Birthday • 1993-03-22 Gender •
Male Location • Anywhere I please Member Since • 2006-05-04 Occupation • Student.... Real Name • Grant
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Achievements • Well I am writing a story and it has mor than 100 pages! My longest story yet! Anime Fan Since • I saw pokemon when I was like 4 Favorite Anime • IDK Goals • Travel Around the world, to be a novelist Hobbies • writing stories, sleeping,eating, playing Kingdom Hearts1 and 2 and GBA game, plus annoying my family hey it is fun! Talents • watching T.V., writing stories, sleepin, eatting, ANything a normal teenage boy does, messing with my family
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Huh... well hiya guys! The huh at the beginning is for... huh why did Otaku cut myotaku completly from the other website? I think it's rediculous as to why they got rid of the Pms om here... now I haev to find that backroom thing on Theotaku.com.
oh well *shrugs* well I just made a quick post to shwo you guys I'm still alive XD oh! and one more thing, I GOT THE JOB AT THE POOL! :D I'm greatly excited... :P Well this summer I'll eb a cash machine! :D BYE!
Hey guys. well havn't posted in a long time, I know, but my gay highschool is busy and annoying so just a few more days and I'll post so chill!!! Most of my freinds on myo have died T_T ElvenNinja lost interest and most others aren't on... oh well... :\ Well BYE!
Hi guys hope you had a happy VD of course I hate it (did I saw that before?) and so everyone was giving me stuff and I didn't have anything for them, which made me feel like a turd rock, but of course I told all my friends yesterday that I hate VD, so I guess I shouldn't feel TOO bad.
Well School's lame as always, but good thing is tomorrow is friday and better yet, it's an early release, and even better yet yet no school monday WOOT! Well my town had another rare case of snow! :D but none of it stuck >_> well hope all who celebrates VD had a great day and for those who hate Vd (like me) hope you had a great Thursday! ^_^ Root beer floats all around! ^_^ *pulls out a huge tray of root beer floats* all who comment gets one! ^_^
BYE! ^_^ *pulls out grappling hook and shoot it in the sky my private jet flies by and I lach onto that* BYE! *flies off into the distance* (as you can tell I was majorly bored in my last sentence the one in "*")
Yes, you read right I have *counts topics in title* FOUR topics to talk abotu today! ^_^ I can tell you guys are excited :P anyway, lets begin! :)
SICK:
Yep, stayed home sick again today :O started feeling really bad last night and otday I just didn't think I could last a whole day at school today, my dad seemed mad when I said I wasn't feeling good (usually that's my line I say when I want to stay home when I'm sick :P) he was like GRANT!!! you can't keep doing this... I thought to myself whoa buddy chill O_o but then my dad turned around and closed the door.
SNOW:
Grant *looking like a weatherman*: YEs in a rare case stated today, ARizona got snow. It's the apocolypse I tell you! THE APOCOLYPSE!!!!
News cast: OH NO!!!!!! IT can't be possible!!!! SNOW IN ARIZONA!!!! *the whole place clears out*
GRant: yes, snow covered the area this morning, soon to be melted by mister sun!
All I'm sayign is simply this: it snowed in Arizona (where I live won't say name of town I live in >_>)and it snowed for along time, of course IDK when it stopped, seeing as I practically passed out when my dad left :P well on ot my next topic.
SUPERBOWL:
YEs, the superbowl! I'm glad the giants won I heard so much bad things about the patriots and Tom Brady likes men you can tell. ANyway who watched the game? And who rooted for the patriots and likes TOm Brady sorry :P but yea, seriously glad giants won! :D of course when that dude cried at the end (IDK his name lol) I was like ok then....
OTHER RANDOM STUFF:
Nothing to say really O_o other than I'll most likyl be going bac kto school tomorrow unfortunatly... welll BYE!
Hi my friends! :D Nothing to talk about... other than I woke-up at 12:12 XD it felt good to sleep in thats for sure :P
Well I won't be doing anything special, today just probably go to the movies with some of my friends to see Meet The Spartans from what I hear it's hillarious. And then I might go hang out with my friend Caleb. Then after that go home, watch tv get my dose of sitcoms for the day (can't get enough of them O_o lol)anyway, that's basically my day ahead. OH and work on VRR some more, on like the second page of CHapter 17 XD
Well how was everyone's Fridays? mine was good on the account of staying home from school, just the sick part kinda ruined it :P but anyway... no super duper rant post today! ^_^ just a normal short post :) well semi short... I said I have nothing to talk about and I have like 5 pararaphs :P anyway best be leaving, gonna redo my site a little add a new BG and everything :) BYE! *teleports*
SO I stayed home sick from school today, but I'm feeling ALOT better so I'll be fine! ^_^ And besides laying around all day sure beats going to school no? Well anyway... My goal as of current is to get VRR done by my birthday! I'll be making a new countdown sooner or later to show how much time left until my goal is either passed/failed and my B-Day. So Starting sunday, I am gonna be wiritng at least half a chapter EVERY day.
