Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Of April Fools (Again) and College Plans

Ok, so again today there hasn't been much going on...

Except that THE PROJECT draws ever nearer...*gasp gasp gasp*

Well, for a small happening, my Latin grade jumped from a C to an A because Odiebear messed up on an assignment that I did, but she thought I didn't, so that made my first midterm grade a C! Which really scared me. But then today she fixed it, so the grade went back up to a pleasant A. *phew*

But, besides that, tomorrow is April Fools. *wide evil grin spreads across my face* And I've something brilliant planned. But...it remains top-secret until tomorrow. Hopefully, I shall obtain pictures of the...outfit, which will...(hopefully not, but probably will) appear on Facebook. (Sorry Caoimhe, I can't post them on here, but you will definitely see the outfit firsthand anyway, so that doesn't matter.)

Anyway, in anticipation of a marvelous April Fool's plan...YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Also, even though college plans are not pressing for time--I know the place I want to go. For Internet safety, I can't actually tell ya'll (sorry folks), but know this. It's REALLY good!!! It has a liberal arts program (for creative writing), and a horse-riding program (SWEET!), and a really cool campus, close to home, all-girls...tis AWESOME!!!! And I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to go!!! *sighs dreamily*

Anyway, I haven't much else to say except one thing directed at Defluffeh: FACKIO is NOT THAT FUNNY! It means TO DO OR MAKE!!! It is NOT A BAD WORD!!! SO STOP LAUGHING!!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Of Parties and Random Stresses

Alright, so I haven't posted in a couple days, mainly because LAO has been dominating the computer, plus she had a party on Saturday, plus I was holed up in my room all day yesterday reading. So...all in all together, I have a bit to say.

Happenings of Saturday: that was the day that LAO held a party for all her friends, including one of her friends who happens to be my best friend as well, henceforth named TreeHugger (for lack of a better nickname, she really doesn't have many.) It was not an epic party, like my 15th that I will remember forever, but it was fun.

First was pizza: lots and lots of pizza, and one of LAO's friends managed to eat FIVE WHOLE PIZZA'S but failed to snort any out her nose. Exactly how does that work? Another of her friends managed to eat nothing, probably because he's afraid that the pizza will rot his insides out. (He has modern-American-culture-phobia issues. Also, he is henceforth named Defluffeh.)

Then we went swimming, where treading water contests were held, abandoned, entered, and won within the short time of probably five mintutes before it bored me to tears, and I forfeited, ending the game. Marco polo was a favorite game, played for quite some time, although no one else joined our group. We also played Sharks&Minnows, and Four Corners, and ATTEMPTED to get Defluffeh to join us, but he "supposedly" had a cut on his foot and was "supposedly" going to get a serious infection if he even STEPPED in the water. *coughhewastryingtogetsomespecialtimewithaspecialsomeonewhowasathepartycough*
AHEM!

Then we all returned home, partook in the traditional cake&presents part of the party, and watched a movie called Red October. It was quite a good movie, certainly very informational, but I wouldn't suggest watching it unless you have a resident reader/fan of Tom Clancy, who has read the book Red October or seen the movie before.

Sunday was Hermit Day. I read, and did homework...lots and lots of homework. Not much else. So much for the "Day of Rest." Honestly, that should be moved to Saturdays to be more friendly on us procrastinators. Or make Monday part of the weekend. Now THERE'S an idea!

Today was the day that it finally hit. I have less than a month finish THE PROJECT! (It is the only project I have ever done that is worthy of ALL CAPS. At least so far.) So....time to let it aaaaallll out....

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *running around frantically and screaming my head off* IT'S LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*gasping for breath now*

And, despite that HUGE stress, there is another, little, annoying thing that happened today, compliments to the idiocy and lameness of guys trying to annoy girls who really don't give a **** what they do.

Someone wired my locker today: twice! Now, in case you don't know what that is (and you probably don't since I just made it up because I really don't know what it's called), that means that someone took one of those plastic wires they use in stores to loop stuff together and are next to impossible to get off and used it to loop around my locker so that even if I did the combination right, the locker wouldn't open. This person did that to my locker, for no apparent reason, once during morning break, and once at the end of the day (which is why I missed my ride home, mom.) The second time I asked a janitor to get the thing off, he's like fumbling with these huge tools and really being a klutz about it, and when he finally gets it off he turns to me and says "Well, make sure that doesn't happen again, ok?"

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WHAAAAT?!?! What do you mean, it's MY fault?!? If it were up to me, that would have never happened! Or if it did happen, only once, and definitely NOT at the end of the day! What, does he think I can monitor my locker all the time? I mean, really, that was so pointless!

Ok, rant's over now.

Anyway, so now I'm patiently waiting for my ride to come pick me up, aaaaaand...not looking forward to facing THE PROJECT!

