Claire

[FONT=Arial]"Dat is da pimpin'-est piece a' blingety bling that I done eva seen a white man with!"[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I've done it again. This one doesn't really have a title yet, either, but I'm currently trying to record it (it's an actual song and not just a po'me). -------- [b]Five Gold Pieces[/b] Woods are for people who think they know What they want I don't belong there Taking a bow with a neckline that swallows Everything What a wonderful thing Wonderful thing Taking it's toll under the spotlight Vibrantly tonight Waking from dreams under the blacklight Ironically bright Simple little things deserve such gloria I've never known such sweet euphoria I'll never forget you I want to go back, I love you Bridges are meant to be built so they Can be crossed Mine is unstable Time is quickly passing to my own Failed protest Be kind, rewind Rewind Taking it's toll under the spotlight Vibrantly tonight Waking from dreams under the blacklight Ironically bright Simple little things deserve such gloria I've never known such sweet euphoria I'll never forget you I want to go back, I love you I want to go back, I love Are we those people who'll never part? I don't know I won't forget you Please be with me, on my own Just as ghosts I love you so I love you all ----------- It sounds much better in an audio format, trust me. =) Hopefully I can get it done by tonight so I can put it on my band's myspace, and you all can listen (if you really want to, but a word of warning: my voice sounds TERRIBLE).[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]"We're metal, touching metal. Lawalalwlalalolol!"[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I didn't think I'd participate in this, because I'm not very social and I don't seem to have attracted any people as friends. However, I thought of a few things that needed nominating (whether they've all ready been nominated or not) and decided to nominate them (maybe again). [b]Retribution[/b] He seems like a very caring, deep person, who is willing to stand up for moral rights (look at his current avatar and signature). On top of that, he's pretty good at Photoshop. =) [b]Nomad Tical[/b] He's trying very hard to comment and critique every poem or story that is posted in the OB Anthology, which I respect. It's not easy, at least for me, to speak one's mind about a poem or whatever that a stranger has written - if it's not that great, and you think so, then you run the risk of hurting someones feelings (depending on how well they take criticism). It's also very nice to know that my thread has a pretty good chance of not dying as long as Nomad continues to comment on my poems. And on that note... [b]OB Anthology[/b] I've received some very self-esteem boosting comments on things I've written and posted there, even though I might've thought that whatever I wrote was crap. It's also amazing to read all the other poems and stories that are posted there, and aspire to gain a cult following like some of the creative pieces. It's almost like internet TV. [b]OtakuBoards in General[/b] I might've spent close to twelve hours here in the past two days, if not more. Enough said. But regardless, I'll continue: most of the members here are very intelligent and opinionated. Some aren't very nice, but that doesn't mean I want to be their enemy (it probably really means I want to be as far from their enemy as possible). A lot of the threads can really inspire me, or at least wake up my thought train from whatever bridge it stopped on. [b]The Mods and Admin[/b] If not for the hard work they do to keep the OB an intelligent, legible place, then because I'd feel very guilty that I didn't nominate them (ever'ones doing it, lawlz). [COLOR=Green] [b][URL=http://otakuboards.com/showpost.php?p=706482&postcount=6]This[/color][/URL] Friendly Mockery by Drix D'Zanth[/b] I just found it hilarious, if for no other reason. XD. [COLOR=Green] [b][URL=http://otakuboards.com/showthread.php?t=51462]O RLY?[/URL][/b][/COLOR] Again, simply because it supplied me with some laughs. [b]The Dance Dance Revolution thread[/b] Anything that inspires me to get off my butt and exercise in the best way there is, is definitely nifty. [b]Who's Online[/b] I just recently discovered it (haha, I'm dense or something) and the only way to describe it is "nifty." Or "neato," but this isn't the Neato Fifty. It doesn't rhyme. It makes me go "OMGZZZZZ!!!!111 someone is looking at my thread. Yay." [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]My problem with lying is that I'm not good at it. Maybe I'm just afraid that my oh so Ameliaish paper will turn into those overly annoying "My favorite food is ice cream for these three reasons...first...second...third...in conclusion, that is why ice cream is my favorite food." I never use transition words, which my mother claims is very important to getting a high grade on a paper, but I've always gotten the highest grade (6) even when I don't follow the rules. xP. When I got a six last year, I felt like I had cheated. I got the grade school favorite season prompt, while most of my friends got one having to do with whether kids should have cell phones or not. It seemed like a topic that would've been much harder to get a six on, because there wouldn't be much room for embellishing boring paragraphs with sensory vocabulary, and probably more personal anecdotes (depending on how boring your life has been). My very-capable friends who got this prompt got sixes, too, so maybe my initial impression was wrong.