So Basically HIGHSCHOOL SUCKS BUTT! I loathe it JUST as much as I loathe valentines day (in my perspective Valentines day is the worst day of every year!) And no I don't hate VD (valentines day) because I never had a GF, it's just MOST key word MOST girls who have a BF on that day expect you to get them some grand gift, which isn't cool... and besides people aren't themselves that day, stupid nicknames aside, they pay only their attention to their GF/BF (talking about guys and girls now) and completly IGNORE their friends which is another reason to HATE VD. So the score now is:
Grant: 2
VD: 0
Announcer: it looks like Grant is putting a beating down on VD!
Announcer 2: Yea it's brutal out there! one more point, and Grant will have this thing in the bag!!!
GRant: your too kind!
Anyway... One more reason to hate VD THE COLORS! Who in their right mind chose the colors for VD! Bright Pink and Red!? Red isn't bad, just PINK!!!! Pink in my perspective is the WORST COLOR EVER!!! Score now:
Grant: 3
VD: 0
Announcer: GRANT WINS!!!!!!
Announcer 2: Root beer floats all aorund!!!!
So anyway sorry about this rant on VD :P and for those of you who like the Holiday, sorry if I offended you :P Well anyway... Mrs. Donovan (english teacher) is the Devil's daughter I swear! :o
OK so get this, she handed out a test for us to take like Tuesday I believe, anyway so this kid next to me, his name is Cole kinda a smart-mouth, but anyway he asked her if we could use the book and of course Devil's Daughter says we can't, the next day she basically chews us out on how bad we did and how much of an old timer she is and how she needs to retire (so I added those last two in.) But she says now here's the part that makes her the daughter of the devil, she said WE COULD USE THE BOOK!
I was like omg! wtft zomg grrr muffle muffle hip replacement!!!! >_< for those of you who are slow... wtft= what the french toast so I was about to pick up my desk and toss it at her! But me being the angel that I am *someone in crowd laughs I shoot him a glare* kept the comments to my self.
So basically highschool is GAY!!!! >_< Devil's daughter is also fat. Anyway... beter leave, sorry for this HUGE rant post, but hey at least I added some comedy (or tried to at least) BYE!!! *teleports*
6 Fantasy clichés how many does my story have!? :o
.:Grant:.
YOLA!
Hey guys! ^_^ I stumbled onto this thing while surfin' the web and I decided it was quite interesting. Here it is:
Fantasy fiction is doing good business at the moment, but there are certain situations that have been overplayed. So much so, that they have become genre clichés, and everybody knows what to expect next. If you're a writer in the fantasy genre, here are 6 clichés you should try to avoid in your stories.
1. Receiving tutoring from the old wise man.
The 'Merlin' gambit, as used in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Dragonslayer and innumerable King Arthur clones. A stable boy or other similar seemingly low-born type is taken under the wing of the local eccentric. There's usually a beard involved, and a pair of blue eyes piercing from beneath some spectacularly bushy eyebrows. He'll say things like: 'All of nature is one', 'Use the force' and 'You have a great destiny, my boy.' Try not to give him a grey cloak and an elven sword. Maybe you could try having the youth tutoring the old man for a change? Or, more radical, how about having the teacher as an old woman?
2. Learning to fight.
The 'Galahad' gambit. The stable boy gets secret training in weaponry, allowing him to beat a seasoned warrior in his first fight. People say: 'I've never seen the like before' and 'He is the best swordsman I have ever seen'. Now how realistic is that? A radical idea would be to have the stable boy being completely useless at weapons. How is he going to fulfil his destiny then?
3. The parting from everything you ever knew.
The 'Dick Whittington' gambit. The stable-hand, being under a geas to complete a great quest, must say goodbye to hearth and home. People say: 'I must go and fulfil my destiny' and 'I will return when I have avenged my father'. This is usually done with a great deal of schmaltz and emotion. Sometimes it is done violently, the hero being parted from family by the villain of the piece, who he is destined to kill at the end of the story. Either way, it has been done so often that any tears you are expecting to provoke could well be due to laughter. Try to do something different. Why does the hero have to leave his family? What would happen if he took them with him?
