetawww: whats up anna me: excuse me, but who is this? deetawww: Andrew Deetaww: you dont know me deetawww :brb me: okay 9:10 PM me: mmmm andrew watkins? Deetawww: no Deetawww: mason Deetawww: brb me: aaahhh 9:15 PM Deetawww: back Deetawww: so whats goin on? 9:20 PM Deetawww: i hear u wear a hott thong 9:35 PM me: what??!?!?!?!?!? Deetawww(away message): I have stepped out to lunch. me : where have you heard of these atrocious rumours? me : i wouldn't toush one with a 10 foot+wooden.. no- titanium alloy pole. me: *touch 9:40 PM Deetawww: hey sexy me: ... God would you perves leave me alone? 9:45 PM me: you are frikin sick. i believe i've been pranked. either that, or i really am being stalked... online. that is truely disturbing, and even more of a reason for me to hide...... and people think i'm paranoid(except very close friends who know better, and have this happen to them)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/i_feel_stalkeddeet.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yet_again.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-21T12:07:51-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yet_again.mws so about last night. the guy talked to me again... he said he realized he was a jerk last night... he thought he had been blocked... and didn't see my other replies. i guess people definately like to come off wrong when they first IM me. it's the strangest thing. this has happened oh soo many times... half the time i block them when they start. the half i bug them to say "who the hell are you, and why the hell do you think i'm like this?" it gets annoying. especially when they say they either don't remember they said these things, or they're really sorry, or their friend/ annoying sibling was actually typing. i kick the shit outta my brother for it.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/yet_again.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_count_downz.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-22T03:07:02-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_count_downz.mws Birthday count down:14 dayz Jr.counseling countdown:10 dayz Servant camp count down:16 dayz .... Swim Season start(aka hell week):...... 21 dayz....... damn... aw well.... with swim season in 3 weeks that means.... that... lets see.. school starts in....like... a month...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_count_downz.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/a_quiz_for_you.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-22T04:07:24-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/a_quiz_for_you.mws for once, the word "quizzie" can be said without general fear. seeing as how i'm testing you on how well you actually know me. this will be a funny experiment. go here: Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!i shall test you! and then Check out the Scoreboard!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/a_quiz_for_you.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bad_update.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-22T07:07:39-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bad_update.mws nyahaha.. sorry, quizzie plague time.

Your signature is
Name / Username
your signature neatness level is	demonic
your signature looks	nice
you should	keep up the good work
This fun quiz by twinshark0 - Taken 38 Times.

New - COOL Dating Tips and Romance Advice!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/bad_update.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_it_seems_to_be_quizzie_nightits_not_as_if_youll_actually_look_at_them.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-22T11:07:52-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_it_seems_to_be_quizzie_nightits_not_as_if_youll_actually_look_at_them.mws
What Type of Villain are You?
mutedfaith.com.
'Been There'- You know you can fall back on the
things you believe in to get you through to the
other side of the tunnel, and you do it quite
often. You understand that sometimes
faithlessness can defeat you where nothing else
can, and you're never going to let it beat down
anyone you care about.Written from the
point-of-view of Vina Cross, you're a song
about coming to know that God is someone who
loves you truly, and that He's been with you
through everything, and that the people around
you also need to see that.

What K2 Song are You?
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You're the sad smile,the one that regrets nearly
everything and is constantly wondering about
what could have been.You're not happy with your
situation and usually blame yourself because of
the bad things that have happened.Cheer up.

What Kind of Smile are You?
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Green You are a very calm and contemplative person. Others are drawn to your peaceful, nurturing nature. Find out your color at Quiz Me!

good night... i think...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_it_seems_to_be_quizzie_nightits_not_as_if_youll_actually_look_at_them.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/almost_forgot.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-22T11:07:34-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/almost_forgot.mws ooops silly me. i fogot this! ^^ CLICK ME.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/almost_forgot.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/warm_fuzziesactu_post.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-23T03:07:22-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/warm_fuzziesactu_post.mws mmm i'm sitting on my bed, looking out the window , starring at the sky wondering whether or not it's going to rain some more. usually this is done in the winter wondering" when the hell is it gonna snow enough to get out of school!!!!" and because i go to school out in bloomington, it happens wayyyy more often. my dog, maddie, is on the foot of the bed next to me sleeping... she looks soooo cute sleeping. earlier she was starring out the window with me. however... its cute to watch her twitch as she dreams. right now the weather is sooo much better than it has been..... it was as low as like... 66 this morning- a feat in and of its self. this happens not too often in minnesota... and i rather like the change. my friend complains it's all too cold- i laugh at her and say:if you're cold, go put on of my sweatshirts on. it's bloody nice outside, and not high in humidity.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/warm_fuzziesactu_post.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=42 pirogoeth805 2005-07-25T10:07:57-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=42 bleh... its monday again, and the horrible thing about it, is that i actually woke up before nine this morning. this sucks. hopefully one of my friends will save me from my boredom streak and we'll go up to the village. that would be nice... so nice to stretch my legs and walk somewhere... then on our way home stop at white rock or tea source... that'd be even better.*hopefully* it'll be emma or sadie. i haven't seen either one of them in soo long.... gah... i'm soo horrible.....i need to contact my friends more often during break..... i really do... luckily, i see steph and rachikins often enough... but riz, lizzy,kate,emma and sadie i need to talk to more often... luckily, i'll see emma and sadie soon enough as swim season starts up.... yay for swim team(we've been around for 7-8 years, we do better than the soccer teams usually do, and we're bigger than at least half of them...combined... why don't we get more attention from the sports office? and why doesn't mr.buri try harder to get us a coach?and why does everyone on the team thats been there for a substantial amount of time feel the need to either join some lesser team like cross country, or leave for"personal reasons"... mr turbes ins't the coach anymore you know!!!!!! he left!)! and kate and riz still go to school with me, but lizzy is going to benilde next year.... and i wont be able to see her very often.... *sniffle**sniffle* countdown birthday:11 dayz jr. counseling:7 dayz(whoooo!!!! one week! yay! good bye boredom, hello little campers ^^) servant camp:13 dayz(yay, i get to see lots of my classmates... this'll be fun, since we have coffee house!!!!!!!and those stupid buggering little sevies dont!(i love to be a little mean in the morning on mondays.)) swim season: 21 dayz(somehow, it seems like this should be less... oh well.. more between me and hell week...)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/42 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_yay.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-25T12:07:25-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_yay.mws hurray!^^ so happy.. its been a while since i've heard this song, and i absolutely love this song(i heard it on the radio last night) 3 Doors Down- Story of a Girl -This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her When she smiles How many days in a year She woke up with hope but she only found tears? I can be so insincere Making the promises never for real As long as she stands there waiting Wearing the holes in the souls of her shoes How many days disappear? You look in the mirror so how do you choose? And the clothes that you wear Look swell the next day Your hair never falls in quite the same way You never seem to run out of things to say This is the story of a girl And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her When she smiles How many lovers would stay? Just to put up with this shit day after day How did we wind up this way? Watching our mouths for the words that we say As long as we stand here waiting Wearing the clothes on the souls of our shoes How do we get there today? When we're walking too far for the price of her shoes And the clothes that you wear Look swell the next day Your hair never falls in quite the same way You never seem to run out of things to say This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her When she smiles And the clothes that you wear Look swell the next day Your hair never falls in quite the same way You never seem to run out of things to say This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her This is the story of a girl Her pretty face she hid from the world And while she looks so sad and lonely there I absolutely love her This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her When she smiles When she smiles!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_yay.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_wish_something_eventful_would_happen.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-25T03:07:15-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_wish_something_eventful_would_happen.mws yup subject says it all. once again i find myself spending yet another uneventful monday inside.i have no life this summer. and i really wish i did. funny thing did happen though. my friends who just got back from du nord said that they met a perfect guy version of me. right down to the height(waaaaahhhh why am i so short?!?!?!?!!?!?) the humour, and the interests. now i wanna meet him. he even lives in my city. this is great.no- it's funny as hell. gotta go and hop into the window well so i can get a ball for my dog... and then play with her. it will be extremely amusing.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/i_wish_something_eventful_would_happen.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphyand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentationmu_laws_part_one.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-25T08:07:37-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphyand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentationmu_laws_part_one.mws MURPHY'S LAWS Nothing is as easy as it looks. Everything takes longer than you think. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. Mother nature is a bitch. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. Every solution breeds new problems. Murphy's Law of Research Enough research will tend to support your theory. Murphy's Law of Copiers The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance. Murphy's Law of the Open Road: When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random, and there are only two cars on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions, and (2) they will always meet at the bridge. Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics Things get worse under pressure. The Murphy Philosophy Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse. Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws Everything goes wrong all at once. Murphy's Constant Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value Murphy's Corollaries Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious Law of the Perversity of Nature (Mrs. Murphy's Corollary): You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter. Corollary (Jenning): The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. Commentaries Hill's Commentaries on Murphy's Laws If we lose much by having things go wrong, take all possible care. If we have nothing to lose by change, relax. If we have everything to gain by change, relax. If it doesn't matter, it does not matter. O'Toole's Commentary Murphy was an optimist. NBC's Addendum to Murphy's Law You never run out of things that can go wrong. Murphy's Military Laws Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. Friendly fire ain't. The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map. The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it. The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at. The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will shoot short. Incoming fire has the right of way. If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap. The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire. There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss. Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants. If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy. Murphy's Technology Laws You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing. Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. All great discoveries are made by mistake. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. All's well that ends. A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. The first myth of management is that it exists. A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection. New systems generate new problems. To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make. The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state. Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work. Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman. To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done. Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File." Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases. If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious. The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door. The only perfect science is hind-sight. Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling. If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. When all else fails, read the instructions. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. Everything that goes up must come down. Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management. Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer. Murphy's Love Laws All the good ones are taken. If the person isn't taken, there's a reason. (corr. to 1) The nicer someone is, the farther away (s)he is from you. Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant. The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them. Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position. The best things in the world are free --- and worth every penny of it. Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction. Nice guys(girls) finish last. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Availability is a function of time. The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else. tomorrow we will bring you other commentaries, Corollaries and so much more relating to murphy. ^^(I love these things. they amuse me, and yet are soooo true!!) nyaha. brought to you by the OAAAD.(otaku across america against dubbing. we may not be and organization-yet. but we will be. and ph34r ph0r j00r liv3s when w3 4r3.)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphyand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentationmu_laws_part_one.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_twoand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T12:07:55-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_twoand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws(A-b) Abbott's Admonitions: If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question. Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. Acheson's Rule of the Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ade's Law: Anybody can win -- unless there happens to be a second entry. Airplane Law: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time. Alan's Law of Research The theory is supported as long as the funds are. Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being. Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Allen's Axiom When all else fails, follow instructions. Allen's Distinction The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep. Fred Allen's Motto: I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. Alley's Axiom: Justice always prevails . . . three times out of seven. Alligator Allegory: The objective of all dedicated product support employees should be to thoroughly analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve these problems when called upon. However, when you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. Allison's Precept The best simple-minded test of expertise in a particular area is the ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area. Anderson's Law Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated. Andrews's Canoeing Postulate: No matter which direction you start it's always against the wind coming back. Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly. Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop. Corollary: On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first always strike your toes. Laws of Applied Confusion: The one piece that the plant forgot to ship is the one that supports 75% of the balance of the shipment. Corollary: Not only did the plant forget to ship it, 50% of the time they haven't even made it. Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck. After adding two weeks to the schedule for unexpected delays, add two more for the unexpected, unexpected delays. In any structure, pick out the one piece that should not be mismarked and expect the plant to cross you up. Corollaries: In any group of pieces with the same erection mark on it, one should not have that mark on it. It will not be discovered until you try to put it where the mark says it's supposed to go. Never argue with the fabricating plant about an error. The inspection prints are all checked off, even to the holes that aren't there. Approval Seeker's Law: Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. The Aquinas Axiom: What the gods get away with, the cows don't. Army Axiom: Any order that can be misunderstood has been misunderstood. Army Law: If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it. Ashley-Perry Statistical Axioms: Numbers are tools, not rules. Numbers are symbols for things; the number and the thing are not the same. Skill in manipulating numbers is a talent, not evidence of divine guidance. Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners. The product of an arithmetical computation is the answer to an equation; it is not the solution to a problem. Arithmetical proofs of theorems that do not have arithmetical bases prove nothing. Astrology Law: It's always the wrong time of the month. Fourteenth Corollary of Atwood's General Law of Dynamic Negatives: No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep. Avery's Rule of Three: Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job -- it's the start of a brand new series of three. B Babcock's Law: If it can be borrowed and it can be broken, you will borrow it and you will break it. Baer's Quartet: What's good politics is bad economics; what's bad politics is good economics; what's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics. Bagdikian's Law of Editor's Speeches: The splendor of an editor's speech and the splendor of his newspaper are inversely related to the distance between the city in which he makes his speech and the city in which he publishes his paper. Baker's Byroad: When you are over the hill, you pick up speed. Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Baldy's Law: Some of it plus the rest of it is all of it. Barber's Laws of Backpacking The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail you chose to hike always comes out positive. Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure. The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it. If you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway. The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail. The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing to find it. The size of each of the stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail. The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as twilight approaches. The net weight of your boots is proportional to the cube of the number of hours you have been on the trail. When you arrive at your chosen campsite, it is full. If you take your boots off, you'll never get them back on again. The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent. Barrett's Laws of Driving: You can get ANYWHERE in ten minutes if you go fast enough. Speed bumps are of negligible effect when the vehicle exceeds triple the desired restraining speed. The vehicle in front of you is traveling slower than you are. This lane ends in 500 feet. Barr's Comment on Domestic Tranquility: On a beautiful day like this it's hard to believe anyone can be unhappy -- but we'll work on it. Barth's Distinction There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. Bartz's Law of Hokey Horsepuckery: The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success. Baruch's Rule for Determining Old Age: Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Barzun's Laws of Learning The simple but difficult arts of paying attention, copying accurately, following an argument, detecting an ambiguity or a false inference, testing guesses by summoning up contrary instances, organizing one's time and one's thought for study -- all these arts -- cannot be taught in the air but only through the difficulties of a defined subject. They cannot be taught in one course or one year, but must be acquired gradually in dozens of connections. The analogy to athletics must be pressed until all recognize that in the exercise of Intellect those who lack the muscles, coordination, and will power can claim no place at the training table, let alone on the playing field. Forthoffer's Cynical Summary of Barzun's Laws That which has not yet been taught directly can never be taught directly. If at first you don't succeed, you will never succeed. Baxter's First Law: Government intervention in the free market always leads to a lower national standard of living. Baxter's Second Law: The adoption of fractional gold reserves in a currency system always leads to depreciation, devaluation, demonetization and, ultimately, to complete destruction of that currency. Baxter's Third Law: In a free market good money always drives bad money out of circulation. Beardsley's Warning to Lawyers: Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity. Beauregard's Law: When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut. Becker's Law: It is much harder to find a job than to keep one. Beers Law of Reciprocating Systems Dynamics: Some mistakes are too fun to make only once. Beifeld's Principle: The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when he is already in the company of (1) a date, (2) his wife, and (3) a better looking and richer male friend. Belle's Constant: The ratio of time involved in work to time available for work is usually about 0.6. Benchley's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. Benchley's Law: Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Berkeley's Laws: The world is more complicated than most of our theories make it out to be. Ignorance is no excuse. Never decide to buy something while listening to the salesman. Information which is true meets a great many different tests very well. Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems have a single answer. An answer may be wrong, right, both, or neither. Most answers are partly right and partly wrong. A chain of reasoning is no stronger than its weakest link. A statement may be true independently of illogical reasoning. Most general statements are false, including this one. An exception TESTS a rule; it NEVER PROVES it. The moment you have worked out an answer, start checking it -- it probably isn't right. If there is an opportunity to make a mistake, sooner or later the mistake will be made. Being sure mistakes will occur is a good frame of mind for catching them. Check the answer you have worked out once more -- before you tell it to anybody. Estimating a figure may be enough to catch an error. Figures calculated in a rush are very hot; they should be allowed to cool off a little before being used; thus we will have a reasonable time to think about the figures and catch mistakes. A great many problems do not have accurate answers, but do have approximate answers, from which sensible decisions can be made. Berra's Law: You can observe a lot just by watching. Berson's Corollary of Inverse Distances: The farther away from the entrance that you have to park, the closer the space vacated by the car that pulls away as you walk up to the door. Bicycle Law: All bicycles weigh 50 pounds: A 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain. A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain. A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock or chain. First Law of Bicycling: No matter which way you ride it's uphill and against the wind. The Billings Phenomenon: The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious. Billings's Law: Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so. Blaauw's Law: Established technology tends to persist in spite of new technology. Blanchard's Newspaper Obituary Law: If you want your name spelled wrong, die. Bok's Law: If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance. Boling's Postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. Bolton's Law of Ascending Budgets: Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess. Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Bonafede's Revelation: The conventional wisdom is that power is an aphrodisiac. In truth, it's exhausting. Boob's Law: You always find something the last place you look. Booker's Law: An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. Boozer's Revision: A bird in the hand is dead. Boren's Laws of the Bureaucracy: When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. When in charge, ponder. Borkowski's Law: You can't guard against the arbitrary. Borstelmann's Rule: If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane. Boston's Irreversible Law of Clutter: In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage. Boultbee's Criterion: If the converse of a statement is absurd, the original statement is an insult to the intelligence and should never have been said. Boyle's Laws: The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination. When things are going well, someone will inevitably experiment detrimentally. The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs. Information travels more surely to those with a lesser need to know. An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original. When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly. The crucial memorandum will be snared in the out-basket by the paper clip of the overlying correspondence and go to file. Success can be insured only by devising a defense against failure of the contingency plan. Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects. If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. The lagging activity in a project will invariably be found in the area where the highest overtime rates lie waiting. Talent in staff work or sales will recurringly be interpreted as managerial ability. The "think positive" leader tends to listen to his subordinates' premonitions only during the postmortems. Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations. On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease. Branch's First Law of Crisis: The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern. First Law of Bridge: It's always the partner's fault. Brien's First Law: At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out. Broder's Law: Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. Brontosaurus Principle: Organizations can grow faster than their brains can manage them in relation to their environment and to their own physiology; when this occurs, they are an endangered species. Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Brooke's Law: Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. Brownian Motion Rule of Bureacracies: It is impossible to distinguish, from a distance, whether the bureaucrats associated with your project are simply sitting on their hands, or frantically trying to cover their asses. Heisenberg's Addendum to Brownian Bureaucracy: If you observe a bureaucrat closely enough to make the distinction above, he will react to your observation by covering his ass. (Jerry) Brown's Law: Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. (Sam) Brown's Law: Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. (Tony) Brown's Law of Business Success: Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss. Bruce-Briggs's Law of Traffic: At any level of traffic, any delay is intolerable. Buchwald's Law: As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse. Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. Bunuel's Law: Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency. Bureaucratic Cop-Out #1: You should have seen it when *I* got it. Burns's Balance: If the assumptions are wrong, the conclusions aren't likely to be very good. Bustlin' Billy's Bogus Beliefs: The organization of any program reflects the organization of the people who develop it. There is no such thing as a "dirty capitalist", only a capitalist. Anything is possible, but nothing is easy. Capitalism can exist in one of only two states -- welfare or warfare. I'd rather go whoring than warring. History proves nothing. There is nothing so unbecoming on the beach as a wet kilt. A little humility is arrogance. A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo. Butler's Law of Progress: All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Bye's First Law of Model Railroading: Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers. Bye's Second Law of Model Railroading: The desire for modeling a prototype is inversely proportional to the decline of the prototype.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphys_laws_part_twoand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_threeand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T12:07:30-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_threeand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws(c-d) C Cahn's Axiom (Allen's Axiom): When all else fails, read the instructions. Calkin's Law of Menu Language: The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the resulting dish. John Cameron's Law: No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again. Camp's Law: A coup that is known in advance is a coup that does not take place. Campbell's Law: Nature abhors a vacuous experimenter. Canada Bill Jones's Motto: It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Canada Bill Jones's Supplement: A Smith and Wesson beats four aces. Cannon's Cogent Comment: The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip. Cannon's Comment: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. Carson's Law It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick. Cartoon Laws Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely. Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout- perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it inevitably unsuccessful. All principles of gravity are negated by fear. Psychic forces are sufficient in most bodies for a shock to propel them directly away from the earth's surface. A spooky noise or an adversary's signature sound will induce motion upward, usually to the cradle of a chandelier, a treetop, or the crest of a flagpole. The feet of a character who is running or the wheels of a speeding auto need never touch the ground, especially when in flight. As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once. This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled. A 'wacky' character has the option of self- replication only at manic high speeds and may ricochet off walls to achieve the velocity required. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot. This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generation, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to trick an opponent will be unable to pursue him into this theoretical space. The painter is flattened against the wall when he attempts to follow into the painting. This is ultimately a problem of art, not of science. Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent. Cartoon cats possess even more deaths than the traditional nine lives might comfortably afford. They can be decimated, spliced, splayed, accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be destroyed. After a few moments of blinking self pity, they reinflate, elongate, snap back, or solidify. Corollary: A cat will assume the shape of its container. For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance. This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also applies to the physical world at large. For that reason, we need the relief of watching it happen to a duck instead. Everything falls faster than an anvil. Examples too numerous to mention from the Roadrunner cartoons. Cavanaugh's Postulate: All kookies are not in a jar. Law of Character and Appearance: People don't change; they only become more so. Checkbook Balancer's Law: In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours. Cheops's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. Chili Cook's Secret: If your next pot of chili tastes better, it probably is because of something left out, rather than added. Chisholm's First Law and Corollary: see Murphy's Third and Fifth Laws. Chisholm's Second Law: When things are going well, something will go wrong. Corollaries: When things just can't get any worse, they will. Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. Chisholm's Third Law: Proposals, as understood by the proposer, will be judged otherwise by others. Corollaries: If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you do something which you are sure will meet with everyone's approval, somebody won't like it. Procedures devised to implement the purpose won't quite work. No matter how long or how many times you explain, no one is listening. The First Discovery of Christmas Morning: Batteries not included. Churchill's Commentary on Man: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on as though nothing has happened. Ciardi's Poetry Law: Whenever in time, and wherever in the universe, any man speaks or writes in any detail about the technical management of a poem, the resulting irascibility of the reader's response is a constant. Clarke's First Law: 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. Corollary (Asimov): When the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists, and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, right. Clarke's Second Law: The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea -- in Science, Politics, Art or Whatever -- evokes three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the three phrases: "It is completely impossible -- don't waste my time." "It is possible, but it is not worth doing." "I said it was a good idea all along." Clark's First Law of Relativity: No matter how often you trade dinner or other invitations with in-laws, you will lose a small fortune in the exchange. Corollary: Don't try it: you cannot drink enough of your in-laws' booze to get even before your liver fails. Clark's Law: It's always darkest just before the lights go out. Cleveland's Highway Law: Highways in the worst need of repair naturally have low traffic counts, which results in low priority for repair work. Clopton's Law: For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill. Clyde's Law: If you have something to do, and you put it off long enough, chances are someone else will do it for you. Cohen's Law: What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts -- not the facts themselves. Cohen's Laws of Politics: Law of Alienation: Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. Law of Ambition: At any one time, thousands of borough councilmen, school board members, attorneys, and businessmen -- as well as congressmen, senators, and governors -- are dreaming of the White House, but few, if any of them, will make it. Law of Attraction: Power attracts people but it cannot hold them. Law of Competition: The more qualified candidates who are available, the more likely the compromise will be on the candidate whose main qualification is a nonthreatening incompetence. Law of Inside Dope: There are many inside dopes in politics and government. Law of Lawmaking: Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law. Law of Permanence: Political power is as permanent as today's newspaper. Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any state was today. Law of Secrecy: The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to attempt to hide it. Law of Wealth: Victory goes to the candidate with the most accumulated or contributed wealth who has the financial resources to convince the middle class and poor that he will be on their side. Law of Wisdom: Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom. Cohn's Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing. Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. Colson's Law: If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Comins's Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. Committee Rules: Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped a beginner. Don't say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being wise. Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating the others. When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular -- it's what everyone is waiting for. Commoner's Three Laws of Ecology: No action is without side-effects. Nothing ever goes away. There is no free lunch. Law of Computability Any system or program, however complicated, if looked at in exactly the right way, will become even more complicated. Law of Computability Applied to Social Science: If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set. Laws of computer programming Any given program, when running, is obsolete. Any given program costs more and takes longer. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. Any program will expand to fill available memory. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. First Maxim of Computers To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a computer. Connolly's Law of Cost Control: The price of any product produced for a government agency will be not less than the square of the initial Firm Fixed-Price Contract. Connolly's Rule for Political Incumbents: Short-term success with voters on any side of a given issue can be guaranteed by creating a long-term special study commission made up of at least three divergent interest groups. Conrad's Conundrum Technologie don't transfer. Considine's Law: Whenever one word or letter can change the entire meaning of a sentence, the probability of an error being made will be in direct proportion to the embarrassment it will cause. Conway's Law #1 If you assign N persons to write a compiler you'll get a N-1 pass compiler. Conway's Law #2 In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. -> This person must be fired. Cooke's Law: In any decisive situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision. Cook's Law: Much work, much food; little work, little food; no work, burial at sea. Coolidge's Immutable Observation: When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. Cooper's Law: All machines are amplifiers. Cooper's Metalaw: A proliferation of new laws creates a proliferation of new loopholes. Mr. Cooper's Law: If you do not understand a particular word in a piece of technical writing, ignore it. The piece will make perfect sense without it. Corcoroni's Laws of Bus Transportation: The bus that left the stop just before you got there is your bus. The amount of time you have to wait for a bus is directly proportional to the inclemency of the weather. All buses heading in the opposite direction drive off the face of the earth and never return. The last rush-hour express bus to your neighborhood leaves five minutes before you get off work. Bus schedules are arranged so your bus will arrive at the transfer point precisely one minute after the connecting bus has left. Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. All others are out of service or full. Cornuelle's Law: Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them. Corry's Law: Paper is always strongest at the perforations. Courtois's Rule: If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less. Crane's Law (Friedman's Reiteration): There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. ("tanstaafl") Mark Miller's Exception to Crane's Law: There are no "free lunches", but sometimes it costs more to collect money than to give away food. Crane's Rule: There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. Cripp's Law: When traveling with children on one's holidays, at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly halfway between any two given rest areas. Cropp's Law: The amount of work done varies inversely with the amount of time spent in the office. Culshaw's First Principle of Recorded Sound: Anything, no matter how bad, will sound good if played back at a very high level for a short time. Cutler Webster's Law: There are two sides to every argument unless a man is personally involved, in which case there is only one. Czecinski's Conclusion: There is only one thing worse than dreaming you are at a conference and waking to find that you are at a conference, and that is the conference where you can't fall asleep. D Darrow's Observation: History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. Darwin's Observation: Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can. Dave's Law of Advice: Those with the best advice offer no advice. Dave's Rule of Street Survival: Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman. Davidson's Maxim: Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets what the majority deserves. Davis's Basic Law of Medicine: Pills to be taken in twos always come out of the bottle in threes. de la Lastra's Law After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed. de la Lastra's Corollary After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been ommitted. Deadlock's Law: If the law-makers make a compromise, the place where it will be felt most is the taxpayer's pocket. Corollary: The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Dean's Law of the District of Columbia: Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them. First Law of Debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference. Decaprio's Rule Everything takes more time and money. Deitz's Law of Ego: The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee. Dennis's Principles of Management by Crisis: To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis. The squeaky hinge gets the oil. Dhawan's Laws for the Non-Smoker: The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze. The amount of pleasure derived from a cigarette is directly proportional to the number of non-smokers in the vicinity. A smoker is always attracted to the non-smoking section. The life of a cigarette is directly proportional to the intensity of the protests from non-smokers. Dieter's Law: Food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories. Dijkstra's Prescription for Programming Inertia: If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it. Diogenes's First Dictum: The more heavily a man is supposed to be taxed, the more power he has to escape being taxed. Diogenes's Second Dictum: If a taxpayer thinks he can cheat safely, he probably will. Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: Get elected. Get re-elected. Don't get mad -- get even. Principle of Displaced Hassle: To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem. Donohue's Law: Anything worth doing is worth doing for money. Donsen's Law: The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything. Laws of Dormitory Life: The amount of trash accumulated within the space occupied is exponentially proportional to the number of living bodies that enter and leave within any given amount of time. Since no matter can be created or destroyed (excluding nuclear and cafeteria substances), as one attempts to remove unwanted material (i.e., trash) from one's living space, the remaining material mutates so as to occupy 30 to 50 percent more than its original volume. Corollary: Dust breeds. The odds are 6:5 that if one has late classes, one's roommate will have the EARLIEST possible classes. Corollary 1: One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. Corollary 2: When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three. Douglas's Law of Practical Aeronautics: When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly. Dow's Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion. Dror's First Law: While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly. Dror's Second Law: While human capacities to shape the environment, society, and human beings are rapidly increasing, policymaking capabilities to use those capacities remain the same. Ducharme's Precept Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. Dude's Law of Duality: Of two possible events, only the undesired one will occur. Dunne's Law: The territory behind rhetoric is too often mined with equivocation. Dunn's Discovery: The shortest measurable interval of time is the time between the moment one puts a little extra aside for a sudden emergency and the arrival of that emergency. Durant's Discovery: One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Durrell's Parameter: The faster the plane, the narrower the seats. Dyer's Law: A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphys_laws_part_threeand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_fourand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T12:07:17-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_fourand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws (okay really sorry guys... longposts are almost as bad as quizzies.. but think- i'm featuring Murphy's laws! ^^ and all the other stuff.) An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws(e-g) E Economists' Laws: What men learn from history is that men do not learn from history. If on an actuarial basis there is a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, it will actually go wrong nine times out of ten. Edington's Theory: The number of different hypotheses erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to the available knowledge. Law of Editorial Correction: Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Ehrlich's Rule: The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. Ehrman's Commentary Things will get worse before they will get better. Who said things would get better? Eliot's Observation: Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. Ellenberg's Theory: One good turn gets most of the blanket. Emerson's Insight: That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. Old Engineer's Law: The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it. The "Enough Already" Law: The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. Extended Epstein-Heisenberg Principle: In an R & D orbit, only 2 of the existing 3 parameters can be defined simultaneously. The parameters are: task, time, and resources ($). 1) If one knows what the task is, and there is a time limit allowed for the completion of the task, then one cannot guess how much it will cost. 2) If the time and resources ($) are clearly defined, then it is impossible to know what part of the R & D task will be performed. 3) If you are given a clearly defined R & D goal and a definte amount of money which has been calculated to be necessary for the completion of the task, one cannot predict if and when the goal will be reached. 4) If one is lucky enough to be able to accurately define all three parameters, then what one is dealing with is not in the realm of R & D. Epstein's Law: If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. Ettorre's Observation: The other line moves faster. Corollary: Don't try to change lines. The other line -- the one you were in originally -- will then move faster. Evans's Law: Nothing worth a damn is ever done as a matter of principle. (If it is worth doing, it is done because it is worth doing. If it is not, it's done as a matter of principle.) Evans's Law of Politics: When team members are finally in a position to help the team, it turns out they have quit the team. Evelyn's Rules for Bureaucratic Survival: A bureaucrat's castle is his desk . . . and parking place. Proceed cautiously when changing either. On the theory that one should never take anything for granted, follow up on everything, but especially those items varying from the norm. The greater the divergence from normal routine and/or the greater the number of offices potentially involved, the better the chance a never-to-be-discovered person will file the problem away in a drawer specifically designed for items requiring a decision. Never say without qualification that your activity has sufficient space, money, staff, etc. Always distrust offices not under your jurisdiction which say that they are there to serve you. "Support" offices in a bureaucracy tend to grow in size and make demands on you out of proportion to their service, and in the end require more effort on your part than their service is worth. Corollary: Support organizations can always prove success by showing service to someone . . . not necessarily you. Incompetents often hire able assistants. Everitt's Form of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Confusion (entropy) is always increasing in society. Only if someone or something works extremely hard can this confusion be reduced to order in a limited region. Nevertheless, this effort will stil result in an increase in the total confusion of society at large. Eve's Discovery: At a bargain sale, the only suit or dress that you like best and that fits is the one not on sale. Adam's Corollary: It's easy to tell when you've got a bargain -- it doesn't fit. Nonreciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results. First Law of Expert Advice: Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. F Faber's Laws: If there isn't a law, there will be. The number of errors in any piece of writing rises in proportion to the writer's reliance on secondary sources. Fairfax's Law: Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument. Falkland's Rule: When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision. Farber's First Law: Give him an inch and he'll screw you. Farber's Second Law: A hand in the bush is worth two anywhere else. Farber's Third Law: We're all going down the same road in different directions. Farber's Fourth Law: Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows. Farnsdick's corollary After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself. Farrow's Finding: If God had intended for us to go to concerts, He would have given us tickets. Law of Fashion: Any given dress is: indecent 10 years before its time, daring 1 year before its time, chic in its time, dowdy 3 years after its time, hideous 20 years after its time, amusing 30 years after its time, romantic 100 years after its time, and beautiful 150 years after its time. Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom. Fetridge's Law: Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking. Fett's Law of the Lab: Never replicate a successful experiment. The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously. Finagle's Creed: Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact. Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. Finagle's Second Law: No matter what result is anticipated, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it happened according to his own pet theory. Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Corollaries: No one whom you ask for help will see it. Everyone who stops by with unsought advice will see it immediately. Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. Finagle's Law According to Niven: The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum. Finagle's Laws of Information: The information you have is not what you want. The information you want is not what you need. The information you need is not what you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay. Finagle's Rules: Ever since the first scientific experiment, man has been plagued by the increasing antagonism of nature. It seems only right that nature should be logical and neat, but experience has shown that this is not the case. A further series of rules has been formulated, designed to help man accept the pigheadedness of nature. To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start. Always keep a record of data. It indicates you've been working. Always draw your curves, then plot the reading. In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. Experiments should be reproducible. They should all fail in the same way. When you don't know what you are doing, do it NEATLY. Teamwork is essential; it allows you to blame someone else. Always verify your witchcraft. Be sure to obtain meteorological data before leaving on vacation. Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them. Fishbein's Conclusion: The tire is only flat on the bottom. Fitz-Gibbon's Law: Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved with the broth. Flap's Law: Any inanimate object, regardless of its composition or configuration, may be expected to perform at any time in a totally unexpected manner for reasons that are either entirely obscure or completely mysterious. Ford Pinto Rule: Never buy a car that has a wick. Fortis's Three Great Lies of Life: Money isn't everything. It's great to be a Negro. I'm only going to put it in a little way. Three Lies According to Playboy: The check's in the mail. Anticipation is half the fun. I promise I won't come in your mouth. Hare's Additional Lie: This will hurt me more than it hurts you. Lowry's Additional Lie: I've never done this before. Foster's Law: If you cover a congressional committee on a regular basis, they will report the bill on your day off. Fowler's Law: In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used. Fowler's Note: The only imperfect thing in nature is the human race. Frankel's Law: Whatever happens in government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had. Corollary: Once things have happened, no matter how accidentally, they will be regarded as manifestations of an unchangeable Higher Reason. Franklin's Observation: He that lives upon Hope dies farting. Franklin's Rule: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be disappointed. Freeman's Law: Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood. Freemon's Rule: Circumstances can force a generalized incompetent to become competent, at least in a specialized field. Fried's Law: Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity. Laws of the Frisbee: The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just beyond reach. (The technical term for this force is "car suck".) The higher the quality of a catch or the comment it receives, the greater the probability of a crummy return throw. ("Good catch. . . Bad throw.") One must never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than, "Watch this!" (Keep 'em guessing.) The higher the costs of hitting any object, the greater the certainty it will be struck. (Remember: The disk is positive; cops and old ladies are clearly negative.) The best catches are never seen. ("Did you see that?" "See what?") The greatest single aid to distance is for the disc to be going in a direction you did not want. (Wrong way = long way.) The most powerful hex words in the sport are: "I really have this down -- watch." (Know it? Blow it!) In any crowd of spectators at least one will suggest that razor blades could be attached to the disc. ("You could maim and kill with that thing.") The greater your need to make a good catch, the greater the probability your partner will deliver his worst throw. (If you can't touch it, you can't trick it.) The single most difficult move with a disc is to put it down. ("Just one more!") Frisch's Law: You cannot have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. Frothingham's Fallacy: Time is money. Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in -- it must come out. Funkhouser's Law of the Power of the Press: The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on. Futility Factor (Carson's Consolation): No experiment is ever a complete failure -- it can always serve as a bad example, or the exception that proves the rule (but only if it is the first experiment in the series). Fyffe's Axiom: The problem-solving process will always break down at the point at which it is possible to determine who caused the problem. G Gadarene Swine Law: Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course. Galbraith's Law of Political Wisdom: Anyone who says he isn't going to resign, four times, definitely will. Galbraith's Law of Prominence: Getting on the cover of "Time" guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. Gallois's Revelation: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled, and no one dares to criticize it. Corollary - An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the Grand Fallacy. Laws of Gardening: Other people's tools work only in other people's yards. Fancy gizmos don't work. If nobody uses it, there's a reason. You get the most of what you need the least. Gardner's Rule of Society: The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. Gell-Mann's Dictum: Whatever isn't forbidden is required. Corollary: If there's no reason why something shouldn't exist, then it must exist. Law of Generalizations: All generalizations are false. Gerrold's Fundamental Truth It's a good thing money can't buy happiness. We couldn't stand the commercials. Gerrold's Law A little ignorance can go a long way. (Lyall's Addendum: ...in the direction of maximum harm.) Gerrold's Pronouncement The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind. Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction. An object at rest will be in the wrong place. Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics: An object in motion will always be headed in the wrong direction. An object at rest will always be in the wrong place. The energy required to change either one of the states will always be more than you wish to expend, but never so much as to make the task totally impossible. Getty's Reminder: The meek shall inherit the earth, but NOT its mineral rights. Gibb's Law Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another. Gilb's Laws of Unreliability (see also Troutman's Laws of Computer Programming): Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Corollary: At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. The only difference between the fool and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front. A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used. The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise -- which is impossible. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or somebody insists on getting some useful work done. Gilmer's Motto for Political Leadership: Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you. Ginsberg's Theorem (Generalized Laws of Thermodynamics): You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even quit the game. Ehrman's Commentary on Ginberg's Theorem: Things will get worse before they get better. Who said things would get better? Freeman's Commentary on Ginberg's Theorem: Every major philosophy that attempts to make life seem meaningful is based on the negation of one part of Ginsberg's Theorem. To wit: Capitalism is based on the assumption that you can win. Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even. Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game. Glatum's Law of Materialistic Acquisitiveness: The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for. Godin's Law: Generalizedness of incompetence is directly proportional to highestness in hierarchy. Golden Principle: Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. Gold's Law If the shoe fits, it's ugly. (Bill) Gold's Law: A column about errors will contain errors. (Vic) Gold's Law: The candidate who is expected to do well because of experience and reputation (Douglas, Nixon) must do BETTER than well, while the candidate expected to fare poorly (Lincoln, Kennedy) can put points on the media board simply by surviving. Goldwyn's Law of Contracts: A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Golub's Laws of Computerdom: Fuzzy project objectives are used to avoid the embarrassment of estimating the corresponding costs. A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long. The effort requires to correct course increases geometrically with time. Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress. The 19 Rules for good Riting: Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. Just between you and I, case is important. Verbs has to agree with their subject. Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped up into our language. Don't use no double negatives. A writer mustn't shift your point of view. When dangling, don't use participles. Join clauses good like a conjunction should. And don't use conjunctions to start sentences. Don't use a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it. About sentence fragments. In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary. Its important to use apostrophe's right. Don't abbrev. Check to see if you any words out. In my opinion I think that the author when he is writing should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words which he does not really need. Then, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. Goodfader's Law: Under any system, a few sharpies will beat the rest of us. Goodin's Law of Conversions The new hardware will break down as soon as the old is disconnected and out. Gordon's First Law: If a research project is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well. Professor Gordon's Rule of Evolving Bryophytic Systems: While bryophytic plants are typically encountered in substrata of earthy or mineral matter in concreted state, discrete substrata elements occasionally display a roughly spherical configuration which, in presence of suitable gravitational and other effects, lends itself to combined translatory and rotational motion. One notices in such cases an absence of the otherwise typical accretion of bryophyta. We conclude therefore that a rolling stone gathers no moss. Corollary (Rutgers): Generally the subjective value assignable to avian lifeforms, when encountered and considered within the confines of certain orders of woody plants lacking true meristematic dominance, as compared to a possible valuation of these same lifeforms when in the grasp of -- and subject to control by -- the manipulative bone/muscle/nerve complex typically terminating the forelimb of a member of the species homo sapiens (and possibly direct precursors thereof) is approximately five times ten to the minus first power. Goulden's Axiom of the Bouncing Can: If you drop a full can of beer, and remember to rap the top sharply with your knuckle prior to opening, the ensuing gush of foam will be between 89 and 94 percent of the volume that would splatter you if you didn't do a damned thing and went ahead and pulled the top immediately. Goulden's Law of Jury Watching: If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than 24 hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances when it votes guilty. Graditor's Laws: If it can break, it will, but only after the warranty expires. A necessary item goes on sale only after you have purchased it at the regular price. Gray's Law of Bilateral Asymmetry in Networks: Information flows efficiently through organizations, except that bad news encounters high impedance in flowing upward. Gray's Law of Programming: n+1 trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same time as n trivial tasks. Logg's Rebuttal to Gray's Law of Programming: n+1 trivial tasks take twice as long as n trivial tasks. Rule of the Great: When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch. Greenberg's First Law of Influence: Usefulness is inversely proportional to reputation for being useful. Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. Greenhaus's Summation: I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Gresham's Law: Trivial matters are handled promptly; important matters are never resolved. Grosch's Law: Computing power increases as the square of the cost. If you want to do it twice as cheaply, you have to do it four times slower. Gross's Law: When two people meet to decide how to spend a third person's money, fraud will result. Grossman's Misquote Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. Gummidge's Law: The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public. Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability. Corollaries: After a salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you had before. The more a recruit knows about a given subject, the better chance he has of being assigned to something else. You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace. Children have more energy after a hard day of play than they do after a good night's sleep. The person who buys the most raffle tickets has the least chance of winning. Good parking places are always on the other side of the street. Gumperson's Proof: The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes). Guthman's Law of Media: Thirty seconds on the evening news is worth a front page headline in every newspaper in the world.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphys_laws_part_fourand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_fiveand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T12:07:20-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_fiveand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws(H-j) this is where i stop with murph theater for today folks. H Hacker's Law: The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation or an organization to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions. Hacker's Law of Personnel: Anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of a task will invariably protest that more resources are needed. Hagerty's Law: If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both. Haldane's Law: The Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we CAN imagine. Hale's Rule: The sumptuousnss of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion to its profitability that year. Hall's Law: There is a statistical correlation between the number of initials in an Englishman's name and his social class (the upper class having significantly more than three names, while members of the lower class average 2.6). Halpern's Observation: That tendency to err that programmers have been noticed to share with other human beings has often been treated as if it were an awkwardness attendant upon programming's adolescence, which like acne would disappear with the craft's coming of age. It has proved otherwise. Harden's Law: Every time you come up with a terrific idea, you find that someone else thought of it first. Hardin's Law: You can never do merely one thing. Harper's Magazine's Law: You never find an article until you replace it. Harris's Lament: All the good ones are taken. Harris's Law: Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. Harris's Restaurant Paradox: One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the retaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it. Harrison's Postulate For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Hartig's How Is Good Old Bill? We're Divorced Law: If there is a wrong thing to say, one will. Hartig's Sleeve in the Cup, Thumb in the Butter Law: When one is trying to be elegant and sophisticated, one won't. Hartley's Law: You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back you've got something. Hartley's Second Law Never go to bed with anybody crazier than you are. Hartman's Automotive Laws: Nothing minor ever happens to a car on the weekend. Nothing minor ever happens to a car on a trip. Nothing minor ever happens to a car. Hart's Law: In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. Harvard Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases. Harver's Law A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts. Hawkin's Theory of Progress Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is right. It consists of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong. Hein's Law: Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. Heller's Myths of Management: The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. Corollary (Johnson): Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within your organization. Hellrung's Law If you wait, it will go away. (Shevelson's Extension: ... having done its damage.) [Grelb's Addition: ... if it was bad, it will be back.] Hendrickson's Law: If a problem causes many meetings, the meetings eventually become more important than the problem. Herblock's Law: If it's good, they'll stop making it. Herrnstein's Law: The total attention paid to an instructor is a constant regardless of the size of the class. Hersh's Law: Biochemistry expands to fill the space and time available for its completion and publication. Hildebrand's Law: The quality of a department is inversely proportional to the number of courses it lists in its catalogue. Historian's Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Hoare's Law of Large Programs: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out. Hogg's Law of Station Wagons: The amount of junk is in direct proportion to the amount of space available. Baggage Corollary: If you go on a trip taking two bags with you, one containing everything you need for the trip and the other containing absolutely nothing, the second bag will be completely filled with junk acquired on the trip when you return. The Laws of Homework: The number of assignments one has is inversely proportional to the numbers of days one has to do the assignments. The number of errors a students makes on an assignment is directly proportional to the assignments length. Horner's Five Thumb Postulate: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined. Horngren's Observation: (generalized) The real world is a special case. Horowitz's Rule: A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years. Howard's First Law of Theater: Use it. Howe's Law: Every man has a scheme that will not work. Hull's Theorem: The combined pull of several patrons is the sum of their separate pulls multiplied by the number of patrons. Hull's Warning: Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. I IBM Pollyanna Principle Machines should work. People should think. Idea Formula: One man's brain plus one other will produce about one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many. The Ike Tautology: Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. Corollary: Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Iles's Law: There is an easier way to do it. Corollaries: When looking directly at the easier way, especially for long periods, you will not see it. Neither will Iles. Imhoff's Law: The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank -- the REALLY big chunks always rise to the top. Index of Development: The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the price of an automobile to the cost of a haircut. The lower the ratio, the higher the degree of development. Law of the Individual: Nobody really cares or understands what anyone else is doing. Laws of Institutional Food: Everything is cold except what should be. Everything, including the corn flakes, is greasy. Law of Institutions: The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. Iron Law of Distribution: Them what has -- gets. Wakefield's Refutation of the Iron Law of Distribution: Them what gets -- has. Issawi's Law of Aggression: At any given moment, a society contains a certain amount of accumulated and accruing aggressiveness. If more than 21 years elapse without this aggressiveness being directed outward, in a popular war against other countries, it turns inward, in social unrest, civil disturbances, and political disruption. Issawi's Laws of Committo-Dynamics: Comitas comitatum, omnia comitas. The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so. Issawi's Law of the Conservation of Evil: The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. Hence, any diminution in one direction -- for instance, a reduction in poverty or unemployment -- is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution. Issawi's Law of Consumption Patterns: Other people's patterns of expenditure and consumption are highly irrational and slightly immoral. Issawi's Law of Cynics: Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten. Issawi's Law of Dogmatism: When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own. Issawi's Law of Estimation of Error: Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. Issawi's Law of Frustration: One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette. Issawi's Laws of Progress: The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse. The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. The Dialectics of Progress: Direct action produces direct reaction. The Pace of Progress: Society is a mule, not a car . . . If pressed too hard, it will kick and throw off its rider. Issawi's Law of the Social Sciences: By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete. Issawi's Observation on the Consumption of Paper: Each system has its own way of consuming vast amounts of paper: in socialist societies by filling large forms in quadruplicate, in capitalist societies by putting up huge posters and wrapping every article in four layers of cardboard. First Postulate of Isomurphism Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other. Italian Proverb: She who is silent consents. J Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Governments: No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. Jake's Law: Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart. Jaroslovsky's Law: The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying. Jay's Laws of Leadership: Changing things is central to leadership, and changing them before anyone else is creativity. To build something that endures, it is of the greatest important to have a long tenure in office -- to rule for many years. You can achieve a quick success in a year or two, but nearly all of the great tycoons have continued their building much longer. Jenkinson's Law: It won't work. Jinny's Law: There is no such thing as a short beer. (As in, "I'm going to stop off at Joe's for a short beer before on the way home.") John's Axiom: When your opponent is down, kick him. John's Collateral Corollary: In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it. Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time. Johnson's Second Law: If, in the course of several months, only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening. Johnson's Third Law: If you miss one issue of any magazine, it will be the issue containing the article, story, or installment you were most anxious to read. Corollary: All of your friends either missed it, lost it, or threw it out. Johnson's First Law of Auto Repair: Any tool dropped while repairing an automobile will roll under the car to the vehicle's exact geographic center. Johnson-Laird's Law: Toothache tends to start on Saturday night. Jones's Law: The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. Jones's Motto: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. McClaughry's Codicil on Jones's Motto: To make an enemy, do someone a favor. Jones's Principle: Needs are a function of what other people have. Juhani's Law: The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it's compromising.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphys_laws_part_fiveand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/lol_just_one_quizzie_then_i_tell_you_of_my_day.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T10:07:53-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/lol_just_one_quizzie_then_i_tell_you_of_my_day.mws lol. okay, as mentioned i will be posting a quizzie, but i will tell you of my day first. first part was spent waiting for my friend to come and save me from boredom. once she got here we spent some time looking at current works, and old drawings in sketchbooks that she hadn't seen. she says she's amazed at how good i've gotten.(maybe some day i'll be able to scan some of my stuff up onto a deviant art.. or something.) mm then we went and had tea at my favorite little cafe. that was nice... lol.. we had a contest to see who could sip their tea fastest once it was cool enough. i won... but our throats hurt afterwards because the tea was still hot(lol. stupid idea. not as bad as when rach and i decided to race timers. the funny thing is, though, we started at the same time, but mine ran out like.... 1-3 seconds before hers. it was funny because she started spazing that her timer was off.) then*gasp* we went to one of our favorite places in the world. barnes and noble. i love not many places more than barnes and noble. it is definately up there. we read manga. she got started on bleach, while i finished up whats on the shelves. then, i *finally* got the newest volume in Tsubasa by Clamp. i've been waiting for almost 3 months to get the newest one(volume 6). it came out today, but usually barnes and noble has my series earlier than usual. i'm disappointed. then we cam back here, and watched my mini oni-chan til my mom came home. he has the sweetest little hazel eyes... then she went home. and now, after waiting eons for a quiz page to load, i'm posting my day, and the results of that quiz. a good most of it is true, actually. which parts are, you'll have to guess and see. oh, and in attempting to get my cat out of oni-chan's room, she scratched me. she hasn't done that in 3 years. i'm mad. i didn't need more scars on my hands than i already have.
Your element is Ice. This element may seem a little
odd, but this is a side-effect from when the
element of Water gets too hurt. Once you were a
content soul, and happy with life. But then
something happened. Not necessarily on one day,
it probably happened gradually over time. You
lost your will to care and became even more
reserved from the world. People had hurt you in
ways you do not want to remember and now you
isolate yourself from them. You have turned
into an outsider and probably dress more in
black than you used to. Your depression is
eating you up and tearing you apart and the
worst part is that no one is willing to help,
or so it seems. In school you are often by
yourself or one single friend and you rarely
seem to be truly happy anymore. Your sad,
distant eyes and constant frown seems glued to
your face and you need a saviour from this
world. You may turn to music for understanding
and sing/scream along in the lyrics to get rid
of some pain. You are not very open about your
problems to your family/friends, and wish that
they would just notice it and make it go away.
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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/lol_just_one_quizzie_then_i_tell_you_of_my_day.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/err_sorry.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-26T11:07:08-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/err_sorry.mws sorry guys. gotta throw in this too.
Your soul is broken.
You are living through a lot of pain everyday
that you have to deal with, which is making you
sorrowful. No one ever stays by your side when
you truly need them and no one ever will.
Everything is hopeless and tragic and you keep
yearning for the day you will be free from
pain. Love is unlikely to happen to you because
you isolate yourself and are suspicious of
peoples motives. You stand in the shadows of
the world, watching what you can never have.
The bruises you carry never seems to heal, your
mind is dark and no one seems to understand or
wants to help. As always, you will be alone in
the world, fighting your dark thoughts by
yourself.

