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I'm in the mood to list things off so here are some of my ramblings.
( ten things about my life, some of which no one cares about )
Uh, yeah, pardon my rambling. I think I'm going to be productive now and finish my Roaring Twenties packet for history.
- Mood:
thoughtful
Took the SATs this morning. Some parts of it fried my brain but as always I did derive extreme pleasure from the writing sections--the grammar-correcting bits, not the essay-writing. I've decided that I hate timed essay writing, which is kind of bad for an AP English Language student since that's what half the AP test is. That test is going to kick my ass, I just know it. (Thankfully that night I can celebrate with the season finale of Lost. Which, of course, will only make my mind melt more, but Lost is the good kind of mind melt. Yes, there is a difference between good mind melt and bad mind melt.)
Yeah, so I have a feeling this has the potential to get really rambly as I begin to talk about how hardcore cosplayers kind of creep me out and how I'm going to start another playthrough of FFVIII even though I'm going to have very little time to do it ever and how I'm and Organization XIII fangirl and probably a lot of other stuff.
[ETA: My mum made CUPCAKES! *glee!*]
- Mood:
annoyed
Also, my computer has twice tried to convince me that it is infected with viruses, but I know that it is lying because the dialogue boxes containing said information include phrases such as "WARNING!!!!" which makes me know it is the internet playing tricks because any self-respecting program would not abuse punctuation like that. Yeah. I can see through your lies, Mr. Internet.
I've also uploaded some of my own userpics just for a change. & I make much better icons in GIMP now, so I thought I'd make use of them.
- Mood:
amused
New England wants no more of your snow. Please take it back, especially because it is almost APRIL.
Lots of love,
Allison
******
... Needless to say, there was a lot of RAGE among the school community today as to why we were in school.
[ETA: *blinky moment* So maybe I should stop prowling around searching for "Kingdom Hearts" downloads, because apparently McAfee Virus Scan just blocked a Trojan Horse from entering my computer. =O So now it's scanning my computer for more bad things, even though it just completed its routine scan half an hour ago.]
- Mood: discontent
*boggles* My file containing the "Final Fantasy VII" game script is multiplying. I thought I renamed "ffvii" as "ff7" after I changed it from .txt to Rich Text Format, but now I have two RTF files, one named "ff7" and the other named "ffvii," despite the fact that I thought I deleted "ffvii" not just into my Recycling Bin but completely off my computer about an hour ago. But now they're both there, and they're both the exact same file. Oh well, I suppose I will just have to delete one of them and hope it doesn't return. (I think I'm turning into Isabella. Eep!)
I can't wait for vacation, which I will spend a.) playing video games - Shaylagh and I are organizing a day in which we spend several hours doing just that b.) watching movies/DVDs and c.) burning off all my laziness with my regular crazy dance schedule. It should be a fun week. (Especially because I've commandeered "Kingdom Hearts II" and am now playing it on Proud Mode, which isn't too scary yet, but then again, I've only gotten up through the prologue in which you play as Roxas for three hours.)
Hmm. I think this entry was supposed to be more interesting, but I can't think of anything else that I want to put.
- Mood:
nerdy - Music:"Electric de Chocobo" : Final Fantasy VII soundtrack
and while i'm on the subject of computer things annoying me, i have discovered that you can't do squat with midi files, except for listening to them. they're not compatible with windows movie maker (which angers me because i have so many midi clips that would make good background music), they can't be converted, and they can't be burned to cds. the only advantage to midi files is that they download quickly, even on my bad internet connection, and they don't take up that much space ("aerith's theme," the nearly-twenty-minute song, is only around 110 kb).
