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Mon, 12 May 2008 12:37:27 GMT

School's over and I have NOTHING to do. Well, comparatively nothing. I'm working on a bookshelf. Daddy banned me from buying books until the 7.5' thing is done and I've been getting antsy. I haven't bought a book in over a month.

I finished The Host. And yes, it was amazing and I heart it muchly.

I worked five days in a row for the photographer, on site, at dance studios. I don't envy his part of the job.

I'm reading The Bourne Supremacy. I got so tired of waiting for Virginia to finish that I went to the library and got my own copies of Supremacy and Ultimatum.

I'm still hoping for a lifeguarding job.

I have letters to write.

We've got gigs every now and then.

Karoline wants me to come over and teach her and Evan how to swing dance before Kent's wedding.

But other than that, I'm so bored. No deadlines... nothin'. I want to LEARN something.

I think I'm gonna go paint.

Quotables!

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:27:14 GMT

Yeah, I know, it's been like... two weeks. However, finals are upon me, and my quotables document was getting so long that it was ridiculous. Enjoy.

***

Joel: What's really useful, though, is what I can do.

Virginia: We're reading about arthropods and open circulatory systems this week. That means they don't have veins, and the blood just goes all over them. Cockroaches are arthropods, so if they lie on their backs for too long, they die. There, Patience. Now you can tell all your friends that arthropods have open circulatory systems.
Patience: I think they already know.

Patience: Virginia.
Virginia: What?
Patience: I made up a thong.
Virginia: Oh!
Patience: You could athk me to thing it.
Virginia: Oh. Can you sing it?
Patience: It'th a thecret.

Discussing Ratatoullie:

Joel: yeah.

apparently, that movie was VERY popular among the French,

Katie: haha!

Joel: particularly French chefs, oddly enough.

odd, because lots of movies don't really appeal to the people emulated by the main characters of the movies.

like superheros. I don't like those superhero movies.

How we heard it:
Patience: Do some Canedianth thing thongth?
KB: Uh, yeah....
Virginia: Patience, Mrs. Louws is from Canada and she sings.
Maggie: No, she said comedians.
Virginia: Did she?
KB: Did you say "Canadians" or "comedians"?
Patience: Yeah. Conedianth.
KB: *rather floored*................................Do you mean funny people or people from Canada?
Patience: *thinks* Funny people.

KB: Hi cute. How'd you get to be so cute?
Patience: Mommy and Daddy made me that way.

Shannon: You know, the only reason I talk to you is to see if just MAYBE I'll make your quotables sometime.

Raethlanel: dude, if I start acting weird just smack me, mk?
King Cobra 03SVT: <smack>
Raethlanel: hey now
King Cobra 03SVT: that was for acting weird earlier in this conbo
King Cobra 03SVT: you mentioned liking math
King Cobra 03SVT: :-/
Raethlanel: LOL
Raethlanel: that is a different kind of weird entirely!
King Cobra 03SVT: hahah
Raethlanel: that's a helpful kind of weird
King Cobra 03SVT: well that's true
King Cobra 03SVT: I apologize.
King Cobra 03SVT: </smack>
King Cobra 03SVT: That's the end tag
Raethlanel: oh thank you
Raethlanel: rofl
King Cobra 03SVT: no mo smack
Raethlanel: sweet

King Cobra 03SVT: I watched the Capture and murder of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford
King Cobra 03SVT: or something like that
King Cobra 03SVT: It had a very basic simple storyline, but boy was it intense
King Cobra 03SVT: My heart was going OMGTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP IS HE GONNA DIE?`1/1/

Isaiah: hey, want to here my typo of the day?

Katie: absolutely :-d

Isaiah: "could" instead of "cold"

pfft

it was quite embarassing

Katie: LOL

Isaiah: Meep

Katie:

Isaiah: Actually it just happened a coupla seconds ago when I was talking to your brother

Katie: (I love that sound)

Isaiah: what was your typo of the day?

Katie: hmm...

I don't think I've had one, other than some misplaced apostrophes

Isaiah: pfft. sure

Katie:

Isaiah: yug.

your brother just said the same thing

I told him the groovers must be too good for me

Katie: LOL

you're way smarter than us

Isaiah: I actually said "mee" which made things quite a bit worse...

