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    Rest In Peace.

    By Noxryn,

    At my school, one of the faculty members -- a social studies teacher who has been around since the conception of the school some two, three years ago -- has been battling cancer since June, 2010. He's been in the school since that date, and even talked in some of my classes about specific events that occurred in History, or about AP Human Geography -- the student newspaper, the one I work on, dedicated an entire issue to him (first issue) due to his condition and there were many, many, many students at some of the events done for this teacher. This particular teacher was always very outgoing, very friendly and very considerate of others -- he had a huge reputation with the students, a positive one, and many people who were in his classes absolutely loved having him as an instructor.
     
    This morning, this teacher passed away.
     
    The entire day at school was mostly quiet, many, many students needing to leave classes in order to see one of the available counselors provided by the district. By the end of the day, more than half of the students in my regular class were not present.
     
    Over 100 students left the building to go home in grief, each one crying as if he or she had lost a parent -- I figure many of them knew this teacher like a parent, so the event probably brought on that level of pain.
     
    Even though he had never taught a class of mine, I learned quite a bit from him just on the times he'd randomly come into the class room to debate history with another social studies teacher. He always seemed very joyful, happy to be alive and happy to be able to work, and happy to help create a community at the school. He was always very light hearted, and rarely blew things out of proportion like some teachers.
     
    In short, I'm incredibly sad that this teacher will no longer be able to work at the school. I would have loved to have had a class with him, as he is regarded as the best social studies teacher in the building and one of the best in the district -- he has the awards to prove it.
     
    I just wanted to type my thoughts on this.
     
    As another note, if I come off rather distant or cold in IM, or in any messages, sorry -- it's not you, it's just what transpired today.
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    It's Upsetting.

    By Noxryn,

    It's upsetting, to me, that when a class is watching a video in relation to terrible events that have occurred, they laugh. Or make jokes. Or they insult those depicted in the video.
     
    It's sickening.
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    Beast Mode: Engaged

    By Noxryn,

    After listening to many songs over the past few hours, I went on a productive writing rampage on a project of mine. Got the very, very first part finished, worked out the events from there and reread the first bit some eight times already. All I need to do to it, in my opinion, is rewrite the combat scenes -- more detail, emotion is needed. What I have is more... of a "here's how it's gonna go down."
     
    Working up to the fight in the next bit is going to be fun.
     
    So yeah, I feel like a beast for getting all that done.
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    Bzprpg Drawing

    By Noxryn,

    It's not that good, I admit, but it was like... the first mechanical/Bionicle based drawing I've done since like... sixth grade. There's a lot of problems with it, that I took notes on a separate paper about (The hands aren't really the same, there's some structural differences. The eyes are slightly off, and the details on the upper legs look pretty flat). But enough of my rambling (and I took a pic of it with a camera... scanner... it's just not liking me). It also looks more Toa-esque than matoran, which was a bummer to me. Shading is also probably off... shading being like, my weakest point. XP
     
    Jan, the Toa-Looking Matoran
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    I saw this movie a little while ago, I didn't blog anything about it due to the state of affairs at the time.
     
    Regardless.
     
    If you haven't seen this movie, then I implore you to go and watch it. Wait for it on DVD if you must, rent it if you will, but it is by far one of the best movies I've watched within the last three years.
     
    As for haters, they can all go eat gravel.
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    The Love Train

    By Noxryn,

    The Love Train 
    This is a club, but what is this club all about? This club is all about love, and is a place where hate is shunned because hate isn't awesome. So smile, be happy, hug and other such things~

    ~ Members ~
     
    1) Aho-Chan
    2) Spink
    3) The Illusive Man
    4) Aho-Chan Fan #104434
    5) Gigi
    6) FPS Russia/Leada
    7) Fearlix
    8) Disky
     
     
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    My Head Hurts...

