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I refuse to not make a blog. So it'll be a mostly empty blog.

Rebecca, I totally agree with you on the topic of sex scandals. If you must be unfaithful, do it properly. No, that wasn't your conclusion, I just thought that, if you must, you need to be the best.

I don't know. It's quite low moral, but why not be good, instead of fail?

Now I think of that guy, Strauss-Kahn for being discovered as well. That wasn't very smart. I'm not sure what happened, so I'll just stop now. I know nothing of that stuff.

Tomorrow, after my exam, I'll catch a train (literally; I'm that awesome) with two of my superstrong friends, and we'll ride on its back all the way to Copenhagen where we'll hang out, have fun, maybe even visit Copenhagen's infamous dragon Zoo and we'll probably go shopping and use waaay too much money. I don't know what we'll do yet, but it will involve laughing, funny/sweet movies and fun times.

Oh, I have nothing this week. Sorry you guys.

I'll see you next week! Oh, and wish me luck on my exam tomorrow! :)

*Comes Out of the Woodwork*

So...uh... I don't remember if I had a decent excuse for missing last Monday, but yesterday I was busy studying for finals.  Better late than never?

What to talk about? Sex scandals? That just popped into my head, because recently the (unfortunately named) Senator Anthony Wiener has confessed that he has shared explicit photographs and conversations with multiple women over the past few years who are all decidedly not his wife.  It's really rather aggravating how long the list of Congressmen/politicians who have had either illicit, inappropriate or illegal relations has grown to.  Without even getting into the politics of it, doesn't this just fail at a moral level?

Sure, our elected officials are supposed to reflect their constituents opinions, but shouldn't they also be able to set an example by keeping it in their pants?  Or actually following the law (there are one or two that were engaged in prostitution, another harassing underage women, another coercing an employee into an affair, another covering up his love child using campaign money - WTF)?  Maybe that's just too much to ask for.

Anyway, venturing into politics now, if they can't manage to keep it in their pants, and (as most of them are married) keep from engaging in an affair, how exactly is homosexuality threatening the "sanctity of marriage"?  It's completely and disgustingly hypocritical, especially as one of the strongest anti-gay marriage (male) senators was caught with a rentboy. To be fair, not all of the offenders on that very long list of people engaged in sex-related scandal are homophobic or speak out against gay marriage, but many of them still purported to believe in 'family values'.  It's all very screwy (Pun intended? Maybe.)

Anyway, rant over.  I recommend watch the TV show Merlin.  It's a fairly good show, and almost always amusing.  Plus, it's British.

.... *looks around*

... Hello? Hellooooo? So, are anyone here, or am I ruling this by myself? *smiles*

Anyway, even if I did have the blog for myself, I wouldn't know what to write.

So, exams are getting closer. And I dont actually know what day I'm going. Sooo, I have to call my school one of the days. My country is a bit patriotic (I can't seem to understand why), but it's made like, that I can't use any material that's been translated from English, which sucks, given my topic was "evil in older novels". I wanted to use either Hamlet or Snow White. But my teacher wouldn't let me do that. So I'm stuck with H. C. Andersen's The Snow Queen. I didn't know that fairytale before I had to read it for exam (btw, that is a bad idea).. I hate that fairytale. No offence, to you, if you like it, but Gerda spends the ENTIRE SUMMER listening to the flowers' fairytales, then it gets autumn and she's like: golly! I forgot! I have to find Kay!

And then, of course she finds him. Although, I still don't see The Snow Queen as evil. I mean, yes, it would suck to get an evil mirror in the eye, and heart, but isn't that just pessimism?

I could go on with that for a while. But one more thing. The part where I'm not allowed to use English stuff. What is up with my teacher saying it's okay to use the Bible? (I'm an atheist. And I'm sorry, if I've crossed you - really)

.. But The Bible shouldn't be an exception. I think it's either no translated stuff at all, or all kinds of translated material. It must be one way or another.

Anyone else just got that song stuck in your heads?

.... Onwards.

My baby cousin (girl) and my smaller baby cousin (boy) is coming over this weekend, for me (and my mum to babysit them) - It's a bit funny how English hasn't got any gender-cousin stuff. I can't wait! They're both so cute, and it'll be a blast!

I've never been the sort of person who'd go: oh-my-god-this-band-is-making-a-new-album-and-I-gotta-have-it, but now I can't wait for Chameleon Circuit's Still Got Legs and Lauren Fairweather's The Prince's Tale.

I think that's it for me.

My thursday top 3:

1. A Good Man Goes to War is only in a couple of days!

2. The birthday I have to go to, tomorrow. This means friends, good times and a reason to dress up.

3. Tea. Just because. And the packages I'm waiting for to arrive. And Starkid soundtracks. At the same time.

.. I hope I'll see ya'll next week, kay? It's a big blog to keep for one.

I am also extremely excited for summer. I have 5 more school days left (technically 8, but I'll be gone for 3 of them) and then I'm done with high school. Woo!

I don't really have any major plans for the summer. My main plan is to relax as much as possible and spend a ton of time with my friends before we all leave for college. There will be many graduation parties in the next few weeks and many going away parties in August and many days for just sitting around in the sunshine together.

I'm also trying to find a job for this summer. Not sure where I'm going to work because I'm still working on getting hired. I've been applying to a lot of places recently, so hopefully someone will hire me soon.

