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Name: Anne
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Naperville
Birthday: 9/11/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: Music: Anything except blues and jazz; faves include Barenaked Ladies, Simon and Garfunkel, Goo Goo Dolls, Lisa Loeb, and basically any musical soundtrack
Books: Anything by Terry Pratchett, Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegut; also a fan of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series, Dragonlance, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter(Yes, I'm a fantasy nerd)
Other: Drawing, Philosophy, Animation, Knitting, Succumbing to such a fierce self-loathing state of despair that I fear one day I will never return from it, forced to take up a hermitage so pronounced that my only tangible gift to society will be my absence, and Baking.
I love Fan Art, but loathe Fan Girls.
Expertise: Giving the Smackdown
Message: message me
AIM:  clamtastic14983
Member Since:
7/31/2005
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| GRADUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow. What a night. Mr. Caudill pronounced almost every single name he had to say wrong. I got called up to accept this 'American Legion School Award', and he called me 'Annie'. What? Could my name get any easier to pronounce? It's a one syllable article for God's Sake! Anyway, for this award he's talking about how these people display courage and honor and patriotism and all that, so I zoned out, but then they said my name! Since when do I get awards for patriotism. Arthur Brannon III got one as well, and so did Katharine Bigott, and we're all up there laughing, not knowing what's going on. Apparently I had a very bewildered look on my face.
The best part of the ceremony was when they announced the very last person (#749), and everyone's cheering, and then Caudill asks for the Senior choir to come up and sing again...everyone just lets out this huge groan...
And then walking back to the main gym for our diplomas, I see Jian and Amit! Thanks, guys!
Back at my house we're all there eating flan, and Steve's friends show up to have a cathartic burning (I gave them my copy of 'The Trial and Death of Socrates') And Nathan has their Drum Major's uniform that they're going to burn (they absolutely hated her). We thought the jacket was just going to smolder, but it lighted up really nicely!
So I drove my friends home, and then stayed out for a while just driving around. I still can't believe that it happened, and that it's over.
But now I'm free! Gloriously free! Until Monday... | | |
| MORP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much fun! Pictures later? Maybe.
I just filled out my housing and chose my meal plan and stuff. SO WEIRD! It's really hitting me that I'm going to college. | | |
| Ugh. This week can go suck it.
Yesterday was the third day this week I went without sleep...
BUT ITS MORP TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooo awesomely awesome!
A few other things that happened:
--School Musical: Little Shop of Horrors was one of my favorite movies when I was 8, so seeing it on stage was super cool. Cassidy's voice was dead-on for Audrey, and Connor was the dentist!
--Last Orchestra concert: Yeah, I know, but I almost started crying. Jupiter sounded the best we ever played it, and all the seniors were recognized and got the coolest looking awards.
--AP Test: Done and done! Multiple choice was easy to medium, and the first essay was a gift, but on the second essay I knew about three of the seven terms they wanted, and I could guess confidently at two, but I definately made one up and just skipped the other. I won't know the results until late July, but the credit wouldn't count anyway -_-
--Finished my Military History project: 6 pages and a two-sided poster on Japanese Militarism and Modernization from 1853-1941. Stupid Sino-Japanese War (s). Someone just take Manchuria and be done with it!
--Orchestra Field Trip: Yeah, CSO! Once again, I was completely blown away...Emanuel Ax was the guest pianist, and they played a Brahms Piano Concerto (No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, in case anyone cared), and I was definately crying during the second movement (the Adagio), it was so stunningly, overwhelmingly beautiful. The piece was the shortest 45 minutes of my life...and Ax had the whole thing memorized! You could see him physically get into the music, especially when he wasn't even playing!
--Definately sped-read King Lear in two hours....during school today...but I definately aced the quiz!
SOMEONE TALK TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so lonely ::walks away dejectedly:: | | |
| Arrgh...I have so much to do before June 1st!
~Violin Recital, May 7...crap.
~LAST ORCHESTRA CONCERT, May 9 @7pm...everyone's invited, 'cause nobody shows.
~AP PSYCH TEST, May 10...double crap
~Military History Project, due May 10
~CSO Field Trip, May 11
~MORP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 13-14.....we're renting a suite downtown-Chicago, going out for a nice dinner, then walking the down on Sunday
~Cultural Anthropology Final Presentation, May 24
~Sociology Final Presentation, May 25.....I should really start working on this...
Me 'n Christie went graduation dress shopping yesterday, and there is absolutely nothing out there...even the prom dresses we saw were ugly.
THERE ARE ONLY 23 SCHOOL DAYS LEFT UNTIL GRADUATION.
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| Day of Silence, 2006
I have participated in the Day of Silence every year at NCHS, and but this was the first time I had ever heard something derogatory in my presence, let alone directed at me. I'm sorry, but when you call me--a complete stranger walking up the stairs-- a 'fag', does that really make you feel justified? Superior? Are you filled with such hate that you feel the need to vocalize it during passing period, but at the same time filled with such cowardice that you avoid a confrontation, or *gasp* a frank and open discussion by picking a day when people can't talk back? You embarrass me, and you embarrass yourself.
'Please understnad my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today.' | | |
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