What I Want to Do

I want to save the bald eagle.

Putting Groceries Away

Watch how I do, y'all...watch how I do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU3hZN4jE-A


Also, here is another video some of my friends made last week:

http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=277319

Afrikaans

So, I'm going to stop playing around and learn Afrikaans...

My dad is fluent, so I might have him help me out a bit...also, I looked at some software on the interent...learning Afrikaans will better prepare me for if I study in South Africa next spring...who knows, maybe I will like it there and just stay (my dad has dual citizenship, and for some reason I can become a citizen sort of easily...)

I searched on facebook for people who shared my surname and found like 150 people...I added a bunch as my friends and sent them messages...no close relatives, but a lot of us share an ancestor by the name of Hercules...from 1687...

How does this apply to fiction writing? Well, in that class, I learned that you can marry like your fifth cousin or something...yeah, I'm not going to lie, some of the du Preezs out there are pretty hot.

Anyway, this one guy from South Africa wants to have some kind of reunion...he is 22 and is training to be a helicopter pilot...and wants it to be huge! crazy! and one week long! I'm down. I just need to scrap some money together...

My "cousins" have cool names, like Ankia, Elmari, Riekert, Zita, Karlien, Genevieve, Cheneen, Liska, Cairalee, Eldred, Dirk, Gerhardus, Etienne, Bardett, Innelize...

And what names are there around here? John, Joe, Sam, Sarah, Lauren, Chris, Alex. Are these cool names? I think not...

Plural

Everyone knows that the plural of the fluffy thing you see sitting there on the mat is:

cats

So, then, what is the plural of du Preez? Is it

du Preezes

or

du Preezs

Help me! I do not even know!

Violence

My neighbor, who is a single mom with two kids, who is taking classes at Hamilton College, who will graduate in July, whose telephone is getting cut off tomorrow because she cannot afford to pay right now...well, there was this creepy guy who kept on driving in front of our apartment and in the alley, especially when her kids were outside playing. She was frightened, scared that he would do something to her children...she was upset, she said "I don't want anything to happen to my children!" You could see the fear in her eyes. I've seen nothing of this sort before.

She called the police and reported him.

Two weeks later, a 12 and 13 year old were standing alone outside of Hy-Vee and were persuaded by the creepy guy to go back to his apartment, where he took nude photos of them and molested them.

The police visited my neighbor and asked them to identify the man...she correctly identified him and he was arrested.

Well now...I think of what I would have done if I had seen the man trying to do something to the children. And you want to know the truth? I would probably do something violent, maybe take a large rock and smash it against his head, maybe take a crowbar and bash him into the ground. When it comes to something like this, I would use violence. I would not hesitate to defend the children.

If I were put in prison, I would feel that I had done the right thing.

These kinds of things happen everyday. You must be ready to react.

So, you who are fucked up in the head, stay the fuck away!

Relay for Life

I went to this thing called Relay for Life, which is a fundraiser and awareness thing for cancer...yeah, I'm not going to lie...I basically went to hang out and to eat food...

But then I started to feel sort of bad...someone sang this song that was sort of depressing, then they started saying stuff like "If cancer has affected your grandpa, please get up and walk"...so there were all these people that got up and started walking, and it was then I realized that I was no different than Will Ferrel in "Wedding Crashers" when he is at the funeral. Oh yeah...and some girl gave me a hard time about me taking the food, saying something like "you are stealing from the cancer patients!"

But anyway, after that it was a pretty good time. Some of those bags they put up with candles lit on fire, and there were chalk pictures all over the ground.

I played trip war with some people. Did you ever play that in elementary school? If you didn't, you are surely missing out on something very important.

Oh yeah...maybe you have heard from previous posts that I am trying to reconcile some things between me and some other people whom I will not disclose. These reconcilations are going well. One is pretty good, and the other is good too. Two of them are good. It is good.

Well, I'm out. I have to work at history day tomorrow...I have to be in Smith Curtis at 7:30 am!

ps...this is relevant to fiction writing because I had all these experiences today that I can maybe write about. It is good to get the ideas flowing first, though, and in my case, I get them flowing on the blog.

Some Things That Made Me Laugh

So, class was good today. Not that many people showed up, but it was a grand time anyway.

I don't know why if this is even funny, but I read this note on facebook about someone who may or may not be my cousin named Jacky du Preez from King's London (some school in England)...she says

a momentous day:
i've finally made the momentous decision after a long internal struggle to announce to the
world that I Jacky Du Preez am a lesbian.

Is this funny? Why did I laugh when I read it? Also, why did I laugh when Jessica was telling us in class about her sophomore English teacher...she said:

Yeah, and then he died

or something to that effect. I felt incredibly terrible at first, but then when I looked at Chelsea I didn't feel as bad because she was laughing too. It is horrible. I am horrible.

Then Jacky leaves another note, saying:

Things I have learnt today

Never forget to log off a public internet terminal.

Well, that's that.

Another thing that was sort of funny:

I forgot to log off my facebook too, and then my brother was on it and messaged my ex girlfriend from high school, and said something about how she probably looked like an angel (at her performance...she is a vocal major or something)...

At first I was sort of perturbed, but then I became worried, and thought that maybe I HAD messaged her, and had been for the past years...without knowing of it, of course. Is it possible for me to do something and then not remember that I did it? What if this was the case? What if the things you don't want to do have already been done but you don't remember? Who is to say that this is not the case? Can we really even know? Is anything certain?

If nothing is certain, then should you worry? Should it really matter?

Then I laughed at it...it is not really funny, but she messaged me back and pretended that nothing had gone wrong...I'm not going to lie to you all...that relationship was messed up. Sure, it was good for the first 90%, but then it wasn't.

I have noticed that no one ever blogs anymore. Oh well...

Another thing: I am going to go to Relay for Life and get free food. I didn't pay, nor am I on a team, but I am going to walk around and get free food. If you are one of those people who run the thing and feel like preventing me from doing so, you better bring a club, because I am bringing my judo skills, BITCH!