I guess there will also be quite a bit of packing and getting ready to move out and go to college. And the college I'm going to has a pre-orientation backpacking trip in Yosemite National Park, which I might go on and would be really amazing and exciting. I'm not so sure about how I feel about the whole living in the wilderness thing, but spending a week in Yosemite does sound pretty incredible.

Anyway, I think those are my main plans for this summer. My recommendation for this week is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. I'm only part of the way through it, but it's really good so far.

Summer plans!

First: happy late birthday, Emily!

Today my study-preparation holiday-ish thing started, and I have two exams next months, "graduation" and then summer. I'm going to work in a theme park all summer in an icecream/candy/sweets store/booth.

Which is going to be hard, but I'll get experience, which is the main reason to do it. Other than that, I hope I'll get a tan (I always manage to get a tan in my face, while the rest of my body remains winter-pale) and read loads of books (and I'll love some good recommendations!)

I don't have other plans, actually. We're not travelling this year, so I'll get plenty of time to prepare myself for the new school, which is going to be hard. But I am actually excited, which I think is vital for you to enjoy it.

I hope I'll get to watch Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 on opening night in Denmark (it's 13th of july here) - not sure if it's possible, since it'll be midnight, Copenhagen is .. fairly big and I have no place to go to afterwards. And no one to go with.

I think that's all from me!

Oh, and did anyone see Teefury's Stare Contest Doctor Who t-shirt last week? I bought it. Like a boss.

DFTBA (:

SUMMER! yay!

Don't you guys love those days where you walk outside and it's surprisingly warm and sunny? I LIVE for those days in the spring. And now it's summer! YAY! I feel like a little kid, saying "yay, it's summer" all the time.

By the way, happy early birthday Emily!

I hate to rub it in, but I'm done with school! My last final was on Friday, which was why I didn't post last week. I was studying so much. Ugh, it was awful.

This summer, I am nannying. I'm going to be sharing this job with my sister, and we'll switch off days or something like that. (I don't know if I told you guys, but I have a twin named Allie.) It's a family of three boys (jeez) and it's going to be about 20 hours per week, I think. I don't even like babysitting in general, so I'm not sure how this will work out. I'm just hoping to make some money.

My family takes a few trips every summer, and this year we are going to Yellowstone and Montana with my cousins. We're renting a house and staying in Big Sky. It's going to be gorgeous and I'm looking forward to shopping and hiking and other fun stuff. I'm really excited for this trip.

I'm also going to spend a week with my grandparents in Minnesota. They live on a lake, so we can go kayaking, swimming, and sailing. It's really nice.

I'm really looking forward to Deathly Hollows Part 2, as well! I'm going to go to the midnight premiere, since I couldn't go to the first one. Unfortunately for many of my friends that went to the Part 1 midnight premiere, a lot of the scenes broke and they didn't get to see it. They were so mad, but the theater gave them tons of free passes, so that calmed them down. I was kind of glad that I didn't try to go to the midnight showing. I would have been so disappointed (and tired) if I had.

My Recommendation: the show Parks and Recreation. I love this show. It's hilarious and it's my new obsession.

DFTBA :)

Summer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMILY :) (Just pretend it's Wednesday) (Also, I hope you're feeling better)

Summer is almost here, which is pretty awesome. I have two weeks left of school, which is also kind of strange, because this year has gone by so slowly (and it still feels like it's going slowly with 8 or 9 days left). I think this is the summer I'm looking forward to the most out of summers past, for many a reason.

1) In general, I'm looking for summer purely for what I'm planning on doing during the summer, instead of just relief to be out of school (okay, not purely)

2) I might be able to go down to Florida in June to visit Universal (by which I mean the Harry Potter theme park), because my mom has a plane ticket voucher she might not be able to use, and a cousin (or relative of some sort) who happens to live in Florida (which I didn't actually know until I jokingly suggested going to Florida - I never expect she'd take me even kinda seriously).

3) As mentioned previously (I think, somewhere) I'm going to be at Kenyon for a two week writing program, hopefully developing/fine-tuning my fictional writing technique. I'm excited to be going away from home (by which I mean the place, and also the people), and to meet new people who have at least one major thing in common with me. (It would also be pretty cool if I found a nerdfighter there)

4) I'm spending most of July (I think) in California with my dad, who I haven't seen in months. I'm excited to see my dad again, but also to see the rest of his side of the family (most of it anyway). Also, California is pretty and cool, and my dad is currently in the San Francisco Bay area. Also, Deathly Hallows Part 2 comes out in July. I'm looking forward to this (in a bittersweet kind of way, because it means the end of Harry Potter stuff release -- at least for the near future)

5) Band Camp for Marching Band is in August, and as a senior, I get to help run the show. Marching Band is tiring and time consuming, but it is also fun and full of (for the most part) awesome people. I'm hoping that, even with the additional stress of running things, the ability to have more creative control and the knowledge that it's my last hurrah, will make Marching Band in the year to come extremely fun.

Recommendation: for (relatively- to majorly-obsessed) Harry Potter fans, the website virtual-hogwarts.org, which is a very thorough RPing site that takes place in the Wizarding World. (I am not a representative of the site. Anyone who wants to join should read all of the Rules and Guideline first :)

Au Revoir!