east helena is a town? i thought it was more like a parasite that had latched onto our capital...

i'm not very good at memorizing things that don't have to do with entertainment. so, for my list of 50 things to memorize, i was going to do 50 famous people from the 90's - that list took me about 5 minutes to come up with during class. but then i figured i should do something at least a smidge more useful, so i'm going to memorize names of towns in montana. ok, so i've lived here my whole life - whatever - that doesn't mean i know all of the towns in the fourth largest state in america. although, i do know that our state motto is "oro y plata," our state tree is the lodgepole pine, and the state bird is the western meadowlark. so booyah.
anyway, here's my list, in alphabetical order, because that's how it's displayed on wikipedia when i looked it up...


Anaconda
Baker
Belgrade
Big Timber
Billings
Bozeman
Butte
Chinook
Choteau
Colstrip
Columbia Falls
Conrad
Cut Bank
Deer Lodge
Dillon
East Helena
Forsyth
Fort Benton
Glasgow
Glendive
Great Falls
Hamilton
Hardin
Harlem
Harlowton
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
Laurel
Lewistown
Libby
Livingston
Malta
Miles City
Missoula
Plentywood
Polson
Poplar
Red Lodge
Ronan
Roundup
Scobey
Shelby
Sidney
Thompson Falls
Three Forks
Townsend
Troy
Whitefish
White Sulphur Springs

too bad whitehall isn't on the list - it's my fave ;)

and i have to say, i'm not really digging the fact that we have to memorize the nine muses in the order that kyle put them in, because i was having enough trouble memorizing them using my own mnemonic device, and now i have to start all over and learn them in a new order using new things, based on someone else's ideas. y no me gusta. no me puedo. you could be thinking to yourself "shit happens, shannon," but that, my friend, is a cliche. so shut it.
here's a list of some of my favorite cliche's (not in alphabetical order)

saying things are cliche
isn't that the pot calling the kettle black!
it takes two to tango/it's a two way street
bro's before ho's
people who thank god during award shows (i don't think god helped you win that grammy, lil' wayne)
when life hands you lemons, grab some vodka and have a party! omg! girls night!
i love you more than ___ loves ____
watching middle school girls in public - i bet the conversations haven't changed since 1900.



oh, and here's proof that rats can laugh - in class i was like, psh! cha right! ...but youtube = truth, so that ends that debate. although, if you ask me, the dude tickling the rats is a creeper, so maybe the rats have been roofied. just sayin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myuceywaOUs