How is your soul?(pics)
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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/err_sorry.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_sixand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-27T11:07:07-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/murphys_laws_part_sixand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws An Abridged Collection of Interdisciplinary Laws (K-M)(The only installment for today. relax. i'll be done soon. then maybe we can do the anime laws of physics, if i can find tem.) K Kafka's Law: In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Kamin's First Law: All currencies will decrease in value and purchasing power over the long term, unless they are freely and fully convertable into gold and that gold is traded freely without restrictions of any kind. Kamin's Second Law: Threat of capital controls accelerates marginal capital outflows. Kamin's Third Law: Combined total taxation from all levels of government will always increase (until the government is replaced by war or revolution). Kamin's Fourth Law: Government inflation is always worse than statistics indicate: central bankers are biased toward inflation when the money unit is non-convertible, and without gold or silver backing. Kamin's Fifth Law: Purchasing power of currency is always lost far more rapidly than ever regained. (Those who expect even fluctuations in both directions play a losing game.) Kamin's Sixth Law: When attempting to predict and forecast macro-economic moves or economic legislation by a politician, never be misled by what he says; instead watch what he does. Kamin's Seventh Law: Politicians will always inflate when given the opportunity. Kaplan's Law of the Instrument: Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. Katz's Law: Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. Katz's Maxims: Where are the calculations that go with the calculated risk? Inventing is easy for staff outfits. Stating a problem is much harder. Instead of stating problems, people like to pass out half- accurate statements together with half-available solutions which they can't finish and which they want you to finish. Every organization is self-perpetuating. Don't ever ask an outfit to justify itself, or you'll be covered with facts, figures, and fancy. The criterion should rather be, "What will happen if the outfit stops doing what it's doing?" The value of an organization is more easily determined this way. Try to find out who's doing the work, not who's writing about it, controlling it, or summarizing it. Watch out for formal briefings; they often produce an avalanche (a high-level snow job of massive and overwhelming proportions). The difficulty of the coordination task often blinds one to the fact that a fully coordinated piece of paper is not supposed to be either the major or the final product of the organization, but it often turns out that way. Most organizations can't hold more than one idea at a time. Thus complementary ideas are always regarded as competetive. Further, like a quantized pendulum, an organization can jump from one extreme to the other, without ever going through the middle. Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is it something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of "contractor grammar", defined by the imperfect past, the insufficient present, and the absolutely perfect future. Kelley's Law: Last guys don't finish nice. Kelly's Law: An executive will always return to work from lunch early if no one takes him. Kennedy's Law: Excessive official restraints on information are inevitably self-defeating and productive of headaches for the officials concerned. Kent's Law: The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down. Kerr-Martin Law: In dealing with their OWN problems, faculty members are the most extreme conservatives. In dealing with OTHER people's problems, they are the world's most extreme liberals. Kettering's Laws: If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Key to Status: S = D/K. S is the status of a person in an organization, D is the number of doors he must open to perform his job, and K is the number of keys he carries. A higher number denotes higher status. Thus the janitor needs to open 20 doors and has 20 keys (S = 1), a secretary has to open two doors with one key (S = 2), but the president never has to carry any keys since there is always someone around to open doors for him (with K = 0 and a high D, his S reaches infinity). Kharasch's Institutional Imperative: Every action or decision of an institution must be intended to keep the institution machinery working. Corollary: The expert judgment of an institution, when the matter involved concerns continuation of the institution's operations, is totally predictable, and hence the finding is totally worthless. Kirkland's Law: The usefulness of any meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. Kitman's Law: On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel. Klipstein's Lament All warranty and guarantee clauses are voided by payment of the invoice. Klipstein's Observation Any product cut to length will be too short. Klipstein's Law of Specifications: In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's. Klipstein's Laws: Applied to General Engineering: A patent application will be preceded by one week by a similar application made by an independent worker. Firmness of delivery dates is inversely proportional to the tightness of the schedule. Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight. Any wire cut to length will be too short. Applied to Prototyping and Production: Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty to assemble. If a project requires n components, there will be n-1 units in stock. A motor will rotate in the wrong direction. A failsafe circuit will destroy others. A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. A purchased component or instrument will meet its specs long enough, and only long enough, to pass incoming inspection. After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed. After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench. Knight's Law Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. Knowles's Law of Legislative Deliberation: The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue. Corollary: When the issue is trivial, and everyone understands it, debate is almost interminable. Kohn's Second Law: Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it. Koppett's Law: Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen. Korman's conclusion The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. Kotowski's Law of Dirty Work: If you volunteer to do a task that nobody likes to do, you'll be expected to do it every time in the future. Kristol's Law: Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want. Krueger's Observation A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government. L Labor Law A disagreeable law is its own reward. First Law of Laboratory Work Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. LaCombe's Rule of Percentages The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent. Corollary (Dudenhoefer) An answer of 50 percent will suffice for the 40-60 range. Langin's Law If things were left to chance, they'd be better. Langsam's Law Everything depends. Lani's Principles of Economics Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. $100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 by which time it will be worth nothing. In God we trust; all others pay cash. La Rochefoucauld's Law It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. Larrimer's Constant What this world needs is a damned good plague. Law of Late-Comers Those who have the shortest distance to travel invariably arrive latest. Laura's Law No child throws up in the bathroom. Lawyer's Rule When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, call the other lawyer names. Leahy's Law If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right. Corollary: Volume is a defense to error. Le Chatelier's Law If some stress is brought to bear on a system in equilibrium, the equilibrium is displaced in the direction which tends to undo the effect of the stress. Lenin's Law Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. Le Pelley's Law The bigger the man, the less likely he is to object to caricature. Les Miserables Metalaw All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter. Levy's Ten Laws of the Disillusionment of the True Liberal Large numbers of things are determined, and therefore not subject to change. Anticipated events never live up to expectations. That segment of the community with which one has the greatest sympathy as a liberal inevitably turns out to be one of the most narrow-minded and bigoted segments of the community. Always pray that your opposition be wicked. In wickedness there is a strong strain toward rationality. Therefore there is always the possibility, in theory, of handling the wicked by outthinking them. Corollary 1: Good intentions randomize behavior. Corollary 2: Good intentions are far more difficult to cope with than malicious intent. Corollary 3: If good intentions are combined with stupidity, it is impossible to outthink them. Corollary 4: Any discovery is more likely to be exploited by the wicked than applied by the virtuous. In unanimity there is cowardice and uncritical thinking. To have a sense of humor is to be a tragic figure. To know thyself is the ultimate form of aggression. No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail. Only God can make a random selection. Eternal boredom is the price of constant vigilance. Lewis's Laws People will buy anything that's one to a customer. No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it it will be on sale somewhere cheaper. Liebling's Law If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. Lilly's Metalaw All laws are simulations of reality. Lloyd-Jones's Law of Leftovers: The amount of litter on the street is proportional to the local rate of unemployment. Law of Local Anesthesia Never say "oops" in the operating room. (F)law of Long-Range Planning The longer ahead you plan a special event, and the more special it is, the more likely it is to go wrong. Long's Notes Always store beer in a dark place. Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another -- but which one? Differences are crucial. A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future. A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Small change can often be found under seat cushions. History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place. It's better to copulate than never. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse. Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe. Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin; the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. It says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universe, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous notion is that copulation is inherently sinful. Everybody lies about sex. Rub her feet. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not. In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once. To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. Does history record any case in which the majority was right? Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors -- and miss. Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so. Never try to outstubborn a cat. Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it's none of my business, but . . . " is to place a period after the word "but". Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being "frank". Natural laws have no pity. You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. Anything free is worth what you pay for it. Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get. Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament -- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game happily, untroubled by the certainty of the outcome. "I came, I saw, SHE conquered." (The original Latin seems to have been garbled.) A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. Don't try to have the last word. You might get it. Los Angeles Dodgers Law Wait till last year. Law of the Lost Inch In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:40 p.m. on Friday. Corollaries: Under the same conditions, if any minor dimensions are given to sixteenths of an inch, they cannot be totalled at all. The correct total will become self-evident at 9:01 a.m. on Monday. Lowrey's Law If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. Lowrey's Law of Expertise Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it any more. Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology There's always one more bug. Lubin's Law If another scientist thought your research was more important than his, he would drop what he is doing and do what you are doing. Luce's Law No good deed goes unpunished. Lucy's Law The alternative to getting old is depressing. Luten's Laws When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another week when your boss is away and you get twice as much done. It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground. Lyall's Conjecture: If a computer cable has one end, then it has another. Lyall's Fundamental Observation: The most important leg of a three legged stool is the one that's missing. Lynch's Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves. Lyon's Law of Hesitation: He who hesitates is last. M Madison's Question: If you have to travel on a Titanic, why not go first-class? Rev. Mahaffy's Observation: There's no such thing as a large whiskey. Maier's Law: If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of. Corollaries: The bigger the theory, the better. The experiment may be considered a success if no more than 50% of the observed measurements must be discarded to obtain a correspondence with the theory. (Compensation Corollary) Malek's Law: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way. Malinowski's Law: Looking from far above, from our high places of safety in the developed civilization, it is easy to see all the crudity and irrelevance of magic. Malloy's Maxim: The fact that monkeys have hands should give us pause. The first Myth of Management It exists. Truths of Management: Think before you act; it's not your money. All good management is the expression of one great idea. No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. Cash in must exceed cash out. Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs. Either an executive can do his job or he can't. If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it. If you are doing something wrong, you will do it badly. If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail. The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it. Truth 5.1 of Management: Organizations always have too many managers. Manly's Maxim: Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. Mark's mark: Love is a matter of chemistry; sex is a matter of physics. Marshall's Generalized Iceberg Theorem: Seven-eighths of everything can't be seen. Marshall's Universal Laws of Perpetual Perceptual Obfuscation: Nobody perceives anything with total accuracy. No two people perceive the same thing identically. Few perceive what difference it makes -- or care. Martha's Maxim (and see Olum's Observation and Farrow's Finding): If God had meant for us to travel tourist class, He would have made us narrower. Dean Martin's Definition of Drunkenness: You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. Martin-Berthelot Principle: Of all possible committee reactions to any given agenda item, the reaction that will occur is the one which will liberate the greatest amount of hot air. Martin's Laws of Academia: The faculty expands its activity to fit whatever space is available, so that more space is always required. Faculty purchases of equipment and supplies always increase to match the funds available, so these funds are never adequate. The professional quality of the faculty tends to be inversely proportional to the importance it attaches to space and equipment. Martin's Law of Committees: All committee reports conclude that "it is not prudent to change the policy (or procedure, or organization, or whatever) at this time." Martin's Exclusion: Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases. Martin's Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communication between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. Martin's Minimax Maxim: Everyone knows that the name of the game is to let the other guy have all of the little tats and to keep all of the big tits for yourself. Matsch's Law: It is better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end. Matsch's Maxim: A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a small mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody. Matz's warning: Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble. Maugham's Thought: Only a mediocre person is always at his best. May's Law: The quality of the correlation is inversely proportional to the density of the control (the fewer the facts, the smoother the curves). May's Mordant Maxim: A university is a place where men of principle outnumber men of honor. McCarthy's Law: Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. McClaughry's Law of Public Policy: Politicians who vote huge expenditures to alleviate problems get re-elected; those who propose structural changes to prevent problems get early retirement. McClaughry's Law of Zoning: Where zoning is not needed, it will work perfectly; where it is desperately needed, it always breaks down. McDonald's Second Law: Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and give it back to them. McGoon's Law: The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager. McGovern's Law: The longer the title, the less important the job. McGurk's Law: Any improbable event which would create maximum confusion if it did occur, will occur. McKenna's Law: When you are right, be logical. When you are wrong, be-fuddle. McLaughlin's Law (and see Parson's Third Law): The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting. McLean's Maxim: There are only two problems with people. One is that they don't think. The other is that they do. McNaughton's Rule: Any argument worth making within the bureaucracy must be capable of being expressed in a simple declarative sentence that is obviously true once stated. Margaret Mead's Law of Human Migration: At least fifty percent of the human race doesn't want their mother-in-law within walking distance. Melcher's Law: In a bureaucracy, every routing slip will expand until it contains the maximum number of names that can be typed in a single vertical column. H. L. Mencken's Law: Those who can -- do. Those who cannot -- teach. Those who cannot teach -- administrate. (Martin's Extension) Mencken's Metalaw: For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong. Merkin's Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue. Merrill's First Corollary: There are no winners in life; only survivors. Merrill's Second Corollary: In the highway of life, the average happening is of about as much true significance as a dead skunk in the middle of the road. Meskimen's Laws: 1) When they want it bad (in a rush), they get it bad. 2) There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over. Michehl's Theorem: Less is more. Pastore's Comment on Michehl's Theorem: Nothing is ultimate. Mickelson's Law of Falling Objects: Any object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object. Miksch's Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. Miller's Law: You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it. Mills's Law of Transportation Logistics: The distance to the gate from which your flight departs is inversely proportional to the time remaining before the scheduled departure of the flight. Corollaries (Woods): 1) This remains true even as you rush to catch the flight. 2) From this it follows that you are invariably rushing the wrong way. MIST Law (Man In The Street): The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action. Mobil's Maxim: Bad regulation begets worse regulation. Moer's Truism: The trouble with most jobs is the resemblance to being in a sled dog team. No one gets a change of scenery, except the lead dog. Money Maxim: Money isn't everything. (It isn't plentiful, for instance.) Montagu's Maxim: The idea is to die young as late as possible. Morley's Conclusion: No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. Morton's Law: If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer. ("What this country needs are some stronger white rats.") Mosher's Law: It's better to retire too soon than too late. Munnecke's Law: If you don't say it, they can't repeat it. Murchison's Law of Money: Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/murphys_laws_part_sixand_now_we_bring_you_our_feature_presentation.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mmm_stole_this_from_some_one.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-27T04:07:27-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mmm_stole_this_from_some_one.mws i got this from Blurryeyed:Take this and post it in your own blog (but do it first!): Ask me ten questions (or as many as you can think of). They can be anything. Anything you've ever wanted to know about me, and I have to answer them as honestly as possible.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/mmm_stole_this_from_some_one.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/photosonichan.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-27T05:07:39-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/photosonichan.mws okay.. some of you wanted to see a picture of me(*cough*zach*cough**cough*), but i can't because i have none. so i'll give you the next best thing- my older brother!^^ who i appearently resemble a lot. (i think these people just like my brother... and they're all my team mates...^^;; who needs rabid fangirls when you've got your sis's team mates?) heres my brother wining 3rd at state this year... eh heh. he was soo happy.. ^^;; and here is him getting his medal. he is the.... second from the left. on the #3 block.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/photosonichan.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mmmmm_last_post_for_a_while.mws pirogoeth805 2005-07-31T01:07:50-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mmmmm_last_post_for_a_while.mws okay... sooo...... this is gonna probably be my last post for a while. and so i would like to say a few things to people. Tyler:hope you found your game. have fun playing. Hilary:Have fun with your new CD. Lauren:Have fun with your Guitar(melissa says you play like crazy) Steph:i'll try to see you sometime in august before school starts. and remember the library books. Chris:congrats on thought. we knew you could do it. Andrew:.... stay away from flammable objects. Bailee:keep up the froginess. p-chan:get back on here. people are having episodes about your not being here*cough*samara-chan*cough cough* samara-chan:yes i know he would. ^^;; oh well. we live in a dreamers world. shelby:it was nice meeting you. tsubasa-chan:hope your battle with HTML goes well. remember: its all about the website you get your html off of. sibyll-chan:hope you have fun at the festival. brenna:its fun debating with you. hope we can do more of it sometime.^^ jade:wear pants and your legs will be fine. dont listen to the jerks who tell you to wear makeup. lira:remember, there is always the non-death experience light at the end of the non-death experience tunnel. zach:sorry bud. we'll have to put off shipping you here because my life is a little too hectic right now.(P.S., how did you like the other blog?) zach's mum:looking forward to more chats with your sense of humor. i dont think gloves can help with niks i get from shaving though. soupii:.... have fun in your soup haven. madz:twas nice meeting you as well. i think thats everyone. yay. good bye everyone. hopefully i'll see you all on here in two weeks. countdownz: b-day:5 dayz jr.counseling:0 dayz. camp:7 dayz. week of helk(swim season starts) 15 dayz. lol..... hmmm.... i'll be discontinueing murphy.*hears shouts of joy in background(it wasn't that bad was it? "YES IT WAS. NEVER DO IT AGAIN.")?^^;;.... oh well. i'll never leave murphy to baby-sit you all again. gomen arankagiri.*bows*

