Monday, April 3, 2006

   Stuff
okay i first want to know something? where the heck is everyone? i have barely gotten any messages and barely anyone seems to be online. so what's the big deal? please pm me! it's sad seeing an empty message box.

anyway, i got some more stuff for my birthday. Here we go:
Saiyuki vol.2
Yu Yu Hakusho vol.2
Fruits Basket vol.9
Bleach vol.10
GITS: Stand Alone Complex boxed set with the soundtrack as a bonus.
and a lot of clothes!

now i will tell you one thing. i hate wearing most dresses and skirts. but if i get to choose them out myself. i will wear them once in a very long while! and as for the soundtrack that i got! it has a song where the tachikomas sing! lol! the first time i heard it i was laughing so hard! i like it.

hope y'all have a good spring break!

~Colleen-chan
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Saturday, April 1, 2006

   Fool's Day!
Hello! How are you all doing? Well, I'm doing fine! Happy April Fool's Day! Well I forgot to update you on the birthday spoils! i got GITS OST 2 soundtrack! Wai! I have barely stopped listening to it. I know, you are all so jealous aren't you? But I still haven't gotten my presents from my dad's side of the family... *sigh* Well Ryo is making me a... signature I think is what it is called. Later!

~Colleen-chan
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Monday, March 13, 2006

   Birthday Spoils!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!! i am so happy! i think this must be the best b-day that i have ever had! wanna know what i got? i got:
Howl's Moving Castle DVD
a Blue Topaz heart-shaped stone with itty bitty diamonds and it is on white gold! wai!
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol.1
and i still got over 100$ to spend on anime and cds! how wicked is that? and my friend greeted me with 2 boxes of pockey this morning. DID YOU HEAR THAT? 2 WHOLE BOXES! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

   where is everyone?
people seem to be disappearing from school lately and i think that it is because of illness. practically everyone has dropped out of school for at least 2 days. but guess what, the only one who didn't get sick is me. why is that? do germs just avoid a nurse's daughter? *sigh* i'm feeling left out. i know that i might be seeming very strange but honestly, that's how kids are right? when they're well, they want to be sick so that they don't have to go to school, but when they do get sick, they want to be well, i guess there's just no pleasing us.

on a happier note, my birthday is on saturday! i'm finally gonna be BEEP! sorry but i'm not telling how old i am. that's just too far for me. and fyi, the date of my birth on the site is not my real birthdate. i mean, who would put their birthdate on a website with about ten million people able to access it? but any way, another thing is is that my cousin is getting married on my birthday, man that's gonna be one huge party. but i feel ver guilty, i never got to meet the groom! he never came to any of the family gatherings that i was at. so it's not my fault is it? *sigh* i'm looking too far into this aren't i? oh well, such as my sign's nature. *i'm picses* have a good day everyone!
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Friday, March 3, 2006

I am so dead
people, feel sorry for me. i have a d in english, which is supposed to be my best subject and i've got a c- in math. oh, did i mention that those all used to be a's? i'm so screwed! my dad's a teacher and in my house, nothing under a b is acceptable. later.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006

   this week.
this week has probably been one of the strangest that i've had all year.at the beginning it was your typical boring school week. and then it changed. on friday we had a drama day in choir, and i got the chance to fall off of a table. well guess what everybody? i did! we were doing a trust thing, and mind you, this wasn't a big table and i was thinking that my teacher was going to catch me. well guess again! he had about 8 people from my class line up in front of me on the ground and have their arms out to catch me. now mind you i wasn't all to fond of the idea at the start when my teacher was going to catch me, because, well i'm taller than him. so when people whoare even smaller than him come up behind me, i start to get a little nervous. and it was too late for me to back down so when they asked me if i was ready (sorry folks but i gotta stop right here and ask, if you ask a 5foot 10 girl if she is ready to fall off of a table, who is already scared out of her mind by the scenes flashing through her mind of her head smashing against wood. what do you think the answer that she really wants to say? well i'll tell you; HELL NO!!) but i said yes. and guess what i did y'all? i bent at my waist and let go of my shirt and nearly blugeoned two people to death *being overdramatic*. but hell, can you blame me? i was scared out of my mind. man, i must be the biggest idiot on the planet to have done that.

anyway, on a brighter note, who saw the cowboy bebop last night? i think that "Heavy Metal Queen(s)" has to be the best out of the lot. i mean come on, who can take away VT? she's so awesome! well, thanks for listening to another one of my many rantings.

