Last night my dog, Fritz, died.
No, I'm not going to say "passed away" or "left us" or that we "lost" him, because we didn't. He died. I went and saw him before he did, and there was no way that I can describe it in gentle words.
He was about 7-8 years old, and a huge German shepherd. We adopted him a couple of years ago, and he's been a moron ever since we got him.
Safe to say, I miss him terribly.
He either died from heart disease or cancer, and there isn't anything we could have done about it.
Rest in peace, Fritz.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Adventure Exists In The Mind
Angela has nothing in particular to blog about!
AHHHH NOOO! THE HORROR! SOMEONE SAVE US FROM THIS DISASTER!
In fact, my creativity is more or less gone. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I have no inspiration, no motivation to write or create anything. The most I'm interested in doing is refashioning a t-shirt, something that doesn't take a lot of creativity anyway.
My mind is as dry as an empty swimming pool.
It's as exhausted as I imagine those hamsters are after running on their treadmill things for hours.
It lacks motivation to do everything but sit and stare at a screen as my eyes slowly glaze over and my brain cells commit suicide from the radiation coming from the electronics.
Why is Angela writing a blog post, then?
Because I'm just awesome like that.
Actually, that's one of the points that I've meant to bring up for a long time, but never actually gotten around to doing.
You're awesome.
Okay, no, seriously. Deep down, no matter how crappy you think you are on the surface, I think you must believe just a little bit that you're awesome.
So just accept it already.
I mean, think about it. Just because you're nothing 'special' doesn't mean anything. It just means that you're not held to an expectation to do something different than anyone else. You just do. You don't HAVE to do things your own way or think your own thoughts. You just do anyway. No one's standing over you, whipping you to do things your own way, or to conform. The reason you're you, and the reason you do the things you do... Is you. It's the way that your brain experiences different things. It's the way you accept things that happen... Or don't accept them.
You're a different, unique, original person... Because you choose to be, one way or another.
There is, in my opinion, no person who can be considered not awesome. Why? Because just the fact that you can make the decisions you do, and act the way that you do, and just think the thoughts that you do in the sequence that they happen means that you're awesome. It means that you have created your own personality, no matter how 'unique' it is. You're amazing, because you've created yourself into who you are. Even if you do something really crappy, it makes you awesome because you're just cool enough that you've made a choice.
Choices make us who we are, and we define the choices we make. We create ourselves, and we mold ourselves into who we are and how our futures look.
So, please, never believe that you aren't awesome, or that you're at the will of people besides yourself. Why? Because every morning that you get up and do something, you're shaping yourself and your future.
You're awesome! :)
(Hey. I found a blog post after all! :))
AHHHH NOOO! THE HORROR! SOMEONE SAVE US FROM THIS DISASTER!
In fact, my creativity is more or less gone. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I have no inspiration, no motivation to write or create anything. The most I'm interested in doing is refashioning a t-shirt, something that doesn't take a lot of creativity anyway.
My mind is as dry as an empty swimming pool.
It's as exhausted as I imagine those hamsters are after running on their treadmill things for hours.
It lacks motivation to do everything but sit and stare at a screen as my eyes slowly glaze over and my brain cells commit suicide from the radiation coming from the electronics.
Why is Angela writing a blog post, then?
Because I'm just awesome like that.
Actually, that's one of the points that I've meant to bring up for a long time, but never actually gotten around to doing.
You're awesome.
Okay, no, seriously. Deep down, no matter how crappy you think you are on the surface, I think you must believe just a little bit that you're awesome.
So just accept it already.
I mean, think about it. Just because you're nothing 'special' doesn't mean anything. It just means that you're not held to an expectation to do something different than anyone else. You just do. You don't HAVE to do things your own way or think your own thoughts. You just do anyway. No one's standing over you, whipping you to do things your own way, or to conform. The reason you're you, and the reason you do the things you do... Is you. It's the way that your brain experiences different things. It's the way you accept things that happen... Or don't accept them.
You're a different, unique, original person... Because you choose to be, one way or another.
There is, in my opinion, no person who can be considered not awesome. Why? Because just the fact that you can make the decisions you do, and act the way that you do, and just think the thoughts that you do in the sequence that they happen means that you're awesome. It means that you have created your own personality, no matter how 'unique' it is. You're amazing, because you've created yourself into who you are. Even if you do something really crappy, it makes you awesome because you're just cool enough that you've made a choice.
Choices make us who we are, and we define the choices we make. We create ourselves, and we mold ourselves into who we are and how our futures look.
So, please, never believe that you aren't awesome, or that you're at the will of people besides yourself. Why? Because every morning that you get up and do something, you're shaping yourself and your future.
You're awesome! :)
(Hey. I found a blog post after all! :))
Thursday, July 12, 2012
I Wrote New Words!
There's this song we were taught at camp.
It goes a little like this song:
Only, for the chorus, we sung "The window, the window, the second story window, high low low high, he/she/it threw it/her/he out the window!".
Okay?
I'm also supposed to be learning the processes of Mitosis and Meiosis reallllly well.
SO I WROTE NEW WORDS.
And here they are. :)
(And yes, they're a little off. But I had to write what the different stages were, and this was as good as I've gotten them so far.)
It goes a little like this song:
Only, for the chorus, we sung "The window, the window, the second story window, high low low high, he/she/it threw it/her/he out the window!".
Okay?
I'm also supposed to be learning the processes of Mitosis and Meiosis reallllly well.
SO I WROTE NEW WORDS.
And here they are. :)
(And yes, they're a little off. But I had to write what the different stages were, and this was as good as I've gotten them so far.)
