Finally!

This week I had soccer everyday except today (Friday).  Monday was practice, Tuesday was a game, Wednesday was a game and Thursday was practice.

And guess what happened on Wednesday?

We won.

Whoops, I meant to say:

WE WON!  THAT’S RIGHT, WE.  FREAKING. WON!

This was us.
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So...You Should Check Out These Blogs! (Plus a Soccer Update)

I wanted to introduce you all to some new blogs, but I wanted to be creative about it.  Then I got this brilliant idea to incorporate a wonderful website called Wordle that creates what the website has dubbed  “word clouds” using any words one types into the "create" section.  Feel free to try it, as it is free and pretty cool.  To use Wordle in my blog post about other blogs, I made a "word cloud" based on each blog's "tags" or "labels."  This adds a pop of color and some visual interest to an otherwise relatively monotone post.

Enjoy!

Audrey's Blog, Anything You Can Imagine is Real

A Poem to Baffle Your Brain

Nothing quite blog-worthy happened this week.  Although, school has provided me with boatloads of homework which, in turn, has resulted in little sleep these past seven days and lots of stress.  Here I thought fourth quarter was going to be a tad easier.  Well, It looks like I was wrong.  But I’m not here to complain or rant about my problems because life could be worse and I should appreciate what I have.  Besides, I highly doubt you readers of this post would enjoy it.

That being said, I must not suffer alone!  Therefore, I hereby present to you a poem!

What?

Are you not scared?

Does a piece of poetry not frighten you?

What Is Going On With The Weather?

Ahh, mud season.  That time of year when it is too warm to go skiing and too wet to play outside.  For the most part that is.  Right when the grass starts to dry off and the sun provides substantial heat for outdoor activities, the weather turns sour by dumping an inch or two of slushy snow on the ground.  The only thing I think this is good for is increasing the county's water supply.

I realize it's not quite winter, and not quite spring, but really?  I mean this pictures were taken in basically the same spot not twenty-four hours apart.

My Recent Reading List

Lately, I have finally been able to get some fun reading in.  Since winter break, I have finished not one, not two, but THREE books, none of which were required by school.  Oh, and did I mention that the combined number of pages happened to be somewhere around 1,200?!  I take this to be a huge accomplishment because "fun" reading can only really take place after I read my Honors English novel, my AP Human Geography textbook, and occasionally my Honors Bio textbook.  The point is, my fun reading has gone way down this year, which is really unfortunate for me.  Well, here are the three AWESOME books.  I don't know if the sci-fi/fantasy genre is your type, but I would at least take more than a glimpse at them, because you would be really missing out on some great adventures.

Las Vegas, We Meet Again...

As promised, this post discloses the results of the Las Vegas soccer tournament my team went to last weekend.  Well, really it was more of a showcase because we only played three games (and there were no semi-finals and final).  There were also some college coaches too.  Come to think of it, I remember seeing a Westminster College car in the parking lot and my dad thought he saw a Westminster person at one of our games. . . .

Sorry, I was getting a little distracted there. ;)

Joe

Joe was an average Joe who always took time to enjoy a nice, steaming cup of Joe.  He couldn’t bear the thought of (in his opinion) letting one of life’s simple pleasures go to waste.  One of Joe’s favorite places was a quaint coffee shop located a few blocks away from his job.  Joe was also a realist who strongly rebuked theoretical visionaries and avoided creating rapport with quixotic groups whose ideas bore striking differences to his own.  As one can see, Joe truly was an ordinary guy.

Or was he?

There was one strange anomaly that refuted Joe’s normality. For a few weeks every summer, Joe went to live in his bare, unadorned cabin in a sparsely inhabited part of Canada.  It was even rumored that he spent much of his time weaving baskets, whittling wood and whispering to the local bears . . . .

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