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/mmmmm_last_post_for_a_while.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00t.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-05T01:08:01-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00t.mws hey everybody. i'm back till sunday, and i'm really busy in between so this is a short post. i'll get around to telling you about counseling later. along with ranting about how much fun camp was when i get back. then on monday(15th) swim team hell week begins. woohoo(notice total sarcasim). what fun. maybe we'll actually have a coach. on a happier note.... yay! birthday!^^ fweeeeeeee! i'm 14. nyaha. look out world, because next year i can take my permit. lyrics from 3 doors down. -Kryptonite I took a walk around the world to Ease my troubled mind I left my body laying somewhere In the sands of time I watched the world float to the dark Side of the moon I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah I watched the world float to the Dark side of the moon After all I knew it had to be something To do with you I really don’t mind what happens now and then As long as you’ll be my friend at the end If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with My superhuman might Kryptonite You called me strong, you called me weak, But still your secrets I will keep You took for granted all the times I Never let you down You stumbled in and bumped your head, if Not for me then you would be dead I picked you up and put you back On solid ground If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with my Superhuman might Kryptonite If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be There holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with my Superhuman might Kryptonite Yeah! If I go crazy then will you still Call me Superman If I’m alive and well, will you be there Holding my hand I’ll keep you by my side with My superhuman might Kryptonite

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/w00t.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=60 pirogoeth805 2005-08-07T11:08:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=60 Well this is it. I really will be gone all week. no internet access. no being able to check up on your lives. and then when i get back, you get to hear all about my last couple of weeks. i will be leaving before one.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/60 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=61 pirogoeth805 2005-08-14T12:08:56-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=61 hey everybody, i'm back from servant camp, done with jr. counseling, and looking forward to swim practice on monday!(mwahahahahahahahaha!!! we have coaches!!! ph34r us!!!!) oh.. rachikins and pegatha dear are coming over to go to highland fest with me! its beautiful outside! i'm so happy. it was supposed to rain yesterday, which is why we're going today, but oh well. its all good. they have gyros!!!!! happiness!! i mean, the camp food this year was good and all, but nothing beats greek food. well.... almost nothing. okonomiyaki(which i still have not had) is supposed to be very good, and sushi is good too. and i always love having kalbi marinated pork. mm camp was so much fun this year. utlimate(STILL HAPPY!!!!!) and big base in the rain-total awesomeness. seeing the sky turn teal was pretty cool too. having too much rain- not so cool. i mean... shouting "go away, nobody likes you!" at the clouds was fun.... but... it got annoying when my sweatshirt got like... completely soaked. coffee house was a blast as usual. seeing the guys actually lift mr.bower up into the air was funny. hearing that chris gross charged and knocked over mr.bornhoft during the all camp game... well.... i couldn't stop laughing... mr.bornhoft should know better than to camp the pool/shower house..... servant camp is not long enough.(still happy!!)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/61 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ha_ha_again_ha.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-17T10:08:15-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ha_ha_again_ha.mws okay so, this weekend, quel and i won't be around seeing as how i'm quel-napping her to go up to my cabin for the weekend, so i'll be gone sometime after dinner on thursday(my my, isn't august busy for an-chan hmm?)sooo sometime after 7. and tonight, i'm going to a birthday party of one of my friends(steph would recognize her as the other clay aiken lunatic from the party). in the mean time, i have practice at three. Utada Hikaru -Devil Inside Lyrics Everybody wants me to be their angel Everybody wants something they can cradle They don't know I burn They don't know I burn They don't know I burn They don't know I burn Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me Devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me Devil inside of me Jealous angel deep inside me You don't know cuz you're too busy reading labels You're missing all the action underneath my table I'm waiting for my turn Waiting for my turn Just waiting for my turn Just waiting for my turn Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me Devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me Devil inside of me Jealous angel deep inside me Time to make it burn This is how I burn Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil (or something like it) inside of me Devil (or something like it) inside Maybe there's a devil somewhere really deep inside me Devil inside of me Jealous angel deep inside me

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/ha_ha_again_ha.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_agree.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-17T10:08:16-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/i_agree.mws Stop being so.............. yourselves. I know way too many really beautiful girls who think they don't look good... It hurts... because it's our fault, guys I mean. We make girls feel like they have to be perfect. You know what I mean, flat stomach, huge boobs, round ass, long legs, big lips, and on top of all that, they have to dress like a .........., and be one as well... nobody can measure up to that... and its not fair... because nobody should have to. The little imperfections are what make people special. If everyone was perfect the world would be so boring, variety is what makes life interesting. So guys, stop making girls have to live up to your, I'm sorry, our... deluded fantasy visions of perfection. Stop acting like boys and start being men... realize that women don't exist to fufill our sexual desires. Stop talking to them solely to get with them, be nice to them because you want to be their friend, not because you want to hook up with them. Say nice things about them not to flatter them in hopes that you'll get some, but because you know they like to hear them. In short... we need to grow up and stop being dicks... just because we have them doesn't mean we need to think with them. If you agree then repost this to get the message through to others. if ur a guy that agrees with this repost as 'im not a dick!' if u r a girl n u agree repost this as 'i agree!!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/i_agree.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/hmmmmmm_dunno_positive_boredom_again.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-22T10:08:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/hmmmmmm_dunno_positive_boredom_again.mws hi.... so........... yeah, bored again, school starts on thursday(wooo!!! structured enviernment!!! and i have bad spelling! and and.............. latin!!! yahoooooo!!!!) so yeah, cabin was good,so was quel. well... for the most part.... but she'd kill if i told... oh well... so.... stole this from Gremlyn *hasn't figured out how to do the spiffy thing that links to other person* Reply with your name, and I shall write something random and maybe a tad witty about you (not very good at this sort of thing) I will then tell you what song or movie you remind me of, or that reminds me of you. I will pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in (weird) I will say something that makes sense only to you and me I will then tell you my earliest memory of you, or maybe just a favorite memory. lol I will then tell you what plant or animal you remind me of. I will then ask something I've always wondered about you. Maybe. Put this in your blog. Please. And please reply. and.... thats it.... was stuck cleaning windows today.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/hmmmmmm_dunno_positive_boredom_again.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bleh_schoolstu_little.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-24T04:08:56-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bleh_schoolstu_little.mws so today i had orientation, and had to be in uniform.i do have a giant locker though, which is pretty awesome., and i only have 5 classes. but i have catholic doctrine, so that kinda sucks..... so does having choir. i am like.... tone deph. i'm getting better though!!!!(i swear i am, no matter what you say quel...) maybe they'll flunk me, and send me back to art where i belong. i discovered a long time ago that i wasn't meant to sing fantastic things. therefore i devoted my time to drawing. enough of that though..... so yeah, school starts tomorrow(sorry zach. "big-sister" can't hang for a while- but send me an email once in a while, and i'll help you with latin), and i have swim practice after(i still smell like chlorine, after tuesday's practice.... so sad. oh well), so i dont get home til about 6 @@ and then comes roughly 3 hours of homework.... joy!(nb: note the total sarcasm) .... by the time i go to bed, it'll be at least 9:30 if not ten......... i'll be out like a log. so..... maybe i'll leave you with that. i've always been bad at long posts.... after a while i starts ranting and rambling... which i'd hate to torture you with, so see ya. to anyone who can get this: Valete, ego videre vos mox iterum spero. ----When I'm Gone; 3 Doors Down There's another world inside of me that you may never see. There's secrets in this life that I can't hide. Somewhere in this darkness there's a life that I can't find. Maybe it's too far away or maybe I'm just blind, maybe I'm just blind. -So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong. Hold me when I'm scared and love me when I'm gone. Everything I am and everything in me Wants to be the one you wanted me to be. I'll never let you down even if I could. I'd give up everything if only for your good. So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong. -You can hold me when I'm scared but you won't always be there, So love me when I'm gone, love me when I'm gone When your education x-ray cannot see under my skin. I won't tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends. -Now roaming through this darkness I'm alive but I'm alone. Part of me is fighting this but part of me is gone. So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong. -Hold me when I'm scared and love me when I'm gone. Everything I am and everything in me. Wants to be the one you wanted me to be, Ill never let you down even if I could. I'd give up everything if only for your good. -So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong You can hold me when I'm scared, you won't always be there, So love me when I'm gone. (Maybe I'm just blind) -So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong. Hold me when I'm scared and love me when I'm gone. Everything I am and everything in me, Wants to be the one you wanted me to be. -I'll never let you down even if I could. I'd give up everything if only for your good. So hold me when I'm here right me when I'm wrong. You can hold me when I'm scared, you won't always be there. So love me when I'm gone, love me when I'm gone.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/bleh_schoolstu_little.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bored_blog_napped_from_grieverangelus.mws pirogoeth805 2005-08-24T06:08:50-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/bored_blog_napped_from_grieverangelus.mws AboUt Me! ( ) been in love ( ) been dumped ( ) shoplifted ( ) been fired ( ) snuck out of my parent's house (x) had feelings for someone who didnt have them back ( ) been arrested ( ) made out with a stranger ( ) gone on a blind date (x) lied to a friend ( ) had a crush on a teacher (x) skipped school (had a really good reason though.... well... wasn't really skipping.. oh well) ( ) slept with a co-worker (x) seen someone die (well... i was asleep and they were in the room with me...) ( ) had a crush on one of your MYSPACE friends (x) been to Canada ( ) been to Mexico (x) been on a plane ( ) thrown up in a bar ( ) purposely set a part of myself on fire (x) eaten Sushi (x) been snowboarding (sorta) ( ) been moshing at a concert ( ) got drunk (x)been in an abusive relationship - verbal, physical, or emotional (not like... bf-gf...) (x) love someone or miss someone right now (x) laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by. (x) made a snow angel (x) had a tea party (x) flown a kite (x) built a sand castle (x) gone puddle jumping (x) played dress up (x) jumped into a pile of leaves (x) gone sledding (x) cheated while playing a game (x) been lonely (x) fallen asleep at work/school ( ) used a fake ID (x) watched the sun set ( ) felt an earthquake (x) touched a snake (x) been tickled ( ) been robbed ( ) robbed someone (x) been misunderstood (x) pet a reindeer/goat.. (x) won a contest ( ) ran a red light ( ) been suspended from school (x) had detention (x) been in a car accident. (actually was hit by one...) (x) had/have braces (have. stupid bloody.... things..) (x) felt like an outcast (x) eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night (half a gallon thing actually) (x) had deja vu (x) danced in the moonlight (x) hated the way you look occasionally. (x) witnessed a crime ( ) pole danced (x) questioned your heart (x) been obsessed with post-it notes (chya.... hell ya.) (x) squished barefoot through the mud (x) been lost (i'm always lost) (x) been to the opposite side of the country (x) felt like dying (so many times) (x) cried yourself to sleep (many, many times) (x) played cops and robbers (x) recently colored with crayons/colored pencils/markers (x) sung karaoke (x) paid for a meal with only coins (x) done something you told yourself you wouldn't (x) made prank phone calls ( ) laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose (my friend has though) (x) caught a snowflake on your tongue ( ) kissed in the rain. (x) written a letter to Santa Claus ( ) been kissed under a mistletoe ( ) watched the sun set with someone you care about.. (x) blown bubbles (x) made a bonfire ( ) crashed a party (x)Have Traveled more than 5 days with a car full of People (soooo iritating...) (x)gone rollerskating/blading (x) had a wish come true (if only hat one wish had come true instead...) ( ) humped a monkey you sad bastard (x) worn pearls ( ) jumped off a bridge ( ) screamed penis in public ( ) ate dog/cat food ( ) told a complete stranger you loved them (x) sang in the shower just to annoy my older brother. (x) have a little black dress--(had, was not so little) ( ) did it in a park (x) had a dream that you married someone (x) glued your hand to something .....( with super glue...) (X) got your tongue stuck to a flag pole (well... hand rail) ( ) kissed a fish (x) worn the opposite sexes clothes ((boxers!!! clean, new boxers.) (X) sat on a roof top ( ) had sex at a church (x) screamed at the top of your lungs (x) done a one-handed cartwheel (> ) talked on the phone for more than 5 hours (got to 3 -1/2) (x) stayed up all night ( ) didn't take a shower for a week (x) pick and ate an apple right off the tree (x) climbed a tree (x) had a tree house (x) are scared to watch scary movies alone (x) believe in ghosts ( ) have more then 30 pairs of shoes (x) worn a really ugly outfit to school just to see what others say ( ) gone streaking (x) played ding-dong-ditch (x) been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on( it was freezing cold. i will get them.) (x) broken a bone(ankle. probably almost broke something else getting hit.) (x) been easily amused (x) caught a fish ( ) made a porn (x) caught a butterfly (x) laughed so hard you cried (x) cried so hard you laughed ( ) mooned/flashed someone.. ( ) had someone moon/flash you (x ) cheated on a test (x) forgotten someone's name (>) slept naked. (almost. i had a really bad sunburn once... my mom just had to be right...it hurt just to wear clothing.) (X) French braided someones hair - (several times.) ( ) gone skinny dippin in a pool ( ) been kicked out of your house

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/bored_blog_napped_from_grieverangelus.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/oooppppppppssss_my_bad_backage.mws pirogoeth805 2005-09-03T11:09:01-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/oooppppppppssss_my_bad_backage.mws Okay... soo... as you all know, school started, and so has swimming... soo... i dont get home til about 6:30 usually, and then i have 2-1/2 - 3 hours of homework to do. this does not mean i have given up on the blog, it simply means i will not be able to post as often. please have paitence.

....... this was a public service announcement brought to you by your local "insane" little midgets coalition.

signing off. good night.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/oooppppppppssss_my_bad_backage.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=69 pirogoeth805 2005-09-11T08:09:26-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=69 hello. i know. its been.... a week. sorry, can't help it. really. swamped in homework, life issues, and swim practice. on a happy note, we won our tri-meet and our meet against harding, so we're 3-0-0. YAY!!! ^^

for everyone who has sent me email: i'm terribly sorry i cant get to my mail right now, but when i do, i'll reply, darn it!!!!

when you miss me think of the following:

DDR(love it lots)

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide(almost done- yay!!)

Tsubasa(one of my fav. manga!)

Megatokyo(another fav)

Our attempts to get p-chan back to the world of the living(by which i mean bloging in an accessable site

)

my horrible attempts at spelling. tells you how tired i am.

thunderstorms. i love them dearly(mmmm griever, we've had a bunch of storms lately. its been wonderful... then it got humid.)

Drawing! one of these days i swear i'll get a deviant. just as soon as i can hi-jack my friends' scanners, and i pick a few pics for you.

these are a few of the things besides fanfiction and latin & whatnot that go through my head, and sometimes from there to my finger tips to paper, or feet to mat.

well....... thanks for sticking with me. it means a lot. someday, i'll give proper thank yous.....

this is a shout out to everyone i've missed. it'll be nice to see your comments when i get back to regular blogging again. see you. Sayonora.

Welcome To My Life (simple plan) (how i feel sometimes... just to let you know.)

Do you ever feel like breaking down?

Do you ever feel out of place?

Like somehow you just don't belong

And no one understands you

Do you ever wanna runaway?

Do you lock yourself in your room?

With the radio on turned up so loud

That no one hears you screaming

No you don't know what it's like

When nothing feels all right

You don't know what it's like

To be like me

To be hurt

To feel lost

To be left out in the dark

To be kicked when you're down

To feel like you've been pushed around

To be on the edge of breaking down

And no one's there to save you

No you don't know what it's like

Welcome to my life

Do you wanna be somebody else?

Are you sick of feeling so left out?

Are you desperate to find something more?

Before your life is over

Are you stuck inside a world you hate?

Are you sick of everyone around?

With their big fake smiles and stupid lies

While deep inside you're bleeding

No you don't know what it's like

When nothing feels all right

You don't know what it's like

To be like me

To be hurt

To feel lost

To be left out in the dark

To be kicked when you're down

To feel like you've been pushed around

To be on the edge of breaking down

And no one's there to save you

No you don't know what it's like

Welcome to my life

No one ever lied straight to your face

No one ever stabbed you in the back

You might think I'm happy but I'm not gonna be okay

Everybody always gave you what you wanted

Never had to work it was always there

You don't know what it's like, what it's like

To be hurt

To feel lost

To be left out in the dark

To be kicked when you're down

To feel like you've been pushed around

To be on the edge of breaking down

And no one's there to save you

No you don't know what it's like (what it's like)

To be hurt

To feel lost

To be left out in the dark

To be kicked when you're down

To feel like you've been pushed around

To be on the edge of breaking down

And no one's there to save you

No you don't know what it's like

Welcome to my life

Welcome to my life

Welcome to my life

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/69 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/why.mws pirogoeth805 2005-09-11T09:09:23-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/why.mws

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/why.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=71 pirogoeth805 2005-09-30T11:09:49-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=71 Hello everyone. yes i know, its been a while. i'd like to get on more, but i cant. heres a few things that have happened since i last posted

-found out someone was dead, but they really weren't- somebody hacked. unfortunately. again, welcome back.

-we are now 3-3, because we have a bunch of big schools in our confrence, so it sucks.

-had to memorize the first 2 paragraphs of the declaration of independence. not cool. had to write it out too. class requirement. although we also got to watch the musical 1776 on tape. it was---- very amusing to say the least......*is shaking with laughter-

-discovered i can swim fly(just.... dont tell my coaches..... it would make them think i actually like it. i might be nutz, but i'm not that nutz.)

-droped a bunch of time.

- have cried so many tears for a friend who doesn't seem to care because she doesn't get how much it hurts just to look at her and see her and the ways she has changed. it was not for the better, and she has no idea how worried we really are about her. she just doesn't get it.

- had our coldest night of the year. it was pretty sweet. it felt so good. its the kind of weather i live for. i wear my uniform skirt(which is about 1/2 an inch above the knee) in this weather.

- have had a few rainstorms. they were so awesome.(think hail the size of ummmm the one that comes before baseball, ryan. there were broken windows in the outlying areas.)

mmmm pretty much it. i have an invintational tomorrow, so i hope it goes well. bye

-okay, guys, let me get something straight. i will not get on often for a while. i have swim practice after school monday, thursday,friday, and saturday at 9/1. when i get home it is usually 6:30. i eat dinner, and do as much of my 3 hours of home work that i can do, and go to sleep. tuesdays are meet days, on which i get home atfer 9 usually. wednesday and sunday are my only freedays. usually i sleep, eat, and read. this is what happens during swim season. expect a little more after sections(i'll let you guys know when that is....)

so stop complaining when i can't post. its really annoying. i look forward to coming back to see your messages, and then i'm barraged with comments demanding to know why i'm not on. it hurts. thats all(needed to get out of my system)

-....... this was a public service announcement brought to you by your local "insane" little midgets coalition.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/71 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=73 pirogoeth805 2005-10-26T05:10:09-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=73 Konnichi-wa, minnasan! cookies for everyone for waiting so long for this entry....(i know by now you all must think my desk either swallowed me, or my closet, depending on which one won the drawing of straws....)  well, swim season for me will be done in about a month(thats when sections is), and then i might do diving with a club team...... we'll see...... my homework right now isn't too bad..... but it'll probably get worse once november is under way....(oh joy.... then it will take me 3 hours or more to do it....) i've been okay..... i got over an evil sinus infection(which had been going for 3 weeks until i saw the doctor....), have gotten through swim team hell week, kept up in school, screwed off during latin and geometry(becuase i pretty much get it, and have gotten it for a while.... go me?), have a "school dance" coming up(okay, it is a dance, but it doesn't really count), and will letter this year in swimming(whoo hoo!), have managed to do well on my evil essay, and well.... thats it.... my life is boring right now... oh well... we have our confrence meet on saturday, so wish me luck..

have a good week everyone, and see you next time.

sayonara!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/73 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=75 pirogoeth805 2005-10-30T10:10:19-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=75 hi everyone, nice to be posting again. conference went alright. i dropped a second off my 100 breast.(only 1....*sniff sniff* i could do sooo much better) and thats it i think. sections got moved a week early, so now section prelims are on mmmm wednesday the 9th, i think. and then finals is on the oldies dance*sniff sniff* even though i highly doubt i'll make it to section finals............. its still dissapointing. oh well. the concert was okay, it was nothing spectacular. personally i think the first piece sucked, but for some odd reason loads of people thought it was moving(whats moving about a guy banging on a piano? honestly....)  

i have a latin test tomorrow. that totally sucks. i cant really have candy. that also sucks. it seems like my best friend has abandoned me. this sucks so much it hurts everytime i think about it. i think shes home, but she wont answer the friggin phone. i haven't seen her in almost a month.(this wouldn't be nearly so bad if she didn't go to my school) and it feels like i have a gaping hole in me that refuses to shut. sometimes i just wanna break things, or just plain destroy them.(bash in my locker, trash my room, ect..... throw my crappy(although it used to be innovative..) mac out my window, and watch it break as it hits the ground.) i have the rather regretable feeling that playing "violent" computer games won't help....... like destroying little armies with my big one on age of empires... usually it makes me feel a bit better. i think that the one thing i have to look forward to this week is that we're finally tapering. a week of tapering before sections. thats not enough. even this is starting to look sucky. well, its getting to the point where i think i'll stop wasting your time and end this. i hope you all have a better week than i probably will.

good night, and good bye.