Katie: <dies!>

Isaiah: now I'm gonna be reading your next quote post and be embarassed to kingdom come... or not

Isaiah: noah just made an american flag out of duplos

he must be board

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I made a pun!

KB: Maggie, turn the water off when you're not using it, cuz remember, we're in a drought and the world is gonna dry up soon.
Maggie: Ufh! WE are NOT in a DROUGHT at ALL! Have you SEEN our SWINGSET puttles YET?

KB: Agh, WHY is this chair so SHORT?! It did not used to be this short!
Jesse: Prolly a hydraulic leak.

Katie: Virginia's making me say hi to the soap

Nala: o.o

Katie: the other night I had to say hi to the soap and the shampoo and the conditioner

I just said goodnight to the soap

she brought it back to my desk

Nala: wow

about the soap

the conditioner isn't a surprise

Nala: Lee's weird

YOU'RE weird

Katie: YOU'RE weird

(I was so just gonna say that.)

psychic

Nala: ROFL

Katie: to make up for you taking the words right out of my mouth

your MOM'S weird

Nala: well, your mom's FACE is weird

Katie: YOUR face is weird

Nala: oh-oh yeah? well, you're a ROCK

Katie: well you're like RAIN

Nala: well, you're SHORT

Katie: HEADFACE

Nala: o.o FRIZBEEDUCKER

Katie: ................................................BRUISEGETTER

Nala: FIDDLEPLAYER

(o.o)

Katie: VIOLINPLAYER

(o_O)

Nala: VAMPIRELOVER

(<cracking up>)

Katie: ooo

ROMANCEGIRL

(here too)

Nala: um.....................................................HASTOTAKEHERLIFEGUARDTESTINASHALLOWPOOLGIRL

Katie: WILLHAVETOPULLSOMEONEOUTOFNINEFOOTWATERIFTHEYDROWNGIRL

Nala: HASMORECOMPUTORPROBLEMSTHENMEGIRL

Katie: HASWRITERSBLOCKALLTHETIMEGIRL

Nala: (did you get my bumpersticker request, or should I send it again?)

Katie: (going to check)

Nala: DOESN'THAVEAMYSPACEGIRL.......oh wait...that's a compliment...um.... DOESN'TLIVEINTHEMOUNTAINSGIRL

Katie: (dangit, error message)

GETSATANTOOEASILYGIRL

Nala: (ok, will send again)

O.O LIAR!

Katie: MOREOFALIARTHANME!

Katie: (<loves sticker to death><dying>)

(I love the "polite enough" part)

Nala: SHAVESEVERYDAYPERSON!

Katie: LIES!!! ALL LIES!!!

DOESN'TSHAVEHERKNEESPERSON

Nala: LIES!!! ALL LIES!!!

Katie: (<dies again>)

Nala: CUTSHERSELFCONSTANTLYWHILESHAVING....wait...I can say that easier...CUTTER!!!

Katie: LIES!!! MORE LIES!!!

ISADDICTEDTOSENDINGBUMPERSTICKERS!!!

Nala: ISADDICTEDTOFACEBOOKPERIOD!!

Katie: LIKESMIKEY!!!

Nala: THAT'S A COMPLIMENT!!!

Katie: (LOL)

Nala: DOESN'TLIKEGUYS!!!

Katie: THAT'S A COMPLIMENT!!!

Nala: <dies>

Katie: HASACOLLAPSINGSPINE!!!

Nala: huh?

Katie: from being a music major

Nala: O.O

INSULT UPON OUTRAGE!! <won't stand for this> <sits down>

Katie: ;-D

Nala: TIN-YMUSICPLAYER!!

Katie: what??

BIGHUGEMUSICPLAYER!!!

Nala: (no that was "tin-y" as in "tin" with an "ee" added on)

Katie: (I know ;-D )

Nala: um................................ SHORTONMONEY

Katie: ALSOSHORTONMONEY

Nala: DRAT.... um.....................COMMUNITYCOLLEGESTUDENT

Katie: FORMERCOMMUNITYCOLLEGESTUDENT

Nala: GOESTOBEDEARLIERTHENMEMOSTNIGHTS

Katie: GOESTOBEDTOOLATEEVERYNIGHT

Nala: CAN'TGETUPINTHEMORNINGEASILY

Katie: WEIRDLYDOESN"THAVEAPROBLEMWITHGETTINGUPINTHEMORNINGWHICHEVERYONEKNOWSISCOMPLETELYUNHEALTHY

Nala: THINKSOFTOOMANYINSULTS!!!

