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Geeker than YOU and you know it too.
Who the hell we are:
Ariana
Ariel
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And Nathan posted once...
Things we hate: Fitness, and more fitness
Things we like: Tarou, Kite, Bananas, FY, people
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I'm so confused......... please save me from my confusion!!!?
Come and smell the roses at our concert?
Goood days.
posted by mo @
9:08 PM
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3.30.2003  |
read this, guys, it's amusing
posted by mo @
10:32 PM
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3.27.2003 |
It's okay, I'll gain weight after I graduate. I eat all day after fitness. When I'm done with high school, all the exercise will go away, but I will probably keep eating a lot. *sigh* what a pity. Maybe I will just have to move to Japan and become an editor for a spiffy manga artist and prosper there....
I should rent that. All of those are very good reasons. I maybe able to get stuff like that at rentertainment? I don't know really about their foreign movie selection, but I'm sure they have more than other places.
I think spring break is the only time where stuff I want to do outnumbers the stuff I need to do. Summer too, but gradually the things I want to do dissolve and I collapse of boredom. Luckily, this break is only one week long, so there isn't ample time for disintegration of the mind.
My Japanese is improving rapidly by going to those sites. One person even apologized to me for using difficult kanji (although i can usually look them up on Altavista... it's the NON-kanji, or the sentence patterns that are harder to get. however, if you know the nouns, it's easier to fill the in between stuff in). They said that they do anti-war protests, and are boycotting American products (although I doubt Nobu plans on doing that... I mean... McDonalds? Hello?)
Japanese people are really cool. I so don't wanna be in America right now. I would still have the fun of going to protests (wow that's great, there would still be something to protest, woohoo). Jono's sister went to a protest at college, and my mom's like "ooh it's her very first protest, how cute!" Uh huh.
Okay I'm done for now, and I have to talk to my Japanese homies/people i have never and will never meet/pedophiles/drunks. Seriously, there was a long detailed conversation about liquor. They ARE all drunk. But they somehow manage to be nice anyway.
posted by mo @
9:20 AM
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3.23.2003 |
Um yes, of course I'm pregnant. Dude, maybe it's the Weezer Guy. Haha. I always refer to people I like as the _____ guy. Anyhow. Uhh. The 5k? I'm not doing it. AR. Last year I was praying it wouldn't happen. And it didn't. SWEETNESS. I'm gonna have to either get injured or walk it. It's my final? Whateva. CUZ THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER!!! Yeah. Anyway, uhh. I don't care how fit I am. I will never ever run a mile when someone doesn't make me. I just wanna be able to relax. I think all fitness has done is make me MORE uneasy with my body image, not less. All it does is make me think that normal is when people have abs of steel or can do 100 push ups without getting tired. I'm perfectly fine with having abs of cardboard and not being able to beat someone up. I might have no muscle, but I'm thin. All I need muscle for is carrying my backpack anyway.
posted by mo @
9:04 PM
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3.14.2003 |
Ooh fun, debate. However, it's not going away anytime soon because we go to the school we do. It's a rather hefty price, I must say. The only reasons I have considered leaving our school (name omitted to get rid of internet stalkers) is because of the PE program. It made me so sad and jealous when Ms. Wright was talking about way back when before the fitness program was created. Apparently they got a lot of angry parent phone calls. I think they should get more now. I have attempted to physically injure myself to get out of fitness. It's psychologically damaging, nearly as much as sports does. Sports is psychologically damaging in a better way though, because at least I can observe how the social system works at our school. It's nothing but popularity combined with strength, which get you places in PE. Obviously, I'm neither.
I will tell everyone a story. Once upon a time, I was good at a sport. I hear the gasps of disbelief from the audience, but alas, it was true. Even before that, though, I did soccer, but quit because I didn't like running (a nice foreshadowing to fitness), but in say, 3rd grade. I was actually good at the elementary school game, kickball. I think by that point I had given up jump rope, because although I figured that out too, everyone knows that girls are bitches, and it wasn't worth hanging around them to jump rope. They made me cry once though, I don't exactly remember why, but I think that is the first instance of my anti-prepness that I remember. Anyhow, uhh... oh right. I was good at kickball. That was so my thing, for like a year. The whole class would play kickball, except a few really girly girls who didn't want to. At first, naturally, I sucked, but I got better, and eventually I was consistently picked first for teams (and when you're in 3rd grade, being picked first, especially in the face of guys who were a year older and 30 pounds heavier, is a great honor).
So that was my story. Eventually 4th and 5th graders stopped playing kickball, so I had to stop too. Now I suck again. ANYWAY.
Oh yeah, now to combat your reasons that were so nicely bulleted just like an outline for history (remember, history, Angelina's anti-drug/fitness/tobacco/anything)...
The thing is, I don't want to get better. I don't care how fast I can run a mile, and I don't care how fast anyone else can run a mile. I think that the first time we ran a mile, which was 3 days into subbie year, I got about 12:45. But I didn't run most of it. I ran in the sunny spots and walked when I got under a tree's shade. ArR. Now, if I gave forth that same effort, I think I would get about the same time. The problem is that now my PE grades go on my report card, I have to trick them into thinking I'm trying. So I do honestly have to try a bit harder, although most of that is mental in trying to make it look like I'm thinking about things like "If I can quicken my pace a little more, I can finish my laps in under 20 minutes!" When my usual thoughts are "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I hate PE teachers" or, if I'm more calm, I think about all the time and energy wasted on this thing. I mean think about it. I can't do a pull up, right, I am not any faster (my fastest 12 minute run EVER was right after 2 weeks of no exercise. I think it is rest.) and I'm wasting an HOUR every day on this stuff. I mean, I count sports too. I waste an hour of my day, that's 5 hours a week, which is about 3% of my life. I value my life, okay, I don't need this much stress.
I enjoy homework so much more than this. I would take another class as difficult as history if it meant I didn't have PE.
I don't think it's that good for me. I mean, you're supposed to get cardiovascular exercise, right, but they're insane. How many kids have thrown up running fitness? How many kids get stress fractures every year? How many people never recover from an illness because their immune system is weakened every day? How many times has PE made kids cry? How many people has it damaged?
The answer is way too many.
Plus, after fitness, ALL I do all day is eat to make up the calories I've burned. I'm dehydrated for the rest of the day, even if I constantly have a water bottle with me.
Fitness only gets harder. Last year we had 24 laps as a difficult workout. Now it's 32 or more. It only wears me down.
What else can we do besides fitness? They make us run! Sometimes I do math or play video games in my head, or make up stories with people I see around me, but the mind deteriorates too once my saliva becomes too thick to swallow.
Oh yeah, and I don't believe in second wind. I think it's like Santa Claus. "Yeah, you'll get second wind if you try hard enough." Uh huh.
Sports does suck, I guess you're just more of a jock than me (ooh harsh) but sports personally brings back horrible awful memories of Middle and Elementary school. Those kids were so mean. At least at our school, if you're a girl, people don't hate you when you mess up. But I don't want to mess up in the first place. I'm too cool for their stupid sports. I come to school to build my mind, not my body. I come to build my higher thinking, not my primitive thinking.
Oh yeah, and I blame fitness for the fact that my period is more than a month late.
posted by mo @
5:23 PM
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Wow, you have some exciting stories there. Hehe. 1453... yes. I watched Terminator today. It was awesome. My mom said that Iiaeaux and Tess should stop being so confusing and just watch Terminator, and think about it, because it's all circular and crazy. So do that. ER. NOW. Or read a book, like Mr. Vaughn said.
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5:40 PM
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