John McCain Update

John McCain has won Florida. Here is a link to tell you all about it.

Best Names

Ok, I know this is random and a bit strange, but I decided to make a list of the best names I've ever come across in tv, books, and everything else. I figured it was a little light hearted and not so serious, and just a good idea. It's an interesting list and I'm up for suggestions. If you know one you think should be on there tell me about it.

1. Invisigoth- The X-Files
2. Optimus Prime- Transformers
3. Edgler Forman Vess- Dean Koontz's Intensity
4. Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs (book and movie)
5. Keyser Soze- The Usual Suspects
6. Draco Malfoy- J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
7. Bellatrix Lestrange- J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
8. Inigo Montoya- The Princess Bride
9. Lex Luthor- Superman
10. Sirius Black- J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
11. Luna Lovegood- J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
12. Fox Mulder- The X-Files
13. Kobayashi- The Usual Suspects
14. Aslan-The Chronicles of Narnia
15. Jack Sparrow- Pirates of the Caribbean
16. Cutler Beckett- Pirates of the Caribbean
17. Helena Bonham Carter- Actress
18. Edward Scissorhands-Edward Scissorhands
19. Humphrey Bogart- Actor
20. Lord Voldemort- J.K Rowling's Harry Potter Series
21. Han Solo- Star Wars
22. Artemis- Greek Mythology
23. Calypso- Greek Mythology
25. Ichabod Crane- Sleepy Hollow
26. Agamemnon- Greek Mythology/History/Literature
27. Cymbeline- Shakespearean Play
28. Commissioner Gordon- Batman
29. Rogue- X-Men
30. Christabel- Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
31. Juno MacGuff- Juno
32. Vincent Price- Actor
33. William Wilberforce- Historical Figure (Amazing Grace)
34. Sir Winston Churchill- Former British Prime Minister
35. Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Former President of the US
36. Cornelius Fudge- JK Rowling's Harry Potter Series
37. Scooby Doo- Cartoon Character
38. Balthazar Getty- Actor
39. Moon Bloodgood- Actress
40. Conan O'Brien- Talk Show Host

Change His Stars

Heath Ledger passed away today at the young age of 28. Different people are going to remember him different ways. He's always going to be William Thatcher from A Knight's Tale to me. May he rest in peace.

"Well perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces." ~William Thatcher, A Knight's Tale

John McCain Update

John McCain has won South Carolina. Click here to learn more about it.

John McCain Update

Well, McCain lost in Michigan to Mitt Romney, but that's ok. There's still South Carolina. Here's a link to tell you more about it.

Be Back Soon

I return to school today so the posts will be slowing down. I'll still keep you updated, just not as much.

A Rundown

A lot has happened in the past few days. I found out just how uncomfortable my parents, my father in particularly, are about the prospect of me moving to Boston. It looks like I'm going to have to put the breaks on my plan. I'm not giving up moving into the city all together, in fact I'm giving up at all. Instead I came back with a counter offer of Chicago. It's in the midwest, it's closer than Boston, and it's cheaper because it's not on the East Coast. My dad didn't have a "meltdown" so that's looking like more of a possibility. I'm still going to live in Boston, and I assured my mom that I wasn't settling for something I didn't want. Although Boston in undoubtedly my favorite city do to it's history along with a few other things, Chicago has always been in the back of my mind. It's a city far enough away to where I doubt I'll know anyone, but it's close enough so if something happens my parents can get to me. It's strange how things work out, but I just can't move to a city so expensive and so far away, not with the way it makes my parents feel. I've never been that selfish. So I'm going to file the dream of living in Boston away, and it will happen when it's meant to. I know where I'm supposed to be and I'll get there one day, just not right now. So until then there's another great city, Chicago. I'm going to explore the possibilities with that.

