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Dixie currently feels:
Bored 
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20 lines of pointless information relating to today.
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I had a three hour Textiles exam. I've nearly completed my work, and I still have about seven hours left on it.
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I finished colouring two more bits of #1263 artwork.
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The picture of the "happy hybrid" I promised to draw for Mrs Mac was photocopied and pinned on her wall in the library office.
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I've eaten all of nana's Oreos in the biscuit tin.
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Nana's bathmat feels like wet seaweed, and it's nice.
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I was infuriated in English by pointless threats by a pointless twat who can't insult me, because he's done no coursework, and I have, har har har. Thick cunt.
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I just used one of the "four most offensive swearwords" in my blog. Gaspz.
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I'm listening to Benzin by Rammstein. It sounds funny, because he keeps saying words that are the same in both languages; like gasoline and explosive.
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"dixie hates textiles" has come up as a suggested tag. ROFL.
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Emily should be home this week. I'm looking forward to it.
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Amy had me in fits during Textiles, imitating our teacher's walk.
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I started playing Pokémon XD again today.
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I got a 5 star ranking on Ruby on Expert level on Guitar Hero III earlier, for the first time.
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I played Heir Kommt Alex on Expert level for the first time, without playing it on Hard before, and I didn't fail.
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When Dixie says "she didn't fail", that really means she managed to finish the song, but she got a shitty 3-star ranking...
16.
Parry has been reading this blog, apparently. Wow, I'm going public.
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I don't like black pudding. Dad was frying it yesterday and it smelt horrible.
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I ate a packet of Original Hula Hoops earlier. The packet is on the desk beside me.
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The "lastest comment" window is a response in Finnish. - It looks like it, anyway.
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Dixie has never actually tasted TRIPE, but it doesn't look or sound nice.
...Remember children...
...Chicken legs are scary...
...CHILDREN OF THE SEA...!
Finnish TV talk show host finds success in unconventional approach
HELSINKI, Finland
9 December 2007 (BWNS)
Television talk shows often use conflict as their formula to win viewers, but a young producer in Finland is making a go of it with a different model.
On his Monday night program, Aram Aflatuni presents a problem, then has a panel of experts try to solve it using consultation and cooperation.
"I don't believe in confrontational journalism," he says. "I do not think that it is an effective way of finding solutions."
His hour-long show - "Härkää Sarvista," or "Grab the Bull by the Horns" - this week wraps up its first season of 15 episodes and has attracted as many as 345,000 viewers. Average viewership was 220,000 - 20 percent of the TV audience for its time period.
In Finland, TV shows often look for confrontation and "sometimes quite aggressive debate," said Juho-Pekka Rantala, a television executive who works on this show and others. "'Härkää Sarvista' is different. It is looking for solutions." ...
To read the rest of the article go to: http://news.bahai.org/story/593
Babies gravitate toward good Samaritans, study says
By Tom A. Peter Wed Dec 12, 3:00 AM ET
Six- and 10-month-old babies are much more capable judges of character than previously thought. Not only can infants pick out a good Samaritan, they tend to identify with them, according to a Yale University study published in the journal Nature.
The study released last month presented babies with a diorama-like display of an anthropomorphic circle struggling to make it up a hill. Just when it appeared that all hope was lost, a heroic triangle appeared, and pushed the circle to the top. The round climber bounces, clearly elated to have reached the summit. The same scenario is played out again, only this time a square appears at the top of the hill and pushes the circle to the bottom.The babies were then asked to pick a toy – the helper or the hinderer, as scientists called them. One hundred percent of 6-month-olds and 87.5 percent of 10-month-olds chose the helper. The results were consistent even when the triangle and the square swapped places as good guy and bad guy. In several other iterations of the experiment, the helper, regardless of shape or color, won out.
"Babies are very competent socially," says Kiley Hamlin, lead author of the study. "They can figure this kind of stuff out without people explicitly teaching what's nice and not nice and who's nice and who's not nice."
In another component of the study, researchers showed the circle choosing to sit with the helper or the hinderer. In this instance they found that 10-month-old babies were far more adept at noticing something seemed strange when the circle decided to sit with the hinderer. (They figured this out by how long the baby watched the helper or hinderer pair up with the circle, working under the assumption that babies, like adults, study something that appears out of the ordinary.)
While other research has shown that babies make assessments about people based on their physical appearance – they gravitate toward attractive people – these new findings show more complex levels of judgment.
"In any species that needs to cooperate as much as humans do … we always need to know who might be a good cooperator and who might not," says Ms. Hamlin.
so...
we finally got this safe open from our old house that we've had fer like ever and guess what was inside? our papers...birth papers...adoption papers...shit on my family...and I read that shit and guess what? Im half Finnish! fer some reason thats fuckin awesome...Im gonna go to Chapters and get a book on how to speak Finnish...I told my mom the other night that I wanna learn and I think I got her upset haha but whatever Im embracing my background...just dunno if I wanna meet any of my family...if I kould find them anyway
I wanna go to Finland
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