4. Being abducted from earth to a different world.
The 'John Carter' gambit. People say: 'How did I get here'' and 'You have been delivered to us in our hour of need'. This one was heavily overused in the early and mid-twentieth century by H Rider Haggard and A E Merritt among others. Usually it is no more than a ploy to get a character the writer is comfortable writing about into a fantasy situation where said character could never otherwise exist. Edgar Rice Burroughs liked it so much he even had it happen to Tarzan on occasion. And it still happens, the most obvious modern examples being Thomas Covenant and the various present day characters that Stephen King has recruited into his Dark Tower series. Maybe your hero could be someone from another dimension who gets transported to Earth? Or maybe he stays where he is, but everything changes around him?
5. The multi-race bar room.
The 'Inn at Bree' gambit. It happens a lot in science fiction a-la Star Wars, but it is just as common in the fantasy genre. After a thirsty day on the road, our heroic stable boy and his companions will visit an inn. Inside, there will be representatives of different races from the world created for the story. The innkeeper will always be fat and jolly, there will always be a silent stranger in a dark corner, and someone will sing a silly song giving the writer his chance to show off his invention of other-worldly lyrics. How about having a human trying to get a drink in a dwarf-only bar, or vice-versa? There should be plenty of opportunity to add tension there.
6. Discovering hidden family truths.
The 'Ugly Duckling' gambit. The stable boy gets to the final climactic battle, only to find that his adversary is his father/mother/brother/sister etc. People say: 'It was kept from you to protect you' and 'You cannot kill me, I'm your father'. This has been so overused, it even turns up across genres: witness Luke Skywalker confronting Darth Vader for example. A variation is to have the hero find that he is suddenly a prince, or even king. This says more about the writer's own desires than it does about the plot. Wishful-thinking fantasies do not usually make strong stories. But what would happen if the hero already knew his background, but his adversary didn't?
The next time you read a fantasy story, count how many of the above are still in use. I think you'll be surprised. It's even worse in film and television, where all of them can occur in any one movie, and often do. Just look at Star Wars - it contained most of them, and still made huge amounts of money.
And that's also why the above should be taken with a pinch of salt. Clichés still have their place in popular culture. Just don't take that as an excuse to use them yourself. At least not too often.
I do believe the only semi-cliché I have in my story is #4 but then again the heroes in my story just stumbled upon the capsules which then transfered them to Vetual, and soo ndiscovered they were the heroes of light.
Hi guys I got to post twice in one week! ^_^ This time it's little of me talking because I'm... doign NEWS OF THE DAY!!!! I'll do this occasionally when I find soemthign of intrest :)
With out Furthur Ado... I present you... NEWS OF THE DAY!!! (This is rather lengthy though :P):
CHICAGO - A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.
Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.
Most of the surgery patients were able to stop taking diabetes drugs and achieve normal blood tests.
"It's the best therapy for diabetes that we have today, and it's very low risk," said the study's lead author, Dr. John Dixon of Monash University Medical School in Melbourne, Australia.
The patients had stomach band surgery, a procedure more common in Australia than in the United States, where gastric bypass surgery, or stomach stapling, predominates.
Gastric bypass is even more effective against diabetes, achieving remission in a matter of days or a month, said Dr. David Cummings, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal but was not involved in the study.
"We have traditionally considered diabetes to be a chronic, progressive disease," said Cummings of the University of Washington in Seattle. "But these operations really do represent a realistic hope for curing most patients."
Diabetes experts who read the study said surgery should be considered for some obese patients, but more research is needed to see how long results last and which patients benefit most. Surgery risks should be weighed against diabetes drug side effects and the long-term risks of diabetes itself, they said.
Experts generally agree that weight-loss surgery would never be appropriate for diabetics who are not obese, and current federal guidelines restrict the surgery to obese people.
The diabetes benefits of weight-loss surgery were known, but the Australian study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association is the first of its kind to compare diabetes in patients randomly assigned to surgery or standard care. Scientists consider randomized studies to yield the highest-quality evidence.
The study involved 55 patients, so experts will be looking for results of larger experiments under way.
"Few studies really qualify as being a landmark study. This one is," said Dr. Philip Schauer, who was not involved in the Australian research but leads a Cleveland Clinic study that is recruiting 150 obese people with diabetes to compare two types of surgery and standard medical care.
"This opens an entirely new way of thinking about diabetes."
Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, and researchers are furiously pursuing reasons for the link as rates for both climb. What's known is that excess fat can cause the body's normal response to insulin to go haywire. Researchers are investigating insulin-regulating hormones released by fat and the role of fatty acids in the blood.
In the Australian study, all the patients were obese and had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes during the past two years. Their average age was 47. Half the patients underwent a type of surgery called laparoscopic gastric banding, where an adjustable silicone cuff is installed around the upper stomach, limiting how much a person can eat.
Both groups lost weight over two years; the surgery patients lost 46 pounds on average, while the standard-care patients lost an average of 3 pounds.