I Need An Easy Button

I go back to school on Sunday, my long winter break will finally be over. On Monday I start my new classes, and I will call Boston because their break ends then too. I can't help but be nervous that it won't work out. I really, really want it to and I hope everyday that it's not just some hopeless pipe dream that I have. I want bigger, not necessarily better, things that I can't get where I'm at. I know where I belong and I never imagined that it would be so hard just getting there. All I want to to is move to another state, not the moon, it shouldn't be this difficult. I can honestly say that I don't want for a lot, but this, in spite of my Three Wishes post, is something I want more than anything else. I just want to live in Boston, I don't think that's a lot to ask for but evidently I'm very wrong. I'm just flat sick of imagining what it will be like to live there. I just worry all the time, even though I KNOW that's where I'm supposed to be. I wish I had a Staples easy button.

John McCain Update

Ok, I'm going to try not to get too excited but, John McCain has won the New Hampshire primary for the GOP with 37%. Also in a shocking comeback Hilary Clinton beat out Barack Obama for the Democrats. Here's a link to tell you all about it.

Three Wishes

If you were out walking in the woods one day and tripped over a lamp to find that a genie called it home, what would you wish for when it popped out and said it would grant you the three things you desire the most? Would you wish for material things? Physical perfection? True love? Or even the stereotypical "world peace"? Would you know immediately what to ask for or would you have to think about it for a few days? After you wished for it do you think you regret it? Do you think that you would anger the genie by wishing for the only wish that is off limits, more wishes? I suppose that seems like a lot of questions to answer, but in reality it's just one; if you had three wishes what would you wish for? I often mull this over in my mind. If I had the opportunity to wish for anything I wanted three times I really have no idea what I would wish for. Every time I think I do I weigh the pros and cons and think of what could go wrong. Genies are always portrayed as tricksters that take wishes literally instead of what they know you really mean. Like the episode of The X-Files that I saw where Mulder wished for, you guessed it, world peace and the Gen got rid of every human on the planet except for him because that is the only way it would be possible. The wish that I always go back to is bringing my grandma back to life. Having her back is the thing that I want the most, but I wonder what would happen if I tinkered with fate like that. I wonder if she would even want to come back to earth after being in a place like heaven. I don't know if I could be so selfish as to take her out of paradise because I miss her so much I can't stand it sometimes. There are also times where I think I'll wish to be successful, to be the best FBI agent or writer that ever existed, then I realize that defeats the purpose of living. If you already know you're going to be the best what is the point of even trying? The third and final thing that I think I'd wish for is love. The kind of love you see fictionalized and get mad at because you don't think it's real, that it's really false advertising. That's no good either. Love isn't something to wish for, it's something that happens on it's own that no one has the ability to control, except maybe Aphrodite but I don't think she's very good at it either. Love is a spontaneous emotion that just is and therefore can't be wished because then it's pointless, and you'll have to wonder your entire life, "If it wasn't for the wish would this person still love me?" I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I ever just so happened to come across a Genie (or Gen) I wouldn't wish for anything. I think that's their purpose, to teach people that they shouldn't want for anything. That life is about not knowing and having to work for what we want the most, and that sometimes the things we covet are the things we're not supposed to have. If you already know the lesson then you're going to save yourself a lot of agony. Then again, maybe I'm wrong, who knows? I guess we'll all just have to wait for someone to find themselves a Genie.

John McCain Update

He is leading the GOP polls and the only thing in his way is Obama. I'm praying harder than I've ever prayed in my life that the people in New Hampshire know true presidential material when they see it. Here is a video on the poll results as of now. I'm working hard to spread the word in my corner of the world Senator, good luck!

New Ending

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."~ Maria Robinson

A Sound Of Thunder

So it's 6:30 (that's a.m by the way) and I have yet to go to sleep. I've been lying in bed wondering, of all the things to wonder about, what would life be like in "my" house had I never been born? On a smaller level, I know that would make Joey the oldest and Chase would still be the youngest, but not 3rd in the order. I know that would mean that Joey had the biggest room in the house and more responsibility. I also know that they would be really bored with no big sister to pick on. Going deeper, I wonder if my family would live in the same house, or even the same town had I never been born. The first year of my life I lived in two totally different places. It was the arrival of my brother and the fact that we were growing up that caused my parents to move out of the city into the country. I wonder if they would feel like something was missing in their lives or if they would feel like everything is whole, that nothing is gone. On an even bigger level I guess that would also mean that the world would be different as well. No, I'm not arrogant nor do I think I'm this epic human being (yet, haha), but I believe the non-arrival of someone would make a difference, be it big or small, there would be one. Like in A Sound of Thunder when the butterfly dies and it alters the course of history and the world forever. Something as small as a butterfly changed everything. I guess my insomnia riddled mind is over-worked but it made sense in my head, whether it does or not on this screen is another matter. But I guess it's something to think on; what would your own small world and the world at large be like with out your presence in it? Do you think it would be better, worse or indifferent? I personally don't know what it would be like, and I never want to find out.

