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Yes, I know Kaia, you posted it first....Sorry...I couldn't resist.

Ten Places I want to go Before I Die
1) Rome (and the rest on Italy
2) Alaska
3) Seattle (again)
4) Washington D.C. (again, again)
5) England (almost...!)
6) New Zealand
7) Spain
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Ten Things I want to Learn About
1) Greek Mythology
2) The History of Egypt
3) The History of Masons
4) Other Religions
5) Random Conspiracies (Lincoln, Kennedy, Hitler)
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Ten instruments I want to be Able to Play
1) Guitar
2) Piano
3) Violin
4) Bass (guitar)
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Ten Things I want to Memorize
1) pi (obviously not to all the digits)
2) 50 states and their capitals
3) J.R.R. Tolkiens "The road goes ever on and on..." poem
4) Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?"
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Ten Extreme Things I want to Do
1) Skydive
2) bungee Jump
3) White water Raft (again)
4) Fly a plane
5) Climb a mountain (Everest?)
6) Scubadive
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Ten People I want to Meet
1) Yogi Berra
2) Abbott
3) Costello (I honestly don't know if these two are still alive...)
4) J.K. Rowling
5) Daniel Handler
6) My true love
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Ten People I wish I met
1) Honest Abe
2) Babe Ruth
3) Jesus
4) J. R. R. Tolkien
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I know that my lists aren't finished, but I will be sure to update you, whoever you are, when I think of more lists, or more additions to my lists.

Single Minded

For those of you who know this story...here's the next instalment: I went to my mom's work after school, and she said something, I don't remember what, but I said I didn't know if I could do that, being I so single minded. She then said that maybe calling me single minded was too harsh. (That's what I wanted to hear). Only then she said that maybe narrow minded was more fitting! Thanks Mom! Man! It's okay though, I don't care. I have resigned to the fact that I'm going to morp in a black and white dress. Even though it is limited, when it comes to flowers and suit selection. I will do it anyway though, Even though I am mad at the other people in my "posse" who are going in black and white. I'll be in one picture with them, and then I'll spend the rest of the night with my real friends. I think that sounds good.

My mom also things I am stubborn, because I want to go to a specif college, that happens to be out of the price range they are willing to spend. Mom is mad because I don't want to go to the dumb college in Yankton, SD. Serioulsy, the college is smaller than my high school! Hhhh, I have to go...Until next time...

Bored

Well, here I am sitting in school. Bored. Out of my mind, actually. Kaia, I'm writing this as you sit behind me writing your speech. There are 4 minutes until the bell rings, so I might abruplty stop writing...I'm supposed to be researching the Dakota Conflict. ZZZZzzzzzz. Charles E. Flandreau. Blah, blah blah. I' know its important to history..but we've spent the last week in the library researching. I hope it snows tomorrow. and we get out of school. Uh, oh, I have to go....

Rather pleased, thank you very much

Whew! You'll never believe everything I got done this last week. I am actually very proud of myself, let me tell you. First, after many months of hassle, I finished the preliminary part of my Girl Scout Gold Award Project (yes, girl scouts and I do know I'm sixteen). I still have to mail it in to the council, but for the most part its done for the next six weeks. Next, in order to go shopping for prom dresses today with my friend, I had to clean. The entire basement! All of it! The living room, my room, the bathroom, etc. Anyway, I did that this morning before I went shopping (which was, alas, unsuccessful). And to top it off, I am done with all of the homework I have, except my speech, which I will finish, because I have to. I know you all are as pleased with myself as I am, thank you. Though, now that I think about it, you may be a little disappointed because you may have been expecting something wonderfully profound, and you are instead stuck with this compilation of banter. I am therefore sorry for your wasted time and effort (but really I'm not because I'm rather pleased, remember?) As a consolation I will try to think of something that is meaningful and philosophical for you in the next few days. Your welcome.

Interesting....

If you don't already know (which you probably do, because the if you're reading this you most likely know me) I'm a MN Twins fan. There are many things I could be doing right now, but alas, I'm watching, and listening to the game (the first game; grapefruit league). I'm listening on the radio because I like the Twins announcers better than the MLB announcers, and the game feed is about one minute faster than the video feed that I'm getting on mlb.com, so when there is a good play, I hear about it on the radio, then watch it online. I kinda feel like I'm perdicting the future. It's kinda cool. But I really have to go register for the ACT. Ah!

