Goshdarn it! Take a look at this. Holy shite. Wait for the train to make it to the end--it's worth it.

So I was going to go to Ayesha's house to have her try out different hairstyles on me but I don't know. I don't think it's going to work out. I'm online--so obviously she can't call me because damn it, I only have one line. Whatever. But I'm really excited for Homecoming! It seems like it's gonna rock this year--going with a good buddy is definitely the best thing to do. At least, that's what I'm hoping is true. ^-^ What flower should I go for in my corsage? He gave me a choice: roses or orchids. So far I've had four votes for orchids and one vote for roses...

I really should finish my homework. Bad Christine!

New layout. God, it took me FOREVER to figure out what I should do...

I was studying my PSAT/SAT words with this one book, Vocabulary Cartoons, and there were several things that bothered me. Number one: all the women in the cartoons have surprisingly large breasts. Number two: there was one cartoon that said Chinese people drink shark fin tea. What the hell? What would that even taste like? GROSS. Seriously!

While I was having my mental health day yesterday, I was surfing the channels and stumbled across a show called Talk or Walk (totally copying Forgive or Forget). Now the conflict appears to have been between two friends. One was an older woman, the other younger. The older woman had had three breast surgeries [to make em bigger/fix them] and was going to sell her house to get another surgery. The younger woman was completely opposed to them. She wasn't the older woman's daughter; just a very close friend. Okay, so I was thinking, "Why the heck would you want to go on television to talk about your BREASTS? Why would you want to duke it out in front of millions of viewers?" And there was this totally spew-ish picture of the woman's breasts after the third surgery. Sure, they blacked out part of it, but you could still see the rolls of fat under them. There was one audience member who said, "If you lose ten pounds, you can take out the breasts, and get a good boyfriend," and I totally agree. Ugh. The rolls of fat reminded me of someone else...

From Quizbox's What's Your Love Style?:

Love at first sight is your style. You are not fussy about who you fall for, and often there seems to be no rational reason for you deciding to love someone - it just happens and you'll follow your heart. When you do fall for someone, you fall completely. Your love is somewhat child-like, or what people like to call "puppy love". While following your heart is important, you should also remember to use your brain occasionally!

Ouch! Okay, that's enough tests...

From Swoon's Seduction By Sign:

To Know Me: I'm the happy-go-lucky (sometimes..), fun-loving (definitely!) type. Of course you were naturally drawn to me -- I'm easygoing, ready and willing to hop aboard the merry-go-round.

Seduction Mantra: I get bored easily (this is so true!), so find ways to give me attention, like back rubs, phone calls. If you're going to be a pain-in-the-ass, I'm going.

You Know It's Working When: I'm an extrovert -- can't stand to sit around and brood over anything (hmm.. sometimes I can). Life's too short to waste on uninteresting people, projects or places. I'll give you a try if I suspect that you really need me. But not too needy, please! Who knows -- maybe I'll turn you around.

All I can think of is how I have to do ten notecards and my timeline for tomorrow. Bleh :(

If a hot guy goes out with an ugly girl, does that mean he is deep or just that he has bad taste? Case in point: Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijsters. He is just so--yum! And she looks, as my sister says, "like his sister"! I always fall for the no chance guys. Damn. You know what? Now I remember what I was going to add to my ultra-glam book thing: the girls that get all the romance don't seem to appreciate it AT ALL. Is that why they get the sweet romantic sensitive guys? They just act or really don't care if they are romanticized? One of my friends is a total guy magnet. Sure, she says she's a dork, but she's always asked to every dance, and in cute ways too. I'm hopeless.

Let's see, I had a ton to write about ( I always think about what I'm going to write during the day.. sad, isn't it? ;) but I forgot it all. Hmm.. I know I was going to write about the romantic books I read. Something about it... oh well.

So I realized that one of the Adonis' (how do you do the plural for that?) is strange, but still absolutely attractive.

I get so pissed off at teachers who can't spell. It's a stupid little thing, and I know I "shouldn't sweat the small stuff", but still. I mean, they've gone to college, they're supposed to have passed rigorous teaching exams for their license.. then again, I guess they're ready to take just about anyone these days. Who wants to be a teacher? Sounds like an idea for a Fox show.

So far today has been better, but I have a shitload of homework to do and a tennis meet far far away in Owatonna. I think the drive is an hour and 45 minutes. Eep. :(

So apparently Miss Cleo has a commercial on about how she is "the real thing" and how people may scoff at her "religion" but it's the real deal, honey. Whatever! She's being sued right now by someone who says she has misleading advertising. Or something. I wasn't really paying attention to the reason.. I was too busy laughing. Sure, she's a tarot card reader, but she must be too busy reading other people's to check her own future..

