Hank, I'll see you on Monday..... Saturday?

Why hello there, I'm starting to think that I'm the new John Green, I am completely and utterly incapable of remembering what day of the week it is. Let's say it's Saturday.
I've had a pretty good week. I went to a Rocky Horror showing with my friends, it was my first time and I really enjoyed it, if you haven't been to one before, I strongly reccomend it.
I've decided against Doctor Who for Nanowrimo, I've got a different idea but I have no idea how to end it and avoid it being clichéd. There's a few too many similarities with Scott Pilgrim if I'm completely honest with myself.
I'm looking forward to this week (despite having a test and a load of homework) I'm going to a friends 19th birthday so that should be fun. Also, some exciting news I'm going to Germany in January to visit a good friend, I managed to get the money together so I'm delighted.
Christopher Lee is coming to give a talk next week. Can't wait!
I got accepted onto a volunteer program to Ecuador this summer, I have a few days to pay a deposit. I'm really unsure if I should commit to it because it's going to be difficult to fundraise the money for it. It's 1250/2300 euro depending on if I go 2/4 weeks. I really don't know what to do......
I'm kinda sleepy now, so I think I'll head to bed.
DFTBA
Adam

Excuses...

 I didn't have time to post last week due to a volleyball game that lasted longer than it should have.

For finals I did well.  I ace my biology and Algebra 2 final, giving me a 101% in Biology, and a 94% in Algebra 2.  I also finish with a 94% in English.  I'm happy with my grades... my dad thought I could do better.  (which, if I studied more in English, I would have).  This quarter I will be studying more and preparing myself more, so hopefully my grades won't be so close to a B+.

I've complained on Twitter. I've even complained on Facebook. But man.... I hate my English teacher.  I don't hate many people, like less than 5 people I hate, and the majority of those are book characters.  She really is one of the least favorite teachers at my high school.  Today she was handing back our essays.  She has marked only two errors on my paper, that's a lot less than a lot of the class.  She still made me rewrite it, well, retype it.  Why? Because I didn't underline the 5 vocab words we had to use.  I'm annoyed, because in the instructions, it didn't saw we had to underline the vocabulary.

Happy Halloween!  I personally am not doing anything because I am preparing for NaNoWriMo.  I'm really excited as it is my first.  I only decided today that I was for sure doing NaNo, so I probably won't be doing the blogging everyday thing on my main blog.  The story that I am writing I have had the idea for for awhile, and I had written an outline to it in the summer.

So answering questions time:
Teachers have to supply their own tissues for their classes, so most offer extra credit if a student brings a box for the class.
My favorite mythical creature would be the Pheonix.
I don't believe in aliens... but I do wish the Doctor existed sometimes.
I think that's it.

Kate

Remember how bad I am with titles?

This will be short, sorry. I'm in preparation for my first NaNoWriMo, so I've been ignoring the internet, and my homework. This will not be my finest academic month. However my friend Anna has chosen to be my writing buddy to help get through it all. I just read through this weeks post and it sounds like you guys are doing pretty well. I'm enjoying Num8ers, so far I'm on chapter seventeen. Have you ever considered taking a day of silence? I think I'm going to tomorrow or Tuesday. I just want to be left alone at school for a day, get away from all the stupidity certain people give me. Um...........................................I'm not doing anything for Halloween this year, my sister is having her friends over. Which means I bunk on the couch, woo. I have been watching a lot of Buffy this week, I'm on season four now. Such a good show. Anyway I'm gonna go to bed, have any awesome week!
Bye!♥

This is Hallowe'en, everybody make a scene~

Aliens. That's what I'm going to talk about today because it's the first thing I thought of. Do you guys believe in them? I do. I asked my mom what she thought about aliens and she says that she believes that there are other humans out there, but no "little green men". I'm a little more flexible in my opinion. I think that with such a huge universe there's bound to be more life forms out there than just humans. I can't even begin to imagine what they might look or act like though. There's just way to many possibilities. However, whether or not any aliens have contacted earth is questionable. I mean why would they?

Adam, that's cool you got to go to an observatory, I've never even seen one before besides in movies. And sure, if you think you can write a Doctor Who episode that's 50,000 words long then go right ahead. I bet it'll be awesome.

Num8ers was such an amazing book, Katie. I haven't read the sequel yet, but maybe I'll get around to it sometime. And if by "colours" you mean the ones for your post then yeah I love the colours. Makes your post stand out. As for contact outside of the blog, I'm mainly on msn, skype, and facebook. I don't use facebook to chat though because the chat on there bugs me. If anyone wants to add me on any of these message me on the nerdfighters site or something and I'll tell you my usernames/link to my facebook.

Hang in there Kira, I'm sure things will get better. I'm taking a physics e-learning course this semester because my school is to small to have its own class so I know how it can be frustrating sometimes.

Congrats on New Zealand's win Campion. And don't be ashamed about watching anime instead of sports, I'd do the same any day.

And Deidra I know exactly how you feel. I wish I could sleep forever. I've been so overloaded with homework, maybe it wasn't the best idea to take four 12U courses this semester, but I need them so I guess it can't be helped. As for Hallowe'en I'm dressing as a 1920's flapper girl this year. I would like to have a party or something with you, but with the way things are going I don't think that'll be possible. I'll probably stay home, watch some horror movies, and eat the candy that we never give away to kids because no one ever comes to my house. It's one of the perks to having a house a little outside of town. Also I'm carving my pumpkin tonight, anyone have any suggestions as to what design to put on it?

Also, before I forget, I'll give you guys a little plant update. Out of all the sunflowers only two are left (I think they may have been to squashed in the one pot), but they are thriving and one even has a bud. Hopefully it will flower. And I'll put a picture of my venus fly trap since I didn't put one up last time when I mentioned buying one. It caught a huge fly just today.
 

