That has nothing to do with anything.
Meh. It's half term! Starting next week! I have to go in on Monday for History and on Thursday for ICT! Huzzah!
In other news, videos from my birthday are up on youtube now.
My account: http://www.youtube.com/user/lucidemonica
I'm supposedly going to be doing a vlog every day in NaNo as well as writing a serious novel and a silly one for writers block. And continuing with school work, homework, revision, coursework etc.
I should seriously stop trying to do so much at once. Seriously.
Weeeell anyway, today sucked after school. I was meant to have netball and was already resigned to being the only year 11 there (the others weren't coming and Megan's in Ireland). But then I'd been there for over a quarter of an hour and no one else had showed up so I went to get changed back and go home. Then miss shows up and goes 'oh sorry, there's no netball, I told the year tens and all the year nines are in Spain.' Yeah. Thanks for letting the year elevens know. Just because there are hardly any of us that go....it would've been nice to know. So then I had to cycle home on my own.
But I'm not that angry any more. I can't really be when I'm excited for NaNo, have MCR playing and Victor the cuddly Velociraptor toy sitting on my desk looking at me all cutely.
So yeah.
See ya.
(I haven't died I promise, I'm still a blogging person. I just take long unexplained absences because when I announce I'm going to do something I usually wind up not doing it. fail)
Friday, 23 October 2009
Thursday, 8 October 2009
NaNo!
So. I have got what I want to write for NaNo and I am pretty excited about it. Though, there is always the chance that I'll be slammed face first into November with a new idea and spend a month writing that and then go 'argh! my other idea! nooo!'
Anyhow, it seems that although I picked mostly-steampunk as my genre before logging into the NaNo forums for this year, a fair number of fellow NaNo-ers are also doing steampunk. Creepy.
Anyhow, the story was essentially inspired by spam mail. All the names of the MCs are from spam mail. Win.
The story is in first person and written in a fairly....high class? way. The MC is a high class lady but she does have a sense of humour, more so than most. Although the novel is set in the future, the world is powered by steam. Huzzah! I may or may not have to come up with an explanation for that.
The main character - Catina Edgar - is drawn into the world of vampire hunting (and the hunting of other creatures of the night - when on her wedding night her new husband suddenly begins to shed his skin and attack her! She is saved by the vampire hunter, Henrietta Conte and thus begins the story. Catina's maid is also drawn in and she will become a subplot if I have my way and remember to put her in properly.
The title for the moment is The Cradle of Salvation - named after a line in a Draconian song that I was listening to on my paper round. In the idea I have, Henrietta is looking for the Cradle (for reasons that shall remain a secret). I may make the Cradle be a person not an object, but I'm not sure whether that's cliche or not. A lot of stories have a person be the thing someones looking for (coughcoughHeroescoughcough).
Anyway, I'm pretty excited.
Also because there is a second story I'll have on the go at the same time. It isn't a serious one and I don't intend to finish it. It's the sort of light hearted, plotless thing to relieve writers block. Inspired by our RP sessions, it's about a narrator trying to take a band of heroes to stop the Dark Lord. But they don't really want to cooperate, if you catch my drift.
Heh, it'll be good for writing amusing dialogue and keeping me occupied.
See ya later
Sam
Anyhow, it seems that although I picked mostly-steampunk as my genre before logging into the NaNo forums for this year, a fair number of fellow NaNo-ers are also doing steampunk. Creepy.
Anyhow, the story was essentially inspired by spam mail. All the names of the MCs are from spam mail. Win.
The story is in first person and written in a fairly....high class? way. The MC is a high class lady but she does have a sense of humour, more so than most. Although the novel is set in the future, the world is powered by steam. Huzzah! I may or may not have to come up with an explanation for that.
The main character - Catina Edgar - is drawn into the world of vampire hunting (and the hunting of other creatures of the night - when on her wedding night her new husband suddenly begins to shed his skin and attack her! She is saved by the vampire hunter, Henrietta Conte and thus begins the story. Catina's maid is also drawn in and she will become a subplot if I have my way and remember to put her in properly.
The title for the moment is The Cradle of Salvation - named after a line in a Draconian song that I was listening to on my paper round. In the idea I have, Henrietta is looking for the Cradle (for reasons that shall remain a secret). I may make the Cradle be a person not an object, but I'm not sure whether that's cliche or not. A lot of stories have a person be the thing someones looking for (coughcoughHeroescoughcough).
