and I want to know the difference between what sparkles and what is gold |

NATHAN--(Homer puppet asks for Athena to help him tell the story)
Homer: “Oh, great Athena. Help me to tell the story of the great hero Odysseus’s journey.

Scene switches and Odysseus is in king Alcicones’ courtroom.
SHARLA--Alcicones: tell us all of your adventures
ROSS--Odysseus: ok! Here it goes!

(Scene switches to a sea background and a boat with Odysseus and his men on it.)
APRIL--One of Odysseus’ men: aren’t we supposed to make sacrifices to Poseidon?
ROSS--Odysseus: you can if you want. I don’t want to make sacrifices to that stupid wimpy god Poseidon. He can go stub his little toe on a turtle for all I care. (Poseidon gets mad at him and the narrator states that Poseidon is mad at him throughout the rest of the story.


(Scene switches and a new background is slid in) (Odysseus wakes up on a sea shore)
ROSS--Odysseus: where am I? Oh thank God many of my men are still alive. (Odysseus’s men awaken) Oh good, you’re awake. I want three men, two to explore and one to run back and tell of what they found, to go out and explore the island and find out what its inhabitants are and try to find out where we are. (Three men go out and explore) The runner comes back)
ROSS--Odysseus: what did you find?
RACHEL--Runner: they gave the other two men these leaves and they got all high and stuff and started running from invisible gummy bears and a talking gopher!
ROSS--Odysseus: Get these people out of here! They’ve been puffing the magic lotus leaves! (Odysseus and his men throw a net around the frightened high people who scream and want to stay on the island but Odysseus forces them to come with him and they sail off)

(The puppets get into a boat and sail off and the background changes to sea.) (They end up on the island of the Cyclops and they explore the island and find the cave of the Cyclops)
ROSS--Odysseus: This must be the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus. I want to wait here till he comes home. (They make a fire.) (The Cyclops shows up and everyone scatters off stage.)
ROSS--Odysseus: run!!! [The Cyclops ushers in his ewes (female sheep) into his cave and closes a huge rock over the door. Then he sees Odysseus’ men when he turns around after closing the door.]
APRIL--Polyphemus: Who are you!?
ROSS--Odysseus: I am Zeus’s favorite! So you better let us go!
APRIL--Polyphemus: Nope. I don’t want to let you go. I’m not afraid of Zeus. I’m a big ole mean Cyclops. Where is your boat? I want to smash it and ruin all of your lives over cause I’m big and mean.
ROSS--Odysseus: Poseidon smashed it up on the rocks because he doesn’t like me. (Cyclops puppet doesn’t say anything and just starts mauling Odysseus’ men. Then he just lays down among the sheep and falls asleep. Odysseus moves in to kill him but then says to himself)
ROSS--Odysseus: wait. I can’t kill him. We’ll never be able to move that paper rock out of the way without his help. If I kill him we all die here. (Odysseus waits till morning and a moon goes across the background and then a sun rises up and stays there. The Cyclops wakes up and eats a few more people, then leaves and the sun moves across part of the background. While the sun is moving Odysseus and his men take a big log and start carving it. [This will be done by having his men chop at it with a separate sword thing and then a new log with a point will replace the old one.] Then the Cyclops returns. He brings his entire flock in with him. (About 20 sheep, 10 rams 10 ewes.) Odysseus offers the Cyclops wine.)
ROSS--Odysseus: you want some wine? It’ll calm you after a hard days work.
APRIL--Cyclops: ok! (Odysseus gives Cyclops wine, who then passes out.) Odysseus and his men pull the log that they had carved out of the fire where they had put it earlier and drag it over to the Cyclops. They climb onto his stomach and stab him in the eye. (The Cyclops gets up and runs around blind and screaming and opens the door and lays down in front of it and moves around a little bit. Odysseus and his men hide behind the sheep and sneak out. They all run to their boat and get on and it switches to another boat scene with music and sound effects and narration. Polyphemus is mentioned in the narration about his pleading to Poseidon.)

