Updates

I'll admit that I haven't been the best at blogging recently.
Fortunately for you, this isn't an "I'm sorry I haven't been blogging" post! We all know how much we hate those... We bloggers hate writing them, readers hate reading them, and our blogs hate having the space taken up by them! (Well, maybe not... We don't really know what blogs feel.)

But anyway, I just wanted to update y'all on my life. Sort of. This is a rather ill-concieved post, because I don't really know what I'm going to write about (O.O) but I know that it's going to spectacular whatever I do.


First of all...
I took the European History AP on May 11th. It was boring. And long. And I think I did pretty well, but results won't arrive here until July. So I'm sort of impatiently waiting until July.

Secondly, I took some pictures of my sister. Because she's so cute. Here they are!

(And I actually have more, I just didn't want to completely spam you all with pictures of my adorable sister.)
She went to a birthday party today, and she got back with sparkles and a tiara. So she got dressed up. And I took picures. And she's so cute. :)

Thirdly... I had to take pictures of myself recently, for my yearbook. Because I'm doing a personal page, and we thought it'd be interesting if we could have some in unusual locations. Here are my favorites...

As you can tell, I'm not the most photogenic... But I think these turned out okay. Especially the over exposed one, because you don't see how big my nose is in it. XD

Other than that... I've just been working on my yearbook, working on my math (I understand identities now! I think! :D), and practicing piano.

Oh, I got a really high score in AIM and got to play in an honors recital about two weeks ago. It was cool. I had fun. :)

Essays are Life

Or so it would seem preparing for the European History AP.
Woot woot.

The interesting thing about writing the essays (particularly in practice exams), is that you don't always have a clue about what the heck you're writing about. Even though they give you three choices per half of history, and even though you doubtlessly choose the one you know the most about, there's still going to be a little (okay, a lot) of just writing whatever crap comes to mind and hoping that maybe the person scoring your essay will believe you actually know what you're talking about and give you a higher score.

(I know I'll get in trouble for saying that, but it's true.)

For example, let's say you choose to write about... oh... Women's rights, out of a selection of three, where the names in the other two essay prompts look like they could be written in gibberish for as much as you can recognize them.
Um... yeah. How much do you actually know about the women's rights movement, from when it began to the 1950's.
Possibly you're going to know about Wollonstonecraft and "Vindication of the Rights of Women", and Simone de Beauvoir (however you spell it), and "The Second Sex" (which wasn't published before the 1950's), but how much more do you know about it?
Probably nothing.

Which is when..
YOU PRETEND YOU'RE A FREAKING GENIUS AND KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THE SUBJECT.

Start of generalizing. Say something like "Before Wollonstonecraft published Vindication of the Rights of Women, women had almost no legal, political, or social rights, and were considered inferior in almost every aspect."
Wham.
You already sound smart.

And then you can get a little more specific, granted you know a little about the time period...
"Women's right to property was nonexistant, and men controlled nearly every political aspect in their life."
There you go. General, but it might get the grader a little interested because you sound like you know what you're talking about (which, remember, you don't really.)

Then you can say something about early women's rights movements, naming names if you remember them (I don't), as much as you can. (For example, "Early womens rights movements were violent in nature, and one woman died by throwing herself in the path of a horse, to gain attention to their cause.")

There you go.
There's a basis for your essay.

Of course, then you can cover WWI, WWII, and the impact said world wars had on the womens rights movement. I'm not going to type this up, because I don't really feel like writing another essay.
But the point is...

You can have absolutely no idea what you're writing about and still get a high score. Of course, it absolutely helps to know what you're talking about, and I encourage everyone to study! (...Yeah. I should be studying. But I'm not.)

Just remember that when it comes to essays...
Write a lot, mention as many proper nouns as you can, try to get specific (if the prompt asks for it), and try to remember the general feel of whatever era you're writing about.
Yep.
Because when all else fails?
There are more important things than writing about the womens movement.

Like writing about the French Revolution!
BOOYAH! :D

(By the way, I'm sorry this is so late.)