Anyway, I'm pretty excited.
Also because there is a second story I'll have on the go at the same time. It isn't a serious one and I don't intend to finish it. It's the sort of light hearted, plotless thing to relieve writers block. Inspired by our RP sessions, it's about a narrator trying to take a band of heroes to stop the Dark Lord. But they don't really want to cooperate, if you catch my drift.
Heh, it'll be good for writing amusing dialogue and keeping me occupied.
See ya later
Sam
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Yay!
So. It's my birthday. According to...well, when I was born, I've been sixteen for an hour and 35 minutes. Clue; it's 12;35, work out when I was born. Lol, maths for you guys on a Sunday. It's my birthday, I'll do what I like.
I'm getting presents from the family at lunch, though I got one present early.
-drumroll-
VIDEO CAMERA. HELL YES. It is red and shiny and awesome and matches my camera. I'm such a nerd.
I'm going bowling and pizza eating with the guys from 4pm onwards, so, more on that later I guess. Going for dinner now, will finish post afterwards...
xxx
back. and has presents now, wooo.
In summary:
Brother: Chocolates
Sister: Awesome elf on horseback with a dragon on her arm model (from this collection of really cool plastic elves. trust me, they rock, I already have one of them)
Grandma: £20 and a book on weird 'unanswerable' type question.
Parents: (asides from the video camera) Guitar Hero Decades, booklight, 8gb memory card and a dragon crossstich picture thing that my mums been doing since before we went to wales.
Various Relatives: MONEHSSSSSSS
lots&lots of monehs. So...very....rich.
Anyhow, what else? Oh yah, I was gonna tell you our bowling names.
ahem
Me: Watson
Alex: Batman
Megan: Holmes
Simon: Cpt Camp
Adam: Groinage
Josh: Nobody
Sean: The Freak
Jack: Blackleaf
Connor: Eskimo
AJ: Chaotsu
Ah, I love inside jokes. Except Connors. There's no joke there, he just wanted to be called Eskimo. The Chaotsu thing is from Dragonball Z Abridged. I prolly spelt it wrong but who cares. AJ was either that or Ajmilf. We convinced him that every time he gets a strike he has to pretend to explode.
Who still uses the barriers in bowling? -raises hand- ahhahahah, I'm a noob, but whatever. I'm the eldest noob there and I'm paying so, noone can say anything -evil laugh-
I've given up watching .hack for the time being. It was boring me a little. I'll come back to it later cause I can't not watch an entire anime. In the meantime I'm amusing myself with Minami-ke. There are 3 seasons and an OVA but whatever. It's comedy/slice of life and very funny. Highly reccommended.
I need a red phone now. My video camera and normal camera are red, so I need my phone to be to! I like to match. Bleh.
Hmmhmmhmm, I haven't blogged in aaages.
I can't wait for Halloween or NaNo. Not sure what I'm writing yet but I have been making notes for a bunch of ideas. Yesterday I was bored so I fished around in my ideas file and just started writing a bit for one of the incredibly short story starts I made. I got a couple of pages written I think. Good way to pass the time.
For Halloween, I'm going as Shilo. I only need a ruffled shirt, cameo button, pointier heeled boots and some tights for my arms and I'm done. I have normal tights, a waistcoat, a skirt, blue glowsticks and permission to dye my hair black and straighten it already. Hells yes.
See youg guys later. I'm gonna go hunt down my DS and have a go at Guitar Hero Decades. Let's see how well I do.....prolly gonna warm up on medium to be honest then do most of it on hard. Easy's too, well, easy!
See ya!
Sam.
I'm getting presents from the family at lunch, though I got one present early.
-drumroll-
VIDEO CAMERA. HELL YES. It is red and shiny and awesome and matches my camera. I'm such a nerd.
I'm going bowling and pizza eating with the guys from 4pm onwards, so, more on that later I guess. Going for dinner now, will finish post afterwards...
xxx
back. and has presents now, wooo.
In summary:
Brother: Chocolates
Sister: Awesome elf on horseback with a dragon on her arm model (from this collection of really cool plastic elves. trust me, they rock, I already have one of them)
Grandma: £20 and a book on weird 'unanswerable' type question.
Parents: (asides from the video camera) Guitar Hero Decades, booklight, 8gb memory card and a dragon crossstich picture thing that my mums been doing since before we went to wales.
