Alright, you people who can't hear, this is what I said (fillers removed and arranged into paragraphs/sentences :P):
"Hi, I'm Rachel, and this is the musicaddictmusings vlog. This is basically a continuation of the Music Addict Musings blog I had on Blogger. I'm going to make a slight change to the content material: It'll be whatever you (the suscribers and viewers and commenters) want me to talk about, so I'll ask you to make suggestions and comments.
I'll talk about basically anything - if you want me to review a book or something, tell me about that...I'll only review it if I've read it, obviously, and if I really hate it I won't review it, just so as not to offend you people. If you want me to talk about some political or social or religious or otherwise issue I can talk about that...and I won't care if I offend people in that case, cause it's my opinion...and I'll make sure to have logical support. I really hate when people just BS stuff '>.< Yeah, basically I'll talk about anything.
Another change I'll make is that instead of telling you what the Song of the Week is, I'll have the intro of it in the beginning of the vlog and and the outro of it in the end of the episode, and then you people can also guess what the song is, and then if you guess it correctly, I'll give preference to your suggestion, I suppose.
I'll still continue posting on the blog throughout all this. It'll be the exact same thing as I'm saying on here, except it'll be in written format ((orlly, never woulda guessed, Rachel!)), so if you can't tell what I'm saying or something you can check on there. I won't post what the Song of the Week is until after people have guessed it xD
I'll be making an episode about once a week, so you can check in with that...and, er...sorry this is so short and boring, but this is basically an introduction to how this will work...so I'll share this to basically people on the Internet, and you can comment and tell me what you want me to talk about in the next episode. Like and subscribe! Till next week, when I'll make a more interesting episode, hopefully!
IF YOU DON'T GIVE ME ANY SUGGESTIONS, I'LL TALK ABOUT WHATEVER I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND YOU KNOW THAT'LL BE BORING, SO GIVE SUGGESTIONS."
Song of the Week: Passion's Killing Floor by HIM.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Hopefully This Isn't the Last of Blogger....
So this may or may not be my last post on Blogger, because as I assume you've all heard (well, maybe not Lalis, as the decision is being made in America), the SOPA may or may not pass. If it passes, Blogger is dead for sure. It, along with Facebook, Youtube, Reddit, Tumblr, Goodreads, and pretty much everything else. If you're living under a rock but are still somehow aware of and reading my blog, the SOPA would shut down any American website that may enable or encourage online piracy. (Also, I don't know why people are saying 'the SOPA Act', isn't that a bit redundant, 'A' standing for 'Act' and all? :P)
So, point is, I want to make this good. This post should be deep and meaningful and important...but it's my life I'm talking about, so let's be real xD Nothing especially big happened. In fact, I can just summarize my week right now: Shakespeare essay, ignoring Calc teacher because I'm cocky and assume I can pass the class anyway, Shakespeare essay, tutoring people with various degrees of brightness (I like the bright ones, for some odd reason), Shakespeare essay, trying to make time for friends, Shakespeare essay, realizing I was going to fail the Calc test, realizing I didn't take any history notes at all really for a quiz that would be on the following day, studying, Shakespeare essay, failing Calc, probably doing alright on history because history happens to follow a really predictable pattern for the most part, Shakespeare essay. That's seven days' worth of life. It was all school-related. I have no life anymore. I hate/love junior year for being like this. I really have no life at all if I'm starting to like doing school stuff. T_T
Also, I ran into an old friend and we were all like, "Oh, we should definitely hang out this weekend, we'll hit each other up on Facebook and it'll be just like before stuff happened," but then we didn't and it was mildly sad-making.
