Kitler: a cat or kitten who looks like the Nazi leader Adolph Hitler.  If your cat has a little mustache or you feel that he wants to invade Poland that this is the website for you.  http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl.  It is a collection of “kitlers”.  You can browse the gallery or even view todays newes kitlers.  Lots of laughs.

I heard a story who wrote an entire book on his cell phone.  I mean a full length, Harry Potter, War And Peace, Moby Dick, novel.  He wrote it all on his CELL PHONE.  And I’m not talking about a black berry or a sidekick.  No full QWERTY keyboard.  H had to text it out and email it to himself, every 140 characters.  Isn’t that insane!?!?  But the best part of the story for me is that, once he finished witting it, he kept it all in TXT SPK (text speak).  So a full story in TXT SPK.  Can you imagine?  Well just to give you a picture, I am going to write a paragraph of my weekly post in TXT SPK.   Well, here goes:

    braces

 im gonna hav 2 gt braces on mondy. duznt that suck. im gonna hav my mouth wired. well its all 4 the beter.  but i hear it hrts. i thnk the bigest chaleng of having braces wil b chusing wich colrs 2 get my rubbr bands in.  i want feedbak so if u dont mind leavng coments on dis page wit colr sugestions, that wud b great.  thnx!!

    Well, I sure am glad that’s ovr (whoops).  But, seriously, please do leave suggestions.  So any way, can you imagine an entire book like that?  I know I would probably give up on trying to read it.   And i got to give you props if you read all the way through my paragraph!  But i also heard about another amazing cell phone feat. Someone produced, directed and shot an entire feature length film on their cell phone.  They  are trying to get it to be marketed by a major film company like Universal or Miramax.  So any way, that’s all this post was really about, amazing phone facts.  That and braces.

C U L8ter.

Our English class has moved from studying the book: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas to reading William Shakespeare’s As You Like It.  I am a fan of plays.  I think it takes real talent to be able to memorize a small book.  And then to deliver it with character and class; now that is true magic.  And although the language Shakespeare uses is somewhat complex for most people, the themes he addresses are always relevant to the time in which it is being read.  I do enjoy watching Shakespeare being performed and I cannot wait until we begin to perform the play.

Last year in English class, we put on a small production of A Midsummer Nights Dream.  This was probably the most fun I have had in English in my entire life.  We performed on a small 5′x10′ stage but the set, aside from our small stage was spectacular.  We had people bring in branches for trees.  We had amazing costumes.  And perhaps best of all, we had a high powered, professional, stage spotlight.  As We prepare for this year’s production, I can only hope that is is as good an experience, if not better, than last year.

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As my brother gets ready for Outdoor Education, I start to remember that hectic weekend, right before the trip when everyone is rushing around to all corners of the earth, trying to get everything together for Monday. It is a time when tempers run high in most house holds. All the stress of the trip is pretty much laid on the parents. They start to fell rushed and nagged. “Mom, I need more bug spray.” “Dad, I need to go get hiking boots.”  I can remember all this insanity like it was yesterday.

In fact, I can remember a lot like it was yesterday. But, some memories are more vague than others. For example, I can barely remember the first day of sixth grade, but I can recall fifth grade graduation and the excitement of preparing for middle school vividly. It seems ironic, that in a few months, I will go through this all again. High School awaits.  And even though in the back of every rising ninth graders mind, they know that high school won’t be half as scary as their older friends say it is, they can’t help but freak out at the prospect of a new school.

You spend more than half of your lower education in elementary school. And then it all changes to the world of lockers, cliques and seven teachers. And then the minute you start to get used to middle school, it gets ripped from your hands, and in its place lie SATs, college admissions forms, and crazy football games. It’s education’s cruel joke: just as you get comfortable and understand the way things work, it gets exchanged for a completely new and even more complex system. it was so funny, I forgot to laugh.