I think people (not just you guys, but Americans as a whole) are being overly critical of Pearl Harbor. I mean, what were you expecting when you paid your $8.75 and bought your popcorn? Of course there was going to be a love story, you can't really feign ignorance on that, because there was even a song out by Faith Hill making that abundantly clear. But I don't get why you criticized the actual war scenes, Lawrence. I think they did a pretty good job, yes, they did show random sailors drowning, but that was REALISTIC-that actually happened that day. I don't understand why being realistic is a cause for criticism. I thought it was sad, I will admit to thinking about how good Josh Hartnett looked, but I don't feel it cause me to like the movie more than I would have if he hadn't been involved. I saw the movie with my brother and my mom, both of whom really liked it and want to see it again. From my brother, it's saying a lot that he voluntarily saw this movie over Shrek, and managed to stay awake for the entire 3 hours, the longest he's been awake for a week or so (he has mono)! I really did like this movie, it made me angry, that such a horrible thing could happen in war, and it made me sad knowing that it was real, not some Hollywood fabrication like Armageddon.
Anyway, I just think that the people as a whole have to just give these people a break. You knew what you were paying for (in both time and money) when you bought that ticket. Sorry if this sounded preachy, but I just had to say it.

welp... hate to be a wetblanket, but i hated pearl harbor. when, halfway through the movie, we had to evacuate cos some little girl pulled a fire alarm, i actually welcomed the break. it was like armageddon in that it took everything that other movies did well, stuck it all together, and ended up with a big mess. the emotional moments were so forced. the strings would kick in, and they'd go to closeup, and i'd think "oh no not again." and the action scenes were strangely sterile. they had all those clips of random people drowning.

the movie would have been ok if it had been an hour shorter. and you know what really cracked me up? (spoiler alert) in the last scene, when the little kid was playing with the flowers and then i realized that the guy's tombstone was right there, in the family's front yard! gack.

you wanna see a really disturbing movie? go watch the deer hunter. or taxi driver.

Wow, all I can say is, GO SEE PEARL HARBOR!! I totally loved it. I went to see it yesterday with my mom and my bro (who just got diagnosed with mono-I feel so bad for him!). Anyway, Josh Hartnett is a very good looking boy, and for the guys-don't let the love story dissuade you, there's much more action than there is romance. Although, the whole thing made me want to go out and rent every other movie Josh Hartnett has ever been in...Hmmm...Hope everyone's weekend is goign well, mine is peachy!

Going to Washington D.C. tomorrow with NHS, but just for the day. Should be fun, despite the fact that I will have to get up at 4:30 a.m. in order to take a shower and get there by 5:45 a.m.! Today was Senior-Takeover Day, which was kind of nice, as this equates with zero work for the rest of us! As for my large group problem, the other thing that is kind of annoying is people's personal vendettas. I guess it's because we're nearing the end of 4 years together, and stuff that people let go for a long time is no longer being just "let go." I'm so glad I'm neutral in pretty much every way-I'm generally the peacemaker, the one who tries to lighten the tension by saying something funny. Wow, we get our yearbooks next week, that's so amazing. I always think of really creative things to say in them, but when I get the book and the pen in my hand, my mind goes blank and I write something corny anyway! I would totally love to come out to Cali, but I don't see it happening in the near future. I'm getting a job this summer, which will take up about 40 hrs a week, and as for now, with graduation, my cruise, prom, Wildwood after prom (is that where you guys go, Lisa?)-I'm totally swamped! I hope the offer will still be open during winter break, spring break, or maybe next summer! It's all going by so fast!

