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Griffin

pressure makes diamonds

About Me

Myspace For Girls Only - MyGirlySpace.comHey everyone! I am going to be in Beijing, China for the Junior World Championships (for the next three weeks), so I won't be able to use the cell. Hit me up online if you need something!I'm that girl who'll always surprise you... whether on the track or in the classroom you'll never know what I'm bout to do~ I love challenges so keep em comin'! Next year i'm headed out to C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A... Stanford Class of 2010! My passion is world travel, there are only two contintents that I haven't hit up and I'm closin' in on em' this summer! I'm gonna be the next Barack Obama (props to those of you who know who he is) so watch out D.C! This eye is fixed on the Summer Olympics 2008... you know it's all about the long jump! And of course my boi... he's my best friend and my inspiration ya'll better watch out for Darius Reed, he's about to blow up the track at UCLA! Holla at cha girl ~Take the quiz:
What Olympic Sport Are You?

track
Athletics is, in many ways, the embodiment of the Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius, meaning faster, higher, stronger.Athletics (or track and field) is about running faster, jumping higher and throwing further than your competitors. The ancient Games at Olympia began simply with foot races, only occasionally complicated by dressing the runners in infantry armour or making them carry soldiers' shields. Today, athletics remains one of the most popular Olympic sports. From the 100m dash to the 42.195km marathon, from the hammer throw to the high jump, it contains many of the Olympic Games' blue-ribbon events
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

a revolutionary mind

Books:

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Angelas Ashes, The Invisible Man, Their Eyes were Watching God, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, (Anything by Jane Austen), Animal Farm, 1984, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Poisonwood Bible, Jane Eyre

Heroes:

My mom, Nikki Giovanni, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Prefontaine, Thurgood Marshall, Nat King Cole, Althea Gibson, Phillis Wheatley, Booker T. Washington, Florence Joyner Kersee, Marion Jones, Sidney Poitier, Ashley Owens

My Blog

What the Hell do you the Stanford Admit Letter Said?

This spoken word goes out to any young black person who was ever told that the only reason that they got into Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Duke, Penn, and Stanford was because they're black. What ...
Posted by Griffin on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:26:00 PST

Phenomenal Woman

Caitlin Able and I had one of those once in a lifetime golden moments at our last state track meet. A young man came up to us and asked why we had such big muscles, he asked why we wanted to look like...
Posted by Griffin on Mon, 22 May 2006 05:34:00 PST

real athletes

We don't play sports because it's fun. Ask any athlete, most of us hate it, but we can't imagine our lives with out it. It's part of us, the love/hate relationship. It's what ...
Posted by Griffin on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:26:00 PST

Wheee!

Today i flew. After six months of being away from my sand pit, these feet of mine needed to jump. Granted, my bed, toes, clothes, car, track bag, and shoes are all full of sand.. but eh, thats the lif...
Posted by Griffin on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:58:00 PST