The Topic of Great Randomness

[marina salem]

Dair: I think you missed everyone in chat; There were about seven poeple on at one point. Sorry about Colorado; my first grade teacher (who left for Denver when she got married about eight or so years ago) left just before the blizzard hit to come here for Christmas.

I wish I'd slept in some...oh well. I ate shortbread cookies for breakfast, since there's nobody to tell me not to. They were good, too. There's about...*thinks*...a week left in vacation, if you include today. I go back on the 4th of January, because the teachers have an inservice on the 3rd. Yippee .

I want my sister to come back...she's at basketball practice, and I'm really lonely without my co-conspirator. Sigh...I think I'll check my email or watch TV shows on the internet. Dai...

[Cyber Mirage]

10.gameboy ds and two games

DS's aren't Game Boys... >< They're still pretty cool though

Christmas... nothing much.. Just some random fuel to my obsessions.. (heehee. Alto Clari mouthpiece.. )

*yawns* Gotta love sleeping in til 11 o'clock.

[seabiscuit1009]

Lord...our internet's been broken since the Saturday before Christmas. I thought I was going to die some days...but I survived! Haha...seriously though, it impeded the completion of my homework. Grrr...

I love Christmas, even though it was a very green Christmas here, surprisingly. Normally we have loads of snow...global warming sucks. Oh well...you know how Christmas is. Still can't work the new tv we got for the attic, or the surround sound, and we've had it a week...better figure it out, since I can't work the downstairs tv either because it has a DIFFERENT type of surround sound...I hate electronics. Got a lot of good books though...and some music. And Pirates of the Caribean 2. So I'm happy. The books were awesome-I'm almost done with all of them ,and would have been done sooner, except for work. And memorizing Shakespeare.

Hmmm...what'd I even get for Christmas? iTunes card, letter jacket, Hot Fuss (by the Killers), money, Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, a copy of Shakespeare's sonnets, tea, money for new running shoes (I'm very excited about this!), new hair straightener, and my room painted. Not much stuff...but that's ok, since I really don't need any stuff. Except for the chocolate covered Oreos. Those I NEED.

did I mention I have to memorize one of Shakespeare's soliloquys before Tuesday at 2:15? I think I've got it...maybe. I was reciting it at work this morning and got a lot of funny looks from the cashiers. Then, the manager decided that I was dead (it was 7:30 am, earlier than I've been up in about a month) and made me an espresso-but not one of those little ones we serve customers. This was a humongous espresso, with a lot of coffee and a shot of vanilla flavoring. This is me on caffeine, lol. I was so buzzed on caffeine, it wasn't even funny. Got to love Panera...if corporate ever caught us doing stuff like that, they'd just roll on the floor laughing at us.

Hmm...at the work Christmas party, I was invited to go back to this guy's house with the rest of the crew and pretty much get drunk. I didn't do it because a.) I was my own ride home and b.) I'm underage! Which doesn't seem to bother any of my other coworkers, since there were a couple of other underage kids there...but still! It's like my parents were all worried about pressure from kids at school to drink, and instead it comes from my managers at work! Kind of ironic. Need to remember to watch what I drink when I'm with them outside of Panera. Why does it seem like everyone wants to get me drunk? Am I really that much of a good kid that it'd be funny? My cousin has this plan that she'll get me drunk in college and take me to get a tattoo of an orange and yellow popsicle on my behind. She's pretty crazy, if you couldn't tell.

Bit late. I'm talking about some pretty random stuff now. Nrgh....I love books. And sleeping. Ok, too sleepy to be coherent. Talk to you all later! -yawns-

[Gryphon]

Hey. Life is hypocrisy in a bucket. I spent part of yesterday celebrating with a couple of friends because we were thrilled that we didn't have school tomorrow... and all of that because a president died. Rest in peace, Gerald Ford. I crawled out of bed with the intention of dragging out my books and packing away a little cram time for the upcoming biology midterm. Didn't happen. I pulled out my bio study guide, a notebook, and a pencil with a bowl of oatmeal (for late brunch)... and then slipped into a cami and played DDR until I was so worn out that it became a struggle to beat basic/light. For the last couple of hours, I've been cleaning my room. It's such a hell hole that I haven't even made a dent... and my brother's room is sparkly clean. Makes me feel spiffy.