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I suppose it's been long enough, though there wasn't much to pick from. xP;; First Place: [/FONT] [quote name='Rhym][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=DarkSlateGray][b]Emppu (thinking):[/b] Man, I am so glad we kicked her out, now she won't spew on me while on stage anymore.[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Congrats, you. I laughed pretty hard when I read this one - it really fits the picture. xD. Second Place:[/FONT] [QUOTE=KKC][size=1]Sounds fun. I have no idea who this tarja person is, but i'll make due. ------ Tarja: Erno, Are you sure I don't have a bat in the cave?? [/size][/QUOTE] [FONT=Arial] I liked this one, because I love making fun of Tarja. Teehee.[/FONT] Third Place: [QUOTE=Ziggy Stardust][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=Sienna]Tarja: Emo, I thought I told you I wanted my collection of human heads on [i]spikes[/i]! Shall I have to kill you, AGAIN! *Emo cuts in with a hypnotic guitar rif* Tarja: Wait, what was I saying? Hey, buddy, Johnny Cash wants his clothes back! *wanders around proding human head collection (not on spikes) randomly*[/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE] [FONT=Arial]Well, it's pointless for me to explain why I picked any of these, because I rarely have a reason for doing anything. I just thought they were the funniest. Okay Rhym, we await your picture.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Well, first of all, your post quality needs some work. Some people here might be willing to make fun of you, not only because of your little crush but also because of the way you wrote it. I'm not one of those, though, so don't worry...just try to be more legible in the future, okay? =) Anyway, I kind of know how you feel about this. I really liked a character on Degrassi, Rick, even though it was just a TV show (but at least he was played by a real person and not drawn on paper). You probably don't *love* Kyo, really, but maybe you just really like his character and personality. He's probably more of a favorite character than obsessive crush. You just need to tell yourself that it's a drawing that isn't alive, and it won't ever be able to like you back. Maybe you should lay off the anime for a while, too.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I honestly really don't want to vote. I'm too young, now, anyway, and as I've said I might grow out of it. I've recently become very cynical and pessimistic, which might account for some of my not caring. Racism is a very different thing, to me, than which president is in office, though. Racism is more moral than political, which is why I can't stand it. I believe that all people were indeed created equal, and I'm not going to share my political philosophy of "If I don't like it, I'll leave" with something like that. With politics, I'll just leave behind a country half full of angry voters who didn't get their way and half full of people celebrating the new president. But if America was just as racism tolerant as it was in the sixties, I'd be leaving behind people who are suffering wrongful discrimination. That would be something I'd rather take a stand for - not politics.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Hm, Retri, I'm pretty sure not every country thinks America is stuck-up, piggish and greedy. It's strange, for some reason, my parents think France is rather stuck-up. =(? Oh well. Anyway, my opinions on Bush are rather...phlegmatic. It doesn't seem like anything has changed in my personal life since the 2001? election (whenever he was first elected) other than stuff that I could control without the help of any moronic president. My American Government teacher said something like this: "Bush is a moron, an idiot, but he's smarter than me and everyone of you [students]." That made me think about my friend's otaku, which once had a post proclaiming Bush's IQ to be 125. If that's so, then I actually am smarter. xP. IQs aren't really meaningful, though, so I'm just going to go with my American Government teacher on this one. The same friend posted a long list of Bushisms, complete with hilarious commentary [URL=http://www.myotaku.com/users/abyss_of_despair/life/]here.[/URL] I'm neither a republican or a democrat, because politics bore me to death and I really don't care. The way I see it is that if I don't like the way things are being run (and chances are, I won't care) then I can just move to Europe. I don't want to vote (as I've said before) so I'm probably never going to waste my time trying to make a difference in something I'm not interested in. I'm just really apathetic, and I may grow out of it, but if I see something as something that won't help my future (and since nothing has changed since the last election, I can't see how voting will change anything later) then I just don't want to do it. xP;; But as for Bush...better than Kerry. I don't remember much about why I didn't like Kerry, I just remember that I didn't. >=([/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I'm not sure if this is really a