Interphase is the start, when chromatin is doubled. Chromosones are sistered up, the start of the...
Meiosis. Meiosis. I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Prophase One is complex, and tetrads cross right over. The nucleoli disappear as the spindle forms, oh...
Meiosis, meiosis, I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Metaphase One is the time when tetrads are aligned. Preparing to divide, yes, ready to divide for...
Meiosis, meiosis, I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Anaphase One leads to the divison of the tetrads. Chromosones are still sistered up, part of the...
Meiosis, meiosis, I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Telophase One leads to the splitting of the cell. Cytokinesis creates a furrow to continue with...
Meiosis, meiosis, I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Prophase Two moves chromosones with a new spindle. Da da da, da da da da, to help with the...
Meiosis, meiosis. I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
In Metaphase Two chromoses align like in mitosis, chromosones point to different poles ready to divide. Oh...
Meiosis, meiosis. I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Anaphase Two seperates the sister chromatids. Na na na, na na na na, part of the...
Meiosis, meiosis. I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
Teophase Two and cytokinesis create the final cells. To finish up with four cells it's time to end...
Meiosis, meiosis, I need to know meiosis. Haploid cells, haploid cells, are created by meiosis.
There you go. Now you have a song all about the different stages of meiosis! :D You're welcome.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Woman in Black
Warning: This post is going to be FULL of spoilers. So, if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, and you don't want it to be spoiled, then don't read this post. XD
A while ago, I was invited over to my friend's house to see The Woman in Black, aka my first horror film. It was pretty good, and I enjoyed most of it.
Until the end.
Why?
Why didn't I like the end?
BECAUSE NOTHING CHANGES.
I'm not kidding. Nothing changes. To quote... Someone... I want to say it was Mikel... "They started at square zero, and went to square negative one!"
YES.
Yes, yes they did.
Okay. So, basically, you have this awesome movie, and you ruin it by having nothing change. Jennet doesn't go away. She's still there, presumably still causing children to kill themselves... AND Arthur and his son die? Really? That's so dumb, I literally ranted about it to anyone who would listen for days.
So guess what I did.
I went and read the book by Susan Hill!
And I will say this: The book had a better ending. Kind of.
See, Arthur doesn't die in it. His son does, but then he gets remarried.
But there are cons to the book as well.
Namely, I don't like the way that the book didn't develop the characters and mystery/story of Jennet very much. Nothing really happens to Arthur. Nothing to make him as terrified as he should be... he goes there, he sees the woman in black, he gets scared (as he should be), and he leaves. I think the movie does a better job with developing the story behind the woman in black, and I think it also does a better job in making the stakes higher. You don't just think "oh, wow, I guess his kid is going to die", you feel it as a sort of terrible fate. Like, it's not a question at all.
Besides that, I rather liked Arthur's character better in the movie, although I like his background better in the book.
Altogether, I think it was a pretty awful movie (from the ending), and a decent book. In my opinion, if they changed the ending of the movie, just so that Jennet goes away- so that something changes- it would be probably one of the best movies I've ever seen. :)
Now, it has also been pointed out to me that, seeing how it's the first horror movie I've seen, I'm not used to the way that the bad guys win because that's just how it works in horror stories.
I have a few objections to that.
Namely:
The book "The Woman in Black", "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and "The Invisible Man".
Guess what.
THEY ALL HAVE GOOD ENDINGS.
So, I'm still indignant at the ending of the movie The Woman in Black.
But I liked it.
Just not the ending. <_<
A while ago, I was invited over to my friend's house to see The Woman in Black, aka my first horror film. It was pretty good, and I enjoyed most of it.
Until the end.
Why?
Why didn't I like the end?
BECAUSE NOTHING CHANGES.
I'm not kidding. Nothing changes. To quote... Someone... I want to say it was Mikel... "They started at square zero, and went to square negative one!"
YES.
Yes, yes they did.
Okay. So, basically, you have this awesome movie, and you ruin it by having nothing change. Jennet doesn't go away. She's still there, presumably still causing children to kill themselves... AND Arthur and his son die? Really? That's so dumb, I literally ranted about it to anyone who would listen for days.
So guess what I did.
I went and read the book by Susan Hill!
And I will say this: The book had a better ending. Kind of.
See, Arthur doesn't die in it. His son does, but then he gets remarried.
But there are cons to the book as well.
Namely, I don't like the way that the book didn't develop the characters and mystery/story of Jennet very much. Nothing really happens to Arthur. Nothing to make him as terrified as he should be... he goes there, he sees the woman in black, he gets scared (as he should be), and he leaves. I think the movie does a better job with developing the story behind the woman in black, and I think it also does a better job in making the stakes higher. You don't just think "oh, wow, I guess his kid is going to die", you feel it as a sort of terrible fate. Like, it's not a question at all.
Besides that, I rather liked Arthur's character better in the movie, although I like his background better in the book.
Altogether, I think it was a pretty awful movie (from the ending), and a decent book. In my opinion, if they changed the ending of the movie, just so that Jennet goes away- so that something changes- it would be probably one of the best movies I've ever seen. :)
Now, it has also been pointed out to me that, seeing how it's the first horror movie I've seen, I'm not used to the way that the bad guys win because that's just how it works in horror stories.
I have a few objections to that.
Namely:
The book "The Woman in Black", "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and "The Invisible Man".
Guess what.
THEY ALL HAVE GOOD ENDINGS.
So, I'm still indignant at the ending of the movie The Woman in Black.
But I liked it.
Just not the ending. <_<
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