Mamma's and pappa's

"California dreaming on such a winter's day" - The mamma's and Pappa's I like this quote and I agree with it because sometime's on a winter's day I think of being somewhere different like Florida or California. Most older people who live in Maine for the summer also live in Florida or somewhere warm during the winter months. I think that when I'm old that I'm going to live in Maine most likely and then during the winter go to somewhere warm. I like warm places but I like being cold too because I sweat a lot sometimes. A lot of people say that California is where a lot of dreams come true which I don't think I agree with. Dreams can come true where ever you are in the world as long as you set your mind to it and try as hard as you can to succeed. I bet that sometimes people in Florida, California , or even any other places warm think about coming to colder places during winter to experiences snow and a white christmas and such stuff. I don't know why they would think of that but their's got to be people who think like that for no reason at all. All I can say to those people is that it's not all that it's cracked up to be and the snow isn't all that great.

snow and lottery

"Getting an inch of snow is like winning ten cents in the lottery" - Bill Watterson I agree with this quote because I love when it snows the first time. This quote is for people like the hicks at our school who love the snow because it means snowmobiling to school. Once who get an inch of snow you just want to keep on getting more and more because you're never satisfied. The lottery is the same way, people who win the little money just want to keep on playing until they hit the jackpot. This world is full of ungrateful people and I myself sometimes am don't get me wrong but people who do everything they can to get piles and piles of money just because they can isn't right. Some people in this world don't realize nor care that there are people who can't eat because they don't have the money. Some people are homeless and wear the same old and dirty clothes everyday because they can afford to get new ones. Some people probably couldn't last a day if they had to switch places with a homeless person and pretend they had no money. Some people are so materialistic.

School

"You don't have to like school to be good at it"- Mrs. Hotaling I agreee with this quote strongly because I know most of my friends hate school but they get honors and high honors. All you really have to do in school is when teachers say study this is to study it. You don't have to learn it because you take the teast over it and you usually never see it again. As I see it some people are book smart and some people have comman sense. Some people even have both and those people who have both are unique. So anyways personally I really don't like school but I think I'm pretty good at it. School use to be fun and I use to like it but something happened when I hit highschool. I think it happens to most people, once they enter highschool school doesn't seem to be as fun. It's like you stop learning new things and they just test you on things that you either already know or they give you a study sheet to study for the test. It's not as hard as some people make it out to be. All they have to do is put in a little bit of effort to pass. Most people hate to put in any effort and they fail then they complain and end up hating school.

Hairspray

"You're fat and old but baby boring you aint"- Hairspray "You're timless to me" I loved this movie. Seeing John as a women was priceless. It's made me laugh so hard. He's not the best singer but he's the best cross dresser I've ever seen. I also loved Zack he's so hot. The only thing that I don't understand about the movie is when Tracy comes to the ms. hairspray compititon and her hair is flat and different. In the beginning of the movie she was in love with her big hair and seemed like she wasn't going to change it ever. I watched the orginal movie the other day because it was on tv and I didn't like it as much as this new one. The movie makes me realy want to see the broadway musical. I love going to new york city, I'm in love with it actually, to see different musicals and shop there. I think the hairspray muscial would be amazing to watch specially the dancing portion of it. Hairspray had a good message to it too. I got sad and almost cried when Queen Latiffa sang the song when all the black people were marching to get seen on tv as equal and stuff.

the read

"Each the other's world entire"Cormac McCarthy "The read" Okay so this quote is odd. I don't really get this quote at all. I don't knwo who Cormac McCarthy is at all. Is Cormac a boy or a girl?And what does this quote mean. Was this guy or girl disturbed or something. I think this quote means that no matter where someone is at that they will always be a part of eachother. Like they will always have a piece of their heart that belongs to another person. This is something that would be good inside a ring like a wedding ring. I think that's what this quote means and I think it's cute and I would have this engraved into my wedding rings. Maybe Cormac McCarthy said this to a girl or guy that he or she was going to miss because they were leaving and never coming back. Maybe he or she said this because he or she loved them. Maybe Cormac McCarthy was a genius of a man. Cormac McCarthy was a good guy and maybe he was just a little crazy.

