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[25 Dec 2005|08:56am] |
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Woot! I woke up at 5:00 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I played around on the computer and then woke my brother up at 6:30 and we woke my parents up. Everyone was grouchy, except for me because I was awake. My family is not one full of morning people. So what did I get this year?
Photo boxes for storage
Little Women on DVD
Equilibrium on DVD
The Secret of NIMH on DVD
Empire Records: Remix! Special Fan Edition on DVD
Stickers
Crafty paper stuff
Glue sticks
Sharpie Click-its
Composition notebooks
Makeup
Iron-on transfer paper!
Candy
Buffy: The Chosen Collection (it hasn't gotten here yet!)
And...
AN HP ALL-IN-ONE PHOTO QUALITY PRINTER/COPIER/SCANNER! Holy crap, my mom went nuts this year. I about peed myself when I saw it. This is going to make doing my zine and photoshopping and whatnot soooo much easier! EEEEEEEE! *squeegasm*
Plus I got money from my relatives and Angel Season 1 on DVD from my fabulous little brother. :) I made out like a bandit. Merry Christmas everyone!
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| Snow Day! |
[15 Dec 2005|06:19pm] |
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School was cancelled today for snow, and very well may be for tomorrow. I hope I didn't just jinx it by writing that. *knocks on wood*
My first day at my new school was pretty good. I went to German at the high school and then my mom picked me up to drive me over to the other school. Normally I would have walked, but it was one degree outside and it's about a mile walk. I had a load of free time before my first class, so I decided to try out the open campus policy and walked up the street to the post office. Not much mail, just Oh La La #2 that I traded for, but some mail's better than none, right? :) I also got a chance to buy some postage since I was out and stealing way too much of my mom's.
My first class was Latin. I'm dropping it. It's taught by a senior under the guidance of my old Latin teacher, but their learning completely different things from completely different books. I don't even think they went over pronunciation; almost everyone was saying things wrong. I know I'm a psycho pronunciation bitch sometimes, but it was REALLY bad. There's no way I can catch up to where they are anyway. I'm just going to go to Cheryl and ask if I can drop it.
Lunch was pretty good. A few girls asked me to hang out with them in the kitchen, where I was caught by a freshman named Emma I remember from middle school drama club. She took me up to the alcove on the second floor and introduced me to her friends. They're all really awesome and nice.
In Early European History we're doing reports on different countries in the 17th century. I got Ireland, which is right up my alley since I'm part Irish and an Irish dancer. I think I'll enjoy it.
Science was the most boring class EVER, but mostly because I was coming in right in the middle of a lab they'd been doing for a few days, so maybe it'll be more interesting later. Anyway, I only have these classes for a few more weeks and then all my classes will switch when the new semester starts.
I started reading Invisible Man. I was assigned the prologue and the first two chapters. Okay, does anyone actually UNDERSTAND that book? Here's what I've gotten so far: There's a black guy in the early part of the 20th century. He rambles on and on in the prologue about how he's an invisible man and people refuse to see him, blah, blah, blah. Then he goes back like 20 years in time at the start of chapter one where he gives a great speech on humility at his graduation. It's so great that a bunch of rich white people in his town want him to read it at some gathering they're having. When he gets there he's asked to join in a fight, and he reluctantly agrees. He and nine other African American guys are given boxing gloves, but they don't fight yet. Then this beautiful naked blonde woman comes out and dances and makes all the guys there really horny. Then the ten fighter guys are blindfolded and then a big riot ensues, which I think involved everyone, not just the blindfolded guys. There was also this really sick part where the black guys were trying to grab coins off an electrified rug and they kept getting shocked. After all this, the protagonist, who doesn't have a name, is the last one standing. So they tell him to give his speech, even though he's bleeding all over the place. He does, and they all laugh at him, but then they give him a scholarship.
Then he goes to college and one day he volunteers to give one of the rich guys who donates to the college a ride and they go on this ride through the country and start talking. He finds out the rich guy had a daughter who died, and I think she was the naked dancer girl. Then they end up at the shack house of this family that everyone at the college hates and the dad got both the wife and the daughter pregnant. The rich guy freaks out when he hears this and gets out of the car to find out how the man could do such a thing, and I'm just about at the part where Trueblood, the guy who impregnated everyone, is going to tell them how and why it happened.
WTF?
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| Back to School |
[13 Dec 2005|07:58pm] |
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So I'm starting at my new school tomorrow. I went today and met with my counselor, Cheryl. We discussed scheduling and keeping my German class at the high school and whatnot. Luckily the classes I’m joining right now are all pretty much starting something new, so I’m not terribly behind.