Yay! Another "hi" from Stacy! Thanks. I really love it when people do that. ^-^

Two "you're the perfect thin-ness" from people at tennis. What am I supposed to say back? Thanks... even though I think that people should love their body no matter what it looks like? I don't think I'm THAT thin.. I guess I just have a fast metabolism.

One LAST post: Will you guys who read this advise me on what colors to make my next layout? I usually change every month so... pink? Orange for autumn? Red? Help! Thanks!

Listening to Michael Jackson on the radio and wondering why he is singing again now? "Did he run out of money?" Ayesha is quoted as saying. I wonder... I'm posting a lot. Aah. You know what I don't like v. much? When people title their blogs with Japanese words and then it turns out the blog isn't written in Japanese or even by someone who is Japanese. Sure, it looks cool, but...yeah. Point made.

Watched Who Wants to be a Princess? last night on Fox. I managed to catch the last twenty minutes after my tennis match. Oh! I didn't say anything about that. Played against Winona JV3 Doubles with Katie and won 8-5. We were freezing our butts off because although it was sunny it was like 40 degrees outside. And my stomach REALLY hurt. I seriously thought I had like stomach flu or something. But we won! We came back from 1-4 and beat them! It made me happy because one of the girls hit me hard in the chest during warm-up. So I hit a lot of hard volleys at her. Mwahaha. >:) I didn't hurt her though; don't worry. Aah I need to stop posting! And do my homework! I have a shitload of stuff to do!

Just re-read my post and it's pretty un-uplifting! Hmm.. I'm going to try and be more positive. It's hard to say which one I am more like: an optimistic realist or a pessimistic idealist... One could argue, of course that realists can't be optimistic and vice versa. But that's me.

Let's see.. what has been good? Certain glances from certain people to jumpstart my heart... friends who give hugs when you need them...my warm bed that smells like "so pink" and sunshine ... that's pretty much it. I ate steak today. Not good! I really need to try harder to be a vegetarian. Okay, I'm starting today. I'll keep everyone posted.

Some days I wish I was taller and gorgeous.

I think that Lady Fortune is punishing me for having two good days in a row last week. I had an AWFUL school day today: not a good start to my academic year. Did quite terrible on my math and modern euro tests. But tennis is good! Played JV4 Singles and won 8-0. The girl I played was overheard saying, "I couldn't even return her serves!" ^-^

Reading The Princess Diaries again. The pink cover attracts me I think. Gah, all these books are so IMPOSSIBLE. I certainly don't have any "cute brothers" of friends or "cute secret admirers". My school is seriously a hot guy wasteland. Nothing.. nothing... I would write about my racy love life except that I have NONE because of the un-availability of guys. I'm still hooked on romances though, which makes me think that no guy could probably ever live up to my standards. V. depressing.

Thanks to Kaiser who deigned to send me a tiny hi. :) It makes me feel irrationally happy when people do that. Hee hee.

This weekend's been a bore. BLAH. I just found out I have to do the ten notecards for World Lit. I like Ms. Murphy as a person, but honestly, as a teacher she is pretty bad. Like Lauren was all like (for our outline), "Do we have to put the actual facts in the outline or just say 'here will be the facts'?" And Murphy took like ten minutes to figure out what Lauren was trying to say and then didn't even answer the question. ?? What's up with that?

Ooh new hostee coming soon! Hopefully at least. ^-^

Took the practice PSAT test today and got a 197. Hmm.. need to improve on that. Also had quartet practice. Was v. humiliating at one point because I had to play it over and over again by myself. Ah, if I only practiced my music...

I'm starting to read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Hmm.. I'll keep ya posted about it.

Feeling solitary tonight. No one's called to do anything, and to tell you the truth, I actually don't mind. The weather was gorgeous this morning when I woke up at around 8:30. I thought to myself, this is just great, I can listen to my music and do some reading in bed. Then I remember we have a tennis match, which I don't mind 'cause I think I've been playing better lately. So I go to play and our opponent is Mankato West. I play singles against a girl named Ellen. I win in around 20 minutes. 6-0. Then I play another girl, Elise. I win in around 30 minutes. 6-1. Oh yeah baby, I steamrollered them. :)

I've been having good days lately. Yesterday I did something I've been meaning to do for a while.

