Last Monday

I'm disappointed this is ending, but at the same time I'm relieved.  The blog was getting monotonous to write.  When we started this collab, I was just about to enter my sophmore year of high school. Now I'm about to finish my junior year. I can't say much has changed for me.  A few of you I have become pretty good friends with, others I wish I knew better.

It's kind of weird saying goodbye.  I feel like the things I want to say have already been said in other posts here. Each one of you is amazing and cool. Good luck to everyone with high school, university, jobs, etc.

I know I don't need to tell you all this, but don't forget to be awesome.
The best of wishes,
Kate

Let's Not Do This

I'M GOING TO TYPE IN ALL CAPITALS. I MISS ALL OF YOU VERY MUCH AND AM SO SORRY THAT MY ASSHAT SELF HASN'T BEEN POSTING. Okay enough of that.

WHAT?! Okay sorry last time. Maybe. I feel weird about this because I don't want to stop blogging with you guys. I didn't think it would come to this kind of ending. Is this ending? God I don't know. Throughout our time together I was a pretty sane person. You guys got to know me before I started the absence thing. This year has honestly sucked, and for awhile I didn't have effort to do anything for anyone. It wasn't just the not talking to you, it was everything. There was no upside to life for me. I don't know what I would call it, but it was scary shit. (Pardon my language) I'm finally, I think, getting over that. Whatever it was. This has been a fantastic part of my life, and I'm going to be honest with you when I say that I genuinely care for love you.

Can we all have a proper goodbye? Share maybe our favorite thing about blogging as a whole, or what we've come out of this with. I feel a bit blindsided by it all because of my absence. What do you guys think? One last week where we all post kind of "The Best of A Week of Awesome". This is strange. Okay. Okay? 

~Katie

Well I guess this is it

I've noticed that most of us are not posting frequently any more (like myself) and the last post was made a few weeks ago. I think that maybe I should stop as well. My hearts not in this any and like Adam I'm really not into this as I once was. I don't enjoy it as much and I don't look forward to it like I used to. I've enjoyed posting here and it's been great to get to know you guys. But I think that it's time for me to stop. Scrolling through all the previous posts, it's good to see that my life has improved and changed a lot. In fact, things have changed for a lot of us. I've moved on from a lot of things. When we started I was in high school, now I've left and am about to attend university, before I started I didn't have a girl friend then I did have one and now I'm back to being single again. I think I'm just going to move on from this. It's been fun but I'm out of things to post here now and as I get busier and busier, I'm finding less time to post here. I'm leaving this blog, we've had a great run and I've really enjoyed doing this with you all. It's been great to see how we've all changed but I've got to let this go now.

Have a great life everyone. I wish you all the best

DFTBA

And have a great one. I'm never going to forget you guys

/Le sigh

There just isn't enough time in the day. I really wish I had time to do everything I want to on the internet, attend track practice and school, all while having time to study, practice my violin, and read. But apparently adding an extra two hours to the day wouldn't be that beneficial thanks to biology and whatnot.

I think I'm coming down with a cold.  My mom's been pretty sick and she doesn't cover her mouth when she coughs/sneezes.  That is one of my ultimate pet peeves.  I've been sneezing a lot with an itchy throat. Hopefully that's the extent of it.

I would make this a longer post but I have to get up early tomorrow.
Kate

Thoughts on stuff

Sorry I wasn't able to post last week, my father had his high school reunion and I got roped into helping him out. I still enjoyed it though, some of the performances they had were pretty good and it was good to see my father perform again. It's been a while since I've reviewed something. So I think I'll do both of those. There's a trailer for a new film coming out called Pacific Rim. It's supposed to be a sort of tribute to the Japanese giant robot movies, since the premise of the film is people in giant robots fighting monsters and that's a pretty common plot point for a lot of Japanese films. So it's either a rip off of those types of films or it's a tribute. I'm going to go for the latter since he's calling his film a poem to giant robots. I'm hoping it's good, it looks like one of those films with fantastic special effects that make you want to go see it from the trailers but then they turn out crap when you go to them, like Transformers 2 or G.I Joe. I hope it's good because I'm a big fan of giant robot films. So not strictly a review as such but mostly what I think that film will be like.

Anyway. I hope that you guys have a good week

DFTBA

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