(ps, if you're out there, please call me. even if you hate me, i still have your homework, so you'll still have to see me. just please call. i'd make all the difference.)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/75 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=78 pirogoeth805 2006-01-03T04:01:10-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=78 AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Gomenasai!, Gomenasai!!!!!*bows fervently* i'm soooo sorry!!! i feel horrid, i'm guilty of blog-deprivation!!!!!! sooooo not cool. things have been so hectic lately, i think i'm finely getting enough sleep(which i haven't gotten since swim season started, and i think i'm finally starting not to look like the living dead(sadly this says something)). christmas was pretty good(how was yours? i got a new ipod! whoo hoo!!! i have like... 1046 songs on it! ^^) yeah, so, past couple of months i was stressed out by the homework load-3 hours a night. it makes me wish i was back in jr high. although, getting to read the federalists papers and my antonia(not looking forward to the essay i'll have to write on it) has been good. i'm looking forward to softball, which, unfortunately, doesn't come till like, mid-march. merry belated x-mas, and happy belated new year. sorry this is short, but i have to get back to laundry..... Sayanora.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/78 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/please_get_well.mws pirogoeth805 2006-01-04T10:01:37-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/please_get_well.mws What is one word you would use to describe me? Post this in your blog. so, yeah, i'm lazy today(so thats pretty much it), and taking care of sick oni-chan.(i hope he gets better by tomorrow, because he has a really big wrestling tournement that starts on friday, and he really wants to be able to wrestle.) poor oni-chan... -_-. he's tying to sleep it off....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/please_get_well.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/soooo_undignified.mws pirogoeth805 2006-01-04T11:01:34-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/soooo_undignified.mws

Hoeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

You're a Magical Girl!

You're sugar-hyped, caffeine-hyped, and permanently genki-er than a whole busload of Disney characters on crack. You eat too much, you're a total klutz, and somehow this makes you an ideal candidate for saving the world. If you're really unlucky, you get to get naked in an embarrassing transformation sequence in every single episode, with only a few sparkles and pastel blobs to cover your dignity.(pirogoeth note: this is soooooo undignified.......) Which generic anime character are you?

shoinked from griever: mark your confessions: [ ] I'm afraid of silence. [] I'm really ticklish. [ ] I'm afraid of the dark [ ] I'm afraid of facing my back to open doors at night. [x] I believe in true love. [ ] I listen to political music.. [ x] I collect comic books. [x] I shut others out when I'm sad. [] I've stayed out all night. [ ] I open up to others easily... [x] I am keeping a secret from the world. [ x] I watch the news, [ ] I own over 5 rap CDs.only on computer! (uh huh. right. i'd rather die.) [x] I love Disney movies [x] I am a sucker for blue eyes..... [ ] I don't kill bugs. [x] I curse once in awhile. .....every chance i get [ ] I have (had) "x"s in my screen name. [x] I've slipped and fell in public. (several times. i'm a clutz) [x] I've slipped out an "lol" in a real conversation. [ ] I love Spam. [x ] I bake well. (uh sort of) [ x] I have worn pajamas to class. [ x] I have owned something from Abercrombie. (old stuff back when they weren't sluty. i didn't actually buy the stuff though) [] I have a job. (what do you take me for?) [ x] Talked on a phone for 5+ hours in one sitting. (heh heh... it wasn't long distance...) [ ] I love Dr. Phil [ ] I like someone. [ ] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS. [x] I am self-conscious. [x] I love to laugh. [x] I have tried alcohol. (too young to regularily drink though.(and i wouldn't) i hate beer. it tastes icky.) [ ] I drink alcohol on a regular basis [] I have tried a cigarette. [] I have smoked a pack in one day. (several) [ ] I loved Lord of the Flies. [x] I have cough drops when I'm not sick [ ] I can't swallow pills. [x] I have a few scars. [x] I've been out of this country. [] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room. [x] I love chocolate. [] I bite my nails [] I am not comfortable with being me. [x] I play computer games when I'm bored. [x ] Gotten lost in the city. [] Thought of before. ? [x] Seen a star [ ] Had a serious surgery. [ x] Gone out in public in your pajamas why the hell not? [ ] Have kissed a stranger. [ ] Hugged a stranger. [] Been in a fist fight with someone of the same sex. [x] Been in a fist fight. (when younger) [] Been arrested [] Laughed and had some type of beverage come out of your nose. [x] Pushed all the buttons on an elevator and why not? its funnnnnn..... [ ] Made out in an elevator. [] Swore at your parents [x] Kicked a guy where it hurts on purpose [ ] Been skydiving [ ] Been bungee jumping [x]Gotten stitches []Drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour. (no thanks.....) [x] Bitten someone. ....not hard [x ] Been to Niagara Falls. [] Gotten the chicken pox. (never had it... oh well) []Crashed into a car [ ]Been to Japan. [x] Ridden in a taxi. [ ] Shoplifted. [ ] Been fired. [x] Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back. [ ] Stole something from your job. [ ] Gone on a blind date [] Had a crush on a teacher/coach [ ] Celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans. [ ] Been married [ ] Gotten divorced. [x] Saw someone/something dying (i was sleeping in the same room) [ x] Driven over 400 miles in one day (please dear God never again) [x] Been on a plane.(really small one) [ ] Been to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. (aaaaaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!! the horror!!! melting!!!) [ ] Thrown up in a bar. [x ] Eaten sushi. [ x] Been snowboarding. [ x] Been skiing. [ x] Been ice skating. [ x] Cried in public. [] Walked purposely into traffic with your eyes closed [x] Liked someone even though you knew you shouldn't have. [x] Thought of someone 24/7. [x] Loved(liked) some one and hated them at the same time. [x] Have hated the world (several times. life has sucked.)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/soooo_undignified.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/new_layout.mws pirogoeth805 2006-01-05T07:01:56-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/new_layout.mws okay, so, you may have noticed i changed the layout. and my classic stone angel icon. the funny thing is where it says about how many replies i have. i typed in "come what may". appearently the plural is "come what maies"(notice pural of "may"). i looked at it and went: huh? may doesn't have a pural. why the hell does it say that? so, once again, i find myself too lazy to do a dektop myself. oh well. on a side note: oni-chan is all better! ^^ this makes me happy. he really did basically sleep it off. thats all. listening to: the scientist, by coldplay( a rush of blood to the head)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/new_layout.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blehhhh.mws pirogoeth805 2006-01-20T10:01:09-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blehhhh.mws okay, so i was supposed to be back in school on tuesday, right? well monday night i got stomach flu, threw up 6-7 times before 2:30(where upon it mercifully stoped) and couldn't fall back asleep. i spent most of tuesday sleeping, and when i couldn't sleep, i re-read the manga i had already read(i picked up vol.s 6 and 7 of all new tenshi and vol.1 of sugar sugar rune(which, actually, instead of being totally lame like i thought it was gonna be, its actually pretty amusing.). and borrowed DNAngel vol.1 and Kamichama Karin(by the maker of pitat ten(squeeeeee!!! i lovers it i do!!!)). and sadly, resorted to playing solitair on my ipod when i was done reading them all. i didn't eat anything all day except a few noodles from chicken noodle soup. pretty sad since i can put away 2 full plates of spaghetti(or, sadly, more.... i really shouldn't be able to do this considering my size) the next day i had 2 oranges, and the rest of the soup. today i think my appetite is finally coming back(although something funny seems to happen whenever i want regular milk..... hrmmmmmm...) the work load is waaay too much for the first week back. the weight alone can't be healthy. i think my books now weigh more than 20 lbs..... definately not something right there....... and our precalc books are falling apart. the sophmores all have nice shiny new thinner books that are better bound, and half of the guys in my grade all have those editions or the edition below ours, which isn't falling apart. sooo not fair. luckily we're the last class that gets to use them (although its a pity that future freshmen wont be tortured by them... oh well.) but on the happier side of things, i wont have to rewrite the "essay" *cough**cough* torture research paper of 3000 words without articles and 12 pages double spaced...) which is ubber awesome because i was sooooo worried about it. also on monday! i got to hang out with an old friend! that made me really happy, because earlier, i had tried calling someone else, but they couldn't, and that made me so sad, because i hadn't seen anyone over break, but then i caught her after she had just gotten out of bed(try never to sleep in that late again dear)! and that made my day loads better. i was able to catch myself up on a couple of series at the bookstore(since we went and mangated.), and well... thats basically all we did.... but we had fun conversations on the way to and back since we walked there.(it was really nice outside) well thats pretty much it. we did get a new printer(since the old one died) anddddddddd we got a rebate, and got a scanner! whoo hoo!!!!!(well... technically we had one, but it needed a scuzzy and it didn't seem worth the effort...) so see you guys later.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/blehhhh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/new_avvie.mws pirogoeth805 2006-01-22T03:01:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/new_avvie.mws yay! thanks to the artistic-ness of my friend, and her having a deviant art, i finally have a user pic of me! i dunno how long it'll stay up, but it'll be up for a while.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/new_avvie.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/uhhhhhh_hi.mws pirogoeth805 2006-03-26T08:03:46-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/uhhhhhh_hi.mws *stumbles onto blog*: why... what is this thing? it looks ancient and rather un-payed-attention-to..... oh wait... its my blog.... hey everybody. sorry i've been gone for so long, but again, its been busy. january went alright, and i got my project finished and everything(and got good marks too.). February went by really slow, we had a bunch of tests that i managed to pass. now we come to march. well, begining of the month was the state wrestling tourney, which my brother won( his weight class)(whoo hoo!) and so did my school's 25#er. yay-age. past couple of weeks have been alright.. softball is up and running again, so i'm not sitting on my butt all day being lazy. first week of practice however, was not so good. i got this weird virus-thingy that lays dormant for a while, and then when it starts reproducing, it explodes and makes you horribly dizzy, cold, shakey, de-hydrated, and really feel kinda dead. luckily the thing only made me feel crap-tastic for about 5-6 days. did i mention this crap makes your mucles and joints hurt like hell, and that its practically impossible to walk, bend over, or get close to the ground without having pain shoot up various parts of one's body? on the plus side, running for several short spurts isn't a problem anymore. and my flexibilty is coming back. i also got the tops on my braces off, and will be getting the bottoms off shortly.(whoo hoo!) this weekend, i finally rented SLAYERS(the motion picture)!!!! HURRAH! twas awesome. also finally got aroung to renting HP IV. Overall, it was okay. they cut out way too much, input things that were never there, and all just to put it into a friggin' time slot of a little under 2-1/2 hours. i was thoroughly disgusted. Also watched princess bride, and 10th kindgom(6hours at least, i think, if not more....). total lie-on-my-butt weekend. i also got lee-ann chin- hurrah! my favorite fake chinese place!(i love the stuff, but haven't had any in ages.) oh oh oh oh oh!!!!!! i finally got something up on my diviant art page! unfortunately, i didn't know that i had put my sketchbook in the scaner upside down- oops. but, for everybody thats been after me to get stuff up, here;s something. heres the url:http://pendragon805.deviantart.com/ have fun. i'll try to get more stuff up later. shout out to people i know: hey!!!! i'm sorry i've been totally unreachable, and will get around to calling you sometime soon... maybe... steph: i got kamichama karin 3 now, you can borrow that and #2 when i see you again. your manga is still safe, and i have more tsubasa for you! ^^ sam: uh, yeah, i'm sorry about anime detour and you not going. that sucks. i have more tsubasa if you want to borrow it! quel: okay, this is ridiculus. i live how far from you? i dont care if you feel friggin antisocial, i miss you damnit. and i know you miss me. CALL ME. if i'm not home, i can always call you back. btw, not only did riz accidently give me your copy of Lady of avalon(or one of those.... she also finally gave back mists of avalon- its the end of the world, i think.)i also have a pressie for you! SO CALL ME DAMNIT, AND DO IT ASAP. p.s. how was anime detour? well, i'm out. see you sometime in the near future, hopefully i wont get killed by too much running >.< and now- the theme from slayers the motion picture..... midnight blue(sorry, no translation.)(or not...) kizutsuki kokoro ga kowasa wo oboete'ku setsunaki kokoro ga nanika ni motarete'ku tsuyosa wa subete wo tsutsumikonda toride yasashisa namida wo shirazu ni katarenai Tonight...... Tonight...... yureru honoo e to kazashita midnight blue A wounded heart will remember fear. A pained heart will look to lean on something. Strength is a fortress that holds everything together. Gentleness cannot be felt without knowing the tears. Tonight...... Tonight...... Towards the wavering flame near the midnight blue. yami yo... ame yo... ima, oshiete tsuki yo... kaze yo... ima, kotaete tooku... tooku... haruka, tooku tabi no hate ni nani ga aru no Darkness....rain.... tell me, now. Moon....wind.... answer me, now. Far....So far....in the distance, far away. At the end of my journey, what is there? [Instrumental] [Instrumental] tsuranuku omoi ga miekakureshite-iru soredemo omoi wa kesshite kie wa shinai tsuyosa wa subete wo mitsumete kita akashi yasashisa toki ni wa jama ni naru orokasa Tonight...... Tonight...... moeru honoo e to kazashita midnight blue The dreams that pierce can be hidden from view. But the dreams will never disappear. Strength is proof that we all finally realize. Gentleness now is foolishness that will be a burden. Tonight...... Tonight...... Towards the blazing flames near the midnight blue. tori yo... kumo yo... ima, oshiete nami yo... kage yo... ima, kotaete tooku... tooku... haruka, tooku tabi no hate ni nani ga aru no Birds....clouds.... tell me, now. Waves....shadows.... answer me, now. Far....so far....in the distance, far away. At the end of my journey, what is there? [Instrumental] [Instrumental] yami yo... ame yo... ima, oshiete tsuki yo... kaze yo... ima, kotaete tori yo... kumo yo... ima, oshiete nami yo... kage yo... ima, kotaete tooku... tooku... haruka, tooku tabi no hate ni nani ga aru no tooku... tooku... haruka, tooku tabi no hate ni nani ga aru no Darkness....rain.... tell me, now. Moon....wind.... answer me, now. Far....So far....in the distance, far away. At the end of my journey, what is there? Far....So far....in the distance, far away. At the end of my journey, what is there?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/uhhhhhh_hi.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blehh.mws pirogoeth805 2006-04-05T08:04:23-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blehh.mws okay... last week kinda sucked, and this week isn't much better. my ankles hurt like hell(hence i have braces on both), and i dont know whats wrong. i didn't get to go see my friend preform in her ballet last weekend, i've had to babysit my brother on a saturday night, and sleep still eludes me. i'm pissed. luckily we have a class party this weekend- hopefully this will make things better..... hopefully my first game(softball) goes well tomorrow. and the one on saturday(hint**hint* call me quel*cough**cough*)too....... wish me luck -still waiting for a good week.............. hopeless in a state of utter-pissed-offness.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/blehh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/thunkpicks_up_note_and_reads_has_been_tagged_ok.mws pirogoeth805 2006-04-05T08:04:17-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/thunkpicks_up_note_and_reads_has_been_tagged_ok.mws "Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours...." 1- i can crack more than 60 joints in my body(yes, even the occasional ball & socket joint) 2- i can play 8+ hours of a comp game without getting up... and then play like, 3 more. 3- i never remember my dreams. 4- i haven't even talked to my best friend in4 months because she refuses to answer the phone. 5- i feel changes in air pressure in both of my ankles. 6- i am addicted to latin for some bazare reason. it keeps me sane. people who get to get tagged: QUEL, SAM, KATE, P-CHAN,ummm.... STEPH & magician

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/thunkpicks_up_note_and_reads_has_been_tagged_ok.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blearrrrrrrrggg_and_yays.mws pirogoeth805 2006-04-19T05:04:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blearrrrrrrrggg_and_yays.mws good news: we are 3-1, and tied for first in the conference (whoo hoo!!!)(ha- in your face school arch rivals(thats who we just beat..... and they were 3-0....(we were 2-1))) sad news: i try emailing people..... and then they seem to get new emails without bloody telling..... Again.. more stuff on my deviant*hint hint* :CLICK HERE!!!!!! please go see. also note my avvie is one of my bits of art ^^. (i love my art- they're like my..... deranged little campers that i love to bits. however... i still think they suck. a lot. but evidently there are people who dont... so... YAY!!!) 3 more games to go this week .......... tooo much activity over break.... must...... get ...... more.... sleeeeeep.......

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/blearrrrrrrrggg_and_yays.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/gtgt.mws pirogoeth805 2006-04-19T05:04:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/gtgt.mws wow..... evidently i suck at making links..... i just went and edited it 3 TIMES.... no.... its not me... must be mindsay.... i used to be good at html...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/gtgt.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/uhhhhhhhhh_go_me.mws pirogoeth805 2006-04-25T09:04:03-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/uhhhhhhhhh_go_me.mws well, before i tell you my good news, i have to explain something about my school, incase y'all didn't already know.... first: at my school, latin is a required course for all grades 7th-10th second: we take national latin exams every year, and things are awarded according to your score(out of 40 i think). summa cum laude= 37-perfect points, somthing-slightly-lower-cum laude=35-36 points, magna cum laude=errrrr somethings..... and cum laude= 32-33? points. rest doesn't get anything. 135,000 students world wide took this this year. .7% actually got a perfect score(my teacher, who loves math, actually went and calculated this... 0.o.....(waaaay too much spare time)). this is evidently really hard.... last year i was one point off from perfect... go figure. now, the good news: I GOT A PERFECT SCORE!!!!!!!!!(ha- take that, mr.stauble........ it was YOUR substandard teaching that made me a bad latin student. not me. :P) bad news: we lost 5-3 today. drat. another game tomorrow, one friday, and a tournament on saturday. its gonna be a long week.......

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/uhhhhhhhhh_go_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaar.mws pirogoeth805 2006-06-03T12:06:08-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaar.mws arg! sometimes i hate my school. that excellence awards stuff is a bunch of bullshit. how can getting B- to an A not be considered excellence? stupid school is soooooo subjective. i think they did it because i got my latin award(which i won outside the school fairly, thankyouverymuch). they did this last year too, and it pisses me off. people i do better in school that got excellence awards. its ridiculous, and it pisses me off. on top of that, i had to sit through an hour+ of my "dear headmaster" talking endlessly in this voice that could put you to sleep. and and..... "trihawks"... what kind of mascot name is that? ohhhhhh stick a "tri" in front of something and its the best thing ever!(even with stylized font, nothing would be able to convey the sarcasm and how pissed off i am.) i mean... "trinity trihawks"....ITS REDUNDANT. and stupid. on a better note- i finally have gotten a new comp!(my dear little mac mini- its sooooo cute with its duo core processor!!!... and it comes with a remote!) and now i've been playing neverwinter nights obsessively ever since. i'm in chapter 2 with a level 9 half-elf fighter. i'm happy. although, if i had discovered about the henchmen quests sooner, i would have gotten more than Tomi's done... oops, oh well.another cool thing: i advanced 2 levels so far in chapter 2. caves and orcs add up a lot of xp. it makes me happy. hopefully i can beat the game by the time the next one comes out......... officially am bored. and dead.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/aaaaaaaaaaaaaar.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/eh.mws pirogoeth805 2006-06-20T06:06:32-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/eh.mws well, yet another beging of the week "wasted" playing nwn.... but,,, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa!!! i almost have the game beaten!!!(and no, i DO NOT need to go to nwaa, kate ><...) aw weel.... got more slayers & tsubasa nine. saw steph, went to cascade bay with "the clan". life is good..... will beat nwn next sitting.. bwaha... later *edit* oh yeah- i took maddie for a good long walk...(long considering that i'm lazy)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/eh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/world_cup_switz_vs_ukraine.mws pirogoeth805 2006-06-26T05:06:02-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/world_cup_switz_vs_ukraine.mws well, they've gone into doulbe overtime, and still no goal, about to go into shoot out. very amusing. lol, european soccer players exagerate their injuries so much, but i see why. if they dont, fouls dont get called ^^;; imagine if the NFL were like that....lol............ have not played NWN in a WEEK*LE GASP!!!!* surprisingly, not going into withdrawl....... probably because i just went for a swim........ even an hour lap swim feels good... i've forgotten how much i missed the chlorine ^^. lol,only 2 months until i die from too much school work... wow.. thats depressing.... another bad thing... i left my favorite sketch book at my friends house.... now i can't post my best artwork until i see her again T.T not fair...... aw damn.... ukraine won in penalty shoot out(3-0)..... well, all i can say is that i hope they whoop italy's ass. that'd be funny..... so far, not a bad monday....... oh well.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/world_cup_switz_vs_ukraine.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/meh.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-22T06:07:30-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/meh.mws okay, so, evidently, there have been a number of people actually nagging me to update this thing*blows some dust off the blog*, which really does not seem to deserve this kind of attention. however, i'll go over a few things that happened since i last updated.... -found out one of my friends is going away for 4-6 months for treament.... IN ARIZONA. this really sucks.... she was like.... the half of me that actually tried to think rationally(note the word tried.) -saw the "horde"(my small group of friends with which i feel i can actually swear in front of without harming delicate little ears(snickers...)), and pirates II(mweeeeeee... Capt' Jack is back...) -went to presbyterian mass-i mean service with my friend(part of horde) and went to a coffee shop to say good bye to my shiney little pixie before she left the next day with another of the horde. -babysat. again. -got a new sketch pad(its even bigger and better... and its perferated!) -got Godchild vol.1, kamichama karin vol. 4,uh... tsubasa vol.9 megatokyo vol.4 and...(*checks through mound of manga in manga drawer*)more slayers novels.... btw, i now have 45+vol. of manga GO ME!!(yeah, i know, pathetic. tokyo pop has made a small fortune off me since seventh grade. viz has too) -STILL haven't finished NWN, and its killing me. -went to highland fest. way early and very disappointing. not as many vendors and my stalls aren't there either. it took half of an hour to go see all the vendors. it used to take twice as long.but hey, i got real origami crane earings(ie actually folded and made of paper) a little prezzie for the pixie, and a cute barrette. -have been swimming almost everyday. -had "survive or die" practice thing with my team and had a cook out. we played ultimate frisbee. i do good kick offs. -had all-sophmore bonfire(except only 5 guys showed up...... losers(the rest of the guys, not the ones that showed up..)). we played capture the flag and volleyball.... the guys managed to p0wnzor our asses though because we had too many girls wanting to play that didn't really know how, and wanted to play. then later we ditched the guys and had a sleepover. lol... philisophical arguments at 3-5 o'clock in the morning are sooo amusing. -finished ceres, and am close to doing the same with ranma 1/2. i have faaaaarrr too much time. -finally finished Hans Christian Anderson(i've been reading it on and off since Christmas. and i love it to bits!) -have discovered i have more than 2100 songs on my ipod(plus podcasts)... itunes says i could play it for more than 39 days straight, and still have a little left over(i dont believe it, but its still cool as hell ^^) and thats about it. not very exiting, ne?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/meh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/hint_hint.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-23T05:07:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/hint_hint.mws btw, free ecookie with every comment made on my blog!(i am one of those people who gets annoyed when there is a lack of people commenting.... it makes me feel as though people just glanced and left, instead of reading...) yay! my puppy-dog is feeling better! ^^ currently i'm kinda tried because i stayed up til past 12 trying to get her to eat and/or drink water. my father and i ended up "feeding" her pedialyte(or however the heck its spelled) with the baster...... oh yeah, i forgot, i got my hair cut, so the longest it is right now is at the top of my shoulder blades..... i cant wait to freak out my class mates in a couple of weeks... mweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/hint_hint.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/guess_the_songs.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-23T08:07:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/guess_the_songs.mws shoinked from Magician(basic editing, my computer doesn't like the advanced mode...) Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play! Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play! Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from! Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly (in my case, they're highlighted red.)guess-ees will be...bright green 1.in quiet places so dark as eternity, I'm crying calling your name(bonus points if you can do this with out google) 2.you were holding to me, like a someone broken 3.Your eyes tell the stories of a day you wish you could Recall the moments that once have 4.I'm young, and I am free But I get tired, and I get weak 5.So, honey, back for more Can't you see that all the stuff's essential? 6.so i made a big mistake, try to see it once my way 7.Pictures came and broke your heart. 8.Mornië utúlië (Darkness has come) 9.What follows has lead me to this place, where I belong, with all erased 10.We are never sad cause we are not allowed to be Super Sugar 11.You can’t go on hiding yourself Behind old fashioned fairytales (p-chan should be able to get this. ^^)subaruxsumeragi 12..Itsumou arigato hontou arigato(major props for people who get this with out googling it.and bonus e cookies)thefallenangel 13.with my sad picture of girl getting bitterer can you extract me from my plastic fantasy? i didnt think so but im still convinceableaosm18 14.So I held my head up high, Hiding hate that burns insidethefallenangel 15.No angel born in hell, Could break that Satan's spellmagician 16.And said "Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath." 17.And now I don't care , I had no luck ,I don't miss it all that muchthefallenangel 18.Once I was so sure, Now the doubt inside my mind, Comes and goes, but leads nowhere 19.By then I knew I could do without, There's nothing new to talk about 20.It's safe to say you're never alive. , A big part of you has died. 21. Choking on woodbine, Cigarettes just kill the time 22.No mercy for the lost ,No soothing for the sad ,The line is never crossed ,They are the living dead 23. How many days disapear,You look in the mirror so how do you choose? 24.Down beside where the riverbed sleeps ,Is a man not knowin’ what he should feel ,Mocked by the wave that beats the waters edge Super Sugar 25.I took off my pretty party dress , And I don't dance no more , I don't need someone else , To make me feel myself extra points and e cookies to people who give artists. especially when they get the right ones.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/guess_the_songs.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=96 pirogoeth805 2006-07-24T11:07:41-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=96 yay! more props to me for being uncreative in my layout! whoo hoo! as you will notice, once again, the replies and pluggins stuff all has a theme. try and guess it. here's a hint: it maye have something in common with a song in that list down below*hint hint, go take a guess!*! my avvie is, once again, one of my pieces of artwork ->click the picture to see some!! *is wondering if the damn html actually worked right* well, thats about it. missing my pixie and the one who keeps me in line.....(well, she tries.) my dog is feeling better(did i already say this?) definitely much better.. much nicer to have a healthy puppy dog sleeping on top of my feet than one who is breathing abnormally fast... have discovered how much i like chuck norris jokes. maybe tomorrow everyone can submit their favorite ones... more on this tomorrow. babysitting went well. we went to the pool... and then and hour before scheduled departure, it began to rain. boo hiss. the kids got my shorts wet in ALL the wrong places. every single one. perhaps you can use your imagination(hopefully the non perverted one....)

