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During Earth Week my school’s Interact club did several projects, including “a million acts of kindness” competition, a walk/bike/bus/carpool to school day (with prizes!), and a earth day open mic performance at lunch. Another project we dud was the” Dress Matilda” recycling booth. One of our brainstormed ideas was to dress up in garbage bags, or have some sort of fashion/art show with garbage. However, we meet in the drama room, and there is this old mannequin in there. While using garbage bags to make clothing wasn’t particularly earth-friendly, dressing up a mannequin in trash could be. The mannequin, Matilda, was going to be accompanied by a display on recycling, but due to unforeseen circumstances, that recycling display didn’t make it to school.  Matilda was quite popular anyways, she got a fresh paint of green paint, a blue bikini and a lot of attention. I think the message, think about where your trash is going and what it’s doing, is a good one, that stands by itself, without the standard recycling propaganda.

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Wolfram Alpha

This website makes my life so much easier. I bet it will also be a lifesaver in University. If you’re taking any math classes and want an easy way to check answers and see how to get to the solution check it out. That is only part of the website I’ve used, but it appears there’s also a wealth of other information available 🙂

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Spiritual Belief System Selector Quiz

What religion is right for you? A fun little quiz; it’s interesting to see so many conflicting beliefs laid out so neatly. Nothing to be taken too seriously, as it is very simplistic, but kinda neat none the less.

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Barbara Adler’s Website

Yesterday I went to this lady’s workshop. It was fun, and good, but mostly I just liked her, because she was genuine and funny and quirky and nice and real. I think it’s something special to meet a performer who is excellent at what they do who is also relate-able as a human being. Her poetry ranges from humorous to insightful to deep to serious to light, and any combination (plus toss in an accordion). In a way it reminds me of hip hop, and my understanding of Slam poetry has become, poetry with flow, whether rhymes or some other sort of rhythm. And it’s like a current or a wave and it kind of washes over you and even if you don’t absorb it all it has impact, which when it’s good will sweep you away with it, until the words mean something.

Slam Poetry

In a ninja match I would kick butt so hard that you would be found in the yard of someone overseas,

and even they would’ve heard of me,

and you would try and get revenge,

to no end,

but what can you really do against a ninja who is better than you, but try and get by and lie about what happened that day and come up with some hyperbole, about how you didn’t want that ninja to cry so you only pretended to try, in order to let that unfortunate guy build some self esteem,

because you didn’t want to be mean, and seem uncaring about other feelings and fellow human beings because no matter how we seem to be theres still something common about you and me and we’re connected,

even if we’ve we’ve neglected to protect that connection

we’re really all the same with purposes and needs, sowing seeds and buying feed, protecting what’s ours and fighting in wars, living in huts and kicking ninja butt.

Stock Photos

I was just on Goodreads, looking at the ‘best covers of 2010’ when I noticed the following cover was pretty high up on the list.

I found this quite humorous because I have a book called Luna. While my copy doesn’t have the following cover, while looking Luna up online I have seen:

All the subtle changes to do with cropping, colour etc. do little to disguise these books have the same cover picture.