I just really wanted to talk about the blog

Hey and all.As has been previously mentioned I such at remembering things. I ended up finishing all my homework I said I have, but now there is more to be done as usual. One assignment has peeked my interest greatly.We started reading The Omnivore's Dilemma as apart of our new unit of farming and soils and such. My teacher wanted to make reading this book fun, because to be honest it's not exactly a page turner. So his brilliant, and I do mean brilliant, idea was for us all to start blogs. We can't do anything we want, because he has certain tasks for us to complete, but overall I've had a bunch of fun with it. It's practically all I've done all day. If you guys want to check it out it's here: http://katierose42.edublogs.org/.My school has learning targets, which are targets we have to meet in every class each trimester. If we don't meet every one it brings down our grades. So this week I've been trying to remediate those targets to raise my grades. One class I wasn't doing to well in was math. So all I've been doing for lucy this past week is remediating them. He gave me a small quiz yesterday, and I still made a silly mistake on one of the tree targets I was trying to fix. So I have to go back Wednesday to try again.
That has pretty much been my week and part of next week is exams tests and remediations. Mental note to self is to stop failing things. After spending so much time on the school assignment blog I'm not particularly in a write-y kind of mood. Congrats Kate on the District Music Contest! Also to Deidra and Kayla for third in Envirothon. I hope my school places higher than fifth this year. I'm still wicked nervous for it.I started reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. The only other book I've read by him is Coraline when I was younger so reading one of his other pieces of for is really exciting for me. After I'm going to read Neverwhere.I can't think of anything overly exciting that happened. I guess that's all I have to say. Oh wait Kayla, is Ink fit this description? A lost soul named Ink snatches an 8-year-old girl into the world of dreams. There, he hopes to use her soul to join the ranks of the evil Incubi. If so then I'll watch it later on this week or tonight. Not sure.
~Katie.

Almost forgot a title

So I pretty much wasted time doing this: http://ihaveopinionstoo.tumblr.com/post/21125921181
And if you want to go read that you could because I'm sure you'll get more me out of that than this.


One thing that happens quite often is me being sick. It's not always with a fever or stomach issues. LIke this past Friday (or yesterday if you prefer) I had gotten what we believe is poison sumac again. So now my face is all red and itchy and it sucks.


Upon my new skin nothing more has really come of this week. Or better yet nothing that has stuck out in my brain that reads as sufficient of telling you. I must admit it is late and thee is about 20 minuets left of Saturday to write this.


 Though being sick sucks I did find something that doesn't. That is the wonderfulness that is Merlin. Not only did it have Eve Myles from Torchwood in the first episode, but Anthony Head from Buffy the Vampire Slyer. Extra bonus points because of what happens in season six of Buffy. No spoilers if you ever end up watching it.


Adam let me just say that that is the best map ever and that I never knew Ireland came in four parts. Kate I hope your portrait ends up being what you want it to be. I know that when I took art classes that was my least favorite assignment. 


Deidra I myself am not a fan of anime either. However my friend Jerry has been trying to get me to watch the fist episode of Death Note all year. I might end up doing it but I'm not sure I could handle it. Whenever I try to watch anime shows with my sister I always end up leaving the room. Something about them just makes me laugh. Like I'm seven again watching Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh!, or Digimon on a Saturday morning. 


And last but not least Superstitions. No I don't really care for knocking on would or crossing my fingers. I may do them out of habit because of you know being raised around these things but I don't believe that they actually help or serve a purpose. I think it's just us as humans being silly.


That's pretty much all I can do before Saturday is over.


~Katie

Mmm...Stress

So... beginnings are tough... can we just skip to the part where things get interesting? Cool.

Today was good, there was an Envirothon lecture on our special topic which is low impact development. The presenters themselves were okay, and I didn't fall asleep so all in all it was a pretty nice morning. What I found most interesting after it ended was how I saw everything after. For example, I went into a parking lot and I just kinda exploded with ideas on how to improve its sustainability. 

