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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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Beautiful Poets

miss_literal's picture

A bright green frog
is transformed into a
small girl with
short hair and
square glasses.
A brown tennis shoe is really a
wavy-haired girl in blue.
A pink flower resting on a hand
is a bubbly girl
wearing jazz shoes.
Then there's squeejay,
who has a headful of
frizzy blond hair,
and Rebel Angel,
quiet and eloquent.
Professor Zoom is a
Red Sox fan,
and GG has a
grey beard and an
infectious laugh.
It seems amazing that
I could have once thought of
Camille without her long dark hair,
or YaMoGeekRoz without her freckles.
Usagi looks nothing like her tree,
yet identical at the same time.
I would just like to tell you all,
I am so grateful
that I was able to meet you yesterday.
You are all just as beautiful
as your poetry,
and I am not just talking about
your eyes and smiles.

pineapple_babbit's picture

I'm grateful to meet

I'm grateful to meet everyone too! Wow... Yesterday was fun, and it's so true about everyone being so beautiful on the inside. This is an awesome poem. ^_^
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

miss_literal's picture

: ) yesterday was SO fun.

: )
yesterday was SO fun. thanks so much for organizing it

pineapple_babbit's picture

It was at first just a joke

It was at first just a joke type thing between apples and I... and then Squeejay stepped up to the plate and asked gg... but.. you're welcome!
*and thanks gg for actually putting it all together!!!*
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

writingdog's picture

you guys are lucky

you guys are lucky that you could go to the conferenrence. I still imagine you the way I think you guys would look like. but this gives me an idea of what you all are like... so thanks!

miss_literal's picture

no problem. PLEASE come to

no problem. PLEASE come to the next one!

pineapple_babbit's picture

Writingdog! Apples is going

Writingdog! Apples is going around making people sign a thing from you. I am going to sign it soon... I just haven't seen the paper yet... I hope it all works with the ocelots... They are so cute... I'm rooting for them, and I would hug one if they weren't wild creatures... but they are so I will just wave from afar...
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

writingdog's picture

I'll try.

I'll try coming next time. I know. He is soo nce. But yeah they're almost extinct. There is only about 120 ocelots in Texas.

pineapple_babbit's picture

Are there any in other

Are there any in other places in the world??? I didn't think that there were any in the US... I thought of them as a rainforest type animal...
I guess I'm wrong... We have to work to save the poor little things.... They're so cute and who in their right mind would ever want to hurt something like that???
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

writingdog's picture

They are found from Arizona

They are found from Arizona and south west Texas through Central America to Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina.
It's a lot of places but there are less of them. Hunters kill them and they're also killed by poaching. I also gave some pictures of ocelots to apples in case people don't know what an ocelot is. I'm sure they will sign after they see how cute they are :)

pineapple_babbit's picture

Yeah. I saw the cuteness...

Yeah. I saw the cuteness... That's just horrible that they are hunted... It's like hunting a bunch of little kittys... I hate it.
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

writingdog's picture

Hunting is just plain mean.

Hunting is just plain mean. Sorry if any of your parents hunt, but I think killing an animal for fur- or for fun and people still do that is just sooooo mean

miss_literal's picture

my dad used to duck hunt.

my dad used to duck hunt. but we always ate the ducks. they were actually pretty good. mom made duck stew with potatoes and carrots and onions. sorry if that freakes you out or something

writingdog's picture

well

I guess it's ok if you actuall eat it, because so many people at our school like get a hotdog or something else and throw the whole thing away.
The poor animal that died!

pineapple_babbit's picture

I'm used to it... My dad

I'm used to it... My dad hunts, but people always eats what he gets... If he gets anything.... I annoy him.... He'll come home from hunting and I'll be like, "did you get anything?" and he almost always says no because he falls asleep at the bottom of the tree he is sitting at... When he says no, I just smile, say "good" and walk away.... I detest hunting.... And my family knows it.... I just feel bad for the animal...
I mean, I guess that there's nothing completely wrong with it as long as people eat what they get... I have eaten a bunch of wild game... *Which I guess makes me sort of a.... um.... I can't think of the word.... You probibly know what I mean though....* I am so bad at making up my mind because I always sit on both sides of the fence....
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

miss_literal's picture

yeah, i dont think it's fair

yeah, i dont think it's fair to kill something just to hang its head on a wall

pineapple_babbit's picture

Thats what I mean!!!! *I'm

Thats what I mean!!!! *I'm bad at explaining myself... *
For food = ok, for anything else = bad.
There shortened and it probibly makes more sence...
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

writingdog's picture

exactly

I hate how dogs are sometimes used for hunting...
but I think my goal is like 400 signatures for the petition. I'm going to get more later though from my school, because I only got like 40 so far...

pineapple_babbit's picture

Hipocrite!!! thats the word

Hipocrite!!! thats the word I was looking for.... *sorry for the randomness*
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Sometimes, I wonder if love is good or bad.... It can make you feel like you're higher than the tallest mountain, or it can make you feel like the lowest person on earth.....

miss_literal's picture

what petition?

what petition?

writingdog's picture

haha gooo randomness and my

haha gooo randomness
and my ocelot petition
soo hunters can't hunt anymore and poaching is illegal and you can't sell ocelots to other peoplee.
wow, I'm going to have to write all that stuff on my petition. I just realized how many threats there are to ocelots.

miss_literal's picture

haha ok

haha ok

writingdog's picture

sorry, I talk out loud while

sorry, I talk out loud while I'm typing...

YaMoGeekRoZ's picture

you know what really stinks?

you know what really stinks? 50,000 species of plant and insect life a day go exstinct because of the deforestation of the amazon. i like your poem, it was really nice meeting you to. yesterday was so much fun!

~moya

miss_literal's picture

one of my life goals is to

one of my life goals is to go to a rainforest before they're all gone

rebel_angel's picture

ooo

I really like this =] I'm sad that I missed the last part of the meeting though...

mixedmusic333's picture

I love this :) It's so true.

I love
this :)
It's so
true.

emnoodlehead's picture

Aw! You're so sweet!!

Aw! You're so sweet!!

apples's picture

This is great! No one was

This is great! No one was really what I expected them to be...
I knew Babbit
I thought em would be emo, but she definately isn't
Squeejay, Usagi, and Greenie are nothing like I thought
And well, oh! Same with Zoom
I don't really remember talking to anyone else...
Oh! Except Awsm, who is WAY different that I expected...
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The crimson tears of slaughter flow eternally through the sands of time... ~Self Quoted

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