I'm rather enjoying myself.
I moved in on Tuesday, and since then they've been keeping us busy with orientation activities. Icebreakers, info sessions, tours, a meeting with my advisor, registration, et cetera. I hated my room at first – it's pretty old and there seems to be too much furniture than the room can hold – but my roommate and I bunked our beds and that gave us a lot more space. And it looked much better with all of my stuff put up. I also have a little plant with me – ivy – which
Tomorrow, I leave for college.
Gods, I don't want to leave this place. I'm really nervous. I'm going to miss everyone I know a lot – I spent Wednesday through Saturday saying goodbyes, and at the same time having freaking -awesome- times with my favorite people in the world.
Everyone keeps telling me I'll love it and I'll get used to it fast and all that, but that honestly doesn't help one bit. I'm sure it's true and all that, but it does nothing to assuage worries and anxiety and such. An
Wow. I hadn't quite realized it had been a full two months since I updated this. Admittedly BZP was offline for one of them, but still.
So. I've had a lot going on. Biggest being that I'm leaving for college next Monday. Yeah. I'm somewhere between excited and downright terrified. Not so much of going there, but because it's such a huge change for me and I'm worrying about things not being as good as I'm hoping (roommate, dorm life, etc.) and things like that. Plus, I've always liked being a
A thing I noticed some time ago, reenforced dramatically yesterday:
Take all the canister series we've had since yellow-orange replaced brown. Inika, Barraki, Mahri, Phantoka, Mistika, Glatoriana, Glatorian Legends. There is only one color of the six that I have bought out of every series: yellow (or whatever it was at the time).
Hewkii Inika was -iron grey- and had an awesome chain. Carapar just looked cool; the trans-grey and yellow-orange blend was awesome. Hewkii Mahri I got mainly bec
I find myself in need of album cover art for Gravity Hurts. Now that I have an iPod I want to put it in there, but I also don't want my cover flow to become un-pretty because of it.
I was able to whip something together pretty easily for Creeping in my Soul and Closer to the Truth using one of Cryoshell's wallpapers, but as far as I know no such thing exists for Gravity Hurts...
I'm thinking green. Maybe something involving Lewa, but not necessarily. Because I need more green on my iPod.
Gods, it's been a while since I've updated this. A lot of things have happened.
First, I have now graduated from high school. The ceremony was nice; I went last year and it felt really weird being up on stage this time, under the lights... but pretty cool at the same time. It's one of those things that seems more important now that it's over than it did while it was going on. There were good speeches and it wasn't too long, just hot under the lights.
The reception afterward was even better
We're done.
I can't quite believe it.
I also can't quite believe it's been a month and a half since we started this. Our performances were Thursday and Friday, and they went so amazingly. I was so, -so- happy with how the set and lighting looked (both of which were largely my design), and the actors were all great and knew all their lines and had their timing just about perfect. At least eleven people told the directors it was the best show they had ever seen at my school on the first nigh
For reasons utterly unknown to me, I spent much of the past couple days listening to this song. It's delightfully silly.
But anyway.
I survived the APs! Calculus was okay, but then I didn't know what to do for a couple free response questions and panicked and ran out of time on those two, so I had to leave a few sections blank. But otherwise I think I did pretty well. English was generally easy – I actually liked the essays I wrote, and I got to use Heart of Darkness for my prompt, which m
I'm going to Vassar!
First, though, Chicago was extremely awesome and I had an amazing time visiting there. Part of it was because I spent a lot of it hanging out with my friend Henry, who went out there with me, and then with Katie, who's a Freshman there now, and they're always fun in general. But then I also sat in on a couple classes and met some more really cool people, one of whom showed me around their theater space and asked me to come to a show she was in later, which I did, and that
So, over the next week, I'm going to be visiting colleges again. At the end, hopefully it will be easier to decide where I'm going next year.
Tomorrow and Sunday I'm going to Vassar and its glorious library, then Sunday evening and Monday I'll be at Brown. I'm actually having lunch with one of the Classics professors at Brown, who is familiar with my Latin/Greek teacher; that should be extremely interesting. And just seeing the colleges again will be, well, interesting, especially because I'v
Just so everyone knows, the thirteenth annual Day of Silence is this Friday, the 17th.
If you don't know what that is, it's a day where you stay completely silent in order to raise awareness of the bullying and oppression of LGBT students in schools. The point is to let people know that there's a problem here, and then to create discussion about it. I know that sounds contradictory, staying silent to create discussion, but it's basically this: if a lot of people stay silent together, other pe
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this here before, but a couple of my friends are directing a production of Little Shop of Horrors for their senior study project at school. And I'm in charge of tech and set stuff for it.
