R.I.P Cameron

I may not have known you, but you were still a student at the school that was the safest place for me growing up. It's sad to see someplace that you use to call your own falling apart before you eyes. I'm sickened to know that bullying led to the death of a student at my high school. What happened? It's even worse finding out that even after killing herself because of the bullying, mean things have still been written about her. Is all of this really worth it? The world just lost another amazing living person and some still find it necessary to insult even after what all their words have done. No one deserves something like that.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Cameron back in Spencerport.

Add shadows that dance across her skin

Hide the doubt that cries out within her

Stripped bare beneath all the layers

Would you recognize the girl lying there

Sought after, trapped like a pearl,

Now the portrait has captured the girl

Now the portrait has captured the girl

I don't really have anyone to talk to, or anyone to really listen. I guess it's the way it's always been and I live with it. I'm tired of being judged and based on what people think or want me to be. I don't want to be what you tell me. I want to be myself and for that to be enough.

Milk

I don't like milk. I haven't really liked it my entire life, hence the reason that my doctors have had me on calcium pills since middle school. However, I do enjoy this milk bottle that I just read:

"You face a fork in the road. From one road you hear strange sounds. Curiosity grabs you and forces you down the road less traveled. You come upon a strange place of milky waterfalls and rivers. It's a place of vitamins and healthy goodness. You take a sip and feel the gain."

This makes me want to try this milk.

That was a bad choice. Gross!!!!

Palestine

What I can't seem to grasp, is why Palestine seems to continually suffer at the hands of Israel and the United States. Last week, Palestine was granted a seat in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Since then, the United States has cut their funding to UNESCO and has forewarned any other United Nations organization that if Palestine is granted a seat in their organization, funding will be cut from them as well. Yesterday afternoon, internet and phone access in Palestine was hacked from multiple locations around the world, now most of Palestine is left without ways of communication.

Last night, Israel announced that it will quicken its pace on building settlements. These settlements which have sprung up all over Palestinian territories will remain in Israeli control if/when an agreement is reached. So far, 500,000 Israelis live in these settlements that are scatter throughout Palestine.

But why?

A truce was created a year ago, but within days both days had placed attacks against each other. A couple of weeks ago, a truce was called and as this truce was being discussed, both sides launched attacks. Palestine has for years been trying to gain International acceptance. Israel and the United States keep saying that they would like negotiations to continue, but so far, they have gotten no where. If the United States wants a two-state agreement so bad, why does it not then support both sides of this issue? I guess, to an extent, I understand that the United States played a part in the creation of the nation-state of Israel back during World War II and that it must uphold and remain responsible for it's history.

Next month, Palestine's bid for a seat in the United Nations will go in front of the UN Security Council. The United States has already said that it will automatically veto the proposal. So, what's next?

NaNoWriMo

Today marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. I've participated in it since my sophomore year of high school. So, this will be my 7th year ATTEMPTING to write a novel in the course of ONE month. I've never actually completed this, nor come anywhere close to completing this. The most I've written has been about 20-25 pages. Regardless, I love sitting down and just coming up with new ideas to write about. The plot for my novels change about ten times every year and you know what? That's Okay! This year I've come up with a great idea to write about. Let's see if what was in my head today, while I should have been paying attention to my ensemble rehearsal, actually comes to life on the page as it does in my head.

I'll post bits and pieces of it as I write it. For now however, I need to go complete some classwork and get to cleaning my room. Maybe if I get some of it done, Ankit will stop harping on me about it and writing about it in his blog!

Velociraptors

In this case, I'm responding to a post Ankit put up yesterday. I do have to agree that yes, your dream was awesome, but I am curious to know whether or not my self turned dinosaur won against the animated velociraptor. This also pointed out to me that there is currently no velociraptor on the dinosaur shelf in my apartment! This clearly needs to change!

Fancy

We were throwing a party, a themed "Fancy Pants" party at that. Well, we asked our neighbors for use of the patio table that is shared between the two apartments on our back patio. We then realized later that we had asked for the table and said that we were having a party but never actually invited them over. So, we go out on the patio and invite them. Well, they made the theme of the party so much more hysterical to take in retrospect.

Fancy Pants party. Does that mean that we were keeping it classy or wearing legit fancy pants. Ya know, with sequence and zebra designs and all of that.