Katie: YELLSATME

Nala: but I love you!

Katie: I love you too ;-D

Isaiah: Wisdom of the Day:

Isaiah: Katie, here is your wisdom. Lettuce: $1.50, Tomatoes: $2.15....

wait

wrong slip of paper.

Mr. Katie Beff says: (Thank you. You just reminded me that I had to write down some quotables from earlier.)
Joel says: ( "oh, hey, you're welcome! Always glad to help w/ your quotables..." ;) )

KB: William always comes back to the office and turns the heater on. And then he goes like this, *makes a brilliantly happy face*, like he's waiting for me to compliment him on his skillz. And then I have to pat him and stuff, even though I didn't really want him to touch it in the first place.
Virginia: A happy man is he who can turn the heater on.
KB: And then he took the trash can.
Virginia: A happy man is he who can take the trash can.

Clayton: I'm going to specify in my will to put the "fun" back in FUNeral...

it's gonna be a dance party

Katie: LOL

I'm COMING to your funeral

well... I'll be pretty old by then... but hey

Clayton: you're invited.

Katie: yay!

Clayton: if your hips still work by then, you can still dance! if not, you can motorize your wheel chair and do doughnuts...lol

Nala: <poke>

Katie: aye, aye!

Nala: aweigh!

Katie: Arrrr!

Nala: avast!

Katie: Keelhaul the landlubber!

Nala: weigh anchor!!

Katie: Sheet the main mizzen!

Nala: furl the sails!

Katie: Scrape the jib!

Nala: to the crows nest!

Katie: Ahoy!

Nala: land ho!

Katie: She's breakin' up!

Nala: watch your port side!

Katie: To starboard!

Nala: no! port!

Katie: aft!

Nala: stern!!

Katie: Poop deck!

Nala: to the galley!

Katie: Below!

Nala: swab the below decks!

Sent at 4:43 PM on Tuesday

Katie: (sorry)

to the head!

Nala: clean the figurehead!

Katie: (LOL)

get them barnacles!

Nala: (her teeth need brushing!)

Katie: that's yer grub, mates

Nala: (EW)

Katie: No blubberin' from you dogs!

Nala: forty lashes if you do! and tar the decks while you're at it!

*yer

Katie: The cat's ready!

Nala: (WHY are we doing this?)

Katie: (I haven't the earthliest.)

Nala: (<dieing>)

I'll put ye in the brig if you cry!

Katie: Rations cut in half if ye so much as wink!

Nala: blimey, I'm going to walk the plank, I've had enough of yer whinin'!

(I actually do have to go)

(I'll be back later...ish)

(this goes in the quotables)

(:P)

Katie: (of course ;-D)

fare thee well, scallywag!

Nala: tootle-pip, ye landlubber!

Katie: <waves saltily>

Joel: Very few times have I gotten on, delivered a line, and found you on the floor in a pool of laughter.

Isaiah: yah, I hate english

Isaiah: I wish it had never been invented

KB: we're trying to get Joy on here
but she's away doing auntie things apparently
Isaiah: yup
probably some nephew is repelling from the roog
*roof
repelling from teh rug?
how does that work?
Nala: they have to be microscopic to do that
that's why she's having so much trouble

Patience: Katie? Katie!
KB: Katie... who's Katie?
Virginia: Katie? Patience, her name is Katie Beth, not Katie!
Patience: No, her name is Katie! And your name is Virgi.

Joy: "Gaaaasp, did you hear Wife #28 ran off with a sea cook?"

Virginia: And I got these flip flops.
KB: They look just like the flip flops you broke.
Virginia: Yes, but the difference is that these are THREE dollars instead of ONE dollar.

Daniel: What's the famous saying by Thomas Jefferson?

"With the cloak of invisiblity,

we may log into many instant messengers."

Katie: <pats your head>

Ethan: NO PATTING

Katie: HAHA

Ethan: I HATE IT WHEN HANA PATS

Katie: we know what Eth hates ;-D

Ethan: ITS A HANA THING

Katie: (I figured you did. That's why I did it. It's so condescending.)

