Warning, controversial topics cause controversy...

I'm just full of topics today. to start with, i have new poems posted on deviantart. secondly, i can't complain that i hardly ever see anyone other than mrs. mcarthy at kroger anymore because phyl came on thursday and yesterday i had mrs. beresford, my middle school librarian, and mrs. conn, my fifth grade teacher, come through my line right after each other. and mrs. conn remembered me! that made me happy. (but i don't think anyone knows who mrs conn is, do you? unless travis or abby is reading this, or maybe krystal is...) i've also written down every little thing that is floating around in my head so the stress of having to remember these things is taken away (although i do still think about them, because they've yet to be done.) ready? here we go.

1. Write research paper (due friday)
2. Make algebra notes to use on test (due friday)
3. Catch up on algebra homework (due next friday)
4. Write my speech (due monday)
5. Review my philosophy notes and STUDY (due monday)
6. Get scholarship information
7. Create a filing system for scholarship information
8. Get Edifi in order
9. Email Abby and Corey about meeting with senators
10. Call Mrs. Krueger about setting up tutoring program for math
11. Work on duct tape prom dresses with Rachel
12. Put kroger card on key chain (hey! that ones done!)
13. Work on my begley story
14. Sell Avon (due wednesday)
15. Write down celebrity story
16. Finish essay about silence
17. Email professor Hinton so she knows when i'm taking the final
18. Turn in calendar money to Jan (due a long time ago!)
19. Figure out how the heck to build our science challenge car
20. Email senators the letter i wrote on TRIO day
21. Register for SAT
22. Send in my taxes
23. Confirm college visit to University of Evansville
24. Talk to Grandpa about Hollins Literary Day
25. Buy Amy's birthday present (due Thursday)
26. Put looseleaf paper in binder (due Wednesday)
27. Get a flannel shirt (due next Monday)
28. Submit poems, stories, and essays to Cicada

I warned you! it is a long and varied list, and all of that has been bumping around in my head saying finish me, finish me! and its better now that i wrote it down, because i don't have to remember it on top of finishing it. i keep adding to it too, and if i actually use this list it could become quite handy. although, it's written on the back of a kroger receipt, and wastefully long as they are, i'm about out of room. hmm.

oh, and getting to the subject of my title. we were discussing our controversial speeches that we will be presenting next week, and that was very interesting. we had some good discussions. the person i was talking most with has refined his topic from "gay marriage is a sin and should not be allowed" to "gay marriage will undermine and demean the institution of marriage" (i think his is the most controversial). i kept bringing up counterarguments that he would need to tackle in his speech to convince me (not that i think anyone could really, because of the different friends i have). he almost backed out of doing it, but i think he's going to go for it. i am doing the no child left behind act, but i'm wondering if anyone in the class is actually against it (that's probably just the fact that i'm surrounded by people at home and high school who oppose it, though, there could be college students who agree with it). i don't want to give a controversial speech that everyone agrees with, becuase that would defeat the purpose. i think eric's doing animal control, jacob might be doing the immigration policy, he hasn't decided yet, someone's doing that everyone in america should speak english...it'll be a very interesting night. my biggest problem will be just sitting and listening, and not being able to argue. i love arguments just for the sake of arguing, and especially when you truly disagree and are knowledgeable enough about the subject to effectively argue your point, it's hard (really really hard) for me to just not say anything. Karen (teacher) has said that we can stay after to talk about it though, so there's a good thing. anyway, i think i'm out for tonight.

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