(Poseidon makes a storm and Odysseus and his men end up on the island of the Circe. Odysseus sends a bunch of his men to go meet her and they have a banquet. During the banquet she turns them all to pigs. A man runs back to Odysseus and tells him of all the things that happened and Hermese gives him a potion that will block Circe’s magic. Odysseus drinks it and gets very high from it but he is partially able to keep his head when he talks to Circe.)
ROSS--Odysseus: (slurred voice) you’re magic stuff won’t work on me. You can’t make me a pig! Now change my men back!
RACHEL--Circe: darn. You’re powerful. I change your men back if you go into the land of the .
ROSS--Odysseus: I don’t need you to tell me what to do! (slurred voice) I’ll do whatever I want whenever I want! Now where is this land of the ?!
RACHEL--Circe: on my island, it’s over there but you have to kill a lamb and bring its into there and give it to the prophet Teiresias. (She points to the land of the porthole. Odysseus kills a random lamb that just happens to be there and then Odysseus walks in and into it and then the background changes and he’s in the land of the .)

(Odysseus goes into the land of the and all the people follow him around trying to get the saying silly things like “blooooood” and “hungry for sooooooouls” Odysseus avoids them. He sees his mom and she talks to him, the whole time she is trying to get at the .
SHARLA--Odysseus’ mother: I killed myself expecting to talk to you in a dream. But I guess this will work just as well. You’re wife has a bunch of idiots running around her house all trying to get married to her so they can have all your stuff.
ROSS--Odysseus: I’m going to kill them all, thanks for he advice. I love you mommy
SHARLA--Odysseus’ mom: I love you too son. Good bye. I’ll be ok here in the land of the . Now give me that !!!
ROSS--Odysseus: good bye (Odysseus runs away from his mom and bumps into the prophet Teiresias who walks in just before.)
ROSS--Odysseus: oh there you are!
APRIL--Teiresias: give me the !!!!
ROSS--Odysseus: ok. (Teiresias drinks the .)
APRIL--Teiresias: your wife has a bunch of idiots trying to take your stuff running around your house. Poseidon s you and he wants to kill you so you have to go through a strait. There you will have to face the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis. You will certainly lose many men and you cannot fight either one of them so just do your best to steer clear of them. Also, do not kill the immortal cows of the sun god Helios. He’ll get really angry and your journey home won’t be good and you’ll lose all your men if you do. You’ll end up on the sun gods island, Thrinakia eventually, by the way. I was going to tell you that before but I got side tracked by visions of those crazy cows. Well thank you for the . Now get going and save that really hot little wife of yours. Growl!
ROSS--Odysseus: stop seeing visions of my wife like that! (Odysseus turns around and faces the crowd.)
ROSS--Odysseus: Hello people! I will go home and sacrifice my best cow to you before she calves! Good bye, thank you for not stealing my ! (The narrator states that Circe changes Odysseus’ men back into humans and tells him that if he should fill all of his men’s ears with beeswax while you are going past the Sirens. If you want you can listen to them, but you will have to make sure that your men tie you down tied because you’ll be really aroused when you hear that song.

