I hope you know, I hope you know

Unpretty - TLC

2008-07-15T05:16:12Z

I wish I
could tie you up in my shoes
Make you feel unpretty too
I was told I was beautiful
But what does that mean to you
Look into the mirror who's inside there
The one with the long hair
Same old me again today (yeah)

My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Every time I think I'm through
It's because of you
I've tried different ways
But it's all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I'm just trippin'

[Chorus:]
You can buy your hair if it won't grow
You can fix your nose if he says so
You can buy all the makeup
That man can make
But if you can't look inside you
Find out who am I to
Be in the position to make me feel
So damn unpretty
I'll make you feel unpretty too

Never insecure until I met you
Now I'm bein' stupid
I used to be so cute to me
Just a little bit skinny
Why do I look to all these things
To keep you happy
Maybe get rid of you
And then I'll get back to me (hey)

My outsides look cool
My insides are blue
Every time I think I'm through
It's because of you
I've tried different ways
But it's all the same
At the end of the day
I have myself to blame
I'm just trippin'

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh (oh)
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh (oh)

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

Books!!!!!

2008-07-05T07:00:10Z

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.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

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 But I never finished it...
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
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 Hitch Hiker'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
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
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas I'm pretty sure I had the kids' abridged version...
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding I think the movie's much better!
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 I think this was abridged, too...

It really is tempting to send this to my principal ;)

2008-07-02T05:24:30Z

I'm trying to get hired again for next year.

I really do love this scene...and it made me love Andy.

::grin::

2008-06-29T02:19:17Z

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Haha!

2008-06-23T03:14:46Z

As a 1930s wife, I am
Superior

Take the test!

please, please pray...

2008-06-23T01:51:05Z

that I get to teach at Lakeview again next year.

It would make me happier than anything in the world. :)

AMAZING song. AMAZING.

2008-04-04T05:54:09Z

Bleeding Love
by Leona Lewis (you can hear it on my Myspace :) )

Closed off from love
I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you're frozen

But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melts into the ground
Found something true
And everyone's looking round
Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal
Is to keep me from falling

But nothing's greater
Than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say
[ Bleeding Love lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com ]
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love

This is directed at one specific person who probably has no idea this exists

2008-02-19T03:02:31Z

FUCK

YOU

Nooo!!!!!!!

2008-02-14T05:36:10Z

American Idol judges, YOU SUCK! I can't believe they put some of those people who ALL SOUND THE SAME through and didn't give Josiah a chance. He was so different and cool!

Poor kid. :(

At least David Archuleta made it through...

American Idol

2008-02-13T07:13:05Z

I wanted to hold that sweet baby Josiah and snuggle all his sadness away.

<3

Aww.

WANT!!!

2008-01-09T04:47:04Z

Romantic Comedy Recommendations

2008-01-02T08:19:46Z

I saw these on a message board for "When Harry Met Sally...", and I'm thinking of checking them out. Got any more for me? :) Did you hate any of these?

Annie Hall **
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Someone Like You
Manhattan
You've Got Mail (?)**
Sliding Doors
Under the Tuscan Sun *
A Lot Like Love (?)
The Story of Us
Hannah and Her Sisters *
Garden State
Anything Else
Before Sunrise **
Before Sunset *
Keeping the Faith
Joe Versus the Volcano (?)
French Kiss
I'm With Lucy
Serendipity
Say Anything *
Forget Paris (?)*
Only You
High Fidelity *
Three to Tango
Music and Lyrics
He Said, She Said (?)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind *
The Notebook
Lost in Translation (?)
Crossing Delancey **
Moonstruck *
Broadcast News *

ETA: some more recommendations and people's thoughts on the ones above.

Crazy/Beautiful
Elizabethtown
My Big Fat Greek Wedding *
Kissing Jessica Stein

Happy New Year!

2007-12-31T23:57:52Z

Have fun tonight, guys. ^_^

My CD

2007-12-15T07:07:16Z

EDIT: You're supposed to go to wikipedia.com and click "random article" repeatedly to figure out the name of your band, title of your album and all the songs. ;-) I didn't bother to include that info before...duh.

Band: Grasberg Mine
Album: Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta

Track 1: Fidél Pálffy
Track 2: Mercy Class Hospital Ship
Track 3: Euploea Algea
Track 4: Ira Smith
Track 5: Prilocaine
Track 6: Then Again...
Track 7: List of State Leaders in 389
Track 8: Ali Thani
Track 9: Alginite
Track 10: Seafarers' Welfare Convention, 1987
Track 11: Tinsel Town Rebellion
Track 12: Lavoslav Ružička
Track 13: Roque Avallay
Track 14: Australian People's Party
Track 15: KTPX

I think it's the CD that goes along with a social studies curriculum unit. :-P

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-22T09:36:02Z

Hope you all have a nice one. :) I'm spending mine with my family.

Yay lyrics!

2007-11-18T07:10:59Z

Out of Reach
by Gabrielle
(from "Bridget Jones's Diary"!)