On to more interesting things, like books! My first John Green book was Paper Towns when I was in the seventh grade. My sister had read the book and was raving about it. I at the time didn't like to read but she convinced me that I had to read the book. I ended up reading Paper Towns and really enjoying it. I like to think of it as my favorite JG book because it was the first book I read outside of an assignment. Looking over at the books (because I own them all) I think my favorite by far is An Abundance of Katherine's. I feel like Katherines' is underrated and extremely amazing. It was so entreating, I remember laughing so hard.

Though Katherines is amazing it's not my favorite book ever, just my favorite JG book. So outside of John's books, what is one of your favorites? Just gazing at the shelves I can't decide, so I'll make a list of five books I think are awesome.

1. Saving Max by Antoinette van Heughten. This book blew my mind, and that's all I have to say.
2. Dear Zoe, by Philip Beard. I haven't read this book in a while but I remember it being really good. I devoured it in a few hours. That good.
3. If I Stay by Gayle Forman. I. Love. This. Book. Words can't begin to describe how much I want to own this book.
4. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. Realistic fiction has never been more, honestly, real. 
5. And lastly, but certainly not least Coraline by Neil Gaiman. One you've all probably heard of. It was my first Neil book. My mother read it to me and my sister when I was about six or seven as a bed time story.

On the topic of Coraline, it is my least favorite literature-to film-adaption. Now that I've gone on about books...what else is there... Music. I like Elton John, but I don't think I know many songs by him per se. He's like Led Zeppelin, I just don't listen to them as much. 

On the topic of music I watch this television show called Once Upon and Roger Daltrey is going to be the voice of one of the characters. When I found out I wanted to puke I was that excited.

It was the end of the second trimester on Friday and I'm freaking out because I want my grades to be good. My moms not too over the top, but I can't stand the suspense. I made honor role last time, and I think it would be cool to have that happen again.

Again back to music, have you guys heard Lady Godiva? Thoughts? Okay, until next Saturday...

~Katie

Community

Hey, so Community is back and that's about the highlight of my week. I think I'll start with a list of good things. 

1. First is the newly built bookshelf by my desk. I got all the books moved over, and it just looks really nice.
2. Second I'm sitting in my new comfy desk chair!
3. Community is back on the air because there was such a riot over it being cancelled.
4. I made my friend a pie for memorizing like 70 digits of pi and she really liked it, which made it all the better.
4. I sold two tickets for the Envirothon breakfast in April.
5. I think I'm going to get honor role again this trimester.

Now with everything good comes something bad. Here is what went wrong with my week.

1. I forgot my group's project at school so I can't finish it and it's due Tuesday.
2. My partners in the group are almost intolerable.
3. I haven't started my homework yet, again.
4. I haven't touched the book I was reading all week.
5. I'm weeks behind on my YouTube subscriptions.

That was nice. I had a harder time making the what went wrong list than what went right. Not much has happened, so I don't really have much to talk about. It was really uneventful. Its St. Patrick's Day, but I didn't do much today. Next week however is the end of the trimester, the hunger games movie comes out, I have a dress down day, and it's my brother's birthday. Mind you this is all going on on the 23rd!


There really is nothing more, I'm just going to go to bed I guess. Bye.

~Katie

Here it is

So hi, I'm Katie, and I suffer from an extreme case of procrastination, forgetfulness, and laziness. If you didn't know the listed before or if they were not obvious before, they should be now. I like to start off with apologizes for two things, missing my day (again) and for skimming your posts. Don't worry, though, I go back while righting mine to address everything!

This week was one of the better, for the most part. I found out that I really love Massachusetts and want to live there, forever and ever. I can't tell you how much I love it there because I don't think I can put it into words. Also Connecticut is the most kicking place when it comes to clean energy. They use waste-to-energy which burns garbage for energy use! The only in New England I believe and it's European tech with I found more or less awesome. What I can't seem to stand is why everyone doesn't just do this. It seems to take care of the over baring plastic problem, and no toxins are released into the air, so why not? Oh, right, money. Well it saves so much money and I can't get over how cool it is!