coincidence, but almost every time I go to the eye doctor this one song ALWAYS plays on the radio. The same station is always on, and no matter what day or hour I go and when the last time I went was, the song comes on. It's kind of annoying. However, there was this one night in which I was on the computer at a rather late hour, as were a bunch of my friends. I was talking about a scary picture that is kind of popular on the internet with a friend when my phone received a picture message. I was kind of hesitant to open it, because I just KNEW it would be the scary picture. AND IT WAS. I spazzed out, then sent the friend who sent it to me (who wasn't the one I was talking about it with) a very angry/paranoid looking picture of me. xP;; Then another friend sent me the same picture a few days later, but just because I told him not to. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I'm pretty sure that every state's schools issue a writing exam every year, in every grade level. I love writing, but the topics are absolutely inane. Just today, I had to do a practice timed writing, and the given prompt was exactly this: "Everyone has a favorite food--" STOP. What makes the person who wrote this so sure that [i]everyone[/i] has a favorite food? To show my distaste, I very deftly wrote in "NOT" before the prompt (my English teacher is very awesome and wholeheartedly agrees with me on this). I suppose it's to be expected that we'd have very generic topics to write about for school, such as "What is your favorite holiday?" or "Who would you most like to spend a day with, whether they are living, dead, famous, or unknown?" But I am so sick of the broadly generalizing "EVERYONE has a favorite (insert something that [i]surely everyone[/i] has a favorite of). Write about why it is your favorite." Last year, I had to write about my favorite season. I managed to get a six on it, but I hated the prompt with a lot of my being fibers. Even as an eighth grader, I felt that I should've gotten a much more thought provoking prompt (even though a lot of the people taking the test couldn't even write a grammatically correct sentence if they were copying it out of a textbook). So, if I am correct in thinking that a lot of people around the country have to deal with these kindergarten prompts, then what are your least favorite?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]"Quit that giddy finger interlacing! You know I can't do that anymore!"[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Parents are annoying forever, I know, even when I get my own house and my own family, parents will continue to be annoying. It's not just something that happens when you're a teen. And like I said, you want out, so do the right thing. Almost everyone in this thread has strongly discouraged running away, and you've all ready completely eliminated suicide. So do the right thing and follow the right advice (I'll give you a hint, it doesn't involve running away). However, I do believe that if he strangles you or hurts you physically again, you had better run as fast as you can to the nearest police officer or any adult who could help you. Just don't try to take care of it yourself, because as most people who have posted here know from experience: it makes it worse. And, no, employers have no right to use an employees money once they have rightfully transferred it from the place of employment's register to your own hands. However, there is no paperwork involved with allowance, and parents have much more authority over you than a boss would. But Kaise, really, you can't just stay on the computer claiming that you'd rather run away than stay with your father. You have to make people believe you, by showing them bruises your father might give you, or as it's been suggested, recording his outbursts on tape and playing it for someone who can help you. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Kaise, it seems to me that if the social workers you've been to think he is okay, then maybe you're just overreacting to the natural "parents annoy me" situation that I'd bet EVERYONE in the whole world goes through. You're just like me; people give you solutions and you automatically say they won't work. My mother says that this is a "ninth grade dumbness" that she doesn't want to hear from me or anyone else. And as much as it hurts, it's true. I think that if you are getting paid from either your parents or a job that you might have so that you can save up for a PSP, and that you're allowed on the computer at all, it's really not as bad as you think it is. Heck, if the PSP money was your allowance, and it came from your [i]parents[/i], don't you think they are more entitled to it than you are? As much as I hate it, that's also true. Which is why I want a job so badly, but that's another story entirely. And Brasil, if you hate threads like these so much, rather than post pointless images that really have nothing to do with the topic (because when a person asks for advice, even if they are doing it over the internet, they are asking for help and not belittling spamcrap), how about you just...not post in them? I mean, really, is it such a difficult concept? xP.