I’ll ride my regular bus to the high school for German, which Cheryl had switched to first period. That class ends at 9:05, and my next class doesn’t start until 10:40, so I have a ton of time to walk back to the other school and hang out. I'm dropping Latin 1 at the high school, but one of the seniors at my new school is teaching it as his graduation project with the high school Latin teacher's help, so I'm taking that, at least for the rest of the semester. I'm taking Early European History and Advanced English Seminar and a science class that's going to make me do a big research project as soon as I go in. Yuck. But at least English sounds like it's going to be cool. I met my English teacher today. He carries the speech and demeanor of a stereotypical gay guy, although I have no idea if he really is or not. He's really funny though, and I guess the class is small--only five people--and all girls. They just got their first assignment for reading the book Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Gary (the teacher) gave me a copy of the book and told me the assignment so I could have it ready for my first English class on Thursday.
It's a light course load, just till I get situated and start getting my depression under control. Next semester will be more interesting. I have a ton of free periods right now, which I plan to use to take advantage of the open campus policy and go the the post office/read/do homework in school so I don't have to do it at home.
Speaking of the post office: awesome mail day today. I got orders for my zine, a ton of zines I traded for, and the new issue of Xerography Debt.
Plus it's Bones and House night on Fox! I'm watching Bones right now.
And it's almost Christmas!
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| Mail and Mermaids |
[08 Dec 2005|03:44am] |
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So the visit to the alternative ed. program today was actually really good. Scheduling for that school is a nightmare, especially if I want to keep German at the regular high school (they don't offer languages at the alt. ed. school), but luckily I have Cheryl, the counselor, to help me. It's a lot different from the regular high school. It has open campus, which means students are allowed everywhere teachers are. Everyone's on a first name
basis--teachers, students, counselors. They're big on community. Part of the open campus is that students can go wherever they want during their free periods, as long as they get back in time for their next class. They can go to the library, around campus, home, wherever, as long as they don't loiter at the regular high school, since that tends to tick the high school administration off. Lunch is pretty cool too. You can cook something in the kitchen in the teacher's lounge, order a lunch from the cafeteria, or go out to lunch. They expect students to be a lot more responsible, and everyone has open campus privelages as long as they don't abuse them. I think it's kind of cool that they're not breathing down your neck all the time like at the regular high school. I'm 99% sure I'm going to go there. My mom was shocked that it wasn't the crazy hippie school she'd expected. She was actually really impressed with it.
After we finished up there, my mom gave me a ride over to the post office so I could check my mail. My zines from Sweet Candy Distro came. Yay! And Mermaid #1 from Elizabeth Smith, which was SO AWESOME. Everyone should go check it out and order one http://www.freewebs.com/mermaidzine/index2.html. It's great.
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| I ate and ate and ate.... |
[06 Dec 2005|03:46pm] |
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I would just like to say that last night I ate 11 pieces of Papa John's Pizza. Dear Lord! I'm not sure what came over me...I've never eaten anymore than 4 slices of pizza at a time in my life! I didn't even feel sick! In fact, I felt remarkably good. I guess after eating cereal and Ramen for two days straight (we were seriously in need of grocery shopping, which my awesome mother did this morning) I was in the mood for something solid. A lot of something solid. Now I have to force myself to get off my lazy arse and exercise so I can feel less guilty about eating all that crap and not get fat.
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| Laziness |
[06 Dec 2005|01:21am] |
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So I stayed up till 4:00 yesterday morning reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I read 200 pages and I have about 200 more left, which I may end up reading tonight instead of doing my homework...again. I've been drinking lemonade like crazy. I should make it my official Harry Potter-reading drink. In fact, I think I will. Lemonade is now my official Harry Potter-reading drink. I can't wait to finish rereading GOF so I can read Order of the Pheonix and Half-Blood Prince, which I've neglected to read 'cause I've turned into a bad HP fan. Hehe.
I watched the last two episodes of season 3 of Home Movies today, one of which I'd already seen when I watched Home Movies in photo arts last year. (I came during my teacher's free period/my study hall every day to use the dark room by myself last year and my teacher let me watch TV whenever I was processing a new roll of film.) I worked on issue 4 of my zine, which is turning out very pretty, if I do say so myself. I'm experimenting with some slightly different layout stuff. I'm suddenly very in love with craft feathers. I took Benny, my new ball python, out for about 10 minutes, but I think I woke him up and stressed him out, so I didn't force him to stay out long. He's basking under his heat lamp now. Aww... :) My corn snake, Breog, appears to be in a permanent stage of PMS. I'm leaving her alone right now since she just ate and I don't fancy a load of regurgitated mouse being spat upon me.
