all i can say is that my life is pretty plain

fall out boy broke up/is breaking up?

2009-10-05T11:10:12Z

cheatpolygraphs @ 2009-06-09T15:27:00

2009-06-09T19:27:47Z

I'M ONLY A JUNIOR FOR THREE MORE DAYS OMG

stole from my girl sarah

2008-11-04T17:09:56Z

When reposting, please link to [http://www.neabigread.org/]
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, and strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I haven’t finished it)
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh .
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (haven’t finished it)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan .
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
~~57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens~~
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (I have this problem where I start books and never finish them, as you can see)
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry .
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Writer's Block: The Beatles

2008-10-09T18:47:22Z

In their heyday, The Beatles were the center of the pop universe. Many groups have been hailed as the next Beatles, but does pop music even have a center anymore? Who represents the core of pop music to you?

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no one can ever be the next Beatles. hdu, writer's block.

SARAH BARBER, WHO DOES THIS MAKE YOU THINK OF?

2008-08-24T21:25:03Z

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-08-22T12:58:00

2008-08-22T17:00:12Z

this woman is screaming and swearing at her kids outside my house. i'm so close to yelling out my window at her to stop because i'm trying to rewrite this stupid ap essay and i can't concentrate. there's no reason to be using that kind of language in front of kids who have got to be about 12 or under.

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2008-08-21T22:20:10Z

DAMNIT DAMNIT FUCK I DIDN'T PRINT MY AP ESSAY AND MY COMPUTER CRASHED

so upset

2008-08-05T23:35:56Z

so cuckoo, my baby, her leg has been like, quivering every now and then. i asked my friend heather about it, and she said it might be arthritis. there are so many problems with this
1. being a middle class family, there isn't enough money for a trip to the vet
2. if there was, they'd do an exam and there's always a chance that cuck'll have some disease. there's no way we'd be able to afford treatment, and i would end up feeling so guilty and crying everyday and quite possibly taking up hard drugs. i know how selfish this must sound, but ignorance is bliss. she's old and i want us to enjoy the rest of her life instead of bursting into tears whenever she walks into the room because she's a walking time bomb

if you're going to comment me telling me i'm a jerk and i need to take her to the vet if i can get the money, please don't. i've been crying non-stop for over two hours. leave cute things that will make me laugh and stuff, but no lolcats obv.

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2008-08-05T17:53:05Z

Dave Melillo is in cute is what we aim for, whaaaaaat!?

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-06-27T09:04:00

2008-06-27T13:15:50Z

Socratic was REALLY good last night. There were some tech problems, but that wasn't their fault. Which is why I was so annoyed when people were saying how they sucked and how they expected more from them. First of all, they cancelled nearly all of their tourdates except for this one. They could have said, well fuck you, and cancelled it, spent time with their girlfriends and stuff. But they didn't.
On a lighter note! I MET DUANE MOTHERFUCKING OKUN who I am kinda in love with. I met most of the other dudes too, they're unbelievably nice. And Duane shouted me out during their set and gkbwehtgf. It was so funny, Aki and I were outside, and so were Kevin and Duane. They had to leave, and I was like "can I have a hug?" but my voice was all crazy because I'm kinda sick, and I was singing along with the songs I knew so I started to lose my voice! Kevin was like hahaha yeah, and then commented on how gentle my hug was, I mumbled something about being little. Then I hugged Duane too, and he squeezed me and it was so lol. "Jack don't let go, I'm cold, my nips are hard". Seriously, if you can see them live, DO IT DO IT DO IT they're the nicest fucking guys ever.

Pictures will be up whenever my friend uploads them (: I took a bunch.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-06-22T15:10:00

2008-06-22T19:11:47Z

I'M SEEING SOCRATIC IN 5 DAYS FUCK YEAH.

+ over a week into summer and I haven't gotten burned yet (:

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-06-16T07:18:00

2008-06-16T11:47:08Z

Maybe if I keep talking as if I'll be in New York come the fall, it will happen and my r's will stay in place. That's what I tell myself, anyway. "Juliana and I are so excited for AP English ma, it's going to be really fun." I hung out with Ju and her family yesterday, and Kath's baby is SO CUTE. I'm trying to think if there's anything else interesting going on, I don't want to bore the 4 people that'll read this. All I do is sleep, do sudoku puzzles, and hang out with my friends though. And as none of you know my friends, it's of no relevance. So here's some information about me that you may already know?