I'm reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. He wasn't half as emo as we make him out to be. Especially the tales....:P
Yeah, there's really not much to say about my life. It's pretty much revolving around Shakespeare right now, in case this wasn't made clear already. I've liked Shakespeare for a while - I read Hamlet when I was like...4, which is kind of funny because nobody reads Shakespeare that early and kind of facepalmy because I didn't even speak English, so I read it in Russian and it was therefore considerably easier than the real Hamlet - but I don't think I've ever appreciated his genius to the extent I now do. Which I guess means I'm learning a lot, at the expense of my GPA. Calc too. I actually like Calc a lot, it's all sense-making, or would be if we were given an explanation for how anyone came up with derivatives...but then again, it's a high school math class, you just have to shut up and memorize, not understand :P
Yeah, I've nothing to say, really. Sorry. Maybe if Blogger survives, my next post will be better. Maybe. :/
So, point is, I want to make this good. This post should be deep and meaningful and important...but it's my life I'm talking about, so let's be real xD Nothing especially big happened. In fact, I can just summarize my week right now: Shakespeare essay, ignoring Calc teacher because I'm cocky and assume I can pass the class anyway, Shakespeare essay, tutoring people with various degrees of brightness (I like the bright ones, for some odd reason), Shakespeare essay, trying to make time for friends, Shakespeare essay, realizing I was going to fail the Calc test, realizing I didn't take any history notes at all really for a quiz that would be on the following day, studying, Shakespeare essay, failing Calc, probably doing alright on history because history happens to follow a really predictable pattern for the most part, Shakespeare essay. That's seven days' worth of life. It was all school-related. I have no life anymore. I hate/love junior year for being like this. I really have no life at all if I'm starting to like doing school stuff. T_T
Also, I ran into an old friend and we were all like, "Oh, we should definitely hang out this weekend, we'll hit each other up on Facebook and it'll be just like before stuff happened," but then we didn't and it was mildly sad-making.
I'm reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. He wasn't half as emo as we make him out to be. Especially the tales....:P
Yeah, there's really not much to say about my life. It's pretty much revolving around Shakespeare right now, in case this wasn't made clear already. I've liked Shakespeare for a while - I read Hamlet when I was like...4, which is kind of funny because nobody reads Shakespeare that early and kind of facepalmy because I didn't even speak English, so I read it in Russian and it was therefore considerably easier than the real Hamlet - but I don't think I've ever appreciated his genius to the extent I now do. Which I guess means I'm learning a lot, at the expense of my GPA. Calc too. I actually like Calc a lot, it's all sense-making, or would be if we were given an explanation for how anyone came up with derivatives...but then again, it's a high school math class, you just have to shut up and memorize, not understand :P
Yeah, I've nothing to say, really. Sorry. Maybe if Blogger survives, my next post will be better. Maybe. :/
Sunday, November 13, 2011
11/11/11 FTW.
Hi. I love 4 day weekends :D
Well, technically it was a 3 1/2 day weekend, but who's going to actually get up and go to school for a half-day to learn about bullying? Not me o.o I slept...some people actually went. Well, sophomores had to take the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge & Concepts Exam) for an hour, I guess, so that sucks for them, but I don't get why anyone else went. Oddballs :P
What I did do is sleep, then go get sushi with my friend and "study for Science Olympiad". Yesh, I do Science Olympiad, yes, it is mostly so that my college application looks good, no, I'm not really learning that much. Maybe if I studied instead of just talking to Cici about life and the universe and everything, I would...but I doubt it. I don't really care that much about invasive species, honestly.
And then Friday was...11/11/11!!! Who made a wish? I made like 50 '-_- And then at like 1 am on 11/12 I remembered another wish I wanted to make. Oh well xD
11/11 also happens to be my friend's birthday, so we played laser tag at this one place for 4 hours because we're cool like that. Well, actually they were 15 (?) minute matches separated by 45 (?) minutes...no, that sounds wrong. 30/30 also sounds a bit off, though...maybe 20/40? Doubtful...oh well. Anyway, so 11:11 fell during an in-between time, so we all stood in a circle and closed our eyes (er, I did, I assume other people did too...) and wished. It was all bondy and shit. I was actually quite depressed afterwards for a bit, I don't even know why o.o
Oh, also, these two people I haven't seen in forever were at the party so it was really happyfying to see them! One I never see because he's in college now and even though he stayed in Madison, we just never get around to hanging out anymore because we don't see each other regularly and the other one moved away so we don't even have the chance to hang out, the ass :( Oh, speaking of, another one of my friends is transferring schools on Monday. The world hates me :P
Saturday and Sunday were boring. I procrastinated writing my Shakespeare essay. I still am, actually, although I got a thesis!!! Now I get to look for quotes in a play I only skimmed originally :D ...There's a reason this is my worst class this year. At least in Calc you don't have to do the work to keep up '-_-
Song of the Week: Helena by My Chemical Romance. My sister watched the music video of her own free will today!!! (She didn't like it, but oh well.)
