fly boy

superman's got nothing on me.
I am the amazing fantastic awesomely cool Joe!
I am also late for math class.
I soar through the skies, twisting and turning, pulling off stunts a professional pilot wishes he could, when my super senses pick up a call for help.
I see the civilian in trouble, and, faster than a speeding bullet, race to save them. This particular person is being robbed- at least, that's what it looks like.
The villain never sees it coming. I hit him right where it hurts- the face- and he goes down like a rock. I turn to give the lady back her purse, and yell in pain. My eyes! Those wrinkles!
I have just saved my (ugh) science teacher, Ms. Prickle.
I can already feel her boring-ness draining me of my power. Noooo....homework....
"Joseph!" Arg. I hate science class. Ms. Prickle looks down her immense bifocals at me, and i feel like an ant under a magnifying glass. "Wake up!"
As she begins her lecture on paying attenton, blah blah blah, my gaze drifts down to my backpack. Aha. I totally ignore her as I reach down to grasp my cape.
Super Joe lives...

( this is for the picture you posted, mr.ross :)

oh gosh another year

first of all, THANK YOU to everyone! (zach aubrea and derek) Im so glad that people care enough to wish me a happy birthday. I love birthdays, because I also love cake, friends and OF COURSE presents. :) what i do not love is sending thank you cards, but I do it anyway because it's the least I can do, after everyone else has done so much for me.
Yay! Im fourteen! Finally!
love you all,
gabby

amazon people- get a life! (book review)

Book: WATER for ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen

when I think of circuses, I envision a striped tent, clowns, and elephants. After reading this awesome book, I can also see behind the scenes. Sara Gruen weaves a magical tale of an unseen side of the circus.
Jacob is an orphaned college student studying to become a veteranarian who runs away from school and stows away on a train that turns out to be part of the Benzini Bros. circus train, the Benzini Bros. being a famous circus act. Jacob is taken in as the show's vet, and becomes part of the circus atmosphere.
Jacob is just getting used to circus life when he unwittingly falls for Marlena, one of the show's main performers. There's just one problem: Marlena's husband, the unpredictable and abusive August. As Jacob and Marlena struggle to figure out how they feel, another problem arises- an elephant is added to the otherwise pachyderm-less show.
This story of love, strength and the lives of circus performers reveals a new and exciting world. I think this is a really interesting viewpoint, and the climax is...auspicious. I really recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a funny, well-written book.

4 1/2 stars!

NOTE: objects in mirror are closer than they appear

reflecting on your year when you're only in the third month of it is to say the least difficult. But I will try my best. So far, I think my year has been okay. I can improve in a lot of places, starting with math. I haven't looked at my grades lately, but I'm guessing they aren't pretty. The thing that is hardest for me in all of my classes is putting it all together. I have most of the basics down, I just need to learn how to finish. I also have a little problem with concentrating, and it is NOT because my classes are boring. I am happy with ALL of my classes right now. But sometimes I just...I'm spacey. (Im not sure that's a word, sorry mr.ross) I think I have become a better student, but I know that I have a lot of room for improvement.

boxing day

Joe was an ordinary guy. He worked at an ordinary Pizza Hut. He listened to ordinary elevator music. And Joe lived in an ordinary box.
In Joe's life, controlled by society, every person was required to wear a box, in order to conceal their identity. Or, in Joe's mind, keep them from having one at all.
It was hard work, living in a box. Joe could only see life through two small holes cut into the side of his box. It was difficult to see and breathe, much less do anything else. Like go to the bathroom. But Joe didn't like to talk about that. But Joe didn't talk much about anything. Because he couldn't understand the people around him.
Unlike Joe, these people actually had gotten used to the boxed life. They even seemed to enjoy it. Joe couldn't see how you could enjoy eating through a little hole. How you could enjoy sleepng at night in a claustrophobic little square, surrounded by nothing but the smell of your own stinky breath.
So Joe avoided his neighbors. He avoided his co-workers. Joe basically avoided seeing anyone whatsoever, which wasn't very difficult since he could only see through those two little holes.
Joe lived a lonely, boxed-in life.
Until....
disaster struck.
Not only was he the only aware person in his community, but Joe also had very, very bad luck. So one day, while Joe was walking to work, the unthinkable happened- a rude and large man brushed past Joe, hitting him so hard that his box flipped around.
Now the thing about these boxes is they only have holes on one side. So now, Joe couldn't see anything.
So, he walked.
And walked.
Until he couldn't hear the murmur of people anymore.
Until his city was far behind him.
Until he could hear grass crunching under his feet.
And then, Joe's luck changed for the better.
A crazy wind, blowing everything around, swept Joe's box off of his head.
Joe watched the box fad into the distance.
And looked at the sky through two eyes for the first time.
And blinked really hard because the light was too bright.
And then Joe walked toward the sun, and his new life....
....outside of the box.

fire hazard

first of all, I'd like to say I hope everyone is ok and in their own home, because I can't imagine not having a house anymore. But if you at least have your family around you, you will make it.
OK, a really nice family I know were evacuated, and their house and all their belongings burned down. the parents make chocolate for a living (cool, I know) and lost all the equipment they had. So the mother, one of the nicest ladies i know, and trust me I know a LOT of nice ladies, posted on their website that they wouldn't be able to take any orders, because obviously they were kind of at a loss right? and the mother ALSO said, if anyone would like to help us in any way, please let us know.
And that was all.
come one, they had nothing!
well, some JERKS who i personally think are hateful and horrible and sick, told this woman who had lost EVERYTHING that they "couldn't believe" how the family was "begging" and how they should be ashamed and a lot more crap like that.
so, the nice lady called my mom, and just talking about it made her cry. she said it had come at "a bad time".
Oh. My. God.
A bad time???? she didn't have a home anymore! and people were MAKING HER CRY, because she didn't have enough to think about already!
ok, im calming down, sorry.
and on the other end of the spectrum, a soccer mom heard about the two boys and their plight and decided to donate brand new gear for both of them...
and she didnt even know them.
how can these two kinds of people- horrible and wonderful- be the same species?
well, I hope there are more of the wonderful ones...
because we need them.
love, gabby

i thought summer was over!!!

not that i don't LOVE not going to school (shhh dont tell) but ummm isn't summer over? and if it isn't, the water at the beach REALLY needs to warm up, cuz im freezing my butt off here! oh yeah and i kind of miss you guys. Kind of.
love, gabby