[EDIT: okay, since most people seem to be pissed off at me because of the whole thanksgiving thing, i thought i would clear a few things up just because i'm the kind of person who needs to have all the facts straight and doesn't like people thinking something different than what i intended. first of all, i definitely don't dislike the "giving thanks" part of thanksgiving. i do like that part. i also have nothing against the pilgrims (though my location yesterday might have suggested something different). i just don't like how most of the holiday is defined by eating food. it's kind of like how some people dislike how christmas seems to be all about commercialism and presents. i just don't like how a holiday for giving thanks is represented by stuffing yourself with a certain meal. yes, i know that you people probably still won't agree with me. but this is one of the only things that i have a major opinion on (the other, i think, would be the pointlessness of always trying to be "politically correct" and pleasing everybody), so i wanted to show it.]
quote of the day:
"the jedi and the sith are alike in almost every way, including in their quest for greater power."
--palpatine, from star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith
- Location:the baby factory!
- Mood: contemplative
clarisse, what were you doing absent from school today? i don't like it when my daughter is not in school. it makes her mummy, auntie narcissa, and dear house-elf kreacher very sad. you better have a good reason. *angry mummy face*
although, because you weren't there to accompany us to the library, shaylagh and i just sat around during lunch and watched michela and carly see who could eat an oreo faster. it was quite amusing. and gross.
i'm on another font-downloading kick. also, i downloaded scar saying "i'm surrounded by idiots." i need to find some other cool disney soundclips.
Quote of the Day:
"Ah, yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or you can learn from it."
--Rafiki, from The Lion King
- Location:shaking this city 'til the broad daylight
- Mood:
where is my clare-clare?
The Citadel of Destiny is going to blow up in 5 months, give or take a few days. I'm pretty much psyched. I love how some of my major story events take place in the year 2007.
So I have a pretty awesome story to tell you all. It involves me finding a new toy to play with on my computer. Last night I was fooling around on my computer and and clicked on a thing called "speech tools" and found a thing on the menu that said "Add/Remove words" so I clicked on it and it came up with a list of most of the words that I had added into my Microsoft Word dictionary (which basically consisted of half my character names and a good majority of my world names). So I was scrolling through, and I accidentally clicked on Jace, and so all a sudden my computer says, "Jace." And I was like, "OMG WHOA MY COMPUTER JUST SAID JACE!" so I decided to go through the list and see how much it could mangle my character names. It was pretty funny because it couldn't pronounce "Talia" right but it could pronounce "Xopelor" right. And there are three voices that you can choose from: a makle voice, a female voice, and a robot-ish male voice, and the robot-ish voice pronounces "novelization" like "no-vel-a-za-ty-on," which made me laugh so hard, and then the male and female voices pronounce the "w" in "swordfighting" which makes it very funny. So yeah. That's me and my new computer toy.
Also, I am putting my foot down. I REFUSE to have Shayla's husband's name be Xylem. I REFUSE. So I'm changing it, and nothing you say will ever dissuade me. I need to mention the-man-formerly-known-as-Xylem in this piece that I'm writing right now, and I don't need my narrator to be thinking, "wtf?! Shayla married a tree?" So either I'm going to find my own name for him or take your suggestions. (While I'm at it, I also need a name for Keira's husband because I've gone through about 3 names for him and I don't like any of them. I hate naming secondary characters.)
So yeah I guess this entry is pretty boring, except for my adventures with my talking computer.
Quote of the Day:
"I need to live in a land where people can spill."
--Phoebe, from an episode of Friends
- Location:thinking of you, wherever you are
- Mood:
determined - Music:"The Wizard and I" is stuck in my head... <3 that song.
Ohhh yeah. I remember everything now.
Last night Microsoft Word was making me very angry because it was refusing to open because there were apparent "errors." So I got very upset with it, wrote about how stupid it was in big letters in my journal, and then decided to restart the computer to see if that helped. And then everything was normal again, and none of my files were harmed so I was very happy. I haven't forgotten the incident with my old laptop in which I randomly lost 1/4 of my authorfiction when I was trying to save my PowerPoint book report to a floppy disk. I'm glad to be well shut of that horrible old laptop.