Various Relatives: MONEHSSSSSSS
lots&lots of monehs. So...very....rich.
Anyhow, what else? Oh yah, I was gonna tell you our bowling names.
ahem
Me: Watson
Alex: Batman
Megan: Holmes
Simon: Cpt Camp
Adam: Groinage
Josh: Nobody
Sean: The Freak
Jack: Blackleaf
Connor: Eskimo
AJ: Chaotsu
Ah, I love inside jokes. Except Connors. There's no joke there, he just wanted to be called Eskimo. The Chaotsu thing is from Dragonball Z Abridged. I prolly spelt it wrong but who cares. AJ was either that or Ajmilf. We convinced him that every time he gets a strike he has to pretend to explode.
Who still uses the barriers in bowling? -raises hand- ahhahahah, I'm a noob, but whatever. I'm the eldest noob there and I'm paying so, noone can say anything -evil laugh-
I've given up watching .hack for the time being. It was boring me a little. I'll come back to it later cause I can't not watch an entire anime. In the meantime I'm amusing myself with Minami-ke. There are 3 seasons and an OVA but whatever. It's comedy/slice of life and very funny. Highly reccommended.
I need a red phone now. My video camera and normal camera are red, so I need my phone to be to! I like to match. Bleh.
Hmmhmmhmm, I haven't blogged in aaages.
I can't wait for Halloween or NaNo. Not sure what I'm writing yet but I have been making notes for a bunch of ideas. Yesterday I was bored so I fished around in my ideas file and just started writing a bit for one of the incredibly short story starts I made. I got a couple of pages written I think. Good way to pass the time.
For Halloween, I'm going as Shilo. I only need a ruffled shirt, cameo button, pointier heeled boots and some tights for my arms and I'm done. I have normal tights, a waistcoat, a skirt, blue glowsticks and permission to dye my hair black and straighten it already. Hells yes.
See youg guys later. I'm gonna go hunt down my DS and have a go at Guitar Hero Decades. Let's see how well I do.....prolly gonna warm up on medium to be honest then do most of it on hard. Easy's too, well, easy!
See ya!
Sam.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
warghghghghg
Yo, 'sup?
Basically....stuff.
What's happened? What did I even talk about in my last post? Whatever.
Anyhow, I am now Game Mistress Supreme and somehow have to come up with a Shadowrun plot by Saturday (why do I do this? I have no idea). FunFunFun.
I'm on the netball team now, which is awesome.
My new clarinet teacher seems nice enough.
Work experience is pretty good. I had to not go back after lunch today cause I was ill last nigh (vomit at 2am is so not on my list of Awesome Stuff) and then I was kinda of a little sick at work (in Pat's car, she had to pull over on our way back from the Rowans Children's Centre - and there was me being all anti-maternal and not wanting to work with children. Damn smalls keep invading my work experience)
So, I got most of the day off today. I also got a free DVD of Sweeney Todd, as they were selling a bunch off and Simon said just pick one you want, it's all good.
Lawl.
In other news: Simon has teh boytoy now, I believe his name is Finbar. Simon (not the Simon I work for at the library, Simon my age yadda yadda) worked MSN voodoo on him and now he is no longer straight. WIN.
What else? Not much, except I now have two library books to read (Through Violet Eyes and The Spy Who Haunted Me (Simon Green is amazing. What is it with all these Simon's lately?))
all good fun. Still only on episode 7 of .hack. meh, so not in an anime watching mood. Eventually I'll binge again, most likely during NaNo when I'm meant to be working.
See y'all later.
BYE
Sam.
Basically....stuff.
What's happened? What did I even talk about in my last post? Whatever.
Anyhow, I am now Game Mistress Supreme and somehow have to come up with a Shadowrun plot by Saturday (why do I do this? I have no idea). FunFunFun.
I'm on the netball team now, which is awesome.
My new clarinet teacher seems nice enough.
Work experience is pretty good. I had to not go back after lunch today cause I was ill last nigh (vomit at 2am is so not on my list of Awesome Stuff) and then I was kinda of a little sick at work (in Pat's car, she had to pull over on our way back from the Rowans Children's Centre - and there was me being all anti-maternal and not wanting to work with children. Damn smalls keep invading my work experience)
So, I got most of the day off today. I also got a free DVD of Sweeney Todd, as they were selling a bunch off and Simon said just pick one you want, it's all good.