Well, technically it was a 3 1/2 day weekend, but who's going to actually get up and go to school for a half-day to learn about bullying? Not me o.o I slept...some people actually went. Well, sophomores had to take the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge & Concepts Exam) for an hour, I guess, so that sucks for them, but I don't get why anyone else went. Oddballs :P
What I did do is sleep, then go get sushi with my friend and "study for Science Olympiad". Yesh, I do Science Olympiad, yes, it is mostly so that my college application looks good, no, I'm not really learning that much. Maybe if I studied instead of just talking to Cici about life and the universe and everything, I would...but I doubt it. I don't really care that much about invasive species, honestly.
And then Friday was...11/11/11!!! Who made a wish? I made like 50 '-_- And then at like 1 am on 11/12 I remembered another wish I wanted to make. Oh well xD
11/11 also happens to be my friend's birthday, so we played laser tag at this one place for 4 hours because we're cool like that. Well, actually they were 15 (?) minute matches separated by 45 (?) minutes...no, that sounds wrong. 30/30 also sounds a bit off, though...maybe 20/40? Doubtful...oh well. Anyway, so 11:11 fell during an in-between time, so we all stood in a circle and closed our eyes (er, I did, I assume other people did too...) and wished. It was all bondy and shit. I was actually quite depressed afterwards for a bit, I don't even know why o.o
Oh, also, these two people I haven't seen in forever were at the party so it was really happyfying to see them! One I never see because he's in college now and even though he stayed in Madison, we just never get around to hanging out anymore because we don't see each other regularly and the other one moved away so we don't even have the chance to hang out, the ass :( Oh, speaking of, another one of my friends is transferring schools on Monday. The world hates me :P
Saturday and Sunday were boring. I procrastinated writing my Shakespeare essay. I still am, actually, although I got a thesis!!! Now I get to look for quotes in a play I only skimmed originally :D ...There's a reason this is my worst class this year. At least in Calc you don't have to do the work to keep up '-_-
Song of the Week: Helena by My Chemical Romance. My sister watched the music video of her own free will today!!! (She didn't like it, but oh well.)
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Oheythereblog. Haven't seen you in a bit....
HI. I've finally remembered about this place :D
Sorry I've been gone for so long but I've been just so busy and I've had so much fun and I've been so stressed out and I don't even know where to start and now Do Re Mi from Sound of Music is stuck in my head cause you know the beginning goes "Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start" and I should finish this sentence and start a new one. There we go.
So remember how I said I wanted to go to Zompocalypse in my last post? Well, that happened. Mmhmm. And it was fucking great. And I want to spend the rest of my life wandering mazes in the dark with zombies and following the Eastern Star because we have no clue where the Northern one is and trolling people by screaming "FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!" in random places (see, you're supposed to look for pieces of a map because there's literally no other way to get out of the maze, it's so huge) and I've quite an aptitude for run-on sentences today, don't I? I'll try to stop.
I also had a Halloween sleepover. I thought it would suck because one of my friends hates scary movies so we couldn't get any, but we ended up watching Hitchcock and that was my first time watching anything of his and he is the best. I actually feel like within a year or so, I'll completely stop caring about modern media and watch only old movies, read only classics, listen only to Metallica...well maybe not that. But seriously, what's up with modern art? It needs to improve pronto.
Speaking of, I watched Paranormal Activity 1 and 3. They're OK. 1 scared me during the last 5 seconds, 3...3 was meh. I guess it was pretty good for the 3rd movie of a series, but as my movie rating scale has recently gotten much pickier, I refuse to give it any more than 2 stars. Sound of Music gets 5, by the way. I'm rating out of 5.
Other recent events...gah. I can't remember what I have or haven't told you about. I have a new plot idea, but I think I'll wait until after Nano to start, because really, right now all the importance should go to them. I might forget it though...so if I do, note to self: stupidtypicalRomanianvampire California library betrayal Zoyaandcompany. Yep. Now you all know the plot, too. Don't tell anyone else, you'll spoil it for them.
I took the SAT yesterday, I guess. It was easy enough, I'm just worried about what grade I'll get on the essay. I don't write fast at all, so giving me a 25-minute time limit is basically like saying, "You have an hour to memorize Hamlet. Go." Not happening.
I don't know why I said Hamlet, by the way. I've been reading lotsa Shakespeare recently, I guess: Richard III and Henry IV and Twelth Night...not Hamlet, though. I read that forever ago, it deserves a re-reading, though. I'll get around to it sometime, or just wait for my English class to assign it :P
I'm so freaked out about college, by the way. I can't mention it to anyone because they'll either tell me to shut up because I'm a fucking genius or some shit like that or tell me that if I tried harder, I'd know I'd get into my dream college with a full scholarship and not have to stress over it. Either way, both are unhelpful. And I swear my hair is actually falling out, I don't know if it's because of this or not but it is. Blah. Ignore this paragraph, I'm just being stupid and emo and all :P
Song of the Week: Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold. It just summarizes a lot of my life right now. Meh. Maybe I should have stuck with the hyperhappy tone I had in the beginning of the blog, now I'll be all mopey for the rest of the evening. Ah well.