Sorry a bit of a rant there but it just fascinates me! Our grade has been learning about energy and revolutions as a part of our whole unit of work this trimester, and we did field work on it this week. Field work is basically like a field trip, but more notes and work go into it. We went to the town of Lowell (pronounced lol) Massachusetts to one of the old cotton mills. Anyway I just found out that I want to live anywhere but Rhode Island because we do nothing to conserve or help the environment and the only thing we're good for is Newport and beaches.

More ranting, yay! I have to stick with Envirothon, but I won't join next year, it's too much pressure not enough fun. I mean if we just went out and helped farms or just talked about something besides tree identification or soils I would be much happier. But eh, life goes on. I thought a great deal about Rhode Island type phrases and there are a few. My mom's from California so she tells me this all the time. Words like wicked are apparently very Rhode island. We say bubbler instead of water fountain, and really just the way we talk. 

Being fortunate, I don't have a strong accent, but I know people who do and it's great. In the sense that I role on the ground laughing when they talk. We tend to add R's to words and replace L's with W's. Examples are as followed: 'ider' (idea) 'tawk' (talk). I like language differences, probably way to much. 

Thanks for the book help, since I've posted that I've read one book called 'Zipped' by a husband and wife the McNeal's. Great book, I recommend it. I too, have been trying to see how many books I can read in a year, so far I'm at four almost five. Not fast, but I have a good feeling about it all. Our class is reading the Lord of the Flies, and for me it's a second time around. That's a good one, as well as Gatsby! I'm so glad you liked it Adam, I loved it! as well as the Catcher in the Rye, but my friends and family didn't. They tell me it was dragged, or it was too boring, but whatever the excuse, I just don't get it. It was a good book, plain and simple. Thoughts? Have you read it? Did you like it?

News I haven't shared is that I build my new desk last weekend, I have yet to build the bookshelf or chair, oh and I'm typing this on my new iMac. It came on Wednesday and I couldn't believe it! It's so nice, I love it! Also, did I ever mention how much I love musicals? I do, a lot. That and Shakespeare plays, which I need to go see, I haven't seen one in ages. Weird question, but what was your first concert and the most memorable one? My first concert was Bon Jovi, and therefore the most memorable. My mom, sister, and I spent the day in Boston on the first of March last year, which I guess is why I'm bringing it up. That and Bon Jovi's playing on my iTunes. 

I'm neglecting finishing my homework. I spent three plus hours today trying to do Algebra, and found that the textbook make a nice step stool. Also on the topic of school, do/did you guys ever e-mail your teachers? I do, and quite a lot. They all have account through the school, and for some reason I find myself constantly e-mailing them. Even when it's not school related. Like this song by The Presidents of the United States of America is called 'Blank Baby' which is based off the theory that humans are born with a blank slate (or blank mind), which our class learned about earlier in the year. I found it this week and e-mailed it to my teacher.

I feel like I always e-mail them things like that, but you know, also about homework. Is it just me? Just curious. I think I've said all I've wanted to cover, so upon request, I'll see you next week!

~Katie

Don't Mind Me, I'll Just Ramble on for a While

I think I'm catching a cold which totally sucks. Hopefully I'll get over it during the weekend because I do not want to be sick for a calculus test. But yeah basically this post is going to be all over the place because I'm just going to write whatever pops in my head so I can hurry to bed.

We went on a science field trip today to see some labs and stuff, like I mentioned in my last post. In one portion of our tour we were being taught about soils and how to tell how sandy or clay-y (lol totally not a word, but whatever) a soil sample is. Basically for one of the tests you have to taste some to see how gritty it is, which I had absolutely no problem doing at the time. Now though, my mouth and throat are kind of weird feeling and I can't tell if it's because I'm sick or if it's from the sand. And all I can think about right now is this one book I read where a girl was killed from internal bleeding because some one put finely ground glass into her food. Not even sure if that would work or not in real life, but it's a freaky thought.

I finally finished reading The Fault in our Stars (which is technically the first John Green book I've read! :o I'll eventually get to the other ones). It was amazing. It really made me think about life and death and the struggle to survive. I have to say out of all the books I've read so far it's probably the one that made me laugh and cry alternately the most. It was a whole roller coaster of emotions for me and I ended up bawling for pretty much the whole three hour bus ride to Thunder Bay.

