It's interesting to me that I'm back. What, as a blogger, do I get from this? I'm essentially airing my dirty laundry for the world to see. For the reader they get the delight of the spectacle, but why do so many bloggers come back, day after day, month after month, year after year? Do they find it catharic?
Maybe, but I'm inclined to think that it's found to be therapudic. The internet is, in many ways, the ultimate listener. You can talk and talk and talk, and know that someone out there is listening. How many people have that in their daily lives? Have we replaced the friendly presence of a friend with the eager anticipation of the audience?
The ratio of listeners and talkers is all messed up. So many people are talking that it's almost impossible to hear what anyone is saying. Whoever's reading, thank you. Thank you for being a listener, and I hope that you have someone to listen to you.

[COLOR=#0F8A7D][SIZE="1"][COLOR=#0F8A7D][SIZE="1"]Man, today has just been a bad day.

I had to wake up this morning after one whole hour of sleep to go to this terrible Landmark Forum thing. It was ten long, long hours of sitting in an uncomfortable chair listening to someone tell me what I think. I spent most of the time there lost in my own internal monologue, because the guy we were supposed to be listening to was intensely boring, narcissistic douchebag and kept on going off on unrelated tangents about the navy. This is possibly the most boring thing I've ever had to do.

These people sit down ~90 teenagers for four hours, only allowing for a 30 second stretch break (literally, we weren't even allowed to walk around), and then have the balls get upset when they start talking to each other? What the hell were you expecting?! This isn't even remotely interesting! And why do we only get two breaks throughout the whole ten hour segment anyway? That's just ridiculous. Better yet, why is a "stretch break" only five seconds long and doesn't allow for any actual stretching?

It is expressly banned for me to do anything but sit and listen to this guy. I'm actually really tempted to bring a sketchbook because I'm sure I could concentrate better on what the hell he was saying if I were doodling. Otherwise I... space out, for lack of better terms.

And I have two more days of this. My grandmother actually paid $400 so I would have to do this. This is... ugh, this is terrible! I even have homework. :\


There is also a fly in my room, and I can't get it out. Oh, and my little bed cover thing needs to be washed but I won't get around to it because I'm already washing my sheet-comforter and my actual comforter. I don't feel like staying awake for this thing to go through the washer too.

Fuck this, I want to go to bed.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR]

Hello to anyone viewing this. This is my first blog, so I don't know how it's supposed to work. I guess... it's like a public diary? I suppose that makes sense, this generation seems to have a need for public viewing for validation. I think that that came from the internet, realizing that we are only a very small part of a very large world after all.
It is not odd to want feelings of validation through public approval, it just seems to have been taken to a whole new level through the internet, as though only now that we realize how much attention is to be gained, we go mad in trying to achieve it. I don't know. Human behavior has baffled many wiser then I, yet we continue to try.

[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]I got new mirrors in my house and I can finally see myself for how I look... xP lol. sounds weird but.. it's true.
I've lost weight a lot this year, but I haven't had these mirrors that would allow me to see my whole body O.o
and you know how the image in mirrors look
different than in photos.

it really boosted my confidence. I felt so sexy and good looking going to the beach today (:
and it produced some nice photos too xP
finally some bikini pics that worked out! [/COLOR][/FONT]

[QUOTE]About Persons

Words
English - Dutch

girl – meid, meisje (last form is used more often, but both are correct)
girls – meiden, meisjes
boy – jongen (or jongeman, which is more formal)
boys - jongens
man – man
men – mannen
woman – vrouw
women – vrouwen
child – kind
children - kinderen
teenager – tiener
teenagers – tieners
teenage – tiener- (adjective, …- means something follows)
adult – volwassene, volwassen (first is noun, second is adjective/adverb)
adults - volwassenen
human – mens, menselijk (first is noun, second adjective/adverb)
humans - mensen
male – man, mannelijk (first is noun, second adjective/adverb)
female – vrouw, vrouwelijk (same as above)
gender - geslacht

Sentences/Phrases

A young female is a girl – Een jonge vrouw is een meisje
A young male is a boy – Een jonge man is een jongen
That teenage girl isn’t a child! – Dat tienermeisje is geen kind!
That teenage boy isn’t an adult! – Die tienerjongen is geen volwassene
These boys are teenagers – Deze jongens zijn tieners
Both girls and women are of the female gender – Zowel meisjes als vrouwen zijn van het vrouwelijke geslacht
Both boys and men are of the male gender – Zowel jongens als mannen zijn van het mannelijke geslacht
Both men and women are human – Zowel mannen als vrouwen zijn menselijk
Both men and women are humans – Zowel mannen als vrouwen zijn mensen [/QUOTE]

[SIZE="3"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]Awesome! I'm getting some words! :)[/COLOR][/SIZE]