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

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