(The scene changes and they get on the boat and go through the strait.) (The sirens sing in the background and the boat goes past them and Odysseus screams about how he wants to get to those sirens and then they move on to Charybdis. (The whirlpool effect can easily be done by swirling the puppets and making references to the whirlpool through simple yelling of the puppets.) They make it past Charybdis and move on the Scylla. (The narrator states that Odysseus put on extra armor and took up two spears to try and fight it off and when it comes up it eats six of his men, one for each head. Odysseus is not able to do anything about it. They make it out of the strait and land on the island of the sun god because Odysseus’ men beg him to. While they are there, Zeus makes a storm and traps them on the island. )
ALL BUT ROSS--Odysseus’ men: can we stay? Pleeeeeeaase?
ROSS--Odysseus: ok, but don’t eat the cows.
ROSS--Odysseus: maybe we shouldn’t stay (says this as they’re landing on the island) the clouds seem to be getting pretty dark. (Background switches to a cloudy background.) (Narrator states that they are trapped and are forced to stay there for a long time. They begin to get very hungry. Odysseus makes sure that his men don’t eat the cows. Time passes and the men begin to get desperate. The little food supply that they had depleted and they begin fishing to get food. The fishing was not successful enough and they were still very hungry. One day Odysseus went off to pray to the gods in solitude. While he was praying the gods put him to sleep. His men became very hungry and one of them stepped up.
Eurylochus urged them all to eat the cows because it was better for them to drown at sea than to starve to . So they ate the cows. [People start mauling the cows] Odysseus returns.)
ROSS--Odysseus: noooooo!!!!!! Don’t eat the cows!!!! No!!! We will all perish!!!
ALL BUT ROSS--Odysseus’ men: but these burgers are sooo good! Try one Odysseus.
(Helios was furious and asked Zeus to make them pay)
ross--Odysseus: we must leave this island now!
(So they set sail, soon after they set sail, Zeus destroyed their ship with a thunder bolt. Every man dies but Odysseus because Athena protected him. Odysseus ends up on Calypso’s island.)
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well, i just got home from visiting the relatives for chirstmasit was pretty fun. better than most times, I think mostly because I really don't have much reason to stay here. it was nice to get away for a while, when usually I have lots of things that I would rather be doing around christmas time. The weirdest part about it is that this year I'm doing soooo much more than I do most years.not with my family, that ws about the same as always, less people though. but I've been doing more stuff with other people here in Lake Jackson. I think, I don't like christmas very much the way my family does it. This year didn't even seem like christmas. my grandparent's house is very very brown, and dimly lit, and their christmas tree is white, with white snow flakes on it. it's a fake one, of course. It's not christmas at all, it's more like that one day that kramer made up on sienfeld, with the pole or whatever.and then at my house, we have a tree, that we never got around to decorating htis year, and set up two days before we left, and one dinky little nativity scene in our front yard. No christmas cheer, no early preparation, no color. My sister straitened my hair this morning. it actully looks kinda cool. I didn't like it at first, but it's gained some of it's curl back, but not enough to even make it wavy. it looks nice. and it's soo soft. |

well, i just got home from visiting the relatives for chirstmasit was pretty fun. better than most times, I think mostly because I really don't have much reason to stay here. it was nice to get away for a while, when usually I have lots of things that I would rather be doing around christmas time. The weirdest part about it is that this year I'm doing soooo much more than I do most years.not with my family, that ws about the same as always, less people though. but I've been doing more stuff with other people here in Lake Jackson. I think, I don't like christmas very much the way my family does it. This year didn't even seem like christmas. my grandparent's house is very very brown, and dimly lit, and their christmas tree is white, with white snow flakes on it. it's a fake one, of course. It's not christmas at all, it's more like that one day that kramer made up on sienfeld, with the pole or whatever.and then at my house, we have a tree, that we never got around to decorating htis year, and set up two days before we left, and one dinky little nativity scene in our front yard. No christmas cheer, no early preparation, no color. My sister straitened my hair this morning. it actully looks kinda cool. I didn't like it at first, but it's gained osme of it's curl back, but not enough to even make it wavy. it looks nice. and it's soo soft. |

well, really I don't have anything that I can really put public to say. most everything htat's happening right now really and truly is only for a few people to know, though none of it's bad. there is one thing however that I should probably mention. I'm leaving tomorrow for christmas to visit relatives and what not and will be back saturday night. my blog is failing. I believe I've lost interest in it. probably because I'm horrible when it comes to talking about myself in an interesting way. One of these days I'm going to make that list over there bigger. |

