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| *sniffle* Since AnnE moved out yesterday, it's hard to look at that empty spot by the yard and wondering when she's gonna be home and then realizing that she's not coming home because she's GONE! I suppose, she's not completely gone cause I'll still see her at church, and it's not like we could talk much here because she was out studying [and partying] so much, but.. but... sigh.
AnnE I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!
On to happier news now.
My dad said that we got a call today from the Eastern Music Festival! (me: YAHOO!~!!!) And the guy was wondering if I was going to send an application (translation: we want your daughter in this place so bad; we NEED her, we need her TALENT, we need her PRESENCE, we need her because we want to brag that Laura Chang is one of our alumni) and once he was assured that I did, he gave us news of the program. Pamela Frank, Leila Josefowicz, Jaime Laredo, and Dmitri somethign something are all guest artists and they're gonna give master classes.. now I REALLY wanna go to this place. Let's all hope that Laura gets her scholarship.. yeah, $3,850 worth. | | |
| Aha! I really should getting ready for my violin lesson today.. which is at nine! And my piano lesson's at eleven! And then praise band practice is at one! I was trying to explain that I really didn't think I had time to DO praise band.. and then before I knew it "we'll change it to one, I'll pick you up" not as a suggestion but as a statement and I was stuck... I'm not going to blame my scheduling problems on my parents anymore, I realize that it's all my fault cause I'm not assertive enough to tell them. Or maybe I just don't feel like going against them cause they're my parents! Yeah, that sounds like what I do, except that my non-assertiveness brings me problems from elsewhere.
Whoa, now I REALLY gotta go.
Peace to the fried in grease
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| Before I forget to announce it..
HURON ORCHESTRA CONCERT!!
yippeeeeeeeeeeeee
Tuesday, May 6th at 7:30
You all know where da place is... we have to be chained there every nice-looking day for 7 hours.
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| This was from Victoria...
Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American University.
"Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."
The following was actually turned in by two of my English students: Rebecca - last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.
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STORY:
(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.
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(second paragraph by Gary)
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17,he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
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(Rebecca)
He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.
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(Gary)
Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"
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(rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
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(gary)
Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of F*CKING TEA??? Oh no, I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels."
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(rebecca)
Asshole.
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(gary)
Bitch.
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(rebecca)
Wanker.
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(gary)
slut.
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(rebecca)
Get f*cked.
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(gary)
Eat shit.
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(rebecca)
F*CK YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!
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(gary)
Go drink some tea - whore.
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(teacher)
A+ - I really liked this one. | | |
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