Lawl.
In other news: Simon has teh boytoy now, I believe his name is Finbar. Simon (not the Simon I work for at the library, Simon my age yadda yadda) worked MSN voodoo on him and now he is no longer straight. WIN.
What else? Not much, except I now have two library books to read (Through Violet Eyes and The Spy Who Haunted Me (Simon Green is amazing. What is it with all these Simon's lately?))
all good fun. Still only on episode 7 of .hack. meh, so not in an anime watching mood. Eventually I'll binge again, most likely during NaNo when I'm meant to be working.
See y'all later.
BYE
Sam.
Monday, 7 September 2009
Usernames
Does anyone else have issues with their usernames for stuff or is it just me?
I get so fed up with my screen names on the internet. I'll make one and then after a while I'll hate it. But with most stuff, like DA, YouTube, forums etc, you can't change it once you have it unless you make a new account. Which is a pain in the rear because you have to re add all your subscriber stuff, some favourites, organise your channel or upload deviations and add all the people on your watchlist again....ugh.
But I don't like a lot of my UN's anymore. I'm never very good at sticking to liking one thing. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But I always want a different username. The problem is that I can't think of better ones. Lucidemonica is all I know. I mean, I use Pandemonium on Everything Dragon but I hardly post on there any more. The only things I use frequently are DA, YouTube and Blogger. And my DA name is the one that I dislike the most. Luciferspet. Blegh. Hate it. But I made it when I was about twelve or thirteen or something.
Now of course I'm older and infinitely cooler ;p
meh. I guess I'll just stick with what I've got. Luci is as much a part of my life as myself. She's practically a second self. She's the front I put up so much online because she's everything I want to be; she's smart, dryly humorous, tough, kickass, stunningly gorgeous in the way that only the Demon-kyn can be. She is to me the epitome of what I could be if I simply pushed myself to the limit. I've never understood why I gave her so many brothers though. And made her the youngest sibling. Maybe it's some unconscious desire to not be the eldest and most relied upon. Meh.
PSYCHOANALYSIS FTW
In the meantime, I need video ideas. Music videos, AMV's, fan trailers, random crap, song-slideshows....anything you want that doesn't require footage of me talking and stuff. Cause my camera mic is fucked. Hopefully I'll get an actual video camera for my birthday. Huzzah!
Dewa mata!
Sam.
I get so fed up with my screen names on the internet. I'll make one and then after a while I'll hate it. But with most stuff, like DA, YouTube, forums etc, you can't change it once you have it unless you make a new account. Which is a pain in the rear because you have to re add all your subscriber stuff, some favourites, organise your channel or upload deviations and add all the people on your watchlist again....ugh.
But I don't like a lot of my UN's anymore. I'm never very good at sticking to liking one thing. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But I always want a different username. The problem is that I can't think of better ones. Lucidemonica is all I know. I mean, I use Pandemonium on Everything Dragon but I hardly post on there any more. The only things I use frequently are DA, YouTube and Blogger. And my DA name is the one that I dislike the most. Luciferspet. Blegh. Hate it. But I made it when I was about twelve or thirteen or something.
Now of course I'm older and infinitely cooler ;p
meh. I guess I'll just stick with what I've got. Luci is as much a part of my life as myself. She's practically a second self. She's the front I put up so much online because she's everything I want to be; she's smart, dryly humorous, tough, kickass, stunningly gorgeous in the way that only the Demon-kyn can be. She is to me the epitome of what I could be if I simply pushed myself to the limit. I've never understood why I gave her so many brothers though. And made her the youngest sibling. Maybe it's some unconscious desire to not be the eldest and most relied upon. Meh.
PSYCHOANALYSIS FTW
In the meantime, I need video ideas. Music videos, AMV's, fan trailers, random crap, song-slideshows....anything you want that doesn't require footage of me talking and stuff. Cause my camera mic is fucked. Hopefully I'll get an actual video camera for my birthday. Huzzah!
Dewa mata!
Sam.
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Hajimemashite. Watashi wa Spicer Sam desu. Yoroshiku onnegai shimasu!
Hooray! I downloaded a podcast for help with my 'noob learning Japanese' task.
Though, according to about.com you don't usually say watashi wa in conversation and on the page about introductions there you say 'douzo yoroshiku' not toroshiku onnnegai shimasu.
But hey. I know what it means and I can say it.