I realized something about myself a while ago and want to pop it to you guys as a quick random question: What's the first physical thing you notice about a person you meet? I'm not sure why exactly, but the thing I always notice first and the thing that sticks in my mind the most about a person is their mouth.

Katie, I think you should stay with Envirothon for this year at least and if you absolutely hate it just don't do it again after that. The Walking Dead is about zombies (hence the name) and this one group of survivors. It focuses on how the group is coping, trying to stay alive, and trying to deal with the problems amongst themselves. As for reading, I sometimes have a hard time starting reading, but once I'm a chapter or two into it usually I get really pulled into the story and end up reading it all in one sitting. I also have the bad habit of reading half of a book and leaving it, which I think is directly a cause and an effect of my need to finish books in one sitting. Basically, if I don't finish a book in one go I usually get distracted and then a couple weeks later return to it not fully remembering all that's happened so I don't want to finish it, but I also don't want to reread the beginning so it just sits there. In conclusion: maybe try reading the book without interrupting it for anything. As a side note, I can't do what Deidra said and assign reading time, I do it when I'm in the mood or when I'm procrastinating, so maybe that's something else you can try. Or maybe you could listen to music. (whew that was a long response)

 Adam, I loved Gatsby and agree for the most part on the Harry Potter books. As a side note, I heard JK Rowling was writing an adult book so hopefully that turns out well.

Kate, I guess I wasn't really thinking fully last week when I said turtle shell because I didn't consider what a drag it would be to carry one around everywhere. All I was thinking was that it would be nice to just hide in your shell whenever you wanted to, kind of like you take your home with you everywhere or something.

Campion, I remember watching that movie with my dad when I was little. I don't really remember much, but I do remember Hal and I do remember it being very strange. I don't doubt the use of drugs while it was being made. I also really liked Hal though, it (he?) was kind of cool, and there are tons of parodies of him which are usually pretty funny. On the topic of strange movies, have you ever seen the movie Sharktopus? I have to admit it's pretty terrible and the animating was pretty funny, but I enjoyed watching it so maybe you would too. (It's tag line is "Half-Shark. Half -Octopus. All Terror" which is just genius, don't ya think?)

DFTBA
Kayla

Happy New Year!

So hello there it's 2012 and I actually managed to stay up! It's never anything special, but its nice to say I did I guess. I think it's because I could never make it as a small child. Either way. So how was the new years count down for you? Do you do it? Anything planed for the day or just a lazy I-don't-want-to-go-back-to-school thing? That's more me, because I might have school Monday and I'm not looking forward to it.

I do on occasion make a resolution or two, but this year I might have a few. 

1. Learn Ukulele

2. Actually try an make some kind of peace with my demon of a teacher

3. Find out my grades for the end of my trimester. Seriously it's not funny anymore.

4. Smile more

5. and to just be more positive. I always feel too negative.

Wow I made a list, neat! The first one is a big one, since I failed so much at the guitar. I recently acquired a ukulele this past Thursday. I now know c,e,d,f,g major, a, e minor (i think), c7, and the intro to Candy Floss by Alex. Which is nice. I'm quite proud of myself and hope to continue throughout the next year.

I want to make 'procrastinate less' a resolution, but it won't work. Thanks for the review on Tin Tin, I was considering it, and if I can I'll try and see it with some friends. Instead of Tin Tin, I saw Sherlock Holmes two on Friday. I have to say it was amazing. I never like sequels but this was just absolutely awesome. Defiantly a must see if you want to laugh. The ending is just B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L! What I liked the best was that I saw it with friends that I hadn't seen since we went to different schools. It was just so nice seeing them, we had a great time.

I thinks it's great that you disagree with me Deidra. I feel she isn't as badass as Rory though. Like he punched Hitler in the face, died and became a Roman, and I just don't see Amy as important to The Doctor. I really just want to see him change and deal without them. I liked her in the beginning, but I feel her time is almost up as a character.

...