At the moment, I am feeling... artistically emo? Sulky, but in a constructive, non-pathetic way.

I've also given up chat until my midterms are done. It's not like we talk about anything in there anyway. I try to talk about something, but either it's like talking to a wall, or it turns into an argument. Doncha love it? So I don't feel like wasting my time butting heads when I could be doing something with my life. Such as studying or cleaning my room. >< Most of the time, I come to the chat because I'm bored... or to use it as a stress-outlet, but it's one of the worst ones out there. Dove once suggested that, because I get worked up so much about all of the drama in my life, I should cut myself off from some of it. But if I weren't with friends (with friends, drama becomes inevitable), what else would I do? Come to chat where I only feel more like crap? Naw, I can take the drama; it's what comes with living life. And art is a better outlet for the school stress.

[spyells]

I'm thrilled that I don't have to go to school for the rest of this week. I start back on Monday. I don't like school. If it was up to me all I would do is read and play video games. I did just get animal crossing and eragon for my nintendo ds lite. I don't too much like T.V.

[marina salem]

You're lucky, spyells-- I am back at school for today, Thursday, and tomorrow, which makes no sense. Why not just make us come back next week and have the full week? Whatever.

I am so tired, it isn't funny. Of course it's my own fault, because I stayed up till eleven reading. But we got our midterm results back, and my lowest grade was an 80. I actually got a 93 on bio, which was surprising because I guessed on half of the multiple choice questions. A 91 in Health, an 87 in English, 80 in Geometry, and I-forget-what on Spanish and a 97 in Scripture. Thank goodness that's over .

I watched The Phantom of the Opera with my sister the other day. I love that movie, with the really dark music...I pestered her to pay for half of the soundtrack, but she didn't. I need to save my money anyway...

[Small town]

IM STILL ALIVE! Im working on the problems im haveing with chat. Its will work for me... or else. XD

[mythbusterfan]

its' saturday...at four in the morning...
which means i have only two days left of break. today and sunday.

then back to school where i live a mostly drama free life. i'm lucky i suppose, the only drama i deal with on a daily basis is ironlicly the drama that arises from chat not from the real world.

mmmph school...when i get back i have to finish my 3 page research paper. it woulda been able to be turned in friday, but the power died and we got to go home early. even though that meant we got to leave for break a day early, it's a bunch more work the day we get back. *hopes for another power outage*

meh...

[Cody]

Wow this place is a topic of great randomness.

[Mousey]

So...

You know about NaNoWriMo, right?
Good. Well, since I didn't quite manage to get 50k there, I'm doing it again this month. And I got 10k this morning, early early early, and now I'm trying to get 11,340 words total today. And I'm blocked. Nicely blocked. Stupid elfie boy and Alexa deciding they wanted to pair up in a not so platonic partnership, and are arguing with me on whether they should kiss or not...

Ahem. Okay, I think I'll go open another Wordpad doc and complain in there.

Mousey, out.

[Angel_Star]

Well, hello, m'loves! I'm so terribly sorry that I haven't been here in much too long! I've been rather busy, and sadly, YW slipped to the back of my mind. Well, I'll have a monster of a post to catch you all up on my marvelous life! Or just ramble on and on about stuff you don't care about...which amounts the the same thing.

Oh, and Cody, no, it's not a topic of great randomness. It is THE Topic of Great Randomness. *huggles ToGR*

Awww...darn it. I'm about to start crying. I (finally) got mahself the Phantom soundtrack, and it's at the part where the Phantom's looking at the music box. So sad... *pats Phantom on the head* Perhaps you know in the Phantom of the Opera (the actual song) where Christine hits that really high note? Where Phantom is all, "Sing for me, my angel!" and all that jazz? Well, I hit that high note once. I was proud of mahself.

*huggles Gryphmiphy* I heart you soooo much! You're my favourite Gryphmiphy ever!