I watched Requiem For a Dream tonight. That's about all I have to say. |

ok, so the return of the king was a dissapointment, but still a really entertaining film. I still like the first one the most. I finished drivers ed today. I still have to get 2 more driving times, but I never have to go to the class agian, so I'm almost completely through. Thank God! I d that class. I'd like the thank Ben Ziegler for the use of his PS2 for a while. I want something interesting to rant about. ok, so my mom wants me to cut my hair. She pesters me about it constantly. I refuse to, obviously, but she wants me to cut it. and, I think I probably would have, but Bellami always said she's be really upset if I cut my hair, or even straitend it. So it stays as long as I can possibly get it, and as curly as it decides to be. all right, so I seem to only be able to find s that are 2 or 3 years younger than me that are attracted to me.I'm not sure what to think of that, and because of my unsureness I have decided to ignore it for a while.it's a very weird situation. all I can say about it is, I was born in the wrong year. |

“Warmer”

though the walls are so thin
and they don't keep out the cold
I'm warm here with you,
together we'll grow old
though the stars in the sky are as hot as they are
I'm warmer with you
because they are so far
and when time freezes when you're around
I feel your love surround
every where I am
everywhere I go
you're here with me
when I walk through the snow
on a cold winter day
and my coat is too thin
I'm warmer knowing that you’re here beside me
Knowing that you care about me
Knowing that you love me
Feeling your love surround me
And the grace that you give me
When I make my mistakes
and when we spend our days
skipping rocks on the lakes
I’m warm here with my memories of you
Though the walls are breaking down
And the snow fills the room
I’m warm here with you
Though I know your not there
And I miss you so much
The smell of your hair
The gleam of your eyes
The sound of your voice
It’s been so long since I’ve heard the noise
Of you rolling over asleep in the bed
Nothing seems easy now that you’re
I miss you so much and I’ll see you some day
When I walk through the gates
and all the people will say
he loved her, he did more than anything else
and he’s warmer with her than he would be in hell
though his turned to ice
and he suffocated in snow
he was warm… just thinking of her.


“flickering Ice”

I can’t reach you, I can’t touch you
I see you, alone, quiet, covered in snow
Your cheeks childish red, your teeth chattering

It seems fitting that your eyes are blue
When I look into them I can’t see you
I see ice, eclipsing the sun
I see fire flickering to the beat of a drum
I see tears, salt filled, yet pure
I remember the day that we spent on the shore

But I can’t be with you
I can’t touch you, I can’t hear you

I see you, locked in a book.
I avert my eyes and you steal a glance.
But you still won’t give me a second chance.


“in the morning”

In the morning when the grass is damp
And the air is cool, even in the summer time
Hold me close until the sun breaks the sky apart
And the clouds spill their golden across the tops of the trees
And we’ll be together, for days and days and years and years
Stay awake with me, until the moon brightens into a star
And the clouds blush in the sky and the birds cry out their Miserere
And we’ll be together, for years and year, and lifetimes and lifetimes


“Frostbitten Garden”

Walking through the snow
Tears freezing on my cheeks
Stepping through a frostbitten garden of roses
Hearing you cry behind me only sends me on further
It must have been a dream to be so close to you
You never liked me like I wanted you to
You never held affection for me
My cheeks are covered in waterfalls of ice
The snow collects on my shoulder and in my hair
The wind takes my breath away
But I can’t turn around
I can’t go back to the warmth
I can’t go back and try to make you feel warm
Though I know you must be freezing
I think you were frozen before I got there
Maybe not on the outside. On the inside


“Clarity of Raindrops”

The blue contrails blend with the sky and open up a world of moments
I look away for just a moment to find you sitting on your bed
Looking through your window like I’ve done so many times before
You don’t know I’m here, but I don’t mean to harm you
I just love you more than you know I do
And you me, you’re afraid of me, of the way I am

The raindrops splash in the puddles scattered around the street
The raindrops mix with the tears on my face
I scream your name out to your window though I know you’re not home
I know you want me to, but I can’t make myself leave you alone
Even when I freak you out, you’re nice to me. You’re so sweet