Ethan: HANA THINGS ARE WEIRD

I KNOW

PLEASE

Katie: ROFL

Ethan: JUST MAKE ME EAT SOME DIRT, TOO

Daddy: Jesse, Virginia's in your room making William's bed. She's probably shortsheeting your bed.
KB: No, she's probably shortsheeting William's bed.
Jesse: He won't notice till he's five.

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:54:16 GMT

I hate citing! I hate having to go from random sources! I hate teens and their stupid pregnancies! I hate having to write about them! Did I ask to write about teens and their stupid pregnancies?! No, I did not! Go away, teens and your stupid pregnancies!

Grar.

A week and a half. If it weren't for teens and their stupid pregnancies, I would be quite sanguine.

Courtesy of John Caleb

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:51:13 GMT

Shame on those Marines for opening an office in Berkely!

EDIT: Here's the same video on YouTube.

Why everyone is gay

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 GMT

Katie: Chillin', thinking, watching AI
Kenny: Alternate/Indie

Kenny T: Studying Latin

Kenny: Alien Imprints?

Katie: Pardon?

Kenny: Artificial Intelligence?

Katie: oh!

American Idol

Kenny: Altitude Itches?

Almagest Iffys

Katie: (it might itch. I don't know.)

Kenny: oh

lol

who's winning?

Katie: dunno

I know who's NOT winning

Kenny: no

I know you know who's winning.

Katie: ok, so I have a guess or two

but I won't know for sure for a few weeks

Kenny: I don't want guesses.

I want to know

Katie: FINE

David Cook

but he may not

Kenny: share this knowledge

Katie: and then you'll call me a liar

Kenny: nah, I think all the gay guys have a good chance

Katie: <shudder>

there are none, fortunately

anymore

Kenny: besides David Cook, you mean

Katie: he's not gay

Kenny: lol. are you sure?

Katie: pretty darn

Kenny: whens the last time you checked?

Katie: I haven't

Kenny: I see.

But you're positive he isn't gay?

Katie: good grief, how should I know? He doesn't seem gay and I don't KNOW the guy

Kenny: Hmm. He doesn't seem gay.

Do you find that kind of telling?

Katie: I said he doesn't seem gay

Kenny: I mean, your confidence is reassuring, but remind me how many times you checked?

Katie: four

Kenny: and who did you check with?

Katie: t3h Google

Kenny: Do you find him trustworthy though, seeing as he just came out of the closet too?

Katie: I know you don't even watch the stupid show

how should I know if he's trustworthy?

Kenny: Well, I guess what I mean is, did you know that a lot of the reason why certain sites are given more weight with google is their number of hits.

And did you know that supposedly 10% of America is gay?

Katie: so?

Kenny: which means 10% of those hits are gay.

Katie: doesn't mean he is

LOL

does that mean

Kenny: and since the gays are a very active minority, its probably even more.

Katie: 10% of entire people are gay

or 10% of each person is gay

cuz if it's the latter, we're pretty much doomed

Kenny: which means that all the google sites you've been "checking out" David Cook with

Katie: pssh

Kenny: are mostly controlled by the gays.

Katie: hum

what interesting theories you do have

Kenny: So can you trust a rainbow colored Google?

Katie: I'll let you know when I see a rainbow colored Google

Kenny: on whether David Cook is gay?

A homosexual controlled google?

Here, first thing we'll do, is toss google away on this issue as untrustworthy.

Then examine the issue logically

Lets talk about David Cook.

What did he sing last time?

Katie: haha

ummmmmm

tonight he sang...

"Innocent"

Kenny: originally by?

Katie: can't remember

some modern band

willdebateforfood@gmail.com/gmail.19E46602 is offline and can't receive messages right now.

Katie: Our Lady Peace

wubbs

Kenny: hello?

Katie: hi

you left

Kenny: oh, hey

Katie: died

Kenny: right

Katie: kicked el bucket

Kenny: my internet is stupid

who is innocent originally sung by?

Katie: Our Lady Peace

Kenny: right.

Who's lead singer is Raine Maida.

on the surface, all seems clear.

Nothing wrong with Raine Maida.

Katie: rofl

Kenny: But do you know who Raine Maida attributes his influences to?

Katie: ...noooo....

Kenny: Among others: Allen Ginsberg.

the American poet, Allen Ginsberg.

and what was Allen Ginsberg?

Katie: gay?

Kenny: Correct. Allen Ginsberg was gay.