I really want to go see Goblet of Fire again. As much as I hated the first two movies and thought the third one was mediocre, I had a very strong urge to watch them yesterday. Turns out we never actually bought the third movie and my brother lost the first one ages ago. The second one was not quite as appealing as the first at the time, so I didn't watch any of them. I sat in my mom's comfy new micro-suede recliner and read my book instead. Bah.
My mom called the guidance counselor at the high school's alternative learning program today. I have an appointment to visit the school on Wednesday, which is refreshing. I'm going to get out of this hellmouth of a high school yet!
I'm feeling really creative now. I should go find something crafty to do. Or possibly write in my regular journal, since I keep neglecting it.
Toodles. (Which I've just started to say today and I hate, so I'm not sure why I keep saying it.)
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| Today |
[03 Dec 2005|04:05pm] |
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Got up at 10 till 6 this morning, showered, blow-dried my hair, went to work. It turned out that my "projects" were not the bathrooms, but merely wiping down all the chairs and table bases in the bar and dining room. And I got to watch Blast from the Past on TNT on the big TV while I did it. :)
I came home and did a few more zine things and played the Sims. Now I'm sitting here curled up under my favorite blanket and thinking about how I should be starting the three weeks worth of school work I have to catch up on. Oh goody. Is it bad that I'm a procrastinator?
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| yaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwn... |
[02 Dec 2005|10:34pm] |
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I didn't get out of bed till 2:50 today and then I worked from 4 to 9. Huzzah. Came home and did some zine-related stuff. Sage sent my order out today! Double huzzah. I <3 zines. Unfortunately I'm nearly broke and can't be spending more money on zines until I get paid next Friday. Bleh. Now I'm tired, but not tired enough for bed and I have to get up at 7:00 tomorrow morning to go into work and work on "projects," which probably means I'm cleaning the bathrooms again. Yuck.
On a happier note...Spellbinder and Ocean Girl have been released on DVD in Australia! I don't live in Australia and cannot play Australian DVD's in my DVD player, but I can watch them on my computer or (when I'm less broke) buy a PAL-compatible DVD player. That just totally made my day when I found out about it yesterday. Okay, I'm off to take a sleeping pill now. They're blue!
Night!
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| Excerpts from And Still We Sleep #3 |
[30 Nov 2005|11:08pm] |
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Here are a few excerpts from issue #3 of my zine:
"...the zipline that I'd long outgrown was now a rusted, useless string of metal, and the old red pickup truck, whose bed I'd spent so many hours playing in, had been sold. Even the toads and salamanders I caught in empty ice cream buckets and butter tubs seemed to have disappeared. Not to mention, Gram and Pap were becoming the one thing I could never imagine them being when I was little--old. I couldn't, and still can't, figure out if these changes had been sparked by the ice storm, like an avalanche waiting for the tiniest of vibration to set it falling, or if they'd been going on slowly, all this time, and I'd never even noticed."
"I shiver in the cold, bringing myself out of reminiscence. The room is so quiet, eerie, disconcerting, like I'm expecting ghosts to come out of the walls, that it sends another chill down my spine. Everything here, I realize, looks stripped of life, from the naked bed to the dead insects on the floor, to the toys I'd nearly forgotten. Dead ducks and birthday parties I can't remember and costume jewelry that doesn't fit."
"Sometimes, when he's watching cartoons on Nickelodeon, I want to sit down next to him and say, 'Tell me about the war. I want to know everything.' I want to know what it felt like and if he killed people and if his friends' names are on the wall in Washington, D.C, but I can never get up the courage to ask him, and I'm afraid someday he'll die without my ever having asked, and then I'll never know."
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| forgot! |
[30 Nov 2005|09:18pm] |
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Aww! Spunk I forgot to thank you for putting this together for me. A million gooey icing-covered Spike cookies to you! And a box of tortles! THANK YOU!
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| First Entry |
[30 Nov 2005|08:53pm] |
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I finally got a livejournal after months of being pestered by a certain Spike-loving-freak. Spunk, I can comment in your LJ now! Huzzah!
So yay for my first entry. Don't expect me to keep this thing too updated. I never keep my online journals updated. It's just really awkward writing about my life where anybody could see it. But I might use this for updates on my zine and whatnot.
Not much else to say at this point.
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hey this is spunk posting a tester in fairy's new lj! yay! ^_^
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