Sorry I've been gone for so long but I've been just so busy and I've had so much fun and I've been so stressed out and I don't even know where to start and now Do Re Mi from Sound of Music is stuck in my head cause you know the beginning goes "Let's start from the very beginning, a very good place to start" and I should finish this sentence and start a new one. There we go.
So remember how I said I wanted to go to Zompocalypse in my last post? Well, that happened. Mmhmm. And it was fucking great. And I want to spend the rest of my life wandering mazes in the dark with zombies and following the Eastern Star because we have no clue where the Northern one is and trolling people by screaming "FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!" in random places (see, you're supposed to look for pieces of a map because there's literally no other way to get out of the maze, it's so huge) and I've quite an aptitude for run-on sentences today, don't I? I'll try to stop.
I also had a Halloween sleepover. I thought it would suck because one of my friends hates scary movies so we couldn't get any, but we ended up watching Hitchcock and that was my first time watching anything of his and he is the best. I actually feel like within a year or so, I'll completely stop caring about modern media and watch only old movies, read only classics, listen only to Metallica...well maybe not that. But seriously, what's up with modern art? It needs to improve pronto.
Speaking of, I watched Paranormal Activity 1 and 3. They're OK. 1 scared me during the last 5 seconds, 3...3 was meh. I guess it was pretty good for the 3rd movie of a series, but as my movie rating scale has recently gotten much pickier, I refuse to give it any more than 2 stars. Sound of Music gets 5, by the way. I'm rating out of 5.
Other recent events...gah. I can't remember what I have or haven't told you about. I have a new plot idea, but I think I'll wait until after Nano to start, because really, right now all the importance should go to them. I might forget it though...so if I do, note to self: stupidtypicalRomanianvampire California library betrayal Zoyaandcompany. Yep. Now you all know the plot, too. Don't tell anyone else, you'll spoil it for them.
I took the SAT yesterday, I guess. It was easy enough, I'm just worried about what grade I'll get on the essay. I don't write fast at all, so giving me a 25-minute time limit is basically like saying, "You have an hour to memorize Hamlet. Go." Not happening.
I don't know why I said Hamlet, by the way. I've been reading lotsa Shakespeare recently, I guess: Richard III and Henry IV and Twelth Night...not Hamlet, though. I read that forever ago, it deserves a re-reading, though. I'll get around to it sometime, or just wait for my English class to assign it :P
I'm so freaked out about college, by the way. I can't mention it to anyone because they'll either tell me to shut up because I'm a fucking genius or some shit like that or tell me that if I tried harder, I'd know I'd get into my dream college with a full scholarship and not have to stress over it. Either way, both are unhelpful. And I swear my hair is actually falling out, I don't know if it's because of this or not but it is. Blah. Ignore this paragraph, I'm just being stupid and emo and all :P
Song of the Week: Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold. It just summarizes a lot of my life right now. Meh. Maybe I should have stuck with the hyperhappy tone I had in the beginning of the blog, now I'll be all mopey for the rest of the evening. Ah well.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Fuck Parents, and Corn Mazes are Awesome :D
Let's do this post in reverse chronological order, aka the order of the title, shall we? Iite.
First off: Fuck Parents.
So I don't know about your parents, but mine always insist that I'm extremely rude (which I don't think I am particularly) and they ask me if I'm studying for the PSAT every single day...as I'm in the middle of doing homework.
So. Rudeness. I asked my mom for help with my math homework today and as I'm walking out of the room - I'm not even out of the room yet - she starts talking with my dad about how stupid I am and how obvious the question was. I mean...come on now. You've a Masters in math, and I clearly don't suck at math either if I'm doing calc as a junior. On the other hand, everyone has brain farts or just gets stuck on one particular problem...that's normal, nor does it have anything to do with 'writing too lightly' (my mom insists I write so light you can't see what I wrote...which is untrue). And while we're on the subject of manners...I'm not the one who farts and belches, and especially not without excusing myself, dad. I'm not perfect, but seriously? They ought to practice what they preach a bit.