Mockingbird

Sometimes when the wind picks up
And scatters the dust off the ground
I think I can hear the sound
Of the truth, the way it’s meant to be
The way that Atticus told me
But the music comes and goes
And leaves me all alone
It’s been so long since I’ve heard
It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

The leaves tumble by
The trees stand in their beautiful lie
You would never know the secrets they keep
It’s just enough to fool the weak
I can’t help but to realize, to see
How things pretend to be happy
We’ve all grown older now
But still the same
I don’t want to know how
To play this game

Sometimes when the wind picks up
And scatters the dust off the ground
I think I can hear the sound
Of the truth, the way it’s meant to be
The way that Atticus told me
But the music comes and goes
And leaves me all alone
It’s been so long since I’ve heard
It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

Sometimes it takes a child’s mind
To make you realize how far you are behind
Lesson heard but never learned
An entire town gets burned
Foolish girl you tell a lie
I dare you to say it to the sky
And when justice comes
And you know it will
Are you going to be lying still

Sometimes when the wind picks up
And scatters the dust off the ground
I think I can hear the sound
Of the truth, the way it’s meant to be
The way that Atticus told me
But the music comes and goes
And leaves me all alone
It’s been so long since I’ve heard
It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

It’s been so long since I’ve heard
It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird

Copyright © 2008 by Nicci

All of my poems/songs are really copyrighted so DO NOT steal them I will find you.

Lately

Well, I made it through finals obviously with my 3.6 GPA intact. I now have about a week left until I go back to start my fourth semester of college. I need to call Boston and see what's going on with that. Hopefully everything will work out and I can stop harping on it and just be there. If I do I will start posting mass amounts of pictures on this blog and probably will anyway. I'm supposed to be getting a digital camera so you've been warned. I really want to live in Boston, I'm ready for the city and ready to get out on my own for real. I'm not even worried about being able to make it, at least I have the courage to do it, that's how I'm looking at it. I know where I belong...anyway, there I go harping on it again. Obsessions are never healthy, unless they're with vegetables. I'm still not sleeping and that's something I'm going to have to work on because it's really starting to catch up with me. One of my friends asked me, "How do you even function?" my answer, "Sheer willpower." Ha. I actually have four book ideas bouncing around inside my head and I'm making progress despite a couple instances of writers block. I hope to get published, it would be amazing to see New York Times Bestseller on top of something I wrote, but I suppose I'm getting a little ahead of myself considering I'm just hoping I can even finish them. Hopefully I can. I've even told friends instead of keeping it to myself so they can ask me about it and I can't just put it away and forget about it. My next semester isn't as crazy as this past one so I should have so time to do the things that I enjoy like my blog and my writing.

P.S I will have more poems/songs posted shortly. I've copyrighted them I just have to post them :]

Foamy

According to my friends, I have Foamy rants. This isn't a rant per say but it's funny none the less. Even if the British squirrel calls us "Yanks" and says we all have pill popping problems, which isn't true, but haha anyway.

Happy New Year!!!

2008? I'm still stuck in 2004.

Anyway my New Year's Resolutions and plans in no particular order:

1. Finish book(s)
2. Compile my poetry
3. Keep up my GPA
4. Get John McCain elected President
5. Sleep!
6. Move to Boston
7. Banish Stress
8. Study abroad in Ireland
9. Visit Grammie
10. Save more money

Here's to looking at 2008, may everyone's resolutions come true.