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/96 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/chuck_norris_jokes_and_other_things.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-25T05:07:36-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/chuck_norris_jokes_and_other_things.mws Alright, so yesterday i mentioned i liked Chuck Norris Jokes. i also decided to have today be a day where everyone can share theirs if they know any. For instance, here are some examples: -Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now called the islands. -Chuck Norris does not go hunting. The word hunting implies a probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. -On the SAT if you put Chuck Norris for every answer, you will score over 8000. - A chuck norris-delievered Roundhouse kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states. - If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris, you may be only seconds from death. in other news, according to a new OSX widget, i will die on November 20th, 2082. i will live for a while. unless i happen to mysteriously be eatten by my closet during a routine cleaning. then i'm gone. ..... extended vacation if you will. again, i encourage people to try their hand at that list of song lyrics down below. most of them aren't hard.. well, a couple, but whats the fun without a couple of challanges?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/chuck_norris_jokes_and_other_things.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/im_missing_youeven_though_you_cant_see_this_bleaaaarrrrggg.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-26T10:07:34-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/im_missing_youeven_though_you_cant_see_this_bleaaaarrrrggg.mws babysitting went pretty well. it was a quiet day overall. they just decided to take their walk when it was blazing hot outside(i melt like a snowman in high heat and humidity)..... oh well. at least they didn't bicker today... i hate it when they do it. it reminds me too much of my baby brother screaming at to go away(billy:AWAY! AWAY! me: hey! stop hitting me! its time to eat!)...... right now: really missing someone. shes practically the better part of me, and i have to live without her for 4-6 months. its so depressing. we dont even go to the same school anymore, so i wont get to see her everyday. she always knew when i felt shitty, even if no one else knew, because i always tried to act like nothing was wrong. i hate it when people worry about me, and having people ask me why i'm not smiling or being happy like i usually am really sucks. its like people expect me to be happy all the time, and its really tiring putting on that happy face, covering up the shadows from a lack of sleep, and trying so hard not to fall over from exhaustion. there are some days where i just wanna cry because its so much. and she always made the pain go away. she knew when i needed my space. she knew when to bug me about something i didn't want to talk about. and now she not here. its like you dont know what you've got until its gone(yeah i know, straight from big yellow taxi, but who cares right?). and then when you do, you want it so bad it hurts. i cant even call her, or email her. i have to live with writing her letters, and then wondering when the reply gets back. (i'm gonna stop now.... i'm getting super whiney and i sound like a dork. this isn't the sort of thing you guys wanna hear about anyways...) how i'm essebtially feeling right now:i think some lyrics from Iris by Goo Goo Dolls sums it up nicely... excerpt from Iris(Goo Goo Dolls) Cause sooner or later it's over I just don't want to miss you tonight Chorus And I don't want the world to see me Cause I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am Verse 3 And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies When everything seems like the movies Yeah you bleed just to know your alive i'm out. an-chan. Big Yellow taxi- counting crows They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them No, no, no, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples, Leave me the birds and the bees - please Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey now, they've paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not? Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door swing, And a big yellow taxi took my girl away Now don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot Hey now now, don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone They paved paradise to put up a parking lot Why not, they paved paradise They put up a parking lot Hey hey hey, paved paradise and put up a parking lot I don't wanna give it Why you wanna give it Why you wanna givin it all away Hey, hey, hey Now you wanna give it I should wanna give it Cuz you're givin it all away, no no I don't wanna give it Why you wanna give it Why you wanna givin it all away Cuz you're givin it all givin it all away yeah yeah Cuz You're givin it all away hey, hey, hey Hey, paved paradise, to put up a parking lot la,la, la, la, la, la, la ,la ,la ,la ,la Paved paradise, and put up a parking lot

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/im_missing_youeven_though_you_cant_see_this_bleaaaarrrrggg.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaggggg_the_heatsomeone_shoot_me.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-27T03:07:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaggggg_the_heatsomeone_shoot_me.mws well, its bloody hot as every in whats usually an icebox 7 months out of the year(probably more actually). ands it wont be gone by monday. its supposed to hit 100 over the weekend(f-height, thank god.), so if you see a random puddle of whatever on the sidewalk, with duct tape, hemp bracelets and a deck of coca-cola playing cards floating in it, you'll know what happened to me. we spent a good chunk of the day getting started on building a small little climbing-tower/slide/swingset/monkey bars thing for billy-boy(2 years old, and already a pain in the arse). in the heat. i think if i sat outside for a couple hours, i might lose weight(water weight though, not fat....)... same principle as covering yourself with eyemake-up remover and sitting in a sauna for a while(don't ask how i know this.... wrestlers(johnny-boy,18,going off to college) know everything about losing weight. period.) so yeah, i guess you'd call it the dogs days of summer. it really doesn't help that i have almost no shorts..... damn my clothing preference in pants.... well, yet another thing to spur more comment making. this is something i did waaaaaay back in the beginning of this thing, and i wanted to see if anythings changed. 1. What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of me? 2. Go to Google and conduct an image search for that word. 3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results. Please refrain from telling me the actual word. i wonder what y'all with come up with......... no whine-fests today, so you can actually bear to read my blog. although i think i'll write the pixie a letter. who knows, the us postal service might actaully get it there by the end of the week.....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/aaaaaaaaaaggggg_the_heatsomeone_shoot_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/boring_sunday.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-30T07:07:48-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/boring_sunday.mws well, mom took me shoping for shorts so i dont die in denim at camp this year from the heat(although, right pair of jeans, i dont think i'd mind...) still hotter than hell around here, although i *think* its getting cooler. hopefully, NONE of you invokes the law of murphy. also, my birthday is coming up!yays, because i'll finally get a wacom tablet!!! (this, i think, if i had, i could die happy having it) this saturday is going to be nice, lovely day, where i will sleep in. hopefully. except i'll probably be packing most of the day T_T because camp is the next day. which is alright because i get to get out of teh house and see some people(like sam! have a cookie.) i've started drawing again after a little "drought" of non-draw-age due to me feeling like a dork, and not wanting to do anything that might cheer me up. i hate it when i feel like being depressed. i never get anything done. oh well, i'll write pixie a letter, and maybe she'll have gotten me a letter by the time i get back from camp ^^. Mad World-(sung by Gary Jules, originally by tears for fears) All around me are familiar faces Worn out places Worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going no where Going no where Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression No expression Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow No tomorrow No tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles it's a very very Mad world Mad world Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday Happy birthday Made to feel the way that every child should Sit and listen Sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me No one knew me Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me Look right through me And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles it's a very very Mad world Mad world Enlarging your world Mad world

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/boring_sunday.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ah_what_a_nice_bloddy_hot_monday.mws pirogoeth805 2006-07-31T09:07:39-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ah_what_a_nice_bloddy_hot_monday.mws okay, so, today was hot, AGAIN. which really sucks.. but at least i got to do chores inside... cleaning my room. never again will i let it get that bad. it was horrible. i hope my closet will stay clean as well..... it usually tries to eat me when i clean it...... however, there is good news!(well, for everyone who mooches manga off me.....) i got tsubasa volume ten! unfortunately, they didn't have sugar sugar rune volume 3, but oh well...... camp is 6 days away, and i haven't even begun trying to find things i need(except for my awesome back-packing bag! that thing is sooo nice for resident camps. and my sleeping bag, of course.)although, it would probably help if i had the packing list, which i dont have thanks to super late registration........ oh well. maybe i just have to pay the camp directors a visit(coincidently, they are my neighbors. what luck, eh?) Birthday countdown: 5 days! whoo hoo! oh yeah, the kitty-kins is home finally! ^^ this is good. now maybe i wont die of boredom before camp!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/ah_what_a_nice_bloddy_hot_monday.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mwaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-01T11:08:08-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mwaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws okay, so, it was much better today-IT RAINED. extremely humid, but i'll take the low of 70-ish. much better than 101(what the high was yesterday-blearg) what i find rather amusing is that its supposed to t-storm on my birthday. oh well. i like thunderstorms. they make me go to sleep faster.they dont freak me out like some people i know. anywho, my dad and i just finished watching Star Wars IV: The Empire Strikes Back. Mwaaaaaaaaa........ i <3 Han Solo...(leia: i love you. Han: I know.) theres just something so funny about the way he says it. i'm guessing we're gonna watch Return of the Jedi tomorrow night. we dont believe in the newer three. they are crap movies. they should never have been brought into existence, and Jar Jar Binks deserves to die a horrible, painful death. there is no other way around it. anywho, kitty-kins is probably coming over tomorrow, and this makes me extremely happy. ^^, seeing as how i haven't seen her(or anyone else for that matter) for over a week. good news for sam: Yay! the last medical form is in! i'm officially going to camp! w00t w00t! 3 second party!(untz untz untz!!!) anyone else:please ignore past 2 sentences, colon, and parenthesis. this will make things oh so much easier. trust me. and now(what this blog hasn't seen in a while) a little quizzie! Name: An-chan Age:almost 15!!^^ eye color: blue. not sure which shade anymore. hair: goldish(has blonde, bits of red, and brunette. i get the best of all of it!) shoulder blade length. very wavy. height:5' 3".. no longer considered petite! whoo hoo! right/left handed: right, of course! sports: swimming,(diving when its actually availible), softball, probably going to manage the wrestling team next year. favorite subject:right now, still latin. doctrine was fun, actually. color:midnight blue. currently playing(music)?: Pieces by sum 41 desktop: shia from pita ten. portable music player: 30 gig vid. ipod(otherwise known as l337 p0d) reading anything?:soul music by terry pratchett. probably not what you'd think it would be. movie:ummmmmmmmm welllllllllllllllllllll.........i suppose A.I. for right now. pets?: right now? just a puppy dog. and the brothers if they count. :) hobbies: drawing. reading. medieval weaponry. Neverwinter Nights fav. game?:Neverwinter Nights!!! Its so awesome! everyone should play! like anyone right now?: NO. have a b/f or g/f?: no. they're not practical right now.i dont think my brother would let the guy within 20 feet anyways. have a job: hah, no. what do you take me for? wishing you were somewhere else: yes. very much so. tuscon might not be bad right now... or oregon. maybe toronto. yeah, toronto sounds good... favorite show: probably still the simpsons. cartoon character: probably Lina Inverse.. i've been told i should cosplay her.... not sure if this is a good thing, or my friends teasing me about my height again.... or other things.... awards:yeah. mostly academic or having to do with non-athletic stuff. onii-chan's the major athlete. not me. ever grieved: oh god yes. multiple times. life sucks. broken bones:yep. ankle. broke one, sprained the other. now they function like barametric pressure meters. stitches:yep. chin. ice skating. dont ask. clutz?:uh huh car accident?: i've been hit, but i dont think thats quite the same... ever been in the hospital over night:yep. damn iv's. coke or pepsi?: coke. always. pepsi sucks. like your life: sometimes. not really. too much emotional damage for one lifetime, thankyouverymuch. religious: yeah, but i lean more towards prostestant than catholic now. and even then i have a few modifications, based on the early beliefs of christianity. stuff you dont associate with it. been in a fight: yeah. not much to say. nerd/geek:errr...... dunno. depends on how you define them i suppose. i like some of school, and i'm good with computers. i do a lot of computer gaming. popular:normal high school? probably not. my school? sure. lots of people know me and like me. if any of y'all have more questions, feel free to ask. i'll answer them the best i can.but now, i'm off to bed, because i'll probably get woken up early to watch the small it-ling. camp count down:5 days. b-day: 4 days. wee.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/mwaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yay.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-06T12:08:05-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yay.mws okay, so yesterday was my 15th birthday. my day was... alright. i got stuff for camp, did packing, and stuff. got Howl's Moving Castle(squeeeeee!!! i <3 howl!!! ^^ he is soooooo insanely awesome!!)so you can borrow that too sam. (favorite thing from the little previews for it: "The herione is a 90 year old girl. Her sweetheart is a cowardly wizard."XD poor howl.... and "Where does this old lady get her energy?!?!?!?!!?") but anywho, have to go to camp today. so i wont be back for a week. i hope everyone has a good week while i'm gone. i get to see a large number of my friends(aka the people who unneedingly worry about me...)and, go sailing!well, i'll probably be stuck with one of the two girls i really dont like ¬.¬;........ thanks to murphy's law probably being invoked somewhere by someone. hopefully my chinese good luck charm keeps him at bay.....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/yay.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/oooohhh_how_forgetful_of_me.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-06T12:08:50-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/oooohhh_how_forgetful_of_me.mws YAY! okay, in honor of actually getting to 100 posts, sometime when i get back, i'll make a little omake for you guys. thanks for sticking with me through the idiocy and whatnot that seems to be me. i really am thankful that some of you actually put of with me, and so you all get a jar of ecookies until i get that omake up ^^. again, thanks for reading.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/oooohhh_how_forgetful_of_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/stupid_update.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-11T11:08:16-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/stupid_update.mws okay, so my wacom tablet came today!!!!(yayy!!!) unfortunately, the omake doesn't come up until sometime tomorrow. this omake, is going to be the way i tell you guys about camp! so until then, you get this sucky questionaire thing. Shoinked from grieverangelus A is for age: 15 B is for beer of choice: .... there are 2 problems wrong with this question. a) i cant "legally" drink yet. b) even though i've had the stuff, i hate it. drambuie and scotch whickey taste sooo much better C is for career right now: too young. people wont hire me. too busy anyways D is for your dog's name?: maddie E is for essential item you use everyday: ... my clothing? ummmm stuff so i dont look like the living dead? F is for favorite tv show at the moment: SIMPSONS!!!!!(homer:all work and no beer make homer go something something... marge:go crazy? homer: dont mind if i do!) G is for favorite game: NWN(y'all should know this one by now..) H is for Home town: St. Paul Minnesota I is for instruments you play: i used to play flute. and that damed recorder. J is for favorite juice: Orange juice! K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: ... you have no idea. L is for last place you ate: the frieght house in stillwater M is for marriage: someday. depends on the guy N is for your full name: Anna Cecelia Brandtjen O is for overnight hospital stays: when i was... ten for 2 days. P is for people you were with today: my unit, brothers, counselors, parents, ect. Q is for quote: "some days i feel like shit , and i just wanna quit and be normal for a bit"(yeah i know, song lyrics... oh well) R is for Biggest Regret: crying way too much nowadays. i know i shouldn't, and i feel like such an idiot, and its so unlike me. i am so sick of crying. i should have run out of tears by now. S is for status: Tired,tired, and um, in need of sleep. T is for time you woke up today: 7:15.... mwwaaaahahahahaha... we got to sleep in... U is for Unicorn; Do you believe? what do you think i am, a little girl? hell no. besides, just slap a fake horn and some super bonder, and some purple sparkly spray paint, and you've got instant unicorn. V is for vegetable you love: i like asparagus. W is for worst habit: saying sorry too much. cracking my joints constantly. eating too much for my size. X is for x-rays you've had: ummmm i know i've had at least three... probably more. 2 for ankles, multiple full body scans for a sudy, multiple full body after being hit.. Y is for yummy food you ate today CAMP FOOD!!(jk, it was pretty bad this morning.. although the peppermint bon bon when i got home was good) Z is for zodiac sign: Leo

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/stupid_update.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/the_omakewhoo_hoo_its_done.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-13T02:08:11-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/the_omakewhoo_hoo_its_done.mws okay, yeah, its late i know. but its done! part one goes from sunday till tuesday. i'll get more done at a resonable time today.... i apologize if ou can't read the text... or my handwriting. i did this on my new wacom tablet, so i'm still getting used to it. feel free to drag to the desktop to be able to zoom in on your favorite application. its also on my deviantart.=> pendragon805.deviantart.com hopefully the html works....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/the_omakewhoo_hoo_its_done.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/omake_part_2still_in_color_and_craptastically_done_now_with_fire.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-13T06:08:45-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/omake_part_2still_in_color_and_craptastically_done_now_with_fire.mws okay, heres part two. it goes from wednesday to most of thursday. the rest in a day or two. can also be found on the deviant art under recent artworks. if the image doesn't pop up, just click the question mark, and it'll take you to the page.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/omake_part_2still_in_color_and_craptastically_done_now_with_fire.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/quick_update_about_the_omake.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-15T01:08:50-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/quick_update_about_the_omake.mws ok, so its been a couple days since the last part, and i feel like a total slacker, but it will go up sometime tonight, hopefully. swim practice has started, so i might not be on as often because school starts next thursday(GAHHHH THE HORROR...*falls over dead from a heart-attack due to the impending d00m* if anyone wants to give me a jump start, please feel free. if not, well, omake doesn't go up ^^;;; ) so thats whats up. hopefully i'll be able to get on evry weekend though so y'all dont worry if my closet ate me(because you all know i hate it when people worry about me... such a bad habit. i should also cut back on the swearing.. ha ha, i'm such a loser sometimes.) see you all later. ha ha, i feel so dead right now.. i need sleep.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/quick_update_about_the_omake.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/updatingabout_the_lack_of_omakeness_im_sorry.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-19T11:08:52-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/updatingabout_the_lack_of_omakeness_im_sorry.mws okay, so, first week of practice is over, and i'm not dead yet. YAY!!!!!! party for the non-deadness. whoo hoo! thursday, school starts, which is really sucky, because i have to do choir again all year TT_TT take me with you sam... if you have any sense of kindness, you'll take me with you, because you know what choir does to me.........*sniffles* ok.. back to the entry... tomorrow two(possible three of my friends, if we can ever get a hold of her)of my friends and i are going to the renaissance festival!!! whoo hooo! and its opening weekend! score!(we kinda have to go opening weekend because we dont wanna go when school starts. too much homework, and i cant miss weekend practices. especially since they put them in the middle of the afternoon half the time) but its kinda sad since our friend in tuscon isn't here. she always used to go with us, resulting in kitty having to try and check the levels of crazyness that always ensued.but.. oh well. going to go get school supplies today. bleh. i swear the omake will be up sometime next week. i'm sorry, its been too long, but i've been soooooo busy. half the time, i cant even get onto my computer. for instance, i ended up having to babysit all night last night. so couldn't have been, even if i'd had a connection....(fyi sam, i lost my connection yesterday suddenly, and it still wasn't back by 12 o'clock. i'm so sorry(yes i said. you can whack me later for it..). gomenasai...) so until i get it up, i'll probably post stupid little "filler things" so that y'all dont get bored..(although you probably will anyways.... ^^ ;;;;;;;; ) see you around, and have a good day

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/updatingabout_the_lack_of_omakeness_im_sorry.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/renaissance_festivalw00t_w00t.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-21T03:08:46-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/renaissance_festivalw00t_w00t.mws okay so yesterday was awesome! kitty kins and lizzy came with me, and we had so much fun! i got a pair of arm bracers, which are black with red flur-de-lis and metal clasps. i also got a tail (mwaaaahahahaha... ph34r teh tail people. dont worry, i have a picture. you will get to see.), a necklace, a chain mail bracelet,and i got an awesome-o book mark for my friend.nyahaha.. and a pressie for sam : ) . i'm proud of myself. i got a ton of really awesome compliments on my outfit, and on my sword / back baldric(a back sheath for those un-savvy of weaponry), which was made, by some marvelous feat of "engineering", out of duct tape! it took a while, but it was so worth it. even if i did use more than half of a roll of duct tape XD . we ran into someone from our school, and some of her relations and friends. including "emo bat boy", aka mr.flowers. he may have been something of an ass, but he was incredibly amusing. as was his outfit. mwaaaa.. he had wings. and horns hee hee hee... we did the hobbit hole thing again(just for laughs..... lizzy was about to go into one of the mini rooms but there were people comming : ( .) anywho, as soon as i get the pictures developed, and i can scan them, you get to see the lovelyness that was the "french brigand"(as kittykins nicknamed me due to the bracers....)and the sword.. and the sheath.. heee heee... and probably camp too. i'll get them developed at the same time i think. oh yeah, we visited the weaponry shops(there were two) and the owners let me handle their swords. EVEN THE HIGHLAND CLAYMORES. mwaaaaaaaaaaa... sadly, there is no picture of me holding such weapons due to fact that the owners dont want their merchandise designs shoinked. alas. no pictures of small teenage girls masquerading around in renaissance wear holding swords almost as big as they are XD . one of the claymores was really heavy though because it had no fuller XD . that was a rather amusing conversation between the owner and i.... ha ha.. welpers, gotta get ready for swim practice(and i should work on the omake.... oops.) see you guys later. p.s. remind me to smack my brother the next time he tries to start stroking the tail,..... ITS MY TAIL DAMNIT... oh yeah, and i got a t-shirt this year. it makes me an official kilt inspector XD nyahahahahaha.. long live my small scottish heritage.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/renaissance_festivalw00t_w00t.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/somedaysplus_final_omake.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-23T05:08:45-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/somedaysplus_final_omake.mws so, yeah, updating again. i'll put the omake up after this little "rant" about how much life kinda sucked today. yeah, its gonna be whiney. i'm gonna sound pathetic. i dont care. i need somewhere to vent, and right now, my outlet is in arizona. so yeah, today i had to get up and go to orientation. what a joy. then i had to sit through my headmaster drone on about his damn love of golf, and how much he enjoys it even though he sucks. then i got to listen to my dean go through the handbook for a 4th time. and then my biology teacher from last year got to give us the talk on(just us and the junior girls) how our school wants to run our social lives. a.) as now defined, my talking with my close friends every day would be too exclusive. even if its three of us. b.) we're not allowed to go around in our "sports cliques"(even though thats where most of my friends are, and it goes for pretty much everyone else) because again, its too exclusive. c.) being seen talking to a guy too much can get you in big trouble. they limit how much we actually "hang out" with the guys in our school, so when we get to our jr. year,they're like, um, why dont you guys get along better? i mean, honestly, those co-ed class parties should have been enough. and y'know, you're not really allowed to be socially adept with the oppostie sex here, because you might just start acting like normal teenagers. d.) forget going and having a boyfriend/girlfriend if you want one. if they find out you're going out with someone from your class or in the school, they'll try to forbid you from having any contact at school. period. they've done when they thought boys ad girls have gotten too close. at the begining of every year, they basically make you sign away any rights you have with concerns to your social life. this is not a joke. yeah, i know, you guys are wondering why i go here right? because its small, and i wont get lost. i dont have to deal with people i know will try to hurt me. i can actually learn without having distractions. and it has a pretty decent art program. thats about it though. so when i got home, i had to do loads of cleaning to help get the house ready for my brothers graduation party. what a joy. i was having issues with the vacum cleaner, and got a little pissed that i have to do all this cleaning just for my brother, when i know that i wont even get thanked by him for all work thats been done, and he just comes up to me and yells at me telling me how little i do around the house, and how worthless i am in the whole scheme of things, and how i never do anything except babysit once in a while and such. and i got pissed and yelled back at him because he wasn't doing anything. then, about ten minutes later, a vacum attatchment stopped working, and while i was trying to get it to work, my brother came out of his room, and started poking things. when i told him to just go away because i was still uberly pissed, he yelled at me never to raise my voice to him ever again, and tried to slap me. when i managed to stop him in mid slap, he grabbed both of my wrists and sqeezed very hard, and twisted, while lecturing me on how not horrible my life is. then he started laughing at me becuase i started crying because my life is horrible right now. i'm going to be going to school everyday for the next 4-5 months without much sleep, have to go to a 2 hour swim practice everyday except wednesday(because we have saturday practice), then come home and try to do 3 hours of home work while extremely tired, and not even be able to talk to my best friend for the duration of the time, and just hope that she actually responds to the letters i'll try to send her.yep john, my life is just peachy right now. it was about 2:30, so after futile attempts at getting the vacum to work, i went downstairs and had a sandwhich because i hadn't had lunch. and the entire time, i couldn't stop crying because i feel so lonely and tired. life sucks. i kinda wish i didn't have to go through with it a lot lately. especially when knowing my friend, she'll probably have a relapse, land herself another few months in treatment, and i wont see her all year. it was just as bad last year because she was in and out of the hospital for months, never wanted to talk to anyone, and i think i saw her twice in like, 7-8 months. so yeah, you get the picture. i just wish i could have had a decent night's sleep for a week. guess i'm not meant to have a happy year. life just loves to kick you when you're down. then it comes back for more. now i'm really pissed, i hate my brother, and i'm depressed. so much for not crying about anything anymore. i can just tell right now life's gonna suck. rachel, you'd better get back soon without relapses or i might actually go insane. i'm not kidding. i can never vent like normal people, so i blow up. it sucks. i never get any sleep, like last night. i have to do so much during swim season, even though i'm tired, and need to rest.(my brother never had to do anything during wrestling, but he cant be bothered to do the dishes so i can do my homework while he goes and has a social life.) i'm gonna stop now and just post the omake... i'm just so damn tired i cant see straight. i hope everyone else had a better day.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/somedaysplus_final_omake.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/stupid_personality_quiz.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-23T06:08:39-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/stupid_personality_quiz.mws ha ha.. it all makes sense now...... i wish it were that simple..

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/stupid_personality_quiz.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/first_week_of_school_and_stuff.mws pirogoeth805 2006-08-27T11:08:40-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/first_week_of_school_and_stuff.mws okay, so thursday was kinda better than friday.. aw hell, what am i saying? it was better. partially because on thursday, we had like, no homework since some of our textbooks weren't in, and despite the fact that practice had a ton of backstroking involved, i /guess/ it was alright. theres more on wednesday/thursday, but that gets its own section : ) friday was shitastic. mainly because all morning i felt kinda sick, but didn't want to miss practice.(yeah, i know, swimmers are crazy. deal with it.) i couldn't finish off a bagel i *tried* to eat for breakfast, and had to mooch because i didn't have time to make a lunch. my friend gave me some food, but all i could manage to eat was like, a foot of celery with peanut butter , and even that felt like too much >.< and i felt so cold all day for no appearent reason. usually the building is far too warm for my tastes, but friday it was super cold >.< and i was wearing a sweater the whole time. i had to force myself to stay awake first hour because all i had gotten all week was 3 hours of sleep every night. it mega sucked. and unfortunately, friday was the day i decided to go without the caked on makeup.... >.< bad idea. way too many people telling me i should go home, and miss practice. practice was a little better than on thursday because we did breaststroke drills like, 3/4 of the time. twas awesome, except for when we were doing this one drill that required us not to kick, hence i was choking on water because i couldn't get my shoulders up high enough. i had to stop in the middle of the pool so i could breathe.. and then my coach freaked because i was having a coughing spasm or something..... oops. when i got home, my mother made lox burgers for dinner, and, once again, could not even finish half of it >.> . my apetite has been down the drain all week or so, so, heh heh... i looked in the mirror, in the locker room, after practice and i actually looked skinnier.. tell me how that works... plus i weighed myself, just to make sure i wasn't seeing things, and i had lost like, 6-8 pounds since i got home fom camp >.< not good. oops. now, onward to a better topic...... so, if any of you have looked at my profile lately and the more detailed, section, you may have seen something thats rather unprecedented since this blog started. yep, thats right. anchan in in love. ^^ aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the best part is, is that the person i'm in love with is also madly in love with me ^^. so on wednesday night, he told me, and i was utterly blown away, because he was in a dying relationship(which is now actually dead and over.) and i hadn't even thought that he might like me that way, due to my rather idiotic obliviousness(how many anchans does it take to figure out someone likes her? far too many, because even 100 couldn't do it thanks to the obliviousness....) but it made me so happy. and of course, i, like an idiot , couldn't tell him until thursday night >.< and when i DID tell him, i think i was so relieved..... and i'm not entirely sure what his reaction was, because i, like a dork, told him over aim... yeah i'm kinda a loser -_-;; ... but its so awesome because we're madly in love with eachother ^^. the bad thing is that we go to and evil school, so we can never be alone, and he's like, a half an hour's drive away T_T and i'm not 16 yet so i can't even be his actual girlfriend... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah......... not fair T_T but now i'm starting to sleep better, and i'm a lot more happy these days. so, hopefully, no half-emoish posts for a while : ) i <3 my sweetheart.. he makes all things better..

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/first_week_of_school_and_stuff.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=114 pirogoeth805 2006-08-31T08:08:02-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=114 ok, so, i'm tied, and most definately going to sleep early tonight. the only reason i'm not doing my homework right now is that i'm trying to get back some of my logical thinking before doing so. we had a really hard practice today that involved way too much sprinting and way too much of me choking while breathing(yeah, i know, i'm crazy for continuing to swim). the only good things about to day were that we got to work on starts(including relays) and when we did rehearsals for our events next week, i came in on a 34-35(seconds.. obviously) for my 50 free, even though my goggles came off when i started. this is pretty good considering most swimmers majorly slow down when this happens.. well, i did slow down first 25, but i put myslef through hell in the flags,thorugh my turn, and all the last 25 back >.<. i could say something cheesy like "let me die now" but i already said that after finishing the last set, SO instead i'll say that "i'm goin to heaven because i've been through hell"(like... 15 times today >.> my coach is worse than a slave driver...) so if i dont get on tonight sweetheart, thats why, we got out of practice like, 15 minutes late, and i hads to try to force myself to eat something... so yeah, i'm sorry if i disappoint people, but i'm just so damned tired, and i still have chemistry and humane... /joy/....ow.. my knee hurts.. i'm just going to lie down and do my homework......... and hope i get it done soon.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/114 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/because_i_dont_feel_like_writing_about_my_week.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-02T01:09:22-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/because_i_dont_feel_like_writing_about_my_week.mws Yep, you guessed it, guess the songs round two. but this time around, it features lyrics that make me think of my boy : ) so, without further ado, here we go(its not "regulation amount" but who cares, right?)(and fyi, there really is no logical reasoning behind most of them...) 1.)For so long I thought I was asylum bound, /But just seeing you makes me think twice./And being with you here makes me sane. I fear I'll go crazy if you leave my side. 2.)I hear you call my name and it feels like Home./When you call my name, it's like a little Prayer. I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you thereultraviolet 3.)Oh once in your life you find someone Who will turn your world around Pick you up when ur feeling down Now nothing can change what you mean to me 4.)I know there’s something in the wake of your smile I get a notion from the look in your eyes, yeahultraviolet 5.)All the pain held in your... /Hands are shaking cold /Your hands are mine to holdultraviolet 6.)Can't explain all the feelings that you're making me feel /My heart's in overdrive and you're behind the steering wheel 7.)Until the day I die I'll spill my heart for you, for you 8.)Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight/It's hard to let it gosubaruxsumeragi 9.)Well maybe I'm in love love/Think about it every time/I think about it/Can't stop thinking 'bout i ( more like i can't stop thinking about you...<3) 10.)I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh/I wanna hold you high and steal your pain awayultraviolet 11.)And I'm feeling nervous Tryin' to be so perfect/'Cause I know you're worth it, you're worth it/Yeah... .../If I could see what I want to see/I want to see you go down--on one knee/Marry me today 12.)In your eyes, love, it glows so/Im bare boned and crazy for you 13.)You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be /And I don't want to go home right nowultraviolet 14.)I can feel his approach/Like the fire in my blood 15.)Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why,Without you it's hard to survive./.....Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky. They wipe away tears that I cry. 16.)I don't know how you do what you do /I'm so in love with you /It just keeps getting better /I want to spend the rest of my life /With you by my side /Forever and ever magician 17.)I'll be your dream /I'll be your wish /I'll be your fantasy. /I'll be your hope /I'll be your love /Be everything that you need. /I love you more with every breath /Truly madly deeply do.. ultraviolet 18.)You may need me there/To carry all your weight/But you're no burden I assure/You tide me over/With a warmth I'll not forget/But I can only give you love 19.)And I don't wanna fall to pieces/I just wanna sit and stare at you./I don't wanna talk about it /And I don't want a conversation/I just wanna cry in front of you./I don't wanna talk about it/'Cause I'm in love with you.ultraviolet 20.)in quiet places so dark as eternity/I'm crying calling your name/I'm searching for you 21.)all of the things that I want to say/just aren't coming out right/I'm tripping inwards/you got my head spinning/I don't know where to go from here/.....and I don't know why,I can't keep my eyes off of yousubaruxsumeragi

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/because_i_dont_feel_like_writing_about_my_week.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00t_theyre_finally_here.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-03T02:09:32-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00t_theyre_finally_here.mws yays! my i finally got my pictures on friday, and there are a few that turned out awesomely!! so, yes, there will be a picture that shows me wearing a tail (ahhhh... t3h s3xiness.... heh heh..) and theres one of my friend and i at camp before we took off all the scary make up (sadly, a ton of it had worn off... oh well..... because now you can't see that i look like death.. and that my lips were black.. in the picture they look very red...) so i'll get those up by the end of next week hopefully. ALSO this week- our first meet!! i'm so excited. so please wish me luck- i wanna break 33 on my 50 free so badly. sadly, i was swimming a 34-35 at practice on thursday, so i dont think it'll happen yet. so yeah. last week i got a ton more sleep than the previous week, and i can sorta eat on a regular basis again... although i still weigh like, 8 lbs less than i did at the beginning of the season @.@ go figure that one out... and woohoo, for not having done my homework yet!!!! but yeah, its my sweethearts birthday today :] so go wish subaruxsumeragi a happy birthday please. i'm so happy that i have him... i dunno what i'd do without him. he makes me happy when all else fails.^^ thats about it.. well, see you later. and please.. take a shot at some of those songs...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/w00t_theyre_finally_here.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blearrrrrghhhhh.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-15T08:09:42-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/blearrrrrghhhhh.mws sorry for a lack of updates. lately i've been way busy and extremely tired(YES SAM, YOU WIN), and as it turns out, am sick, and currently being quarantined to my bedroom, and will be fed jewish penicillin soon....(motzo ball soup for those unsavy of such terms). so my week has been rather sucky, and i miss sam....... i couldn't talk to him last night, during lunch, an probably wont be able to tonight because i'm just so tired(yeah, 8-1/2-9 hours of sleep is NOT enough for 3 days(total), especially when you are in a sport.) i went to school this morning, and almost fell alseep like, 10 times during scripture, and i drank 4 large cups of tea before it was even 9:30, and still couldn't really function. and i //tried// very hard to do practice, but had to stop when my elbows and shoulders hurt too much to stroke, and then my coach wouldn't let me try to come back.... damnation... oh well, at least she's in a better mood than she has been almost all week..... and i probably wont go to practice tomorrow either. which sucks, but i do need to get better. and i practically almost collapsed when i was trying to stretch in the locker room. thank god my team mates are more sensible than i am. sorry sam i just dont think i can tonight. but i hope that maybe i can tomorrow <3. until i feel better, i'm just gonna watch movies. and eat soup. and more malto meal. probably. night everyone. try not to get sick >.< i did do well at both of my past 2 meets though. *insert extremely wimpy weak cheer of "yays"*

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/blearrrrrghhhhh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_the_pictures_are_up.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-16T06:09:11-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_the_pictures_are_up.mws more accurately, they're up on my dev. art. so they'll be up here soon as well. with any luck... but yes, i do feel much better today after having gotten more sleep. and lunch. yays for jewish penicillan! so yes, shall be up soon! ta..