And the thing with the PSAT is that every single day they ask me if I'm studying for it as I'm clearly working on something else that is also uber-important to get done...so are you suggesting that I just don't do any of the work for my classes to focus on getting a scholarship I probably won't be able to get no matter what? I realize studying is important, and I tell them every single day that I'm doing it, but for some reason it's vital for my dad to comment that I could be studying for it as I'm trying to figure out math. Again, I know you have a PhD in math and you didn't go to class at all, but I kind of want to get an A in the class and I'm not smart enough to figure out calc on the final exam.
But what did go well today??? A CORN MAZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were stuck in it for 3 hours!!! It was so hard!!! It was so much fun!!! I want to go there for the Zombipocalypse and do it again at night with zombies jumping out at me so bad!!! :D
Speaking of, what are you doing for Halloween? I want to go trick-or-treating, but it's no fun going alone and when I mentioned it, this girl who thinks she's friends with me and therefore hangs out with us rolled her eyes...so not sure if that'll work out. Either way, I intend to dress up lolita goth...just because if I don't satisfy the urge now, I'll start doing it every day and that'll be a bit hard on my makeup/fancy dress budget x]
Oh, and speaking of plans...so Simple Plan, Forever the Sickest Kids, The Cab, and Marianas Trench are going on tour and I want to go to a concert so badly!!! And the tickets are only like $25!!! And I probably won't be able to go, but if I do, omigod my life will be made because I haven't been to a concert in ages and this will be huge and just...OMIGOD!!! But I probably won't be able to go, so it doesn't matter :(
Song of the Week: Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. This is the song that got me off Metro Station/Avril Lavigne and into music. :)
First off: Fuck Parents.
So I don't know about your parents, but mine always insist that I'm extremely rude (which I don't think I am particularly) and they ask me if I'm studying for the PSAT every single day...as I'm in the middle of doing homework.
So. Rudeness. I asked my mom for help with my math homework today and as I'm walking out of the room - I'm not even out of the room yet - she starts talking with my dad about how stupid I am and how obvious the question was. I mean...come on now. You've a Masters in math, and I clearly don't suck at math either if I'm doing calc as a junior. On the other hand, everyone has brain farts or just gets stuck on one particular problem...that's normal, nor does it have anything to do with 'writing too lightly' (my mom insists I write so light you can't see what I wrote...which is untrue). And while we're on the subject of manners...I'm not the one who farts and belches, and especially not without excusing myself, dad. I'm not perfect, but seriously? They ought to practice what they preach a bit.
And the thing with the PSAT is that every single day they ask me if I'm studying for it as I'm clearly working on something else that is also uber-important to get done...so are you suggesting that I just don't do any of the work for my classes to focus on getting a scholarship I probably won't be able to get no matter what? I realize studying is important, and I tell them every single day that I'm doing it, but for some reason it's vital for my dad to comment that I could be studying for it as I'm trying to figure out math. Again, I know you have a PhD in math and you didn't go to class at all, but I kind of want to get an A in the class and I'm not smart enough to figure out calc on the final exam.
But what did go well today??? A CORN MAZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were stuck in it for 3 hours!!! It was so hard!!! It was so much fun!!! I want to go there for the Zombipocalypse and do it again at night with zombies jumping out at me so bad!!! :D
Speaking of, what are you doing for Halloween? I want to go trick-or-treating, but it's no fun going alone and when I mentioned it, this girl who thinks she's friends with me and therefore hangs out with us rolled her eyes...so not sure if that'll work out. Either way, I intend to dress up lolita goth...just because if I don't satisfy the urge now, I'll start doing it every day and that'll be a bit hard on my makeup/fancy dress budget x]
Oh, and speaking of plans...so Simple Plan, Forever the Sickest Kids, The Cab, and Marianas Trench are going on tour and I want to go to a concert so badly!!! And the tickets are only like $25!!! And I probably won't be able to go, but if I do, omigod my life will be made because I haven't been to a concert in ages and this will be huge and just...OMIGOD!!! But I probably won't be able to go, so it doesn't matter :(
Song of the Week: Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. This is the song that got me off Metro Station/Avril Lavigne and into music. :)
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Don't Be Mean to People for Bad Reasons.
I WAS UNGROUNDED ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D THISHASBEENLIKETHEBESTWEEKEVER.
Well, or so you'd think. I've actually been a bit depressed post-grounding...the first few days I thought I'd really want to hang out with people to make up for not doing so for several weeks, but then I realized that I just kind of wanted to sit in my room in a corner with preferably dim lighting and not talk or think or anything. I think it's mostly further disappointment in my parents that so saddens me.