As a sidenote, WolfOne has requested that her name be changed to Wolf. Which, I'll do, for the sake of laziness and a slightly cooler nickname. However, Wolf has a deathly fear of pink, so she avoids this site like the plague...not, of course, that she doesn't have HOTFRIGGINPINK hair anyway...*coughshedoesandshecallsitmagentalolcough*

Question: How does one change the color scheme on this site? And are there more options than the ones in the very beginning? I'm not afraid of/hate pink, but I really really like blue, and I couldn't find any good blue options in the beginning, so I chose this one. Maybe Caoimhe can help with changing the color scheme.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Of Purple Elephants Gone Wild and Necessary History Lessons for LAO.

So, despite the rather boringness of yesterday, today was a day of epic fail, epic win, and epic randomness. In all, it was worthy of an Oddessy.

Except...I'm really bad at writing ancient Greek poetry since I'm a normal human age, not immortal/4000 yrs. old. So, instead, I'm going to use a normal blog to write down the epicness of today.

First was the EPIC WIN! This was during the fashion show, even though in general, fashion shows are made of fail and boringness and stupidity. While unbeknownst to the co-host of this fashion show, a young male with no public speaking skills whatsoever, talked on and on about dresses and fashion, and the audience either dying of boredom or seriously questioning him, an enemy was coming. He, in his yellow duct tape and pointed ears, sneaked up to the stage, preparing. Then, without warning, PIKACHU jumped up, landed on the stage, bowled through both co-hosts, jumped around for several seconds, and disappeared behind the curtains, leaving the hosts stunned and totally at a loss.

Unfortunately, we didn't see him again. *sad sigh* But, that once was enough.

Second was the EPIC RANDOMNESS! Some business class decided to make all their students wear these really dumb looking glasses with eyes painted on them, and then these glasses people proceeded to invade and distract many classes, including my history class. Twas quite fun really.

And now...for the EPIC FAIL! LAO NEEDS HISTORY LESSONS!!!! SHE DOES NOT KNOW HARDLY ANYTHING ABOUT WW2!!! SHE MISTOOK EUROPE FOR A COUNTRY AND ONLY CORRECTED HERSELF WHEN I ASKED HER WHAT THE SEVEN CONTINENTS WERE!!! THIS IS SOOOO SAD! SOMEONE PLEASE TEACH LAO SOME PROPER HISTORY!!

Alright, now that that's done, this post is done for the day. I'm off fulfilling debts, and it's about time.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Of Elusive Purple Elephants and First Reviews

Since Caoimhe and I are planning on making a podcast in which we review several different stories on various forms of media, I decided that I'm going to put together a review for the book I'm reading now: "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti.

Why? Because as what normally happens in the life of a teenager, there are some days in which thoughts die and happenings just don't happen. Don't worry, I'll search out the elusive purple elephant of randomness tomorrow.

Come to think of it...some of those prom girls probably won't look much better than a purple elephant tomorrow...lol.

Alright, on with the review!

This Present Darkness is a...horror/action/Christian story written by Frank Peretti, geared towards mature young readers and adults. Overall, it deals with issues such as New Age philosophy, prayer, the spiritual realm (from the Christian viewpoint), and to a small extent: family. Frank Perretti develops a compelling plot, and does a very good job making the story increase at a steady pace, reaching a brilliant climax. The story itself is well-written, and the main characters are life-like and believable (for the most part).

However...this guy has bias. Like...bias beyond bias. He uses this story to paint a very disturbing, very unrealistic picture of the New Age philosophy, linking it directly with occultism, eastern mysticism, and Satan-worship. He begins with the assumption that those who read his story (mainly, impressionable, young, church-going Christians) will hate and fear New Age philosophy to a degree similar of how America hated Communism during the beginning of the Cold War. Add to that a plot to take over the world, and he's basically got the story set up to add fear, terror, and hatred of this philosophy.

Now, I'm not saying that I agree with New Age philosophy. I do not. I am a Christian, and have no intention of changing my beliefs. What I'm saying is, is that Peretti is taking it WAY too far. New Age philosophy, as far as I can tell, is simply "agreeing" with everything, to an almost frightening degree. It is this generalized philosphy that says "I believe what I believe, and you can believe what you believe. We'll keep our secrets quiet, and never, ever say that someone is doing wrong." It is this philosophy that silences inidividual beliefs, discouraging our generation from speaking out because no matter what we say, we're all on the right path. I find this wrong, I find this disgusting, and I wish beyond all else that our generation could be taught at least some differentiation between right and wrong. Without that, we are lost.

Anyway, despite all that, I still don't agree with Peretti's viewpoint. There are many many people out there who are influenced by New Age philosophy to some degree. However, of those that do believe in this philosophy, even of those who entirely embrace it, only a very few of those are full-blown Satan worshippers. Peretti portrays that EVERYONE who has to do with New Age philosphy is dabbling in occultic rituals and Satan-worship. In reality, each person who believes this philosophy accepts it to a different degree. These people should be treated with respect, care, kindness and love, not fear and hatred simply for what they believe in.

