Electric Lib

Go Ahead, Laugh

Oh, Joshua! I must correct your implication that I'm not suited to complain about bad spelling; it's not all misspellings, just "definitely." And while I'm addressing this portion of my entry to you, if you need someone to say faerrm for you, give me a call, I've still got it.

In other, shallower news, America's Next Top Model ends next week, how exciting. I believe that's all I have to say about that. Now that I've warmed up my writing a bit, I must finish a paper!

Definitely!

Why do people not know how to spell definitely? Of course the only time I really witness this problem is when I'm talking online to friends, but it has yet to make any sense to me. I understand why people might write "omg" or "lol" or "cuz" (even though it looks stupid), but why spell definitely wrong? It's not just wrong, it's horribly wrong. I've seen it spelled "definatly," "definatlly," "definately." I don't think anyone spells definite "definate," so why spell the adverb form of the word wrong? It doesn't shorten the word at all, and in some cases, even lengthens it. I wouldn't mind if it was just a typo, because especially in casual writing, it happens all the time, but that cannot just be a typo. So now that everyone thinks I'm a spaz about spelling, I'll end my entry!

Giving Some Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone enjoyed their meals and everything. I enjoyed mine all day long cause I cooked it! Yep, all by myself. Of course I recieved many tips from the experts along the way (Dad, Mom, Melissa, Hannah) and some turkey assistance from Martha, the birthday girl.

In other news, it finally snowed! Wonderful. Oh wait, even better news, I saw "Rent!" Oh my, it was the best movie ever. I cannot express my love for "Rent" (soundtrack, movie, play) enough, because it's just too amazing for words. So I suggest that you all go see it. Of course the play had to be changed and adapted somewhat for the movie, but they did an amazing job--the whole story was there, almost every song, almost the whole original cast. The woman who played Joanne (who was not a part of the original cast I don't think) was amazing! And her hair looked exactly like Tyler's, just as an interesting fact. And Collins and Angel were fabulous, and Benny and Roger and Mimi and Mark, the whole crew. If you want to understand what I'm talking about, go see the movie. (I do realize that I started two consecutive sentences with "And," but whatever, I'm too full to think--full of the wonderful meal I cooked). Well, a very small piece of pie is calling my name, I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving and long weekend!

DNA

Ooh, things are getting cooler by the second. We've been studying antibiotics and bacteria in biology, which, as I believe I mentioned in a previous entry, can be applied culturally in very interesting ways. Also, my CBL (community based learning) even got tied into it all today. My CBL is basically about cultural differences within this community, which means interviewing people who have moved from foreign countries, working with a student from another country, setting up volunteer work, etc. This project originally stemmed from my interest in race -- a very broad topic. So, my father snipped out an article from the New York Times entitled "Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think," written by Brent Staples. It's a very interesting article (I apologize for not linking to it, but you would have to have an account to read it anyways, so I'm trusting that if you're interested you'll seek it out yourself). The article mentions (and this is how it ties into bio) that you can get a DNA test to identify your ethnicity, which is interesting in a country where it's bound to be very mixed. The author of this article is Black and assumed he had some mix of White and Black, but what he didn't guess was that he had traces of Asian in him as well. My dad explained to me that you can identify races in DNA because of certain patterns found in DNA among people who have lived in a particular area for a long, long time. Sounds fascinating.