Now you see why I'm suspicious, don't you?

Katie: rotflol

Kenny: if the evidence stopped there, one might not be able to make much of it, but consider the situation.

Katie: mmhmm... listening

Kenny: whoa, okay

we're back

anyways

Katie:

Kenny: not to go into anything wrong, but, what are the requirements of homosexuality?

I'll answer for you.

Katie: <dies>

Kenny: Among other things, being a man.

And guess what

David Cook is a man.

Katie: (a man or a human? Lesbians are homosexuals too)

Kenny: (but Lesbians aren't gay)

Now things start to click for you , don't they?

Katie: (you asked what were the requirements for homosexuality)

mm, can't say they are

you'll have to elaborate

Kenny: (forget it)

alright, well, there's more

whats another requirement for homosexuality?

I'll answer for you.

Among other things: Acting like a woman.

What is David Cook doing?

Katie: not acting like a woman

Kenny: He's in a freaking beauty pageant!

Katie: you obviously hasn't seen this guy

he couldn't win a beauty pageant in a million years

haven't*

Kenny: oh yeah? How do you think me made it so far in American Idol?

Katie: because he's a really excellent singer

better than most of them

Kenny: oh come on, singing doesn't count for <that> much in a beauty contest.

Katie: ROFL

http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/30390.jpg

Kenny: Alright, look, I dont' appreciate you sending me pictures of queers.

Katie: <dies>

does he LOOK like he could win a beauty contest?

(and what about the other guys? Are they ALL gay, by your theory?)

Kenny: It looks like he could win a beauty contest if all the gays voted for him.

Doesn't that seem suspicous to you?

if all the gays voted for him, cuz he's gay, it would explain a lot...

and fit in with his song choice

and all the other clues we've examined.

Katie: but he isn't gay

Kenny: look, we've gone through this. you just plain don't know.

Katie: guess not

Kenny: I'm explaining it to you.

And it should be making sense to you now.

Katie: ah

well

maybe you're not explaining very well

Kenny: I just think your being obstinate. He's clearly gay.

Do you think a straight guy could make it anywhere in public? Or at least a guy who looked straight?

Look at Barack Obama?

Katie: so do you think the others are gay too?

Kenny: period.

Katie: (I'd rather not look at Barack Obama.)

Kenny: But who do you think would win in a fight, him or Hillary?

Katie: YOU'RE straight. YOU make it somewhere in public.

Hillary

she'd bite him

Kenny: no doubt about it.

he's a weak man, which calls to mind the word queer.

Oh, I'm not anywhere in public per se.

I'm in some poor dark farming town.

Katie: lol

Kenny: the other guys on the show.

Katie: what about The Rock?

Kenny: Well, as long as they picked a song that completely exemplified their masculinity, I'll give them some credit.

The Rock? Hah. He's the queer's version of Mr. T.

Katie: LOL

what about Mr. T then?

Kenny: Mr. T lived in an age when all you needed was gold and a mohawk to succeed.

Katie: I see

Kenny: well, good, I'm glad its all plain now.

Katie: or something like that

Kenny: sure. now that you're thorougly convinced we can all move on.

Katie: yeah

Sooo....

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:02:51 GMT

I'm kinda busy. Kinda.

Google has done it again!

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:44:04 GMT

It's what I've always wished for. Google just keeps on getting better!

Have I asked this before?

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:08:59 GMT

If you choke on water, what do you use to wash it down?

EDIT: And anyone who wants to take Daniel's advice, well... don't blame me.

WELL

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:25:26 GMT

Happy Easter! I assure you that my protracted absence from Xanga was not voluntary. The internet was out of commission for a week or more, I had lifeguard training, I had my wisdom teeth taken out, and we went down to SC for RenoFest.

So because I've been gone so long, I've naturally accumulated quite a few quotables. Enjoy.

***

Anna: Maggie, don't be careful!

Rebecca: What's a mime?
Maggie: It's something you THINK out of!
Rebecca: No, a MIME!
Anna: It's something you dig gold out of!
Rebecca: A MIME!!!
Maggie: It's something that's yours!
Rebecca: No, a MIME!!!
Maggie: Oh. Something that rhymes! Rhyme, mime. See?
KB: Come on, you all know what a mime is!
They all say they don't.
KB: Virginia knows what a mime is.
Virginia: Actually I don't.
KB: Yes you do!
Virginia: Well I USED to, but I, heh, forgot.
I tell them what a mime is. They all say they didn't know what that was.

