January 10, 2012

(9:50pm)

Lying in bed. It was Ms. Lori's birthday today. I wrote her a poem in under an hour. I printed it during lunch and gave it to her. She loved it (duh, of course! It came from a Hyperion. Who else could compose something meaningful in under an hour?).

It was also my best friend, Brandon's, birthday. He's legal now. He already has a beautiful girlfriend who is in college, and I want to say who is a model. Maybe I should fake as if Emoni is my girlfriend so I can match him☺. (haha!!! Emoni Clouden, if you're reading this, I am sooooo kidding ;). I looked up Ms. Lori's name in my 10,000 Baby Names book. Apparently, it's a form of Laura, which means “Crown of Laurel leaves”. I'll ask her later. I used to be scared of her. She wore dark clothes, had a tattoo, deep dark eyes, and didn't smile the first day I saw her.

Also, in Health, I was half flirting/half talking to Janessa, and she asked if I was wearing contacts. She thought I was because of my eyes having a bluish tint to them. My eyes are a deep, dark brown, almost black color, so it's possible that my eyes could have a bluish tint.

Carney asked us to blog about our class discussion. I made a video of it, but 1) it's almost 30 minutes long (29:59), 2) the picture quality sucks, and 3) I’m pretty sure NO ONE would watch it, plus it probably wouldn’t upload. It started out as a conversation about Tim Tebow and him being in the NFL having opportunities because he was white. Basically, how if he were black and playing like he does, he wouldn’t be able to play. Then there was a former QB for the Steelers, who was black, who basically slammed Tebow. He was talking about how he couldn’t play in the NFL as a QB because of his style of playing. If you want to be a QB in the NFL, you have to be able to drop back and hit the open man. Tebow is one the kind that runs around apparently. It came down to one thing: “It was because I was black!” Black people (not all as a whole) just love pulling the race card about everything. And people as a whole constantly use stereotypes as a way of judging what should be the case for a race. For instance, in 7^th or 8^th, we had a fried chicken day. At my table was on other black kid, a half black boy whose skin was white as butter, and 5 white kids. I was the only one at my table that didn’t get chicken. Of course the half black boy (so giddy to have some black in him) was the one to bring up the whole conversation. I literally spent the whole lunch and recess talking about how being black doesn't mean I have to get fried chicken. Anyways, I thought the discussion was a good one. I'm gonna need to get permission to post it on youtube as a public video.