So, overall, a well-written story, but a very misleading moral.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Of Nicknames and April Fools...and Klutzy Wasps

So I earned a new nickname today: Miss Shneaky.

In case you can't tell already, this makes me very happy. :-D Doesn't a person just love having their skillz recognized??

Since we're on the subject of nicknames, for the sake of Caoimhe (did I spell that right?) and WolfOne, I shall list all my other nicknames, and exactly how much I like them.

Oldest one: (this was before I was even born, and I only found out about it a couple months ago from an old letter.) Shee-shee. Whaa...???

Little kid one: (like, what your parents call you when you're in pre-school that no one else knows about) Butterfly. Cute, kinda matches my real name, in meaning anyway.

The nickname you hate that everyone loves to call you: (yeah, ya'll have one, don't lie) Ladybug. I mean, seriously?? WHY?!

Now that I've gone and told you all my nicknames, should any of you happen to use those nicknames, I retain full rights to cyber-strangle you. :P

...I am getting sick of the boring months. Like, really really sick of them. BUT! April Fools is just next Wednesday!!! YAY!!! And I have a brilliant plan...mweeheeheehee!!

*~LATER~*

So, I just saw the funniest thing today: A wasp. I'm not kidding, it was hilarious!!!

Alright, so now you're all wondering, "Exactly HOW is a wasp funny?!" Well...because it was a klutz. I kid you not, that wasp was the WORST KLUTZ I have EVER seen! Like, it was trying to get out the window, yes? So it could go outside and enjoy all the fresh air and whatnot, and it flies up to the window, sorta circles around a bit, flies forward and BONK! Knocks his head out on it! The he falls to the floor, gets up, flies up again. BONK! Every single time, that poor wasp. I swear, if it were trying to sting somebody, it would just konk itself out trying to reach them! I even tried to help it by opening the window and everything! BUt by then it was just like "pshht, I'm not flying anymore! I'm done being a klutz!" So then it just kinda crawled around, which is another funny bit. Imagine a duck waddle, yeah? Now, imagine a soldier's high-step march, ok? Now, combine the two as best you can. Then take that gait, put it on six klutzy legs, all out of sync and all very tiny. That is about as close as I can get to describing that wasp walk.

So, that's about all the Happenings of today. Moral of the story? Wasps are just as awkward as the rest of us. Laugh, and pretend you're laughing with them...or at them. I guess wasps wouldn't care that much anyway.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Of Random Creatures and Nerdish Happenings

Do you realize that ducks and llamas are the most random creatures in the English language?

I say this because even though octopi and platypus and clownfish and lionfish and scorpions are way awesome and cool and random in many ways, if you just randomly go up to someone and say their names, they're just like..."what?" But go up to someone and say "Duck" or "Llama" I swear you'll get at least a smile. Maybe a giggle if your victim is very laughy-prone. Why is this?

Answer: The magical leoplurdon knows all.

<.< >.> Someone definitely laughed at that. And leoplurdons don't even exist outside of youtube. But seriously, you have like the Llama song and duckrolling and facebook bumper stickers sporting wonderful pictures of llamas (they look much better than pictures of me I swear), and suddenly llamas are like hot stuff. Whatever happened to platypuses people?!?!

Besides that, it takes skillz to make one laugh at an octopus joke. Llamas are just funny.

Onto other things such as seriousness! ALL SERIOUSNESS NOW!!!! *makes grumpy face at computer and epically fails* See, llama's leave lingering funnyness. How does this work? What is in llama's that does this? This is my serious question of the day: What is so darn funny about llamas?

Happenings include a certain emo guy that we all know and love *coughcough* began to wear glasses today. I'm sorry. I looked. I laughed. How can one not when the royal corner of grumpyness dons a totally nerd-ish pair of glasses? Not that I have anything against nerds (I'm one myself, and I love nerds! [is a semi-official member of Nerdfighters] so I'm not like nerdist or anything. It's just the fact that THIS GUY looks like a nerd. <.< >.> *laughing very loudly in head*)

Other happenings include Soybean deciding not wanting to be an Italian because of a red glow on her shirt...???? Can some helpful Italian or Korean soul explain this to me? Also, this one learned that WolfOne is a resident master at rubix cubes. Who knew? I've never been able to figure those things out in my life, but WolfOne says that perhaps she shall teach me the rubixmasteryskillz. *miniature happy dance in rolly chair*

Happenings also include the Little Annoying One's (LAO for short [my sister]) birthday today. Notice this is last because she's not exactly celebrating her birthday today, but rather this weekend. Plus, I'm slightly sore that she recieved my gift earlier than usual for computer privileges.

I'm wondering if I should include Link in my TTH (Teeny Tiny Harem). I mean, he's hot and all...but that's only in like one game. Plus...obsessive much over Zelda? O.o I don't know...perhaps I shall put him on fan base.