    By Noxryn,

    For many, many reasons, but the one that finally drove the nail through the brain was the worst chart for an essay outline I ever had the misfortune to fill out. All it did was repeat itself some ten times, and some of the questions were incredibly confusing and it asked for 3 sources for each reason I gave and we only had 6 sources to use (none of which were really about my reasons, I would have preferred if the teacher put forth more sources that weren't political cartoons or just tell us that we can use online sources as long as we cited them .-.)
     
    It was three hours of typing the same thing repeatedly, just in different ways. And it finally snapped my already stressed brain and caused this painful headache that won't go away. ;-;
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    Na No~

    By Noxryn,

    So I started a bit late, three days ago from this hour to be exact, and all I have created is a 7,200 word story thus far.
     
    However, it's progress~
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    What Feels Good

    By Noxryn,

    After having a pretty bad week (Being sick since Tuesday, laying in bed without the energy to do much else), it feels good to talk to someone amazing, even if it's just online.
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    So I Wrote This

    By Noxryn,

    It's not serious, and I am well aware that I am a terrible poet. However, I found it entertaining to read it all melodramatically as fast as I could, and figured to put it somewhere. I learned that, it's hard to find a rhyming word for "rabbit." I also learned that it is incredibly hard to find something that rhymes with "says" without pronouncing the word with a long "a."
     
    I don't know if changing the rhyme pattern near the end was a good idea or not.
     
     
     

    A tapping, a clacking, a smacking, Twigs 'n needles, breaking and snapping,
    A pounding, a rattling a bone shaking smashing,
    Fighting; uncertain choices clashing,
    To approach, to hide, to cower or stand
    I reach out to the knob, with a cold, shaking hand
    A creaking a squeaking, only I am speaking
    Who go there, I say over the creaking
     
    Darkness greets me with a lover's embrace
    Slowly I feel my heart cease to race
    A SMASHING a LASHING an earsplitting CRASHING
    A scream, the sound of creative teeth gnashing
    What, I say, is this madness?!
    Fast I feel, a terrifying sadness!
     
    An animal, a thief, a murderer, a pillager?
    Who, I scream, is this villager?!
    I turn, taken with fright, as I see a rabbit!
    A rabbit? I say, my fear waning, unlike a habit
     
    A voice comes to my head; this is no ordinary rabbit, it says!
    I scoff, I laugh I approach the rodent, then it rips off my head!
    No more does it matter, for I have lost my days,
    My headless body, limp, placid and truly dead!
     
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    The Stuff I Do

    By Noxryn,

    So, like said quite a few times in this blog, school's started up as of three weeks ago (The day I got back from BFair) and so far I enjoy the teachers I have. None of them hate my guts, and a few of them liked me from the get-go due to positive comments I got from teachers I had last year.
     
    But outside of schoolwork (Which is, at the moment, doing some notes, some French stuff and making some picture for English, and three articles to write for Newspaper), I've been doing some other things. One of these things is that I randomly got the idea to write a short story, being more on the line of 7000 - 8000 words, that's based around Vlad Dracula. Some scenes involving Dracula came to mind when listening to some music, and I grew fond enough of the scenes to see if I can incorporate them into a short story. The only details I have worked out are those scenes, a modern setting, and... that's about it. I need to think of a plot, some other characters, and then create an outline for it. (An outline that will probably be written sometime tomorrow)
     
    Then there's some stuff I've been doing in regards to Legionarius, which is a project I've been working on for five years now (and it has evolved to a completely different entity from when I started). So far, I've been working on character profiles for the trilogy -- only on the first, which is Anavrin, who has already surpassed five pages in my notebook (mostly the history of the character) and whose profile alone is over 6000 words long (and I'm only about halfway done). The series, so far, has about... 20-ish important characters who will need similar profiles done, some longer than others, more so that when I get to the outline stage, I can work their histories together and give the characters more of a personality and give them more depth -- outside of them being random things I threw in at the last second.
     