         DFTBA
         Kayla

To Be, or Not To Be?

   You know what I would love to be right now? Asleep. I would love to be able to sleep for the next week, undisturbed, with no consequences. It would help me so much. I have been staying up late every night this week to get homework done, and it is really taking a toll. So tonight I got all my work done super early so that I could go to bed early.

   We have moved on in our English class and are now studying Hamlet. So far I really like what I have read. The plot is good, and it seems like it will be all the way through, but the characters are all so horrible. I mean, they are written very well, but they are just bad people. Hamlet is so indecisive and whiny, I can't stand him. Either kill yourself or get on with your revenge, never mind 40 line soliloquies thinking about it!

   Yesterday was picture day, one of my least favourite days of the year. I don't really like having my picture taken, and never even get them printed anyway. Since this is my final year though, I decided to do something really different. As I am kind of against hair dye, I ended up using food colouring to make my hair blue. It turned out looking pretty cool. A little dark, since my hair isn't as blonde as it used to be, but still blue all the same.

   I don't have one favourite mythical creature. I like them all. Some of my most favourites are the manticore, pheonix, centaurs, and valkyries. I love mythology and all of the creatures that have come from them. I like to hear new takes on old classics, which is also why fantasy is my favourite genre.

   Are you guys going to do anything for Hallowe'en this year? Go out trick or treating, a party, or something? If so, (or not), are you dressing up? I am going to be wearing a pair of black angel wings to school on Monday, to be in the spirit. This year though, I am staying home and will probably just watch a movie or something.

   As always, hope you all have had a good week and have a great weekend. Don't forget to be awesome!
Deidra

Everyone In My Country Everyone Is A Poor Sport

Well, first off I would just like to say that New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup. Which, I'm surprisingly happy about. I'm usually not the kind of person who gets into sports but it was just amazing to see my country win... not that I watched the final game (I shamefully admit that I was watching anime in the other room when it happened) but I heard that it was really good. The only game I really watched was the one where we beat Australia, if only because it was the one where we faced Australia. But I am really proud of my country for winning. I'm not sure why, probably because of this whole "nation pride" thing that none of us are used to feeling. New Zealand isn't a very patriotic country, the only thing that really brings us together as a country is sports. I guess that the whole country coming together for this is really nice, especially after the Christchurch earthquake which practically tore the city apart.

Also, I've learned that everyone in my country in a really poor sport. After every game that our team won, the opposing team and their supporters would have abuse hurled at them, especially Australia (even when we weren't playing them). Like after their loss to Ireland (way to go Adam), they would get constant flaming from the New Zealand supporters on Facebook and Twitter. And unfortunately I believe that I may have inherited this poor sportsmanship as well so just bear with me a little...

So even though Canada, the USA and Ireland all lost.

New Zealand still won.

Have an awesome week guys

DFTBA

Tired

I really hate complaining, but I also hate my new school. The second wins out. It's not just the homework, it's the fact that we have to submit crap online, and I'm being driven insane, I could ramble on and on, but I'm tired, frustrated, and upset. Therefore I'm going to bed early, just leaving you with instructions to go to alifetimeofenchantment.webs.com

Roar.

I am literally falling asleep at the key board, and its only 8:36. I can't think of much to type. I had a kinda bad week, on Thursday until today. Its fine though, I'll get over it! So Adam I think you should do the Doctor Who episode for NaNoWriMo, if you don't have anything else. Now its 9:43. I suck at this! There isn't much that went on. I've been really tired over the week. Like I would go to bed at nine, wake up at 5:30 and still be tired. When I wasn't at school I would sleep on the bus, on the couch, in front of desk. That's why homework's been such a hassle lately. And right before November. It better stop or writing 50,000 words will be impossible. I'm about to start this book called Num8ers. Not a typo by the way. That's the title. My mom got it from the library and it seems okay. I just really want to start The Odyssey, but the books haven't come in yet! Um....Have I mentioned how intimidating my new Spanish two honors teacher is? She's scary. I have a feeling I won't do so well with her. I mean she says the pace we're going at is too slow and that we have to speed it up. That scares me, because I'm not too good at learning languages. I'm going to go start Num8ers. Have a nice night day thing.

Bye!♥

P.S. I love the colors, how about you? That's my question for the week. I guess...

P.P.S. I don't feel like I talk to anyone but Kate. We talk on Twitter and stuff. I want to talk to the rest of you more outside the blog. Any ideas? SO sleepy, bye for real.

A small collection

Hi, so I haven't posted for a while, last weekend I was in Cork on a trip with the physics society which was really good. We went  to an observatory.
I've been really swamped with homework lately so I'll just have to make this a short post.
I saw Up, which was awesome, I recommend it.
I bought a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, it's really good so far. I know that the last book is written by Eoin Colfer who is one of my favourite authors. If you haven't read Artemis Fowl you should definitely check it out.
Congratulations to Campion on New Zealand winning the world cup. Shame Ireland went out in the last 8, but new zealand were by far the best.
Also, I came up with an idea for a doctor who episode, should I use it for nanowrimo or should I just keep it as a sideproject?
Anyway, I should get back to homework.
DFTBA
Adam

Unicorns are pretty cool, too.

So I got to miss two days of school this week. The first day was for a dentist appointment and the second was because I was sick. Not very fun. And I'm a little behind in my work because of it, which sucks. It's going to be a busy weekend.

Today I made homemade mac and cheese for the first time ever. Usually we just make Kraft Dinner if we want mac and cheese, but I'd been wanting to see if I could make it or not from scratch for a while. It actually turned out pretty good, especially for a first try. Not that the recipe was super hard or anything.

Movie review for this week is on a pretty well known one (at least I'm fairly sure it is): Say Anything. I had heard good things about it from various places and yeah it was pretty good, but not super amazing in my opinion. The boom box scene was also not exactly as I expected. And wow, John Cusack looked really young in this movie. Anyway, it was a good movie so you should check it out.