I haven't had much energy to progress in Jane Eyre either, sadly: I'm only on page 208 (from page 78 last week) so that's a bit pathetic >.<
Anyways, today was actually non-sucky. I did NAMIWalk (NAMI=National Alliance on Mental Illness), which means that I had to get my ass out of bed on 8:30 on a weekend (*gasp*), perform for about 10 minutes, and then do a parade. And then hang out with people (*gasp*), but it wasn't that annoying today, so yay :D
What the title of the post has to do with anything is that this one mentally ill, I suppose, kid took my hand today, which creeped me out a lot because I don't like people I don't know touching me, but as I was at a thing supporting them, I had to smile and go along with it...which I disliked. My gut reaction was to jerk my hand away and hide amongst my friends, but thinking about it now, that would have been incredibly mean and rude and generally bitchy of me...so yeah, be nice to people who can't help doing stuff you dislike :P
Also, I think I'm making friends with this other girl who performed...which is a bit funny because we hung out a couple times in froshie year because our mutual friends wanted to skip with both of us but we barely talked at all then, and somehow the change of setting has somehow made conversation easier. By conversation, I mean that at rehearsal she wanted to ride the bus home together when she found out that we live in about the same place; the next day she posted a status inquiring about the time of NAMIWalk on Facebook, I replied, and she said "Thanks love" (which means that she already thinks of me as a pretty good friend O.O); and then today we kind of talked. That sounded like I don't want to be friends with her...I do, it's just a bit weird because of the froshie thing for me and I don't understand why you'd call someone 'love' when you started talking to them like...a week ago. But I do think she's nice and funny and stuff!!! Gah, I think you get the idea.
Song of the Week: Attack by 30 Seconds to Mars, because that's more or less my attitude towards people now. Er, until today? We'll see how talking to people in school goes tomorrow :P
Edit: According to somebody's status on Facebook, NAMIWalk was on TV. Awesomeface.
Well, or so you'd think. I've actually been a bit depressed post-grounding...the first few days I thought I'd really want to hang out with people to make up for not doing so for several weeks, but then I realized that I just kind of wanted to sit in my room in a corner with preferably dim lighting and not talk or think or anything. I think it's mostly further disappointment in my parents that so saddens me.
I haven't had much energy to progress in Jane Eyre either, sadly: I'm only on page 208 (from page 78 last week) so that's a bit pathetic >.<
Anyways, today was actually non-sucky. I did NAMIWalk (NAMI=National Alliance on Mental Illness), which means that I had to get my ass out of bed on 8:30 on a weekend (*gasp*), perform for about 10 minutes, and then do a parade. And then hang out with people (*gasp*), but it wasn't that annoying today, so yay :D
What the title of the post has to do with anything is that this one mentally ill, I suppose, kid took my hand today, which creeped me out a lot because I don't like people I don't know touching me, but as I was at a thing supporting them, I had to smile and go along with it...which I disliked. My gut reaction was to jerk my hand away and hide amongst my friends, but thinking about it now, that would have been incredibly mean and rude and generally bitchy of me...so yeah, be nice to people who can't help doing stuff you dislike :P
Also, I think I'm making friends with this other girl who performed...which is a bit funny because we hung out a couple times in froshie year because our mutual friends wanted to skip with both of us but we barely talked at all then, and somehow the change of setting has somehow made conversation easier. By conversation, I mean that at rehearsal she wanted to ride the bus home together when she found out that we live in about the same place; the next day she posted a status inquiring about the time of NAMIWalk on Facebook, I replied, and she said "Thanks love" (which means that she already thinks of me as a pretty good friend O.O); and then today we kind of talked. That sounded like I don't want to be friends with her...I do, it's just a bit weird because of the froshie thing for me and I don't understand why you'd call someone 'love' when you started talking to them like...a week ago. But I do think she's nice and funny and stuff!!! Gah, I think you get the idea.
Song of the Week: Attack by 30 Seconds to Mars, because that's more or less my attitude towards people now. Er, until today? We'll see how talking to people in school goes tomorrow :P
Edit: According to somebody's status on Facebook, NAMIWalk was on TV. Awesomeface.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Grounded Life
So, what's it like being grounded, you ask? Well, let's see.
Two days this week my mom had to go to Go-To-School nights, so I could go online and use my cell phone then.
In class we had a project we went to the library to work on, so I went online then.