Now I've just rested, and I need to see if I swore at all. I curse a lot when I'm tired apparently. Nope we're good! I don't really have any plans today seeing as it's new years day and it's a Sunday so everything is closed. Which means I wait yet another week to get my haircut. All because my sister just can't sit still long enough to do something I want. Anyways...It's going to be a pretty boring day so I think I'll go with that. Happy new year, may it be full of awesome-y goodness! Dftba and,

Bye!♥

Fuck it...

I'm posting anyway. Yea yesterday was Sunday, and I haven't posted in awhile but DAMN IT HAVE THINGS TO TELL YOU! First of, sorry for the caps, I'm just upset. I remembered yesterday, but then my mom had us go through photos to send to my oldest brother for Christmas. That led to almost seven hours of sorting and I just went to the nearest bed out of exhaustion.

Also I don't have school today or tomorrow due to the teacher preparation of our intensives. Not sure if you know what intensives are, so real short: Intensives are things we due to build our credits. Like how some have to have so many community service hours done before you can graduate. Well we have to have so many intensive credits. I chose the BEST intensive. I mean all of them were amazingly nerdy and awesome, but this was the best.

Have you guys ever watched the Great Gatsby film? If so you know that Rhode Island's own Newport is where some of the shots were located. I'm going to go see those fancy mansions! Oh yea and I live in RI, just so ya know. I guess that's a thing. Anyway I'm really super excited and I can't wait! They are a little more than a week long so plenty of time to do awesomeness.

I finished my exams on Friday, and we should get our reports soon-ish! Thank you for the birthday cupcake Deidra! I had a wonderful birthday in case you were wondering. No one really knew so it was quiet, and that was really nice. I'm not was for hallow happy birthdays from kids I don't know and or like. It was Kira's birthday a while ago, so happy really belated birthday! I agree, Adam share your channel! All P4A awesome must be spread! Running out of stuff to write...Now. There, I'm stuck.

Since I'm stuck...Wait! Okay so any math nerds? Probably. I'm not a huge math nerd, or really not at all. However I am currently obsessed with the game 24. Where they give you difficulty 1-3 and four numbers on each card and you have to add, subtract, multiply, or divide to get 24. Anyway we had a small tournament on Friday because we finished our exams early. Needless to say I suck at it, but watching my teacher play was hilarious! He is so good it's kinda scary!

Okay now I'm done. Happy fake Sunday!

Bye!♥

Sundays are a thing.

So I almost forgot it's Sunday and that I post on this day. Lets test this...

I didn't go to school on Thursday or Friday, making them pretty awesome days. The reason I was out was because I got this terrible pain in my lower back that felt like someone was punching me every time I moved. So yea that sucked.

Also I'm doing poorly in math. I spent half of Thursday night trying to do problem #18 and every single time I did it I got it wrong. Somethings I'll never understand. Being a nerd would you would think I love school, right? Well yes I value the education part but not the people part. I swear I am going to a place where they harbor idiots. Their attitudes are mainly the problem. I don't want to go back tomorrow. Now I would consider home-schooling but I don't have enough drive. I need the classroom and teacher environment to stay focused. That's why I have such a poor homework grade. Not sure why I'm boring you with this, but I am.

 
So my word count can beat your word count. In suckage, that is. 2270. Yep. Unless your is zero than of course take my fail crown. keep it if you want. I'm running out of interesting things to write. Have this link, I  quite enjoy it:
http://dearblankpleaseblank.com/weknewthat.php

 Also this:

 I will eventually own this. The thought of that make me smile, a lot.

That is really all that is exciting in my small bubble known as life. I guess I'll read about your weeks later. 

Bye!♥

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!♥

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.