We haven't had any snow here. It's rather depressing. It's like, spring weather.

I got mah keyboard for Christmas, and a new cell. I also got makeup and money. Twas a good Christmas. I got to hang out with mah friends bunches over the break and such. My friend E had some people over at her house, kind of for her birthday (Dec. 26) and kind of just to have people over. That was a ton of fun. We ate lots of junk food, played random games...it was great.

I finally got back my grades from 2nd quarter. I mean, I already knew what I got, but still. Ooo! I got a 96% on my Spanish final! I was muy contenta...since that's the only happy word I can think of in spanish. Of course, my friend had to go and get a 97%...tee hee.

Winter Ball is in a week. Mum's actually gonna let me get my hair done by somebody besides either her or myself. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, though. I got my nails done before homecoming, but I think I'll just paint them myself for WB. I just don't have the time to fit in something else that day, lol. Anyway, I'm hoping that I'm not setting myself up for dissappointment with this dance. At homecoming, two guys asked me to dance. One has a girlfriend now (my friend D...she's liked him off and on for a while), and the other is a freshman who actually asked me to the dance and had the unfortunate result of making me think he was joking. *cough* Poor dear. Anyway, I really do like the kid; he's my good friend. I really hope he'll dance with me, 'cause nobody else will, lol.

I have a paper due in World Civ Thursday. It has something to do with comparing the life of one of your parents (or aunt, uncle, grandparent...whatever) with your life at age 16. Which I think is incredibly stupid, considering that I'm 15. So, I wouldn't know how life is at 16. *snicker* It only has to be a page long, so it shouldn't be too hard. The only actual homework I have over the weekend is in Chemistry. We're balancing equations. Fun stuff. Seriously, I like it. I'm suuuch a nerd. There needs to be a nerdy smiley. I suppose I can go for the irony and just use that one.

My neighbor had been complaining about how we never do anything besides talk on my driveway or on AIM, so we decided to go somewhere together. Of course, I didn't feel like making it incredibly awkward with just me and him (at the mall, lol) so my friend C came with us. It was fun, I suppose, but the stupid boy still likes me. Goodness, I wish my ex had been half that persistent. Yah, I know, I shouldn't complain about having somebody like me (heaven forbid, lol), but I hate hurting him...but I realized that I really _don't_ want to go out with him. And agreeing just for his sake would end up doing him more harm than good.

And that's more than you wanted to read, I'm sure.

But anyway, we were eating at Quiznos, or however you spell it, when C and I noticed just how many guys were in there. How many rather cute guys, to be more specific. So, we're in line, talking a bit, when these two guys come in. I'm sure C and I looked like idiots, staring like that. All of a sudden I register that they're TALKING to P (my neighbor) saying hey to him and stuff. So, I'm like, "Who ARE they???" and Carissa starts laughing at me. P said, "They live in our neighborhood," with this smirk on his face. My jaw dropped. (Like this ) I was like, "Crap. You might have something to this coming out of my house thing..."

But then P had to ruin it by telling me that I wouldn't like them 'cause of the way they act and talk and stuff. Well, mostly the way they talk...most of you know that I can't abide certain...language. C made the statement that we didn't have to like them as people to enjoy looking at them.

I actually don't have that much drama in my life right now. Things seem to be...settling, letting me take a break from stressing out over things that I can't control. Even school doesn't seem that bad right now (and I hope I don't ruin anything by saying that).

We're starting our Shakespeare stuff in English. As such an English nerd, I should like Shakespeare...but I don't really. I mean, he's okay; I don't mind reading his stuff, but I'm not in love with it or anything.

I lost weight over Christmas break. Unfortunately, I gained it all back in a moment (or day...days...) of weakness. It's rather sad...I'm going to have to diet this week. Hopefully I can lose enough to look semi-decent in mah dress.

I'll hafta find a picture of my dress. It's purty. I'll edit this and put in a picture if I take one some time today. It's black, with little straps with rhinestone things where they connect to the dress. It has a swishy skirt that doesn't quite get on the floor. Erm...I'm not very good at describing dresses, so... *is off to take a picture* I couldn't find it on the store's website (though I was probably looking at the wrong store, lol).

