Wednesday, November 15, 2006

You Can't Pick your Friend's Nose
Thanksgiving is coming!! I love this holiday, anything centered on food is wonderful. And better yet, I get to go to California to spend it!! Ah, I am so excited. I get out of the states of Idaho and Utah, I didn't think that would happen until Christmas...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

SLEEP!!
So I get made fun of by my roommates because i go to bed so early, i'm usually in bed by 11:00, i guess that is kind of weird for someone my age....
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Monday, October 9, 2006

Call it Torture; Call it University
So college life....it's not all that it's cracked up to be
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Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Grass is Greener on the Other Side of the Gopher Hole
I leave for college on Monday finally. We start on September 5th, which from my understanding, is pretty late. It's going to be so great! I basically have Tuesdays and Thursdays off, I have one class that ends at about 9:00. I can work out and still be home before my roommates even wake up I bet. Ah, freedom...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

Kenshin
I just bought the entire series of Rurouni Kenshin off of Ebay for under $10, I'm so excited!! They may just be data discs, but I don't mind. I've been needing to see the third season for about 2 years now. It's one of the first anime series I ever got into and it bugs me to no end that I still haven't see it all. So I will soon be satisfied...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006

August
Ah, today is finally the beginning on august! July was sooo long! It's hot in Texas, and i hate it, and july is terrible. August isn't much better, but at least it's not july! Everything happens in august, we're moving...i finally go away to college...all the good stuff. I'm just happy that july is finally over.
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Monday, July 24, 2006

Today
The naruto gamecube games are awesome...just thought you'd like to know...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006

A-Kon
I went to A-Kon the 9th and 10th of June. It was wonderful. My 2 friends that I went with and I bought a hotel room for the first time. It was a very WISE choice. It was so nice to have a room right there in the hotel. Yes, we all dressed up, it's so fun! If there is anyone debating whether or not they should go to A-Kon, or any convention, I strongly recommend it. It's great!!
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Thursday, June 1, 2006

Zayn - Part 5
He had no more adrenaline left to compensate for the loss of blood.

“He collapsed!” the figure yelled. The other tribesmen came running towards him. Everyone stopped a few feet away from Zayn’s fallen body and stared in awe. He had come out of the forest, he had fainted, but he was alive.
“Grab him!” the commander yelled. “We’re taking him back, the Leader will undoubtedly be interested in this.”

Zayn opened his eyes and realized without surprise that he was back in the enemy’s camp. But unlike the last couple of days, his hands were tied behind him and his body was tied to a tree. He turned his head to the right and saw the leader’s hammock. He was tied to one of the trees the hammock was tied onto. He was happy to see that the hammock was unoccupied.
Zayn’s shirt was off and he found that all of the wounds the creatures had inflicted had been bandaged. In an effort to stop the bleeding, they had been bound so tight that Zayn had some difficulty taking in a breath. Despite all this, his blood had seeped through anyway; staining the originally white bandages a dark red. Zayn leaned his head back against the trunk of the tree and moaned softly. He wished he could go back to the pain he had the day before rather than enduring this and still being sore.
“You’re finally awake?” said a coarse voice. Zayn turned his head to his left. He saw a male’s head and shoulders coming out of the opening of a tent. He was lying down with his dead propped up with his hand. “I was hoping you would die, that way I wouldn’t have to worry about you.”
‘I have a guard this time, even when I’m bound. They must really not want me to escape again,’ Zayn thought.
“Oh well, I knew it wouldn’t really happen,” his guard said, getting up. He left and came back shortly with a cup of water and held it to Zayn’s lips as he drank thirstily. When he was done, the guard walked away again.
Ten minutes later Zayn spotted someone walking toward him that wasn’t his guard. Zayn knew who it was; the leader was coming. He came and sat comfortably in his hammock. Zayn didn’t feel the need to turn his head to see him.
“Are you feeling better?” the leader asked. Zayn didn’t move. “I see you’re still bleeding,” he commented, observing his bandages. “You really shouldn’t have tried to get away, you took advantage of our hospitality. And now because of your little expedition, you’ve given yourself away…Zayn.”
Zayn flinched. He knew who he was. Now he understood why he was suddenly bound and guarded.
“We only knew you by name. You are the person who could get through our forest. Only a few of us can get through it alive. Someone by the name of Zayn is the only outsider who knows how. You will never understand how happy I am that you have wandered to us,” the leader began to swing slightly. “But now that the rescuer has been captured, who’s left to save you?” the leader said with a wide grin. “Looks like you’re going to be here for a while.”
Zayn kept silent; there was nothing to say.
The leader got up. “You will be very useful to us, but first you must regain your health.” He then disappeared behind the tree Zayn was tied on to.
Later that day, towards sunset, three people Zayn had never seen before came to him. He saw that one of them was carrying a roll of bandages. Another held a sword. One of them began untying the rope that held Zayn to the tree. Zayn started to get up, but he was roughly pushed to the ground again and pointed at threateningly with the sword. He was pushed farther from the tree and the rope on his wrists was loosened as well. His hands were untied only to be held above his head. Still being threatened with the sword, the remaining man began taking all of the bloodied bandages off his body and replacing them with new ones.
“Would you mind not wrapping them so tight?” Zayn growled.
Instead of listening, the man pulled even harder. Zayn grunted; this tribe and his were not on very good terms.
When Zayn was done being taken care of, his wrists were again bound behind him and then tied back to the tree. Then Zayn was left alone to deal with the pain that had been added with the new bandages.
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Monday, May 29, 2006