Other words and junk I've learned and remembered in Japanese:
Neko - cat
Kagami - mirror
Kirai - hate
Suki - love
Anata - you
Sayonara - Good bye
Ittekimasu - see you later, said when you leave the house
Konnichiwa - good afternoon
Ohayo/Ohayo gozaimasu - good morning
Ittedakimasu - said before eating/let's eat!
Oishii - delicious
Mama - so so
Kanpai - cheers
Gochisosama - thank you for the fine meal
Sumimasen - excuse me/thank you/I'm sorry/pardon me
Desu - it is/to be/is/are that sort of thing
Baka - idiot, according to anime
Kawaii - cute. well, every anime fangirl knows what kawaii means. In some form or other
So I can introduce myself and eat out in Japan now. Awesome sauce. And call someone an idiot.
I think things are going pretty well. I can write 'desu' in kanji. I should start learning hiragana and katakana now. It's a productive way to procrastinate! Hurrah!
Dewa mata!
(see you later!)
Sam
Hooray! I downloaded a podcast for help with my 'noob learning Japanese' task.
Though, according to about.com you don't usually say watashi wa in conversation and on the page about introductions there you say 'douzo yoroshiku' not toroshiku onnnegai shimasu.
But hey. I know what it means and I can say it.
Other words and junk I've learned and remembered in Japanese:
Neko - cat
Kagami - mirror
Kirai - hate
Suki - love
Anata - you
Sayonara - Good bye
Ittekimasu - see you later, said when you leave the house
Konnichiwa - good afternoon
Ohayo/Ohayo gozaimasu - good morning
Ittedakimasu - said before eating/let's eat!
Oishii - delicious
Mama - so so
Kanpai - cheers
Gochisosama - thank you for the fine meal
Sumimasen - excuse me/thank you/I'm sorry/pardon me
Desu - it is/to be/is/are that sort of thing
Baka - idiot, according to anime
Kawaii - cute. well, every anime fangirl knows what kawaii means. In some form or other
So I can introduce myself and eat out in Japan now. Awesome sauce. And call someone an idiot.
I think things are going pretty well. I can write 'desu' in kanji. I should start learning hiragana and katakana now. It's a productive way to procrastinate! Hurrah!
Dewa mata!
(see you later!)
Sam
Friday, 4 September 2009
MAX. Also Hitler&MrSmith
So, I finally got to read MAX today. Thanks to Adam, who lent me his copy. He said it got really global-warming-centric but I couldn't really see it. Overall it was pretty good. It didn't annoy me as much as the fourth book did.
And Megan, you should read it anyway, it's not as bad as we thought it would be.
I can't think of anything that annoyed me too much, other than the fact that most of the book was 'save Dr Martinez' and that it ended on a cliffhanger. The bad guy didn't really make that many appearances and it makes me want to read the others again simply for the Eraser-butt-kicking action scenes. I kinda miss the Erasers. M-Geeks just don't have the same....je nais sai quoi. And I totally spelt that wrong ;^^
Anyhow, yeah, much better than I expected. Though, of course, I am slightly dreading the next book (rather cleverly titled; 'Fang') The summary on wikipedia is ominous, and even more annoying considering the amount of relationship progress and faxness in MAX. All I have to say is: JP, if Fang even comes close to dying, I am going to hunt you down and rip out your spine and beat you with it, as Max would so eloquently say. And then beat you with the book.
Yeah.
I am such a fangirl. But Maximum Ride is the only thing I have consistently been a fan of. I think I first read it in year 7, then got back into it in year 8/9 and ever since then I've been obsessed with it. And I'm pretty sure I'm one of the 'good' fans. The ones who squeal like children at the awesome parts but can also accept that some bits are bad. No book is perfect (but try telling THAT to the Twitards) but I love Maximum Ride, imperfections and all. And I think I will always love it, even if Hardwicke the Evil messes up the movie. At least the script writer is decent and they've got that guy who did Spiderman as well. So she can only fuck up one part of the movie.
In other news, I am totally planning to make a 'vampires don't sparkle' logo/slogan for one of my white tank tops and then wear said top and see how many people try to kill me. Maybe I'll go hang out in the teen fiction section at Waterstones on a busy day. Heh.
