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We have our Christmas tree up now. It's an artificial tree because what with the power being out for most of the past week & all the ice and snow, we decided that we weren't going to go with a real tree this year. Except my mum got a Yankee Candle plug-in scent that smells like pine trees, so it still seems like we have a real tree. Speaking of Christmas spirit, I found the Yankee Swap CD that I got last year, and I promptly loaded it onto my computer because I forgot how awesome it is. Most Christmas music drives me absolutely insane after a while (especially when it's been playing non-stop on the radio for a month), but I discovered that if there was one kind of Christmas music that I could listen to all year long, it would be the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. "The Nutcracker Suite" is total win. Because I mean, the Nutcracker with electric guitar? That's pretty awesome.
There's a new trailer for season five of Lost. It is so *spazzflail*-inducing. Because there is a dark hooded figure and someone set on fire! (
- Mood:
bouncy
Speaking of To The Lighthouse, I've realized that my current writing project could easily turn into a Soalis Island version of To The Lighthouse if it was a lot more stream-of-consciousness-ish. But it's not going to be like that because it's essentially a frame story; the bulk of the story is events in Perrin's life that he's retelling to Sari and Keira. I'm thinking of having less of a distant third person point of view, though, because I feel as if more of Perrin's thoughts need to be shown. The only problem is that for the majority of the events Perrin is only a wee child, so I'd have to worry about his thoughts being too complex for a six-year-old. But I suppose if six-year-old James Ramsay can think about wanting to kill his father, then Perrin can have interesting thoughts too. And speaking of comparisons to To The Lighthouse, I've decided that Perrin's father kind of is like Mr. Ramsay. Except Evren (finally got a name for him, yay!) is not a philosopher and he doesn't wander around reciting poetry at the top of his lungs. But other than that, they seem to be similar. If Mr. Ramsay ends up hating outsiders and leaving the family, I'm going to start to believe that I'm a reincarnation of Virginia Woolf. Except you can actually understand my writing on the first readthrough. (No, that was not a burn. *shifty*)
- Mood:
dorky
Another thing that makes me giggle is The Importance of Being
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shoebox_project, when Remus is having sexual literary dreams about Sirius. It's one of my favorite parts ever.) It's amusing, which is a first when it comes to things read in Brit Lit (I'm not counting the strange glee that I get from angsty!Heathcliff). Of course, there's other amusements outside of class, such as Alix's secret love for Mr. Cullity, but I'm not going to go into that.Also? I started a new writing project, which I affectionately call Writing Is Fun! I realized on Sunday that writing for me lately has been almost like a chore, so I've started this new project that is designed to be very laid-back and not, you know, causing brain-hurt. (I'm not allowed to touch the "Word Count" button for this. I've discovered that I have an unhealthy relationship with Word Count.) But for this project, I have to find a name for Perrin's father pretty damn fast. At least I've come up with a surname for him (Cloudchaser, which I unashamedly admit is taken from the name of one of the gummi ship songs in KHII), which makes Aurin even more out of the question for him because then I'd be referencing two Final Fantasy characters (Auron and Cloud) in one name and that's not good. So now I have to come up with a better name.
Well. I've got to get ready for dance in 15 minutes and I still have stuff to do =/ I'll end with some Juno soundtrack lyrics: "I like my new bunny suit / I like my new bunny suit / I like my new bunny suit / When I wear it I feel cute."
[ETA: I have a blister on my toe and it's annoying. *sulk* And my feet also feel their normal Tuesday-night pain that comes after dancing barefoot for two hours. Tuesday dance can be hellish sometimes. Also, I think I'm going to change my layout again. I have layout ADD, I think]
- Mood:
amused - Music:"Tree Hugger" - Juno soundtrack
i have so many books that i want to read right now. i have to finish eclipse
simba: hey, uncle scar? will i like the surprise?
scar: simba, it's to die for.
--from the lion king
- Location:tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery
- Mood: bouncy
- Music:"space paranoids" : kingdom hearts ii soundtrack
i got a signed copy of mr. king's book today. he was having a book signing at river run today, so my mom and i went over once she was done at st. pats. i started reading it. it's pretty good, even though it's more of a 5th/6th grade reading level book. but hey, it's a nice break from macbeth. (oh, and for those of you who think it's pathetic that i've been working on the power of light for 3 years: mr. king said that he worked on his book for 7 years. and then there's j.k. rowling, who started working on the harry potter books in 1990, and the first one wasn't published until 1997. so there.)
speaking of j.k. rowling, my mom's friend & her daughter are going to new york city this weekend for a j.k.r. book signing. apparently they won some contest. i'm so jealous.
[EDIT #1: wow, the file for "passion" (aka kingdom hearts II theme song) is very huge. 9.42 MB and it's still downloading. of course, i downloaded the "after the battle" (aka end of the game, i believe) version, so that's probably why. i have the instrumental version for the opening version.]