Free write

I got my acceptance letter from Farmington the other day and I'm pretty excited about the whole thing. I'm still nervous for college but I'll live and manage. I applied to Farmington, orono, and UNH. I really want to go to UNH to be a physical education teacher but I don't think I'll get in. Farmington is one of the best teaching schools and since I want to minor in biology I want to go there. Plus it's cheaper there and it's not Orono. I like Orono I just don't like the fact there's so many people there that are from Sacopee. I want to be different and even though Farmington and UNH aren't that different. The funny thing about me getting accepted was that that morning i was complaining that I didn't get in anywhere yet and some people had already got into school that applied like two days before me. But oh well I got in and I'm happy. I told my family that I got in and they just looked at me with an odd look. they weren't happy for me and they weren't sad. they didn't care it seemed. But it doesn't matter what they think I guess because I got in and I'm proud of myself that I did that.

Torch

"My hands are shaking from carrying this torch for you"-Sandre Lerche. Okay so this quote is umm confusing to me. I think it means that someone is really nervous because they're carying something really important to an important person. Or this quote has to do with the olympics. At the beginning of the olympics someone runs the famous torch to someone who puts it in the big cup to light it.It means the olympics has begun. I'm kinda stuck writing more so I'm gonna jump to a different theory about this quote. I think maybe the torch isn't a torch at all. Maybe the torch is suppose to represent something different. Maybe the persons hands aren't shaking because they're nervous but maybe they're shaking because they have a drug problem which makes him figity. Maybe the person is a cocane addict, that always makes a person have problems. But I don't think that's the reason for this quote. The real reason I think is that it's for the olmpics.

species

"The female of the species is more deadly than the male" -Space I agree with this quote. Actually I think this quote is quite funny because girls are always saying when we're younger that we're better than the male species. The femal species is more deadly than the male I think. We know how to outsmart people and we betray eachother with a drop of a dime. Males on the other hand don't do any betraying because they think that they're best buds and stuff. They don't see the same things that us girls do. Females know how to so much more then men when it comes to taking down someone, like ruining their reputation. Guy's just don't get it nor do they care at all. If I was a male I would be scared of those females, specially the ones that look like they're suppose to be male instead. Females can give life and they can take it away I think. They can choose to have babies and they can choose not to have babies to help populate the world. Males can't choose to have babies or not. Males only help with the making of babies why god made men have to help is beyond me.

Dave matthews

"And if along the way you are growing weary, you can rest with me until a brighter day... you're okay." -Dave Matthews. I don't know this song at all. I know of the band somewhat. I know that Dave matthews does a lot of things with aids awarness and stuff over in different countries. Also I know that they were a kinda big band during the 1990's and early 2000's. This quote makes me think of something a grandmother would say or a bunch of friends would say. I feel like if I was having a bad day then my friends would say that I could rest my head and stuff on them until I got better and happy. This reminds me of a scary story or something like I read the quote and I think of someone who is in fear and they go to someone who will help. I wish I could firgure out this quote more and understand it a little better. I wish I knew the song it came from so maybe the rest of the song would be easier to figure out. Well I think I'm out of ideas to write about for this quote. I still wish my thought processing was better.

yourself

"People always say how you should be yourself, like 'yourself' is this definite thing, like a toaster or something."-My so-called life. I agree with this quote because I often hear people telling other people to be themselves like they truely know how the other person is acting isn't themselves. People are always changing so they really don't know themselves so how are they suppose to to act like themselves. If people didn't change the world I think would be boring because everyone would be stuck to their ways and never compromise with anything. Most people in high school are different in school then they are out of it. Some people are different their friends then they are to people the just met. I know for example that if a girl in the senior class was herself then no one would like her because she acts nice then talks trash behind their backs and she wears way too much makeup to be herself. I think she's scared to be herself because she wants to be popular and have people like her for what she is and what she looks like instead of who is she on the inside. I think people should always be themselves because that way you can never be called fake.

Free write

So tonight is the JCL convention and it's the second time in history that it'll be at Sacopee. Well actually it's at the middle school. I'm kinda nervous because I'm not taking latin and I have to take a latin 4 test. I only got to latin 3. Latin never came easy to me at all. I struggled in latin 2 and 3 because I can't translate. I just never comprehended how to do it. I studied really hard most of the time and I still either failed or passed with a low grade. In latin 1 Mrs. O is really nice and easy going but once you hit latin 2 she's not so nice as she was. Outside of class she was back to the nice teacher that loves to talk and help out people. In JCl she's pretty much the same. Now that I'm a senior she expects alot of me and the rest of us seniors. I know that tonight at convention she's going to be down our throats to make sure everything goes to her plans. Last year at conventions she would get so mad at us if we did something out of the ordinary because we were her star pupils and we never do anything wrong usually. I don't think she realized that we're human and do act up sometimes. Everyone does it normal.

