Tis the Season of Great Economical Folly Fa-la-la-la-la La-La La-LA!!

Have you ever looked at someone's teeth when talking to them? Have you ever noticed that models for elegant clothes and fashion designers have nice teeth, or don't show their teeth at all? This is because bad teeth are bad for marketing. Take the picture to the left for instance, I'm pretty sure this woman is a nice person and, if she kept the cave shut, her face would be pretty decent, but her teeth completely throw whatever beauty she may have had out of balance. Personally, I feel like throwing chunks just looking at her. The main focus of this picture is to deter people from smoking, even though they do it anyway. The next time you talk to someone casually, look at their teeth and see if it distracts you.

Moochas

For those who don't know me personally, which are most who read this blog, I have a family of moochers. What is a moocher? The Johnson-Gibson-Martin-Webster-Davis family. Yesterday, there was a family dinner at my Mom-Mom's house, which is the tiniest apartment for all the biggums that were there, and I, now being a licensed driver, was asked to run all sorts of errands. Between driving from my house to my aunt Lisa's house, from there to Mom-Mom's shack, to the White Horse Pike, on the way to the mall, then back to Lisa's house to drop something off at Mom-Mom's. I was a bit tired. Then, my wonderful little brother, Andre, decides that he wants to go back home to change his clothes and charge his micellaneous items and I had to be the one to drive him there! I, being a new driver, have no problem driving around town, but what they were asking was ridiculous! They reminded me of Dave Chappelle's wonderful character Tyrone Biggums, who, because of his addiction to cocaine, is constantly mooching off of someone. Maybe next weekend they'll ask me to drive to Cherry Hill and fetch them Beedies.

POUR QUE CONAN? POUR QUE!?!?!?

There are reports that Conan O'Brien, host of The Tonight Show, will be leaving, fofr an undisclosed amount, to make way for Jay "The Chin" Leno's big return back to the show he hosted for 11 years. Personally, I would say this is a big slap in the face, for Conan, considering all the fuss and changes they made to have Leno on "Primetime". They literally had Leno take another show while Conan took his spot and Jimmy Fallon took his spot. They made the switch seem so big and fantastic, only to change it back a few months later. Is this all to please Jay? Frankly, and you can disagree with me on this one, I don't think he's all that funny. For me, the punchline of his show is that enormous piece he calls a chin.

Freeeessshhhiiieeeessss!!!

I finally made a breakthrough with one of my freshman last week. Usually, all he seems to want to talk about during our one-on-ones is sports. The conversations go a little something like this
me: Hey! What's up? How was your week so far?
him: Good
me: Would you like to elaborate?
him: Really good
me: So how are sports coming along?
him: Can I go now?

That was a typical conversation when we would have one-on-ones, but last week was different. In an effort to get some substantial words from him, I asked him more about home life and, to my surprise, he actually opened up. I was so glad that he did, that I opened up about my home troubles, to show him that he can open up to me about anything.

Make up, To Break up

"Break up to make up, that's all we do First you love me then you hate me That's a game for foolsBreak up to make up that's all we do First you love me then you hate meThat's a game for fools" -The Stylistics

Remember a previous post I made about relationships? No? Scroll down, look at older posts and it's the second one I made. Reading that entry before this one will help you better understand my problems. The one thing I've learned over the weekend, that I really should have learned from previous mistakes, is that exes are exes for very good reasons. One would think that with my sordid past, I would have learned this by now, but it seems like everytime I cut off one of my exes they always seem to want me back. WHY!? I honestly don't think I'm that amazing to the point where they're ruining, maybe that word is a bit strong, my life. One mistake I will never make after this weekend, and last year, is to make up with a break up.

R.i.P Teddy

I hate writing about death, but this r&b singer's passing was just too much to take lightly. Pendergrass was only 59 when he died of colon cancer yesterday, in surburban Philadelphia, where he had been hospitalized for months. He had been an incredible sex symbol with such hits as "It Don't Hurt Now", "Love T.K.O" and "Close the Door" until a car crash in 1982 left him paralyzed from the waist down. His sex symbol status had been replaced with that of a role model; an inspiration. He was a man that exemplified eroticism, without coarse language, and his music will live on forever.

I ♥ SAT words!

Hi. For today's blog, I have to incorporate three SAT style words, found by my classmates, in a blog about myself. Let's see if I can do it.

During the weekend, I tried to find out why my computer wouldn't run my Sims 2 game. When I delved deeper into the subject, I found that the DVD-Rom drive wasn't holistic, and I had to buy more pieces to make up for the lost ones. After nearly ripping my computer apart, my parents decided to buy me another computer. Because of my amateur computing skills, my computer broke and left me in moratorium.

Baddies in Training

As I've explained before, my job as a mentor is to guide my freshman in the right direction. In last week's Mentor blog entry, I complained about the lack of interest with some of my freshman, and how some of them take their frustrations out on me. This week, however, I have nothing but good things to say about my freshman. Perhaps it was a simple phase where they felt upset, but now they open up to me again as I try to help them with their problems. Most of their problems can be easily solved, given the proper attention. Most of all, I think that my freshman may just need someone who can be their friend but also their guide. I've realized, although I've been told before, that I must develop a relationship surpassing a peer, but not yet equaling a teacher, which is a bit difficult to do. By the end of the year I hope to bond more with my freshman so that, hopefully, they want to come to me with their problems when I graduate. I also want to establish the fact that I will always be here for them when I can.

