so.. since I'm at work.. I'm reading www.mylifeisaverage.com I have a doctor's apptmt in 10 minutes.. so my slacking is acceptable (shhh don't tell anyone).
anyway.. these made me giggle:
Today, I was riding the bus to work and a little girl was sitting across from me. I have bright purple hair, and today I had a scarf and nail polish to match. My phone rang, playing the theme song from Power Rangers. The little girl looked over and when I took off my hood to take the call, a look of awe came across her face. When I hung up she quietly asked if I was a purple Ranger. I winked and put my finger over my lips. She grinned and nodded. MLIA
Today, I discovered that in the state of Pennsylvania, holding your finger in someone else's bellybutton without their permission for more than 30 seconds is considered rape. Never have I wanted more to commit such a felony. MLIA.
Today, instead of working on my application to Stanford, I taught my dog to respond to Harry Potter spells. He now stays when I yell, "Petrificus Totalus," comes when I say, "Accio," and plays dead when I yell "Avada Kedavra." I feel that this was an acceptable substitute of my time. MLIA
Today, I went to the vending machine after school. I put in my money and pressed the numbers but nothing happened. It had eaten my dollar. When I pressed the "return" button, the screen that usually flashes "Have a nice day" was broken along with the machine, so it started flashing "HaHaHaHaHa..." at me. I was hustled by a vending machine. MLIA
Today in my anatomy class we were watching a video on the nervous system. The first thing it said was "Human bodies, we all have one." Thanks video, for clearing that up. MLIA
Today, I was driving around an unfamiliar town with my father. We passed by a Planned Parenthood. Directly next to it was a daycare center. In between the two buildings there was a sign that read "No matter what you choose, we've got you covered". I nearly peed myself. MLIA.
ok.. that's all for now. I'm so going to train my dog to respond to wizard spells though. That would be sweet!
30 October 2009
NaNoWriMo...
I am going to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Crazy right!?!
Though the whole idea of NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is to accomplish the 50,000 mark, for me it's more the goal of actually writing something. I've always enjoyed writing. I've always thought I was a pretty good writer/grammar freak. It kind of freaks me out to think that I could possibly do this. But I suppose we have to confront our fears.. or do things that scare us... or something to that effect... in order to grow and learn and figure out who we are a little bit more.
I know that my friends Deanna and Jon are also doing NaNo this year (w00t!), bu if any of you are writers, aspiring authors, or feel like tackling the impossible this November, please join me as I try to accomplish this.
One thing that will be my savior as well as a huge annoyance in this is the fact that you can't go back and edit stuff. December is for editing. I'll have to let my ill-punctuated, wordy, and all of those run-on sentences (that made sense when I thought them but are now 4 lines long and don't make sense at all) hover over my head for an entire month until finally in December I can make it readable. In fact, the previous sentence is bothering me for all of it's pieces and awkward parenthesis. If I were allowed to edit while writing this in November, I would never get anywhere close to 50K words.
linkage:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Add me as a friend! I'm JenJen212 on there. :)
Also.. I'm going to the NaNoWriMo kick-off meeting later today. I'm interested in seeing who else shows up. (It's just at Tim Horton's)
DFTBA!!!
<3 Jen
oh.. PS: Say Anything's new album comes out next week. You should buy it. Max Bemis is amazing!
Though the whole idea of NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is to accomplish the 50,000 mark, for me it's more the goal of actually writing something. I've always enjoyed writing. I've always thought I was a pretty good writer/grammar freak. It kind of freaks me out to think that I could possibly do this. But I suppose we have to confront our fears.. or do things that scare us... or something to that effect... in order to grow and learn and figure out who we are a little bit more.
I know that my friends Deanna and Jon are also doing NaNo this year (w00t!), bu if any of you are writers, aspiring authors, or feel like tackling the impossible this November, please join me as I try to accomplish this.
One thing that will be my savior as well as a huge annoyance in this is the fact that you can't go back and edit stuff. December is for editing. I'll have to let my ill-punctuated, wordy, and all of those run-on sentences (that made sense when I thought them but are now 4 lines long and don't make sense at all) hover over my head for an entire month until finally in December I can make it readable. In fact, the previous sentence is bothering me for all of it's pieces and awkward parenthesis. If I were allowed to edit while writing this in November, I would never get anywhere close to 50K words.
linkage:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Add me as a friend! I'm JenJen212 on there. :)
Also.. I'm going to the NaNoWriMo kick-off meeting later today. I'm interested in seeing who else shows up. (It's just at Tim Horton's)
DFTBA!!!
<3 Jen
oh.. PS: Say Anything's new album comes out next week. You should buy it. Max Bemis is amazing!
18 October 2009
Hanson Road Trip 2009: the extended edition. Part 1
I have got to write this down. If I don't I may forget the amazing-ness of the trip and I don't ever want to forget.. so here goes :)
Lets see how many Hanson references I can randomly scatter throughout this post... a prize to the person who can guess the most. :) ready???? set??? go!!!!