As for the Occupy protests, I've heard about them, but I'm not really concerned with them. Not sure if that's bad of me to do... I just don't really care about it all that much.

Kate, I'm also wondering the same thing as Deidra about the tissues. And sorry, but I'm horrible of thinking of things to write about so I don't think I'll be of any help at all in that department.

Campion, I am most definitely not a morning person and I can't really understand how some people are. I love staying up late and sleeping in late. But even if I get a full nights rest I always still feel tired in the morning. And when I feel tired all I want to do is either go back to sleep or just curl up and not do anything.

And as for my favourite mythical creature... well that's a toughy. I think right off the bat I would like to say selkies. I think they're pretty cool, and it'd be awesome to just throw on a robe to turn into a seal and go swimming and just change back whenever you feel like it. Selkies have been my favourite for a while now, but before that it was probably the European dragon. Dragons are epic, super powerful, fire breathing, treasure hoarding, scaled beasts. What's not to love? However I also like a bunch of other things such as fairies, elves, centaurs, kappas, sirens, tengu, tsukumogami, etc, etc. My list could go on for a while, but I'll leave it at that. I really like mythical creatures, so it'll be interesting to read everyone else's responses.

DFTBA
Kayla

The Cold One

   The evil-ness that is winter is on its way. This week has been bitterly cold, and we even got a dash of snow one day. It didn't stay, melted the same day that it arrived, but it still signifies the turn of the season. Much too early, I might add. Ususally we don't see snow until Hallowe'en, when we get our (usually) annual snowstorm. Many of my memories of the holiday include being bundle up in weatherproofed costumes and heading out into falling snow or whipping winds.

 

   This early cold just means that I have been wearing my coat and scarf to school each day, and coming home with cold feet. I need to buy new winter boots before we get some real snow. My shoes are fine for now, as the walk to the bus is a short one, but after an entire day in them my feet are sore. Also, I love my scarf. It's maroon and yellow, and super-cozy and warm. It sort of looks like a Gryffindor house scarf, except not. I'd love to have one in blue and white or silver-ish, to be more Ravenclaw, since that's the house I connect most with.

   I love your photos, Kayla. Especially the railroad one. It kind of makes you feel like you could keep looking forever, like things can keep going on and on, and never stop. Really optimistic. Also, Vampires Suck was an amazing movie. I actually prefer it over Twilight, and I don't really mind those movies. I mean, they have their flaws (many, many flaws), but they weren't completey bad. And the books were the same. I enjoyed them, but only for their face value. Once you start really looking at them, they start to depreciate.

   *Stands awkwardly in the corner* Sorry Katie, but I think I will enjoy your dance party from afar. I don't really enjoy dancing, not any kind of it. I don't think I can even do the arm flailing with enough dignity. I'm just too painfully shy and awkward for that kind of stuff. I'm glad that you are liking English and History, though. The humanities are what I love and excel in, especially English. It is was I am hoping to study in university. It was also an amazing, funny, joking teacher who made me really love it.

  Never feel bad about complaining, Kate. That's what we're here for. Vent all you need. Good luck with your blogging, I am looking forward to it. If you look on my blog, I have recently posted some things that you could do for posts when you have nothing to write about. They are mostly questions and things of that sort. Also, book blogs can be fun to write and read. I am always interested in knowing what you reading. (I am book nerdy) A question though: why would you get extra credit for bringing tissues to class?

   Kira, I am glad that the pictures reminded of home. I hope that this week was better for you in terms of homesickness. I know that if I had to leave Canada, I would probably be sad forever. Unless I moved to London, as it has kind of been my dream to visit/live there for as long as I can remember. But then again, I am a home person. I don't like to stray too far from here.

   Campion, I am so glad that you got a chance to post. The view from your home is beautiful. Reminds me of when I lived out at the lake a bit. Except we had more trees, and less hills. Yes, many, many more trees. I think I am the opposite of you, but for the same reason. I prefer to be up late, when everyone is sleeping, as opposed to up early. It is quiet, and no sounds or annoyance from my sister or parents. A lovely change from the day time. Plus, I am a horrible morning person. Though quiet; I don't tend to like to talk to people in the morning.

   My days are getting colder and shorter. Hallowe'en is drawing near. I am procrastinating more and more on homework, though I really shouldn't be. Since I haven't asked a question in a really long time, I think I will. What is your favourite mythical creature? Don't forget to be awesome, and have a good weekend.

I'm cheating... sort of

Well it's technically not Wedensday (it's Friday morning) but by the clock it's Thursday on the other side of the world and most of you guys won't be up yet. So that gives me more than enough time to cheat away. Well today is a lovely Friday, it's nice to be up early and watch the sunrise over the lake outside..

This is the lake that I live by. I don't know whats so peaceful about the quiet that you get being up earlier than everyone else, I have four brothers and a sister so it's nice to appreciate a bit of piece and quiet. I guess I'm just a morning person.

Anyway I'm supposed to go off and do some filming for Aunty at one of the local schools today so that should be pretty fun. Also I kinda got one of my friends in trouble yesterday because as a sarcastic comment I posted on her Facebook page I said that she should pour petrol on her teachers lawn. It was funny, until her teacher called her up not realizing that we joking (Facebook needs a sarcasm font).

And just going completely off topic, I didn't really like the Twilight movies (haven't read the books). My mother made me watch the movies, I thought that the scene where the vampires and Werewolves fought each other was pretty cool but beyond that I didn't think much of them.

So anyway, I've got to go off filming soon.
So have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

Public Service Announcement

Okay, so maybe not a public service announcement so much as an advertisement. Recently, my friend started a website. Click here for details. I'm just going to give a quick description. We are like twins separate at birth, so, of course, she loves Harry Potter. She wants to collect memories. Go visit the website, sign up, and share the great times you've had with the series. Kay, advertising over.

