Hi Guys!
First I want to say that it is so cool that two more people are following this. I mean, I personally am fine with writing to myself, as I view this place as more of a place where I can say whatever and nobody can do anything about it. But this is still awesome. And I'm wondering if any of you could say how you found this? I'm curious.
Alright, so I am going to band camp for the first time ever (I don't count the "camp" at my old school, because we only stayed over one night, so it was just like when we normally did all day rehearsals). And I needed some stuff for it, so we went on an adventure to target, where I came back with bug spray, sun screen, a half inch binder (which has one of those slip covers to put a picture in), pencils, shampoo, double sided stickies (to put up my posters in my room), and dry erase markers (because mine are all dead). I am quite happy to have pencils again, because they are these really nice mechanical pencils, and they are the only mechanical pencils I will use, and I lost two of mine and my third is out of lead, so I got more.
I have put off putting things away in my room for far too long. My basic reasoning right now for procrastinating, is that there is a glass top to my dresser I need to put on before I can empty one of my boxes (filled with stuff that goes on the dresser), and the other three boxes are books. I also need to figure out where to put my doll thing (it's has a pull out bed, and it has a closet on one side, a drawer under the bed, and a sort of powder room on the other side) because it was residing in one of our extra closets in our old house. I also plan to organize my books better this time, which means going through and organizing. Plus I need to take down some decorative shelves from my wall so I can put another bookshelf up (one of my boxes of books was a box of books long before we moved). And I have to post the cork board I kidnapped from storage or take it back downstairs. And I have to figure out what to do with my little tv that I don't even use.
So basically, I might (but very likely won't) work on my room some today if my mom helps me put the glass top on m dresser. But no matter what it has to be done the day after I get back from band camp, because I want one of my friends to stay over Wednesday. So my room is turning into a stress bubble.
In other news, I got my class schedule, and magically ended up in drivers ed even though the counselor said there was some issue, so yay for being able to get my permit now! I plan on crashing into something on the first day ;)
Now I'm going to go either write a bit, or draw a picture to go in my binder cover, or get my bag ready for camp.
~Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
PS: I just remembered, that my friend and I texted for ten hours straight the day after her birthday just because. We were going to try for 24, but there was failure in the form of caring more about sleep at 2:25 then 24 hours of texting.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Why?
So right, I was planning on doing a more thorough review of sorts of AVPS later today, but I have something else stuck on my mind.
I was watching some clips from the In the Womb series from national geographic, and they had some clips about multiples in humans and how their interactions with each other shape their personality for the rest of their life (or at least they said something along those lines). Suddenly, my mind jumped to career day last year. Basically for career day at my school you got to go to different rooms where people were giving different presentations on things. Instead of going to the teacher one like I did last year (where someone from the Department of education who has probably never been a teacher, describes not the joy of teaching, or what you have to do, but basically drones on about salaries and unions) I'd signed up for the psychologist presentation. And our speaker had us go around the room and say why we were there, and told us to be honest (leading to a lot of, "I chose randomly"s). So when she got to me, I told her I was there because I'm interested in why people are the way they are. I mean, if I was to become a psychologist major I would be in it to learn about what people thought about why people act as they do. And her response was "oh, no one knows that" or something along those lines, with the look towards me that almost seemed to indicate she was thinking "who cares?"
And so as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking very hard about how someone can not have curiosity about these things. Why is one of the most thrilling words in the world. There are a lot of things that we don't need to know, but that we should want to know just because the answer could, and likely will be, interesting. It's why National Geographic exists. It's why I love books, because the exploration of why a person would do something, or how a person ends up in a situation (I believe how to just be a varied way of exploring why), is absolutely fascinating.
Why should I be considered odd for wanting to know why everything ended up the way it is?
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
I was watching some clips from the In the Womb series from national geographic, and they had some clips about multiples in humans and how their interactions with each other shape their personality for the rest of their life (or at least they said something along those lines). Suddenly, my mind jumped to career day last year. Basically for career day at my school you got to go to different rooms where people were giving different presentations on things. Instead of going to the teacher one like I did last year (where someone from the Department of education who has probably never been a teacher, describes not the joy of teaching, or what you have to do, but basically drones on about salaries and unions) I'd signed up for the psychologist presentation. And our speaker had us go around the room and say why we were there, and told us to be honest (leading to a lot of, "I chose randomly"s). So when she got to me, I told her I was there because I'm interested in why people are the way they are. I mean, if I was to become a psychologist major I would be in it to learn about what people thought about why people act as they do. And her response was "oh, no one knows that" or something along those lines, with the look towards me that almost seemed to indicate she was thinking "who cares?"