Free Write again

So today I'm fresh out of ideas for a free write. Nothing has been really going on in my life. I get up go to school, go home, go to practice, go home again, eat, and go to bed. My life is really boring actually. I wish I had people to hang out with when I'm at home but I live in town where there's a bunch of old people or little kids. My parent's said that when I got my lisence that I would be able to hang out with friends more and do things with them. Well they got that one wrong because my friends can't always hang out with me. I also can't go do things with them. I'm always too busy to do anything with them. I'm always running around doing sports or helping out with younger kids play sports. Don't get me wrong I love doing all of these things I just wish I had more free time too. Hopefully in college i'll have more free time then I do now. I plan on having more free time but ya never know. I know I want classes to start at like 9 or 10 because thats the time I usually get bored and want to do something.

talking without thinking

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming." 18th century British proverb. I actually get this quote somewhat. I think it means that people are dumb and say things without thinking what they say. They just keep rambling because they think that they will get their point across. Basically the quote is saying you wouldn't shoot something without aiming if you were trying to hit it so why do people talk so much without thinking of what they are saying. Of course I'm one of those people that sometimes talks way to much and I never think of what I'm saying or what I'm about to say. Most of the time it's when I'm really ticked off at someone or something but that doesn't happen all the time. I think that most people don't think while they talk because they're scared that if they think about it that they might actually be wrong about something or say the wrong thing that will make someone else mad and talk without thinking. They people that I think talk the most without thinking are celeberites. Oh my goodness they don't think at all. They just say whatever is on their mind at the time and it usually ends up with them making a fool of themselves.

old into new

"Old fades into the new..." Zero 7. I think this quote means that anything thats old can be turned into something new. Say you have a old pair of pants well you could patch them up and put something on them to make them look brand new again. You can always change something to make it seem newer just add something and fix it up a little. Also Old fashion from like the 60's is coming back and becoming cool. So that kinda means that old fades into new. Maybe I should take the quote so literally because maybe it doesn't mean old into new like redoing a pair of pants. Maybe it means something like recarnation. When someone is very old and they die some religous people think that they get "reborn" into a new person. So basically they come back to earth as someone else. They think that at the same time someone dies, a new baby is born. If I think of it in that way I guess I agree because the old does die off and becomes new again once they're reborn. If I believed in being "reborn" I think I would be born to being a guy because I'm a very guyish person.

conversation

"I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clear that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." Oscar Wilde. I too sometimes have long conversations with myself. I Think you're thinking way to fast and in your head you're saying all these things you just get confused and don't understand anything that you're saying to yourself. Most of the time when people talk to themselves people think they're crazy which I think this person is. This quote is very interesting and I do agree that if and when I do talk to myself I don't understand what I say half the time. I just keep babbling on and on and I forget what I first said and so I get confused. Other times when I talk to myself I am so clear on what I am saying but I don't understand it at all.

Jesus

"Jesus said 'follow me' he did not say 'worship me,' and there's a difference" Pam Grout. I like this quote because I think Pam Grout is right. In the bible it doesn't say anywhere that Jesus said for people to worship him. All he wanted to do was help them out. He wanted to make their lives better. People do that all the time now-a-days but we don't end up worshiping them now do we. I bet Jesus didn't want any special attention I bet he was just trying to be a good person.

to be or not to be

"To be or not to be that is the question" Shakespeare. I think this quote is about hesitation. Like the person can either choose to be someone or something or not to do it at all. Most people in their lifetimes ask themselves if they want to become something or do something or do they want to just forget about it and live their life the way they are. I've had to ask myself that question before and I chose to be instead of the not to be. It worked out well for me too. I think if people didn't have to ask themselves that question then they're just flying by life without stopping and thinking. I think people should ask themselves that question at least five times through out their life time. William Shakespeare was a brillant man. He did so much for our society. Every play has something that William Shakespeare did first. This is probably his most famous quote.

Clothes

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have very little or no influence on society." Mark Twain. Mark twain is saying that people who wear the most expensive clothes and have he best things have a lot of influence. If a person was wearing jeans with tons of wholes in it and a shirt that has tons of wholes and he went into a job interview no one would higher him because from first expression he's not dressed well enough. When people dress fancy and you meet them for the first time you have a great first impression. If they're wearing a suit then most people would think the person was important and had a high paying job. If the president didn't wear any clothes then no one would listen to him because no one would take him serious. But with clothes people at least listen they might not agree but they listen.