Thanks a ton to Lauryn who was kind enough to link a total stranger... !!

So apparently there are people who visit here from different countries. Send me a note! Please. Just a quick 'hi' will suffice...

Lots of posts I know, but I want to get lots of info in before the weekend comes and I don't have time to post.. I've been listening to the radio a lot lately and they've been talking about how people here are treating Middle Eastern people differently now, giving them strange looks and just generally not being very nice. I think it's awful! No racism ought to be tolerated. Please, don't succumb to the first urge that tells you to hate someone just because they look like the people who did an awful, awful thing..

I was reading Omo's blog and she wrote about skinny-ness. I agree with her, about how I'm "entrenched" in worrying about my weight. It's not like I worry all the time about it, but I'll often just be like geez I'm looking a little flabby.. and the thing is, I didn't use to worry! I think that when other people worry about something, you start to worry about it too. The ripple effect. Well, it's bad! I'm going to try very very hard to stop caring so much.

By the way, the Luverly [dot] Org main page has a new look! Worked on it tonight though I ought to have been doing my World Lit outline...

Eek I'm so excited for 5th hour tomorrow!!!!!!!

So it turns out our Latin teacher's boyfriend DOESN'T have active duty. What a relief! However, that Tuesday night, me and a friend had a long serious talk about what would happen if war actually did happen. It seems to be a real possibility. What with Bush being a total idiot, I bet all the guys I know will be drafted and probably more than half will die, and then there would be too many girls vs few guys and then I'll never get married! Aaah.

Tennis match got canceled today. Rained.

Omo asked me who Adonis is, and actually, he represents a lot of guys I want but barely know. Some of them I've never even said a word to. Strange, isn't it? What physical appearances can do to you?

So yeah, I watched this new show ElimiDate where the entire premise is to make guys look ridiculous. I love it! The girl who was on it, Kat, chose the guy I would have chosen. He was smart and super hot! *yum*

While playing tennis today, me and my friends saw a huge amount of ballons go up into the sky. That is the STUPIDEST thing to do. Whoever did it-- God, seriously. Don't they think about the fact that balloons eventually have to come down SOMEWHERE??!!! Animals DIE, all right? Next time, blow a whole bunch of bubbles in the air.. they have the same meaning, but they aren't deadly to animals. OK??

I'm shaken. My Latin teacher's boyfriend got called to active duty. She was sobbing at the beginning of class, and gradually calmed down during class. Then at the end, while we were all working on tomorrow's assignment, she began looking teary again. You could see her, at one point in class, visibly pause and gather herself. I feel so much for her -- This makes a war so much more real .. and to think that any of my friends could be killed while on duty in the near future ... I couldn't take it. Pelase, in the name of whoever is up there, don't let there be a war. Please.

On a lighter note, I played JV 3 doubles yesterday and today. Won 8-1 yesterday and 8-3 today.

From my cousin:

It goes without saying that my classmates thought it was really a terrible thing that they have heard ever. And me,too..... Some said it could make World War 3 happen. TVs had been repeating the scene of the plane crashing into WTC..... On that night,I chatted with a friend who lives in New York by IM. He is 13 years old. It seems that he didn't care about it....He said WTC "BOOOOOOOM"..... I've been praying for the victims and world peace since " it " had happened. God bless America and the world...

He lives in Taiwan, and he was like the first person who e-mailed me about the tragedy. It goes to show you how connected the world is, when a boy in Asia can hear about the WTC tragedy within an hour of its happening...

Well, I took a practice PSAT test again yesterday (I take one every Sunday), and guess what I got? I was feeling extremely sick and had a horrible running nose along with a stomachache and got.. a 915. Not too shabby... I guess.

God, I think this one guy (let's call him Adonis), is so attractive. I see him, and I really wish he would consider me as more than an acquaintance.

So on Saturday Lin-lin had a birthday party and this band, KastIron played there. They were pretty good except for the fact that their songs all sounded pretty much the same. Well, at least the two of them they played before the police got there... Yup, neighbors could hear them a block away and called the police. I had a feeling police would come.. it was pretty loud.

Why is Russia so BIG?

Well, had a tennis match yesterday. Against Albert Lea. Won 6-4. Would have won at 6-2 if I hadn't served so badly. Besides that one game where my serve was just awful, I felt like I was really playing better. Damn one of the coaches.

It's weird to not include any more reactions about the catastrophe, but there's really not much more to say. Except that I was reading another blog, and do you know that Nostradamus predicted something exactly like this would happen? And that's when the third world war would happen. Holy psychics! And he lived in 1654 too...

