Still Kicking

Who are  you? Where am I? You probably don't remember me, but I post on Saturdays. Well used to. Have no fear for I have returned! I want to give you a HUGE update, but I might not have time before midnight. So I promise you that I will be back tomorrow for a full explanation of my absence.

~Katie

I had to change the account password.

I'll email you guys the new password. (Kira i messaged you on tumblr cause I dont think i had your email in my contacts??? i dunno) Anyway yeah sorry, it was because it said there was suspicious activity and i had to change it to get back on.

Consensus

Hey, guys. Sorry I didn't post last week. I had a lot of work to do, and it completely slipped my mind. So in the past two weeks, my robotics team won a competition, I felt sentimental so I made graduating robotics seniors cards, and I had six tests. I'm really tired now.

Adam, I'm glad you enjoyed doing this blog for a while. I'll miss you! I know what you mean, though. I think we all do, really. I don't think I'll be able to do this for much longer, either - robotics plus IB is kind of drowning me. I don't have the time to devote to this. I rarely post as is.

I hope you all have awesome weeks!

Might Redo This Tomorrow

I have to get up early tomorrow thanks to state-wide testing, and I just spent most of the night prom dress shopping.  I did find a dress I like that looks good on me.

Yeah, I'll try to rewrite this post tomorrow.
Kate

Late post is late

Okay, okay. So it's already Sunday. Bad Kayla, I know. But to be fair I was just relaxing after having 3 midterms in the week so meh. Also I baked another apple pie and then I went to dinner and a movie with a friend, and then I would have come home and posted but the buses here are dumb and don't run by my house after 12 so I had to sleep over at my friends dorm since I didn't want to pay for a taxi. But  I'm home now so yay.

On the topic of what's happening with our blog I agree with the general consensus that it has kind of become more like a journal sort of thing. I will stick with it though for at least a while longer to see if we either change things up or just all move on to new things. And bye Adam, sad to see you go but glad to have the chance to get to know you through this blog. Good luck in all your future endeavors.

On brighter notes, I'm done all my midterms so no more tests until finals, yay. Also the movie I went to see last night was Jack the Giant Slayer, and that turned out better than I thought it would. My favourite character was Elmont the head of the Royal Guard because 1) he was really awesome and did all this cool stuff and 2) he was just fabulous looking (his hair was always perfect looking no matter what was happening basically). So yeah I urge you guys to go see that movie if you get the chance. 

DFTBA
Kayla

Had a midterm today, and have another tomorrow

For that reason, I'm not going to post until tomorrow. Just writing a little FYI so you guys know i didn't forget or something.
DFTBA
Kayla

It's the Final Countdown

     So I'm just going to say this up front, I agree with Adam and I don't think I am going to be continuing much longer. I will finish March and see how I feel after that. This has been a lot of fun, and you are all amazing people, but it feels more like a diary than anything else. Also, I post enough on tumblr and facebook for you all to know what is going on in my life. 

     I applied for a resident assistance position here at the school for next year. I have an interview tomorrow that I am super nervous about, but I really hope I get a job. 

     Campion, I wish I could send you all of the slushy snow we have right now to save you from the drought, because now that it is finally spring I want it gone. Also, I've never read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, nor seen the movie, though I would like to. Eventually, I guess.

     Kayla, I have been doing spring cleaning/moving out for a little while now. I have just slowly been moving things I don't use anymore back home so that it is easier to do when I officially move out, which will be in the end of April or early May if I get that job, since I will need to stay for some training.

     Adam, I am glad that you had fun while it lasted. I hope that your new endeavour leaves you as satisfied as this has, and that you meet many new amazing people. As for St. Patrick's Day, I can't say much about it. I spent that evening alone watching a movie and being moody. I don't drink (ever, never, ever), and I am under-age so can't be around my friends if they were, so there was really no festivities for me to be a part of.

