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from Swati's real estate advertisement

4 Stages of Life:

1. You believe in Santa Claus
2. You don't believe in Santa Claus
3. You are Santa Claus
4. You look like Santa Claus

Great Truths Children Have Learned:

• When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair.
• When your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.
  

Great Truths That Adults Have Learned:

• Raising teenagers is like nailing Jello to a tree.
• Middle age is when you choose your cereal for your fiber, not your toy.
  

Great Truths About Growing Old:

• Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.
• Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives i can get.
• You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 
• It's frustrating when you know all the answers but no one bothers to ask you the questions.
• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
  

George Carlin Thoughts:

• When someone asks, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put in your two cents, what happens to the other penny?
• Why are wise men and wise guys considered opposites?
• "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest?" 
• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?
• If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed Up?
• Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant rather like making a peeing section in a pool?

I've become really critical of people's speaking styles lately. Not necessarily how "articulate" or "eloquent" they are, but more with how they argue. My mother, logical fallacies galore. And she says so many words without saying a thing.

I just spent the last 45 minutes lecturing, yes, lecturing, my mom on being more concise and listening to the person with whom she is speaking. Ironically, I wasn't communicating too effectively myself. I've found that I speak horribly when conversations are one-sided, like this one. Balanced conversations I can do.

My throat hurts.

It was really warm outside. I am so calm right now. As opposed to yesterday, can we say PMS! This morning, SAT II Day or rather, SAT Subject Test Day, I woke up to find "."'s present. My future husband's lucky because I only pms the day before my period (mood=sinusoidal). Don't some girls pms for more days?

I think I post about my period too much. I wonder if I only post when I have it. I could check, but the phone is ringing.

Something Interesting: I was addicted to Blogthings for a while a few weeks ago. And dude, I just went Blogthings crazy a few minutes ago. That was fun.

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I've lost it! Writing songs to people on aim. Lost it. Perfect song to listen to in this state of mind though.

[22:35] ticklish fishie: you are emily
I hope you do not eat your family
that'd make you a cannibal
society wouldn't like that at all
so I say
live another day
with your foot in your mouth
in your MOUTH
in your MOUTH
live another day
WITH YOUR FOOT IN YOURRRRR MOUTTHHHHHHH!!!

[22:32] ticklish fishie: I went down south to visit my aunt dixie
she gave me a fairy pixie
[22:32] ticklish fishie: she said don't lose it
[22:33] ticklish fishie: or you will be bit
[22:33] ticklish fishie: by a crocodile in a whileeeee
[22:33] ticklish fishie: but I said NO way jose
[22:33] ticklish fishie: and laughed at her possy
[22:33] ticklish fishie: and danced with an aussi
[22:33] ticklish fishie: til the day was done
[22:33] ticklish fishie: WAS DONE
[22:33] ticklish fishie: was DONE
[22:33] ticklish fishie: til the day was done

Lost it.

1. When I get bored, I get haircuts. I give random numbers when they ask me about length and I say yes to everything.

Conversations with the haircutter are like this:

Haircutter: How much shorter do you want it?
Niyati: [thinks of a random number] #!
later
Haircutter: Do you want to have [style option]?
Niyati: Sure.
Haircutter: Want me to [style option]?
Niyati: Why not?

2. I cannot keep windows open for very long. That's why on aim, I randomly leave chatrooms on accident. Thank goodness for tabs.

3. I imagine conversations, but usually I'm the one who does most of the talking. There are some things that I just want to tell certain people.

4. A bad habit of mine is that I randomly act like something's a big deal and get all dramatic because I'm bored. I'm pretty much always kidding around. I don't get freaked out easily. Especially not about school.

5. I'm oblivious to the physical. There was a PIRATE SHIP piñata in spanish one day and I didn't even notice it. It's the same with people. I never notice physical beauty unless I force myself to.

6. I like people-watching. And pretty much every time I go out with friends, I end up meeting a stranger, usually a kid, and have a conversation with him or her.

Good luck on your AP English Language and Composition test tomorrow :).

How sad. Troy is #46 in the nation.

I've discovered that I can tell whether people are physically attractive or not. The reason that I couldn't before is because I'm totally oblivious to the physical and I just noticed personality. But now, if I force myself, I can tell. Well I'm oversimplifying it, but those are the basics. And apparently Mr. SophCrush is very good-looking, which is weird for me, because I never liked him for his looks.

Oh feels like autumn's back so soon.
I see my father turning grey in her silver moon.
Don't remember when he was a young man anymore.
Well that's just too long ago.

Next autumn we'll be applying to colleges. This Saturday I was thinking about college and I realized, I'm very excited. I am not worried at all because I'm bound to get in somewhere and it's what you make of it. Why mourn over rejection? Why not rejoice about acceptance? Seriously, college will be swell. You will get to choose what classes you want to take, rather than only choosing classes decked with gaudy "AP"'s, "IB"'s and "Honors". And the diversity of the people! The interesting conversation. To be blunt, lately, conversation has been nothing more than bland. If I were to picture it, I would see a lump of grey mush with a fork planted in the middle. But in college...

[iming someone while writing this, distracted, loses train of thought]

I think people worry too much.

At first, I wanted to go to prom and I was disappointed that ACSL fell on the same weekend as it. But now that I think about it, I'm almost glad. I realized that I wouldn't go to prom this year even if I could because it really would take away the novelty and I want to say, wonder of senior prom because it'd be number two.

If I seemed annoyed or treated you badly today, sorry. It's just that I'm very angry with myself, but don't worry about it. I have a lot of reasons for it. Don't ask me about it either because I'm perfectly happy until I'm reminded of a reason for which I'm angry at myself.

Don't worry. But don't think I'm angry with you either. It's very hard to make me angry at you.

I don't know why I'm so tired.

Physically, no idea.

Mentally? Maybe because I'm in an in-between state, in which I can do nothing I want to do.

My age has something to do with it. I want to do certain things, like join Toastmasters, but Toastmasters is 18+. So many restrictions like that.

But it mainly means that I have certain obligations that are holding me back until further notice.
And one of them was supposed to be done with last year at Christmas.

Oh well.

Why am I so tired? That AP US session should have been enough of a rest.

AP exams are not stressing me out. I rarely, if ever, get stressed. I act stress sometimes, which is stupid, I admit. In fact, they're not a big deal. Lately, I have been majorly slacking. An understatement if anything. Anyway, I'm just lessening that slacking for AP exams, and I'm golden. So that is not the cause of my fatigue.

Anyway, anyone know how I can learn to become an articulate speaker?

Who here does not want to go to school tomorrow?
Who here did not do HALF of what he/she was supposed to do this break?
Who here is so amazed that it's 10:25 PM Sunday, the last day of break?
Who here is still procrastinating at this very minute?

We Troy kids are very similar.

Happy Easter!

I do believe this is the first year that I haven't done an egg hunt with my sister. I can't allow that. It'll be an egg hunt just finding those plastic eggs buried in the garage ;).