Zayn - Part 4
Zayn reached instinctively for his sword. He grabbed and air and remembered that it had been taken from him. He took off his sword’s scabbard and tried to fend off the creatures as best as he could.

On the path, out of the forest, the tribesmen were ordered to stand guard along the trees. If it had been up to them, they would have turned back long ago. Very few came out of that forest once they went in.

Zayn knew their patterns, he knew their plan of attack; it never changed. The creatures would surround their prey then advance so fast that their victim wouldn’t even know they moved until he felt their fangs sink into their skin, they’d back up, chewing on the piece of flesh in their mouths, then advance again. Each creature would go for a different part of their prey’s body, making it next to impossible to avoid being bitten.
Zayn knew all this, but without a proper weapon and full health, there was little he could do against the creatures. It was critical to avoid the initial attack, if they didn’t get their prey the first time, they would lose heart and give up soon after.
However, if they managed to get their victim in their first attack, not only was the prey wounded but the creatures considered the battle won. They wouldn’t give up until they brought the target down.
He swung his sheath around as much as possible trying to hit as many as he could. He knew which part of his body they targeted; he knew where to hit. The more he hit in their first attack, the more there was that gave up and left. But his sheath cracked when he hit the first creature, and broke with the third, after that. There wasn’t much of any kind of weapon he could use. Zayn yelled as he felt teeth sink into his side, tearing a piece out of him. They began backing away again, then quickly attacked, again and again. Zayn strained his eyes even more, trying to see the creatures coming at him. His vision was getting darker and darker. Not because of the lack of light, but because of the loss of blood. He began walking back the way he came. He had managed to hit enough of the creatures initially that they had given up by now, and the remaining creatures weren’t numerous enough surround him anymore. But he no longer had any kind of weapon to use. They kept attacking him, still hungry for his flesh.
Zayn soon saw a dim light in front of him and knew it was the path. The remainder of the creatures began to retreat, they didn’t like light, even light as dim and the moon. As Zayn got closer to the clearing he saw an outline of a person. Then he soon heard shouting. He knew he was going to be captured again. He had hoped that he would come out on a different path, one that wasn’t being guarded.
Zayn saw someone slowly walking toward him; he was close enough to the edge of the forest that he wasn’t in any danger. But before the figure could get to him, Zayn’s vision went completely black. He had no more adrenaline left to compensate for the loss of blood.
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