The snow falls in the frozen puddles scattered around the street
I think I’ll say my first words to you today
Maybe then you’ll know who I am, maybe I’ll have a chance
I ring your doorbell and introduce my self to your mom
She calls you and you walk to me, running at second glance
You wrap your arms around my snow covered neck
You kiss my chapped and frozen lips

The raindrops crash upon the windows and make the most pleasant sound
You rock in your chair by the fire humming a song we’ve heard a thousand times
I sit at the table looking out the window watching the raindrops splash
In the puddles scattered around the streets
I ask you why you ever loved me and all you had to say was
“I sat outside your window so many days wishing to meet you
But I was always too afraid that you would me
I thought I would scare you if I ever said hello because you didn’t know who I was

Our children run in circles in the yard while the rain falls on their shoes
I turn to you and smile knowing that I’m the luckiest person alive
There’s nothing on this earth that from you I would deprive

I watch you fall asleep knowing that you’ll never wake up again
The rain splashes on my hairless head and runs its course through the winkles in my face
Down to the ground to be washed away in the gutter
I don’t want to be without you, but it’s not my choice


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once again in moultimedia. I have sooo much free time, enjoy your wonderful day. good bye. |

all right, so my book for english isn't fiction and it's supposed to be. I thought it was at first. stupid undescriptive books. I can pull it off as being fiction though because it holds the style of a fiction book. It's rather farfetched and incredible. "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton. I think a lot of it he just made up anyway. So I'll get away with it. It's interesting. |

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat? says:
my aunt is sleeping on the couch with the tv on in the living room

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat? says:
I keep ly waking her up, and every time I do she asks if I want some food

why am I such a misfit? says:
lol

why am I such a misfit? says:
I love her |

I have decided that the third day of every third week of every six weeks is going to be a bad oyster day, and that after second period, everyone is going to leave school proclaiming to be sick. we will then take the day off to enjoy ourselves.because we stayed for second period and what not, they can't make us make up the day at the end of the year, and if we get enough people to go along with it, then the teachers probably won't give us much make up work because everyone will be gone. we'll just blame it on the school food or something. we might even get on the news. and then they'll get onto our school for serving us bad food, for leaving out the meat for too long or something, and they might improve the school food a bit, and then about the fourth or fifth time that we did it, they would become extremely suspicious, especially since they happen systemmatically, but even if it only worked two or three times, it would totally worth it. I need a list of who's with me, and I need you all to help. I'm serious about this. we could pull it off easily if we had enough people in on it and willing to go through with it. parents won't be a problem if we just blame it on the school food. or any of the millions of other excuses we could use. who knows what ways we might get on the news. |

Well, here I am in moultimedia. I was the first in my class to finish my project and I made a perfect grade on it. Now we're watching someone elses from her A1 class right before us. The room is dark, and everyone is still working. I'm somewhat paying attention to it. brb. bart mooning us is on it. schooool innapropriate. It was pretty good. I like mine better, his has stupid music and most of the animations are pretty dumb. but it was well done. I think I need to do a test review or something. have a great day everyone. bye. |

I had a 100 in Spanish. no I think I have a 90 or something because I forgot one stupid word. that's sickening. I remember everything else, but one stupid word on the only test of the six weeks brings my grade down 10 points. what on earth is wrong with them? it's the same thing in IPC. I have a 91 instead of a 96 because I screwed up on one stupid thing on one assignment and got a 35 on it. That's the reason I don't make above 97s on everything. I was feeling really sick today. That always happens, I have one or two, sometimes three bad days where I have a headache or something and I screw up on everything and I can't focus. A good grade doesn't bring up your work much, but a bad grade brings it down a whole lot. And teachers don't comprimise. poor Talley had her brother wreck her car. that really sucks. and I hope Russell is all right. He was also in a car wreck (Womack, not Watson. If Russell Watson was in a car wreck he probably almost definately deserved it cause he was drunk or high or something along those lines.) Congrats to Belle, Kat, and Zach on their awards at the tournament. I may not have won anything, but I did get payed 5 dollars by the school which I have yet to use. So I'm pretty happy. and it was a lot of fun. And I made it to Semis with I and Amy's two day rehearsed, unmemorized duet. I think I have a 100 in geometry, or another 98, which wouldn't be too bad. But it would be neat to make a 100 in that class at least once this year. it's so freaking easy, it's just one or two problems. I think I missed one problem on the test we just took, so that'll bring it down to a 98 or a 99. not too bad. I can't wait till christmas break. I really can't. I'm gonna see how many days I can manage missing school on, which is unfortunately 0 because every day I'm getting last minute stuff for exams. how depressing, but then, everyone's going through the same thing as I am and my problems and complaints aren't particularly special.