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/w00tz_the_pictures_are_up.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_pictures.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-16T07:09:24-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_pictures.mws yays, so i /am/ actually getting them up. w00tz. i think i'll save emo bat boy for another time... nyahahaha me, the renfest faeire, and liz ^^ bwahahaahaaa...the long awaited tail picture! and the duct tape back baldric ^^ you can see them better on my deviant art kittykins, liz and i the gag sword picture. where i look SO NOT MENACING. oh well. kate, me and liz the death picture, at long last. me(as death) with my friend katie, at camp. thats it. they're also up on my deviant art -----> pendragon805.deviantart.com so go take a look if you want a better view :x

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/w00tz_pictures.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/the_update_for_the_last_couple_of_weeks.mws pirogoeth805 2006-09-28T10:09:43-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/the_update_for_the_last_couple_of_weeks.mws okays so, a few things - i discovered that i have tendonitis in my right shoulder, so right now i cant go very fast :x this is bad because i suck at meets and at practice i am reduced to long and evil kick sets. and i am very slow at just kicking XD - i finally broke 33, but now i cant swim that fast for a while due to the shoulder -swam the 100 fly, and got a 1.27 :] i was very dead after that event -i got talked to 2 times for talking to my sweetheart. i hate my school at times. this was one of them. they told me i cant talk to him as much, and that i need to "hook up" with people oin my own grade. bitches.... - got kinda sick, was quarantined to the room for a weekend, and had to miss practice on saturday. although.. considering i almost collapsed in the lockerroom at the one the friday before, that was probably a good thing >.> - have almost fallen alseep during every scripture class thus far except for 2. i am so bad that ealry in the morning XD - i finally got some word on the dearest pixie's welfare <3 that made me very happy. hmm... not much to blog about.. oh wells.. see ya'll later. i have an invitational this staurday, wish me luck while i'm drugged up on painkillers..

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/the_update_for_the_last_couple_of_weeks.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_im_actually_getting_one_up_on_a_monday_oh_snap.mws pirogoeth805 2006-10-02T11:10:04-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/w00tz_im_actually_getting_one_up_on_a_monday_oh_snap.mws whelpers, the invitational //sorta// went alright. that 200 free just about killed me, but thatnk god i was able to ice my shoulder afterwards so i could swim my 100 breaststroke and my relay >.> so yeah i'm almost back down to my top meet time again on the 100 breaststoke (W00tz!!!(PULL! PULL!)) and thanks to the lead the first leg and i secured, my relay so OWN'D lane 8.. and funny enough, we all got almost identical splits XD and i was soooooooooooooo tired on saturday when i got home >.< i managed to just sit in the shower for half an hour before actually getting rid of the chlorine XD ah, god, my shoulder hurt so much XD now it still kinda hurts, but its not //as// bad. thats about it. see ya'll later.,.. shoinked from heavenlydemonic: (and oh so true..) girl: do i ever cross your mind? boy: no girl: do you like me? boy: no girl: do you want me? boy: no girl: would you cry if i left? boy: no girl: are you willing to do anything for me? boy: no girl: would you choose your life, or me? boy: my life *the girl starts to walk away* *boy grabs her arm* boy: you never cross my mind because you are always on my mind. i do not like you. i love you. i do not want you. i need you. i would not cry if you left me. i would die. i would not be willing to do anything because i would do everything for you. i choose my life because you are my life. 29 Ways To Make A Girl Smile. 1 . Tell her she is beautiful, not hott, fine or sexy 2 . Hold her hand at any moment even if it just for a second. 3 . Kiss her on the forehead. 4 . Kiss her in the rain. 5 . Always tell her you love her at any and all times. 6 . When she is upset hold her tight and tell her how much she means to you. 7 . Recognize the small things . . . they usally mean the most. 8 . Sing to her no matter how horrible your voice is. 9 . Pick her over all the other girls you hang out with. 10 . Write her notes. (she loves them) 11 . Introduce her to family and friends as your girlfriend. 12 . Play with her hair. 13 . Pick her up, tickle her and play-wrestle with her. 14 . Sit in the park and just talk to her. 15 . Tell her funny jokes, tell her stupid jokes, just tell her jokes. 16 . Throw pebbles at her window in the middle of the night just because you missed her. 17 . Let her fall asleep in your arms. 18 . Carve your names into a tree. 19 . If she's mad at you, kiss her. 20 . Give her piggyback rides. 21 . Bring her flowers just because. 22 . Treate her the same around your friends as you do when your alone. 23 . Look her in the eyes and smile. 24 . Let her take as many pictures of you as she wants. 25 . Slow dance with her, even if there isn't any music playing. 26 . Leave her voice messages to wake up to. 27. Never ignore her no matter who's around. 28. tell her EVERYTHING thats goin on in your life, she wants to know 29. and If you fall in love with her tell her..... FYI guys, yes all of it is soooooo true >.> ESPECIALLY NUMBER ONE.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/w00tz_im_actually_getting_one_up_on_a_monday_oh_snap.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_hi_everybody.mws pirogoeth805 2006-10-28T07:10:49-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_hi_everybody.mws oh my! i seem to have discovered some ancient work of literature... my is it dusty! OH WAIT! silly me, its my blog XD! SORRY for being practically dead to the blogging world. swim practice takes a lot out of you, and i only have 7 days of practice left until sections, and my school, as usual, just loves to give its student atheletes waaaaay too much homework. unfortunately, i feel so burned out right now, some of my thoughts are along the lines "c'mon... its just a lame ass 50, you can do it! " "just keep swimming... just keep swimming....(a few of these later) JUST KEEP SWIMMING DAMN IT! get your ass moving! you can beat all of those girls. do not, i repeat, do not wimp out!" and my favorite one: "c'mon , i know scripture is more boring than hell, but just stay awake so that mrs ryan doesn't kill you, ok? ok, good!" yeah, really tired right now, my confrence meet didn't go as well as i had hoped, but again, i'm super burned out, and swimming the 400 freelay is so hard after i have just put everything into my 100 breast stroke. i dont even like doing the 400, but because our team is so small, everyone ends up swimming 4 events(hence our events get maxed out) and we're all so dead. we have the talent, we really do, but all the other schools in our section and confrence have these huge teams, where their girls either do pure relays, or pure individual events, none of this bullshit about doing 1-2 individual events, and 2-3 relays.definately need to get more girls... but i'm kinda happy. soon it will all be over. then i can sleep again. and not feel rushed when i have to do homework. and guess what? he came to my meet :] it made my day so much better. if he hadn't been there, i probably would still be beating myself up over how shitastic i did. sometimes i dont know if he realizes that him just being there makes the difference between me being able to pull myself out of my shitty moods and go swim my hardest and me not being able to and doing even worse. although i was so mad at myself over how i did in my 100 breaststroke that i wasn't really there mentally for my 400 freelay, and it made a difference, because i did swim like 2 seconds slower than i should have :x my coaches took one look at me and said "you didn't look like you were there during the relay.." me: "yeah.... i tried, but i just couldn't... i left it all in the pool, and i still couldn't..." unfortunately to compound things even more, the second leg flase started by a little bit, and there was no one next to us, so of course the official noticed, and our relay got DQ-ed.... i was pissed... not because the girl false started, but because the official didn't even come and tell us or our coaches that we were DQ-ed for false starting. ah well... i need to stop moping and move on, because.... my friend will probably be home from arizona by halloween! and i'm soooo excited because that means i get her back, and i miss her soooooooooooo insanely much. and and and... having her back means my social life might come back XD.. sadly, this is the person who actually got us all together on a regular basis. and i'll sleep better knowing that she's home, and that she's within a car ride, not like a cross-country plane flight. ah well, i should leave it there. thanks for sticking around enough to see that i'm not dead yet, the zombies haven't taken over the fortress, or that the closet/ mounds of homework hasn't/ haven't eaten me... YET bai bai and the best part about halloween this year- i get to freak every little kid that comes into our yard for candy postitively SHITLESS. bwahahahahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa..... i shall do a good job...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_hi_everybody.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/owwwwwwwwwwwwww_shit.mws pirogoeth805 2006-10-30T08:10:02-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/owwwwwwwwwwwwww_shit.mws ow, shit. my legs are a cornucopia of pain right now thanks to over extending them while doing these incredibly evil kick sets during practice... i think my coach has gone nutz.... she actually made us do extremely hard sprinting when we should be TAPERING not friggin fine tuning.... AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH... sometimes... i mean, honestly... 50 pulls on the 50? IS SHE FUCKING INSANE?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/owwwwwwwwwwwwww_shit.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.mws pirogoeth805 2006-11-06T08:11:50-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.mws if i make it through the next week without keeling over, i'll let y'all know how sections went this wednesday. and if i survived through my 50 free, no breathes, without killing too many brain cells from a lack of oxygen >.> and if i survived my humane test (which is tomorrow)(humane= literature, history, composition, and geography, all in 2 action packed hours. everyday. for the next 2-1/2 ish years. what joy.) so please, good lucks and "i hope you get throught the damn bloody week"'s are VERY appreciated. and... WEEEEEEEE she home, shes home!!! huzzah!!! *goes back off to be devoured by homework.... and studying*

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/eeeeeeeeeeeeeee.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/summary_for_the_past_coupla_weeks.mws pirogoeth805 2006-11-20T09:11:21-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/summary_for_the_past_coupla_weeks.mws okay, so, my tests went alright. i did not fail miserably. sections went.......... ok. i didn't drop in my 50 free, which had me super depressed for the rest of the night(we still cant figure out what happened, because i did EVERYTHING right. starts, turn, no breathing, fast kick, faster than usual turn over for my stroke, hard inside the flag, super finish, ect.)but i shook myself out of it long enough to get through the rest of the meet, and drop time in my 100 breaststroke, which is super because i had been wanting to get past a 1:26 for a long time, and finally did. did not end up going to section finals this year, but i was ready to be done. i went home, ate half a pint of cookie dough ice cream( couldn't finish it because i'd already had a bagel)showered, and went to sleep. the next day, i went with the girls who where going to finals for one last practice, just to finish out the season, and i actually achieved something spactacular- i can do a whole 50 underwater, in breath. (2 ;engths of the pool, no stopping) i am so damn good. went to my friends 17th birthday party. got ploped into a particularily pervy and scary boys lap. it was mind scarring. but i think i'm starting to get over this phobia of him thanks to exposure to him because my friend hangs out with him a lot. have test tomorrow in scripture, and test on wednesday in chemistry. that one will probably kill me in the effort to study for it, since i cant seem to find my study guide.... oops. but its only a 3 day week so thats nice. oniichan won his first collegate tournement on saturday. i'm so proud. sunday night was the swim team banquet, which was fun. i have another flipper for dropping time, so now i have a pair ^^. and a micheal phelps motivational poster for making it to all the drylands. wootz. micheal phelps>ian thorpe (aka, the thorpedo)and today was ok for a monday. just super tired because i left all my homework for sunday, since i put off doing it on friday, had no time saturday, and got home late on sunday.. hence i was up until 12:30 doing homework, and until 1:00 doing someones yearbook, since i promised i'd get it back to them today. oniichan has his first college wrestling meet on wednesday. i'm excited. we're going to bring him home wednesday night, and have him home during thanksgiving, and my dad, oniichan, and i will probably go hunting this weekend. yays. finally. that makes me ever so happy. i <3 hunting. am managing my schools wrstling team this year. should be lots of fun.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/summary_for_the_past_coupla_weeks.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/errrrrrrrrr_hello_again.mws pirogoeth805 2006-12-18T06:12:58-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/errrrrrrrrr_hello_again.mws so, yeah. i realize the blogs been kinda comatose for a while >.> sorry about that. i'm managing the wrestling team right now, so occassionally i done get home until after like.. 9 >.> and then i still have some homework to do. and i'm tired and have to write an essay on a tale of two cities, which will be due either at the end of class tomorrow or wednesday before academic field day starts... in other news.... my baby brother gave me this horrible cold, which has resulted in me trying not to get horribly close to some people in the hopes that i might not spread the darn thing >.> so, yes.. loads of tea. loads and loads of it. i'm done with music for the semester (w00tz!) which makes me happy, and our concert (last thursday) went alright, which is good, because it was starting to drive me NUTZ. and so, in order to keep you all entertained in my absence, i've decided to make another "guess my lame songs" type list so you can amuse yourselves when ever you choose to visit. so have fun. green will indicate correct guessers, and red will be songs that have been guessed. bonus points for people who get CORRECT artists. 1.)Sweet like candy to my soul Sweet you rock And sweet you roll Lost for you Im so lost for you 2.)I open to find only hurricanes blow Take me away back to the green fields of May 3.)Seems the road less traveled Shows happiness unraveled And you got to take a little dirt To keep what you love 4.)I need your grace To remind me To find my own subaruxsumeragi 5.)When everything seems like the movies Yeah you bleed just to know your alive nekochan 6.)Seems like it's been forever, That you've been gone, Please come back home... 7.)Lookin’ down through a tide of no return 8.)Hear the snow crunch See the kids bunch magician 9.)with all the words I say, repeating over in my mind, somethings you can't erase, no matter how hard you try, 10.)To leave the thread of all time And let it make a dark line In hopes that I can still find The way back to the moment 11.)These city walls ain't got no love for me I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story And oh I scream for you 12.)kizutsuki kokoro ga kowasa wo oboete'ku(A wounded heart will remember fear.)setsunaki kokoro ga nanika ni motarete'ku(A pained heart will look to lean on something.) 13.)But we sing If we're going no where Yeah we sing If it's not enough And we sing Sing with out a reason to never fall in love subaruxsumeragi 14.)Should I let you fall? Lose it all? So maybe you can remember yourself. 15.)The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people passing by I see friends shaking hands Saying, "How do you do?" They're really saying, I...I love you 16.)But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. 17.)Come back and haunt me Oh and I rush to the start 18.)Stiffen that upper lip up little lady, I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya through the night 19.)Huna'n dawel hana huna(Here tonight I tightly hold you)Huna'n fwyn y del ei lun(And enfold you while you sleep)Pam yr wyt yn awr yn gwenum(Why, I wonder, are you smiling)Gwenu'n dirion yn dy hun(Smiling in your slumber deep?) 20.)"Fear not then," said the Angel, "Let nothing you affright, 21.)Hold my head inside your hands, I need someone who understands. 22.)Love is tragic Love is bold You will always do what you are told 23.)We'll have lots of fun with mister snowman until the alligators knock him down 24.)Your days You say they're way too long And your nights You can't sleep at all Hold on 25.) One step, one fall, one falter East or West, Over earth or by ocean One way to be my journey 26.)Slow things down or speed them up Not enough or way too much (and on and on and on...) How are you when I'm gone? 27.)Best to keep things in the shallow end Cause I never quite learned how to swim 28.)Deliver me, the cross that I'm bearing 29.)Their tears are filling up their glasses, No expression, No expression, Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow, No tomorrow, no tomorrow, 30.)Let's rearrange I wish you were a stranger I could disengage Just say that we agree and then never change

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/errrrrrrrrr_hello_again.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/once_again_wow_actually_posting.mws pirogoeth805 2006-12-20T10:12:48-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/once_again_wow_actually_posting.mws wow... this must be something rather miraculous. i'm actually posting. hurrah. well, i've finally decided to get around to installing all the adobe crap that SHOULD have been installed like, AGES ago, because attempting to use photoshop instead of illustrator is starting to drive me bonkers. really. photoshop is pretty limited in terms fo the brushes it has, and trying to make clouds with a "smoke" brush DOES NOT work. so yeah, my essay went ok, i think. field was ok. managed to get evil rugburn on the base of my palm of my right hand. this blows because i'm right handed, and now have to try and avoid bleeding on things when i draw while i let it out of the band aid so it can get some air >.> but anywho. yeah, shorter hair cut makes thing much easier to deal with things in the morning. i kinda like it, although it somehow ALWAYS managed to get this odd ball kink which is normally on the left side, but decided to move to the right side >.>. i think it does it just to spite me. the pixie is, most regretably back in the hospital, but this time its a little different. this time she checked herself in because she realized that she was getting awfully skinny again. i'm proud of her for seeing this and taking responsibilty. i think she may have done a ton of maturing while in arizona. this is good. before she used to be like me- not really paying attention to her own health, and primarily trying to look after other people. now she's gotten better. 1 thing down, about 9 bazillion googolplex other things to do. like make sure kate doesn't have any mental break downs over break. and make sure billyboy doesn't kill me by pouncing on me every 5 minutes >.>... and then not killing myself with taxicab geometry over break. so yeah, today started out ok, but then as the day wore on, i got this horrible head that wouldn't really go away- even after advil. now its more down to a dull throb, but i think i was laying down on the couch for about 3-1/2 hours while the head ache got worse, and dulled. and then for a while my stomach decided to be weird >.> and so it felt like i might not have eaten dinner tonight. thankfully, it got better,and i was able to eat dinner.. durning that entire time though, i kept drifting in and out of sleep. it was odd though because i'd be awake and then about 5 seconds later, i wouldn't. and yeah. not a fun afternoon. oniichan came home from college yesterday, which meant i stayed up rather late >.>, seeing as how i didn't get home from a wrestling match until 10:30, and went to bed an hour later-ish. had to wake myself up this morning, and actually be on time, because dad wasn't feeling too well himself >.> so i told him he really should sleep, and that i wouldn't wake him. turned out that i woke up around 5:30, rolled back over, and it was 6, rolled back over, 6:30....... rolled back over, 7:05 >.<.... whoops. but i made it on time today, and even made coffee for my dad for when he woke up, so all was well.... and yeah, that was my day in a nutshell... not horribly eventfull. for everyone who's still reading: sometimes i don't know how people put up with me, and i applaud and thank them for it, truely i do. so heres a big thanks to everyone who's wished me well in the past half a year, and i hope you all have a merry christmas, and a happy new year.. again, thanks for actually reading, when you did. and the comments, especially the helpful ones.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/once_again_wow_actually_posting.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/agh_damn_cold.mws pirogoeth805 2006-12-26T05:12:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/agh_damn_cold.mws ok, so for the past like, 3 weeks i haven't really been all //THAT// well. over exposure to the world of dust made it ten times worse. i hate being sick. being sick uberly sucks. sadly, my while my friend was in the hospital, her father died. i am so worried about her. i want to go and see her, but haven't been able to :x. maybe the next time i call the hospital she's at, they'll actually let me talk to her... on another note, in between my murderous knitting( my class was reading "A Tale of Two Cities" while i was knitting. i will never be able to knit in school ever again. although this might also have something to do with the fact that i had 17 gauge needles with me.. oops) and every thing else, i've been working on coloring one of my pencil drawings with my wacom tablet. hopefully the html doesn't hate me again, and it will work. this is a screen shot of how its coming about now. can also be seen on my devient art ( www.pendragon805.deviantart.com )
Currently working on by ~Pendragon805 on deviantART merry belated christmas, happy belated chanukah, and happy everything else(like Boxing day for you canadians out there) >.< and a happy new year.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/agh_damn_cold.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/dancing_in_the_rain_to_her_own_tune.mws pirogoeth805 2007-03-25T08:03:15-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/dancing_in_the_rain_to_her_own_tune.mws last night, we had our first rainstorm of the year(all others before, if any, didn't count since we still had snow 2 weeks ago), and, as i am wont to do on such occasions, i went out into the rain, and splashed in the puddles. in my barefeet. and i danced in the rain. i have to admit, that probably made me feel on top of the world last night. i danced for my friend too, since she's back in arizona, and has not the luck we did of having rain last night. i know she would have loved to go out with me, and enjoy the warm air, the nice breeze, and the wonderful rain. dancing in the rain made me feel like i was... clean again. like it washed away everything, and just left me. this is not a feeling i get too often, especially when i'm by myself. and while i danced, i sang. i sang my heart out, because i knew no one could hear me, no one would yell at me for being off key. no choir directors, no peers, just me. leveling myself, and letting all my pent up feelings out. while i sang, loudly, and probably the best i'll ever sing, since i didn't have to sing in front of a room full of people, i thought about my friend. my friend that's been through almost everything with me. sometimes i wonder if maybe i had tried harder, whether she would be in the mess she's in. and then i think: you did try. you tried your damn hardest. you know it wasn't your fault, so why do you keep beating yourself up over this? just love her like you always have, and it will be okay. she'll turn out fine in the end. you just have to believe in her, and never give up on her. stay by her side, and be the friend you know she needs. don't be a fairweather friend, like some people she knew. just chill, and be who you are. she'll appreciate it more than anything else. and then i got to thinking: you know, she needs you now. be strong for her. she helped you through all your stupid mistakes. now its your turn to step up to the plate, and bring her home. lately i have to wonder if i've been myself, or maybe when she's not here, i sort of.. unhinge a bit, and get off kilter. it always made me happy to see her smiling. sometimes she never seemed happy, like this one guy that goes to my school. he never seems really happy the maority of the time, unless he's with any of the girls. he doesn't hang out with guys much, and it makes me wonder about all those people out there you see in day to day life, who put on their mask everyday, just hoping to make it through the day, so they can go home, and maybe try to reassemble who they really are, and reconcile with their state of being, physically, mentally, everything. i, sadly, find that even though i try not do it, i still have my mask. my classmates don't always look past the barrier, and sometimes, i dont think i even want them to. most of the time, i'd rather just be outside in a field of grass, laying there, either in the sun, or in the rain, letting all my problems unravel to people i know aren't there, and possibly crying my heart out. some people think they know what it means to be depressed, to feel sad. the truth is, is that they have such a good life, they don't have a screwed up family, or have to see a psychologist/ therapist, for the problems they have inside. they just think they're being oppressed. they're misfits, their parents dont love them because they can't go to a party, or go out with such and such guy. most of them try to be rebellious, in a way to get what they think they deserve, and are being denied by their parents. sadly, most of them dont realize until later that their parents tell them no because they care, and dont ever want to see them get hurt. it is an unbelievably sad thing when a parent has to bury their own child, before that child has truly lived life. sometimes i wonder what life would be like if i had a NORMAL life. then i realize that, if something hadn't happened in my childhood, i wouldn't be who i am today. i wouldn't have made friends with people that i have, wouldn't have had circumstances that have proved to me that i'm not old enough for somethings. i might just be like everyone else. this has always been a thought that disturbed me. what if i where just like all those teen drama queens, whose obsession in life is to have huge boobs, have size 0 pants, and get laid before i'm out of highschool. to be a cheerleader, miss popularity, date the captain of the football team. i just couldn't see myself ever being that way, and i don't think i could ever be okay with t. i like being an individual, and not like everyone else. sure, sometimes i realize i'm a bit unhealthy, and i want to correct, but, really, i'm usually ok with my appearence. sure, i joke with my teammates about my "flab abs", but its all in good fun. its never like we're serious about it. and i think thats just the way it should be. on a different note, i'm always mystified by God's inane(... there's another word, but right now i can't think of it)sense of humor. almost every year, with out fail, its sunny, and beautiful on my baby sisters birthday. 10 days earlier, almost without fail, it never is nice outside, on the day she died. on the day my little sister was laid to rest, it was cold, miserable,and it was raining. almost like the heavens themselves were grieving. i'll never understand this peculiar phenonmena of the weather, but for every year its sunny on her birthday, i'll be grateful. this year, she would have been 14, and nearing highschool. oh how life doth screw us all over, be ever the bitch. but y'know, if life wasn't a bitch, where'd the fun be in trying to foil it at every turn? Life Is Like A Boat- Rei Fu Nobody knows who I really am I never felt this empty before And if I ever need someone to come along, Who's gonna comfort me, and keep me strong? We are all rowing the boat of fate The waves keep on coming and we can't escape But if we ever get lost on our way The waves would guide you through another day dooku de iki o shiteru toomei ni natta mitai kudayami ni omoe dakedo mekaku shisarete tadake inori o sasagete atarashii hi o matsu asayaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made Nobody knows who I really am Maybe they just don't give a damn But if I ever need someone to come along I know you would follow me, and keep me strong hito no kokoro wa utsuriyuku mukedashiteku naru tsuki wa mada atarashii shuuki de mune o tsureteku And every time I see your face The ocean heaves up to my heart You make me wanna strain at the oars, and soon I can see the shore Oh, I can see the shore When will I see the shore? I want you to know who I really am I never thought I'd feel this way towards you And if you ever need someone to come along, I will follow you, and keep you strong tabi wa mada tsuzuiteku odayakana hi mo tsuki wa mata atarashii shuuki de ume o terashidasu inori o sasagete atarashii hi o matsu asayaka ni hikaru umi sono hate made And every time I see your face The ocean heaves up to my heart You make me wanna strain at the oars, and soon I can see the shore Unmei no huneoko gi nami wa tsugi kara tsuki e to watashi-tachi o sou kedo Sore mo suteki na tabi ne, dore mo suteki na tabi ne

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/dancing_in_the_rain_to_her_own_tune.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/god_must_hate_me.mws pirogoeth805 2007-04-07T09:04:04-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/god_must_hate_me.mws ok, right now, here's the deal. i am so fried right now, i dont know how the hell i function. i got accepted into the national honor society thinger(or whatever you call it), so right now, i have the feeling i'm going to have a shitload more expectations put on me. oh joy, more stress. i feel so stretched, and stressed out right now that i would absolutely fucking love to go smash something with a heavy bat right now. i wish i could go to a batting cage... emotioally, i feel run down, like a wreck, and i feel like i've probably been a bitch to a few people i ought not have. life is starting to drive me over the deep end i think. i need to talk to kittykins. she'll understand every damn little thing i'm going through- more or less. and if she can't understand one thing, well, i'll have her tell me what she thinks is the best approach. right now what i need is my best friend, and i dont know if i'll sleep tonight very well. i also happened to read something that has made my stomach a bit upset. yes, my typing sucks right now, and i keep having to delete in order to fix things, and my hands are shaking. sometimes i hate my life. LIFE IS A FUCKING BITCH THAT NEEDS A BETTER HOBBY THAN MAKING MY LIFE DIFFICULT.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/god_must_hate_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/general_update.mws pirogoeth805 2007-05-19T10:05:29-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/general_update.mws ok, so, softball has taken over my life (correction:it is like, 50% of my life) so i haven't been doing much but that. but, i've been up and down as far as sleep goes, and now my shadows are getting so bad that my cover up doesn't even work, much less match my skin color owing to my wonderful tan.. so, yeah. my knee is getting better after being smacked into a conrete bench, and then getting hit with like, 5-6 balls and other things this week. i have ONE more damn week until school is over, and then a couple of test says. huzzah. i have a ton of stuff to do next week, though. but the good news is that my friend will be coming home from arizona sometime within the next two weeks, so that makes up for everything that's gone wrong these past...3-4 months. i am so glad this school year is finally closing, because i think it was almost as bad as last year. but thats ok, because, to quote modest mouse, "If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I'd just rather never ever even see beauty again. Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer. And it feels pretty soft to me. " i am turning 16 this summer. i am so psyched. harry potter 7 is FINALLY coming out, and so is pirates. and, hopefully, i shall be able to spend lots of time at a pool or beach with my friend.(the strangest thing happened the other day. my skin started smelling like chlorine FOR NO REASON WHAT SO EVER. i know this is usual for the first month or so after swim season ends, but.. like, 6 or 7? that can't be possible. maybe my body has mutated and started making its own chlorine??? i dunno. anyways, off side rant) also about softball: my team made it past the first round at sections, and so i'm really excited!! i hope we win again on tuesday, so we can have a chance at new life again. that'd be super shnill. softball is also the reason i seem to be happy lately, along with a few other things. like being on better terms with one of my guy friends again. and adding a new one to the small list! heh heh, michael is so funny. but lately, i've had a lot to do, so things like finishing this colosal photoshop painting haven't been finished yet.. heh heh... oops. hopefully, i don't do something stupid next week, like break something...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/general_update.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/its_bird_its_a_plane_its_another_blog_post.mws pirogoeth805 2007-05-24T08:05:48-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/its_bird_its_a_plane_its_another_blog_post.mws yes, i am, in fact, updating again. so my team lost, sadly. and i felt so depressed about it. now i think i;m on the brighter side of things. tomorrow is our last day of school, and i only have to get through one more old testament scripture class. funny note on scripture: my class actually got into an argument about what color my hair was! i think i had more of the class in favour of my being a blonde, but it was hilarious! even my teacher stopped to ask what they were arguing about, and did not stop them when the bell rang.. probably one of the more amusing things that has happened lately. Today we had our last hour of choir, ever. it was so glorious, i can't even begin to descrube how happy it made me when the bell rang. sadly, though, tomorrow is the last time i ever have latin. i had no idea i'd be this sad in 7th grade when i started. now its like something that made the day worth it gone... and i dont like. i can safely say, i think, though, that our series of chemistry quizzes were bad. so bad that if my grade depended on me passing them, i'd flunk right out of it. oh well. c'est la vie. i think i've finally gotten this outlook down on life, that even if something goes bad, several times in a row, just pick yourself up. you can probably pull through, and be just fine. i think i am now. after such a bad year, i think i'm actually going to be ok. after all, if i can get through two "years from hell" in row, i think i'm a survivor. people like me should be made national heros, or saints.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/its_bird_its_a_plane_its_another_blog_post.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_sigh_why_cant_dealing_with_boys_be_easy.mws pirogoeth805 2007-06-06T02:06:25-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_sigh_why_cant_dealing_with_boys_be_easy.mws So, I am done with any and all testing, and school. I think i managed not to fail chemistry. Amazing. I even got my first stupid marble paper weight for academic excellence in Latin. Huzzah. Have you ever talk to a guy about how you think you might like someone, and, managed to say how much of a conundrum you're in about it, without ever saying who it actually is? And the guy you're talking to also happens to be the one you think you might like? And despite the fact that they make the "shot in the dark" guess that they're it, they don't think they're right. And you deny it. And drop slight hints left and right. And you still can't actually say what you mean, because you're too afraid of frightening off one of your friends by saying something? But it starts hurting, and you can't get them off your mind? And you love them even more for listening, and not really pushing the issue. It so does not help that he is positively dashing. And kind. And far too likeable for his own good. And way too.. pretty much everything good. Yeah, it was one of those days. I think I'm going to go positively bonkers trying to bury the feeling. But I think it's the only thing I can do, since I am almost positively sure that he is not interested in me like that... Girls of mindsay, I enter my desperate plea for help.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_sigh_why_cant_dealing_with_boys_be_easy.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/somedays_i_know_all_too_well_how_dido_felt.mws pirogoeth805 2007-06-08T12:06:45-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/somedays_i_know_all_too_well_how_dido_felt.mws So, yeah, subject line says it all. for those of you who are familiar with the story, I seem to have hit a snag- my Aeneas is also my sister Anna, what a dreadful predicament. And alas, i have no stupid little Eros/ cupid to help me, or a pitying love goddess. Somedays i just like the part where Dido curses Aeneas to high heaven all too much. In the Latin, she says "Sic, Sic!"(thus, thus!... i go to my death.. ect.), and with each "sic", she stabs herself.. It is so unbelieveably moving, and beautiful. I had to contain myself from crying in class when we translated it... But, alas, for this poor dido (miserrima est!), there is no recourse... And I cannot just bury the feeling, or kill the emotion. I try, but, unwittingly, I seem to have an outside force nursing the vulnus sub pectore (the wound in my heart, for you non-Latin savvy people)... Whatever is a girl to do when faced with such a situation? Such predicaments are not something i deal well with, most regretably. And, thus, thus, the drama continues.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/somedays_i_know_all_too_well_how_dido_felt.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws pirogoeth805 2007-06-09T02:06:22-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws Okay, anyone who has ever felt like an idiot, raise their hand. Now anyone who feels like an idiot for telling someone something thats been killing them for a while, keep it up. Now anyone who has done this in the manner of admitting to your friend that you like them more than a friend, keep it up, and keep it high. Aeneas had to be a twit, and drag it out of me. Although I did manage to side step the issue for a while, it just came back to a "So is it me, or someone else?" And I told him. And now I feel like an idiot. Someone do me the favor of smacking some sense back into me. It would be all too appreciated.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/shes_coming_home_to_me.mws pirogoeth805 2007-06-16T11:06:03-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/shes_coming_home_to_me.mws She's coming home. My best friend is actually coming home in the next two weeks. I have been over come by such a sense of euphoria right now, I have almost completely forgotten that I still have a little pain from being shot down by my friend. At least its gotten better, and now the pain from rowing kinda overrides what ever I feel from him. I don't know how this could get any better. I think i could possibly die happy..

