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Interests: Jesus. bumming around with Joe. plants! research. bowling. tennis. attempting to play basketball and volleyball.
Expertise: worrying, spilling stuff, sneezing like a man, defying the laws of common sense, drooling in textbooks, not cooking
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AIM:  graceberrie
Member Since:
1/19/2003
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| After the whole shutdown fiasco, as yall may know, I've moved elsewhere. This Xanga is officially defunct.
Goodbye graceberrie, my xanga for the past 3 years!
But one good thing can come out of your visit here...
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| SB!
Instead of being like this:
... I'll be in New Orleans with BSM folks from Rice and UH (40 people total), mudding-out houses & stripping down the walls. Leaving today (Saturday), coming back on Wednesday.
I bought 3 outfits from a thrift store so that I can throw my clothes away @ the end of each day - 3 pairs of large, frumpy, tapered-leg, 50-year-old-lady jeans included! I'm sure everyone will envy my fashion sense =) Ooooh mama. This is pretty much what I'll look like on the bottom:
So Joe won't have to worry about me looking too "fetching" - oh it'll be the opposite. I won't be making anyone stumble....cuz tapered jeans + sweat + mud ≠ hot stuff! 
Yeah so I'm excited because for once I'll be doing something to help others instead of just being lazy during SB... but I'm also kind of apprehensive because I'm not used to manual labor, I'm a wuss.
Anyway, please pray for our group to be safe, work hard, and glorify God during the next 5 days.
Have a good spring break everyone =)
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| A lot has been on my mind this past week.
Now I know why.
I've changed a lot during the past year. I didn't realize how much I'd
changed until recently. But that change wasn't enough. For example, I'd
been operating under the assumption that after graduating in May of
next year, I'd go straight into grad school at Rice in the fall, and
sometime afterwards I'd get married.
Well, that's not up to me. It may happen... but it may not. All this turmoil has been because I've still been clinging
to my own plans and desires.
James 1:22-25
22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But
the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and
continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he
will be blessed in what he does.
I will stumble, I will hesitate, I will doubt, I will fear, but God will pick me up and keep me going.
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
I surrender.
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| I deleted some of the questions bc this survey is too long
anyway. For the full version, go to
Bebe's site. If for some reason you're really curious about my answer
to some question that I deleted, it's most likely "no clue" or "duno."
1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
I got
pwned in the face by a basketball, while wearing glasses... chunk of
nose meat got shaved off.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
home - astros & yao posters
dorm - heart-shaped glittery soap & edwin/lilly's christmas card
4. WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LIKE TO LISTEN TO?
cheesy pop - mariah, janet, christina aguilera, nsync, etc...
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN?
7:28am.
im a freak, i know. but my mom's even more of a freak for knowing that
off the top of her head when i asked her back in middle school.
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW?
don't wanna tell you
7. WHAT DO YOU MISS?
lazy, school-free days
10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC?
no, but i hate it when people walk really close behind me on the stairs
11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK?
sometimes.. esp if im alone and outdoors
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE / PERFUME?
people tend to overdo cologne/perfume - "better to have none than too much"
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
short! long makes me want to barf.. no offense
15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO AT?
no
clue. ideally i wouldn't look too scrubby in case people were hiding
and taking pictures or videos a la the future fongs or the tan-tans.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING?
plain ol' cheese
21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST GIFT SOMEONE EVER GAVE YOU (OF THE OPPOSITE SEX)?
2nd grade - a box of pencils.. or a pencil box? or colored pencils?
29. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU?
just say it
32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL OFTEN?
JBC
33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST?
people talking during a movie or tv show
35. YOUR WEAKNESSES?
procrastinating, little white lies
37. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB?
sales associate @ parents' store
38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
back in middle school
40. IF YOU COULD GET PLASTIC SURGERY WHAT WOULD IT BE?
ok let's pay lots of money for someone to cut you open and possibly deform you or kill you
41. WHY DID YOU FILL OUT THIS SURVEY?
cuz i was inspired by Bebe's and Dee's surveys
43. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ALCOHOL BECAME ILLEGAL?
no biggie. but i'd cheer for no drunk drivers
45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?
2 - a boy and a girl... or i could kill 2 birds w/one stone and have twins
49. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?
yesterday. i cry during any strong emotion, be it happiness, embarrassment, anger, disappointment, etc
52. ANY BAD HABITS?
surfing
for like 7 hours every weeknight; using discomfort as an alarm clock
(holding in large quantities of pee.. or sleeping with my face
directly on my desk, no cushioning, no arms)
53. WHAT IS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CD ON THE SHELF?
i used to have Spice Girls
57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER?
slamming
doors, yelling, driving fast (boy do i sound immature). in high school,
i used to punch walls and run in the middle of the night, but i haven't
recently
66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES?
graceberrie, goosey, guppie
68. DO YOU UN-TIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
no
70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR?
cookies & cream
72. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE COLORS?
pretty shades of green and blue
75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
yes! because it would give me a reason to be glued to my computer instead of nerding
76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
the whirring of my laptop
77. LAST THING YOU ATE?
teddy grahams
80. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?
houston
81. SCARIEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?
not sure if this is the absolute scariest, but i almost got run over by a car in NYC
83. FAVORITE JOKE?
What's Beethoven's favorite fruit? (thanks for the correction, Z)
84. SPORT?
sports are not my strong suit... but i love the Astros!
85. HAIR COLOR?
anything not fake-looking
86. EYE COLOR?
NOT blue contacts on asians, that looks so freaky
88. SIBLINGS?
2 little sisters
91. LAST THING YOU WATCHED?
Olympics - ladies' figure skating! yay for sasha
93. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT?
the last 2 dates i tried to get for sadie hawkins in HS: (1) i gave him a
puzzle that said "how bout sadie?" (2) i tried using AIM to ask "some dude who shall remain
anonymous" 
but he had to ask me to ask him to sadie because i just couldn't do
it... haha im a wuss. Plus, both times there was a 3rd party trying to
hook us up.
96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS?
in the words of a certain gayloe, "Relationships. I only use my one night stand to prop up my digital clock and glasses and my bible." Word.
99. WHERE DO YOU WORK?
Bartel lab, fiddling with plants =D
note: I wrote this last week-ish, which is why some things seem "off," like the I-last-watched-the-Olympics thing
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| This is an outrage.
Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists |
| Sat. 07 Jan 2006 |
Iran Focus
 Tehran,
Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to
death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had
unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her
niece.
The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that
18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had
attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending
some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.
Nazanin,
who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the
three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends
quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.
She
described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece
Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took
out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.
As
the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at
this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The
teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained
that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending
herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.
The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.
Last
week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara
Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years
old. Darabi has denied the charges.
In August 2004, Iran’s
Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to
death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts
incompatible with chastity”.
The teenage victim had no access to
a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to
no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious
judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not
the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town
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