a little bit about myself:

I turned 16 years old this last september, and I have been in college three terms already. I know you don't believe me. that's fine with me. doesn't change the facts. anyway,
I am currently in a state of writer's block.

I love:

anything regarding magic
Celtic stuff
compiling funny lists from the net
angel food cake
my fat kitty named Grusha
surfing the net
Gone With the Wind, (book and movie)
The Fountainhead
Ender's Game
The Matrix

I hate:
spiders
needles (vaccine kind)
beets
artichokes
overcooked veggies
getting up before 9am
being cut off from the net
those evil people who sit behind you in class and jiggle your chair the whole time and then get really ticked when you ask them nicely to stop it
people whose face could never possibly get through a metal detector because of the 8 pounds of piercing jewelry hanging from it
kel-joren fics (they are sick and wrong)
people who are anti D/N

Literary Characters I Am In Love With:

Sydney Carton
Jean-Claude (don't ask)
George
Numair

I think the lyrics American Pie and Big Rock Candy Mountain are awesome and the lyrics to Vincent are beautiful.

and I promise to spell-check everything before uploading it... reviews are always welcome, including flames, (I figure if it sucks, I ought to know)

thats about it... eventually in my not so copius spare time I will upload a long list of quotes I find entertaining or true, but not right now.

Quotes I like:

From the TV spot where they were doing the Pope's funeral service:

"Simon, son of John, do you love me? Feed my sheep."

"When you are older, you will stretch out your hands, and someone will fasten a belt around you, and take you where you do not want to go."

From "The Mummy":
"Look, you can either tag along with me, or stay here- and try to save the world!"
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"Once this creature is reborn, his curse will spread until the whole of the earth is destroyed!"
"Yeah? and is that MY problem?"
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"I only gamble with my life, never my money"
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"You swear?"
"Every damn day"

From "The Matrix" movies:

From "The Matrix":
"There is no spoon."
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"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. "

From "The Matrix Reloaded":
"I killed you, Mr. Anderson. I watched you die... with a certain satisfaction, I might add. Then something happened. something that I knew was impossible, but it happened anyway. You destroyed me, Mr. Anderson. After that, I understood the rules, I knew what I was supposed to do, but I didn't. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey. And now, here I stand because of you, Mr. Anderson. Because of you, I'm no longer an Agent of this system. Because of you, I've changed. I'm unplugged. A new man, so to speak. Like you, apparently, free."
"Congratulations."
"Thank you."
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"Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without. "

From "The Matrix Revolutions":
"Time's up. What's it gonna be, Merv?"
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"Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something, for more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is, do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace -- could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself. Although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson, you must know it by now! You can't win, it's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson, why? Why do you persist? "

From "Good Will Hunting":
"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."

From various movies:

"Youscrew this up, I'll kill you!"
"I'm glad we had this talk."
~ Jerry Maguire

"There is such a thing as manners. A way of treating people. These fish have manners. These fish have manners. In fact, they are coming with me. I'm starting a new company, and these fish, they are coming with me."
~Jerry Maguire

“So, are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle for eternity until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?”
“Or you could surrender.”
~ Pirates of the Caribbean

“Ray, when somebody asks you if you are a god, you say YES!”
~ Ghostbusters I

“Let’s not forget our customer, the nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog.”
~ Ghostbusters I

“The Lord says He thinks he can get me outta this, but he’s pretty sure you’re ed.”
~ Braveheart

“The king will be dead within a month, and his son is a weakling. Who do you think is going to run this kingdom? Now open this door!”
~ Braveheart

“…but the one thing they love, more than a hero, is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you’ve done for them, eventually, they will hate you.”
~ Spider-Man

S: “I’m not like you. You’re a murderer.”
G.G.: “Well, to each his own.”
~ Spider-Man

“I was in the neighborhood… had to take two buses and a cab to get into the neighborhood, but, hey….”
~ Spider-Man

“It’s a jungle out there. Had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries.”
~ Spider-Man