*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!♥

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!♥

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

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!♥

I had a really clever title

Somehow I forgot, so your stuck with that. First off, I'm glad Craig has a dinosaur friend. I also made that dinosaur the background on my phone. I had the same boring, uneventful week. Sounds like you guys had a pretty awesome one though.  I've only ever been in a Shakespeare play, never seen one in a big fancy theater! Adam I can't believe how much fun your having at college, hope it stays like that! I can't believe that kid fell out of his chair, so good! This is going to be a lot smaller than I thought. School photo day was Friday, which is something I hate more than anything. Lets just say I don't photo well, at all. On an extremely sad note, death seems to be a trend this week. That boy, Jamey, who committed suicide because people were bulling him about being gay. Just horrible. I found out the night before international peace day. People the next day were using gay as an insult and it really hit a nerve. I felt so sorry for the parents of that boy and I wanted to tell those kids that they needed a language check. Also, today was the memorial for my neighbor who died of cancer. I didn't know her well so I couldn't feel too upset, but I'm still pretty sad about it. She was a nice, fragile old lady. She died almost a year ago if I remember correctly.

However, Nerd Factor is awesome! I watched the winning videos, and they're great. Really hilarious. I love Thomas Jefferson: The Musical. So hilarious. I wish I had something interesting to write about...Oh I have another question for you guys, but first may I say, I love your responses to the 'hero' question. This weeks question: In your opinion, what regions are most powerful? Why? And What makes a world power? Those are just some questions that came up in my History class, and I think it would be interesting to see your opinions. Also, a great website my teacher showed me:   
http://www.worldmapper.org/atozindex.html

I think its very interesting. One more thing before I go. Remember when I told you my sister went to Australia? Well she might be going on another trip like that with the same program, but to Italy, Sicily, and Greece. I'm so jealous, but I'm not old enough yet. On that note, I bid you a good

Bye!♥

I Can Be So Dumb

I swear sometimes I think "If my head weren't attached to me, I'd lose it." This is 100% true and I have the most perfect example to prove so. Alright well I got my supply list for school on Friday, so me and my mom decided we try and get everything Saturday. We got me a haircut and everything I needed off my list and headed home. We realized we had bought the wrong calculator and had to return it to the shop. [I still actually don't understand how I got TI-83 mixed up for TI-30. That's not the point.] While at the shop on Sat. we saw the most adorable thumb drives [flash drives] on sale. They were thumb drives designed to look like animals, so I got one that looked like a panda bear. That night I unpacked and put together everything and placed it in my bag for Tuesday, except the panda drive [thought it was a cute name]. It had an option to make it a key chain, but my sister said it would be cuter as a necklace. So this morning I took it off my desk and tried to find a chain to fit it. 

I didn't have much luck so I set it on my bed and did other things. Being the worrisome person I am I checked my supply list again and realized I needed colored pencils for art. So I got mine out [spread them on my bed] and took out the basic colors that come in a package thinking that that would be enough. Not noticing that when I put the rest back, I picked up the panda too. After finishing that it was time for me to catch a bus to get to that shop and return the calculator. Its Sunday so the bus doesn't run as often, I had to wait awhile. I got home around four-thirty and started labeling the important things like the new calculator I had to buy [again]. I ate dinner and remembered I wanted to show my brother and grandmother the panda drive. 

So after dinner I went downstairs to my room to grab it. Not remembering I accidentally put it in with the colored pencils I started to panic and turn my room inside out. I retraced my steps and searched every inch of my room with the help of my sister. Now I did check the pencil bag, but I didn't dump it so I couldn't see the panda. Its been hours, at least five or so looking for this thumb drive. When my sister tells me to dump out the bin the colored pencil pouch was in. So when I got to the pencils I dumped it out and BAM my sister starts cheering and then calling me names because I made her search with me that entire time. So yea, I sometimes feel like I have no brain.

Most exciting Sunday post yet? And its not over! :o So things that make me truly happy, eh? Tough one. So much eaiser to think of things that annoy me. I'll give it a go:

1.Seeing someone I like after a long while of not seeing them.

2.Being alone in a nice place.

3.Listening to a song that fits any occassion.

4.Doing something good for someone because you can.

5.Putting clothes on right after they finish in the dryer.

6.Going out side in the winter, getting cold, then going back inside to warm up.

7.Knowing I did an awesome job on an assignment before I hand it in, and getting an A.

8.Being part of such an awesome community like Nerdfighteria.