Kayla, Deidra, thanks for the pictures. They reminded me of home. XD I agree with you, Kayla - Twilight was a huge waste of time.

Campion, I tried the porridge with brown sugar. It was delicious. Thanks for the suggestion.

Uh, yeah...to clear things up for my friend's friend whose name I don't know, we are not the same person. We are just insanely similar. Actually, the fact that we both switched instruments was because I agreed to do it after she did. I thought it would be cool to try it. I was wrong.

"It's Getting Better All the Time"

In the days following my last post, life got better for me.  I felt kind of bad for complaining and stressing so much.

On the matter of Twilight.  I did enjoy the books, but not the movies.  I think the books became popular before the movies, and then the only reason it gained more attention from the movies was that the actors were "hot."
I haven't watch much of Myles (blade376) podcasts of videos lately (which I regret), and I haven't really heard much about them from anywhere else.

I'm am pretty confident about this week, finals week.  I found out that in Government, we don't take a final because it is a college class.  So that means I don't have to worry about that, and that is the thing that worried me most. (Used the word "that" enough times in the previous sentence.) I don't even need to worry about Biology.  For English I just need to keep doing well and all will be fine.
For Algebra 2, I found out that I need to do better than 95% on the final to get an A-, or a 93%.  My grade is currently 92.3%.  I'm bringing tissues to class to get a point of extra credit, and hopefully tonight's homework will help a little bit.  At least the final is multiple choice and I'm good with Math.

The last thing I wanted to say:
Since I haven't made much use of my blog recently, due to business and such, I am going to be doing BEDIN, Blog Every Day In November.  I'll have less homework and no volleyball practice, so I know I will have time to blog each night.
November tends to be the month that has the most things going on for me.  There's my birthday, two orchestra performances, Thanksgiving, and a few other things, so I will have more to write about.

Do any of you have any topics or good questions I could base a blog post on?

*Insert Beatles song title here*

I dare you to click the title.

I actually don't think its possible to love two classes this much. I have both History[or 'Humanities' as they call it] and English class with one teacher, and I have to say its a great way to start my day. I have those as my honors and so the classes are in the morning and he always seems to make our day better. I should first state that I'm not one of those people who think my teachers are attractive, that's way too creepy for me. That and he's gay [fact, not someone judging because they act different or because they are dumb.] Now that's out of the way, the reason his classes are awesome is because he gets excited about what he teaches, he makes jokes, and generally tries to keep the two hours we have with him fun.

So Kate has stress with school and Kira misses Canada, how can we fix both those problems with one solution...DANCE PARTY! *flails arms* Better? Probably not, but eh I can only do so much. [random change in topic] I love the classics. I was compiling a list for the English and History class classic literature. I hope my teacher lets us read A Tale of two Cities I own two different copies of the book and have been dying to read it. Now hold on while I think of something to write about... 

Oh okay I had gym for the first time this week and it was horrible. Nothing the teacher did, it was us [as per usual with kids I go to school with]. The first day we were doing this activity that involved bonce-y balls and one of the eleventh graders decided he would take the ball and not tell anyone [even though we soon found out.]. He's about sixteen or seventeen taking toys from a gym class. The next day it rained so we played this game thing where one person was blind-folded and the other person had to lead them. The object was to get the blinded person to pick up random tennis balls off the floor and into buckets that got circulated around the room. The hard part was once they picked up the ball the couldn't walk. So the same guy who took the ball last time had his partner throwing balls across the room due to poor directions. I swear I was hit like ten times! 

That was Wednesday and Thursday in a nutshell. I just finished dinner and its 8:36. I am posting this before five minuets after mid-night to avoid my English paper and am very happy with the way things have been coming about lately. Something I think would be interesting to debate is your opinions on the Occupy protests? Do you know what they are? Is it effecting you or anyone you know?

That's about it this time, until next week!

Bye!♥

Whatever happened to vampires burning in the sun?

Seems like most of us are stressed about school at the moment. I myself have a couple of things piling up in the homework department along with the fact that in about a month I have to apply to universities, which means that I have to choose where I want to go. I'm thinking University of Guelph will be my top choice since it has a good vet program and it seems nice overall. It will be pretty far from home though.

I ended up watching New Moon and Eclipse this week. Yes, I'm talking about the Twilight series. No, I don't actually like Twilight. I just watched them because they happened to be playing and I wanted to see for myself if the movies were any good or not. And at the risk of offending anyone here who likes Twilight let me just say, wow, how did this series become so popular? I already ranted most of my annoyances with Twilight to Deidra as I was watching the movies, but I just want to say one thing. How come when someone's talking on a phone in the same room as a vampire the vampire can't hear the person on the other end. It makes no sense.

Anyway, enough of that. If you share my feelings about Twilight and want a good laugh you should definitely check out Vampires Suck. I've seen it a couple times already and it still makes me chuckle.

Adam, Thanks Giving to my family is when we get together and have a delicious turkey meal with all the trimmings. We just enjoy each other's company really. I'm pretty sure traditionally it's supposed to be more related to it's name as in you're supposed to think of the things you are thankful for in your life and give thanks for them.

Katie, I think a genius is someone who thinks or sees things differently than the majority of people. It's like they think on a whole different level. They can see things and connect things better as well. As for classics, I don't really tend to read them, but I'm trying to change that. If only I had more time. I started Journey to the Centre of the Earth at the end of summer, but it's sitting on my desk half finished right now. It's not even that long and I was really enjoying it. Darn school.

Kate, hang in there. I'm sure you'll do fine in school. Remember to take some time off for yourself too even if you have homework and stuff. It's not good to overwork yourself.