Knew the signs
Wasn't right
I was stupid for a while
Swept away by you
And now I feel like the fool

So confused, my heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn't see
We were never meant to be

Catch myself from despair
I could drown if I stay here
Keeping busy every day
I know I will be okay

But I was
So confused, my heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn't see
We were never meant to be

So much hurt, so much pain
Takes a while to regain what is lost inside
And I hope that in time, you'll be out of my mind
I'll be over you

But now I'm
So confused, my heart's bruised
Was I ever loved by you?

Out of reach, so far
I never had your heart
Out of reach, couldn't see
We were never meant to be

Out of reach, so far
You never gave your heart
In my reach, I can see
There's a life out there for me...

Update

2007-09-28T05:23:00Z

I don't know if I made things clear, but before, I was just supposed to be a long-term sub in the position, although it was probably going to be for the whole school year. Now, though, since they're 99% sure that the other teacher isn't coming back this year, the district gave me a temporary contract....so I'm a full-fledged teacher!!!!! OMFG! I get real teacher's salary and benefits and everything!

SHEEEEEESH! Pray for me, guys, so I do a good job. LOL

Got some money to burn? :)

2007-09-24T06:59:53Z

Just in case anyone's interested, here are some things I'm selling...

Ted Raimi Autograph Plaque
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280156314520&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling

NES
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280156349037&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=018

Super NES and some games!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280156352718&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=018

melalucci @ 2007-09-19T01:56:00

2007-09-19T08:57:08Z

ARRR!

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day....come on, lads, shiver me timbers! ^_~

Some fitting lyrics

2007-09-07T02:38:18Z

"My Happy Ending"
by Avril Lavigne

So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...

Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?
Don't leave me hanging
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread

You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus:]
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...

You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do

You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus]

It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were done

[Chorus x2]

[x2]
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
So much for my happy ending

Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...

Another song I like a lot

2007-09-04T22:47:27Z

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs, by FALL OUT BOY

I'm gonna make you bend and break
(it sent you to me without wings)
Say a prayer, but let the good times roll
In case God doesn't show
(let the good times roll, let the good times roll)
And I want these words to make things right
But it's the wrongs that make the words come to life
Who does he think he is?
If that's the worst you've got, better put your fingers back to the keys

One night and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great
He tastes like you only sweeter

One night yeah and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Thanks for the memories
See he tastes like you only sweeter
Ohhhhhh

Been looking forward to the future
But my eyesight is going bad
In this crystal ball
It's always cloudy except for (except for)
When you look into the past (look into the past)
One night stand. (One night stand, off!)

One night and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great
He tastes like you only sweeter

One night yeah one more time

Thanks for the memories
Thanks for the memories
See, he tastes like you only sweeter
ohhhh

(They say) I only think in the form of crunching numbers
In hotel rooms, collecting page-six lovers
Get me out of my mind
Get you out of those clothes
I'm a line away
From getting you into the mood (wa-ooooohhh)

One night and one more time
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great
He tastes like you only sweeter

One night yeah one more time
Thanks for the memories
Thanks for the memories
See, he tastes like you only sweeter

One night and one more time (one more night, one more time)
Thanks for the memories
Even though they weren't so great (even though they weren't so great)
He tastes like you only sweeter

One night yeah one more time (one more night, one more time)
Thanks for the memories (for the memories)
Thanks for the memories (for the memories)
See, he tastes like you only sweeter

[Until Fade]

Five Stages of Grief

2007-08-27T19:16:29Z

I'm apparently going through them right now....although not in order.

Denial : The initial stage: "It can't be happening."
Anger : "Why ME? It's not fair?!" (either referring to God, oneself, or anybody perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
Bargaining : "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
Acceptance : "It's going to be OK."

I've been waffling around depression, denial and bargaining, and right now I'm getting into the whole anger thing.

Insensitive by Jann Arden

2007-08-17T09:00:37Z

How do you cool your lips
After a summer's kiss
How do you rid the sweat
After the body bliss
How do you turn your eyes
From the romantic glare
How do you block the sound
Of the voice you'd know anywhere

Oh, I really should have known
By the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes
Casual good-byes
By the chill in your embrace
The expression on your face
That told me
You might have some advice to give
On how to be
Insensitive
Insensitive
Insensitive

How do you numb your skin
After the warmest touch
How do you slow your blood
After the body rush
How do you free your soul
After you've found a friend
How do you teach your heart
It's a crime to fall in love again

Oh, you probably won't remember me
It's probably ancient history
I'm one of the chosen few
Who went ahead and fell for you
I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch
I fell too fast, I feel too much
I thought that you might have
Some advice to give on how to be
Insensitive
Insensitive
Insensitive

GRR!!

2007-06-24T18:28:23Z

I'm not reading Post Secret ever again! People suck!!

Orange!

2007-06-15T18:52:43Z

You Are An Orange Girl

You live in the fast lane. You love action, risk, and competition.
You're spontaneous, enthusiastic, and persuasive.
But you're also easily bored - and love to rebel against structures.
You resent rules ... as well as people's attempts to control you!

What Color Girl Are You?