KB: Daddy, when we're in Nashville, can we go to the Tommy outlet and see if we can find me some jeans?
Daddy: Yes.
KB: ............Oh.
Daddy: You thought it would be harder, didn't you.
KB: Yes.

Matthew: What's Hall's?
KB: It's the boathouse we go to when we go to Lake Rabun. But you have to be awesome to go there.
Matthew: Ok.

Andrew: I'm going to be a professional musician. I'm going to put out a trombone jazz CD.
KB: On guitar?
Andrew: YES. On guitar. That's how good I am.

Rebecca: Where'd we get these cool tissues?
Mommy: Well, they're just regular tissues, but the way we made them all special like that is we left them outside in the rain. The whole box. And then Maggie found them and brought them in and let them dry, but she decided that she didn't like them because they were too ultra-dry. So I gave her another box.

Blazingstorm25: woooooweeeeee my mom forgot to put the sugar in the lemonade again
Blazingstorm25: goodness
Raethlanel: HAHAHAHA
Blazingstorm25: I think I just drank A LEMON

Raethlanel: does your mom forget the sugar often?
Blazingstorm25: ...yeah

Patience is learning V's and identifying words that start with V.
Mommy: What's this?
Patience: A fiddle.
Mommy: Well, there's another name for a fiddle. Do you know what it is?
Patience: No.
Mommy: It's a violin.
Me: *busts out laughing*
Mommy: She's never heard of a violin!

Claire: okay, STAY RIGHT HERE i'll be back

just like Arnold

Katie: sure thing

Claire: only hotter

Virginia: Isn't it annoying when you drop something into the toilet that's someone else's and you weren't supposed to be playing with it anyway?

Watching the old Chronicles of Narnia.
Aslan: Children, why are you following me?
KB and VA: Because we're stalkers!

The witch is shrieking over Aslan:
VA: She is a Party. Animal.

Later:
VA: She has been drinking or SOMETHING. She just needs to get her life in order.

KB: Go to bed! You said you were going to!
Rebecca: I said I NEEDED to. I didn't say I was GOING to!

VA: *singing* I'm standing on the precipice of death! (Or life!) I'm standing on the precipice of death! (Or life!)

Anna: Go with me! GO with me! Sputtered the king.

Patience: What are you doing? Never mind.

KB: I got a 99 on my Chemistry midterm.
Daddy: Why so low?

Katie: ugh

I shouldn't have had that milkshake

>_<

figures

I should have listened to my mom and had tea

Luke: See, you know how I feel about the mashed potatos

Virginia: If only William would get a haircut, all the world's problems would be solved.

Maggie: Does "espanoo" mean Spanish in Spanish?

Daddy: I have the PHONE BILL here.
KB: ...Mm...
Daddy: *sits down huffily* It has our MINUTES on it.
KB: *wracking brains to think of when she might have used a lot of minutes*
Daddy: You know that we share 800 minutes, and we get free nights and weekends.
KB: Yeah...
Daddy: Well all together last month, I used 533 minutes. Some of those were at night, so I only used just over 300 minutes that I paid for. Mommy used just over 100 minutes. YOU....
KB: *really searching brain and getting worried*
Daddy: YOU only used 82 minutes. *smacks phone bill against leg* We're not using our phones enough! That leaves 300 minutes that we're not using! Make more phone calls!

KB: I need a new profile picture.
Virginia: How 'bout one of me?

Maggie: Look! PAJAMAS!

Patience: *runs up with a bunch of Kleenex* Thethe are your flowerth to get married to Josh Williamth!
Virginia: NO. I will not lower myself to... oh wait, he's tall.
From which we infer that she wouldn't mind after all.

Patience: It'th hot in here. Like the dethert!

Patience: Katie Beth, I have a prethent for you! *hands me a strip of paper with "Start the year off with a bang!" on it*
KB: Oh, thank you! What is it?
Patience: It'th.... ish... I don't know.

Joel: er, do. I meant to say does as a singular word, but then realized it had an s, and then I added it and realized it WORKED! especially since it's plural..

Katie: rofl

Joel: Quote that line and see if anyone can figure out what it means without context.