~Colleen-chan
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Monday, February 6, 2006

   Bailey
my cat Bailey is going to die soon. my mom took him to the vets today and i won't know if they put him to sleep until i get home. i'll give you all the update tomorrow.
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Monday, January 9, 2006

   Essay
well, you guys wanted to see it so here it is!

Yellow police tape surrounding the house, cops everywhere trying to keep the crowd at a distance. You walk through the front door; the abysmal smell of blood reaches your nose, one of the members of your team dashes out of the house and wretches. Once the coroner reaches the end of the stairs he tells you the situation, three dead bodies: a man, a woman, and a little girl. In the middle of the floor, written in their blood is a message. “This makes five. Come on guys you’re disappointing me. Catch me if you can.” The serial killer has struck again. With only the help of your mind, tools, Forensics, and DNA Fingerprinting at your disposal you begin examining the crime scene. Do you know what a CSI is? CSI stands for Crime Scene Investigator. They deal with this kind of thing every day, maybe not a serial killer, but they investigate every unnatural death. Often times they use a method of Forensic science called DNA Fingerprinting to help solve their cases. When you hear the word “DNA Fingerprinting” you think of the show CSI, when the people are dusting for fingerprints left behind. That is not DNA Fingerprinting! Those people are doing what we call “latent fingerprinting” There is a difference! DNA Fingerprinting is when a small bit of genetic material (blood, a hair with the root still attached, semen, or saliva) from a single individual (or a crime scene) and scanned through a computer to give it a computerized numeric value in the form of a barcode. Then a sample is taken from the suspects only if they give it up willingly or if a search warrant is present. If the bar codes match exactly then you have your killer. Latent Fingerprinting is when you just take the fingerprints and run them through CODIS. Courts everywhere agree that DNA Fingerprinting is a highly trusted method of solving the ever-pressing question of “Who done it”.

Just what are the benefits of DNA Profiling? Okay, just to clear this up for everyone, DNA Fingerprinting and DNA Profiling is the same thing. I don’t know why they gave it a different name they just did. Maybe they did it just to confuse us, I don’t know. One of the many benefits is a quick and absolute elimination of innocent suspects. All you have to do is line their barcodes up with the one found at the crime scene, if they match you’ve got your murderer! Another benefit is how fast you can identify the offenders with a high degree of probability. And the last one that I’m going to mention is the reliability of evidence in court! How simple is that? There are a lot more benefits, but if I listed them all, this paper would be a lot longer.

Are there any other uses for DNA Fingerprinting? Actually there are. DNA Fingerprinting has many other uses other than for just solving murders. Other than criminal identification, DNA Fingerprinting is used for two major things, determining paternity and maternity, and for personal identification. Just for those of you who don’t know, paternity is the father of a baby and maternity is the mother. The reason that is helpful is because, believe it or not, some babies are actually switched at birth. As for personal identification, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Credit cards and other sources are much easier.

Does this method have any flaws? Oh, yes, as do many other sciences, this one has its share of pros and cons. First is the problem with cross-contamination. Say that the vic’s blood mixed with the blood of her killer (let’s say she got a hold of a small, sharp, pointy thing) That’d be a catastrophe! Or even if someone sneezed on the samples! Then that person’s DNA would mix with the sample and would throw the whole case off. Then there’s the chance of non-sterile instruments. This doesn’t happen very often but someone at the factory that makes the swabs for the crime lab doesn’t put on their masks and sneezes. It’s the same thing with the cross-contamination. Say good-bye to your case cause it just went down the tube. If any of these things were to happen the whole case would be thrown off.

Though not completely perfect, DNA Fingerprinting is a very good thing to have. It has put hundreds of murderers in prison and serial killers on death row where they belong. And it has even found swapped children and kidnapped ones as well. So now, even if the criminal leaves behind a trace of himself behind, we can catch him. DNA Fingerprinting has revolutionized the way we live. Hopefully you have learned something from this. I certainly have. Now, where did that blood sample get off too?

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Thursday, December 15, 2005

   w00t!
i got a cd with misc. j-pop and j-rock artists from my bff! w00t! thank you kaitlyn! that's the 3rd one she's given me now! and it has some of the bleach anime songs on it! now aren't you jealous?
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

   realization
... i don't know what i'm realizing. oh well, here's the update, we've got a genetic essay on whatever is geneticish and i'm doing genetic fingerprintin. i'm a total CSI fan so i watch that whenever i can along with anime! i hope to be a CSI when i get older so when my teacher said that we could do that i jumped to the proposition. isn't it strange what we will do for our dreams? oh, and if you guys want, i'll put my final draft up. when i'm done with it, and trust me, it won't be extensivly boring.
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