Emily Dickinson

Em

This is a simple one but it is very true.

Bush and Obama

Summer Time

and the living's easy

Ken Kesey - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

This quote is from one of my favorite books that I have ever read.

Hair cuts

I give my dad haircuts in the backyard. He pays me. I decided that I should expand my business so I am now the proud owner of Crazy CUT'S. I made a page on Facebook so it is official. Everyone on the basketball team says I'm crazy on the court so that is why I named it Crazy CUT'S.

One of the funniest lines and I really like the way the picture turned out.

Night of Notables

The other night for our humanities class (English and History) we all had to dress up as a prominent historical figure and attend a 'cocktail party with out cocktails' with our parents. Every student brought something to eat and their parents. Each student had a number on and the parents had to match the number with names on a list by asking questions.

I was JFK so I wore my suit and wore a red white and blue tie. At first most of us students were milling around and only talking to each other but eventually parents engaged us in conversation.

I found acting as JFK intoxicating. After telling people how I diffused the Cuban Missile Crisis and how I put a man on the moon I noticed my confidence grow. When one excited dad pointed out that I had an affair with Marilyn Monroe I decided that being JFK wasn't so bad. The rest of the night I walked around looking for more parents to talk to.

This might be a stretch but hang with me.  This feeling of power that I felt is the same feeling all of these cheating politicians feel before they cheat on their wives or send dirty pictures over Twitter. The more powerful one feels the more likely they are to cheat, I heard it on NPR, some big study was done. So there you have it, I figured it all out haha.

70's Magazine Cover

I made this cover in Photoshop. We had to make a magazine in our history class that covered the major events of a decade in American history.

This one was fun to do in Photoshop and I really like the quote.

ACT!

I am taking the ACT for the second time tomorrow. I am not really dreading it. I got a 31 on it the first time. I just know that I will be completely drained after. Then I have two basketball games but those are great for letting stress out.

leggo!

Here is another one of the 50 lines to live by. This picture was taken on the banks on the Merced River in Yosemite. We go every year and it is my favorite place in the world. No matter how many times I go, I am amazed by the magnificent granite walls that create the huge valley. I have climbed Half Dome twice and hope to do it again this summer.

Shot Down

I wrote a poem in English class today. My teacher told me that is was bad. It was supposed to be in the style of Dickinson and that is why she said it was bad. Here is the poem.

Hope

Hope came knocking on my door

 begging to come in

Hope! I said politely

raising my butt chin

You have no business here, I said

for I am not a sucker

I slammed the door abruptly

with a sour pucker

It is a pretty horrible poem. The rhyming is pathetic and there is no flow. But I was proud of it at the time so her ruthless critique stung my fragile creative spirit and I was in a bad mood the rest of class. I am over it now though.

my painting of a Soldier

       This is a painting I did last year for my AP World History class. We had to write a poem to go along with it but I don't know where the poem is. I was actually pretty proud at my attempt at a little bit of cubism even though I know it wont be going up in a museum any time soon.

        The only reason I scanned it to the computer is because I am going to reuse it for a project this year and that will force me to slightly deface it. I had to stitch it together with Photoshop from two scans because it was too big to fit into one scan so that is why it looks a little odd around the edges. 

Earlier in the year our teacher had us write six word memoirs and we were allowed to use our classmates memoirs in the 50 lines to live by project. This is one of the memoirs and the picture is my brother in Yosemite. 

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

SO TIRED

It is 12:25 on a school night, wayyyy later than I am ever up. I just finished the 50 Lines to live by project and it has drained me. I will post some of the other good ones later. I don't even know why I am writing this right now.  Good thing I have psychology tomorrow so I can sleep in, that shit is a joke. I don't even know what I am writing right now. Only two more weeks of school.........

going to bed