     That's about it. Really tired and stressed right now. So much going on. Hope you are all well, don't forget to be awesome!
-Deidra 

I know what you mean Adam

I know what you mean Adam. I've been running out of stuff to talk about as well. Especially since I'm not really doing anything interesting right now. I've enjoyed doing this blog but sometimes I really don't know what to write about. I think that I might stop doing this blog someday but I'm still willing to keep going for a while longer. It is sad to see you go but I really do understand why you've decided to stop doing this. I wish you well with all of your endeavours in the future. We've done this blog for over a year and a half now. Hell, the first thing I did when I singed up to the ning was to sign up to this blog. That seems like so long ago now, it kind of was actually. We've talked about so much through the many, many posts that we've done on here. I hope that you've enjoyed your time writing this with us Adam because I sure as hell have.

When we first started this, I think that all of us were still in High School (correct me if I'm wrong). But now that majority of us have left and gone on to university. I do agree however that we need to find a way to spice things up and make this more interesting.

I hope that you have a good life Adam
DFTBA

March is Clearly Not the Month for Mondays

Finally I actually have time to do things.  Two Mondays ago I was trying to finish a story about a gladiator for my Ancient History class. Last Monday was the first full rehearsal for the high school's musical. The musical was so much fun, just like it was last year.  However this year I actually made a "friend" in the orchestra pit.  I put quotations marks because we probably don't fit the actual definition of friends but I wish we could hang out and see each other more.

I've been looking to read the Hitchhiker books and movie for away.  I've heard from others that the movie isn't the best, but I'll probably still like it all the same.

I understand the way you feel about writing these blog posts, Adam.  I kind of feel the same way though I'm not quite ready to leave yet.  I wish you luck in your future endeavours.

Seeing as I didn't post for two Mondays, I'm unsure of what really to say since I've been out of the conversation. DFTBA
Kate

Last Post

Hi guys, Kayla your post title was a bit of a coincidence because it's something I've had on my mind a while and I was planning to talk about now.
So I've been getting a bit bored with the blog recently, no offence to anyone at all but I feel when I'm writing that it's just a sort of diary and that I've run out of interesting things to say. I think it might be partly because we've gotten to know each other as well as we can through this medium. It's for this reason that this is going to be my last post on the blog.  I think I might enjoy more to get involved in other nerdfighter collaborations and try new things. It might give the blog a fresh breath of life to have someone new involved in it.
If you guys are interested, this is a link to a nerdfighter group which is pairing people up to be penpals, I've been paired up with a girl from Argentina and I'm really looking forward to it. I feel the same way about this new project as I did about this blog when we first started it.
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/114196122103753/?fref=ts
It's been really awesome getting to know you guys and I hope we can stay in contact in some ways.

On a different note, Happy Saint Patricks day everyone :D I don't know if you guys celebrate it where you are but I hope you had a nice day. It seems a bit to me that in Ireland st. paddys day is just an opportunity to feel proud and display some national pride whereas in America it seems like just sort of an excuse for people to drink. I was thinking today that the stereotype of irish people drinking might be down to people from other countries more than Ireland itself. But you know just my pondering :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I'd love to stay in contact if people want to add me on facebook or anything, thanks for a lovely experience.
DFTBA
Adam

Are people just busy or getting bored of this? Maybe we need to spice things up somehow

Hmm quiet week in here. Hope you guys are doing well and are not too swamped with work or whatever. I have 3 midterms coming up next week which is not going to be pleasant at all. I did one this week too though and I think it went well actually. My sister and I are in the midst of a sort of spring cleaning thing of our apartment because she's been having bad allergies lately so we think there might be too much dust or something. I can't wait until it's warm enough for us to be able to just open all our windows and air the house out. I started watching Gravity Falls recently and that's been interesting. It's actually a pretty funny show, don't know why I didn't watch it before now. Yesterday I went to see a showing of the Canadian movie Pontypool. You might not have heard of it because it's not super famous as far as I can tell. It's a zombie movie of sorts, and it was pretty good. It's also a radio show and I think it's been done as plays too. There's supposedly a sequel in the works too. The same evening and the next day in my film class I got to meet the novelist/screenwriter of it, Tony Burgess, it was pretty interesting.
DFTBA
Kayla

My Internet went down again

Last night I had my post typed out and all ready to go but when I went to post it my internet went out. So that's why this post is late.