And so as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking very hard about how someone can not have curiosity about these things. Why is one of the most thrilling words in the world. There are a lot of things that we don't need to know, but that we should want to know just because the answer could, and likely will be, interesting. It's why National Geographic exists. It's why I love books, because the exploration of why a person would do something, or how a person ends up in a situation (I believe how to just be a varied way of exploring why), is absolutely fascinating.
Why should I be considered odd for wanting to know why everything ended up the way it is?
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
Thursday, July 22, 2010
less than 3... OH it's a heart!
I just want to know, am I allowed to be in love with a musical? It's like how little kids used to retort "if you like it so much then why don't you marry it?" Legality little kids of the past. Legality.
That is all, as I am far to incoherent to do anything other than say that I'm in love with A Very Potter Sequel, and will likely watch it again tomorrow when I'm more coherent.
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
That is all, as I am far to incoherent to do anything other than say that I'm in love with A Very Potter Sequel, and will likely watch it again tomorrow when I'm more coherent.
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Quest for a Birthday Present
I have been sleeping in so late lately, but then yesterday I woke up at nine, and I was like whatever, it's just a fluke. Then today I woke up at about the same time. This is particularly strange, because I stayed up until about 2:30 last night, and I was more active than lying in my bed all day. Weird.
In other news, since I know that Ashley doesn't read this, the focused part of my being (so about a third of my day) has been working towards Ashley's birthday present. My original plan for her was to get her the movie 16 candles and get her 16 candles. I have smartly decided this to not be a good idea (particularly since any new editions of the movie apparently have altered the original soundtrack to such a point that Happy BIRTHDAY is not in there). So then I decided I could try and get a signed book by one of her favorite authors. I asked her for a list of her ten favorites, and then I was going to go on the prowl online and on used bookstores to find one.
PROBLEMS:
~If I could get my hands on a signed book by JK Rowling, there is no way I would give it to Ashley, because I am not that selfless >_<
~JD Salinger is recently dead (R.I.P.), and a signed book goes well into the realm of could not afford even if I found one.
~Ellen Hopkins is currently doing an offer to get a signed book if you buy the new hardback of her first book Crank, and mail the dust cover, she will sign. Great right? Not really, because I couldn't find the hardback at any local bookstore, and getting one from amazon and then mailing it to her, getting it back, and mailing it to ashley would take too long.
~I have Sarah Dessen book signed that I would happily give to ashley... if it was currently in my possession, but we still don't have our stuff due to moving.
~Laurie Halse Anderson, Sonya Sones, Gabrielle Zevin, Suzanne Collins, John Green and Markus Zusak all are not touring soon enough, and I can't find anywhere to get a signed book from.
I have tried one other thing, that I will not say, because it still has a chance, and it would feel like jinxing it if I said anything. But this one is a longshot, so now I am finding myself in need to come up with something else, preferably involving these authors somehow, because she is already suspicious that me asking for the list has to do with her birthday. And I had one idea, that I think is mostly scrapped, because I couldn't find what I was looking for in the used bookstore I was at, and there was no other way to do it.
I need this present to be perfect for ashley, and to explain why thoroughly would take a million worlds. To make it simple: It's Ashley's 16th birthday, I love her, and I can't be there for her as much as I wish I could be. She's my best friend, and she deserves something amazing that I keep finding just out of reach.
Birthdays should not be this stressful, but it's going to be worth it, I'm sure.
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
In other news, since I know that Ashley doesn't read this, the focused part of my being (so about a third of my day) has been working towards Ashley's birthday present. My original plan for her was to get her the movie 16 candles and get her 16 candles. I have smartly decided this to not be a good idea (particularly since any new editions of the movie apparently have altered the original soundtrack to such a point that Happy BIRTHDAY is not in there). So then I decided I could try and get a signed book by one of her favorite authors. I asked her for a list of her ten favorites, and then I was going to go on the prowl online and on used bookstores to find one.
PROBLEMS:
~If I could get my hands on a signed book by JK Rowling, there is no way I would give it to Ashley, because I am not that selfless >_<
~JD Salinger is recently dead (R.I.P.), and a signed book goes well into the realm of could not afford even if I found one.
~Ellen Hopkins is currently doing an offer to get a signed book if you buy the new hardback of her first book Crank, and mail the dust cover, she will sign. Great right? Not really, because I couldn't find the hardback at any local bookstore, and getting one from amazon and then mailing it to her, getting it back, and mailing it to ashley would take too long.