4:30 am WAKE UP
I, of course, had done no packing whatsoever at this point, and miraculously gathered everything and was ready to leave at 5:30 when Cindy arrived. I cannot explain how amazing it is to have IRL Hanson friends. Texting and AIM are great, but having Deanna and now Cindy around make me feel like less of a dork for knowing all the words to every song they ever thought about recording... and having half of my external hard drive dedicated to videos and photos and music of my favorite band... because they do too (especially Cindy).
5:30 am GET UP AND GO!
Drove to Kittery, shopped a lot, bought a red jacket (this is important), drove to Wonderland, parked the car, walked a very long way & bought Charlie Cards. <3
10:30 am IN THE CITY
By this time we were quite excited. I was more excited to be in Boston than anything else at this point. I don't really get 'Hanson excited' until they're standing in front of me. I owe my expertise on navigating the Boston public transport system to Brittany and Deanna, and we got to Fenway in about a half hour. There was a man selling stuff at Government Center and singing random songs. I blame him for my having Billie Jean stuck in my head for the majority of the day. Great song in general... not such a great song to sing under your breath while walking past the amazing boys of Steel Train and HelloGoodbye. :/
We didn't actually know where anything was in Boston.. just that the Kenmore Station was the Station for Fenway. When we asked the bus station attendant where the House of Blues was she responded "next to Fenway"... to which I had to respond "...and which way is Fenway?" *facepalm. I researched everything on the journey except the actual destination... go me!
11:15 am CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC
We eventually made it to the HOB (after doing a complete loop around Fenway) and saw *yay!* TOUR BUSSES! I love those busses. I want to someday have one and go on tour and get to sleep in those teeny bunks and have a messed-up sleep schedule from playing shows every night and doing crazy random stuff... If I don't become a singer I need to marry a musician or something. but I digress....
I was hungry. Cindy was hungry. We had passed a cute Mexican place on the same block as the HOB, so we walked back to eat some lunch. HGB walked in front of us when we passed their bus again... I said hi to Forrest.. he said hi back... I fangirled a little.
We ate our food (outside so we could watch the boys unpack their busses and walk around), it was yum, Travis Head walked by us and got take out from our restaurant. While Cindy was inside HGB and half of Steel Train walked by me.. I talked to them again... :) It's weird how shy I get around people who are in bands that I like. But once I get past the first conversation I'm good to go in the future (example - Isaac Hanson last year -- I no longer get tounge-tied while talking to Hansons... score). Also--super cute waiter (more about him later).
2 pm THE WALK
We lined up for the walk... pretty standard procedure (for me anyway). Guess what--the boys were late (no surprise there). But what people hadn't told us what that they were doing walk registrations first this time around and we hadn't yet. So everyone who had registered went to the other side of the street while we all waited to fill out our little cards. Zac and Ike walked out of the venue right in front of us as we were writing out or emails and such. :D Cindy didn't even finish filling hers out.
dun dun dunnn... to be continued :)
Lets see how many Hanson references I can randomly scatter throughout this post... a prize to the person who can guess the most. :) ready???? set??? go!!!!
4:30 am WAKE UP
I, of course, had done no packing whatsoever at this point, and miraculously gathered everything and was ready to leave at 5:30 when Cindy arrived. I cannot explain how amazing it is to have IRL Hanson friends. Texting and AIM are great, but having Deanna and now Cindy around make me feel like less of a dork for knowing all the words to every song they ever thought about recording... and having half of my external hard drive dedicated to videos and photos and music of my favorite band... because they do too (especially Cindy).
5:30 am GET UP AND GO!
Drove to Kittery, shopped a lot, bought a red jacket (this is important), drove to Wonderland, parked the car, walked a very long way & bought Charlie Cards. <3
10:30 am IN THE CITY
By this time we were quite excited. I was more excited to be in Boston than anything else at this point. I don't really get 'Hanson excited' until they're standing in front of me. I owe my expertise on navigating the Boston public transport system to Brittany and Deanna, and we got to Fenway in about a half hour. There was a man selling stuff at Government Center and singing random songs. I blame him for my having Billie Jean stuck in my head for the majority of the day. Great song in general... not such a great song to sing under your breath while walking past the amazing boys of Steel Train and HelloGoodbye. :/
We didn't actually know where anything was in Boston.. just that the Kenmore Station was the Station for Fenway. When we asked the bus station attendant where the House of Blues was she responded "next to Fenway"... to which I had to respond "...and which way is Fenway?" *facepalm. I researched everything on the journey except the actual destination... go me!
11:15 am CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC
We eventually made it to the HOB (after doing a complete loop around Fenway) and saw *yay!* TOUR BUSSES! I love those busses. I want to someday have one and go on tour and get to sleep in those teeny bunks and have a messed-up sleep schedule from playing shows every night and doing crazy random stuff... If I don't become a singer I need to marry a musician or something. but I digress....
I was hungry. Cindy was hungry. We had passed a cute Mexican place on the same block as the HOB, so we walked back to eat some lunch. HGB walked in front of us when we passed their bus again... I said hi to Forrest.. he said hi back... I fangirled a little.