I also realized that there's only about three main characters on Lost who (as far as we know) don't know how to use a gun. Well, four I guess, if you count Boone, because I don't think he did but he died in the first season and all he did was uncover the hatch with Locke, call Shannon useless, and beat up a bunch of people. But other characters who I haven't seen with a gun are Claire, Libby, and Hurley. Oh, and Walt too, but he was with the Others the whole second season, plus he's just ten years old. And I've discovered that Shannon is pretty much awesome, evern though she's all whiny most of the time. Except I still think that certain flashback scene with her and Boone is creepy. But she and Sayid were together, which is pretty cool, because I like Sayid too. But then she dies and I just now realized how depressing that is. Oh, and Sawyer's an all right character too just as long as he isn't doing something idiotic like stealing all the guns.
So for the past week, I've been waking up between 5 and 6 and then going back to sleep and waking up again at around 8, except during that time when I go back to sleep, the morning-show people on WERZ always infiltrate my dreams. I must not be in a very heavy sleep, because everything they say in my dream is actually what they say on the radio. I know this because all week they've been doing repeats (which is really stupid--re-runs on the radio?) and most of the stuff I've already heard. Oh, and then a couple of nights ago the Aquafina Sparkling commercial song was in my dream (the one with all the doo-doo-doos) and in the dream a character from Seinfeld was singing all the doo-doo-doos while dangling a fork on his tongue, so now whenever I hear that commercial, that image pops into my head.
Quote of the Day:
"I don't know what's more disquieting--the fact that the rest of the stutue is missing, or that it only has four toes."
--Sayid, from the season two finale of Lost
- Location:Under the control of the Others
- Mood:
EVERY VILLIAN IS LEMONS
My mom want me to call everyone about Canobie Lake but I don't have anyone's cell phone numbers--actually I have Isabella's and I think I have Summer's somewhere--because I'd much rather call a cell phone than a home phone. I wish you all could just come online. BECAUSE I DON'T SENSE THE JOY OF PHONES.
I made a quiz last night-- Which Female Character From My Stories Are You. Except I was a bit disconcerted to find that I couldn't think of a good quality about one of my characters. So the option for her is "I have no good qualities." And I've discovered that the way that I'm writing Talia now makes her not inhumanly evil and more--hating authority because she's been stuck with Arolo for so long. She's actually not that evil; she just seems it from most of the characters' points of view. So she's kind of... ambiguous. I like characters like that.
I watched selected parts of Return of the Jedi yesterday. Basically, I watch the scene when Han's rescued from the carbonite, skip ahead to when the Emperor arrives on the second Death Star, skip ahead to another scene with the Emperor, and then I think by then Leia's meeting the Ewok on Endor so I watch the rest of the movie pretty much straight through except skipping the whole part with the Millenium Falcon and the rest of the ships trying to get past the Death Star shield, etc. Then there's the last scene, and I love the music that plays during that whole celebration scene. Heck, I'd buy the soundtrack just to get that song.
I found a new toy on my computer--actually, what I really did was that I found out how to convert WMA music files to WAV music files so I can play around with them on teh Sound Recorder. I made speedy versions of "I Will Follow You Into the Dark," "The Adventure," "Crooked Teeth," and "My Immortal," and I figured out how to put them on my iTunes. I also made it so when I turn on my computer it plays the "My Immortal" intro and when I turn it off it plays part of the Darth Vader music. And this morning I made this pretty awesome three-part round of "My Immortal."
Quote of the Day:
"The city's central computer system told you? R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!"
--C-3P0, from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Location:Still not on the Death Star, because both blew up
- Mood: blank
Last night I discovered that my friend (who should remain nameless because she already knows who she is) is a SLAVE TO THE COMPUTER. And she should not retaliate with protests becaue we've already discussed it. This certain friend was having computer withdrawls at the pool-party-with-various-VBS/SPS-people-t
My dad is watching a war movie and there's a guy in it that sounds a lot like Sayid but I don't think it is.
I'm supposed to call Summer sometime but I don't really want to because I have an aversion to phones.
And I don't like my new layout so I am changing it yet again. I'm indecisive like that.
Quote of the Day:
"My pickle started out in a jar, and now it's in one again. Huh. It's like a pun or something."
--Patrick, from an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
- Location:In front of my laptop... =/
- Mood:
tired
