It might be time for an internet purge. There are just too many people I'm subbed to on YouTube/following on Twitter/following on Blogger. In my Blogger feed only two people ever post anything (Hayley [hayleyghoover] and Kristina [italktosnakes])! On YouTube I'm subscribed to over 100 people, and only a handful make videos at all and even fewer I actually watch. As for Twitter, I just don't care what's going on with some of the people I follow. This purge has been a long time coming, and I've finally been inspired to do it by Alex Day and my lack of things to occupy me this summer.

Also, Hayley referenced a comment I made here which made my day a bit less craptastic. Thanks Hayley!
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"History Rough Draft"

The peopl who setled there are the Kikapoo Indians, the Potowatomi Indias, and Ren`e –Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle. The reason the Potowatomi and Kikapoo Indians came is becuse they were forced there by other settlers. Indiana became a state when the Indiana government sent a constitution to the U.S. government for approval. James Maddison signed the constitution for Indiana to become a state. In 1679 La Salle became the the first European in Indiana. In 1732 the French made a permanent settlement at Vincenues. In 1763 France gave Indiana to Great Britan after the French and Indian War. In 1784 the first Amarican settlement at Clarksville is built. In 1787 Indiana became part of the Northwest Teritory.

Was this the whole State Project paper?  If so, what the hell was so scary about it!??  Ugh, I know I'll be looking aback and thinking the same thing about the Senior Project.

I like this book.

Here's a passage from it that I think really sums up the way the story is told.  The narrator is Death, but he's really just a regular guy doing his job, so no worries.  He's an observer who got interested in the protagonist, Liesel Meminger's life.  In this part of the book, Liesel is at a book burning for Hitler's birthday, as all of the Hitler Youth had to attend.  The fire was just lit.

Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of "heil Hitlering."  You know, it actually makes me wonder if anyone ever lost an eye or injured a hand or wrist with all of that.  You'd only need to be facing the wrong way at the wrong time or stand marginally too close to another person.  Perhaps people did get injured.  Personally, I can only tell you that no one died from it, or at least, not physically.  There was, of course, the matter of forty million people I picked up by the time the whole thing was finished, but that's getting all metaphoric.  Allow me to return us to the fire.

--The Book Theif by Markus Zusak, pg. 111-112

There's also a lot of really tasty imagery :)