My mom let me go on the computer when I had to for homework - and I really did spend most of the time doing homework, but I would sort my email a bit and stuff like that while homeworking.
I could not go to homecoming (FUCK YES!!!) but I had a sleepover Friday-Saturday to work on the afore-mentioned project...we stayed up until 1 working on the project with absolutely minimal procrastination O.O The product is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYbk9DcnYA Don't watch it. Please don't watch it. (But, if you do watch it and you don't know which one I am...I'm the one that was introduced as Rachel. :P) It's pretty boring; who cares about women who worked in factories during WWII?
Unfortunately, my mom won't have Go-To-School nights this week, and my dad's back from Scotland, so my computer time at home will be much more monitored...although maybe a date for the end of the grounding will finally be established. It's really annoying not to know. It's like, "Am I grounded until college?" (Actually, when I asked my mom when it's over, she said "UNTIL COLLEGE!" She was mad, but I'm scared nonetheless xD)
Also, I was intending to write a lot more this year (I've been pretty much only RPing for a while now), and that hasn't happened yet. Maybe being bored out of my mind while grounded will encourage that along? I got inspiration for a poem this morning...we'll see what happens with that. But really, I should write more, because that's more or less the only thing I've ever been talented at all at. People say I'm good at math and science and stuff, but that's because I apply common sense to it all, I'd never be able to really do anything important with it...not that I could with writing, but still. I'd have more of a chance :P
Speaking of that sort of thing, YOU ALL MUST READ "JANE EYRE". Suchagoodbookohmygod. I've barely started (for those of you who know the story, Helen just died), but thus far, it's mindblowingly amazing. I mean, I usually don't squeak excitedly throughout an entire book...I do that at the climax and maybe the very end, but not from the first paragraph or so...so that should give you a sort of an idea with that.
For those people who like to know a bit of the plot before picking up a book: Jane has been living with her aunt and cousins and their servants since her parents died, and they hate her. One day, her 14-year-old cousin finds her reading, and tells 10-year-old Jane to come over to him. She does so, and after staring at her for a couple minutes, he hits her, making her drop the book. He tells her to pick the book up and give it to him, then go to a corner of the room away from the windows and mirror. She does that too, and he throws the book at her head hard enough to make her bleed. Enraged, she attacks him, which is when the servants come in and drag her off to her late uncle's room as a punishment. There she sees his ghost and screams, which prolongs the punishment from an unspecified amount to a longer unspecified amount. After much time, though, a doctor comes to treat her head wound and suggests they send her away to school, which they do and currently she's having a much better time there. So yeah, you all should read it. xD
Song of the Week: Dead Promises by The Rasmus. As I'm grounded because of a friend's betrayal, this fits well enough.
Two days this week my mom had to go to Go-To-School nights, so I could go online and use my cell phone then.
In class we had a project we went to the library to work on, so I went online then.
My mom let me go on the computer when I had to for homework - and I really did spend most of the time doing homework, but I would sort my email a bit and stuff like that while homeworking.
I could not go to homecoming (FUCK YES!!!) but I had a sleepover Friday-Saturday to work on the afore-mentioned project...we stayed up until 1 working on the project with absolutely minimal procrastination O.O The product is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwYbk9DcnYA Don't watch it. Please don't watch it. (But, if you do watch it and you don't know which one I am...I'm the one that was introduced as Rachel. :P) It's pretty boring; who cares about women who worked in factories during WWII?
Unfortunately, my mom won't have Go-To-School nights this week, and my dad's back from Scotland, so my computer time at home will be much more monitored...although maybe a date for the end of the grounding will finally be established. It's really annoying not to know. It's like, "Am I grounded until college?" (Actually, when I asked my mom when it's over, she said "UNTIL COLLEGE!" She was mad, but I'm scared nonetheless xD)
Also, I was intending to write a lot more this year (I've been pretty much only RPing for a while now), and that hasn't happened yet. Maybe being bored out of my mind while grounded will encourage that along? I got inspiration for a poem this morning...we'll see what happens with that. But really, I should write more, because that's more or less the only thing I've ever been talented at all at. People say I'm good at math and science and stuff, but that's because I apply common sense to it all, I'd never be able to really do anything important with it...not that I could with writing, but still. I'd have more of a chance :P
Speaking of that sort of thing, YOU ALL MUST READ "JANE EYRE". Suchagoodbookohmygod. I've barely started (for those of you who know the story, Helen just died), but thus far, it's mindblowingly amazing. I mean, I usually don't squeak excitedly throughout an entire book...I do that at the climax and maybe the very end, but not from the first paragraph or so...so that should give you a sort of an idea with that.