Now that I have time to reflect back on what has happened, I just, it's still so surreal. I live quite a ways away from New York, and even though I have relatives there, it still hasn't really connected. You know? I mean, my cousin actually saw the plane crash into the first of the World Trade Center towers... I was so glad she was all right. She had to walk from Manhattan to Queens because traffic was so congested and because there was no other choice. I wanted to donate blood but I'm too young.

One of my teachers has a brother at the World Trade Center. I was reading other blogs, and wow, the whole world knows. It's somehow comforting to hear about how shocked other people are, and how they are sending their condolences. Small comfort, but it's all we have.

Oh my God. I don't know what to think. I can't even imagine.. the terror the people in New York City must be feeling right now. The world will never be the same again. This is just the beginning, depressing as it may sound. Honestly. I'm so glad my cousins, aunt, and uncle are okay in New York. The first few periods.. I'm sorry if I wasn't being very responsive to people, but I was so worried. It's just-- one moment, and everything falls apart.

I thought today would be such a wonderful day.. it started off great, then second period came around and it was so surreal...

I hope my friends in Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington DC are okay. I love you all.

Now it seems like the Taliban might be behind it... I hate them! I try not to use the word hate often, but I really do. They've just killed tens of thousands of people, besides torturing women...

Okay, finally it's decided to post my entry from like a week ago... Anyway, did anyone watch the match last night? Went by a lot faster than I hoped for. I wanted like a really long drawn out three set-er, but Venus trounced Serena pretty easily. Did you notice how Venus was coughing a lot? I felt bad for her. Besides, people kept on cheering for Serena. Does anyone know why?

Hehe I have been playing Sims a lot lately, which is pretty sad. I got this one girl, Lola, to earn $850 a day. Best I've ever gotten. She's got like all the guys in her neighborhood in love with her. ;)

Am I a shallow person? There's this one guy I like, but sometimes I'm like ooh, he's not exactly the cutest guy around...

Aah blogger is not working!!!!!!

By the way, happy belated birthday to Keanu Reeves! Yum.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow we start school. Holy holy holy fack.

It turns out that Lleyton Hewitt has a girlfriend, Kim Clijsters. Great. So now how am I supposed to seduce him and make him fall in love with me? Just wait. When I became a famous actress, he'll want me so bad. At least, that's what Laura says. ;)

I realized today why I have some hostility toward blondness (occasionally). It represents something I can never be. So whenever I hear about blonde bombshells or gorgeous blondes, I'm kind of like, you know what? I can never be a blond because it would just look really really weird...

I can't believe school is starting in one day. I'm going to be a junior. It's pretty depressing to tell you the truth. I wish I could go back to being little and carefree, or older and responsible. I dislike being in-between. Which is funny, because it seems like I tend to like the middle of things. For example, I am average at tennis, average at school, average height, average weight, middle-class... see? I have no distinguishing features! Although I have heard comparisons of me and Zhang Ziyi, Lucy Liu, and Jennifer Lopez. Heh. The Jennifer Lopez comparison isn't even flattering. My sister thinks I have a J.Lo butt. :P

Thanks to Sarah for checking out if my site works in Netscape. Sorry if it looks a bit icky to those who have it!

I'm going to watch The Human Face (it was on TLC last Sunday and Monday). Laura taped it for me. I saw the first portion. Symmetrical faces are pretty eh? Well, I guess I'll never quite be beautiful. One of my eyes folds bigger regularly and my eyebrows are mismatched. Oh and the ratio of 1:1.618.. I measured myself navel to toe and then head to navel. My ratio is 1: 1.71. At least I have the consolation of being in Cosmo's waist/hips ratio. Don't know what that is? Okay, measure your waist. Now measure your hips. Then divide your waist by your hips and if it is between .69 and .80 then you are within the 'attractive' ratio. I was .73, I believe.

Watched the U.S. Open today. God, there is some really good tennis going on TV. Saw Ivanisevic get beat (come on! I was mad..), Justine Henin lose out to the other Williams sistah, Tommy Roberdo smash his way through an extremely long match, and Andy Roddick. My God. Andy Roddick is amazing! His serves.. if I could serve like that I don't think I would be very unhappy at all.

Tonight is the night. The match to see. Me and my sis vs Arney and his bro. I'm sitting here in my tennis skirt, totally ready. We play in an hour. The whole summer comes down to this. Been waiting to get us all together alone for a while. I'll post the results asap.