Forensics

so, today was my first forensics tournament....yay....and it was fun...i do something called extemperaneous speaking, which basically means they give me a political topic, then give me thirty minutes to prepare a speech...then i have to give a seven minute speech without any notes....so that's fun....but anyway, at a tournament you do three rounds, which means i had to do the above process three times....then you eat lunch...then they put a poster up telling you whether you made it to finals or not (top 6)....if you go to finals, then you have to do it one more time.....so anyway, i made finals and was pretty happy about that....since i had only extemped one time before and that wasn't a tournament....i got fifth and got a pretty fancy medal...so yeah...cool

What an accomplishment

Yay....intern adam is gone

so, apparently, this guy on the radio here in nashville, intern adam, who is annoying and just ruins the whole morning show for that radio station...But anyway, he leaked Britney Spears' new single, "Womanizer", and she is not terribly excited about it....according to the radio station's website, it says that we can figure out what happened by reading the blogs, but all they will say is that he will not be appearing on the Woody and Jim morning show anymore.......yay nashville...

Britney is making her comeback....

Hello...we've known since season 2 of American Idol

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After years of dodging questions, former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken will acknowledge he is a gay man in an interview with People magazine set to run on its Web site Wednesday, according to media reports.

Celebrity site Perezhilton.com on Tuesday published a photo of the cover of People magazine's upcoming issue on which Aiken cradles his new son, Parker Foster Aiken, in his arms.

The caption reads "Yes, I'm Gay," and underneath is a quote from Aiken on his decision to come out of the closet that says: "I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things."

In August this year, Aiken's friend, music producer Jaymes Foster, gave birth to the baby fathered by Aiken.

A spokeswoman for People would neither confirm nor deny that Aiken told the magazine he is gay. But the magazine issued a statement saying, "We can confirm that Clay Aiken and his son appear on the next cover of People. For the complete story, visit people.com at 7 a.m. (EDT Wednesday) (1100 GMT) morning."

Aiken, 29, gained fame as a contestant on the No. 1-rated U.S. TV talent show "American Idol" in 2003. He was the runner-up that season but went on to build a solid singing career on his own. He currently appears on Broadway in "Monty Python's SPAMALOT."

For years, Aiken has dodged questions about whether he is homosexual despite persistent rumors on the subject. He has said, generally, that his sexuality was nobody's business but his own.

In 2006, ABC television's Diane Sawyer asked Aiken and he shot back that it was a "really rude" question. He also dodged it in a previous interview with People magazine saying that readers "are going to believe what they want."

Great Start to the Day

So, i woke up this morning and i was doing fine. Then i went to the kitchen to make some cereal...i put some corn chex in the bowl, put milk in it, then i noticed the sugar dispenser thing was empty...so i filled it with sugar...well, apparently (as i found out the hard way) i didn't put the lid all the way back on the sugar dispenser...so i had a full thing of sugar on my cereal....grrr

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Tonight

So tonight Nicole and I are gonna be the only two at home....cause my mom is going to be working and my dad and Erin are going to WWE Smackdown....so we aren't exactly sure what we're going to do....we know that we will watch the Big Brother Finale but i'm not sure what we want to eat...we wanted to eat at the chinese buffet but it makes us sick and they don't post their health scores....but online says their score is 77........yuck....so while i was looking at health scores online, i decided to see what the worst score in Tennessee is...i think it goes to a place called Yanni's Grecian Garden in nashville which got a 49......mmmmm food poisoning

In Case You Missed It......

No Country For Old Men

So, between yesterday night and today, i've watched No Country For Old Men two and a half times. It won the Oscar for Best Picture last year and it is really good...i saw it yesterday and today because i was taking advantage of the Starz preview weekend....but anyway, it is good but it is very very very confusing. But anyway...i'll probably watch it again soon to understand it more, but i'm still trying to grasp it right now....but anyway, i would very strongly recommend it....

so now i'm even less sure what is Tommy Lee Jones' best movie....to me, it's between JFK, Double Jeopardy, The Fugitive, and No Country For Old Men....

Notice i left Men In Black out of those four....you know why?...Cause it sucks....

ha ha ha

this made me laugh a lot...it also made me think of the movie Baby Mama, which was pretty much hilarious.....i saw it in may and i still can't get over one of the scenes...

this is my favorite but watch all the other ones too....because they're also funny

Post-Seminar

So, the other day we had a seminar (thing we do at our school) about whether or not America was number 1. I was like ch-yes....but anyway, so after a seminar, we have Post-Seminars, which are basically essays we have to write about a question the teacher asks that relates to the seminar. So today me and another kid in class didn't have them (i forgot) so we decided to ask the teacher if we could do a skit instead of an essay. So she said ok and we got up in front of the class and improved a skit that wasn't half bad. The only bad part was that after the skit, the teacher asked for a script of it...so we wrote out what we remembered from it and turned it in. And i think we got a hundred.....yay for improv skits!

CD

so the other day we got the Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits Vol. 2 in the mail....we bought it from amazon because it was only twelve dollars there (some guy buys it, copies it, and sells it online, basically) as opposed to 22 dollars everywhere else......well, so far out of five stars i would give it about a two......it is not good.....there first greatest hits had all their really good songs (i would give that a five out of five) but their second one is more aimed at their beginnings, the rock stuff that doesn't sound very good.....grrr....but i still love the goo goo dolls

A life you don't live is still lost- The Goo Goo Dolls-"Before it's Too Late"

Have You Forgotten- Daryl Worley

I hear people saying we don't need this war
But, I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden
Have you forgotten?They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
Well, after 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And we vowed to get the one’s behind bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember
Just what they're fighting for
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yeah, some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about bin LadenHave you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?

Break

k....i guess i took a brief hiatus from the blogging world.....but i'm back......just so you know....so, in the last few weeks i've just been doing lots of school work and stuff....

o yeah....barack obama has fallen in the polls, too........

McCain 2008