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I've also realized that my dreams could make awesome crossover crack fics. I had a dream two nights ago that managed to be a crossover between Lost, Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, and Final Fantasy VIII. (Basically, it involved the Oceanic Six hiding out in Stars Hollow to escape from Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and Laguna was Kate's son.) That would make for an amazing crack fic, yeah?
[ETA: There's a new Lost promo and ZOMG DESMOND/PENNY BABY!]
- Mood:
silly
And this is reason #18374, my friends, why Microsoft Word's grammar check cannot be trusted. (Another reason: It seems to think that phrases in dialogue such as "It's fine" should be changed to "Its fine." Its fine what, grammar check?)
So this whole morning (well, after 10:30, which is when I woke up) was spent watching eight episodes of How I Met Your Mother while finishing up the bag of Really Good Tortilla Chips and then eating four Dum-Dums that I got from the big bag of Dum-Dums that I found in the dining room. I have no regrets, though. How I Met Your Mother is a Very Amusing Show, and food is yummy. (And anything to keep me from swearing at "Kingdom Hearts II" is good. DAMN COMPUTER WORLD. DAMN LIGHT CYCLE.)
...Yeah, I think I should do something productive like cleaning my closet now.
- Mood:
lazy
Things I have thus far accomplished on this snow day:
1. I wrote a bit of a scene in TCOC that's been bouncing around in my head.
2. I watched Elf (The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!)
3. I made a pretty collage background for my computer.
Hmm, maybe that's it. It seems a lot more unproductive that it did in my head, But maybe soon I can get Andrew off the Playstation so I can play some expert mode "Kingdom Hearts" or some "SSX Tricky." (Which reminds me, Shaylagh, you need to lend me "Kingdom Hearts II" over Christmas.)
As I was typing that quote from Elf ("The best way to spread Christmas cheer..."), I realized how pathetic it is that I am thoroughly annoyed with the incorrect adjective use. It should be "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loudly for all to hear." I mean, saying "singing loud" is like saying "singing happy" or "singing sad." It just sounds imbicilic.
Yesterday I got my Yankee Swap present for our Super Six Swap. I tried to get another singing animal, but I couldn't find any good ones. (There was, however, a creepy monkey that spun around to the "I like to move it move it" song.) So my gift doesn't move or sing )(Jasmine, however, might still be able to eat it).
Can't wait to have a wild Christmas party with you all tomorrow. Plus, I might bring chocolate-covered pretzels :)
- Location:walking through the seven levels of the candy cane forest
- Mood: bouncy
also, in latin i made up the phrase "whip you like cream." it's kind of a long story as to how that came about. it all began with me writing an innocent "i <3 sarah" on her workbook, and then it turned into me tying sarah up and whipping her with chains, but i can't exactly remember how it got there. then during lunch shaylagh, katelyn, meghna, and i were having some weird discussions about old people and their *ahem* lovers.
also also, last night i officially changed kaarisme's
also also also, i apologize in advance for all my "kingdom hearts"-related quotes. it's just that i've got a whole file of them at my immediate disposal. i can't help it.
[EDIT: ...nice job, mom. you burn my pizza and then proceed to drop the semi-good part of it. you owe me one pizza.]
[EDIT #2: i found a root beer popsicle. yum. i also have more
Axel: You get on their bad side and they'll destroy you!
Roxas: No one would miss me.
Axel: That's not true... I would.
- Location:acting as if moral ambiguities don't exist
- Mood:
hot
i was very disturbed at your lack of grammatical knowledge while you taught my class about "parallel structure" or whatever the hell it's called. you endorse the fact that it is perfectly okay to separate a list from the rest of its sentence using a colon. this is not right. i have my copy of "writers inc" open right now, and it tells me that the way you are endorsing the use of colons is not correct. the only time when it is proper to use a colon to introduce a list is when you have something like this: "i have all the things i need to start writing my new novel: a laptop computer, microsoft word, and a brain full of inspiration." it is NOT okay to use a colon when you have something like this: "sir gawain has many heroic qualities such as: bravery, honor, and strength." NO. that is not okay. one must never use a colon "between a verb and its object or complement, or between a preposition and its object." i take these words from page 463 of my copy of "writers inc," so it's not just me making things up. you, however, are teaching your students to use bad grammar in an ENGLISH CLASS. this is an abomination.
also, you are too comma-happy. on the paragraphs that i handed in to you on friday (was it friday? i can't remember), i might have missed a comma here and there because let's face it: who knows exactly where all their commas go? but half the commas that you put in as corrections in my paragraphs were unnecessary. and if the grades that you gave on those paragraphs are based on mostly grammar, that is unfair, for you are not the best person to be judging people's grammar.
have a nice day. i suggest you pick up a book on grammar so that you don't corrupt the youth with your bad colon habits.
lots of love,
allison (your concerned and very grammatical student)
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...my, that was bitchy.
[EDIT: just so i don't fill this entry with bitchiness, i am going to babble on about ballet today. partnering in ballet class is pretty much the highlight of my mondays. garrett practically forced me into doing a fish today. (and i just realized that to a non-dancer, that may sound a little suggestive, so let me explain: a fish is a kind of lift. and it's scary the first time you do it). as i just said, it was scary, but at least i didn't squeal like i did when he lifted me in my leap on thursday.]