Orbitz

"Who are you calling a cutie queen, you lint licker?" Orbitz commercial. This commercial is the best ever. When I first saw it I didn't understand it but the second time I watched it I laughed so hard. I love the accent of the secretary. It's like southern and funny. It's suppose to be instead of swearing the characters are using other words to express their feelings. Can u imagine if someone actually licked lint how bad it would taste? This commercial is when the wife walks in and sees her husband with the secretary and is disgusted at both of them. I wonder what a cutie queen is but I think it's a person that has a lot of cuties.

self-importance

"I am filled with self-importance right now." Deus (as John Derbyfield). This movie was pretty funny. When Deus said this I laughed very hard. I think it's weird that he had to say this when normally people don't come out and say I'm filled with self importance right now. Most people wouldn't say that at least not that I've met. Maybe when we read the book I'll understand it more because maybe John Derbyfield talks to him self a lot I don't know. What I do know is that Deus did a great job acting and this a quote that stood out to me because it was odd but funny.

dinosaurs

"I always thought I was an herbivore trapped in a Carnivore's body."Cross eater on Dinosaurs. I think this quote means that they wanted to only eat plants but they also liked eating meat which is a carnivore, or they only like to eat plants and things but they are in a human body which is normally a carnivore. This quote is confusing to me but I think it's like talking about vegitarians who are still in a human body. Humans were made to be carnivore's I think but recently humans have changed to herbivores because they don't like meat. To me this person doesn't know if he or she is a herbivore or a carnivore because they sounds like they are a herbivore but never realized it until now so they ate meat still.

cab drivers

"Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect." Howard Ogden. I think this quote is really funny. I have an aunt and an uncle,who are cab drivers, and they are the worst drivers ever.People say that practice makes perfect so why aren't the cab drivers perfect at driving? It's because people can never be perfect at anything. There's always something new that comes up while driving so the cab drivers can't be perfect at it. If cab drivers were perfect at driver then my aunt and uncle would never be getting tickets. If cab drivers were perfect then everyone would want to be driven by them because they would be perfect at driving and the people wouldn't be. Also if cab drivers were so perfect at anything they would never have any car issues or or accidents. Ya right I've seen alot of cab drivers get into accidents because they were careless and didn't watch for other cars.

books

"There are few books that are as dull as their readers." Thordeau. Thordeau is saying that most books are interesting and aren't dull at all. He's saying that the readers are the dull ones and only read the books that they like. If the reader is dull then he or she would probably like to read only dull books. Most books aren't dull, they always have something to them that make them interesting it's just do the people who are reading it see it. People make books dull by not reading into it. I think high school kids make books dull because they are forced into reading when they don't want to be. I bet they would think the books were more interesting if they read them on their own time. There are some books that aren't worth reading but most books have reviews that you can tell if its worth your time to read.

Free write again

I'm pretty scared for college and I don't know why. I think it's because I've been kept safe for 14 years, from preschool to 12th grade. I'm scared to be on my own and away from the comfort of my home and my friends. I'm not sure if I'm ready to graduate and be an adult. I don't want to leave my brother to go through school without my guidance. I'm scared to be on my own and not be told what I have to do and when somethings due. Even though I'm scared I''m pretty sad too. I'm sad because I wont get to be here with my younger friends that I've gained over the years at Sacopee. I'm sad because my sports career will be done with. I probably wont get to play sports at a competitive level ever again. I'll miss the rush I get when I step out onto the soccer field or the basketball court. I'm also sad that my friends wont be around me anymore. I'll be leaving my stevie, whose my best friend. She's going to like New york and I'll be staying here in Maine. I'll talk to her a lot and visit but it wont be the same without her. Who will I have to be foolish with? I'll have to make new friends and I'm shy when it come to new people. I don't even like talking to people when we order out food.

people agreeing

"If you can find something that everyone agrees on, it's wrong" -Mo Udall. I really don't understand this quote so I'm not sure if I agree with it or not. I think though that I agree with it because if one person says its right then other people will begin to believe that person and soon tons of people will say its right. They say it's right even if they only heard it and there's no real proof if it's right or not. People do that kind of thing all the time where they believe anything someone tells them even if it's completely wrong.