The T-t-twiits!!

Usually, I'm a fiend for books, always looking for different types of books to get my hands on. Unfortunately, I really haven't had much time to read any books, having been kept busy by play rehearsal. However, one thing I do enjoy is to re-read books that I bought as a child. As a toddler, I always asked someone older to read books to me. Forever intrigued by words, I was a constant pest to my family so, as a result, I learned to read before I enrolled in kindergarten. One book I love to read as I eat at home, which is the only time I actually do read lately, is Roald Dahl's The Twits. The book revolves around two nasty ol' senior citizens, who treat children, and people in general, horribly. There's one statement, or mantra, in the story that really relates to my project and, more importantly, my research paper. When the Twits were young, they looked normal. After years of behaving nasty, or ugly, their appearance started to match their personality. Most important to my topic, their teeth started to jut out and turn yellow and people liked them less and less. Not to say their attitude had nothing to do with it, but their appearance, particularly their teeth, was the last straw.

Don't be Tarday fo' Da Partay

My weekend was pretty uneventful, the most interesting part was when I got my hair done, but two good things did come out out of a horrible day. On Saturday, I was told, by my wonderful mentor Ms. Sykes, that I was to go to a nearby dentist's office and talk to him personally about being my sponsor. I went to the place at 8 A.M, thinking that they would open bright and early, and to my disdain, yeah I'm using SAT words, they were closed until 9 A.M. I went home, defeated, and called them at 9:05 A.M., just to make sure they got in, and, to my surprise, they didn't answer. Determined not to burn in hell with my worst enemies (insider), I called again at 10:15 A.M. and a receptionist finally decided to answer! Because the dentist was busy with a patient, I talked to the receptionist about my situation and am going to go there today. The moral of that story is: don't trust receptionists! She said he would call me back at his earliest convenience, yet I am still waiting on that call. Anther thing I learned is: DON'T EVER GO TO A PARTY UNLESS YOU ARE SURE YOU CAN GET IN!!!! Some people like to send out mass messages promoting a party, then wonder why so many people showed up! Even worse, they have about 100 people standing outside in 20 below weather pointlessly waiting to get into a party whose host already pre-determined who was going to get in and who should've sent out invitations if it was going to be an invitation-only party! It'll be a cold day in hell before I EVER stand outside that long for a party again.

Mentoriing

I'm a senior mentor at LHS. My job as a senior mentor, is to guide, not influence, my selected freshman in a certain direction. Being a mentor has given me some personal growth, as well as an example of what I was like when I was their age. Not to say I'm a Perfect Patty now, but when I was a freshman I didn't care about much of anything. In fact, freshman year was the worst for me, from a scholastic point of view. Because I was an academic failure during my freshman year, I try to help my freshman not imitate my actions. By giving them as much information about their future as possible, I think I may have been getting through to them. The only problem about being a senior mentor are the freshman who really don't care. They push your buttons and give off that "This is whack, I don't have to listen to you" attitude. These type of freshman, though there are few, bring two types of attitudes to my mind: anger and determination. Every time I begin to get angry at those type of freshman I remember that those type of freshman are the reason LHS started using the Freshman Seminar Program.

I recently checked out a book in the library, per Mr. Abrams request, titled The Human Genome. For today's wonderful blog, we were asked to write about a book that relates to our senior project. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a book directly related to dentistry so I decided to read about the next best thing. A dentist-in-training, as I've been told, basically studies the same thing as a doctor-in-training, at least until they enter their respective training schools (Dental School and Med School). The book basically talks about the progress of all sepcies as a whole, how they have evolved, and some theories about their evolution. Its main appeal to me, when choosing it in the library, was that it was small, and colorful. I hadn't really thought about actually reading it, but, thankfully, it was pretty interesting, at least to me (who thinks the Discovery channel is pretty fun to watch). This book only helped my decision to continue to pursue a career in medicine, whether it be dental or otherwise.

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year!!! I think we all know why I'm so happy about 2010, anyone with working retnas can see why, but I'm not just happy about graduating, I'm happy to finally see the end of 2009. It wasn't one of the best years for me and I'm happy to start fresh and new. Speaking of new, I have to start thinking more seriously about Senior Project because so far I've been taking it extremely lightly. Firstly, wow I can't believe I just used "firstly" as if this were an important essay, I would like to stay on topic in and out of class. Seeing as how I haven't yet acquired a sponsor, I think that my slacking-off has officially hit an all-time high, but I'm going to buckle down. For my Senior Project Reasearch Paper, I intend to write about how oral hygiene affects personality, confidence and popularity. Mostly using the perspectives of high school students, and employers, both of which seriously take good oral hygiene very seriously. For the newbies out there, my senior project will be on dentistry/dental hygiene.