9.Laying on the grass watching the clouds and feeling the earth move beneath me.

10.That feeling you get, right before you go to sleep.

Well, that's my list! I'm quite pleased with it. A very good exercise, to think of all the things that make you happy. I actually couldn't start school on Thursday because the hurricane took out the power at my school. So I start Tuesday! Tomorrow will be my last day of summer...sadness. I enjoy summers a lot, because of all the wonderful sleep. Though it will be nice to see my friends Irl and have a schedule to follow. I want to get to sleep so let me finish up real quick. I hate coffee and red bull, I hope your testing went well Campion, I haven't seen any or read Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I might, not sure. Last but not least I hoping moving out and moving in goes smoothly for you Adam!

So I managed to write about a panda thumb drive, happiness, more school, and you guys. Good.

Bye!♥

P.S. I didn't tell you this before but I had a choice of Spanish 1 or Chinese 1...and I got into Spanish 2...yep. And I also can't get "I Should Have Known Better" by the Beatles out of my head! Its driving me insane. The harmonica over and over and over...

11. You Guys

Only a few more days until my summer is over, and I too will be stuck in the prison that is school. I am very much not looking forward to it. My summer thus far has been excellent, and I don’t want it to ever end. The year to come has a lot in store for me, as it is my final year of high school.

   I happen to have the same first semester as Kayla, with Biology, English and Math being our classes. I am not looking forward to the Math, as it is my least favourite subject, and the one I understand the least. My second semester consists of Chemistry, Philosophy, and a Studies of Literature. I wish I could just skip to second semester, but sadly I cannot.

   I recently found a blog with a post that I thought was a cool idea. '10 Things That Make Me Happy'. I decided to do my own, and post it for this week. It was actually harder than I thought  it would be. I mean, there are plenty of things that make me happy, but when I really think about them, these are the things that really make me feel good and happy through and through. I'd like to know what's on your lists, if you guys have time.

10 Things That Make Me Happy

1. A book so good I never want it to end
2. Music that sparks memories
3. Friends that know me so well that they know what I mean when I fail at speech
4. Falling asleep when my head hits the pillow
5. Getting/Making the perfect gift for someone
6. Getting something right on the first try
7. Warm sand beneath my feet
8. The first snowfall of the year; also, the last
9. A blank page
10. The inevitability that tomorrow brings a new day


   I wish you good luck on the rest of your exams Campion. I know that a bit of my soul dies each time I write one, so try to keep your spirits up. They'll be over before you know it, and then you will have some time to relax. 
   Kira, I can't stand the taste of coffee or red bull. But I do love sleep. I stay awake by sheer will and determination. Or I just sleep and leave homework until the next day before class, but never that really turned out well for me.
   I hope you volleyball game/scrimmage went well Kate. I don't know very much about the game, though I played one year when I was in middle school. But I do know that it's fun!
   I fear knowing that you are near the hurricane Katie. I do hope that you are safe, and the it passes by you with no harm. The Doctor's Wife was a very good episode. I really liked that it showed more of the TARDIS than just the control room. The new episode was also brilliant, though I was kind of confused about it all. It seemd like Moffat just threw in a bunch of different elements to sew the story back together. I can't wait to see what he does next. Also, I hope your first day of school went good.  ^.^
   Adam, it looks like you had a lot of fun at the Debs, which is great. Congrats on being Prom King! The blank card deck sounds like a fun idea, can't wait to see how that turns out.
   Kayla, I hope you had a lot of fun when your sister was down visiting. I'm glad that you have decided on something for your future.

   I hope you've all had a good Thursday. Don't forget to be awesome. And yeah, that's about it.

Just Listening

Hiya.

Its afternoon here and its a pretty normal day. I'm on the computer in my basement waiting out hurricane Irene. Yup I live on the east coast and its ridiculous how serious [and not serious] people are taking the hurricane. I think it will be okay and nothing will go wrong. So I'm waiting for the hurricane to prove me wrong. Nothing so far. People are actually taking surfboards to the beach still, and are still on the roads even though it is highly suggested to stay indoors.