Kira, don't feel too sad. Here's some pictures from near my house and from Thunder Bay too, hopefully they'll help. :)

DFTBA

Kayla

Too Much Stress

   Even though this week has been a short one, it has been extremely rough and stressful for me. I ended up having to go the hopsital yesterday because I had some sort of attack or something. I was in Biology, just sitting there listening to my teacher talk and explain the note, and all of a sudden I felt like I couldn't draw in breaths. It was really freaky.
  

   I spent 2 hours in the emergency room, and got an ECG. It was very annoying. They stuck theses little sticker things all over me, which were only necessarry for about two seconds. When I went to take them off, I discovered they were not exactly stickers, but stuck to me with this glue stuff. It was painful to take off. Then I had glue residue all over me. After all of that, my heart was totally fine. They also checked my blood sugar, which was fine, but painful because they stick you with a little needle-like thing. I hate needles. I still have the mark on my finger.

   They kept asking me if there was anything that was causing me stress, or making me anxious. They were trying to imply that it was a panic attack, or something of that nature, but I was completely fine before it happened, relaxed even. Nothing to cause me to panic. In the end, they said they couldn't figure out what happened, and let me go home. But if it happens again I will have to get more extensive tests.

   I really just want this week to be over. I only have done two full days of school, but the work and other things are just making me so tired. I come home after school and I don't want to do anything.

   Kayla, your advice on the inner editor is amazing. Some days I just want to kill him. I am doing homework, trying so hard to just get it finished, and the nagging feeling to go back and change something tends to make the entire process so much longer.

   *Places pillow upon the desk* Allow me to soften the blow of that headdesk, Kate. The weekend is coming up, so make sure you do some relaxing along with your studying. I tend to not study very well for exams, which causes a lot of stress for me.

   I adore the rainbow of colours, Katie!  ^.^ It looks so cool. I am just getting into classics this year. We are currently studying The Great Gatsby, and I absolutely love it. As for The Odyssey, I haven't read it, but I know a lot of the stories from it, as I am kind of a mythology nerd. And to answer your question, I think a genius is someone who is able to question things, and find answers where other people don't see questions or answers. If that makes any sense. It probably doesn't.

   I loved the title of your post, Adam. I can't wait to hear the song. As I have no knowledge of music, the chords you wrote about just baffle me. Also, you said that you don't go farther than 15 minutes from home each day. That seems just nuts to me. I have to take a half hour bus ride to and from school every day. Then again, that's also nuts to me. I hate the ride.

   Kira, don't be too sad. Canada misses you too. Here are some pictures for you. A winter picture from when I lived out at the lake, because we will soon be plagued by the demon cold snow. A deer, because I had it in my files and we have lots of them here. And my favourite sunset, to calm your homesickness.

   I hope you guys have better weeks than I have, and that your weekends are made of awesome. Don't forget to be awesome, 'cause you all make my week so much better.   : )

Deidra

Missing Home

Hi, guys! I'm going to answer a few posts before I become all mopey, so here goes...

Porridge. I like porridge. Brown sugar...I've never actually tried it with brown sugar. Thanks for the suggestion, Campion!

Katie, I absolutely love most classics, especially the Odyssey. I'm usually wary of saying that - I hate sounding pretentious, but whatever. It probably sounds more pretentious to admit that I actually have a shelf of collector's edition classics on my shelf.

Kate, the Heroes of Olympus annoys me too. The whole series does, but I'm not going to rant. I'm going to stay calm, because I don't want to take up four pages. Hope you do well on your exams. ;)

Mope-fest time!

So, okay. You guys know I'm from Canada and that I just moved to the U.S, right? Technically speaking, I'm an American citizen - I was born here. But to me, I'm Canadian - I was raised there. Most of my life was spent there. It contains the one place that I really call home. And I miss it, so freaking much.

I'm in an IB school here - I'm in dumb people math - Math 2 - , unlike most of my friends; I'm Canadian, so I'm insanely ahead in French; and I support the rival country in sports events - eg, the Olympics in general. I don't belong here. In addition, to add insult to injury, my band director wanted me to switch from the flute - which I can actually play - to the bassoon, which is almost as big as me. I hate it.

I hope you don't mind me complaining so much. I just really miss Ontario. If one of the people from Canada here can take a picture of something outside for me, I'd love you forever. (smiles hopefully)

D: <- terrified face

Stress has been building lately.  I find I usually want to headdesk at least once throughout each day.  The quarter finals are next week! It I get a B or A on the final, I will be passing my AP US Government class with a B.  It will be my first B I have ever gotten, and, man, I'm happy with that.  It was a hard class and I have accepted the low(er) grade. I just don't hope it goes lower.
As long as I don't go down in English, I'll be happy, as I have an A-.  I just have to study and I should be alright.
Biology is the easiest class I have, being as it is not and honors or AP.  I have and A so I don't need to worry about that.
In my Algebra 2 honors I current have a B.  I need 2 points to make it an A.  Hopefully it will go up once participation is finally put in, but that grade is what is scaring me most.  I only want one B so my gpa doesn't suffer and so my dad won't be unhappy with me.
This is the first year I have ever had to study.

I didn't have enough patience to read the Heroes of Olympus series.  I only made it half way through the first book and got bored.  I did really like the Percy Jackson books.  I read them after the movie came out, but I never saw the movie.
Kayla, I loved your little piece of advice.  It I did nanowrimo that would be my biggest problem is I'd want to edit it.
Congrats on finishing your song, Adam!
Katie, I loved the Odyssey. We read it for English last year.

I would call John Lennon a musical genius, but not really an all-around genius.  A genius, to me, is someone who knows what life is about; someone who knows what they want to accomplish and they accomplish it.
That was kind of a difficult question for me to answer, especially now, as I am exhausted from school and volleyball.

I'm just going to leave this post like it is.
Kate

103 Reasons to love the classics

I'm sitting in the dark!