angels vs devils

"There are few angels and devils in the real world. Most of us fall somewhere in between."-Doris Roberts as Rose Fiedler in "Keeping up with the Steins". I think that Doris is correct saying this because not everyones perfect and does everything perfectly like angels do. Angels are people who help anyone no matter what they have done. Their the really good people of the world. They aren't suspose to do anything wrong at all. Devils are the complete opposite of angels, they do all the bad things in the world. They don't care what other people think of them and they don't care what they do. Most people fall in between of angels and devils because no one can be completly evil or completly good. People do things that are bad and good all the time. They might lie and then next thing they turn around and help someone out. No one can be a saint because everyone in their life time has done somthing that would upset God and not make them an angel. Also no one can be a devil because everyone has done something good in their life even if they don't know it yet.

Trouble :)

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so," -Mark Twain. This quote confuses me a little. I think this means that If you don't know something then you wont get into trouble but if you know something and it's important you could get into trouble. When I read this I think of the Mafia because in the mafia if you know something that you're not suppose to know then you're most likely going to be in trouble. People always get into trouble with the stuff they know. Like in highschool people talk about everyone and is one person says something to their bestfriend about someone else then that bestfriend could be in trouble because if some information got leaked out and that person finds out shes going to go the best friend to find out wat her friend told her. I think if people are telling you information that you know might get you into trouble you should leave before something really bad gets told. You can't get into trouble if you don't know anything about it.

Free write-soccer

Last night the girl's soccer team tied against a really good school. It was Fryeburg acadamy. It was 4-4. In the first half they scored 3 goals in 8 mins. We thought we were going to lose at that point. Coach was really mad at our goalie so he put me in as goalie and I've only played twice before. At half time coach yelled at us because he was so mad that we weren't winning. We all knew we could do better. So during the second half Emily Lane scored four goals in like twelve minutes. We were leading by one and the crowd was going wild. The Fryeburg boys were talking smack because they were losing as normal. In like the last two minutes of the game Fryeburg scored one more to tie it all up and I was so mad because I wanted to win. So we had to go in over time which is five minutes and we kept them scorless and they did the same to us. Since no one scored we had to go into double overtime and I was pumped to do whatever it took, but no one scored so it became a tie which is still good. I played in the whole jv game as the goalie which was pretty cool. I only let in two goals because I was dumb.

Blessed

" Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disapointed." -Jonathan Swift. I like this quote because it's so true. People who don't want to be disapointed are blessed because they never expect anything. People who expect things usually end up with heartbreak because something goes wrong and they fail. They usually get disapointed and they wonder why. Nothing ever goes the way you want it to. When I read this quote I think of Tom and Jerry because Tom is always trying to catch Jerry and he also expects that he's going to be then something always happens that he didn't think of that Jerry did. Tom never ends up catching Jerry. Maybe if Tom didn't expect he was going to catch Jerry and leave traps that were thought out a little more then maybe just maybe he would catch him. When I think of this quote I also think of myself because on birthday I expected polly pockets but what I didn't know was that my family didn't have that much money. So when my birthday party came around and I opened all my presents and there were no polly pockets I cried. I was so upset. If I didn't expect I was getting them I wouldn't have been so sad when they weren't there.

language and complaining

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
People complain all the time. If the world didn't complain about something our world would be corrupted. Most people are shy and don't talk unless they're complaining about something that they don't like. When people complain it brings out their true side and their true language. Without language and the use of words our world would be still informal. People always find something to complain about even if its perfect and they feel like complaining about it. I find that people complain a lot more when they are angry about something or even sad.If we didn't feel the need to complain about something people probably wouldn't talk very much because most people don't have nice things to say so they don't speak.

Devil

"So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns,and cloven hooves,any fool could say so." How to Read Literature Like a professor is a really interesting book. When I read this quote I thought of the movie Badazzled with Brenden Freshire and he meets Elizabeth Hurly, whose the devil, and she gives him a certain number of wishes. No one ever said that the devil had to be a guy, it could be a women right? When I think of someone who makes a deal with the devil I think of ghost rider. He makes a deal to keep his father alive and the devil screws him over and makes his father die a different way. So then ghost rider is stuck with the task of being ghost rider and doing jobs for the devil. When I read this quote I think of the devil as being a centaur like creature because he's half horse like and he's half human. Theres this show called charmed and its about these three witches who fight off bad guys and in one episode the devil was in it and he looked like a centaur .