It hasn't rained in a long time. The country side has now tureen completely yellow and my country has now been declared a drought zone. So I'm hoping that it rains soon, the days are getting unbearably hot and dark storm clouds gather in the sky on a regular basis but nothing falls out of them. It's getting pretty worrying for us. Crops are dying and it's getting harder to feed livestock. So we've had nothing but blazing hot sun for the past flour months.

Me and the guys from my radio show want to do a podcast, so I'm setting up the equipment at my place. What we wanted to do with the show is something similar to what we do with our radio show but they were going to be significantly longer. I also got the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy from the video store yesterday. Despite the fact that its not that good of a film I still love it all the same. I've loved the movie ever since I first saw several years ago and it led to me reading the books it was based on. The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is probably my favourite book of all time. The movie isn't as good as the book but I still love it all the same. It's Steven Fry as the narrator, Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent and Alan Rickman as Marvin the depressed android. That's just freaking awesome!

So I have to go and force myself to do something productive now

Have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

Empty Week

     It must have been quite a busy week for everyone. It wasn't so for me. I did some stuff, but I didn't have any assignments to do this week. I try and do everything over the weekend so that my weeks aren't so frustrating. It helps that I have Mondays mostly off.

     I did an open mic night on Monday evening. I read Any Weir's The Egg, because I didn't have any of my own work that I was comfortable reading just yet, and also because it's a brilliant short story. It was quite intimidating, because everyone else who performed that evening did music/dance. I hope that working at it like this will help my presentation skills, and one day maybe I can get up on stage without having a minor heart attack before and after, or having my voice shake the entire time. I am probably going to do another event in early April for the launch party of the school literary magazine, The Artery, which I once again have work published in.

     Kayla, we have been getting spam comments like that one for a while. At this point, I have no hope that anyone besides us seven read anything posted on here, let alone comment. 

     Have a good weekend and don't forget to be awesome!
-Deidra

Pies took Priority

Dang I got distracted making midnight apple pies that I forgot to post. On the plus side I remembered before I went to bed, and also now I have two delicious apple pies. On the down side this is going to be short.

Sadly not much has happened since my last post. Got my hair cut, I think this is possibly my favourite haircut I've ever gotten. I've been going to the gym lately, which is way good. I feel less out of shape than I thought I was, I figured I would die more on the treadmill and stuff. 

Aaaaand I really wish I had more to say but I guess that's it. Yay for having a boring life, or you know... not yay.

DFTBA
Kayla

PS - Haha my last post got some spam comment apparently??? I got all excited that someone said something finally, but alas it was not meant to be.

O.O

     Quick post because I am tired, don't have much to say, and don't really feel like writing. This week has gone by pretty fast, and as nice as that usually is it kind of isn't this week. My house is doing Relay for Life this weekend, and only a few of us are actually going out to participate, so it is going to be a really long Friday night. Also I get to decorate a Luminary (memorial bag-light) and I want to make it as an homage to fictional characters who had cancer. Nerdy, but I like the idea, mostly because I don't think anyone in my life has had cancer.

     Kayla, my favourite spoken word poet is Sarah Kay, most especially her poem If I Should Have a Daughter (it's only the first 4 minutes, but her talk is amazing). I wish I could do stuff like that. Maybe next year I will write something that can be expressed through spoken word and then I can perform it at an open mic night. 

     Kira, the vegetarianism is going well, and I don't think I will be going out of country in the next three weeks so that won't be a problem. My only problem so far was when I went out with friends to Applesbees. They do not have a really veggie friendly menu. But other than that it is going quite well, I am really proud of myself. Also, my 30 days will be up the day before my birthday, so I can go out and have some meat to celebrate both. 