It's going to be so fun. We started rehearsals last night with a read-through, in which I sang for Mushnik and Orin because neither of their actors were there. Needless to say, I make a terrible Orin. I'm not nearly tough enough. And his part is -not- in a good range for my voi
First performance of our play was today! It's called Saturday Mourning, based generally on The Breakfast Club, and the aforementioned song is played at the beginning. It's hilarious and I wish I could just, like, show you all of it. I would rave for a while but none of you would really understand without having seen it. So I'll just share a couple favorite lines:
Ethel: *storms up to the arguing Brady and Joe, banging on her gong* "I said — *CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH* ... I hope I've made
Lyg did this, so I figure I might as well:
Accepted:
the University of Chicago
Vassar College
Cornell University
Brown University
the University of Rochester
Waitlisted:
Swarthmore
Williams
Rejected:
Harvard
Yale
Being waitlisted is at once more frustrating and so much better than being rejected. It's irritating because I'd rather know now if I should still be hanging on to Swarthmore, but it's better because there's still the possibility I can get in. So yeah. I liked Swart
I have decided that this book is so totally awesome that it needs an entry entirely to itself.
(it should be self-evident that this contains drastic amounts of spoilers, if anyone reading this plans to read the book but hasn't yet)
Seriously, The Amber Spyglass has just about every single thing I love in it. Evolutionary biology, mythology, gay guys, witches, familiars, forest scenes, mystical places (namely the rainbow valley), and – and and and – as many women as men in positions of auth
So, I turned eighteen last Sunday.
I've had an interesting week since then.
First, I got rather severely sick the night after my birthday. Descriptions of my symptoms would get a comedy closed very quickly, let's put it that way. It was pretty awful. I missed two days of school recovering from it – spent Monday mostly asleep (I barely slept sunday night), then Tuesday lying on the couch re-reading The Golden Compass and listening to Little Shop of Horrors.
It was some sort of stomach fl
FEED ME
Does it have to be human?
FEED ME
Does it have to be mine?
FEED ME
But where am I supposed to get it?
FEED ME, SEYMOUR
FEED ME AAALL NIIIGHT LOONG
I am excited. <3
~ ToM
Figured I'd post this here, too, to help HH with getting the Library back on track: Keep re-posting and submitting your SSC stories! If you lost your entry and didn't have it backed up, PM Senjo. Yes, you are allowed to post multiple chapters per day to get an epic back to where it was. I forgot to mention this yesterday, but this was actually a very convenient time for BZP to be down, because it meant I could spend lots of time working on the yearbook without BZP as a distraction. (We were supp
... this isn't too bad of one.
For me at least. I haven't posted altogether that much, as far as I remember, since September, and most of it hasn't been creative stuff. Lost Tahu Mistika's topic, though. Did I lose any stories? Don't think so... The vast majority of what I've posted was staff-stuff or news, I think. I've done much more non-staff stuff in the blogs, so I'm glad those are okay.
But if you did post a lot of stuff... that's pretty bad. Yeah. And this doesn't exactly do anythi
Now that we've finally gotten a few things resolved, I thought I'd share with you guys what the First Place prize in the Short Stories Contest 5 will be:
1388 Huki and 1390 Maku, the Tohunga from the 2001 McDonald's promo, MISB.
Second and third place are being resolved. HH and I are still investigating things for these.
(I don't get to use this category often enough)
~ ToM
I received a delightful bunch of pieces yesterday.
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Most of these are just parts I've been wanting to get ahold of for a while, and others that I just happened to come across while looking around. Dark tan is a wonderful color; I wish more of it existed. I threw a few of such pieces together with some other pieces and decided that tan over dark tan is one of the most perfect Stone color schemes one could manage. Mata Nui anyone? And I've been wanting transparent black Bohrok eyes for y
I finished reading The Golden Compass today. I love that book so much. Lyra is the most perfect child ever and there are witches and bears and I love Pantalaimon and Mrs. Coulter is cunning and devious and awesome. I have an odd thing for murderous, beautiful, intelligent women in literature. They're always the most fun characters. Mrs. Coulter is no exception. "Do you like chocolatl?" *shiver* She's a lesson in why you should not accept candy from beautiful strangers.
And I love the idea of
Because I'm sure these are going to be mentioned and observed and discussed at some point (and some have already), I thought I'd just address all of these here: the 2009 Bionicle names taken from Latin. We might as well start from the beginning.
Malum is Latin for "evil." (There is another word malum that means "apple," but we all know which one of the two meanings is relevant here.)
Vorox comes from the word vorax, meaning "hungry."
Metus is Latin for "fear."
Fero is in all probabi
This might feel more momentous if I had been wanting my license ever since I turned sixteen, but since I haven't, I'm unable to muster quite the normal level of excitement over this. Maybe it'll kick in in a few days.
The road test was also so quick and easy that at the end, I was left more stunned at how short it had been than at the fact that I had passed. (However, the examiner was this lovely kindly woman, so that was very nice. I had been afraid it would be some brutish drill-sargeant-ty
So everyone can see what I'm thinking of, more or less:
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This is the color distribution I had thought that Mata Nui had – gold armor over a yellow-orange and black body. It's not perfect, since I had to use Metru thigh armor instead of Matoro shoulder pads; the latter leave more black showing in his thighs and make them bulkier as well. But it's pretty close.
Minor color editing done to the leg armor (representing Inika legs with the new