We ate our food (outside so we could watch the boys unpack their busses and walk around), it was yum, Travis Head walked by us and got take out from our restaurant. While Cindy was inside HGB and half of Steel Train walked by me.. I talked to them again... :) It's weird how shy I get around people who are in bands that I like. But once I get past the first conversation I'm good to go in the future (example - Isaac Hanson last year -- I no longer get tounge-tied while talking to Hansons... score). Also--super cute waiter (more about him later).
2 pm THE WALK
We lined up for the walk... pretty standard procedure (for me anyway). Guess what--the boys were late (no surprise there). But what people hadn't told us what that they were doing walk registrations first this time around and we hadn't yet. So everyone who had registered went to the other side of the street while we all waited to fill out our little cards. Zac and Ike walked out of the venue right in front of us as we were writing out or emails and such. :D Cindy didn't even finish filling hers out.
dun dun dunnn... to be continued :)
16 October 2009
Walking is a big deal
I loved Isaac's end of walk speech... someone put it up on YouTube (Thank you whoever you are!) and I just wanted to share it:
Walking is a big deal.
The reason why it's a big deal is because actions speak louder than words.
The reason it's a big deal is there are very few people who will talk to you about any particular thing that they care about, and then go out and walk barefoot to demonstrate their passion and their decision to make a positive impact on the world.
The other reason why walking is a big deal is that we are all individuals. We may be in a group, but ultimately we are all individuals who are making a choice to say: "this is something I believe I can make a positive impact on the world with, so I'm going to show up and I'm going to do something about it".
Very importantly, remember: it doesn't stop here.
We, individually, have the opportunity to positively affect the people around us. This is about our own capacity to lead. Not just with in the world where we're trying to stop the more than 2/3 of the AIDS deaths in the world which are happening in sub-Saharan Africa; the hundreds of thousands of children who are dying from a virus that, in many cases, they were born with. That's not just what this is about.
What this is about, is recognizing within our own selves, our own capacity to lead, and hopefully our own compassion.
You guys are incredible people.
We are blown away by you.
Because this is a BIG DEAL.
Thank You.
It does not stop with a dollar, it begins with a dollar.
Because tomorrow you can host your own walk. Because tomorrow you can decide to do something in your own capacity for greatness, it's only yours to choose.
So we thank you for walking today. You guys are incredible, you blow us away, and you're not alone 'cause we're going to keep on walking one way or another, and we thank you for that.
You encourage us everyday.
-Isaac Hanson 10.14.2009
link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVySVjzz9Y
I TOOK THE WALK!
http://www.takethewalk.net
Walking is a big deal.
The reason why it's a big deal is because actions speak louder than words.
The reason it's a big deal is there are very few people who will talk to you about any particular thing that they care about, and then go out and walk barefoot to demonstrate their passion and their decision to make a positive impact on the world.
The other reason why walking is a big deal is that we are all individuals. We may be in a group, but ultimately we are all individuals who are making a choice to say: "this is something I believe I can make a positive impact on the world with, so I'm going to show up and I'm going to do something about it".
Very importantly, remember: it doesn't stop here.
We, individually, have the opportunity to positively affect the people around us. This is about our own capacity to lead. Not just with in the world where we're trying to stop the more than 2/3 of the AIDS deaths in the world which are happening in sub-Saharan Africa; the hundreds of thousands of children who are dying from a virus that, in many cases, they were born with. That's not just what this is about.
What this is about, is recognizing within our own selves, our own capacity to lead, and hopefully our own compassion.
You guys are incredible people.
We are blown away by you.
Because this is a BIG DEAL.
Thank You.
It does not stop with a dollar, it begins with a dollar.
Because tomorrow you can host your own walk. Because tomorrow you can decide to do something in your own capacity for greatness, it's only yours to choose.
So we thank you for walking today. You guys are incredible, you blow us away, and you're not alone 'cause we're going to keep on walking one way or another, and we thank you for that.
You encourage us everyday.
-Isaac Hanson 10.14.2009
link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVySVjzz9Y
I TOOK THE WALK!
http://www.takethewalk.net
i love ben
my friend Ben sent me this earlier... i love it!
"If they made a movie about Jennifer Cliff, what would it be called?"
I answered: "Jen Cliffs Day Off; The Aliens Ate My Mom; My Tennis Partner Is Serving, Oh My!; One Shot, Two Shot, Three Shot, Floor; Attack of the Hanson Brothers;Dont test me, I Bite!"
a HUGE post about my vacation will be up this weekend. I have got to write it down because it was so amazing... I never want to forget.
<3
"If they made a movie about Jennifer Cliff, what would it be called?"
I answered: "Jen Cliffs Day Off; The Aliens Ate My Mom; My Tennis Partner Is Serving, Oh My!; One Shot, Two Shot, Three Shot, Floor; Attack of the Hanson Brothers;Dont test me, I Bite!"
a HUGE post about my vacation will be up this weekend. I have got to write it down because it was so amazing... I never want to forget.
<3
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