The Random Pile in Organismal Classification

"Greek protiston -a meaning the (most) first of all ones, are a diverse group of organisms, comprising those eukaryotes that cannot be classified in any of the other eukaryotic kingdoms as fungi, animals, or plants. They are usually treated as the kingdom Protista or Protoctista."

--Wikipedia

I Miss You

This is a song by Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana, whom I am ashamed to admit I enjoy to a point). It describes how I feel about my dad. I don't do poetry or songs well usually, so I have to borrow from someone else, even a teeny bopper Disney star.


You use to call me your angel
Said I was sent straight down from heaven
You'd hold me close in your arms
I loved the way you felt so strong

I never wanted you to leave
I wanted you to stay here holding me

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha la la la la
I miss you

You use to call me your dreamer
And now I'm living out my dream
Oh, how I wish you could see
Everything that's happening for me

I'm thinking back on the past
It's true that time is flying by too fast

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha la la la la
I miss you

I know you're in a better place, yeah
But I wish that I could see your face
Oh, I know you're where you need to be
Even though it's not here with me

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha la la la la

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha la la la la
I miss you

A Thing That Doesn't Change with Time is a Memory of Younger Days

They say scent is the strongest sense tied to memory. For me, sound more so music, reminds me of the past. Here are some songs and albums that remind me of the past in a good way.

"In the End" - Linkin Park (10th grade)
Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits - Barenaked Ladies (10th grade)
"Liberi Fatali" - Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack
"Beautiful Things" - Andain (summer after eleventh grade)
Fallen - Evanescence (12th grade)
The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper - Michelle Branch
"A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton (10th grade)
Affirmation - Savage Garden (8th grade)
2BA Master - Pokemon (8th grade)
Best of Trance Volume 2 - various (10th grade)
Sarina Paris - Sarina Paris (9th grade)
"Better Off Alone" - Alice Deejay (10th grade)
"Castles in the Sky" - Ian Van Dahl (10th grade)
"Let U Go" - ATB (10th grade)
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Cosmic Gate (10th grade)
Addicted to Music - ATB (12th grade)
Trance Party 3 - various (summer after 11th grade)

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die

"With hands held high into the sky so blue
The ocean opens up to swallow you." - Linkin Park

Sometimes a picture is enough

"And the shadow of the day
Will embrace the world in gray
And the sun will set for you."


I've had this song from Linkin Park stuck in my head the whole day. I thought of the words as I hiked to keep my distracted from the distance, wind, and slope. I really like their new album, even though it is a different style.

I'm tired though and have to work in forty minutes. I smell like some tree, and it's bugging because I don't know what part of me does. Probably my hair because my friend and I crawled through bushes and trees. There were some good fungi samples. Unfortunately, there was also a snake. It looked like the one I came about ten inches from as I crawled over a log earlier. She yelled, and I was afraid to come down from the log. What a long and disappointing day, though.

Peace for now. I'll update later

Love Taught Me

Even if the days when I smiled a lot
Should turn out to be nothing but a lovely dream
That would be alright with me
If that's all it means

My mind's unrest, struggling with me
Recalling the past, who I could be
Gotta rise and be strong
Gotta be tough but not lose the person I am

Two lives I have, one life I live, one life I dream
In dreams I remember the better in me
Vision don't let me down, I'm depending on you
Carry me through when I see reality


--Blue Gender opening theme, English dub

These lyrics fit me so well in high school, and I still think they are powerful, at least to me.

Indescribable

I got an email alert from FanFiction.Net today. Someone added GS Distress II, my second Pokemon fic, to their favorites list. No matter how much I think it sucks and could be revised, someone else liked it enough. I felt humbled, and it feels good to know that some people like your creative outlet and storytelling. It's a welling-up type feeling, the same kind I get when I think about being a teacher. It's almost overwhelming sometimes, especially when I am pleased with my writing or am suddenly motivated either all of over again or even more so.

Despite being broke and having no time for a social life, these things make me so happy I forget about that.

You gotta smile sometimes. Life can be really good to you when you stop feeling sorry for yourself and forget your problems for happier thoughts.

And a side note

I have been studying for my population bio exam tomorrow, and after thinking over everything and reading and rewriting my notes, all I can say is:

I so love biology.

:O)

OMI