Quote of the Day:
"This town is his creation, right? Which means we don't have time for a Q & A. You're coming with me, conscious or not."
--Axel (the most awesome video game character ever), from Kingdom Hearts II
- Location:hitting people with an abe lincoln head
- Mood:
bitchy
oh screw it i'm not going to use any more capital letters. let's face it: it's cool not to be capital and still use proper grammar. it's not like i don't know what capital letters are for (for what capital letters are!). besides, i type even more faster than usual when i don't have to shift as much.
i've decided to make designations for my teachers because i don't like to use last names on the internet (even if things are friends-locked). so this is my list thus far:
mrs. warren = crazy!latin teacher
mrs. chadwick = ocd!geometry teacher
mr. wolter = sketchy!scripture teacher
mr. burnett = amusing!western civ teacher
& i don't have anything for my last two teachers. i must work on that.
anyway, today i got really annoyed with ocd!geometry teacher, and usually i don't allow myself to become annoyed with her. part of the reason was because she had a fan going even though it wasn't hot outside, and it was right behind me so basically i froze my bum off even though i was wearing a sweater. and then she was going on about making your "drawlings" perfect and how sometimes you need to work at your problems and how geometry is not algebra because you have to think more and it's not all systematic. for some reason all that babble annoyed me. probably 'cause i was cold. but i did get a 99 on her quiz, which is good.
yesterday i was watching the recital video from 2003 because at the auditions on saturday the lyrical dance we did was from that recital [when i heard the music i was like, "zomg mummer's dance!"] and i wanted to see if the choreography was the same [which it was]. i really want to be in that dance, but i probably won't be because the original choreography was for six people & i can think of six people who would be in the dance before i would be. but i can hope for understudy. i also really want to understudy tango/santa maria [which is a dance from last year, so it'll basically be the same people as last year]. anyway. on to the video. the video was of rather crappy quality, so most of it ended up being in black & white [and the black & white quality was actually far better than the color quality]. i felt retro watching it. there were some really awesome dances that year. and it's weird to think that in that recital whitney, kaylee, and leah were freshmen and tawni, tiffany, and hannah were sophomores. they were much better than i am now =( except in tap; we're pretty much the same level there.
i have my first ballet class [my first ballet five class - squee!] today. the cast list for the x-mas show is supposed to be up sometime early this week. i hope it'll be up today, but probably not.
oh, and my mom looked in the sps swap shop today for uniforms, but she couldn't find anything. so i guess we'll have to do something else for twin day [or clarisse and shaylagh can do it with gabi's stuff & sarah and i will just do something else]. last night i had a dream that i wore an sps uniform to sta [on a regular day]. i was wearing the sweater and everything. except i remember that in the dream some random guy kept trying to look up my skirt. and then there was this random alarm and we all thought we had to duck for cover alongside our lockers, but it was really because there was a solar eclipse thingy going on outside. so we looked at it & it was pretty. yeah, i have weird dreams. but you know that.
also, we have a new ship. it's called rob/shaylagh's english book cover. or if it's the threesome version, it's rob/matt/shaylagh's english book cover. english class is so amusing.
i leave you with a funny piece of dialogue from the auditions that is probably only really funny to me:
cheryl: so we're going to do four stomp time steps, except you're going to end the last one with a stamp.
emily h: ...wait, what are stomp time steps again?
cheryl: *whacks emily h with her notebook*
yeah, that's definitely only funny to me. how about this conversation from clarisse's party:
me: who would you rather have sex with, an elf or a dwarf?
sarah: ...a dwarf, because they have big mine picks.
Quote of the Day:
"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great circle of life."
--Mufasa, from The Lion King
- Location:ducking from incoming flying objects
- Mood:
naughty
Okay, so my mom thinks that I should now be the designated planner for Mugglefest because Shaylagh's parent(s) is/are not driving. The problem is that I hate planning. SO, I need to find out these things from people as soon as possible so I don't have to get on the -gasp- FELLYTONE:
1) Isabella, is one or more of your parents going, and if not, do you need a ride?
2) Is Sarah going?
I hate being responsible for planning. Please help?
In other news, I had a dream last night that involved Shaylagh, Clarisse, Mitchell, and me going to Water Country (except it didn't quite look like Water Country, but that's beside the point). Anyway, we were all floating around in the Adventure River when all of a sudden Clarisse and I look over and there's Shaylagh and Mitchell snogging. So Clarisse gets all angry and I say, "Well, maybe if we go ride Geronimo a bunch of times in a row, you'll forget about it." So we go to do that, except then there's a thunderstorm and they close all the rides. There were other random parts to the dream too, but I don't remember them.
Last night in drivers ed we were reading from the Maine Drivers Handbook thingy, and I found a misplaced comma AND " its'. " Is is just me, or is " its' " not a word? AND then in one of these mini-video driver safety commercial type things that we watched, "your" was used instead of "you're." Making fun of improper grammar is my main source of entertainment in that class.