Drawing

Yes, I know, I promised something profound. But I just don't have anything right now. I'm drawing a blank...which if you think about it is a wierd statment. I might as well not I'm be drawing. But, all the same, I have nothing to write about, however you want to look at it. So, for lack of something better, I guess I'll tell you about a little thing that my friend and I did for another friend of ours. You see, my friend is going to school in Germany right now, and I think she is a little homesick, becuase she used to live here, and all of her family still lives here. Well, as it was Valentine's Day the other day, my friend and I thought it'd be nice to send my friend in Germany a flower. We had some dificulty with translations and address and stuff but we finally send her the flower. And guess what? She loved it. Actually I think that what she loved was that we sent it to her. I'll tell you another story. I sent a free e-card to my Grandma. It was nothing special, just a Happy V-day one, but I made her cry, "good tears" though, she said. I made her happy. The moral of the story in these cases is that even a little bit of love can make someone's whole day, maybe even their week, or month. Have you even though how much impact something as little as a greeting and a smile can do for someone? For example, at my work we have a sign that says "do not touch, cover may be hot" right next to our soups that we serve. Well, there was a man in today who not only lifted the cover to see the soup, but proceeded to drop the cover into the soup. Needless to say, that is why we have the sign. But anyway, after that he started to order his meal, but he stopped himself and said "first of all, hi, how are you doing today?" and he smiled. Now, I can tell you that I smiled natualy back, because in that minute, he was nice, and it made a difference, even if it was only to me. Maybe what happened was I brought that smile to the next person I saw, and they to the next they saw, and so on. Sometimes I lose faith in the human race. I'm sure you'd agree that it's not hard to do. Bad things are always happening to reinforce our ideas of diminishing society. I think that we have to do is be nicer to each other. It won't solve all the problems, but it would be a good start.

Alive....barely

I know you are all concerned because I haven't posted in a while that maybe I died, or I became incapacitated, but alas, I am still here. I apoligize that I have not had the time to enlighten you with my profound thoughts but I have been unavoidably detained (no, not by the police...er, or the FBI). I have been very busy with my studies. It is all very annoying. I had the unfortunate destiny of getting all three of my college courses in one semester. It equals out to me having little time to write in this blog between the homework and, well, the other homework, and not to mention the homework, but thats besides the point. I promise that I will not make you wait past the weekend to read anymore of my thought provoking comments and I may even get something posted by Friday, but I don't want you to get your hopes up. Regretably, I must sign off and continue to expand my horizons with the never ending line of homework.

Aurora Borealis

I've decided that when I write in my blog I can be a little depressing and I some times have a "the whole world is against me" mindset. So this time I decided to tell you about my favorite thing in the universe. It's called the Aurora Borealis, informally known as the Northern Lights. The first (and so far only) time I saw them was this November. I was driving home with my brother, we were in the country, maybe 8 or 9 mile out of town, and we were driving down into a valley and all of a sudden I was them over a hill. It was the coolest thing I have seen to this day. The entire area was black, except for the stars and the beautiful streamers of color. I pulled off the road and we watched them for a while, except I think we were on private property, so we drove back into town. One of the perks of living in such a small town like me is that there isn't many lights, especially on the edge by my house, so I could still see them. They were green, pink, white and wonderful. I think that when I die I want someone to scatter my ashes under the northern lights. I could watch them forever, just laying in the snow, staring at the sky. It would be great. I'm going to go to Alaska or Canada, for the sole purpose of seeing them again.

Melting Pot

America is a "melting pot" as Jean de Crévecoevr so elequently put it. Americans are all different, yet all one. But I really wonder how different people in America are. We say we value pretty much the same stuff. We actually value pretty much the same stuff. We are all competitive and willing to go to great lenghts to win. We all want recognition for our actions. We all want money. We're talking about scarcity in school. The teacher asked us (as Americans in general) what we would rather do with out money: feed the hungry or buy a new car? What would you do? We don't see the starving first hand, so do we really have to send them money? Why? I don't know. I think we are surrounded by a selfish society. I'm not saying that everyone is selfish, and selfish may be too strong of a word, but I don't think there is a lot of differences between us. Yet, I also don't really think we're one. I would actually say we're a pretty divided country. We don't really support the president. We don't support each other. We divide on important issues. I don't know what else to say. What is becoming of this so called "melting pot?"

Anniversary

You may or may not know that thirty two years ago today something very influential happened. It may have changed the coarse of human events forever. It was one decision, made by the U. S. Supreme Court that legalized abortion. This decision still causes controversy, and probably will forever. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I for one don't see how anyone can agree with the decision to legalize murder. It's going beyond freedom. If we were free to go around killing people because we didn't really want them around...well, I would be a little scared. There are those of you out there that say that killing an unborn child isn't murder, but to you I say how can it not be? You're ending what could have been a wonderful life. The child that has just been ruthlessly murdered could have grown up to cure cancer, or found a way to live on Mars, and even if they didn't, what gives you the right to decide whether or not they should live? I think that if God didn't want the child to live, he would have found his own way to end their life. If you decide to kill a child you're playing God, and that's not your job. About 126,000 abortions occur everyday. That's 45 times the amount of people killed in the 9/11 attacks. Why doesn't everyone just take a step back and think about what life actually means.