"But this time with your mouth open"

This video made me cry buckets.

I'm serious. I don't exaggerate much.

I don't recall ever laughing this much in my life.

My tummy and cheeks are still hurting me.

GRR WHAT AM I DOING?

Back to chemistry!

Oh demons of procrastination please go away.

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'Cause I saved a few and I keep 'em in a jar

So lately I've become a professional insomniac.

If I were to sign up for an insomnia tournament, they'd kick me out and tell me sorry, no professionals.

I think you can tell that I haven't slept in a while because the lameness is running high.

Higher than usual, that is.

Unfortunately for you, I still amuse myself. And that's enough for me.

So here's a music video that gives me a sense of calmness when it's 5:20 am and I'm tired but I can't sleep - like now.

Owl City - Fireflies

*if the vid's not working try refreshing 'n stuff. it's worth it

I would seriously kill to have that room.

I'd never leave. I'd have people bring me food and I'd relieve myself in a bowl.

In any case, so I know my blog's been facing a drought recently. But I've been living, breathing, and possibly eating chemistry.

I miss my friends a lot.

I can't even afford to open Facebook 'cause I'll stay on it for hours. But yes I have tons of evil deadlines to meet so I'm going to remain a hermit until I meet and beat them.

Until next time.

Be good!

What helps you sleep?

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The Worst Keep-in-Toucher

Something very strange is happening to me.

See, I've always been lazy. I don't know if I'm a procrastinator because I'm lazy, or I'm lazy because I'm a procrastinator……
Chicken before the egg or egg before the chicken, whatever - It's all the same.

The chicken is there and the egg is there.

I am lazy and I am a procrastinator.

But as of recently, this laziness has doubled, tripled, and multiplied at the rate of a pregnant rabbit on steroids…
To the point where I've morphed into a hermit.

I have people leaving me wall posts and messages on Facebook, pissed off at me for "never replying."

I have messages on my phone that I've never replied to, and some that I have, but only after a day or two (or three, or four, or five).

I have friends pleading with me to go out, but I never yield to their demands, because I don't feel like going out.
(Although I did go to Bahrain yesterday with my family. I saw the new Harry Potter movie. It was brilliant. But more on that later when more people have seen it and I won't spoil it for everyone).

See, I've been thinking…… (yes I do think; I don't want any of your snide comments, Summer)

I've been thinking:
It would be scarily easy for me to exclude myself from the outer world. All I'd have to do, really, is turn off my phone, deactivate my Facebook, and stop using MSN. And since we moved recently, only one of my friends knows my house number -and she's in London- and only about four people know where my house is.

I've been dubbed the worst Keep-in-Toucher. And although I tried to deny it first, I now know I'm very worthy of this title.

I just suck at this whole techno-world with a million and one ways to keep in touch… It's supposed to make things easier, but it really doesn't, for me. I talk and talk to loads of people; sometimes they beg me to shut up, and then it gets to a point where I'm having dozens of conversations with dozens of different people. Then it all gets so overwhelming, so I retreat into my silent little shell and relax there.

A really good friend of mine left a post on my wall (after I didn't reply to her for ages) saying:
"Am I that invisible???!"

And that really got to me. Because she isn't. And I hate it when people ignore me or take ages to reply to me. So why am I doing it, damn it?


I guess what I'm trying to say is: I'm really sorry, and it's nothing personal, it really is "me and not you." Except this isn't the clichéd break-up line; it's a make-up line, because I'm going to make it up to everyone who's mad at me at the moment.

Do leave a comment and let me know if you are. I know there's plenty of you and I have the memory span of a goldfish. No, shorter, apparently that goldfish myth has been busted and their memory span can last up to three months......



Ok here's where I'll stop rambling on – Not because I want to, but because our neighbor's security alarm system thing has gone off, and it's really really loud. You'd think someone was robbing the White House itself. It's very headache-brewing.

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Demon of Procrastination Rears its Ugly Head Again

This is what happens whenever I try to study math:




Weird.. angel things. Dream Theater lyrics. Dream Theater logo. An eye. My name (twice). Pink Floyd lyrics. An apple. A globe. Piano keys. Some math. And an elephant shaped like a tennis ball, holding a tennis racket. With his trunk.

I wonder what my mom would say if she saw this paper. She tends to analyze whatever I doodle.

For example, I used to draw butterflies a lot. And whenever she saw them she'd to say,
"This means you're longing to be free. Free of what, Danya? Tell me."

Then when I switched to flowers she'd say,
"Ah, so. You have bloomed. Does this mean you're free of whatever was bothering you? I'm glad."
And she leaves the room with a satisfied smile on her face.