I think I've become a 'meh' Twilight fan. I like the books cause they're easy to read. They don't require much of my focus. But I do find it tremendous fun to poke all the holes in it and also to poke the diehards. According to the Twilight Sucks forum, (I may have posted this before) someone once got challenged to a freaking DUEL over Twilight. The person who got challenged won, but not before quoting from the Princess Bride, being asked what they were talking about and then saying 'Good literature.' Which I think is pretty much ownage.
Moving away from that touchy subject, I still have coursework to do and I really like listening to mellow music lately. Oh yes, and I've done a bunch of recordings on SingSnap because the nice people there continually upload whole blocks of songs that you don't have to be a subscriber to record, which is nice. I did a cover of 'Yeah' by Usher for kicks. I'm so gangster, yo'
I also want to be a magical girl. It's an unholy and entirely ridiculous desire but hey. It would be freaking awesome. Also there was a tutorial on YouTube about how to make movable dragons wings. I totally want to make a small set just so that I can wear them on non-uniform day. I would cut slits in my shirt and wear the wings under it and come in in my hoodie. Then I could take off my hoodie and lean forwards on the table and just be like 'sup?'
It would be awesome.
Oh yes! Hitler aka Mr Thomas has teamed up with New Guy Who Does Important Stuff And Is Possibly Deputy Head aka Mr Smith have teamed up in a uniform enforcing duo of death. All of us rebellious nerdy Neo's don't stand a chance. They've even started policing the socks we wear, for Isis' sake! How does wearing coloured socks distract you from learning? For Gods sake. I know we have to look smart and junk but what's wrong with a little individuality? I for one am not going to lie down and take it. It's not that bad at the moment but the second Mr Smith becomes aresholey about the tiniest thing I am totally rebelling. I'll happily do the detentions to be honest. I need some time to sit and plot stuff out without distractions.
I'm not saying that I'm going to come to school in jeans and boots, a choker and goth makeup. Heck, I couldn't even make it past the front door like that! I just mean that....well, it's hard for me to put into words the way I view this. I don't mind the uniform so long as the people inside them are allowed to express themselves in some way. I personally think we should be allowed to wear whatever coats we like. But we're not allowed to wear hoodies and stuff. It has to be a 'sensible coat'. Bah. It's a freaking coat. And your bag is meant to be sensible but hardly anyone gives a stuff about that.
I'm totally bringing my Haruhi headband in next week and wearing it. It's a headband to keep my hair tidy so I can learn better. The ribbons enhance my brain power. They'll probably tell me to take it off cause the colour is too bright or some shit like that.
I refuse to be a sheep.
Bleh. They always say some BS about uniform whenever anyone bitches about us having it. Some crap like 'it gives you a sense of pride' 'it makes the school look good'.
Schools aren't meant to be about who has the smartest set of clones with no individuality. It's about giving the best education to the most students. Uniform....I can see their point but it just annoys me. I work just as well in jeans or shorts or skirts or whatever as I do in crappy, unflattering school trousers. Wearing a tie doesn't give me +10 intelligence and having a jumper with a logo doesn't add to my intellect in any way.
It's always like this the first week back. They're really tough on uniform but then after maybe a month they can't be arsed any more. Too much effort to come round all the classrooms to make sure we've got our ties high enough and that we aren't wearing red socks or whatever.
That'll do I think. I've got a nerdfest tomorrow, which should be fun. I think I'm meant to be a vampire character or something. Although I wish I could keep my character the same as she originally was. A sexy badass demon with a penchant for partying and a talent for torture.
I think I'm developing a thing for alliteration.
See ya
Sam
And Megan, you should read it anyway, it's not as bad as we thought it would be.
I can't think of anything that annoyed me too much, other than the fact that most of the book was 'save Dr Martinez' and that it ended on a cliffhanger. The bad guy didn't really make that many appearances and it makes me want to read the others again simply for the Eraser-butt-kicking action scenes. I kinda miss the Erasers. M-Geeks just don't have the same....je nais sai quoi. And I totally spelt that wrong ;^^
Anyhow, yeah, much better than I expected. Though, of course, I am slightly dreading the next book (rather cleverly titled; 'Fang') The summary on wikipedia is ominous, and even more annoying considering the amount of relationship progress and faxness in MAX. All I have to say is: JP, if Fang even comes close to dying, I am going to hunt you down and rip out your spine and beat you with it, as Max would so eloquently say. And then beat you with the book.
Yeah.
