• RachelRose
      • Rachel Douglas
      • Username: RachelRose
      • In response to: "What do you do on the side?" i read, write, dance like a fool, and perform as the eternal vocalist in rock band with great vigor and minimal success. i collect picnic baskets and aspire to have a library comparable to the beast's
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    • people who arent my friends...hmmm, do i really care what they think? methinks not.
      • meh, im an open book


        i'd lie about nothing...except maybe that i actually liked everyone in high school
        you know, im not really sure that i would lie about anything. the people i am still in contact from high school are really the only people i care about. besides, im not ashamed of anything that has happened in my life. if someone judges me, it just proves that i was right all along to secretly judg them.


      • answered by RachelRose on 10/16/2009
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    • dancing queeeeeeeeen!
      • Dancing at Red Arrow Park

        obviously i like the i'll-love-you-until-the-end-of-time crying mushy part. i like the free food, getting together with friends, and dressing up. however, what i REALLY like is the disgusting selection of overused dance games and ridiculous party songs that the cheesy DJ inevitably picks. i love dancing in a disgusting manner, and these songs easily facilitate this need, because there is no way to dance properly to them. im talking about the macarena, the electric slide, and pretty much any other song that is ridiculous and overplayed and so lame that i cant do anything but join in the dancing and partake of the open bar. :)

      • answered by RachelRose on 10/08/2009
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    • editing has become a lost art
      • editing has always been an important step in the writing process. it is the time where the writer takes a look at her raw work and decides what needs to be altered and what is acceptable. now that spellcheck is so popular and all-knowing, people have lost their capacity to manually edit anything they write or type. they expect an artificial brain to look over their shoulder and let them know what is right and wrong. unfortunately, if the problem is with the style or usage, generally the writing is deemed accurate and ready to be mass produced.

        the same holds true for behavior. as a second grade teacher, i am constantly reminded that these children have grown up in such a different environment that i did, that behavior "editing" has become obsolete. parents expect their surrogate brain, the teachers, to filter t any misstep the child has made and correct the problem in a flash; delete this and insert that. however, most times the problem is not recognized by our programming, and the issue seems to be more so related to the structure of the parent's own behavior, causing the child to be constantly copying from a flawed template.

        THEREFORE, i would start a charity to begin the seemingly impossible process of editing people. they would come to me, unsure of "how to be" and i would gladly sit them down and erase improper structuring and try to beef up what little raw material they have to work with, with the hopes of creating a fresh template from which copying would be welcome and recommended.

      • answered by RachelRose on 10/08/2009
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