As for eyes, I've been drawing them since 4th grade. Apparently they mean:
"Danya, you're feeling like you're constantly being watched. By whom, Danya? Tell me."

She also comments on how I write my name a lot. It means I am a narcissist. I am awed by the fact that she can so artfully balance between calling me a narcissist on some days, then telling me I need to feel more confident on others.

My mother is a weirdo. Like mother, like daughter, I suppose.

I wonder what she'd say if she saw that elephant tennis ball.

List of possible scenarios:

"You have a secret need to whack an elephant with a tennis racket."

"Wow.... This is... This is... deep, man. Real deep."

"Honey, have you been taking something? Are you riding the white pony?"

"This is...... This means..... You............ You're feeling.... This is beyond my area of expertise.... I'm calling a psychiatrist."



Math final tomorrow. Gulp.

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STRANGER!

Omegle is the perfect place to have a good lol. I've recently decided to experiment the same "ice breaker" multiple times to see the different reactions I could get.

Today's ice breaker: STRANGER! Long time no see!

And the results! Drumroll please....



You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


Stranger: hey
You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: yes, that´s me
Stranger: where r u from stranger?
You: Here. There. Everywhere
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
(works like a charm)


You: STRANGER!
Stranger: hi
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: uff
Stranger: not cool
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


You: STRANGER!
Stranger: 23 male
Stranger: u?
You have disconnected.


You: STRANGER
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: yeees
Stranger: not really
You: Yes really.
You: There are plenty of strangers out there.
You: But nobody quite like you.
Stranger: didnt we talk some seconds ago?
You: :( I'm offended......
You: How can you not tell the difference?
You: That stranger was OBVIOUSLY a darker shade of red...
Stranger: haxl
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


Stranger: hello[:
You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: f or m?
You: both
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
(yeh I did not see that coming)


You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: thats me
Stranger: asl
You have disconnected.
(I have asl-bias)


You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see, eh?
Stranger: Lol
(At least one stranger thinks I'm funny!!! Or so I thought....)
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: haha
(THIS ONE DIDN'T DISCONNECT)


Stranger: hey
You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: girl?
You: I don't really know
Your conversational partner has disconnected.


You: STRANGER!
You: Long time no see!
Stranger: dude wtf
Stranger: i just told u ur not cool
Your conversational partner has disconnected.



I'm SO doing that again!!!!!!!!



Alright, back to work now.

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Dragons and Hot Sauce

The rough draft for our final economics project is due tomorrow. It's 10:29 pm and I haven't started it yet. NOT BECAUSE I NEGLECTED IT (Okay, I did, but..) I totally forgot about it. I signed into MSN to tell my friend Fatima all about this Omegle chat I had with a weirdo Lebanese guy, when she said something that caused something very cold to trickle down my spine.... (Fear, I think):
"Dany, did you start your economics project?"


So I'm going to start it now. Cricket :)

I'll leave you with my favorite quote of the day - A statement made by my friend Nawal. I was fully convinced that I was the weirdest person I knew until I met her.

Nawal: "Oh my god the driver got me shawarma from that disgusting plaaaace.... I.. *takes a bite* Oh, no, wait, it actually tastes good. 'Cause like, last time I ate from it, it was SO weird, there was like ketchup and HOT SAUCE and weird stuff all over it.. It was so disgusting I felt like a dragon!"
Danya: "...... Since when do dragons eat hot sauce?"
Nawal: "Noooo, like.... They don't eat hot sauce, they BURP hot sauce."

I love you Nawal. I truly do.


Oh and I couldn't resist posting this:

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

~ Michael Althsuler

'Sif it's that simple.

Be good, do well, take care!

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Six Impossible Things

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had as much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

~Lewis Carroll

Alice Through the Looking-Glass

1- I believe I will win the speech contest on June 12th.

2- I believe I will one day find the cure for Procrastinationvitus.

3- I believe there is a parallel universe where all the lost things go.

4- I believe I am going to be able to juggle between the AP chemistry online course that starts on June 15th and my finals, which start on the 20th (Oh cricket.....)

5- I believe I am 5 again.

6- I believe it's already summer vacation.

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Quote

Because I have no time to write anything at the moment, since I am working on analyzing the rhetorical modes, tropes, and schemes used in JFK's wonderful inaugural speech (which I could have finished during the weekend if I hadn't slept for..... wait, let me calculate.... 9.. plus 12.. plus 5.. plus 5...... oh wow, 31 hours) a quote will do just fine for today:

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

~ Winston Churchill

P.S. Rhetorical devices suck. W11A girls, I know you all empathize.