Anna: *shoots Hotwheels car across the floor* Life comes at you fast.

Josh: When I grow up I want to live in the Virgin Islands. My dad says there are a lot of natives there.

Kenny: whatcha doing?

Katie: DUDE

what is it with guys' uncanny sense of when to ask what they shouldn't?

Hana and Esther and I are looking for a shirt for me to wear to the ball next week

<cough>

Kenny: lol!

nice

I don't know, there's some implant in my brain

just goes off

"ask, ask, ask, ask, ask"

Joel says: I'll probably never be the poster boy for normalness, will I?
Joel says: That'd make a good quote.
Mr. Katie Beff says: you're right
Mr. Katie Beff says: it would

Joel says: No, I would never lobby to have anythine I say listed in your quotes.
Joel says: Like I haven't countless times before...

Patience: Ith that chicken from deer?
KB: No, chicken is an ANIMAL!
Patience: What animal ith it from?
Mommy: Chicken.

Mommy: I guess I should wash my hands, so I don't get salmonella poisoning.
Patience: What'th vanilla poithoning?

Joel: Fellowship is highly underrated.
And you can quote me on that.

Overheard while packing:
Mommy: No, Patience, they don't have to be Easter underpants....

Virginia: "Passover Sleepover." They have stories about Jews.

Patience: I'm a cheerleader. Cheerleaders don't eat lunch motht dayth. But they eat PRITHTHY DINNERTH.

Patience: When I grow up I'm going to be a cheerleader. Do you know why?
Virginia: ...Nooo....
Patience: Becauthe they go to PRITHTHY DINNERTH. With GUYTH.

Why students should be allowed to carry

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:37:18 GMT

A few people have expressed interest in reading my recent essay on students carrying guns, so I'm posting it here. I wrote this for school (we chose our own topic), and yes, I did get an A.

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School Shootings – They Can Stop

School shootings are becoming a familiar topic. In the past year there have been at least two shootings at universities: one in Virginia, one in Illinois. Remedies have been tried, and the shootings continue. So what’s next?

Colleges need to allow students to carry guns on campus. Only by allowing potential victims to protect themselves are these shootings going to stop.

The popular opposition to this policy is that guns are unsafe. I disagree. Guns are only unsafe in the wrong hands. They are not, in themselves, dangerous. Guns are perfectly safe when they are operated correctly by people who know what they’re doing and have no intention of hurting someone.

Guns, in the wrong hands, kill innocent people. In the right hands they protect those same people. Guns are excellent self-defense mechanisms. They are small and concealable, and they have stopping power. These also happen to be the considerations that lead school shooters to use guns as their weapons of choice. What better way to stop them than to fight like with like?

Potential shooters would be less likely to go on rampage if they knew other students could be carrying guns. Think about it. Try to put yourself in their shoes, just for a minute, no matter how unpleasant it may be. If you wanted to shoot up a school, would you reconsider if there were a good possibility of the people around you being armed? I would.

Shooters aren’t the only ones who would be swayed by a heavily armed student body. Stalkers, rapists, and others would all be dissuaded if they thought their victims might react in a fatal way.

If students were allowed to carry guns, campuses would not have to employ extra security. Just the minimum would do. Universities could then take the money formerly used to employ and train security and reroute it to other areas, such as gun safety and education classes for faculty, staff, and students. (Yes, faculty and staff. Students are not the only targets for school shooters.) People who might decide to carry guns need good instructors to make sure that they are safe to carry such lethal force. Chances are that most of the people who would want to carry, when allowed, would be the ones that were already well versed in gun knowledge, but there would be others who also wanted to protect themselves but had never been taught how. These people need training. Good gun safety courses consist of knowledge of how guns work, ammunition, good shooting habits, and practice on the range.

Allowing students (and teachers) to be their own security force not only keeps students safe, but also creates adults who are prepared to take care of themselves instead of relying on others to protect them. Students who are comfortable with guns are not likely to be the victims we hear about on the news. Instead, they will be the ones who thwart assault attempts by using guns to save their own lives and the lives of their families. These are the kind of adults we want to create—adults who can stand up for themselves with confidence.

Parents do not want to send their children to universities where they may be killed. The problem is that no one seems to have control over that. That needs to change. Colleges need to create safer campuses by allowing their students to protect themselves. They need to give them that one extra shot at life.