     Have a good weekend all. Don't forget to be awesome.
-Deidra

I've started being constructive

Since I am now stuck at home for most of the day I've been trying to find better ways to remain constructive. One of which is working on my book. I've never written one before and this one will probably be not very good but I'm having a lot of fun writing it so that's got to count for something.

I've got this awful cold, I have no idea where I got it from, as per usual. Also I found out that my radio show takes place on the same day as Aprils Fools day. So I want to review Half Life 2 episode 3 and give a positive review of The Last Air Bender. I think it would be fun to switch it up a bit. Also on the show I've been trying to end every episode with don't forget to be awesome,they don't know what Nerdfighters are so I get away with that.

Sorry for making it short but my cold is really starting to play up.

Have an awesome week guys
DFTBA

Can it be? Two posts in two weeks

Hey, guys! You know how I said that I'd give a long post eventually? Yeah...well, today isn't that day. Quick comments, then I've got to go.

Kayla, I'm just dumb sometimes. The deaths of fictional characters just make me sad. So I be an idiot and watch sad Doctor Who.

Deidra, speaking as a long time vegetarian, people say it's a lot more difficult than it is. Finding good food in foreign countries is the only real trouble I've ever had, and in most of the places I've been, even that is fairly easy. England wasn't great, but it could have been worse. As for bagging our robot, you're right - we had to stick it in a bag for travel and to keep it away from us. The rule is that we have six weeks to build the robot. Putting it in a bag ensures that we stick to that. Otherwise it really isn't fair, because not all teams compete at the me competitions/ same times. If it wasn't in a bag, the people at later competitions would have an advantage.

I should really get going.

DFTBA,
-Kira

Off with her hair!

Yeah so I decided that my hair got too long again, so I booked an appointment to get it cut super short tomorrow. It's actually not super long (only an inch or two past my shoulders, but I dunno it was bothering me and stuff, and this way I won't have to deal with hair ties/clips anymore. Oh and I'll be able to grow out my side cut without it looking weird too.

I forget if I mentioned this already, but I'm going to be going to my first anime convention this May! It's Anime North in Toronto, I've heard good things about it so I think it'll be a lot of fun. And I'm going to be traveling and sharing a hotel room with some anime club people so at least I'll know someone there and won't be completely lost! And I decided I should cosplay to really get the full experience. I've decided to go as BMO from Adventure Time for sure. I might be doing a group cosplay too with some friends (Hetalia maybe, we're not sure), and I was also considering doing a kikwi from LOZ: Skyward Sword. It all depends on if I'm able to gather everything I need for the cosplays in time. I'm getting pretty excited about it even though it's months away still!

I've been listening to some spoken word poetry on youtube lately, and I've really enjoyed it. There's just something about it that's so powerful and emotional. It's really intense. If you want you can check out Pretty by Katie Makkai, IT by Kavindu Ade, and To This Day by Shane Koyczan. Those were some that I really enjoyed (the last one especially). Do you guys listen to any spoken word poetry? (Have any recommendations if you do?)

Kate I hate dreams where you think you've woken up, but it's still a dream. I did that once and I got ready and went to school before I woke up for real and it was mega confusing. Other than that I enjoy my dreams for the most part, they're usually pretty exciting and fun. Humm, I used to really like taking baths, but I haven't had one in forever now because you just sit there and the water slowly gets cold and it's a little boring sometimes and I don't like reading books because then you can't put your hands in the water which means my hands get cold compared to the rest of me, and if you use bubbles they don't last all that long, and that is why I take showers now.

Kira, that sounds like a really emotional time you're going through lol, probably would have been best to stay away from the sad Doctor Who scenes if you were already feeling bad. *shrugs* I do that all the time too though so I guess I'm one to talk.

DFTBA
Kayla