Lazy Angela is Lazy

Heh. So, I have pictures taken for this post about my books and stuff... But I'm a little too lazy to put it up (whaaat? I have the pictures edited and saved and everything!), so I'm just stealing what Cat did, which is one of those things where you just basically talk about yourself.... Yeah... Isn't this fun?!

Alphabet Me:

Algebra. 'Cause I like math.
Burn Notice. TV show that I like.
Cookies. Theyre yummy.
Dungeons and Dragons. Best. Roleplay. Game. EVER. B)
Eczema. It's a skin type. And it stinks. TT_TT
Fantasy. It's the type of book that I'm most likely going to write.
Giraffes. I saw some. And I can't think of anything for G. XD
Hands. I have them. And I'm typing with them. B)
Ice cream is amazing!
Japanese is the language I'm learning!
Katherine is my middle name.
Lame is this post.
Music. Must I say more?
Next month I have the AP for Western Civ.


Yeah. my alphabet ends at N.
No.
I'm just not up to finishing.
xD

On A Serious Note...

The other day, two of my friends and I were sitting around and one of my friends (We'll call her friend "A") mentioned something about a "suicide bunny calendar". Friend "B" mentioned that she had seen said calendar, but never actually looked at it, and I said that I had no clue what they were talking about. So, friend A decided to fill us in.

Made me sick.

The "suicide bunny calendar" is basically a calendar... with pictures of bunnies committing suicide in "creative" ways. Suicide bunny is also a comic strip (why?!) and here is one of the pictures. I, thankfully, claim no right to this picture:

And, here's another:

Actually, if you Google "Suicide bunny", you'll find whole lists of comics of bunnies committing suicide.

Now, a lot of people inexplicably seem to find these pictures funny. And, I'll admit, some of them are completely outrageous, and slightly amusing if you don't consider the fact that it's suicide.
But it is suicide.

Despite the fact that these ways of killing yourself are outrageous, stupid, unlikely to work, and otherwise defective, I still find them incredibly offensive and distasteful. Because I'm a list maker, I'll make a list of all the reasons these comics, and people talking about them as if they're hilarious, make me feel sick and angry. (Yeah, I'm a little ticked off. Sorry.)

1. Suicide is not a laughing matter. It's real, it's horrible, and it should never be taken in jest. Suicide is funny, until you realize that there are people who have serious issues who really do take their own lives because they feel it's the only way out of whatever situation they find themselves in. These people need help, and undermining the seriousness of suicide does nothing to help them at all.
2. You don't know peoples' histories with suicide. When you start laughing about this calendar where bunnies- poor, innocent bunnies!- are killing themselves, you aren't thinking about how that's going to affect anyone. My friend's friend attempted suicide not that long ago. Another friend's dad committed suicide. I've known someone who tried it herself. It makes me angry when people make fun of something like that... And I'm not even the suicide atemptee!
3. There are plenty of hilarious things out in this world. Badly drawn comics of idiotic looking bunnies attempting impossible methods of killing themselves is not one of them.
4. You're talking about death here. It's like laughing at a picture drawn of World War two. People die. They leave behind people who miss them. If you think that's funny, I think you have an issue.
5. Anyone who starts joking about this is obviously not a very good friend if you ever do feel suicidal- or if you're worried about someone who is suicidal. By making it a laughing matter (See reason 1), you're setting yourself up to be someone that no one will trust with something that serious.
6. Really? You have to use something so unoriginal to be funny?
7. Most of these reasons are ridiculous, and would never work. I don't think anyone has died by having a man squish a chair leg into their brains by sitting on said chair... Why do we have to think up new ways of killing ourselves?
8. They aren't even funny cartoons.

So, there you go. Eight reasons these things are... annoying. Grr.

I don't mean to insult anyone who finds these comics funny...
I just mean to say that if you find these comics funny, I think you're a messed up, inconsiderate person. :)

Suicide isn't funny, shouldn't be considered funny, and should never be taken in jest. :)
Or at least... That's my opinion. Anyone have a different side? The comment box is somewhere around here (button, button, who has the button?!) and I adore comments! ^_^

Yeah, yeah. I know I owe you guys a "real" post soon. Sorry!