~I have Sarah Dessen book signed that I would happily give to ashley... if it was currently in my possession, but we still don't have our stuff due to moving.
~Laurie Halse Anderson, Sonya Sones, Gabrielle Zevin, Suzanne Collins, John Green and Markus Zusak all are not touring soon enough, and I can't find anywhere to get a signed book from.
I have tried one other thing, that I will not say, because it still has a chance, and it would feel like jinxing it if I said anything. But this one is a longshot, so now I am finding myself in need to come up with something else, preferably involving these authors somehow, because she is already suspicious that me asking for the list has to do with her birthday. And I had one idea, that I think is mostly scrapped, because I couldn't find what I was looking for in the used bookstore I was at, and there was no other way to do it.
I need this present to be perfect for ashley, and to explain why thoroughly would take a million worlds. To make it simple: It's Ashley's 16th birthday, I love her, and I can't be there for her as much as I wish I could be. She's my best friend, and she deserves something amazing that I keep finding just out of reach.
Birthdays should not be this stressful, but it's going to be worth it, I'm sure.
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Questions
Where does obsession start, and interest end?
Where does Love start, and hate end?
Where does crush start, and friend end?
Where does fun start, and pain end?
Where is it all leading to?
Can we ever know?
Why the secrecy?
The deception?
The outright lies?
Is there ever and end to a start?
Or a start to an end?
Or is a start a start?
And an end, an end?
What is the poetry of questions?
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
PS: I have no idea where this came from, so just roll with it.
Where does Love start, and hate end?
Where does crush start, and friend end?
Where does fun start, and pain end?
Where is it all leading to?
Can we ever know?
Why the secrecy?
The deception?
The outright lies?
Is there ever and end to a start?
Or a start to an end?
Or is a start a start?
And an end, an end?
What is the poetry of questions?
-Jess the Nerdfighting BandGeek
PS: I have no idea where this came from, so just roll with it.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Summer Cruising on the Interwebz
So I was just having a sort of bland conversation with someone on omegle. We were talking about jello. He said "terribly good", and I replied "that's a big of an oxymoron", then corrected the big, but he had already responded "so is my penis" and signed off. Or then I had another conversation that was starting to be a kinda fun conversation about robots, and he says "brobot" and signs off. Isn't omegle fun? lol.
There is this contest going on where you can make a music video to an ALL CAPS song to try and get some prizes, so I've asked maddy if she's interested, and if she says yes, I really want to do a music video to Lumos flies, because I have that entirely in my head. It would basically mean a chance to pretend to be a boy and get to find a tux to wear lol. Or a dress shirt with a tie, and find a cloak. Either is cool. Hehe =)
I am currently rereading random stories on HPFF that I have under my favorites, because I realized there were only one or two stories that I actively read the updates for, and that just didn't seem right. After rereading some stories, I would highly recommend "The World, Biscuits, and Sirius Black According to Nellie O'Neill" by SexyDoorFrames. It's spaztastically awesome, and it's making me want to go back to reading more marauder era stories again.
That's basically all that's been going on lately. I might be making a vlog for my Hawaiian Outcasts post tomorrow. And then I would REALLY like some damn furniture to show up!
Happy Trails!
~Jess the NerdFighting BandGeek
PS: I totally forgot, but I read the new Gallagher Girls book, and it was amazing, and I really wish that Ally Carter was going to be stopping in IL or Wisconsin for this book tour. Oh well I guess.
There is this contest going on where you can make a music video to an ALL CAPS song to try and get some prizes, so I've asked maddy if she's interested, and if she says yes, I really want to do a music video to Lumos flies, because I have that entirely in my head. It would basically mean a chance to pretend to be a boy and get to find a tux to wear lol. Or a dress shirt with a tie, and find a cloak. Either is cool. Hehe =)
I am currently rereading random stories on HPFF that I have under my favorites, because I realized there were only one or two stories that I actively read the updates for, and that just didn't seem right. After rereading some stories, I would highly recommend "The World, Biscuits, and Sirius Black According to Nellie O'Neill" by SexyDoorFrames. It's spaztastically awesome, and it's making me want to go back to reading more marauder era stories again.
That's basically all that's been going on lately. I might be making a vlog for my Hawaiian Outcasts post tomorrow. And then I would REALLY like some damn furniture to show up!
Happy Trails!
~Jess the NerdFighting BandGeek
PS: I totally forgot, but I read the new Gallagher Girls book, and it was amazing, and I really wish that Ally Carter was going to be stopping in IL or Wisconsin for this book tour. Oh well I guess.
