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  <title>Can&apos;t Stop Won&apos;t Stop</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:02:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>just thought i&apos;d point this out.</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a fictional character that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Yes, ma&apos;am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this character happen to be a vampire?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, no, he&apos;s human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is he a werewolf?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...I just said he was human...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is he in the Twilight series?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Nope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is his name Sodapop Curtis?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chyeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s pretty much it. All the Twi-hards can keep their Cullen men. I&apos;ll go with the 1980&apos;s Hottie McHottie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://asphyxiated.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sodapop_curtis_by_nukka_chan1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:12:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>it&apos;s your life - what are you gonna do with it?</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For those who own (or who have owned) Bring Me the Horizon&apos;s EP entitled &amp;quot;This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For&amp;quot; may have stumbled across the band&apos;s very blunt message, which is summed up to be:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Get out there and do something; forget about your education.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree with the first half of that statement. The other half I have issues about. Oliver Sykes pointed out that a personal friend of his spent most of his life studying and was fatally killed at a young age. He never got to see the world and he never will be able to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was extremely touched by that story, because there are people in the world who focus too much on their studies. I&apos;m not saying education is a bad thing, because it is. With education, you have way more opportunities for your future. You&apos;ll be able to do what you love, rather than flipping greasy burgers at McDicks for the rest of your life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Education equals money. Money equals a well-supported lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you shouldn&apos;t hole yourself up in your room, surrounded by piles and piles of books, obsessively working over quadratic equations or your Biology thesis paper. But you shouldn&apos;t ignore your studies either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically, what I&apos;m trying to say is...study but make the time to go and out and explore the world. Join an extracurricular group at school. Start a project with your friends. There are so many opportunities out there to be sitting around doing nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, get out there. Go for a run. Read a book. Learn something new.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:15:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Who will you be?</title>
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&lt;br /&gt;Heh. I&apos;m going as a Las Vegas show girl. I&amp;nbsp;have this really feathery skirt and I&apos;ll have the feather in the headband going on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should be interesting.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:57:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>let&apos;s go on a cruise - doesn&apos;t matter if we&apos;re sick, right?</title>
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  <description>This little story has popped up in almost every conversation my family has ever had, so I thought I&apos;d share it with you all. Maybe you can share a similar story with me if you have one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today&apos;s topic of interest is...incompetent doctors!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know, I know. You&apos;re probably think &amp;quot;That&apos;s impossible! Doctor&apos;s can&apos;t be imcompetent, they&apos;ve been to medical school!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are some that make you think how they even made it through medical school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll give you an experience I&amp;nbsp;had as an example.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was the summer of Grade 5 and managed to catch pertussis (that&apos;s whooping cough for you simple language folks). Anway, I went to the hospital and the doctor who examined me insisted that it wasn&apos;t pertussis, it was just a simple sore throat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom kept arguing with him that I&amp;nbsp;did have whooping cough and not just some common cold.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess to prove a point, I&amp;nbsp;coughed right in the doctor&apos;s face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m not talking about a lady-like clearing of the throat. I&apos;m talking about a cough. Loud, phelgmy, spluttering cough. Right smack in the doctor&apos;s face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, he&apos;s now supposed to be in quarentine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what he does?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goes on a cruise with his wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, yeah, now he&apos;s infected his wife and every other person on the ship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smooth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have any stories like that? Let me know!</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:13:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>bad day?</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been watching a lot of Des and Nate videos on You Tube and this particular one really got me thinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you have had grandparents who were in the war?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;nbsp;have.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you have had the type of grandparents you sit you on their lap while they reminisce about their time in the war?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you have grandparents who are extremely bitter and rugged after being in the war?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sure didn&apos;t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Picture this. You&apos;ve just come home from school. You&apos;ve failed your test. Your boyfriend/girlfriend broke up with you. And you spilled your Sloppy Joe all over yourself. You walk in the door and say &amp;quot;I&apos;ve had a erally bad day.