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I never improved on the previous lyrical arrangement, because I just don't like it. I rarely like anything I write, though, so I don't even know why I bother. This, though, this is kind of nice: [b]Carillion[/b] In a heart-shaped room There is a broken, lonely figurine In a music box of gray That stopped playing its sad Discordant melody long ago The forgotten are here Picturesque sorrow A beautiful portrait in a collapsed frame In a collapsed gallery In a collapsed world Picturesque insanity A music box ornament, forgotten how to dance Forgotten how to laugh Forgotten how to smile Crestfallen and cynical In a heart-shaped room There is a cold, baby candle In a blackened, dirty jar That is enormous and half empty And can never be filled The forgotten are here Picturesque sorrow A field full of brand new, melting snow Melting the landscape Melting the perfection A candle with a withered wick, cannot embrace a flame Cannot be warmed Cannot be fixed Pessimistic and downcast In a heart shaped room Where the candle and the figurine live Neither feel they are were they should be The wrong music box, the wrong jar They can't be happy like this The forgotten are here They will not go away. --- I'm not sure where I got the symbolism from, but I just started speaking the first couple of lines and got inspired. My only problem is that I currently can't think of anything to call it. I refuse to use words that are in the song (such as "Heart-Shaped Room" or "The Music Box and the Candle") because I just don't like doing that. I'm not sure why I am like this, but I am. xP. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I don't think I'm ever going to vote, simply because I just don't care. However, I don't think that even at sixteen or seventeen kids will be ready to make such a decision. Lots of people are majorly influenced by their parents or friends who are influenced by parents, and will make a choice that is not their own. Honestly, if it wouldn't make such a big difference in their own personal lives (I don't know any people around that age who are really so affected by politics) then I don't think they really care, anyway. Why throw the vote?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Since there's not one here, I shall make one here. It's like Starbucks, crazy! Okay, it's the exact same as the one in the Anime forum...Play It...and Otaku Lounge. However, THIS version allows only pictures from anything having to do with music, movies, or TV. I just figured this one would be fun, because musical event pictures are often candid and can show the most unflattering side of a popular singer, and a bunch of movies and TV shows have random, *interesting* scenes that I'm sure we can all be creative with. >: D ME FIRST. *_* The frog lady is Tarja, and the guitarist is Emppu (or Erno). I look forward to the witty captions. Mwahahaha![/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]While I don't think it's a good idea for you to run away, some people here have put logic in a rather harsh manner. Maybe it's just that I empathize with lots of people, but I honestly think that when someone considers putting their life in jeopardy (and yes, running away once could endanger your life) or ending it all together, yelling at them as if they're inferior or stupid is not a way to save them. Kaise, don't run away. Even if you're having a terrible time at home, things would be so much worse if you get caught. The most you can do is reconsider your situation, maybe read some true stories about people from abusive families or something. If you feel that you truly deserve better than what you're getting, then you could go to a counselor and try to make your father understand that no one should be treated the way you are beinbg treated for no reason. As for myself, I'm being forced to a school that none of my friends go to, and I am an extremely introverted person. I've been at this school for close to ten months, and I haven't made a single new friend. My mother rarely compliments me on my behavior, she just focuses on whatever things I do poorly. The first day of school in which I got sick not five minutes into the day, panicking and sobbing, should've been a big hint to her that I was really not happy. I feel like my high school career has been stolen from me and is being manipulated with hardly any consent from me. She also won't let me get a job, no matter how badly I want one or need one. I say it would be good for me and teach me responsibility, not to mention help me support myself. I want to graduate high school as early as possible, and she says no to that, too. I rarely ever see my friends, and some I haven't seen since July, and still I can't do much more fun things than I could do last year, when I saw my friends every single day. I need friends to keep me sane, and I just can't have that. My parents aren't going to finance a car for me when I get my driver's license, and so without a job I don't know how I'm going to be able to buy one for myself. It would take me over seven years just to earn a thousand dollars from my current allowance, and by then I'll have a real job somewhere that's not here. There are days where I seriously can't stand to be around my family and I just want to get out and be free, but I can't because I have nowhere to go and nothing to keep me from starving to death on the streets. So, life really sucks for a lot of people, but you can't run away. You're only fifteen, I doubt you would have the judgement to realize whether your life is on the verge of crumbling or is really just fine. I might not have any more good judgement than you do, but seriously, please take this into consideration. If you finally decide that there is nothing repairable in your relationship with your father, get a counselor. That way you can either work things out or legally stay with a friend or close relative until things work out. I hope it all turns out okay for you, Kaise. Good luck with your father.