[Gryphon]

Angel and her grey matter:
*huggles Gryphmiphy* I heart you soooo much! You're my favourite Gryphmiphy ever!

Awww You're my numberone favorite Angel in the entire world. <3 Thanks. I'm sorry that I brought an emo party down on you guys.

And it's summer for us! I walked to my friend's house in flip flops. And speaking of that... I came home late at night -- maybe 15 or something minutes ago. My dad was in the living room, and as soon as I opened the door, he started yelling at me, "yeah! you'll never do _that_ again!"
What? And my mom comes down, and she's mad at me too. Apparently I didn't tell them where I was going. But I did. Dad was downstairs. My grandparents had stopped by. I was just putting down the phone, and I said, "hey, V called. I'm going over to her house." When I got back home, I was going to share some of these strawberry candies that we got from the foreign import place and talk about the movie I had just seen. But hey. :/ I feel like writing more, but I'll spare you the emo details. Everyone has problems, afterall.

The drama in my life reached a disastrous peak for my friend. :/ But I've got a happier side to talk about. We went over to one of her friend's house, and he had this guy over. M. He was really neat and fun to talk to. A nice guy, too. We talked about snowboarding, and schools. Stuff like that. He also told me about how he got expelled out of his old school becuase he was suicidal and over dosed on sleeping pills. It was a really funny story. He remembered that first, he was sitting in the hallway, just staring. And this guy walked by and was like, "man, what are you staring at?"
"Shh... you'll scare the armadillo..."
"You're really messed up, man..."
M saw this red armadillo just floating in the air. Next thing that happened was that some of his friends came by and were going to help move him and get him out of there, but he was like, "No, we have to get a cookie from the cafeteria." He was persistant, so they went there, and he got a waterbottle instead, then went back to his locker, threw it inside, and was like, "My job here is done." But then his friends were freaking out cuz the bell was about to ring, and they didn't know what to do with him. So I guess they went to class, because the next thing he remembered was sitting in the counseler's office, and he didn't know how he had gotten there. She was asking him all of these questions about the old testament to keep him conscious (because that's what they were learning about), and then he was in the ER. He was telling me, "Do not EVER overdose. Because they make you drink charcoal, and you'll try to convince yourself that it's something else... like chocolate, but it is impossible. It just does not work. It's all grainy and... really sandy chocolate, and it does NOT taste good. Don't ever overdose." So now he goes to a different school.
J's parents walked by (J is the guy whose house I was at), and they were like, "you know, we have furniture..." because we were sitting on the floor. "No, it's okay, this is a drum circle... of two."

Oh! The movie that we saw today was the Freedom Writers. It was really good. I was choking up. I want to get the book.

This is a picture of me that I drew while staring into the mirror. I'm was slouched a little while I was drawing. And I hadn't brushed my hair yet. :P

[A Traveller with Magic]

Aiee, missed too many landmarks =(
Haha good to be back again cuz- cuz's- w/e the plural is...
*sigh* Have to somehow get up and get to school by 7 for band tomorrow, when the last two weeks were spent sleeping from 4am-noon. Bliss of winter holidays.
Also getting panicky about homework that I scheduled myself to do this week but never got to til *gulp* today...58 more climate questions, 17 English chapter responses, a monologue for the English oral final, 12 news articles for a novel study, statistics and probability exam, climate exam all coming up this week. And music scales/thoery/performance exam. Finals next week. Still not entirely lucid from reading so much fanfiction and stuff...
Wish there was still a week left to recover from pre-holidays cramming...I got the results from my IB (International Baccalaureate) application back the last week of school but only got to see its contents fourth, since my chamber music group was scrambling to get a project done and I handed the app results to a friend to open...
I got in! *huge grin* Now just to manage to finish the whole program without suffering from a nervous breakdown. Or my backpack finally going on strike from all the extra homework.
Well finals first, then start of second semester...and IB.

