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Force Koran Heaven Yea Sago Hour Force Feathers Brought Fourth Upon Cis Continent Anew Neigh Shun conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives so that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, [I cannot concentrate] we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here [yet I am supposed to memorize what they said there... :], but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

I had to memorize that, so I typed it from memory. I am now thoroughly tired of the Gettysburg Address! Yes, it's a very good speech, but after mumbling it at random times of day and night, I'd like to have a break from it.
I am now finishing week three (I think?) of fourteen for my government curriculum, which means I'm way behind. Again. I should be further. I don't really have time to take all fourteen weeks, so I'm smushing it into seven. Oh, and by week three I don't mean "I'm almost half-way done." By week three, I mean "following the 14 week lesson plan, I'm on week three, but according to my smushedintosevenweekslessonplan, I'm only 1 1/2 weeks in." >=P
Until we remembered I had a government course to do, I was laughing at the people who complain about how busy senior year is. I'm sorry for laughing now.
~Kiwi~

I TOLD you we should have bought a dump truck....

A week or two ago, Sis and I took a friend shopping. On the way home, we came to a T-intersection where we could have turned right or left--towards construction or away from it. I suggested left, but noooo, Sis wanted to turn right because 'she knew how to get home from there better.' So we turned just in time to be first in the line of cars that were stopped. We sat and waited. And waited. And twiddled thumbs. And I bugged her. And we rolled our eyes as the flagger waved dump truck after dump truck past us.
"I told you that you should have bought a dump truck. I told you! And I also told you not to turn right...."

So that's where the title came from. I thought of it and just had to use it, even if the post had nothing to do with the title.

I started school today. This is my senior year!!! Frankly, I'm not looking forward to this year, but I'm going to try to be pleasant about it. I complain way too much. But let it be written, chemistry is terrible, writing is hard, and literature is stuffy. Now that that is out of the way, my List of Courses to Get Through This Year in Order to be Able Graduate Next Spring is this:

• Apologia chemistry: I am already almost half-way through the book, so I might get it done.
  
• Typing: I know all the keys fairly well, but Mom says I ought to keep working on speed. My average WPM is 60, though, which isn't too bad!


• Wordsmith Craftsman writing: I only have 5 or 6 essays left, then I'm done!


• Christian Light Education's Literature course: Part-way through that, too, I just need to finish it.
  
• "Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?" economics: I have barely even seen the book, so I don't know anything other than what Mom told me--"It's really good!"


• History: I'm mostly just reading books and writing reports and the occasional essay.

Later in the year I'll start Government, and later in September, Mom and I are taking a continuing education art class from the community college! I'm mostly looking forward to the art class. But I'm also nervous about it. I'm just always scared of messing up! You should see all the paintings I haven't shown on here! On second thought, though, maybe you shouldn't...

So what are y'all doing for school this year? Are you looking forward to/enjoying school so far?

One random, unconnected item: Mark September 19th on your calendars as "Talk Like A Pirate Day!" Yes, folks, it's that time of year again! The time when you unpack your eye-patches and shake the mothballs off your peg legs, the time when you try out your piratey accents and start digging in the yard for buried treasure. What? You doubt the creditability of my statement? Check THIS out. Or there's the official site.

Don't forget!
I'll see y'all later,
~Kiwi~
p.s. look to your left for a new poll!
p.p.s. there's a new post on my photo blog: http://www.kiwi-and-her-pictures.blogspot.com/