4 MORE DAYS UNTIL DH!!!!!! (EEPU) Fwee!
[EDIT: It's supposed to rain on Friday. My mom's becoming rather gripe-y.]
"Oh," said Ron, his smile fading slightly. "Are you that bad at kissing?"
"Dunno," said Harry, who hadn't considered this, and immediately felt rather worried. "Maybe I am."
"Of course you're not," said Hermione absently, still scribbling away at her letter.
"How do you know?" said Ron in a sharp voice.
--from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Location:skulking around in Knockturn Alley
- Mood:
pensive
On my algebra test today I was very dismayed to find a grammar error. "There" instead of "their" was used. And during Humanties when the other preseantation group handed out their note sheets, there were a couple grammar errors (including a RUN-ON) that I absolutely had to fix on my sheet. I guess I was feeling particularly grammatical.
The HBP optional summer reading test was insanely easy. I think I got an easy 100 added to my science average. And then after in the freshman hallway, Sarah, Katie, Seth, and I were singing Wicked songs. Seth is such an awesome guy. It's really funny when you put him and Richard together, because then they start doing things like seeing who can do the best model walk. And then while I was waiting for my mom to come pick me up I was hanging out with Tom and Laura in the computer lab and we were criticizing the images from the OotP movie and I took a quiz and found out that I'm 35% Harry Potter obsessed.
Oh, and today I had my little required meeting with the 9th grade guidance counselor and I think that she thinks that I'm lonely on the weekends because she asked me what I like to do on the weekends and I said that I like to hang out in my room (which is what I do) and she said that maybe I should get together with friends more. I just found that kind of funny.
Quote of the Day:
"There is,,,another...Sky...walker..."
--Yoda, from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- Location:looking at the foam "Purple Knights" finger
- Mood:
amused
And then in the beginning of the second game I got to see Axel again and I was so very happy. My favorite part with Axel, I decided, is during the Struggle tournament and Roxas has just beaten up a whole bunch of Nobodies and you just see Axel in his dark coat clapping and then he says, "Well done, Roxas. Fight fight fight." I would say that he's sexy during the part but that would be a little awkward considering he's a video game character. And then you fight him TWICE. With his funky fire weapons that you can see in my userpic icon thing. Those things are awesome even when he hits you with them. Oh, and it's fun to listen to DiZ because you know he's Count Dooku. And it's weird to hear that voice talk about Sora and Kairi and Namine and Nobodies when I'd usually associate that voice with the Dark Side of the Force and Clone Wars and Jedi destruction. And Anakin chopping his head off. Good times. Aaaaaaand now whenever Roxas talks, the song "Beautiful Soul" pops into my head and it's rather annoying. And there are times when Sora talks and I think, "I see dead people."
So at Mill Pond one of the "dances" the kids are doing is that they're dancing to a story that the group wrote. And that "story" is quite the insult to grammar. There are FRAGMENTS and RUN-ONS and RAMBLING SENTENCES. And it doesn't flow very wel & one time it says "shaked" which is not a friggin word. Oh, and it says, "The dog laid on the ground" and that makes me cringe. The whole thing makes me cringe. If I wasn't a good person I'd steal it and fix all the errors but I am a good assistant so I won't. It's kind of like reading my first and second grade journals, where I usually wrote things like, "I like _____. It is fun. I like it because it is fun, I like it."
My shirt smells like my dance bag because it's been in there since I went to New York. And so it smells like sweat and vanilla air freshener, but mostly the vanilla air freshener.
One last Kingdom Hearts II-obession bit: I can name all the Organization XIII members, and I think I can even do them in order.
I. Xemnas
II. Xigbar
III. Xaldin
IV. Vexen
V, Lexaeus
VI. Zexion
VII. Saix
VIII. Axel
IX. Demyx
X. Luxord
XI. Marluxia
XII. Larxene
XIII. Roxas
The only thing I'm unsure of is whether Axel is before Demyx or not. And now I'm done.
Quote of the Day:
"Open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness!"
--Riku, from Kingdom Hearts
- Location:Hot in the kitchen
- Mood: hot
Yesterday during the basemaent-cleaning I found my school journals from kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. They were quite entertaining. I found it amusing that one of the comments my first-grade teacher wrote in it was, "You're journal is great." GRAMMATICAL ERROR. It should be,"Your journal is great" because if you say "You're journal is great" it's like your saying, "You are journal is great." And that makes no sense. Most of the entries from first and second grade were about my Beanie Babies, because I was friggin obsessed with those things. My teachers must've though I was crazy. Which I was.
So last night I read the part of Wicked with Elphaba and Fiyero's love affair. And it's, uh, very mature. I don't need to know what Elphaba looks like when she's naked. That's not something I need to picture.
And I don't think I have anything more to say.
Quote of the Day:
"Can I have a flashlight? 'Cause this torch around the dynamite thing isn't making a whole lotta sense to me."
--Hurley, from the Season One finale of Lost
- Location:In the kitchen, smelling the popcorn my mom just made
- Mood:
bored
