I don't expect you to read all of this.
I think we should have school year-round. I mean, think about it. We'd get two-week breaks spread throughout the year, and I wouldn't have to go stir-crazy during the summer. I really wouldn't mind doing that. School starts in two weeks, and I'm practically dying to start going again. If I went to school all year, I would be a happier student. They do that in Germany, and their students, according to test scores, are smarter than American students. Then again, every country probably has better students than this one.
Borders (the bookstore) is closing. Which really makes me sad. It's probably because of those freakin' Kindles and eBooks and Nooks or whatever. I can understand why avid readers would want them (who wants to lug around books everywhere?), but I looove cracking open a real book. I love the smell of the pages in a brand-new book. I love holding a book in my hands. I dunno. Maybe I'm just being weird. But now I have to order books on Amazon, and if Amazon stops selling books, I will cry. I seriously think that by the time I become an author, books will be obsolete and Kindles will take over the world.
In other news, I am officially addicted to the show Hoarders. I watch it all the time. Mental disorders, such as compulsive hoarding, really fascinate me. It's an educational show, really. The conditions that these people are willing to live in for the sake of keeping their hoard is astounding.
This unrelenting heat wave is keeping me from doing fun outside stuff. Bleh. It's been 100 degrees in this area for two weeks now. So much for getting off the couch and taking a nice walk or bike ride. I did swim today, and my mom yelled at me for putting a baby frog in the pool while she was swimming with me. Hehehe.
My orthodontist told me to wear bands on my braces again. Supposedly the right side of my jaw and the left side are not exactly even, so I'm expected to wear bands on my left side. Ha! Yeah right. I wore bands half a year ago, and it was helllll. I had to take them out and change them every time I ate, my teeth and jaws hurt, and putting the bands on is quite a task. I'll put these new bands on once or twice a day, and while I sleep, but not all the time. Hooray for putting my jaw alignment in jeopardy for the sake of comfort!
Finally, a question: Is it possible to love someone that you're not physically attracted to?
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Of course it's possible to
Of course it's possible to love someone you're not physically attracted to... I mean, most people love their pets/family/unattractive friends, right? :P
Haha, that is probably not what you meant. But yes, I would say it's possible... But personally, I wouldn't want to be in a relationship with someone I wasn't at least sort of physically attracted to, because I'd like to have sex someday.
I think it might be
I think it might be possible, but...I dunno. It would certainly make sexytime a bit of a challenge XD
I've never really heard of someone being in a relationship in which they aren't physically attracted to their partner. So I kinda think it's really super hard for people to love someone who isn't attractive to them.
Maybe they become more
Maybe they become more attractive to them over time? I dunno. I didn't think FCG was cute at first, for example, and she eventually became more attractive to me, but there's a limit, you know? I didn't really think she was as gross-looking as I used to say on here like 2 years ago. Haha. I just didn't think she was cute.
There are some people, though, that I highly doubt I'll ever find physically attractive, no matter what they are like. It's kind of hard to explain. Like I said, there's a limit.
I apologize if this made no sense XD
Nah it totally made sense.
Nah it totally made sense. Maybe once you realize how much you like someone they suddenly seem more physically attractive? I have no idea, really XP
gahhhh! there are others!
god, i know what you mean about all year school! i say that, and people look at me like im crazy! but theres this huge fricken gap in the summer, that you end up jsut being bored of by the end of, when so much could get shaved off of it!
i heard about borders as well. it makes me sad. i love the smell of borders. books smell good, comofrting.
as for loving someone your not atracted to? yus, i think so very much.
"A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationships? As dogs or as humans?"
My friends get really upset
My friends get really upset when I talk about the possibility of year-round school. But there are sooo many benefits. I think it would help students do better in school. And I've always thrived being in school, where there's goals to meet, stuff to do, people to talk to. At home I'm a lazy vegetable XD
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I would like a break but not so long as the summer now has driven me to crazy with boredom. The first few weeks were good as i had nothing to do and was very relaxing which i needed after exams that was great but then it got just rubbish. Though the worst part when i go back to school is i will have loads of work to do and il want a holiday straight away. The annoying part is my teachers always lay down loads in the breaks we have in terms or for christmas so you cant really relax as you have the small guilt of the not doing your coursework or revision.
Borders finished in the UK about january 2010 so i have unfortunately got used to it not being around. Its a massive shame though as the one were i went to was soo big it had 3 floors and had a large sized star bucks to on the 3rd floor that me and my friends used to always go to. Also it was open till sometimes 7 or 8 which was great as nearly ALL the shops and coffee shops shut at 5.30 so after that you have nowhere to go. Even worst for me was when it shut i was first getting into my fashion magazines and borders used to have a great scale of unusual and international magazines that i could of got loads more then crappy WHsmith that i have to venture to now.
I wouldn't mind having a
I wouldn't mind having a moderate amount of homework during those two week breaks we'd have if we went to school all year. I actually enjoy some of my homework assignments, as long as I don't get a ton of it. I like the challenge.
The Borders in my town is super small, and the selection isn't too great, but when my family took trips to Chicago or St. Louis they had a giant 3 story Borders too. Being surrounded by all those books...it was heavenly. And while I would rather be in a giant bookstore, I don't have any other choice but to browse online. Amazon has a pretty good selection, really. And most of their prices are fair, the books are shipped quickly.
technically...
The whole concept of getting the summer off was about harvesting crops on your family's farm, so... unless you have a family farm...
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Oh yeah, I've heard that
Oh yeah, I've heard that before. I've also read that there used to be year round school in the 19th century, but attendance was low and doctors said that year-long school would be harmful to a child's health, so they gave kids summer break.
So really, one of the only things that's preventing us from year-round school is the cost of keeping a school running all year.
Read it all. But I am in the
Read it all. But I am in the middle of another omg-gotta-go moment. I'll come back an edit this comment and make it a proper response, mkay?
When people complain about school starting and then cheer when it's over, I join in just because I don't want to seem like a weirdo, but school really is the only place where I'd socialize with people. It's hard to convince as drastic a change as that, though, because people like to hold on to tradition.
Those ebook readers I don't understand at all. I don't intend to get one, though I will refrain from saying "never" because there is a possibility that the paper book will decline to the point where I don't have a choice, but I'm one of those people who will go down kicking and screaming, resisting those kindle things. Ew.
First of all, 100 degrees is the point at which water boils. That being said, it's roughly the same temperature where I am, so we can weather the weather together!
Love, yes. But not bang. But I'm making a distinction between being in love and loving someone here, though they'd both be referred to as love. If you're in love with someone, though, I think something in you just finds them physically attractive. Say, every other person who looked kind of like your mate you wouldn't be attracted to, only that person.
Students may go nuts
Students may go nuts whenever they hear the idea of year-round school, but I think that once they get used to it I don't think they would find it that torturous. School is the only place I socialize with people, too, so you're not alone.
Something about holding an ebook to read my favorite books just seems wrong to me. If they ever stop printing books, I will buy one, but I'll hate it oh so very much.
It's not usually this hot here. Mother Nature is kicking our asses right now. Hooray for weathering the weather together! :D
Yes, there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. My theory is that when you're in love with someone, they're beautiful to you, inside and out. Someone else could think that they're the ugliest creature to walk the planet, but when you're in love with them, you find beauty in them.