    After characters, there's things like wildlife, transportation, architecture, arts, factions, realms (four in total), species (including the government of the harpies and the humans characters), those sorts of things. After all those are written out, that's when I plan to start on the outline for it and only after that's done, checked over for possible inconsistencies and holes, is when the actual writing on it will be started.
     
    Due to size of things, I plan on working on the Vlad Dracula short story first -- mainly because if I get it all done, all checked over, everything proofread a few times, I could actually do something with it other than let it rot in Word. (It'll be too violent for a BZP audience, due to the nature of Vlad the Impaler)
     
     
    Today, I've had the idea to go to Barnes 'n Noble to pick up a biography of Vlad III, Dracula (Son of Vlad II, Dracul) and read through it -- taking notes, highlighting interesting things, as to try and make the character Vlad Dracula in the short story more like Vlad the Impaler -- instead of just sharing a name, like Bram Stoker's Dracula (the character) who pretty much just shares a name with Vlad III. (I also have that novel I want to read before going into the actual writing of the short story)
     
     
    I also dumped the Varian contest entry thing I was gonna do in favor of this.
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    Snow Troopers.

    By Noxryn,

    One is not enough.
     
    But there was only one in the AT-AT set. I must find some more of these neat lil' guys. (Which isn't hard but finding them in bulk for cheapish is hard)
     
    (I also embarrassed myself by calling it the "AT&T" << >>)
  24. Noxryn
    So we did our first little assignment thing, which was to make a large picture telling the story of our partner (Who basically told me what they did over the summer). The catch was to make the story one huge piece of art, based off of pre-historic cave drawings, and not a series of symbols that could be read (Such as Egyptian hieroglyphics).
     
    We first sketched out the series of symbols we wanted to use, and then we sketched out what the overall picture would look like. After that, we got charcoal and ended up drawing it on large pieces of brown paper taped to the walls. Of course, I got a part close to the floor, which means that if my knees had hands, I'd have been strangled. However, today we presented our pictures to the class. After I had done my presentation, my art teacher pointed out how I used my lines and how I kept the image simple and not messy and chaotic like a few others on the wall -- IE: anything with zombies. That compliment made me feel pretty good, given, he only complimented about four pieces of artwork (One of which was just incredible, it was good enough to the point where cutting it out of the huge paper and framing it sounded worth it).
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    School!

    By Noxryn,

    Yes, that is an exclamation mark.
     
    So for school this year, which just started for me on Tuesday actually (I thought it was Monday, but that turned out to be for 9th graders and some Juniors there helping them out), I have seven classes;
     
    - English II Honors
    - Geometry (I should've been in Algebra II, but I'm not very good at math << >>)
    - U.S History (First half this semester -- would have gone for AP Human Geography, but the workload from that class would have been too much with everything else this year).
    - Newspaper
    - Chemistry (I hate the notebook set-up thing... honestly, I'd prefer keeping handouts/fliers in a folder and not scrunched up in a book of notes)
    - Drawing and Painting (The teacher is amazing, so much fun. However, I'm a bit depressed that Creative Writing filled out so fast )
    - French III (I never liked foreign language class...)
     
     
    Also, Wednesdays/Thursdays are "block" schedule, meaning, that we either have even or odd numbered classes on those days and each class is roughly one hour and a half in length. On Thursday, we don't need to get to school until 8:35 AM -- meaning, I can sleep in until like, 7:00 AM (I have to be there at 7:30 because my mother can't be late for work, so yeah).
     
     
    Most of the work this week is; sign papers, organize notebooks, get supplies. In Geometry, we have an Algebra Pre-Test thing, but I find the Algebra to be easier this year than last year for me (It's the same thing, my mind is just clicking with it faster --- again, I'm terrible at mathematics).
     
     
     
    I've also noticed something odd; I go to bed on time and I wake up in the morning all tired and lazy feeling. I go to bed an hour or two later, and I'm awake for -practically- the whole day. (I always get tired around 2:00 PM).
     
     
     
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