ABOUT ME
• Hey there. I'm Laura. How're you, love? Let's see...
• Music is my
life.
• I ♥ SING ♥ everything from classical literature to opera to Broadway show tunes.
• I also play violin; I've been playing since I was eight or nine years old.
• Recently, I picked up piano. I'm still figuring the whole black and ivory thing, but I'm getting there. .
• Broadway musicals rock my socks hard core; can't get enough of them.
• I enjoy discussing the political affairs of today. I'm a democrat, but that doesn't mean that I'm not open to other views.
• History is another one of my loves. I'm like a walking encyclopedia.
• I'm big into my Italian heritage. Guardi fuori, questa ragazza italiana ha un temperamento. That doesn't mean I'm not proud of my Irish, German, and Austrian roots however.
• I'm a bull Taurus, that is.
• Give me a box of canolies and I'm yours.
• I am a slave to academia, meaning that succeeding in school is very important to me.
• Ergo, I'm going to go to a good college with an excellent music and academic program. NAZARETH '11
• I LOVE Europe! I miss my AMA loves!
• I'm a generally cheerful, bubbly, goofy person.
• Someday, you'll see me on stage or on a record shelf. Keep your eyes and hears open.
• I'm a book worm, whenever I get the chance to read a book outside of my busy schedule.
• My friends and family are very important to me.
• I love beig a goofball. Ask my friends.
. Oh, yeah. HEY STEVE!
16.7.06
1:01 PM
Advice to people entering the real world from high school (I'm almost there. Seniors '07! One more year of high school then it's off to collegebut I think I've learned a few things, besides interpretting and analyzing deeper meanings in literature, the reasons why the Battle of Saratoga is a pivotal point in the journey to our nations's independence, or the stable octet rule. I learned something one cannot necessarily learn in a classroom/practice room/field.) I do realize I don't know everything but here's what I've found out so far.
1.) Never ever be combative even if you're being attacked. It won't get you anywhere except more drama and bs. Just go with the flow and if you really really have to, complain to yourself or some form of a journal. Oh but no online/ public bashing. That's even worse and just promotes a circle of useless violence and hurt feelings.
2.) Bragging about hazing some poor chap in a frat or about your "ass kicking" dodgeball skills in eighth grade gym, only because you pinned all the helpless "nerds" who no own half the world's computer companies, will NOT get you a good job or for that matter, help you get into college. Sit down, shut up, and just do your best on your school work/work in general. Not everyone is a freakin' Einstein or Neitzch. All that people really ask is that you at least try to conquer disceting the Constitution or solving trig. equations. It's not that hard.
3.) Don't beat up the nerds or people different from you because they're smarter, more musical/artistically inclined, play some other sport besides football or basesball, or are different in general. T3h n3rd5 pwn j00. Why? These "social losers" will most likely be your boss. I wouldn't be surprised if Bill Gates highers assassins to go out and seek his retribution on his tormentors from his school days. (however farfetched, cruel, or frightening that may be.) Finally, just because people are different doesn't mean that they're terrible people. Oh noes! Someone is not conforming and wearing American Eagle and listening to Lil John attempt to pronounce the word '"fingers" is so terrible, isn't it? Find your own niche, be proud of who you are, take every oppertunity to try new things and grow as a person, and in general just stay cool in your own way.
4.) You are never better than your elders. Unless you live in the backwaters, the answer is no. Adults have a lot more experience than you do and they're there to help you out, employ you or advice you when choosing a grad school. Your Grandpa didn't see almost all of his friends die in wars, who were no more older than you are now, to hear you talk like some jive-ass punk. Have some respect once in a while. You might learn something.
5.) Finally, that he said/ she said thing? Bullshit. No one is going to care who Cindy-Sally-Billy-Jo-erson said to the Bobby-Mikey-Steve-ington or if she slept with him. In twenty-five years, it won't matter anymore. Iff you mention it at your twentififth high school reunion, people will laugh at your sorry behind. HA! HA! He/She is sore about something so trivial that happened over 25 years ago. :-p
*phew*...There. I hope that advice helped/made sense.