I am such a fangirl. But Maximum Ride is the only thing I have consistently been a fan of. I think I first read it in year 7, then got back into it in year 8/9 and ever since then I've been obsessed with it. And I'm pretty sure I'm one of the 'good' fans. The ones who squeal like children at the awesome parts but can also accept that some bits are bad. No book is perfect (but try telling THAT to the Twitards) but I love Maximum Ride, imperfections and all. And I think I will always love it, even if Hardwicke the Evil messes up the movie. At least the script writer is decent and they've got that guy who did Spiderman as well. So she can only fuck up one part of the movie.
In other news, I am totally planning to make a 'vampires don't sparkle' logo/slogan for one of my white tank tops and then wear said top and see how many people try to kill me. Maybe I'll go hang out in the teen fiction section at Waterstones on a busy day. Heh.
I think I've become a 'meh' Twilight fan. I like the books cause they're easy to read. They don't require much of my focus. But I do find it tremendous fun to poke all the holes in it and also to poke the diehards. According to the Twilight Sucks forum, (I may have posted this before) someone once got challenged to a freaking DUEL over Twilight. The person who got challenged won, but not before quoting from the Princess Bride, being asked what they were talking about and then saying 'Good literature.' Which I think is pretty much ownage.
Moving away from that touchy subject, I still have coursework to do and I really like listening to mellow music lately. Oh yes, and I've done a bunch of recordings on SingSnap because the nice people there continually upload whole blocks of songs that you don't have to be a subscriber to record, which is nice. I did a cover of 'Yeah' by Usher for kicks. I'm so gangster, yo'
I also want to be a magical girl. It's an unholy and entirely ridiculous desire but hey. It would be freaking awesome. Also there was a tutorial on YouTube about how to make movable dragons wings. I totally want to make a small set just so that I can wear them on non-uniform day. I would cut slits in my shirt and wear the wings under it and come in in my hoodie. Then I could take off my hoodie and lean forwards on the table and just be like 'sup?'
It would be awesome.
Oh yes! Hitler aka Mr Thomas has teamed up with New Guy Who Does Important Stuff And Is Possibly Deputy Head aka Mr Smith have teamed up in a uniform enforcing duo of death. All of us rebellious nerdy Neo's don't stand a chance. They've even started policing the socks we wear, for Isis' sake! How does wearing coloured socks distract you from learning? For Gods sake. I know we have to look smart and junk but what's wrong with a little individuality? I for one am not going to lie down and take it. It's not that bad at the moment but the second Mr Smith becomes aresholey about the tiniest thing I am totally rebelling. I'll happily do the detentions to be honest. I need some time to sit and plot stuff out without distractions.
I'm not saying that I'm going to come to school in jeans and boots, a choker and goth makeup. Heck, I couldn't even make it past the front door like that! I just mean that....well, it's hard for me to put into words the way I view this. I don't mind the uniform so long as the people inside them are allowed to express themselves in some way. I personally think we should be allowed to wear whatever coats we like. But we're not allowed to wear hoodies and stuff. It has to be a 'sensible coat'. Bah. It's a freaking coat. And your bag is meant to be sensible but hardly anyone gives a stuff about that.
I'm totally bringing my Haruhi headband in next week and wearing it. It's a headband to keep my hair tidy so I can learn better. The ribbons enhance my brain power. They'll probably tell me to take it off cause the colour is too bright or some shit like that.
I refuse to be a sheep.
Bleh. They always say some BS about uniform whenever anyone bitches about us having it. Some crap like 'it gives you a sense of pride' 'it makes the school look good'.
Schools aren't meant to be about who has the smartest set of clones with no individuality. It's about giving the best education to the most students. Uniform....I can see their point but it just annoys me. I work just as well in jeans or shorts or skirts or whatever as I do in crappy, unflattering school trousers. Wearing a tie doesn't give me +10 intelligence and having a jumper with a logo doesn't add to my intellect in any way.
It's always like this the first week back. They're really tough on uniform but then after maybe a month they can't be arsed any more. Too much effort to come round all the classrooms to make sure we've got our ties high enough and that we aren't wearing red socks or whatever.
That'll do I think. I've got a nerdfest tomorrow, which should be fun. I think I'm meant to be a vampire character or something. Although I wish I could keep my character the same as she originally was. A sexy badass demon with a penchant for partying and a talent for torture.
I think I'm developing a thing for alliteration.
See ya
Sam
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