For those people who like to know a bit of the plot before picking up a book: Jane has been living with her aunt and cousins and their servants since her parents died, and they hate her. One day, her 14-year-old cousin finds her reading, and tells 10-year-old Jane to come over to him. She does so, and after staring at her for a couple minutes, he hits her, making her drop the book. He tells her to pick the book up and give it to him, then go to a corner of the room away from the windows and mirror. She does that too, and he throws the book at her head hard enough to make her bleed. Enraged, she attacks him, which is when the servants come in and drag her off to her late uncle's room as a punishment. There she sees his ghost and screams, which prolongs the punishment from an unspecified amount to a longer unspecified amount. After much time, though, a doctor comes to treat her head wound and suggests they send her away to school, which they do and currently she's having a much better time there. So yeah, you all should read it. xD
Song of the Week: Dead Promises by The Rasmus. As I'm grounded because of a friend's betrayal, this fits well enough.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Welcome Back!
Wow, I haven't posted on here the whole summer? Let's just make this a school-year blog, shall we? That way I won't feel bad about not updating it....
Anyhoos, let's see. First I shall update you about my summer, although I've probably already told you elsewhere anyways. I moved back to Madison and have stayed here since, except for the 2 weeks I spent in France. I love France!!! Paris and Nice were awesome :D I shall most definitely be an exchange student in college!
The Eiffel Tower, no big deal <3
Then school began...I suppose the most notable difference is that this kid named Randy apparently started hanging out with my clique while I was in Cali and so on my first (well, second, I was with other people on the first) day back I meet up with them and he's like "...Who are you and why do you find nothing socially unacceptable about just coming over and talking to us?" (Well, he didn't say it aloud, but you know.) He's actually a bit of a dick to everyone but me, though. ...Well, that's not true, he was a dick to me today, but that's because I was hanging out with my ex(?)-crush and not paying him much attention. Said ex-crush thinks Randy likes me. I rather agree, but hope to avoid drama somehow anyway :P
Also, I'm in more shit than I've ever been before. I don't feel like going into the details, but suffice it to say that my mom found out about some of the less nice stuff I've been doing and I'm grounded for the next foreseeable eternity. This being said, I'm not completely miserable - I now have an excuse for missing homecoming, and I'm going to be allowed to trick-or-treat anyway! (However, this unfortunately leaves no hope for the Evanescence concert, Mimi. Sadful, tis.)
Also, I've been thinking of starting a vlog after I'm ungrounded. So tell me what you think about that, please. That can be the question of the week as I'm too lazy to think of another one '-_-
Song of the Week: This Is How I Disappear by My Chemical Romance. No explanation needed for MCR songs in general, but especially this one :)
Anyhoos, let's see. First I shall update you about my summer, although I've probably already told you elsewhere anyways. I moved back to Madison and have stayed here since, except for the 2 weeks I spent in France. I love France!!! Paris and Nice were awesome :D I shall most definitely be an exchange student in college!
The Eiffel Tower, no big deal <3
Then school began...I suppose the most notable difference is that this kid named Randy apparently started hanging out with my clique while I was in Cali and so on my first (well, second, I was with other people on the first) day back I meet up with them and he's like "...Who are you and why do you find nothing socially unacceptable about just coming over and talking to us?" (Well, he didn't say it aloud, but you know.) He's actually a bit of a dick to everyone but me, though. ...Well, that's not true, he was a dick to me today, but that's because I was hanging out with my ex(?)-crush and not paying him much attention. Said ex-crush thinks Randy likes me. I rather agree, but hope to avoid drama somehow anyway :P
Also, I'm in more shit than I've ever been before. I don't feel like going into the details, but suffice it to say that my mom found out about some of the less nice stuff I've been doing and I'm grounded for the next foreseeable eternity. This being said, I'm not completely miserable - I now have an excuse for missing homecoming, and I'm going to be allowed to trick-or-treat anyway! (However, this unfortunately leaves no hope for the Evanescence concert, Mimi. Sadful, tis.)
Also, I've been thinking of starting a vlog after I'm ungrounded. So tell me what you think about that, please. That can be the question of the week as I'm too lazy to think of another one '-_-
Song of the Week: This Is How I Disappear by My Chemical Romance. No explanation needed for MCR songs in general, but especially this one :)
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