"Where were you? Photographing squirrels?"
~ Spider-Man 2

"He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."
~Spider-Man 2

"There he goes. One of god's own prototypes. Some sort of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."
~Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.'
~Fight Club

"Consider the lilies of the goddamn field."
~O, Brother Where Art Thou

"The reason he's pullin' our pants down."
"Gonna paddle a little behind."
"Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard."
"No, I believe he's gonna paddle it."
"I don't believe that's a proper characterization."
"Well, that's how I'd characterize it."
"I believe it's more of a kickin' sitcheyation."
~O, Brother Where Art Thou

From The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand:

"It's the Parthenon!" said the Dean.
"Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!"
..."Look," said Roark. "The famous flutings on the famous columns what are they for? to hide the joints in wood when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters if the Rennaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"

"You'll see, for a change, what a real office looks like. After Cameron's dump..."
"We'll shut up about that, Peter, and we'll do it damn fast."

He explained what he wanted, spreading upon the still air of the room one short, concise, complete paragraph of thought, perfect as a gem with clean edges.

"Here. With me. I'll fix breakfast for you in the morning. Did you know that I fix my own breakfast? You'll like seeing that. Like the work in the quarry. Then you'll go home and think about destroying me. Good night, Dominique."

"Every loneliness is a pinnacle."

"Three quarters of them don't know what it's all about, but they've head the other one quarter fighting over your name and so now they feel they must pronounce it with respect. Of the fighting quarter, four-tenths are those who hate you, three-tenths are those who feel they must express an opinion in any controversy, two-tenths are those who play it safe and herald any 'discovery,' and one-tenth are those who understand..."

"Howard, I had a kitten once. The damn thing attached itself to me, a flea-bitten little beast from the gutter, just fur, mud, and bones, followed me home, I fed it and kicked it out, but the next day it was there again, and finally I kept it. I was seventeen then, working for the Gazette, just learning to work in that special way I had to learn for life. I could take it all right, but not all of it. There were times I wanted to kill myself. Not anger, anger made me work harder. Not fear. But disgust, Howard. The kind of disgust that made it seem as if the world were under water and the water stood still,water that had backed up out ofthe sewers and ate into everything, even the sky, even my brain. And then I looked at that kitten. And I thought that it didn't know the things I loathed, it could never know. It was clean in the absolute sense, because it had no capacity to conceive of the world's ugliness. I can't tell you what relief there wasin trying to imagine the state of consciousness inside that little brain, trying to share it, a living consciousness, but clean and free. I would lie down on the floor and put my face on that cat's belly, and hear the beast purring. Then I would feel better..."

"Michael Layton had inherited a quarter of a billion dollars and had spent the thirty-three years of his life trying to make amends for it."

"She was Venus rising out of a submarine hatch."

"...If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others."

"Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man."

"But who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

From Ender's Game
"How old is Peter? Fourteen? and already trying to take over the world?"
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(message on everyone's desk) "COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING.
-GOD"
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"'Everyone knows that the system automatically puts on the name of the sender.'
'I didn't write that!' Bernard said.
'Shouting?' asked Dap.
'Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD,' Bernard said.
'Really?' said Dap. 'I didn't know he was signed onto the system.'

By me and people I know:

"You are all working like frantic monkeys."
~Mr. Ward (my sister's English class teacher)

"Shup, you!"
~Me

About the voice on the emergency intercom in my math class:
"It's like talking to God..."
~ Ms. Tevik

on bugs:
"bugs are crazy. they like light."
~ Ryan

"Yay for crispy bugs."
~ Me

Bumper sticker sayings:

~HEY, YOU! OFF MY PLANET!~

~Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.~

~The gene pool could use a little chlorine.~

by the way, I like bob dylan's music and am in the process of writing a song to rival the randomness of his own. the title will be "no matter how hard I try, I can never outrun your love" it will contain the line "like a spoon in a microwave". I will put it here when I finish it.

That's all for now!

wait, one last thing- if you don't review, then I will sic my annoying younger sister on you! >:( if you review, i will love you forever... and a day! ;D