Today is my mother's birthday. She got lots of chocolate. I love my mom. I really do. She's really wonderful. Happy birthday to her! I hope you are all having a great december the 8th! good bye! |

muffin films

enjoy!

well, I got my 80 day certificate today, but since it's only good for 3 days, and I can't take the test untill tuesday, I have to get another one. stupid school. Thanks be to Sarah and Seth for giving me and Amy their duet. I'm gonna try and memorize it enouh to improvize through it and keep the same general outlook. that should take me maybe 30 minutes. lol. well anyway, I want to go to sleep early tonight. I will. |

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well, today I returned to school after being absent two A days lat week. I had no make-up work other than a lab in IPC. why do i even go to school? we seriously don't do anything. well anyway, I arrived to second period and was handed back my gradesheet for my multimedia (A2) slideshow powerpoint project over my favorite holidays. Apparently she liked it a whole lot. She used it as an example of what a good slideshow should be like and showed the whole class. And, she gave me a 75...grrr...Luckily she lets us turn pretty much anything back in with the corrections made and we get full credit, so I turned it back in and will most likely get a 100. I had problems with my buttons because the borders and text boxes covered them sometimes, and my slides scrolled through automatically. well anyway, after that I went to third period. The teacher didn't show up for a long time, and it was almost time for me to leave because I didn't plan to wait more than 15 minutes without a teacher, and just before the 15 minues after the bell rang, she showed up. it was dissapointing, but nice while she was gone. then it was on to fourth period. Halfway through the period, miss Soledade arrived at the door and asked for me to come see her after class. Apparently she came as quick as she could. After school I meandered over to upstairs C wing. Then I realized that her class is in upstairs A wing, which was where I started, and I meandered over there. I arrived at her class and entered the door not knowing what to expect. She informed me that I was the only one in my class so far that she had graded that made a 4 on the long essay for the taks test. i was rather shocked, considering that I had mostly just rambled in it about random things that popped into my head and I expected a 2 because I really didn't try on it at all, and I never checked over it. ok. so I looked for my puppet show of the oddyssey today, but my parents probably recordded over it. oh how much they care. it was relaly good too. enjoy the blog. sorry that my posts are terrible. thank you so much Sara for taking me to driver's ed today and yesterday. Anique, I'm really sorry. you're the coolest. |

I had typed up half a post about thespian fest. but it dissapeard randomly when i right clicked on it trying to copy it. so I give up. no thespian festival post. read Jenny's blog. she did a good job with it. today was proclaimed trenchcoat day by some group chat that I was in. so this morning I arrived at school to find 4 people other than myself cloaked in a trench coat. it was nice, and mine was the worst of the bunch. I need to get a better one somehow. well anyway, I saw master and commander with Anique. it was really really good. It never went down to the level of common people to drag in money. I was impressed. I wish there were more films of its quality more often. well anyway. I'm trying to find a way to go to school but not actually do anything. some way to get out of it and still make good grades. what I need is a robot to do my work. but since I don't have one. I think I'll just search and search some more for a way out. There has to be one, it's just that no one's found it yet. well, I'll find it, and you'll all be shocked. I think, actually, I'm just going to see if I can talk all my teachers into letting me do my school work outside. |