Or at least I was at seven o'clock when I started writing this! Aw this weekend has been very close to perfect it has. I didn't have to ride the bus with the annoying kids on Friday. Instead I was picked up by my friends mom and we drove to her house. Our friend who goes to a different school arrived later in the evening and we stayed up playing cards, eating popcorn, and having an all-round nerdy time. 

We talked about news, school, and things we liked/disliked. I really missed my friend. Whilst having such an awesome time, we planned for us to all go see a movie this afternoon. We ending up seeing Dream House, which wasn't all as 'scary' as the previews lead it to be. Now I'm not one for scaring myself with films, but this couldn't scare an eight year old. It was mostly really confusing, at parts. I guess the reason it wasn't so frightening was because we made it a laugh.

Adam, Thanksgiving is holiday, in which we give thanks to god or something. At least, that's how my family views it. The whole turkey feast between the Europeans and Native Americans is crap. Not sure what it means in Canada. I explained that really poorly, sorry. I'm not a big fan of the tradition, so I'm a bit bitter toward it. Oh well. I'm glad your song Bad Wolf is completed!:)

Deidra thank you for the feed back on my poem-ish thing. Glad you enjoyed it. I quite liked it myself. The RH Experience were one of my favorites from Stickaid as well. I'm personally not a big fan of granola bars myself. The texture is weird. Thank you again, for your lovely responses to the quote! I had pretty much the same feelings toward it. My next question thing is 'what makes a genius?' I actually thought of it earlier tonight while watching a John Lennon special. My mom said she thought John had gotten weird over the years, and it made me think he was a genius. Therefore geniuses are weird.

Speaking of which, Its John and Sean Lennon's birthdays today, as well as John Entwistles birthday. I thought that was very interesting. Them all having the same birthday, years apart. So I watched like three John Lennon specials in a row and it really disturbed me how Chapman thinks of himself as Holden from 'The Catcher in the Rye'. Something my mom and sister said was that many murders make references to the book, and I can't understand why. 

Speaking of old literature, do you guys read classics? Like Oliver Twist or Scarlet Letter? Just curious because my class is reading 'The Odyssey'. The non-honor kids in the class [small school, so we're mixed] read from book five and on, but because I'm honors I get to read the first book and on. What fun!! Though, I am looking forward to it! That's all for now.
Bye!♥

I've been running from the big bad wolf.

Hi, I think that editor guy in my head may take a little shifting as this is the third time I've written my opening paragraph :)

Kayla. I think my perception of time is a little different to most other nationalities. It's gotten better as I've gotten older and gotten to see the world but I remember when I was young. We went twice a year to visit my grandparents who were three hours away, and this was the longest drive I could comprehend. On a daily basis we don't stray more than 15 minutes away from home. I guess small countries just see the world differently. I think it's made me learn to value my time more, maybe.

I like granola bars but only when I have a glass of milk :) I like porridge but if I'm honest, I prefer muesli.

College is so tiring, my lectures are really tough. My algebra class is really abstract and my math modelling is very intense. But college life in general makes up for the tough lectures. This Monday I'm going to a Yu-gi-oh tournament on campus. On Tuesday, the Irish football team have a really important game against Armenia, who are playing surprisingly well lately. I might meet up with friends to see that (on TV, I have no money). Then not much happens til the weekend when I have a physics trip to Cork which should be good and as a result of that I probably won't get a chance to post next week, so I'll apologise in advance. Then on Monday, I'll getto see a lecture by Edward Witten (he's an epic physicist).

I finished the Bad Wolf song, I'm really happy with it  XD for anyone interested the chords are Bm, D, E, F#

Oh, and no in Ireland we don't have anything like thanksgiving, wha exactly is it? We just have a straight run to Halloween, which may I add is of Irish origin. Yay us!

Now I'm sleepy.
Nighty night :)

Almost Turkey Dinner~

Yay, so I'm off for Thanksgiving weekend. I can't wait because tomorrow we're having a delicious turkey dinner and for dessert there's homemade pumpkin pie. I loooooooooooove homemade pumpkin pie, possibly more than chocolate and that's saying something. And I get to have this awesome meal with my whole family, which makes it even better. I know Thanksgiving is a Canada/US holiday (even though they're at different times) so I was wondering if there's a holiday that you guys have around this time instead, or is there just nothing until Hallowe'en?

I did manage to watch part of Stickaid this year, but not the whole thing like I said I would. I was super tired so I missed the very beginning and most of the end. What I did see was really awesome though. Like Deidra I thought the RH Experience was really funny, and they just had to get Charlie to kill Mr. Bun again didn't they. And Spike was pretty awesome, he just took everything in stride even when they made him be nyan cat.

On a side note I haven't shown any pictures of my sunflowers in a while. Actually only 2 are left alive, I think there was too many packed into that small pot so yeah. But the two that are left are growing quite nicely. They're back at home right now (hopefully they won't die over the weekend). They were also selling these little venus fly traps at the grocery store so I bought one of those because it's a super cool plant. Apparently they're supposed to be kept super moist which is good since the last time I killed a plant it was from overwatering it.

As for NaNoWriMo, I signed up for it last year and wrote for a couple days before giving up. I hope to actually do it this year and I have several ideas for stories so I just have to choose one. We'll have to see how busy with school I am though. I think that writing is easier if it's something that you can relate to so I always try to incorperate different aspects into my story that I've witnessed, or gone through, or know lots about. Also for NaNoWriMo exclusively I have one piece of advice: take the mini person that's in your head that edits everything you write, lock them up, and hide the key somewhere you won't go back to until December. It's extremely hard to keep on schedule if you keep going back to make things sound better or fix little mistakes.