Has anyone ever noticed that the more people there are in your group, the more likely you are to engage in an activity that no one really wants to participate in, but everyone is too polite to say so? I thought of that time we tried to organize a formal dinner at Harvard but everyone ended up arguing and yelling at each other. The end result was a small group of people (7?) going out, because everyone wanted different things. It saddened me on Saturday night to see my close-knit-yet-large group of friends arguing about whether we should go to a karaoke bar, or stay home and watch Bruce Lee movies. It's so close to graduation, and there we are, arguing over something stupid, people leaving in a "huff." The weirdest part was when Dan, the guy who's house we were at, DROVE AWAY! What do you do in a situation like that? Do you go back in the house and act like nothing happened (without your host), or do you leave? We opted for sitting on his driveway until he came back. There needs to be some sort of handbook for things like that, to make people agree to disagree.

wow... huge post!

definitely a mark twain moment for our little blog... "the details of my death have been greatly exaggerated." is that the quote?

i just want to say that i am frothingly jealous of everyone else's ultimate frisbee team. eh heh. but hey, it's basically summer, and so what if i spent last night talking with the girl i like and her friend about the guy she likes (not me)... it's summer, it's summer, and a lifetime of irreversible magic is unfolding before me.

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Then go to Products, and download the monkey! It kept us amused for HOURS!

sorry for being snippy. that's not a conversation between lawrence's schizophrenic online aliases. I brought up the title thing.
anybody take the ap chem? there was a question about exploding flour mills. it was kind of bizarre.
anyone taking the government? if I blank, I'm going to make up a supreme court case. 1973, Oscar vs. Mayer, regarding whether my bologna has a first name.

Sorry, Lawrence, the reading list didn't list authors, it just listed books. I assumed that since it was called an autobiography, then it was written by the person whose name appears in the title. Oh well. Back to writing my final paper for Lit-hopefully I'll get the facts right in there! Now if only I could stop reading John Grisham long enough to actually write something.

BLiever23: if I never get a chance to post again, you have to tell the people that the autobiography of miss jane pittman is not an autobiography.
BLiever23: it's not by miss jane pittman.
chute libre: ok
BLiever23: it's by a guy named ernest gaines.
BLiever23: jean commented on how sad it was for an author's autobiography to be on a sixth grade reading list.
chute libre: oh
chute libre: i see

oh right. the song lyrics are from "standing outside a broken phone booth with money in my hand" by primitive radio gods.

doobie doo. someone tell me why i signed up for both ap english tests, because i don't know. damn... today was english language then french language. i actually liked the essay i wrote in french better than the ones i wrote in english. probably because it was a generic topic so there was more to write about. and then, having hopped myself up with 200mg caffeine in the middle of the test, i went home and exercised like a madman. hmm. calc tomorrow. that test will kill me. the numbers will leap off the page and climb over me like lilliputians and inject me with poison that duplicates in my bloodstream at a rate that increases as A(1-e^Bt). i learned more calc from physics than from calc.

so... it's, ah, the ninth of may. only a month or so. and then the world ends/begins, no? oh by the way i'm going to columbia. engineering school. yum yum. how is everyone?

It's from Les Miserables- "I Dreamed a Dream". Spill what yours is, Jen!!

I've come to the conclusion that I must be quote-deficient, as I cannot guess the author to any of those quotes! What about an easier one like, "There was a time when men were kind. When their voices were soft, and there words inviting. There was a time when love was blind. And the world was a song, and the song was exciting." Ho-hum. Another week of school, good luck with APs, everyone, I won't be taking any because CU won't take the credit, so I'll be doing nothing for the next 2 weeks, except calc and some busywork from Lit.Fuzzy is dying, Joint seems to be alive and well!

Today, I went with my anatomy class to a local community college to see some cadavers. At first, I was hesitant to poke around their innards, but I was gradually able to think of them more as bags of organs and bones rather than to real once-alive people. The information given on their tags did make my impersonalizing sort of hard. One was "Ray/mechanic/73"; another was "Lynn/Administrator/81". Thankfully the tags were limited to this information. I'm thinking how weird it would have been if there had been personal info like "He liked picnics.".

Senior Cut Day at my school today-couldn't go to the beach because of bio final, but I did take a 2 hr lunch break! Does anyone know how the scoring works for the essay on AP Bio mock? Because I had a high three with just the multiple choice,and I'm wondering whether I can still get a five, or how well I would have had to do on the essays, etc. Going to Cornell yet again this weekend, this time with my dad. Have a great weekend!

"save tonight" by eagle eye cherry. now name this'un:

"an old friend calls
and tells us where to meet;
his plane takes off from baltimore
and touches down on bourbon street."