"Hope? Absolutely! I'm brimming with hope. I'm blowing chunks of hope. I hope everyone will like me, and I'll like them, and all my wonderful teachers will fill my head with useful yet interesting information, and all our teams will be in first place and then, yes, I'll be voted queen of the junior prom! Hooray! Failing that, I'm hoping school isn't the usual dark, mind-numbing, spirit-destroying hell it was last year." -Nina, Zoey Fools Around (I've been getting into my younger days books again. This one was really funny.)Yeah, I know I said I wasn't doing any more entries. However, I came up with this idea and it needs execution now.
* Attempt to get into the advanced writing classes. I don't expect to get in, but I'll give it a shot.
* Get hired by the newspaper as a columnist. Also attempt to get on the humor mag/lit mag if they ever e-mail me with more info.
* If/when I become a columnist, avoid Jerky Columnist.
* Take that self-defense class so I don't wind up frat bait or worse.
* Try to take something like kick-boxing so that I can learn to beat people up.
* Make new friends, since all of mine have disappeared to apartments.
* Call/write/e-mail others more often.
* Do not date anybody more than a decade older than me, as previous experience was not good. Plus, unlike SOME people, I can't get away with hiding the relationship because my parents pay attention to what's going on.
* For that matter, try to keep it within 5 years so we actually have things in common.
* Also avoid dating anyone in authority (profs, TA's, workshop leaders, etc.) as that is NOT a good idea. Okay, hasn't happened yet, but you never know with me.
* If I find anyone new to lust over, I will avoid them instead of staring at them for ages, making an idiot of myself.
* If I actually have a date (who knows at this point), I will NOT get all obsessive and attached to him. I will be normal and realistic and expect nothing.
* I will not expect good or even mediocre behavior from anyone, but be happy if anyone bothered to call, period.
Okay, so the end gets depressing, but I've gotta try to be rational SOMETIME.
Before I leave y'all, I'd like to reccommend the sites below- these sound like interesting ideas. And I love this quote from the second one:
Male dominated religions tend to blame women for all the problems in the world. Female dominated religions tend to celebrate life rather than waiting for good things to happen when you die.And these remarks aren't bad either:
Ishtar - gained much popularity by not blaming women or snakes for the world's problems.Church Of Christ Scientist - lost some young members when their god failed to show up and cure them of sugar diabetes.
Muslim Koran - "God directs you as regards to your children. The male shall receive a portion equal to that of two females." This god will probably lose the support of 50% of his followers.
Catholic God - has lost a lot of popularity among feminists, ecologists and young alter boys.
Jehovah's Witnesses - keep waiting for their god to destroy the earth...and keep on being disappointed.
Links to other sites on the Web
It's Virtual
The Great God Contest
By Design (all graphics)
This IS my last entry here for a while- the parents are bugging me to pack ASAP, and we're leaving Monday. So if you want to send me anything, e-mail gr3ruth@pacbell.net sometime before Monday afternoon, okay? I'll try to get on one last time before then.
For those who are wondering if I'll be writing up my Hawaiian adventure/first days of school/etc. and posting them when I have access again- to be honest with you, I really don't know if I'll have the time. If I have time to write anything in Hawaii I'll try to write up stuff without a computer, but if I can't get Ethernet to work before classes start and I don't have access until I'm overloaded with homework and trying to type past and present entries plus homework, etc, or if I do have Ethernet up but am too busy being a sock to have the time to type 'em up before classes begin . . . well, it might not be happening. I am truly sorry for that, but I can't help it.
So for now . . . goodbye, y'all. God, I'm going to miss doing these entries.
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