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then your grandpa pipes up and the conversation goes like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa: &lt;/strong&gt;I was in the military, you&apos;ve never had a bad day. One time I woke up during the war and I only had one hand!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You:&lt;/strong&gt; Grandpa, you have both your hands, that doesn&apos;t make any sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa:&lt;/strong&gt; Shut up, you s*** taco. I have to shave with a dead guy&apos;s tooth. I flossed with pubic hair one time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You:&lt;/strong&gt; Grandpa, that&apos;s so f***ing nasty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa:&lt;/strong&gt; I&amp;nbsp;had to s*** while running and carrying a grenade at the same f***ing time. Bad day my ass! You wanna wrestle?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You:&lt;/strong&gt; ...No...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa:&lt;/strong&gt; Are you a f*****, demon hair?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You: &lt;/strong&gt;....No....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa: &lt;/strong&gt;I&apos;m a Pilgrim, okay? I wipe with poison ivy, rat traps, and razor blades put together. You dig?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You: &lt;/strong&gt;No, Grandpa, I&apos;ve never dug in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grandpa:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, you&apos;re gonna dig!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You:&lt;/strong&gt; I&apos;m never gonna dig - ever!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are one of those people with a grandpa like that, please let me be a fly on your wall so I can watch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;People like that make me giggle (and terrify) me all at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:27:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Life is a masquerade</title>
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This year, I&apos;m dressing up as Nikki Sixx, the basssist from Motley Crue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I usually plan my costume months ahead. I&apos;ll make a list of possible costumes and then I&apos;ll think about each one for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last two choices, the one that I didn&apos;t pick for this year is usually going to be costume for next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I&amp;nbsp;guess I don&apos;t keep my costumes a secret, since I just told you right now.</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:54:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>weightless</title>
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  <description>These new journal entires of mine are going to be...well...different, to say the least. No, I&amp;nbsp;won&apos;t be talking about pointless details of my life. I won&apos;t be posting random surveys. And I&amp;nbsp;definitely won&apos;t be whining about my problems on the &lt;em&gt;Internet.&lt;/em&gt; Who even gets sympathy on the Internet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If they do get any, it&apos;s cheap. That&apos;s all it is, is cheap sympathy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I will tell you about, though, is myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m like a bumblebee. I&amp;nbsp;only sting you when you threaten me. Before, I was more like a turtle. I would have no problem walking around with my head out, but as soon as something bothered me, I hid myself away from the world. I&amp;nbsp;was shy. I&amp;nbsp;was fragile. I&amp;nbsp;was easily manipulated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But things change, don&apos;t they? People grow, they have experiences in their life that make them into the person they are today, right? Of course. I&apos;ve had experiences that have changed me, blossomed me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days, I don&apos;t really know what I could say about me. I can be a total sweetheart, yet at the same time, I can be a jerk. I tend to listen rather than talk, but if something&apos;s on my mind, you&apos;ll need to bury me to get me to shut up. I&apos;m generally quiet, but if I&apos;m in the right mood and around the right people, I can be a powerhouse. I&amp;nbsp;have the lungs of a saxophone player, a singer, and a drama kid. I could talk your ear off for hours, if the topic leads to something I&amp;nbsp;enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess you could say I&apos;m ironic, in some cases. For instance, I enjoy reading the Twilight series, but I&amp;nbsp;do have fun bashing the books as well. Odd? Yes. But that&apos;s just me. I&apos;m odd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like every human being, I&amp;nbsp;have faults. I have weaknesses. Physically and emotionally. For one, I can&apos;t trust people. You have to be very, very close to me to earn my trust. Second of all, I&apos;m a klutz. That&apos;s all I&amp;nbsp;can say. I can&apos;t stand on my own two feet, which is why I&apos;ll never get hired for the circus. It&apos;s too bad. That was my dream job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can just picture myself. Up on that tightrope, with my umbrella in hand. The crowd waiting with baited breath as I lightly place my foot onto the long cord that seems to stretch on for miles. Everything&apos;s looking good so far. I&amp;nbsp;hold my breath and inch my other foot onto the cord. A little wobbly, but I&apos;ll make it. Let&apos;s take the first step. One...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Splat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oops. I guess I&amp;nbsp;fell, didn&apos;t I? Thank goodness for that net.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I said, odd. I don&apos;t want to be involved in the circus. I&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; the circus. The labor the animals have to go through. The clowns. Shudder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I am a supporter of animal rights, and yes, I&amp;nbsp;do have an abnormal fear of clowns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love animals and&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;hate PETA. I hate clowns...and I hate clowns. That&apos;s it. Once you have a giant plywood cut-out of a clown fall on you when you&apos;re only 4 years old, it kind of causes some problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, like every human being, I get writer&apos;s block. Just like I&amp;nbsp;am now. But this time, I don&apos;t want to try and unblock the writer&apos;s block. Because I&apos;m finished with my tale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess all I really have to say is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t trip on the threshold on your way into the mess that is my life.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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