The longest trip I've been on was probably about 14 hours. I've done it several times to visit my sister in Ottawa. Most of the time we split it up into a two day trip so it's not so bad, but once we did it all in one day. Also since I live in a smaller town we drive to Thunder Bay a lot, sometimes every weekend, and that's a 3 hour trip so it's weird for me to think about your situation Adam. Do you travel around a lot since it doesn't take an extremely long time to get anywhere?

Katie, I feel you for your problem with internet and Irl friends. There are so many things I find or do on the internet, but I can't really share them because people would just get confused and look at me weird. It's not that they don't go on the internet, it's just that they aren't interested in the same things as me.

Campion, thanks for the recommendation, I've heard of the series before, but never ended up watching it. It's on my list of things to watch, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it. I'm really behind in those things because of school.

Anyway this post is taking longer than I planned and I'm starting to get a headache so some quick things then I'll go. Katie, I think the quote means that it's easy to understand other people, but it's hard to understand yourself. Kate, good job by staying up for all of Stickaid. I like Quaker granola bars and I also really love homemade porridge. And no movie recommendation this week, I will however suggest the TV show Modern Family. It's pretty funny.

DFTBA
Kayla

100th Post

   I don't know why, but this week has been very tiring. I even went to bed really early one night, and that didn't help. I am so thankful that this weekend will be a three day weekend for me, because I definetely need it. Not only to sleep, but to get some work done.

   Stickaid was amazing. I woke up at 6:00am, to realize that I had messed up and gotten the time wrong. So I went back to sleep for an hour and half, and woke to see Myles snarfing a Kinder egg. It was a good beginning. I really liked the way it was done this year, with multiple co-hosts each with their own activities and such, as opposed to last year, where it was just Myles and Charlie and random people popped in and out.

   My favourite co-hosts were the RH Experience, Connor, Luke and Tom. They were just hilarious. I think I missed a segment of theirs, but what I did see made me laugh so much. It was funny to see them do the Kinder challenge together. I also loved it when Charlie did his challenges. It was like watching all of the videos over again, but with even more awesome.

   Thank you again Kayla for your awesome drawing. Oshawott would most definetely be my starter if I had that Pokémon version game. I have always been a water trainer. And Oshawott is the cutest of this generations starters. Snivy is alright, and so is Tepig, but they don't match up to the awesome-ness of Oshawott.
  
   Adam, the longest car ride I've taken recently was a 2-day car trip to Saskatchewan to visit my Grandparents. It was really long and boring, mostly because I was in the backseat with my sister the entire drive. Canada is really vast, and I would not want to drive the entire way. Also, good luck with your song. Keep at it, you will get it eventually.  =)

   Katie, that is actually a really good quote. I think it means that it is easier to understand others and their motivations, but it is difficult to understand yourself. It is easier to like others, and open up to them, but it is more difficult to like and accept yourself. I hope you are feeling better, and that tiny chickens aren't invading your head.

   I'm with you, Kate. I want the second half of the year to be here already. That is when my more interesting classes are, and it would also mean being closer to graduation. This semester just doesn't seem to be going by fast enough. Also, congrats at staying up and watching all of Stickaid. I decided to go to sleep at midnight my time and get up to watch the final hour and a half. It was worth it, as the last bit was amazing, and I wasn't as tired to do m homework on Sunday.

   Kira, I actually really like Granola bars. I don't find them dry or nasty. They are chewy, chocolate-y awesome-ness. And, woo French homework. Je t'aime français. I took it in grade nine and grade ten. I would have taken it again, but there weren't enough students to get a grade eleven class together. Oh well.

   Campion, that is a Granola bar. They are amazing, trust me. Though not as good as porridge and brown sugar. Don't worry about my schedule, it's a minor clock in my room that is set to NZT. My main alarm clock is still set to me time. Though personally I don't use clocks, I use my cellphone mostly to check the time and to wake up in the morning. Also, the weather here has been nice this week, which has been really pleasant. I hope your exams are going/went well.

   Anyway, I've procrastinated my homework enough with this post. I watched the last episode of Doctor Who, taking a break from Stickaid, and now I don't know what I'm going to do with my Saturday nights. Any suggestions? Don't forget to be awesome!!

Deidra

Porridge is one of the greatest things ever

Porridge is awesome, it's late at night and it's one of the few things that's keeping me going right now. Up untill this point I believe that I have behaved like a bit of antisocial prick because I haven't really responded or mentioned anyone else's post's, nor have I answered any of the questions that anyone has asked. I seek to rectify this.

First, Kira I honestly have no idea of what Granola bars are (in fact I'm not even sure if I can get them in my country) but if they are as awesome as you say they are, if I ever see one I'll be sure to try it (so long as you promise to try some homemade porridge with cream and brown sugar. Trust me, it's amazing). And I also find Maths boring, precisely why I'm not taking it next year.

Kate, I hadn't heard of Stickaid before this weekend. It sounded pretty awesome so I think I will do it next year, I don't really know why I've never heard of it. Some of my friends were doing it though, also it's good to hear that you stayed up for the whole 24 hours, I don't know if I could have done it.

Katie, in response to your world power question from last week (I'm a bit late I know), well it's an interesting question to ask because where you come from would influence it a great deal. I would have to say America because they seem to have the farthest reaching influence. They seem to affect the most cultures around the world (I'm sorry I can't go in depth more but it is really late). Also sorry about your cold :(

Adam, I hope your song goes well. I personally have no musical talent whatsoever so I hope that your song goes well. The longest drive I have ever done is about five hours, not very long compared to the rest of you guys I know, but in a about 10 or so hours I can drive the entire length of my country. So driving any longer than that is incomprehensible to someone like me and I can't believe that John drove for 14 days! I didn't even realize that it was possible to drive for that long without running out of road! Also I'm not really a big fan of travel because New Zealand is an extremely hilly country, making long distance difficult and incredibly easy to get car sick on. Also, when the Irish rugby team beat Australia, you have no idea how many people in my country were cheering that night.