1. First Name: lauren

2. Age: sixteen

3. Location: my living room

4. Occupation: unemployed

5. Partner: juliana....not

6. Kids: was a terrible, terrible movie

7. Brothers/Sisters: I have two half sisters on my mom's side, and a half brother on my dad's. I'm a lot closer to my mom's side though, I love them. I love my brother too but I don't see him as much

8. Pets: I have two cats and three fish. One of my cats is awesome and I cuddle with her, and the other one is awesome too but not as much because she ignores me when I'm trying to feed her and she's just an asshole. My fish are mad chill.

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
I might be moving back to Massachusetts
I'm halfway done with high school
I have an English final today

10. Parents: Divorced, not too much to talk about

11. Who are some of your closest friends?:
Juliana (see: stupid fat, fat assassin, woman, ju, terj), Jason (his last name is dick...), that's about it.

12. Addendum (other things you should know about me):
I have a silly laugh which only intensifies when I'm slightly tipsy or have drunk (drank? NE SAIS PAS) a lot of coffee. I squeak a lot. Most of you probably wouldn't like me half as much in person because I'm a lot less coherent and a lot more obnoxious. Except for Sarah B, who says I'm the smallest person ever. I really love shows like Best Week Ever and The Soup. I curse too much and I stink at shaving my legs. I like anyone who read this. Also my stepdad's a dickhead because I could've slept until 9 but I was awoken at 5 by him turning my light on.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-06-06T13:36:00

2008-06-06T17:48:13Z

Every teenager in America hates their town, and I am no different. I kind of hope I do move.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-06-04T05:59:00

2008-06-04T10:07:44Z

Global Studies makes me want to slit my wrists vertically. The kids in my class are so fucking retarded, and if I have a headache and try to sleep, the teacher has kids bang books on my desk and such. Fuck you, it's the week before the last week of school, I know everything I need to know to pass the regents. I would just go home after gym/lunch if I didn't have English after that mind numbing forty minutes of hearing my teacher yell and swear at the students, while the students yell and swear back. That's another reason I'd like to get out of Peekskill, because the students are all disrespectful and awful and I hate most of them. Or ~strongly dislike. Excusez moi. Even I get tired of all the drama sometimes.

I'd probably have a lot more friends if I wasn't such a dickhead, mais c'est la vie. je ne donne pas un fuck. If there's a french word for fuck (I believe 'to fuck' is baiser, not sure), I'd like someone to tell me.

If that was tl;dr, Global Studies can eat me out and I'm a dickhead with broken french. Also very profane, I've noticed.

Any way the wind blows

2008-05-31T00:08:26Z

I might be moving back to massachusetts. This both breaks my heart and excites me. I'm going to miss about 15 people, but I miss my family, too. I'm kinda nervous, cause while it was easy to make friends when I moved here, I think it's cause I was 10 and the cliques hadn't really formed yet. I'm going to be starting my junior year at a new school. I donno. I am pretty good at befriending people, it's just the staying friends I have issue with. I cried a little earlier today. I have to buy a yearbook now, so everyone can sign it and write things that they probably won't mean.

I planned on moving back after high school, but that's two years away.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-05-05T15:31:00

2008-05-05T19:34:45Z

I keep blowing dandylion seeds everywhere even though I'm allergic to pollen.
This wasn't meant to be some sort of psuedo analogy about me by the way, don't read into it. I just really like dandylions.
It's the last quarter of the school year and I just can't get motivated to do my work, so I talk about my dandylion obsession on here |:
I'm afraid of junior year. I don't want to grow up.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-04-20T15:20:00

2008-04-20T19:21:00Z

i need a nap. my life is boring.

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-02-24T12:36:00

2008-02-24T17:36:49Z

I want to get out of peekskill so badly sometimes

cheatpolygraphs @ 2008-02-12T18:02:00

2008-02-12T23:24:44Z

Life is really good. I get excited over dumb teenage girl things, despite my tries not to. But it's nerve wracking, having crushes on people. I hate it. I hate waiting, and I hate anxiety. I put people on pedestals, I shouldn't. But I move on real quickly, so it's whatever. I got over most of my social awkwardness I think. I challenged myself the other day to look every person I passed on the street in the eyes and say hello. It felt good. I'm still sick though, that kind of sucks. Going to go heat up some coffee and pizza, study verbs, watch american idol. Stay classy.

Super awkward

2008-01-28T23:02:00Z

It's strange to have a conversation with someone when you know they want to sleep with you. I should probably friend lock this, I won't.

I like sleeping

2008-01-28T11:37:30Z

But it likes to own me, hard. It takes forever for me to fall asleep. Then, it takes an alarm, having people text me, and my stepdad turning the light on to wake me up. And getting me out of bed? Herculean efforts! No, I do not care about passing the 10th grade. Just let me burrow in my bed until I need to eat or use the bathroom. I do care about passing school btw, but that's my thought process in the morning. I'm still really tired.