Last blog post EVER

After careful and tedious math, it has been determined that over this past semster, I have read 2745 pages total in etymology. Most of these were pop fiction, but I had four plays that were literary fiction.

A lot of books i read this semester will be classified as my favorite books such as Divergent and Matched. Usually when I sat down to read these books, I couldn't stop so I took it everywhere. If i had a free moment i would read. If we went out to lunch and none of my family was talking, i thought that was a que for me to pick up my book. the only downside to this was, i really can't read with any background noise. I don't read with music, i can hardly read with birds chirping outside, but i found that when reading these books, it really didn't matter because they enticed me so much. if you are really interested in a book, nothing will distract you. the other day when i was finishing Divergent, i was reading it for 9 hours after school. typically, my phone is always next to me, but when i got home, i left it in my book bag and just sat down to read. finally after like seven hours i realized that i didn't have it and i found that my best friend had called me like 3 times. THE POWER OF BOOKS.

At the beginning of the semester, i really didn't know anything about poetry. i mean, i liked it when i found poems i liked. i wanted to like it. i wanted to be a poet. i wanted to be one of those people who carried around a poetry book or a journal and wrote their feelings. i wanted to be a hipster. I am not a hipster lol. but i do have a new appreciation for poetry. i have a new book of poems that i love and words that describe everything i feel. 

Usually in english you learn to take apart the poetry you read and don't really get the full feeling of it because you are too busy depicting it and finding literary terms. in this class, that isn't even necessary. even though you have to write about it, you more have to write about the impact it made on you than  the technical aspect. throughout this whole semester i have found so many poems that i have loved. i have made my family read them, my friends, everyone. I would have to say, my favorite poem this year that all i can do is relate to is "The Friend" by Marge Piercy. it speaks volumes with such fierce intensity. i love it. here it is:

The friend

By Marge Piercy 

We sat across the table.

he said, cut off your hands.

they are always poking at things.

they might touch me.

I said yes.

Food grew cold on the table.

he said, burn your body.

it is not clean and smells like sex.

it rubs my mind sore.

I said yes.

I love you, I said.

That’s very nice, he said

I like to be loved,

that makes me happy.

Have you cut off your hands yet?
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So Long Etymology

Love, Cheyenne

If you're wondering why I'm not in school...

It's because it's my birthday :D

and I am having a party at home.

Someone should really read this book so I can discuss it with someone...

This is like the best book i have ever read. i know i know what your thinking.... I do love harry potter and twilight but those hold a special place in my heart. This book is something i have never read before. Going into it, i thought it would be a mix of the hunger games and matched, but it isn't not at all. I mean, it has similar themes, but the plot is so much different. it came out a few weeks ago and i heard it was going to be a trilogy and i absolutely cannot wait until that happens. please read this. here is a quick synopsis i reluctantly copied from the internet....

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

for more information on this amazing book

pg. 195- 314

Part 5 
The newly arrived AWOL Unwinds face a tribunal of sorts with the top three that were designated by the Admiral to find what job they would be doing. Connor gets mechanic, Risa is assigned medic and Roland is learning how to fly a helicopter from "Cleaver" another high-up that isn't an Unwind like the other high-ups. During the course of a month the Unwinds get used to their lives in the Graveyard which include something called work call which Unwinds can nominate themselves to take a job they like. Also people grow suspicious of the Admiral because of his abnormally white teeth which they think are from a Unwind. Rumors fly that the Admiral is just here to pick and choose Unwinds. A few days later Lev shows up in the Graveyard. How he got there is unknown but he looks so different that at first Connor couldn't recognize him. A few days after this the Admiral summons Connor on the pretext that Connor needs to fix a coffeemaker. Admiral says that he hears of Connor a lot because of his fights and how they always resolve something. Connor realizes the coffeemaker is in working order and figures out there's something else the Admiral wants to talk about. The Admiral explains that Connor's feelings of unease around him are based on rumors. The Admiral wears dentures and he started this because of the mistake of letting his son be Unwound. The Admiral also shows him the dead bodies of his top five, the three that gave the tribunals, and two others. The Admiral wants Connor to be a spy and find out who killed them. The Admiral also tells Connor the whole truth about the Heartland War and how the Bill of Life came to be. He tells Connor that he was forced to unwind his own son to set an example since he had had a hand in the creation of the Bill of Life. Lev meets up with Cleaver, and two other kids who want to shake up things in the world. In the next few days Risa notices something going on with both Connor and Lev and tries to get to the bottom of it. The next work call Lev and his gang sign up for a job on an oil rig in Alaska. Connor thinks Roland killed the top five and locks him in the same crate that the five Unwinds and the top five were killed in. When the Unwinds get riled up, they attack the plane that the Admiral is on with Risa. Connor hears about the situation and goes to intervene. He manages to calm them and get to Risa and the Admiral. The Admiral has a heart attack because of the heat in the plane. Connor rushes to Roland since he is the only one who can fly a helicopter since the mob killed Cleaver because he was associated with the Admiral after he makes a comment about suffocating. Connor figures out he killed the Goldens, the top five. They fly a helicopter to a hospital to try and save the Admiral. Admiral doesn't want an Unwound kids heart so they do what doctors did before the Heartland Wars. Roland turns in Connor, Risa, the people who live in the Graveyard and inadvertently himself. The Juvey-cops take away Roland, Risa and Connor to a harvest camp.


Part 6
They arrive at the harvest camp and realize that exercise is a main focus. At every sports court there are either cameras for every person playing or people with clipboards watching to see how their body moves and if muscles work right. It is found out that Lev's group killed the Goldens by suffocation before Lev got there and they are planning on blowing up the harvest camp by being Clappers who are people who, when they ingest a certain liquid, self-destruct if their blood comes out of their veins. Roland gets Unwound a few days later and the process is explained in detail for the first time. The person is conscious until they take the last chunk of the person out. The law says that people being Unwound have to be able to see it happening to them and be awake. They don't feel pain because of a drug they inject in him. After Roland is gone it's Connor's turn. It's exactly the time the Clappers are going to detonate the building he's going into so Lev runs to Connor to try and save him as he walks into the building. Right after Connor walks in the building explodes as the two other Clappers explode. Lev doesn't. Lev runs in and saves Connor who is missing an arm and an eye, and Risa from the demolished building.

Tony Orrico

take a look at this link. beautiful symmetry drawings done by Tony Orrico all drawn on his stomach.

take a look

If you've been in a failed relationship and have been accused as the reason why it has failed. if you have been in a relationship where the other is constantly has put you on such an emotional rollar coaster ride you don't know what to do, take a look at the poem i posted.
The friend by Marge Piercy