Kayla, I love your pictures of Oshawott and Snivy (in fact, I picked Oshawott when I first started). Thanks for your recommendation of Castle in the sky, I loved the other films the Studio Ghibli have done (especially Howls Moving Castle). To you I would like to make my own recommendation, but it's more for a series than a film. It's a series called Code Geass, it's kinda like a combination of Gundam with Death Note (it's better than it sounds).

Deidra, thanks for setting your clock to New Zealand time. It will probably screw over your entire schedule but thanks anyway :) I enjoy your long posts so don't worry about making them too long, their a lot longer than mine usually are I wish I could write my posts that long. I'm sorry about the horrible weather and I'm glad that someone other than me hates Maths, I'm absolutely horrible at it.

So, I need to go to bed now so I can get up for school tomorrow. So have an awesome week guys

DFTBA

The Uncreative One Returns

I have absolutely nothing to write today. I can't think of anything that merits a post.

Math is as boring as ever. Economics is pretty interesting. We started our virtual trading project today. Lit, what used to be my favourite class, has become REALLY bland...

Today, the Son of Neptune came out. For those of you that don't know, it's a book in the Heroes of Olympus series, a series that I find awful. I read them to make fun of them, because the characters annoy me so much. The original series - Percy Jackson - was okay, but it's gotten hyped up way too much,

My thoughts are really disconnected, so I'm going to talk about...Granola bars. What kind of genius came up with them? Those Quaker ones - which I am eating right now - are all dry and nasty. I need water.

Bye. The procrastination demon has struck me, but I have to return to mes devoirs. My French has gotten really bad lately. American French classes are too easy.

Sometimes I Forget to Add a Title, Not Today

(Stealing Katie's idea)  This post will be orange in honor of Stickaid.  


Stickaid started at 6 AM for me.  I had woken up at 5:30.  I started to get tired around 8:30 PM because I didn't have a good sleep the night before.  My cat had woken me up a few times. 
Equipped with a delicious frappuccino and a cup of cold black coffee, I managed to stay awake and watch the whole show.  (I used the cold black coffee because it was the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted, and the taste would awaken me.)
For me the 20 and 22 hours were the two hardest hours.  That last hour went by so fast.  I was filled with so much feelings.  I felt proud of myself for staying awake, proud of Myles, and I just loved everyone.  Livetweeting the event with friends was so much fun.  I hadn't been that happy or had that much fun for weeks.


I've been debating whether I should do NaNoWriMo this year.  I want to, but I don't think I could actually do it.  I have a story line I could use, but... well, I don't know.


Kira, the last chapter we learned in math dealt with matrices. I did not enjoy them.  
I know how you feel, Campion.  Most days I get homework in everyone of my classes, and each assignment usually takes a while to finish.  That's why I can't wait for this half of the school year to be done. Then I will have different classes.
Deidra, I don't mind your longer posts.  In fact, I think they are fun to read.  Everyone's posts are fun for me to read.
I'm impressed with your drawing, Kayla! They were cute, especially Oshawott?
To answer Adam's question, the longest drive I have ever been on was 11 hours.  Every summer and Christmas, my family drives down to where my grandparents live.  It usually just takes 10 hours, but one time there was a lot of traffic.  
Katie, I think the quote means that it can be easy to control others and have them do something you want them to do, but it's extremely hard to control yourself and make the right decision all of the time.


Kate

In honor of Stickaid

This post will be orange. I almost stayed up for all of Stickaid. I'm actually quite sad, because I fell asleep like two hours before it was over. Stickaid was amazing though, such an improvement from last year. I can't seem to stop laughing to myself when I think back to the puns or challenges. Tomorrow will be annoying because I can't share this type of stuff with my Irl friends. I don't think they would understand watching people on YouTube, following people on Twitter, or even this blog. No one seems to get that not everything on the internet is e-mails and porn.

I too will be participating in NanoWriMo this year for the first time, so I have no tips or hints to give, sorry! Being as lazy as I am, I can't bother to check your posts to see if you had good weeks, I hope you did. Since I watched Stickaid I didn't watch Doctor Who so I would appreciate no spoilers! School has been going well for me. I really like the teachers, mostly the algebra 1 teacher. His classes are fun and I enjoy learning math, which is something I rarely say. Also his truck runs on vegetable oil. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! 

I don't have to much left to say, except how interesting it was to read your responses to my world power question. When I asked my mom she thought North Korea.[ You might be able to see why.] My next question thing is actually a quote: "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power"-Lao Tzu. What do you think this means? I'm very sick, and I hate it. I can't remember the last time I had a cold, maybe two years ago or more. I don't miss it. Here's to another awesome week, and may the next be even better!
Bye!♥

Far away

I find that writing is something that comes more naturally to some, I don't find that I'm one of those people. Which makes it a little silly of me to have entered Nanwrimo this year. I have no idea how to write a novel or what it should be about for that matter. Any hints, tips or suggestions will be warmly welcomed :)

I think that the US is probably the most powerful in terms of world influence. Obviously living in Ireland I see Britain as very influential but I still have to give the edge to America. I was walking up the main street in Dublin with my friends and we passed a Macdonalds, a KFC, a Burger King, Foot Locker, another Macdonalds..... So I think it has to win on that front.

I was thinking a lot today about the perception of distance and time. I was watching John plays Fifa on the Hankgames channel, my new favourite show and he mentioned how he drove to Alaska which took 14 days.
I really can't comprehend that. I live in Ireland, to drive from between the two furthest points is a 7 hour drive. Since I live fairly central I've never really had to experience a drive longer than four hours. What's the longest drive any of you guys have ever had?

My song "Bad Wolf" is taking longer than I thought, I might just start fresh again.

Well, I have to get up early tomorrow, to watch Ireland play Italy in the Rugby World Cup so goodnight!
Adam