Okay so I just realized I didn't answer questions from last week in my post so I will do that now.

 I play the clarinet, guitar, piano, and I have tried really hard to gain a saxophone. I actually seriously considered buying one from Luke [http://www.youtube.com/user/LukeIsNotSexy] but I didn't have the money. I also play a mean glockenspiel. That's about all I can play, for now. Favorite Doctor Who, well most recently its "The Doctor's Wife" which is the episode Neil Gaiman wrote. I thought last nights episode was good, for the most part. it had a few good [even great] twists, but nothing I didn't already suspect would happen. Not sure if you guys caught it last night so I won't mention the parts I enjoyed or the ones I thought were, well eh.

Adam I'm glad you had a good time at the debs, you looked good, and "Prom King"! Glad the suit was all business. Campion your YouTube channel is awesome, I hope you keep making videos. Kayla sounds like everything is going awesome, and that's great! Kate and Kira I hope your classes do get better. Deidra I'm sorry about the whole prom situation, I'm not one for dances, though I still go to be with friends.

I've been doing a lot of listening and watching lately. Like right now I'm listening to Maureen Johnson read from her book "The Name of the Star" on blogtv. As for watching...well I have Buffy the Vampire Slayer on my computer.

I technically start school this Thursday, so I hope that goes well. And my favorite charity is A Wish Come True, which is like Make A Wish where they give a child  their wish. An example would be how A Wish Come True sent me to Disney World when I was eight. The same charity sent my second oldest brother to Disney World when he was four. So they were and are a big part of my life, therefor I deem them my favorite.

That's about all I have to say this Sunday.

Bye!♥
P.S. I don't have to take algebra two apparently, ever. Just thought you should know. :)

Summer, School, Sisters and Stuff (Yay Alliteration!)

I actually have a couple of things to talk about today, all of them good. First of all, my sister is coming to visit for the weekend!!!! She decided last minute to fly up here for a quick visit and so we're going to pick her up from the airport later tonight. I'm really excited that she's coming, my sister is awesome.

Secondly, they were having a sale at Chapters on these language learning pack things so I picked one up cheap for Japanese, which is a language I've been wanting to learn for a while. I haven't started yet, but I will soon, I flipped through the book it came with and it looks like it'll be an interesting experience.

Thirdly, I'm not 100% on the idea yet, but I think I've decided what I'm going to aim to become when I'm older. A veterinarian. I really like animals and I'm good in all my science and math classes so I think it is a good decision. And I have to start out taking 2 years of general science courses in university before I can even apply for the vet program so it gives me time to get more experience with animals and fully come to my decision. It sucks a bit though because it means I'm going to probably have to take physics again this year which I was hoping to avoid.

Finally, this isn't really as big or exciting, but my mom just baked some pulla and it smells delicious so I think I'm going to go eat some right now. =)

As for Dr. Who episodes that I liked, well.... The Empty Child was good, Evolution of the Daleks was also pretty cool, Midnight, and The Idiot's Lantern was not bad as well. I also like the Ood and K-9, they're probably my fave non-human characters.

My favourite charity is probably the World Wildlife Fund because as I said before I really like animals and we humans can really screw them over sometimes. Two years ago my sister "adopted" a tiger in my name for Christmas and last year my parents "adopted" a polar bear in my name as well. Another one would be the MS Society because I remember taking part in the read-a-thons that they had for elementary school kids and I think that's great because it raises money for a good cause and gets kids reading at the same time.

I checked out your youtube channel Campion, it was fun to watch so I do hope you keep it up.

As for school I don't have my schedule on hand at the moment but I'm going to be in 12U English, 12U Advanced Functions, and 12U Biology first semester. Then 12U Chemistry, 12U Data Management, and 12U Calculus second semester. *12U means grade 12 University level if you were wondering* Like I mentioned above I may have to take 12U Physics as well and I was thinking of taking 11U Art for fun, but I might not be able too if I'm too busy with my other classes. I'm not looking forward to my English class because I have the same teacher that taught it last year and she made her last class write tons and tons of essays.

And yeah, that's about it I think,
DFTBA
Kayla