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Of course, I am very uneducated on the matter of WWII, but it seems to me that the Nazis had anything to do with what happened at Pearl Harbor. I think that if we had entered the war for what did, then we would've been fighting in Japan and not Europe. However, my knowledge of history kind of starts at the beginning and continues on until maybe the 1800s in America and England, so I don't know much anything about the wars of the twentieth century and up. Now, on topic. I definitely feel that a peaceful approach to a solution is integral to wrapping up a conflict. Of course, if you walk up to the guy with the cannon very gently, and quietly ask him to stop killing people and he shoots another, then that calls for drastic measures. I can't really expand on this now, since I have to go someplace. But maybe later.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I'm going to refer to the thread I made for this a long time ago, since I don't remember any recent weird dreams. I remember one being at my old elementary school's annual festival that my friends and I like to go to to reminisce. Anyway, I was sitting in this little hallway that opens up to the playground (which doesn't exist at the school in real life) and who should appear but Marguerite Moreau? One of my friends, Amber, came along and we started to pester the heck out of Marge. Finally, she yelled at us and spontaneously combusted. It was very funny. This one is copied from the original thread, because I don't really remember it: "The first part...I was playing DDR in someplace. Not surprising. I mean, I went to bed thinking nothing but DDR. The second part was really weird. There was a Disciple Now at my church, and the band that was playing there was...Rasputina? Odd. So, They were in the kitchen, having a food fight...or something. Melora came out and I went to her, and I asked, "Are you Mekare?" and she seemed rather...annoyed...then I called her Melora and she was rather clingy. "You know my other name?!" And it was very weird. She was definetly not a dwarfstar. Maybe eight feet tall. Which I doubt." There was also this other strange dream with Marguerite Moreau, in which we were both in the living room at my grandma's house. I don't quite remember all what happened, but just that she was very annoyed by me and was cussing. So, she went outside and got on a bicycle, I think. Suddenly, I had magic powers, and I turned either her or her bicycle into a broomstick (it was pitch black so I don't know which). I very much like the first possibility, though. xD Oh oh, and then there was this one. Amber and I were hanging out near the dumpsters of my old middle school, for some reason. Then I jumped off the curb (which is about half a foot off the ground) and died. Standing up. I turned into a ghostie. *_*. Anyway, then Amber jumped off the curb and died too, so I guess it was a magic death curb or something. Then one of my other friends, Patrick, appeared out of nowhere and could see both of us (even though we were ghosties and he was alive). So then we started all three walking down the road, and there were some people standing around outside of the Orchestra room, such as a pair of real people twins who were actually in the Orchestra at that school. One of the twins dashed like a crazy person toward Amber, who screamed and jumped away saying "DON'T DO THAT!" I wondered how they could see her, and I also wondered how Patrick could see us and he said something about sunlight. Then Amber and I went to my grandmother's house, and it was Christmas. So we threw the tree ornaments everywhere and drove my poor grandma crazy; o_O. I had some really odd dreams last summer, during the time I was rehearsing for the musical I was going to be in (Into the Woods jr.) that all had to do with a strange version of the play. Two Christmases ago, I had four different dreams involving a new guitar and some random craziness (such as a man who resembled John Goodman trying to kill me.) The most recent weird dream I had...the first part of it had four of my friends (Amber, Michale, Camille, and Becca) visiting me at school. For some reason, people were allowed to visit people at other schools on that day. Anyway, I ended up in Amber and Michale's chemistry class (we can't even take chemistry yet) and I told the teacher that I was just visiting. Then, the dream changed scenes to me in my bedroom with my mom giving me a large sum of money. She was crying, and she said I was really sweet, which made me cry. Then we hugged and she was going to take me to the mall. However, I (who was represented by the senior class president at my school) was in a car that was driving itself. And I didn't have the keys, so I couldn't turn it