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/shes_coming_home_to_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=139 pirogoeth805 2007-06-21T08:06:32-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=139 So, lately I've been feeling up and down health wise, but because it is right before my first Regatta, I am not going to admit to anyone on my team that half the time I feel sick. And the other half, it feels as though my one of my limbs is trying to tear itself off. Gabe told me that former gymnasts have ligament issues, which is the only solution miriram and gabe could come up with for why my hip flexors keep hurting. It just surprised me that he could guess that I used to be a gymnast from the way my joints and such hurt. And that he deduced from the way I rowed horribly in the single that I used to be a diver. Evidently only a diver could row that badly in a single, and not flip the boat. Or freak out whenever I was about to tip. It was not only a burn, but also a compliment. Nice. Lovely. And because I haven't tortured... I mean amused you with, a guess the songs list in a while, you guys get one of those too. Green for people who get it right.. umm red is for.. something... 1.)Well now I'm back in the middle of the day that starts it all. I can't begin to let you know just what I'm feeling, 2.)Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender 3.)And when the sky is falling,don't look outside the window.Step back and hear I'm calling. 4.) I stand alone in the storm (listen, listen) Suddenly sweet words they know (listen, listen)Hurry they say for you haven't much time,Open your eyes to the love around you 5.)She’s in too much pain to survive on her own,The hurt she can’t handle overflows to a knife,She writes on her arm, wants to give up her life, Each day she goes on is a day that she’s brave,Fighting the lie that giving up is the way,onemomentolive 6.)If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain In the ice or in the sun it’s all the same Yet I feel my heart is aching Though it doesn’t beat, it’s breaking And the pain here that I feel Try and tell me it’s not real 7.) Sit tight, I'm gonna need you to keep tight, come on just snap snap snap your fingers for me. Good good, now we're making some progress come on just tap tap tap your toes to the beat. onemomentolive 8.)Sometimes I have bad days and it's hard to be me Sometimes I get brought down by insecurity And I have my days where I'm the one and lonely But today I choose to be the one and only Yea, I'm the one and only onemomentolive 9.)you were meant to live life come on let's fly you're a super trouper spotlight onemomentolive 10.)I watch you spin around in the highest heels. You are the best one, of the best ones. We all look like we feel. 11.)And all the things that you never ever told meAnd all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt meSpectralxDeceit 12.)Someone get me to the doctor, and someone call the nurse.And someone buy me roses, and someone burned the church.We're hanging out with corpses, we're driving in this hearse.And someone save my soul tonight, please save my soul. 13.)Now, tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs is sometimes for music that you haven't even heard of. how much did you pay for your rock and roll t-shirt that proves you were there, that you heard of them first? 14.)Cover up with makeup in the mirror, Tell yourself it's never gonna happen again. You cry alone and then he swears he loves youonemomentolive 15.)It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper,aluminum, and many others. 16.)She didn't choose this role But she'll play it and make it sincere So you cry, you cry 17.)He holds the secret in his fist a burning ember To stay or go now that's the twist hate or befriend her. 18.)They don't rate with the guys that score Cause they don't flaunt what the boys want more They don't date they won't date They wanna see how they're gonna grow up Who they're gonna be But in the meantime they might feel unlovedonemomentolive 19.)Please just don't play with me My paper heart will bleedultraviolet 20.)Assure me its ok to Use my heart and not my eyes To navigate the darkness Will the ending be ever coming suddenly? 21.)When everything feels like the movies Yeah, you bleed just to know you're aliveultraviolet 22.)What makes the one to shake you down? Each touch belongs to each new sound Say now you want to shake me too Move down to me, slip into you 23.)Now it seems to me That you know just what to say But words are only words Can you show me something else Can you swear to me That you’ll always be this way 24.)So go out and have your fun tonight, you might as well go out and raise your glass to life. Go out and have your fun tonight, you might as well go out and raise your drinks to life, 'cause we're all going to Hell... SpectralxDeceit 25.)There's something up with us I swear I feel it from across the room So can I ask you this Not to be forward miss But I think I'd kill myself If I never knew SpectralxDeceit

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/139 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/woooooooooooooo.mws pirogoeth805 2007-07-10T10:07:21-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/woooooooooooooo.mws I'm goin to see Harry Potter 5 tonight at midnight with my home-town-homegirl. I am SUPER FUCKING PSYCHED!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/woooooooooooooo.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/harry_potter_5.mws pirogoeth805 2007-07-11T04:07:31-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/harry_potter_5.mws OK, JUST GOT BACK. I have to say, it was actually decent. I mean, they had to change somethings to make it flow smoothly, but it wasn't bad. Yes, my friends and I were HP geeks, and went dressed for it. Two of us ended up looking like catholic school girls.. with capes. and fishnets. and other witchy stuff. And the classic harry potter bolt...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/harry_potter_5.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ok_so_im_leaving_for_three_weeks.mws pirogoeth805 2007-07-15T03:07:09-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/ok_so_im_leaving_for_three_weeks.mws As you can assume from the title, I will be gone for three weeks starting friday. I will miss you all quite dearly, And hopefully will be able to still get some internet once in a while. I'll be in Portland (keep it weird! seriously, they have these bumper stickers... I am so getting one...) So, yes, I will try to crank out some updates before I leave. I look forward to the joy of packing for this... Ha ha ha....... And, quite even more amusing about this, is that I shall be gone for my 16th birthday! How funny is that? My friend was about ready to kill me when I told her I couldn't go to the Harry Potter midnight release with her for book seven. I'm kinda depressed about that one too, but at the same time, I'm not. I'll just have my mom pick it up for me asap, because we have a reserved copy. Hopefully, they'll still give me the freebie that comes with it...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/ok_so_im_leaving_for_three_weeks.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=143 pirogoeth805 2007-07-19T10:07:43-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=143 Ok, so this is my last post before I leave. I will miss you all dearly, as you make life amusing. In the mean time, you could either check out potterpuppetpals.com for some easy amusement, or...*insert lame-o shameless self add* check out my deviant art, where I have posted quite a few new lovelys within the past 4 days. make me happy, give me page views, please. :) I'll be back August 7th. 2 days after my 16th birthday, how amusing. deviant art thinger is : pendragon805.deviantart.com Sayanora!!!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/143 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/attack_of_the_sporadic_update.mws pirogoeth805 2007-09-03T11:09:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/attack_of_the_sporadic_update.mws Ok, so, yeah, i've been back for... a while. I had an awesome trip, and the past 3 weeks have either been slow or.... REALLY REALLY SLOW. Not even kidding. In between not getting anywhere near enough sleep, and stressing about homework, and rowing, i have been a bit of a spaz case lately. And i no longer swim. Or play softball. I only row. But this week i have to take a 4k test(which may very well make me sick, if not kill me...), so I am a little frazzled. And, quite sadly, I'm starting to fall for that idiot... again. Why does he have to be so appealing to me? I know he's not interested.... Oh well. So the regatta i had two weekends ago(24th-25th of august) went fantastically, and our Eight won the junior women's catagory. score. I got a shiney thing i am very proud of :) If any of you watch my deviant art, i've added a thing or two here and there, and, with luck, should be able to scan in a piece or two of art before i have to turn them in for class. or at least take a picture. And I went to my area's ren fest, and it was fantastic, since we got our resident blonde boy to come with!( sigger, we even got him into a kilt. it did not look half bad) But we got rained out for most of it, quite sadly. Some old guy also bribed the "nice gentlemen" at the stocks to have me put into the stocks. It was.... amusing to say in the least...

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/attack_of_the_sporadic_update.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yippie_kiyay_mother_fucker.mws pirogoeth805 2007-09-21T09:09:43-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/yippie_kiyay_mother_fucker.mws I feel much hatred for the world right now. And I shall elaborate, and explain why shortly, but not in short order. Prepare thyself for the rantings of small, angry rower girl. So, yeah, my school was supposed to have an athletic field day today, because we never have Phy-Ed, so I was super excited. But we had some "severe" weather last night(I will admit, it was raining quite hard, and it was very windy, but the sky never turned green in our area, so we were fine. The weather personel in my state get worked up other little thunder storms, and then when a good sized one comes along, they begin to act like it is the end of the world. I laugh at them.), and some flash floods, so they canceled it because the field was too wet, and they were worried about there being more "severe" weather. Well, wouldn't you know, I was up and dressed, but when my ride was 10 minutes late, I called the school. And lo and behold, they had canceled. Joy. And you know what the sad thing about was? I was a gorgeous day outside, if a tad bit windy. So I was stuck at home all day. What Joy. Things were going along fine until Crew practice though. If it is only a smidgen windy in the rest of downtown, down on the river there will inevitably be gale force strength 5 winds. And I will, inevitably, be out in a small, lightweight double on those days. It was a very bad practice. We were fighting a head wind and a tail wind, and it sucked majorly. There are some days when I hate the girls in the four for being able to sweep row instead of scull. Not only that, but the storm the night before screwed up the ramp, so a couple of planks were loose. And when we were going down said ramp, large gusts of wind came along, and nearly tore me right off the ramp. Onto some rather sharp, pointy, and harmful rocks. This is what happens when you carry the boat on its side, instead of guts down, so the wind picks it up like a sail. And so, in order to avoid dropping the boat, and going off and or sliding down the ramp, I allowed my feet to catch on some of the planks in the ramp, thus ripping off some on the skin on my toe. And I could feel it throb and bleed the entire practice, through all the hard pieces. It was painful. Normally hydrogen Peroxide does not hurt me like some people. Today, I was nearly screaming. There is much love for Jaimie, and when he is humourous and kind. And even more love for him when he's giving me first aid. His children will be so damn lucky. And he even has one on the way. I am happy for him. So when I came home today, instead of being left alone until dinner, I had to endure being hit, smacked, and repeatedly jumped on by my three year old brother while he was angry. He was angry at me for taking away his animal crackers when it was so close to dinner. Some days I would love nothing more than to curl up and cry. And I did. Sobbing into the phone while telling my friend. I am amazed that she could understand me. I love this girl with a fiery passion. Purely as a friend. I do not know what I would do without her.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/yippie_kiyay_mother_fucker.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_as_i_know_it.mws pirogoeth805 2007-10-21T10:10:22-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_as_i_know_it.mws Hi everyone. Sorry for my absence. I'll try to have it happen less often... Please note the word "try"... So the week before I had break was horrible. I was up 3 nights in a row until 1 or two trying like mad to finish projects and essays. IT SUCKED, pure and simple. I had little sleep. I needed this break. A lot. Except for having to take friggin PSATS yesterday morning. At 8:30. Who functions well enough on a Saturday morning that early to take a test? SERIOUSLY! And on a different note, I might be becoming a coxswain!( defined for you benefit...) coxswain |ˈkäksən| noun the steersman of a ship's boat, lifeboat, racing boat, or other boat. Which means having to drop a bit of weight. Some of my friends are not too happy about it, but because our races are done for the year, it'd be ok. I'd have at least 7 months to drop the weight... So why do I still feel guilty about it when I know I can do it in a healthy way? Probably because I saw my friend this weekend, and she's had a bit of a replapse. I just don't want to end up like her, y'know? I don't ever like makling my friends worry... But because I try to slide by without them noticing, they worry more... I wonder if life conspires against me... Like how I told my friends mom I was doing fine... And my friend muttered "liar" under her breath.... Sometimes I wonder if the people i care about most copnevrsely notice more when I'm bullshitting about how I'm actually doing. It's... interesting, to say the least.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_as_i_know_it.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/because_i_am_bored_and_life_sucks.mws pirogoeth805 2007-10-22T06:10:19-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/because_i_am_bored_and_life_sucks.mws Thats right folks. Time for another one of those torturous "guess the songs" blog post. Who knows, everytime I post one of these, I post a part of myself. Maybe then you can all figure out what sort of mood I'm in. It's not a full one though, so fret not. Red is for guessed songs, green is user who got it right. Y'all know the drill by now. Song name and artist. 1.)What you need and everything you'll feel Is just a question of the deal 2.)But if we are just friends Then how come I'm crying, You laugh, While inside I'm dying, Pretend, For your sake I'm lying,Be strong, You know that I'm trying to let you go free 3.)Miss you, want you, need you so Untill you're back here baby yeh There's a feelin inside, I want you to knowultraviolet 4.)Something about you saves me Something about you makes me feel like I’m alive 5.)I need you to know I'm not through the night Some days I'm still fighting to walk towards the light 6.)You starve and near exhaust me.(skip a verse and a half)... Your eyes can be so cruel, Just as I can be so cruel, 7.)Can you hear it? Can you hear me screaming? So can you feel it? Do you feel it coming down? You gotta get up Can you get up off the ground? I wanna hear it Wanna hear you breathing We're all addicted to something, that takes away the pain 8.)Till tonight do us part. I'll sing the blues, And swallow them too My words are my fate to hell. 9.)It's you that I want so please Just a casual casual easy thing 10.) watch you spin around in the highest heels. You are the best one, of the best ones. 11.)I know it's hard when your hope is gone, But you gotta keep holding on. 12.)I hold out for one more drink before i think i'm looking too desperately 13.)But their empty eyes seem to pass me by And leave me dancing with myself 14.)Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down. 15.)I wear scarves and hoods cause it's the only poker face that I've got left, And everything I love about you is a mess. Smash the mirror and break the palm readers' hand, I want to be better than I am. 16.)Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland 17.)I never thought I'd need you there when I cried And the days feel like years when I'm alone 18.)Please just don't play with me My paper heart will bleedultraviolet

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/because_i_am_bored_and_life_sucks.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/putting_up_my_mask_for_the_world_and_letting_it_down_at_the_end_of_the_day.mws pirogoeth805 2007-11-18T12:11:53-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/putting_up_my_mask_for_the_world_and_letting_it_down_at_the_end_of_the_day.mws Well, so much for updating more... Life, being life, is being a bitch, and not letting me have as much free time. But here's the lowdown, I guess. †Currently, I have gotten sick with something. I have a sore throat, very tired, dizzy, and have headaches. What Joy. †Being confined to indoor winter training, I have gotten more and more susceptible to spaz attacks, dizzy spells, and overall, working myself into oblivion in trying to make myself better. I am so smart. My coach actually had to tell me to slow down, and start breathing the other day when we did 10K tests. (Think like, a 46 minute straight row/ erg at high pressure) At halfway through, I could no longer see the read outs on the monitor because I was so dizzy. My coach actually had to sit there and keep telling me to breathe, and not take it so hard. Yeah, way to go me. † Alas, the boy I like has a girlfriend. And I do not like it, but I like her, and I like that he is happy. I am my own worst enemy, aren't I? †Said boy, who happens to be my friend, keeps telling me to consider the possibilities of going out with this other boy, who evidently thinks I am hot, but I do not know him very well. †Another friend of mine challanged me to arm wrestling. But he is a sick bastard who likes to add a twit: If you lose, you have to kiss him. It was a bet I SHOULD have refused. Really. I have never kissed a boy, or, anyone for that matter, in that way. I should have declined, and let my pride take a bit of a dive. Did I? NO. I was an idiot and lost. I ought to be shot for being careless. † I spent like, an hour and half on the phone with that boy, discussing good books, bad books, music tastes, and when I'm going to own up to that bet, and why I should take better care of myself. † I now have irregular eating habits, and have lost a ridiculous amount of weight in a short amount of time thanks to erging and not having much of an appetite. At the same time, I have discovered it is indeed possible to subsist off of mostly 'sugared up' black tea with cream, and still do reasonably well on a 2K test. Go me. And that a 24 inch waist is in fact possible. † We are reading Thucydides for school. He is bloody brilliant. † My friend went back in for some treatment. I was not happy about it, but she seems to be doing alright. †Other friend is cracking a bit under the stress of college applications. I am doing my best to help her, but then again, as screwed up as I am, I do not think I am helping very much. Hopefully I am though. † I have found out how wonderful Tylenol PM is for inducing sleep. Hello more sleep, partial goodbye to slight insomnia! Thus, you are left with snippets of my life as I know it. Enjoy, and review on the continuing drama that is moi.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/putting_up_my_mask_for_the_world_and_letting_it_down_at_the_end_of_the_day.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/panicking.mws pirogoeth805 2007-11-18T10:11:31-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/panicking.mws Ok, so that boy that called me, and that i was idiotic enough to wager a kiss with? Guess what.... Okay, so, he called me this morning. Everything was fine. All was good in rena land. Than a few emails and a late night phone call later, I find out something shocking: he would like to potentially get me to change the answer I gave my father on his only being a friend, and go out with me. And as he tell me this, I lose my physical composure. I was drawing, and just fine, and then my hand started shaking so much I could not draw. so, yes, my obliviousness prevails- again! Seriously, I did NOT see this coming. And now, I have no idea how to respond to it. ......... HELP ME!!! PLEASE??

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/panicking.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/my_poor_head.mws pirogoeth805 2007-11-20T08:11:28-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/my_poor_head.mws I can only take sooo much confusion in one week- not even! He seems kinda serious, but then again, I do not want to make a judgement too quickly. He has my head spinning from trying to wrap my head around the idea. Not to mention I am still kinda sick, and have masssive headache. And between the last two nights, have only 9 hours of sleep. I R brilliant. Really. So, bottom line: I AM UTTERLY CONFUSED BY THOSE OF THE MALE PERSUASION.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/my_poor_head.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_dance_inside_the_song.mws pirogoeth805 2007-11-24T01:11:53-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/_dance_inside_the_song.mws Okay, so maybe life is not hopeless after all. And perhaps the current circumstances are something of a blessing :) I am grinning, ear to ear, hyper off my own energy high, and practically on the verge of giggling. Oh yes, life is beautiful. And perhaps paying up on bets isn't so bad after all...?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/_dance_inside_the_song.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_tonight_walkin_in_a_winter_wonderland.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-02T05:12:28-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_tonight_walkin_in_a_winter_wonderland.mws So yes, yesterday we had our first snowstorm of the season, and my god was it beautiful. I have never been so happy to shovel snow in my life. It totally made up for my shitastic week spent bitching at people I would normally heap loads of affection on. I felt horrible most of the week, so it kinda sucked. However, I think my coach is pleased with the progress that I have made. I can erg 3500 meters faster than one of the girls in the Boston boat, and not only is she at a healthy weight, this is her 3rd erg season, and she is taller. I felt so awesome on Thursday, in between wanting to puke, and wanting to pass out, and wanting to kill someone because of cramps. It has been a soooooooooo wonderful week(yes, there is loads of sarcasm). I had a talk with my guy friend last night( the one I had a thing for all summer, not the one I'm sort of dating) and we had some things straightened out. It makes me glad that I have him as a friend. He is wonderful, even if he is frustrating some days. My drama course has like.... 8 days left until the dress rehearsal, which mean more like 5 days of school. Everyone is sort of starting to snap. It means that the 10th through the 12th, I will not be sleeping, really. I wont even get to go erging to funnel off stress, because I cannot go to practice :(. Wish me luck with the madness please. I will need it.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/happy_tonight_walkin_in_a_winter_wonderland.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mondays_can_all_rot_in_hell.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-03T06:12:41-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/mondays_can_all_rot_in_hell.mws In fact, so can pop 4K tests, trying to PR on them, Calculus tests, Physics tests, and Essays on Thucydides. And Drama performances. They can all burn in eternal torment.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/mondays_can_all_rot_in_hell.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/sendin_out_an_sos.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-04T09:12:15-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/sendin_out_an_sos.mws Ok, so, my Calculus test could have gone better. My physics test is tomorrow. OH SHIT. I still do not get the force of friction, and friction in relation to wheels. IT IS CONFUSING! AAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH! And then there is the stupid Thucydides essay!!! AGGGH! WHY???? WHY????????? Cruel, cruel world... TT_TT I weep bitter tears of agony. And then there is the drama stuff. Officially a madhouse. Not even kidding. Someone, save me! End of semester stress is driving me crazy! And I can't get enough sleep. And I feel so overwhelmed by life. Hmm, overwhelmed. You can be overwhelmed, and underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? I mean, seriously. This is me making a bad attempt at distracting myself, but can you? And my rowing coach is evil, evil woman sometimes.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/sendin_out_an_sos.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/one_day_down_seven_to_go.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-05T10:12:29-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/one_day_down_seven_to_go.mws Ok, so, Physics test: done. Calculus test: Done Thucydides Essay: In the process of waging war with my laptop over essay writing. I think I've got it just where I want it. And it's about to surrender. Drama related crap: Preparing to go into Official Panic Mode over the weekend. I will need trashy romance novels, safety pins, and more english black tea. Wish me luck, I'm goin into the madhouse. Ta til Friday, I think, Miss Rena

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/one_day_down_seven_to_go.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/death_to_the_infidels.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-08T01:12:56-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/death_to_the_infidels.mws So I have successfully written a positively brilliant essay on why Athens should decimate the city of Mytilene for its impudence. Score, go me. Cue the trumpet fanfare. I got to go back to crew today. We grabbed some people from school. We played soccer in the snow. In our Spandex. In ten degree or less weather. My god was it wonderful. Then we went to my friend's house afterwards for pizza and monopoly. I owned everyone. 10 more minutes, and I would have bankrupted almost everyone. So My tests and essays are done. All that remains is a dress rehearsal, and two nights of performances. I will be glad to die of exhaustion on Wednesday after the show. Wish me luck! Miss R.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/death_to_the_infidels.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/so_dead.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-12T12:12:31-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/so_dead.mws So: 1 drama rehearsal done. 1 Drama performance done. Check 1 more drama performance to go. Damn. Only then do I get to fall over dead.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/so_dead.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/why_must_they_conspire_to_confuse_me.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-27T01:12:55-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/why_must_they_conspire_to_confuse_me.mws ANYONE who actually reads when I update: Listen up! I need help. So, my boyfriend broke up with me for the chick he broke up with over the summer. Then when (since he broke up with me over EMAIL) I was about to reply, my father whacked my internet connection until this evening. Meanwhile, he has been shot down again by that girl, and has decided to try and unbreak-up with me. Y'all know well enough that my pride cannot take something like this. Especially since he did not even have to decency to call. And now he is pleading with me- also over EMAIL. I am so confused. And hurt. And feel like I'm his rebound girl. I hate hurting people. I have this horrible semi-heroic type complex- I don't like seeing people get hurt, even if it hurts me to help them. I need to stop it. Because now it is kind of hurting me. I want to help, but I do not think I can. Right now my email client is not recognizing the server, so he still has no reply. And I still have no idea what to do. Very sincerely and quite confusedly yours, Miss Rena

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/why_must_they_conspire_to_confuse_me.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/sniffle.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-27T04:12:44-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/sniffle.mws Have successfully felt human for the third time today- by which I mean balling my eyes out. I hold in everything for far too long. have got to work on that. I love my friend. Kittykins is wonderful. So, so wonderful. Even if she does call during her work hours. I love how she calls people and swears at them while leaving you on hold for a minute. And then is cheery until she has to go. And I love how she gets me out of the house. God bless her and her mothering complex. Seriously. And if my other shiney pixie wants to go bust in a door, I might be inclined to turn the other way while she does so.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/sniffle.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/goddamn_it.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-27T06:12:30-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/goddamn_it.mws HOW DARE HE TRY TO CALL ME, MAKE EXCUSES, AND THEN TELL ME HE MEANT EVERY WORD HE TOLD ME BEFORE THAT EMAIL???? HOW DARE HE? AFTER THE TRAMP THAT DUMPED HIM OVER THE SUMMER IS THE ONE HE TRES TO GO BACK TO? AND THEN TRIES TO WIN ME BACK? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!!! I think I need to go shoot something inanimate. Or use a punching bag.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/goddamn_it.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/all_who_have_made_idiots_of_themselves_recently.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-29T01:12:35-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/all_who_have_made_idiots_of_themselves_recently.mws Or at least feel like it. So last night I was over at Kittykins' (loverly distraction.) We went to coffee shop near her house, got LARGE Chais(bad idea, btw) and managed to bump into my male rowing coach. Awkward now, funny later, as he would say. So far, so good. Got home, watched movie called "I Know Where I'm Going". It was hilarious. Words cannot describe movie accurately enough. All I can say is that I knew there was a damn good reason I knew why I like kilts, and scotsmen. Still doing okay. Kittykins decided to give me a "tramp stamp" in the form of using my lower back as a canvas for sharpie art. I now possess a lovely compass on my lower back, which I may have to take off with nail polish remover. In black and pink. Still doing okay. By the time we actually turned out the lights, at was about 12:30. She jokingly said if I wanted to indulge in casual spooning, she would be fine (I have been known to use people as human teddy-bears before when they're within 3-4 feet of me on the same mattress, and vice-versa). 5 minutes later finds her scootching closer, and of course I have to jokingly say, "couldn't stay away, could you?" I was probably half asleep for about and hour before I realised just how hot I was starting to get. By this time, my friend has nudged off part of the top blanket, and is quite soundly asleep. She can get kind of possessive while asleep evidently, because I suddenly found myself completely wrapped in her arms. I didn't really mind, being only slightly lucid, very half asleep, and feeling quite... well, she just kind of exudes security for me, and I had to admit, I was perfectly fine with the circumstances. Here is where I start becoming something of an idiot. Another hour passes, and suddenly I have gotten so hot, that my body has actually started cooling down to try to keep from overheating. Thanks to my ingenious thinking, I have worn flannel pj pants over boxers! After carefully peeling kittykins off myself so as not to wake her, I carefully take off the flannel pj pants. Instant relief, right? For a couple of minutes, yes. As soon as I was done, her possessiveness kicked back in. More points of contact. Skin to skin contact. (and I kinda liked it) She is just a friend, right? I mean, in my half-asleep and only slightly lucid state, I somehow find myself entwining my fingers with hers, trying to get closer, and in my dream, it's like I am chasing her, and every time I feel a point of contact lose contact, its like I'm losing her. Eventually I catch up with her. And here is where I wake up suddenly again. Only to find myself facing her, head into her shoulder, and her hands loosely in my hair and arms around my shoulder and waist. I am kind of still holding out hope that she was still very asleep, since she is usually a heavy sleeper. This is when it gets worse. Eventually there is tangling of legs. I turn a lot in my sleep. I also wake up frequently. One time when I woke up, it was about 4:30. I sat up, trying to clear my head. She woke up, and we had small talk about how warm it was, and how she should know by now that I have sleeping problems. After about 5 minutes of meaningless nonsense, she sat up, wrapped her arms around me, and just kind of pulled me back under the covers. Spooning on our right sides. She was really close. I am unsure what to think. She says she slept great, felt really well rested, and didn't seem like anything had been awkward at all. I also felt really well rested as well, but I couldn't shake a feeling that normally friends don't do that sort of thing. And they probably certainly do not do it when the one regards the other like a little sister, but way closer, and without the familial tie(she's a year ahead of me). And they probably do not sigh in their ears. And probably do not sleep with chins in crooks of necks. I am just confusing myself now. Am I over thinking this? And am I just being paranoid because I just went through a semi-nasty break-up? It so does not help that she was in and out of my dreams all last night. And all she has ever been is just a ridiculously close friend. You know, the kind that knows you as well as you do, if not better? The kind you sob hysterically on their shoulder with? This feels vaguely like an awkward turtle.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/all_who_have_made_idiots_of_themselves_recently.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/finally_something_that_makes_me_laugh.mws pirogoeth805 2007-12-31T03:12:53-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/finally_something_that_makes_me_laugh.mws So I went to crew today, in spite of it being like, 17 degrees outside. And the boathouse erg room barely being heated. It was pretty good actually. It was an hour long- steady-state erg piece. WHICH MEANS I CAN GO AS SLOW AS I WANT. Provided I finish it of course >.>.... Which I did. My shoulder is clicking in its rotator cuff again. May have to see doctor about it... We watched Shrek (first one) while erging. It made everything better. In other news: A rather accurate and amusing "this is my personality" quiz. In the form of Obsolete forms of communication/"technology"! Seriously funny..