[EDIT #2: it took 35 minutes to download. =| and of course it's in japanese and is very slow-paced. oh well. it will probably end up growing on me. and of course the fact that it's in japanese makes it sound even more like "i caught fire" in reverse =) ]
Quote of the Day:
"I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but it backfired. I fell into the darkness and couldn't find the light."
--Cloud, from Kingdom Hearts
- Location:dancing to loading zone announcements
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:"this is halloween" : kingdom hearts soundtrack
but seriously, yesterday and today there have been times in which i can't do something and i get frustrated and angry with myself because i want to be able to do it. and all the while i'm angry at myself for getting worked up about because i know that nobody's perfect and no one can do everything. so then i'm exasperated.
i do, however, have two happy things to say:
1. i'm most definitely using "nuin" for the thoswodawnian government. it will be called "the Nuin." thank you, summer.
2. i found the name to my "mystery song." basically, on a cd that deanna burned for me at the end of 8th grade, there was one song for which she forgot to write down the title & artist, so i couldn't put it on my ipod (because i didn't want a song called "track 18" floating around). but i looked up part of the lyrics to it right now, and i found it. that makes me happy, because it's a pretty good song.
also, i realized that "rockstar" by nickelback sends very positive messages to the youth. "hey kids! become rockstars and you'll be addicted to drugs and sex! yay!" that song was stuck in my head for the longest time because last night on the way home from ballet katy was blasting it when it came on the radio. i felt a certain sense of doom as she was blasting the song at full volume while barreling down 236 at 10mph over the speed limit =|
i have also made amazing comparisons when it comes to macbeth. first, macbeth=scar because macbeth's goal in life is to kill duncan to become the king, while scar's goal in life is to kill mufasa to become king. also, duncan=dumbledore because for both of them, their greatest flaws are being too trusting.
Quote of the Day:
"Something's wrong. I'm not the Jedi I should be. I want more, and I know I shouldn't."
--Anakin, from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Location:getting you in a deal with that evil smile
- Mood:
frustrated - Music:"blast away!" : kingdom hearts soundtrack
A random thing that annoys me: rhyming campaign posters. I've seen ones that are incredibly cheesy that make me want to rip them off the lockers/walls and burn them. (A dumb blonde moment that I had today involved me walking down sophomore hallway, and, thinking that it was senior hallway, wondering why seniors had sophomore SAB posters on their lockers.)
Coffeehouse tonight! But sorry, you non-STA people can't come unless you pose as someone's immediate family members.
There's no more Lost until fricking February! But the finale Wednesday night was pretty darn awesome. I almost cried when Charlie died; it was so heroic. (Sorry if anyone didn't want the spoiler, but whatever.) And so last night I made a list of my 10 favorite episodes of Lost, and 6 of them ended up coming from season 3, which is pretty good, considering the third season didn't really get interesting until around March. Number one, of course, on the list is "One of Us," a Juliet episode from April.
You can tell that I am bored all the time. But I have been reading a lot of books lately, and I think that at the end of the month I am going to post a list of all the books I read this month here (which might be a small list compared to Isabella, for example, but I realized that I /have/ read a lot of books this month).
There's no quote of the day today because the transcript for "Through the Looking Glass" isn't up yet and I don't know the exact wording of the quote I want to use from that episode. Oh, but that quote just reminded me of another that I can use.
Quote of the Day:
"If we don't live together, we're gonna die alone."
--Jack, from a first-season episode of Lost
- Location:tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery
- Mood: giggly
Oh, and in other ballet 2B news: the class are carousel dancer thingies in the ballet, and so until Cheryl has a pole for them to dance around, I get to be the pole. Which means I get to get practically strangled by ribbons every Thursday for twenty or so minutes. But yeah it's pretty funny, because they haven't quite mastered how to stay equally spaced in a circle yet, and that's how I end up almost strangled.
I only have one more midterm left =) I probably should be working on my outline for the essay part of my English tomorrow, but I can do other things first 'cause I'm terribly lazy like that.
So I finished reading the fourth Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book last night. It was really good, but the end is kind of sad... but I was happy because Tibby and Brian got back together. (yeah I know I'm totally spoiling things here, but they're "on a break" for most of the book... and when I read that part when Tibby said that they should take a break I laughed for like five minutes because all I could think of was the running joke about how Ross and Rachel were "on a break" on Friends). Oh, and to spoil things even more, I think every pants sister person except Carmen ends up having sex by the end of the book. Yeah.
Clarisse, I would like to borrow the second book in the Uglies series from you sometime =)
WOOHOO IT'S THE "PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER" SONG!
Quote of the Day:
"Sup with the whack PlayStation sup?"
--Joey, from an episode of Friends
- Location:tied to a tree, struggling to grab a knife
- Mood: amused
- Music:various songs from my Lost soundtracks