Blood tests showed diabetes remission in 22 of the 29 surgery patients after two years. In the standard-care group, only four of the 26 patients achieved that goal. The patients who lost the most weight were the most likely to eliminate their diabetes.
Both patient groups learned about low-fat, high-fiber diets and were encouraged to exercise. Both groups could meet with a health professional every six weeks for two years.
The death rate for stomach band surgery, which can cost $17,000 to $20,000, is about 1 in 1,000. There were only minor complications in the study. Stomach stapling has a 2 percent death rate and costs $20,000 to $30,000.
In the United States, surgeons perform more than 100,000 obesity surgeries each year.
The American Diabetes Association is interested in the findings. The group revises its recommendations each fall, taking new research into account.
"There is a growing body of evidence that bariatric surgery is an effective tool for managing diabetes," said Dr. John Buse of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, the association's president for medicine and science.
"It's just a question of how effective is it, for what spectrum of patients, over what period of time and at what cost? Not all those questions have been answered yet."
Medical devices used in the study were provided by the manufacturers, but the companies had no say over the study's design or its findings, Dixon said.
HI EVERYONE!!!!!!!!! I'M SO GLAD I GOT TO POST!!!!!!!!! I HAVEN'T POSTED SINCE FINALS WERE ABOUT TO START!!!!!! WHICH I DID GOOD ON EXCEPT MY MATH FINAL WHICH I GOT AN F ON I KNOW THAT'S WRONG! I STUDIED AND FELT RATHER CONFIDENT ABOUT MY ANSWERS! UNLESS THE CREATORS OF THE FINALS ARE EVIL LITTLE MOLE PEOPLE AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH WITH BEADY RED EYES AND SHARP LITTLE MOLE TEETH!!!! (If only huh? And you guys are thinking I need to get checked into a mental hospital) Well enough of my screaming fit...
So I'm sorry I haven't posted in like 5 weeks (or so O_o) Well Freshmen year is halfway over... WOOT!!!!!! I loathe school with a passion. My friend Lacy has an extreme paranoia about me posting about her so I decided to dedicate the next paragraph to her (feel free to skip over this):
Lacy I blogged about you, you happy? You best be... SO Lacy how's your Report coming along? Mines going good even though I hardly started it... :P Well I hope you liked this paragraph dedicated to you.
For those of you who read it I have a HUGE research paper I need to do and luckily it's something I find rather interesting... THE GREEK GODS!!!! ^_^ I find them really cool! Especially Hermes, he's the Greek god of Thieves, Merchants and another one I can't remember, he is also the messenger of the gods. I like his staff too.
Well for those of you wondering why I'm not using my post boxes is quite simple, I'm too lazy to get the codes for it... Also I would fill you guys in on what has been happening since I last posted but it would basically take a novel to explain throughly a long BORING novel, except a few places...
Well my week ahead is rather stupid... School... but of course, me and a few of my friends may go see Meet the Spartans on Friday or Saturday that movie looks hillarious.
Well, I have nothing to say really... I'll try to post on Saturday again. But I have no gurantees. When Summer vacation rolls on by, I hope to post almost every other day after swim practice ^_^ tell you guys my day ahead and what not. I'm also getting a Job this summer! ^_^ should be exciting earn some extra $$$ if you know what I'm talking about *nudges*. Well I must Leave you guys for now... I know heart wrenching but I must, So long my friends!!! Until Saturday thy comes (don't ask)
SO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Was bored so put post box in too lazy to edit post erasing a total of like 30 letters :P
Hey guys I haven't posted in a long time I know but my family is setting up for Christmas and I have school which finals are coming up in two weeks.
Pros of Finals:
I get out at 11:00 AM each day I have finals :D
No classes
Cons of Finals:
I have to think hard...
I have to do a long test...
most of the finals are worth 20% of my grade....
(I have a whole list)
Well anyway on to my emo part of my post! :P
Well what've I've noticed is friends that you make through the years some of them you drift apart form and then you usually lose a friend. But what I've also noticed is friends that you made in like Elementary take for instance: ElvenNinja, Night-mare Neko, Fluffball, another of my friend's named Dylan, another of my friends named Lacy, and I have been friends ever since I moved here (or in FLuffball's case since SHE moved here :P)
But I've also noticed that friends you made in Middle School tend to not be very good friends anymore. Take for instance one of my friends named Sirena, She was born on the exact same day as me but I'm two hours older, me and her have been like BEST friends since 7th grade me her and another girl named Jessica, but this year Sirena kinda just drifted away for mme and Jessica.
I've just been noticing that and JEff also me and him were best friends last year but he just kinda drifted away too. My point is that well I have no point just that I've been noticing this happening...
Well that wasn't entirly emo just kinda down. Anyway well gtg BYE!
News of the day :) And two posts in one week! :O