off or slow it down (how it was moving without keys, I do not know). My youngest sister was represented by this atrociously annoying girl who has basically NO redeeming qualities about her, and she was also in the same boat (or car, but she was in a different car) that I was, but her car actually stopped in the middle of the road. I got about twenty miles away from home before I woke up, and did not have that large sum of money. >=( I hate it when something happens in a dream, like you get something you really wanted or you go to school and something weird happens, only for you to wake up and not have the money or have to go to school knowing that the weird thing is impossible. I might hold the record for weird dreams, honestly. =D I love love it! They're so inspiring. O_O I think I am going to start writing songs about every dream I have. Also, has anyone ever achieved lucid dreaming? I can do it sometimes, normally right before I go to sleep or right before I wake up. I think this is merely called hypnogogia or something like that, and not actual lucid dreaming. Anyway, it's very very cool to have a dream like that, because you can control most everything that goes on. Normally you are presented with a set event and you can control what you do from there. Whenever I've been able to do that, I've given myself magic powers. o_O perhaps I am insane.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I don't think it's sexism, it's characterization. o_O;; if a novellist wants their male characters to be pansies, then they are allowed to do so. And if several different novellists wants all their male characters to be pansies as well, that's fine. Just because a many characters act similar doesn't mean that the person responsible for him is saying that all men are the same way. You shouldn't get offended over a cartoon, after all...unless they were seriously bashing what you believe in or something. And even then, you can just turn it off. The only problem I have with some anime is really the perversion (I'm thinking of Chobits, here, mainly). Of course, perhaps the real pervert is the reader! People can draw negative connotations from the most innocent things. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I'mma do it yet a third time, again with my Launchcast Radio. This insures less of a chance of something repeating, and a much broader selection of music. Oh, Jake, you shall be proud of the first one. xP 1. Yngwie Malmsteen; "Black Star" 2. Interpol; "Specialist" 3. Queens of the Stone Age; "No One Knows" 4. Underoath; "When the Sun Sleeps" >: O CRAP! 5. David Bowie; "Andy Warhol" 6. Phyllis Dillon; "Remember That Sunday" what the crap is this? o_O 7. Cornershop; "Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III" 8. The Stills; "Yesterday Never Tomorrow" 9. Coheed and Cambria; "The Suffering" 10. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth; "For Good" Meh...the only one I listened all the way through was number ten. My radio is probably a little TOO broad.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Lala! It is French for "music of a dream." A) Because I love everything musical and it's my life. B) "Reve" is half of my alias' last name, which is Revenant (which I thought meant dreams, but maybe something else now. >: O ) 3) it's French. Duh.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]"So this is where the Rowdyruff Boys learned how to defeat their archrivals, the Powerpuff Girls! Heck and damnation, Japan, you've condemned us all!"[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial][b]"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."[/b] Ah, Salvador Dali, what a great thinker you were. Dumb old arsenic killing you. I like this quote because...well, read it! It's a nonunlikable quote! Of course, my paraphrase is even better: "The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not a man." And it's so true. But aside from the comedic stuff, my most favorite "quote" ever is in my signature. It's from the last few verses of "Defying Gravity" from the broadway musical Wicked. So if you care to find me, look to the western sky. As someone told me lately, "everyone deserves the chance to fly." And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free. To those who ground me, take a message back from me: Tell them how I am defying gravity I'm flying high, defying gravity And soon I'll match them in renown And nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was Is ever gonna bring me down. This is really inspirational to me, seeing as how I'm quite ambitious. There's so much that I want to do when my time is right, and I'm determined to do it. This "quote" means a lot to me, because Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) sings it right when she flies for the first time, and she is proclaiming that nobody will ever be able to stop her from achieving what she knows she wants to do. I feel this is urging me to do what I plan to do, and never let anything get in my way of it. [b]"Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good. You are not alone; no one is alone."[/b] Again, this is from a broadway musical called Into the Woods. Since I feel so alone all the time, it's comforting to know that I'm...really...not? Anyway, Stephen Sondheim is a genius and I trust him. Yes I do. [/FONT]