Abby Koop

I have a test in that class next period, and I am veryvery scared.

Incidentally, the combat troops are being removed from Iraq, and that makes me rather happy.  I know that some people think maybe that our mission hasn’t been accomplished, but George Bush said it was accomplished seven years ago, so we really just needed to get out of there.  It’s not that I agree that the mission had been accomplished then, necessarily.  I just think that certainly, now, we’ve accomplished everything we can, and the time has come.

I wish I knew how to make those bigger.

Anywho, it’s “time to turn a new page.”  Of my Government notes.

this clip of Mr. B Natural.  It has had an important impact on my life.

Aaaaaas I was saying, I don’t think I believe in absolute truths.  Here’s some context:

I was sitting in Mass, and the homily was about the importance of humility, or being humble.  There was an acronym involved.  Something like….

Honest

Unhorse

M

Beauty

Learn

E

I thought L always stood for “love,” but I guess not.  Anyway, it was about how in the Catholic Church, I guess, there are real absolute truths, and it is important to be humble and accept them.

I want to make it clear that I don’t believe I’m smarter than the Pope or even the local parish priest.  Maybe they’re right, and there is an absolute truth, and I shouldn’t contradict these truths.  But that idea doesn’t sit well with my conscience, and I believe that’s a pretty important device.  My Christian Ministry class just read a papal encyclical from, possibly, Pope John Paul II (also maybe it was in the Catechism), and I don’t have it with me at the moment, which is terrible journalism, or whatever this is, but it definitely said that faith isn’t something that we need to accept blindly.  We’re allowed to question things as long as we have faith that the truth will bring us closer to God.

I just wanted to point that out.  I don’t think there’s anything “proud” about having questions–not when blind acceptance has caused slavery and the Holocaust and the My Lai Massacre.

I was planning to give a nice long spiel about the debatable existence of “absolute truths,” but it’s kind of late now, and there’s homeworks to be done.  Maybe tomorrow.

Speaking of procrastination, here is a picture of my cat:

Not really, but she looks a looooot like my cat, okay?

(For a larger image, click here.)

So I was watching a bit of The Devil Wears Prada because it was on TV when I walked in the front door after work, but then I remembered that I hate that movie, even though Anne Hathaway is in it, because the “twins” get the last Harry Potter book early, and no one, NO ONE, gets the Harry Potter books early.

And I mean, I have to read (and comprehend =\) four essays from The Federalist Papers by Monday for Government anyway, so I should really get on that if I want any time at all to dedicate to reading Mockingjay, which is pretty good so far, but I’m only on chapter six or so.  I think my coworkers were jealous.  Maybe.

Blaaaaaaaaargh, I’m tired.  I kind of just want to sleep forever.

This is the part where I blog about Harry Potter because I like it and because I don’t want to write about game birds or teenage drivers.

The movie!  Part One!  Is coming out on November 19th!  And I’ve heard it’s amazing, but there are a ton of spoilers circulating now, and I am scared.  I can’t wait, though.   I must go to the midnight showing.  It’s a school night, but I think I’ll be able to manage it.  *wheedlewheedle*

Oh!  Emma Watson!  She got a haircut!

It’s nice.  Very short.  But nice.  But I’m not following her lead on this one because I could not pull that off.

View it heeeeere!

…and the thing is that I am not very good at the Internet.  Or Adobe Premiere.  Or watching videos of myself.  But I’m going to work on it!!!! I am.

In any case, there’s a song forming in my head, which is rather unprecedented.  I think I wrote a song maybe once in the third grade, but I forgot it before I could record it in any manner.

Anyway, I keep forgetting to post this for lack of ideas and short attention span.  This is not jokes.

is embarrassing.  Therefore… I am putting it off.  Also, I can’t find any headphones, so I’m going to bring some in tomorrow, and then maybe I’ll get going.

…I should be punished for this.  Maybe that’s next week’s vlog: Abby is punished.  Except I don’t have any viewers/readers to tell me what to do =\.  Meh.

Time for the old fall-back: haiku.

So why does the door

Have three batteries in it?

Are we locked inside?

Today’s the day I decided to begin video blogging, so, true to my pointless promise, I have done so.  In my apparent subconscious excitement, I managed to wake myself up without any assistance at 4:57 AM, at which point I began putting my haphazard plans into effect.  I expect to post the video sometime Wednesday evening.

But anyway, today’s mayhem.  I got up, got ready, and then I went to Meijer to look for Mockingjay, and then I was late to Spell Bowl, and then I had Band, AP Music Theory, and Applied Music 1, and then I finally left the band room for Pre-Cal, which is really pretty awesome as math classes go, and then I went to lunch.  I would go into the details, but I don’t want to spoil the video, because details are pretty much all I’ve got going for myself at the moment.

Next up for me is Government, and then I have Christian Ministry, and then the day “ends” with AP Literature.  But after that, I have to rush down to the German room to tell Frau that I won’t be able to make it to the meeting because I’ve been scheduled to work at the Day Care center, and then I’ve got to get over there, where I’ll be awkward until around 5:30, at which point I have exactly thirty minutes to perhaps grab dinner at Chick-fil-A to support the school in the “Chick-fil-A Challenge,” before I have to be back at school for marching practice from six to eight.  Then, I kiiind of want to go redeem my failure at Meijer this morning.

You know, sometimes Meijer just fails.  They had Harry Potter in the Self-Help section last time I looked.