Today, something amazing happened.
And I just had to post.


My good friend came to school today with a petition titled "Friends Against Patch Fischer’s High School Transfer".*

There were 19 signatures before I even knew it existed.

In first period, all of Leadership and most of Eagle Service signed.
Even a few kids that wandered over from Yearbook grabbed a pen.


We had 87 before fourth period.


At one point, we had a line of willing kids, and it wasn’t just eighth graders.
A lot of seventh graders signed. Some sixth, too.

The whole school talked about it, and I had people I hardly knew come up to me and say, “These are my friends. They want to sign, too.”
There were 200 spaces on the petition, less than half of which we thought we could fill.

We had to draw in some extras.


What happened today was incredible. If someone had told me a month ago that we could do this, I’d laugh.

Sure, the petition didn’t have the effect we’d hoped, but still. 201 middle schoolers decide that this was worthwhile. That, despite the fact that they were in different groups, grades, or whatever, they banded together and did something. I know it affected us, at least. We’ll remember this day, even if it didn’t work as planned. I'm proud of what we did. No matter the end result.

Now, more than ever, I feel like anything is possible. Yay.


*the petition title was slightly different, and has been changed to keep locations and names secret.

Dont get too excited. This wont be amazing.

I LIKE FOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. I LIKE FOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. I LIKE FOOD. FOOD IS GOOD.

I also like model warship combat, but thats another post for another day.

words of wisdom

Someone very wise once told me, "Hey, you dropped your pencil." Sure, it wasn't Shakespeare, but they were right. I had, in fact, dropped my pencil. The words were quite helpful to me, too, because we had just sat down for a test and without that pencil, it would've remained unfinished. What a tragedy.

A bit more interesting: today my friend Stephen simply stated, to no one in particular, "Imanya is made of sunshine and potatoes." How true!



I do like potatoes...

Sick Day

Yes, I'm sick. I stayed home yesterday too. Sure I feel way worse than yesterday, but this can just be thought of as a writing opportunity. I can write all day. Guess who has time to post on her abandoned blogs?

I've started a new story today, too. It's incredibly action packed so far, and it's coming along quite nicely. I can even try to figure out what to do with the family I've created that's so sweet I can't bear to do anything bad to them. Oooh! Oooh! I can try to get further on Sharpshooter!! Seriously, I started it in, what, fourth grade? Sure, I've done mounds of editing and nearly trashed the original storyline, but I'm only on chapter two!! That's just lame.

I have nothing to write about. Sorry.

People have been asking about my posting problems. I haven't posted on either blog since before Halloween, and I feel guilty. I have had things to write about, its just that I have NO TIME to post them. I've hardly been on the computer, let alone had time to write a lengthy update on the life of Patch. And now nothing I wanted to write about is even applicable, so I have no business here, really.

Oh yeah. Christmas. I've also been asked about Christmas. Well, nothing interesting there, either. Rubber ducks are cool, Hungry Hungry Hippos is fun, the movie Up was awesome, and Kipper is my favorite animated dog. So yeah. Rubber ducks, Hungry Hungry Hippos (the board game), the dvd for Up, and Kipper the Dog dvds are ideas. Also anything marine biology related is always good.

That's about all I can say. Sorry it wasn't very interesting. Just letting you know I'm still alive.

Adios,
Patch

Oooooh yes.

Ayup. That'll be me on that wonderful October 31st. Or maybe, since it is supposed to be a "scary" day, This'll be me:

Personally, I think I'd rather be the former, but who knows? Anywayz, here's (possibly... hopefully) my ah-mazing mask.

Woo-hoo!!! Now I just have to find a costume that isn't totally idiotic...

Hand animals, anyone?

They poop everywhere.
They destroy everything.
They are unloved.
They are the Hand Animals.

On Snuffles:

I say: Snuffs-a-lot is just the sweetest little creature. She's so cute wid her wittle head and hew sweet wittle teef an when she washes hersewf she wicks my wittle fingews!!! Oooooh Snuffy!!!

They say: Oh no. She ruined the curtains! Ugh. And now there's rat crap everywhere. This is disgusting. Let's get rid of her.

On Gracie:

Kitty says: Gracie-butt is such a good bird. She didn't draw blood today!! Look how cute she is in the tupperware taking a bath!! Look at her grooming in my hand!!! Ooooooh little chest bird!!!!

They say: Oh no. She ruined the earings! Ugh. And now there's bird crap everywhere. This is disgusting. Let's get rid of her.

SAVE THE HAND ANIMALS!!!!