What obsolete skill are you?

You are 'programming in QBASIC'. This programming language (of which the acronym stands for 'Quick Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'), which is so primitive that it cannot easily be used for any purpose involving the Internet nor even sound, was current more than a decade ago.You are independent, in a good way. When something which you need cannot be found, you make it yourself. In writing and in talking with people, you value clarity and precision; your friends may not realize how important that is. When necessary, you are prepared to be a mediator in conflicts between your friends. You are very rational, and you think of things in terms of logic and common sense. Unfortunately, your emotionally unstable friends may be put off by your devotion to logic; they may even accuse you of pedantry and insensitivity. Your problem is that programming in QBASIC has been obsolete for a long time.Take this quiz! Quizilla | Join | Make A Quiz | More Quizzes | Grab Code

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/finally_something_that_makes_me_laugh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_2008.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-01T01:01:30-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_2008.mws Alright. I can do this. New Year. And soon a new hair cut. No boys for at least 2 months other than v.v. good friends.(Like blonde twit) I think I over thought about her. I hope I did. In other news: evidently, Monopoly can in fact erupt into all-out get stolen properties out of people's bras, while two very lucky boys watch what every boy in america wishes they can see. And Blackmail through the game "Never have I ever". Oh yes, and watching the Ball drop in Times Square and in Colombia on En Vivo has got to be the most hilarious thing ever. Happy New Years, everyone. Cheers to 2008. ~Miss Rena

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/happy_2008.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/soupiiiiiiiiiii_siiiiiiiiiiiig.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-05T04:01:49-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/soupiiiiiiiiiii_siiiiiiiiiiiig.mws So, lately crew has been getting better. Yesterday I had a goodly amount of distance for the time I erged. It made me feel better. But now my rotator cuff rather hurts, so today when we did circuits I had to do wimpy girl pushups. Real push ups hurt too much. Although now my abs hurt less than they had previously. Next time, I am not letting Laura talk Coxy(my wonderful little coxswain sometime-double buddy) and I into doing circuits for the second time in one week, since I know my abs will hurt a lot tomorrow. Not to mention I felt various other joints clicking during circuits. Have bad head ache now. Is not fun :( Got stuck baby sitting all day yesterday. Definitely not so great, although the little one behaved himself spectacularly. It was amazing. He even went to bed at a reasonable hour! Also: Have books ready and waiting for my research project. Now I just need one more periodical source. This time, it will be a maddening research paper on the Soviet Invasion of Hungary, from 1956! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet. This time around though, I am not staying up until 3 o'clock in the morning trying to finish it. Like I did the past two years. In one case, it was 4. I am my own worse enemy. Stephy got me this spiffy new notebook. I use it. It is extremely useful. I like it. Got prezzies for everyone except darling in France. I am doing better this year. And this year, I do not have one parent in the hospital. Even better. I think I am starting to like blond twit again. I realllly need to stop that. He has a girlfriend. He will never like me in that way. Except he knows me excrucitaingly well. And he flirts all the time. it is hard.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/soupiiiiiiiiiii_siiiiiiiiiiiig.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/whack.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-10T05:01:57-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/whack.mws Have fabulously short NEW haircut. As in, not even down to shoulders. and cute little flip on the end. and bangs. Take some pink hairdye, and I could totally cosplay any of the Rena/Mimiru/Blackrose characters from the .Hack// franchise. Sweeeeeeet.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/whack.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/evals_and_a_movie.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-11T12:01:33-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/evals_and_a_movie.mws So on Thursday I had my first semester Evaluations. This year though, I actually had to go to them. I thought I had worked my ass off this year, so I had a good feeling going in. I lost it when I saw my transcripts. And then my Father went ballistic over a drop in my GPA. I have to admit, it was the worst semester gradewise that I'd ever had. EVER. My dad thought that my going out with "that boy" had lead me to neglect my studies, and it hadn't. Boo hiss. Whats done is done, although I think I should never have gone out with him in the first place. Yesterday I had my haircut :) it was really nice, actually. I'll have to try and get a picture up. Then I got invited to a movie with Kittykins, Miss A, and BT. We went and saw the second National Treasure. It wasn't actually too bad. A bit cheesy at points, but not too bad. I ended up in between BT and Kittykins. It was funny to see BT's expressions over mine and her commentary. Seriously. He looked really amused. At one point though, like, something explodes, and there is this massively loud sound. I jumped in my seat, and.... yeah, I immediately grabbed on to his arm. Although at the time he had already grabbed mine, because he is so horrible when it comes to suspense. I did not feel so bad after that. We laughed about it afterwards. It was all good. Miss A went home immediately after, since she was still really sick. BT, Kittykins, and I ended up going to Starbucks, since Kate needed to eat something. It was really amusing. There was a lot of her and I kicking each other under the table, with very confused looks from him. And bad jokes her and I have about "the kids", and about her not getting a good babysitter, or making the kid's lunches. And Pin-up posters, tastefully done. And... a really weird conversation about how certain areas tan ¬.¬. I am never having that one again. He ended up driving us both home. He got to laugh over my usurping her right to shotgun. And he ended up putting one of the mix CD's I made for him into the Player. He told me later he really liked it :) It made me really happy. Later while I was working on my monstrous paper, I started talking to him on AIM. At first there was conversation about the CD's, and how much he really liked them :) (go me, go me..) Then we got onto another one of the CD's, since he was ripping them into his computer. I pointed out to to him that one of my favourite songs was on it. Michael by Antigone Rising. The lyrics to the song sparked him to ask a question. It sparked him to ask what made me decide to tell him I had liked him. So I told him that he decided to know why I had started "waffling" around him. Being dense as he is though, he told me he hadn't really noticed. Then he told me he has always regretted turning me down. And that he liked me, but because he still had his former gf in the back of his mind, he did not feel it would be fair. Yes, I do get myself into odd little conundrums. And now he feels bad because he doesn't think he's happy with his current gf, who he says he decided to date on an impulse. And how he feels worse, because he thinks about me all the time. Oh yes, while i felt bad that He felt bad, my heart started to grow wings. I feel bad for the girl, because I like her a lot, but I know he'll do his best not to hurt her. Because that's how he is. So I had to talk him through how he's going to deal with her. He plains on maybe trying to wait it out until the end of the year, because it would be a natural breaking point for him, since he's a senior. I had to make him promise he wouldn't kill himself over this. He said that he probably wouldn't, since it wasn't like the girl he would rather be going out with hadn't asked him out yet. I decided that now was as good a time as any to get it off that I still like him. Although I made him promise that what I was about to tell him wouldn't change anything. And then I told him that I still liked him. Oh, yeah, for some reason he totally didn't see that coming. Must be because he's dense ;) Isn't it funny how you think you know a person, and then they throw you a curve ball?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/evals_and_a_movie.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/fly_me_to_the_moon.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-20T11:01:14-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/fly_me_to_the_moon.mws So, ah, my first week of school is done. I have transfered out of my humane class, gotten the teacher I wanted, and I got the French teacher I wanted. Life gets better and better. And thus far, I have managed not to completely and utterly get lost at my school's new campus. Oh yeah, Go me! I even went to a slue of Basketball games on Friday with Kittykins and BT. Oh yeah, about him.... He broke up with his g/f during the week. And she's not even that mad, evidently. :) Oh yeah, it's like I'm walking on sunshine right now. I told him that I was off boys for at least another month. and you know what? He told me that while it'd be the greatest test of his patience he's ever had, he's in for the long haul. OMG. I know, I am so horrible, but you know what? I have a so good feeling about this. Its amazing. I don't think anything can break my good mood right now. And he seems so much happier. I love my giant. He is amazing. Seriously. And he has such a good sense of humour, and he is so understanding. And he realises that Crew is super important to me. Unlike the ex, who only ever whined about how I didn't spend enough time with him. I think Physics and Calculus are going really super well thus far. I am completely and utterly NOT confused! And my god, it is wonderful. And in about a month, I have my first Indoor Regatta! (no, no boats, sadly. Just straight up 2k's on ergs) I am super excited, but so nervous! And they have a... LIGHTWEIGHT competition too! So I will not have a horrible disadvantage against people who are taller and heavier than me! YAY! Oh, and I updated my deviant art....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/fly_me_to_the_moon.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/dance_inside_the_song.mws pirogoeth805 2008-01-27T02:01:37-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/dance_inside_the_song.mws Ok, so my week went really well. It was short, my essay went well,(even though the material I was righting on I had only JUST read 2 days before it was assigned because I transfered) as did my 12 page French quiz. French is bomb. I can now say "I do not have a banana" in french. And... he is such a sweetheart. And amazing. And I am also ridiculously sad about Heath Ledger.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/dance_inside_the_song.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_is_beautiful_somedays.mws pirogoeth805 2008-02-03T02:02:29-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_is_beautiful_somedays.mws You know how there is like... one thing in your day that no matter what happens no matter who yells no matter what anyone says no matter what goes wrong it will recompense for everything, and make it better? Yeah. I feel that way right now. Even though I feel insanely dizzy, am potentially underweight too quickly, am pmsing, and feel like my head's been smashed in between two excessively heavy object, I still feel like everything is going to be alright. I had my one school dance for the year. I went as "Princess peach" for the oldies dance. It was an awesome idea, right up until people would not stop stepping on my princess dress. And until I was having difficulty breathing, and feeling super overheated. But that is ok Becaaaaaaaaaause I got lots of time with you-know-who :) And it was amazing. I feel like I'm on fire when ever he touches me And his presence makes me feel pretty... it mellows me, makes me hyper, dizzy, and swoony all at the same time. He is intoxicating to me. And he will be mine. FInally. No more having to shelve back feelings about him. No more worrying about losing my friend. And no more thinking that he'll never return my feelings. Because he does. And pretty much always has. Saying that he makes my heart sing is an understatement.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_is_beautiful_somedays.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/putting_everything_back_into_place.mws pirogoeth805 2008-02-10T03:02:35-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/putting_everything_back_into_place.mws Okay, thus far, I think I am doing a good job at bringing my grades back up. Both of my french tests have gone exceedingly well, and my humane essay went well. Actually, so did my Calculus test. I'm a little nervous about my upcoming physics test, but I think I'll be okay if I do a good amount of studying. And I hate my Global issues class. I want my goddamn photography elective back. Also: For anyone who actually cares, I got up a ton of stuff to my deviant art page in January, and I've added a couple of others things since January as well. I'd be mighty obliged if y'all would go and take a look and tell me what you think. http://pendragon805.deviantart.com/ I had him over at my house last night. It may not have been a very eventful night, but everything just felt better because he was there, you know? It is amazing what one person can do for you. Seriously. He just... lifts me up. I do not know what I would do without him, and we are not even an official item yet.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/putting_everything_back_into_place.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/10_things_random_little_thinger_in_place_of_good_update.mws pirogoeth805 2008-02-13T06:02:01-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/10_things_random_little_thinger_in_place_of_good_update.mws So, ten things about me. Almost vaguely sounds familiar.... 1.) I have played Softball, Soccer,Swam for 7 years, done Gymnastics, did Stats for my wrestling team, and rowed. 2.) Have shown up to school only to have the majority of my hands covered in bandages. And then have people ask if I cut myself, like an emo kid. 3.)Been hit by a car, been in the ER for a 93 degree temperature, gotten stitches, broken one ankle, sprained the other, and had an inflamed rotator cuff. No, I'm not at all accident prone, really. 4.)Been a published poet. 5.)Had the largest competitive rowing shell at my boat club dropped on my leg. I still have a scar, and a coach that was pleased for "saving the equipment" (novices almost dropped it on the dock, which would have smashed the hull). That boat weighs 300 pounds. I got by with having the riggers slide down my leg, with the bolts.... 6.)Knew how to do small scale hacking by age 11. 7.)Drink more than 6 large cups of black tea every day. 8.) Once stayed up until 4:30 in the morning while trying to finish a paper. 9.)Can leg press almost 3 times my weight, and can calculate how many newtons the force of gravity exerts on my body. It happens to be 511.11 Newtons, btw. 10.)Have a deep fondness for anything with pumpkin in it.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/10_things_random_little_thinger_in_place_of_good_update.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_is_amazing_seriously.mws pirogoeth805 2008-02-23T12:02:35-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_is_amazing_seriously.mws So....... Ummm... Yeah. I have a boyfriend. Y'know, that crazy blind kid I keep tellin' y'all about? :) Yeah, he's amazing. I am so insanely twitter-patted right now. AKA... --------> I am MADLY in love with him. --->And he feels the same way. *Somebody pinch me, I must be dreaming. Did I mention that he suggested watching a chick flick with me? Oh yes. Amazing. He makes me feel dizzy.... Its awesome. And he is... its like he can almost read my mind sometimes. And he's not afraid to ask questions. Best of all: My father approves. SCORE! Guess who's been going to bed happy for a week? Me. Well, I was sick yesterday, but I'm better now! So I can still go to my Regatta on Sunday! YAY! Life gets better and better!

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_is_amazing_seriously.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/whoops.mws pirogoeth805 2008-03-09T11:03:36-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/whoops.mws okay, so, I have quite a bit to recap, but y'know, I have this thing called school in the morning, so maybe later? Just lettin' y'all know I'm not dead yet.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/whoops.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/cest_ma_vie_pour_maintenant_this_is_my_life_for_now.mws pirogoeth805 2008-03-11T05:03:33-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/cest_ma_vie_pour_maintenant_this_is_my_life_for_now.mws So My grandfather died last week. I still don't know if the grief has really hit me, because the first couple of days after, I was really depressed, but its like, I can feel that there's more to come. I think it probably won't hit home until my father gets back, and we have the funeral. I feel a deep pain, but its like I still don't know what really happened, especially since it was so sudden. Idk, it just seems so.... surreal, I guess. French is going fantatsically. I love my boyfriend. Seriously. I think I do actually know what those first three words mean now. They make me think of all the things that make me feel warm inside. When I look at him, its like... everything just fades away. And then he's the only thing or being thats left. And you know what? Its always kind of been like that. I'm only just coming to that realization. Kind of makes me think I had to go through other people in order to have that revelation. It's amazing to think one person has the ability to make me feel all these things. And I would not change one thing about him. And my ergatta sucked because I was sick for three days before hand. Oh well. I made lightweight by like... 16.5 pounds though. Go me? The guy doing weigh-ins asked if I was weighing in for coxswain or lightweight though... It was kind of funny. My latest essay went awesomely. I got an 80% on my last physics test. I think I pretty much owned on my Calculus test. Things seem to definitely be looking up. MIss R~

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/cest_ma_vie_pour_maintenant_this_is_my_life_for_now.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_easter.mws pirogoeth805 2008-03-23T01:03:13-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/happy_easter.mws Okay, so, even if you are not some sort of oddball Christian, Happy Easter sunday. Because y'know what? All it is is a church-sanctified day of celebrating pagan fertility. Which is why there are bunnies and easter eggs. So, have a good day everybody! Hope y'all got a good haul! ~Miss R

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/happy_easter.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/slippery_when_wet.mws pirogoeth805 2008-04-06T02:04:03-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/slippery_when_wet.mws I think I'm... living again. I can't quite describe it. Its like I'd been gone for so long, and now... I've gone so far from living that I'm coming back the other direction. I'm back. I am realising more and more just how much your mood and the things you worry about can bring you down. Or uplift you. Case and point: I'm not crying every night wondering if my best friend is going to die from wasting away now. She hit her goal range. She eats meat again. I do not worry about losing her anymore. And it is so freeing. Really. And my boyfriend just kind of makes anything I'm worrying about melt away. Its like time spent with him helps slowly detoxify my soul, and it is so amazing. Its like.... That time I blogged about dancing in the rain. Its like its washing away all the taint, all the things that made me feel jaded, its like, getting rid of the black and white. Now I'm back in colour again. I am finally breathing in.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/slippery_when_wet.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_on_the_exhale.mws pirogoeth805 2008-04-12T01:04:53-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_on_the_exhale.mws Its the end of the week. I could not be anymore thrilled. The beginning of the week was shitastic weather wise. I felt horrible most of Tuesday, got to sleep in a good chunk of Wednesday morning, have no idea how to do the Calculus shit from Wednesday morning, annnnnnnd have found out that midol cannot solve every problem while pmsing. That last one was prolly the most shocking, I must say. And I did not get to take my permit test- again! SO STUPID. Why is it still snowing? And sleeting?!?!?!?? AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHHHH I've also figured out why I hate global issues so much. It makes me feel like I am some sort of insensitive, apathetic, uncaring person because I am not going out to solve all the crises in the world. It also makes me feel guilty for being American, and it is giving me an inferiority complex. Just what I sooo need more of. On the other hand, I am still breathing in life. This is good. I like life, even if it means I have horrible weeks.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_on_the_exhale.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/midwest_meltdown.mws pirogoeth805 2008-04-29T09:04:04-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/midwest_meltdown.mws Things done right: Passed permit test... score. Still have amazing boyfriend. Also check. Have completed physics labs, and they work perfectly. Awesome. Understand Calculus... again. even better. Grades are tops again. scorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre. Things that sucked, but seem to clear up as they go: got sick, missed a cumulative of 1 week of school. Not good. Bitched at some people without realising I was pmsing.... Oops. Although one just wouldn't shut up about trying to relate christianity to Aristotle. IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK. GET. IT. INTO. YOUR. CLOSEMINDED. CATHOLIC. SELF-RIGHTEOUS. BOY-STEALING. HEAD. NOW SIT DOWN, AND SHUT THE FUCK UP. ^Yes, I really did want to scream that. No I did not. Instead, I had some particularly biting words during class discussion about the text. Immune system is shot now that I lost like.... 20 pounds. Not kidding. Although thus far, no hayfever. No crew. in 2 months. I am dying without it. RANT: I guess I realised lately how much I hate it when people constantly use religion in their arguements, when it has no bearing. By no means am I atheist. I am a relatively protestant person, and a rather tolerant one at that. But when people shove their beliefs down my throat when I'm trying to get an education, I lose all patience. I think that is forgivable under the circumstances, since I am junior trying to get into college. Okay, I am good. The pixie is doing superbly as of late, and I am so happy about that. Really. She has started eating meat again, has what has been termed the "boy-toy" by kitty and I, and its looking good. Oh, snap. Did I mention that I have a prom dress? Oh yes. Life is good-ish. It would be better if not for the monthly plague.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/midwest_meltdown.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/its_been_fresh.mws pirogoeth805 2008-05-17T12:05:59-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/its_been_fresh.mws One more week, and then classes are done. Life will be good again. I will be free from late nights and essays for 3 months. I will survive. This week, 1/3 essay down (Augustine's confessions), other essay on aristotle= good to go, physics test pretty much aced, calculus quiz was almost "snap" worthy. Depressing issues of human suffering power point on human trafficking -----> OWN'D. French test next week: pretty much in the bag. Prom was awesome. And amazing. Profile pic is from it. (my darling friend and i) Have not budged weight wise (still 113, like my permit says), back to crew. Life is pretty much amazing. I will be able to finish junior year without wanting to kill myself more than 3 times. ------------> Partially due to amazing boyfriend. 3 months and counting. Miss R. Out.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/its_been_fresh.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=180 pirogoeth805 2008-05-22T08:05:23-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/?entry=180 I hate practice. I hate feeling underweight I hate not having enough weight to through behind an oar I hate the fact that my coaches won't make up their minds up about who will be coxing next year I want to cry. I have cried. I feel so dizzy, and it's been more than an hour since practice has been over. Food tasted disgusting tonight. I did not want to eat. I do not weigh enough to row with girls who weigh 20 lbs more than I do. especially one that prolly weighs like, 50 more, who can't pull her own weight. I can't even get in a full stroke behind her because SHE has too much weight on her to get a full stroke. And pieces BY FUCKING PAIRS, WITH 300 LBS EXTRA DEAD WEIGHT??????????? WHAT THE FUCKING HELL??? yes I am pissed, and pmsing. I do not care. I am going to go and cry.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/180 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/shiiiiiiiiiiiit.mws pirogoeth805 2008-05-31T05:05:47-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/shiiiiiiiiiiiit.mws this happens to be what randomly went into a description for a poem posted on dev. art LATE last night, and it really ought to have gone in here... How do you describe that feeling of missing someone so hard it hurts? When You just saw them naught but two hours prior? On the drive home, I felt myself breaking in the seat next to him, knowing I wouldn't be seeing him tomorrow morning, like I'd gotten used to over the past year. And it'd be like that next year. Sometimes you feel so.... helpless? Hopeless? I had to start singing along to the cd to keep from slowly crying. Sometimes one has to wonder why the big guy upstairs gave us hearts and minds to feel with. Because sometimes, it hurts....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/shiiiiiiiiiiiit.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_in_a_nutshell_i_guess.mws pirogoeth805 2008-06-10T11:06:59-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/life_in_a_nutshell_i_guess.mws Well, I still find myself missing him, but... I guess being apart from him is like being apart from my best friend- he fills a part of me that nothing else does. But, its more than that. Does anyone else find the smell of how it smells after it has rained amazing, refreshing, and endearing? That the air feels lighter, like it has just cleaned your soul? And how the build-up to the thunderstorm that gives all the rain is one big, unbearable build-up, with a ton of pressure, where the humidity is so high that you cannot breathe? That's him. and what's more, that's how the boy smells, too. Somedays, my soul cries out for rain, even when I know it will make other things horrid. A thunderstorm at night cures all ails. And sometimes, when it occurs, I feel like he's next to me- a peculiar feeling, to be sure. But, then again, everything feels better, and, just for a little bit, everything is right with the world.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/life_in_a_nutshell_i_guess.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/feeling_the_thunder_course_through_my_veins.mws pirogoeth805 2008-06-11T11:06:09-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/feeling_the_thunder_course_through_my_veins.mws and good God does it hurt like hell. Right now, I could kill someone. The weather, as much as I love thunderstorms, is screwing me over. Practice was horrible. Had a pointless day cooked up inside. And then my date did not.. go so well? First his mother decided he has attitude issues, appreciating what he has. Then his dinner got postponed into the time he was supposed to pick me up... so it started 45 minutes late. He had to be home at ten because of issue one. meaning I only had until 9:30. Then his father calls and tells him to come home a half-hour early. And, as I said, I hate the weather right now. It's making me irritable, because it reminds me of him, whom I cannot seem to have physically with me. I have practice all day, and he works 8:30-4 anyways. The only time we have during the week is after dinner, and right now that's getting ruined because of the weather and his mother's misperceptions of sorts. It hurts because I know he'll be at college next year, so I won't have him then, but god, what an awful summer this seems like, right now.... Shitty weather. No time with the people I want to be with. At least during school, I got to see these people. It is days like these where I feel like screaming "IT'S NOT FAIR!"- just like Sarah does in Labyrinth....

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/feeling_the_thunder_course_through_my_veins.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/school_year_in_a_questionaire_sums_it_up_well.mws pirogoeth805 2008-06-12T08:06:37-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/school_year_in_a_questionaire_sums_it_up_well.mws As the end of your school year is here , fill out this survey according to all of the things you have accomplished.. -Changed hair colors? nope. it bleached out by sun-exposure, though. not too unusual. -Discovered a new talent? Oh yeah. I can make people quake in fear. -Do you have a boyrfriend/girlfriend? yes -Broken up with somebody? yes -Met someone you can't live without? yes. It hurts to be apart. -Was this year the best year so far? yes, and no. -Made a lot of friends? eh... deepened a few. -Fail a class? no. I am too much of a perfectionist for that -Hate a teacher? oh yes. with a passion *cough*adkins*cough,cough* -Get in any fights? just a couple. not physical though... prolly should have smacked a couple of people. -Fist fight? see above. -Gain any new friends? sort of. -Lose any old friends? yeah. -Gone to a movie with a friend? uh huh :) -Lost a family member? yes. -Get any taller? nope. still a shorty at 5'3'' -Know someone that graduated from high school? most of my friends *sulks in a corner* -Cut your hair? yep. -Hug more than 3 different people?oh yes -Tell someone you love them and mean it? Yes, as in the affirmative, "I love you with my life. Do not leave me." -Went to a fair? ren festtttttttttt -Dated/"talked to" someone you wished you hadn't? eh....... sort of. -Hated someone of the opposite sex? oh yes. -Hated someone of the same sex? .... That demands a, "No shit, sherlock" -Saw a kiddie movie at the theaters? Ha ha, for once, no. -Spent most of your year watching tv? Not really. -Read a book? Many, many books, as it were. -Sat through something boring? "Depressing Issues of Human Suffering" says it all. -Drove a car? Not yet. Soon, though. -Regret something you did? Who doesn't, once in a while?

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/school_year_in_a_questionaire_sums_it_up_well.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/regatta.mws pirogoeth805 2008-06-15T11:06:33-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/regatta.mws So, I had my first summer regatta of the season yesterday. It went AMAZINGLY! My doubles partner and I got 4th, behind 2 of our boats, and one Minneapolis. Duluth ate our wake. And we'd only practiced 3 times, in mostly shitty weather. My four was beating our A boat up until the last 300 meters of the race, and we were consistent the entire way through. and they didn't pass us until 100 meters. And we had the heavier boat(a bowloader) and the heavier coxswain. Go figure. Our eight kicked ass, although I wasn't in that race. It was a fantastic weekend. I feel super happy.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/regatta.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/and_at_the_end_of_the_day_shes_gone.mws pirogoeth805 2008-06-28T12:06:35-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/and_at_the_end_of_the_day_shes_gone.mws I found out yesterday, after coming home from Crew, that one of my classmates had drowned while up north on a camp trip. I miss her so much, because she would ALWAYS greet everyone with a smile. She loved life, and people. And she loved us. And she was always cheery, no matter what. We're a senior class of about only 60. That number just went down by one more. And we all feel kind of lost without her. It's so weird to think she won't be there next year. In fact, I do not want to face that reality. God, I miss her.

]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/pirogoeth805/and_at_the_end_of_the_day_shes_gone.mws http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/post_birthday_rantyou_have_been_warned.mws pirogoeth805 2008-08-06T11:08:33-05:00 http://pirogoeth805.mindsay.com/post_birthday_rantyou_have_been_warned.mws So, my birthday was yesterday. I started out feeling groggy, figuring it would get better when I got to practice. My knee had been hurting for the last two weeks, and has started to hurt more and more recently. The day before my stomach started in on not wanting to function entirely properly. I figured it was PMS related. So, at practice, my coach decided to *lovingly* have me row in a single with my other friend who is about the same pace, against two coxed fours, and a double. We began to panic hysterically, as the coach told us that we would be doing two 30 minute long pieces, one upstream, one down, and that my friend and I were starting behind a 1/2 mile, and were expected to not only catch the bigger boats, but get ahead, and stay ahead. 30 minutes later finds us at the 9 mile marker, extremely tired, and over heating in spandex shorts and sports bras. On the way downstream, knee hurt bad, did not catch double until halfway through piece. never caught the fours because bigger boats move faster downstream, and they got too big of a head start. way too big. I tried to stay with my friend, so we could encourage and push each other- a good system. but we were so dead coming into dock. so, so dead. the first person, outside my family, to say happy birthday to me was my doubles partner. I got home, had to go out on my bike up hill to the grocery store for bisquik because my younger brother demanded pancakes, had to MAKE pancakes, and after eating two, felt like I was going to be sick on top of horrible cramps. the time being 11, i sat in front of a fan for 15 minutes trying to cool off, as I could feel the heat radiating off me. ended up falling asleep by 11:30, slept through lunch, and did not wake up until four, were upon I spent the next 2 hours before dinner in a daze, and still with stomach pain. I had been drinking ridiculous amounts of water all day. and I still had a huge headache. yesterday was pain overload day, seriously. after dinner and cake, I once again felt the strong urge to puke, but did not. then my friends called, singing happy birthday into the phone. I was so happy for like, 3 minutes. the best 3 minutes all day. and then they began demanding that I get over to their side of the river, saying that they were too tired from walking around all day, and that they had no way of getting over to my house. after trying to explain that I had to ride over, which would be 20-25 minute drive, they tried to get me to take transit. this would involve a lot of painful, limping-filled walking. and a fourty-five minute bus ride just to get there. having tried to explain that I had not felt well all day, and that walking would hurt, they began to tease, and slightly plead. then I started getting yelled at. I tried my best to hold my voice over the phone, and, after hearing them say they'd call back later, we hung up. and then I began to cry. because I was angry at them for not listening. Because they said they called multiple times, but their calls were not on the caller ID, which would have showed up if they had. because my cruddy day was getting worse. because For the first time in ten years, I was home on my birthday, and I might as well have not been, since no one called until it was too late. because my friends decided to do something without calling me and asking if I wanted to do something. because they sounded like they were having so much fun without me, and I felt so alone, and like an outsider with my own best friends. and I still felt sick. and my knee still hurt. and I still had a massive headache. and felt like I had a fever. and then when i finally fell asleep, I kept waking up. In pain. I was awake more often than I was asleep. and today, my knee was even worse, to the point that a light touch hurt like someone had just broken something. and when I tried to express my feelings about the aforementioned day to one of my friend, she just emailed back saying that she did not want to deal with my sudden "mood and behavior", without even saying why she was so upset. I mean, friends tell each other when they hurt, and things go wrong, right? Now I feel guilty about sending her an email, but I mean, its not like they ever called back. and the friend just... flew off the handle. And I sincerely meant that I hoped she had had fun at a con, and that I had hoped that the three of them had fun yesterday earlier in the day. I am so hurt, lost, and confused. thankfully, my stomach functioned mildly better today, although holding down breakfast was a battle. and I go into the doctor tomorrow. :( I just wish that I knew what was wrong. would it be okay for someone to tell me for once what is going on so that I am not always the last one to know? I mean, how am I supposed to help my friends if they won't tell me what's wrong??

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