Angel: Know what you mean with Shakespeare...Romeo and Juliet is definitely not my thing, even though I get odd urges to quote from it a lot.
Gryph: Cool drawing =) I've resigned myself to just POV...last minute late night posters for English projects have ruined my artistic ability.
Why does most of my homework come from English anyway? Bad enough that I have 3 core subjects (LA, Sci, SS, Math)- normal non-pre-IB people only have 2 per semester.

About marks: I know Music-Woodwinds was my best mark (high 90s), English 10-1 was my lowest (79, wasn't putting effort ...wonder if I can drop to 20-2 so I wouldn't have to do anything?), Pure Math 10 average hasn't changed in 2 months (91, stupid stupid sleepy mistakes), and Science 10...not quite sure seeing that one of my quiz marks ended up being 58.5/10 ^.^ Talk about typo...now I can say I got 105% in chem...*snicker* But I'm pretty sure my real mark is somewhere around 90.

Choir: flashback to elementary school of a sort, when we sang carols every morning for a week before Christmas. Although this year we have an audience (albeit one that pays very little attention to us and more to the hot chocolate stand on the other side of the foyer).

As for NaNoWriMo, it looks like if I want to participate next year I'll have to cheat somehow and write my story over the summer. Not like that's possible. *sigh* IB really better live up to its promises...

And the only drama in my life so far this school year comes from almost but not so catastrophic group projects, and my friend's (platonic) obsession with my math teacher. And all things...mathy. Well, I guess any 'drama' this year would pale alongside what was happening last year...

Almost forgot about Christmas despite everything- been holed up in the house doing homework/recovering from homework. I didn't get any 'personal' presents this year...we only got a ton of chocolate. Which is supposed to be nice, but there's a limit. Also can't buy cards for my friends. At least I managed to wrangle a copy of The Elegant Universe when we went shopping with some family friends- it's not like my parents could say no in front of them. But other than that...nada.

Well, not too disappointed myself. Wish you all belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And VERY late happy 10000th post/500th page.

[Dragon Writer]

So...

You know about NaNoWriMo, right?
Good. Well, since I didn't quite manage to get 50k there, I'm doing it again this month. And I got 10k this morning, early early early, and now I'm trying to get 11,340 words total today. And I'm blocked. Nicely blocked. Stupid elfie boy and Alexa deciding they wanted to pair up in a not so platonic partnership, and are arguing with me on whether they should kiss or not...

Ahem. Okay, I think I'll go open another Wordpad doc and complain in there.

Mousey, out.

don't you just hate when that happens? it's even worse though when you base a character on someone and you have to argue with a REAL person about weather or not the character has changed enough to actually do what they actually would be doing...or when you get the feeling your own characters know something you don't...*grumbles* oh, and *drags mousey off to post on dragon game* *drags gryphon off as well, and throws them both in a sack for good measure* i've already gotten small town wanting to post, and i need more posting...and since you won't go on yim for me to bug you there...

In other news, ther'es the fact that the back of my toilet overflooded this morning, the part with all the clean water, and we didn't notice for about ten minutes when our downstairs neighbor complained his house was flooding. we're on the top floor, so it was a disaster....Well, i'm off to post more.

[marina salem]

Gryph-- your drawing is so good...I wish I could draw half so well.

Oh...my...God...announcments on TV today said that both my Spanish teacher and my Honors Geometry teacher are absent today. I was about ready to laugh aloud, I was sssooo happy! That means that, out of my four classes before lunch, two are gonna be OPEN LABS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about the over-expression of happiness, but that's how I feel.

Biology this morning was first, and so boring that mere words cannot express it. The conversation got really random at one point. We were talking about recombinant DNA when Anna brought up her hawk hunting, and the convo somehow turned to pork rinds and what they're made from. Turns out that Ms. F likes pork rinds. Who'dve known?

We only started reading The Odyssey about two school days ago, and I don't like it already. Urgh...

My friends think that everyone's laptop in the school is gonna crash this week. We've been having internet problems, and the freshman class's laptops are really...pathetic is the nicest word to describe them. I don't believe my computer'll crash, but if it does...

Who'd have thought that two straight free periods could be boring?...