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[10 Jun 2009|01:36pm] |
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A lot of things have changed since I last posted. First of all, for the most part I barely wear my retainer anymore (now only at night), and I'm in university for humanities and history. I'm trying to write a new graphic novel script but I've got writer's block and I'm intimidated by the project itself so I'm not really getting any work done.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geekthegirl
This is where I now post all of my art.
I'm currently trying to apply for more student loans, and juggle writing my script and cleaning (read: overhauling) my house.
Other than that, not much is new...
Actually, who am I kidding? Everything's new.
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| Braces off, retainer in |
[24 Feb 2007|12:55pm] |
I got my braces off last week. It was a bit weird and slightly anxiety inducing to begin with. I'd had them on for at least two years and I couldn't imagine myself without them, and then suddenly they were gone. Kind of hard to get used to at first. Now I've got to deal with wearing this retainer practically all the time (except for when I'm eating, brushing my teeth or playing "contact sports" - something I never do anyways). It's becoming a major thorn in my side already and I've only had it for a few days. The final straw is that when I try to sing it makes my voice sound pretty crappy - the same as when I try to talk with it in. My "k", "s", "g", and "t" sounds are all affected and I sound like one of those nerdy girls on TV with the braces/retainer and it sucks. For a wonderful but brief moment I thought "now that I've got my brace off, maybe my singing voice won't be so affected". But no. It's worse.
Anyways, Sarah says I just have to get used to it and it'll get better. I seriously hope she's right. This is doing nothing for my self-esteem. I guess the straight teeth and the awesome new haircut (courtesy of the awesome Anna B) balance it out. I'm still a little ticked about my voice, though.
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| This, that and the other |
[28 Jan 2007|10:08pm] |
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Got through exams unscathed and alive yet again. I'm pretty sure I did well on my math one, and I'm not too worried about English. The thing is, I didn't get to finish my World History exam, and I'm never really sure how well I've done on the long answer/essay tests for that class and so I'm not sure if I did well on the part I actually completed or not. I'm not going to worry about it, though, because I had a high average at the midterm and it could only have gone up after that (unless my ISU was somehow complete shit and I totally messed up the exam). School, school, school. Is that all I ever friggin' talk about? My English teacher was right. I am a keener!
So I've been informed that I say "crap", "shit", "hell" a lot. I also use a lot of filler phrases and words like "whatever", "or something", "and all that", and that sort of stuff, even when I know what I'm talking about. What's the deal with that anyways? You know what my problem is? I'm like one of those self-aware girls who analyses shit too much. Ugh, and there I go again, saying "shit"!
I had a horrible flashback of my past when I was cleaning up my bedroom space earlier. I started looking through a pile of the old scripts I wrote ages ago. And with horrible clarity it came back to me: I used to waste too much time on my crushes. Thank friggin' god I actually have a life now.
But speaking of crushes, I finally saw "The Last King of Scotland" yesterday. James McAvoy was, of course, awesome as usual. His character was a bit of a shithead, though. Still cute, though. And Forest Whitaker was pretty awesome, too. The only thing that slightly ticks me off about him being nominated for best actor for that movie is that he isn't the lead actor in it - James is. Forest is more of a supporting actor. But... whatever. Good on him anyways, I say.
Oh, and hopefully by the end of the week my hair will be chopped off. Fingers crossed!
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| Hope Is Emo |
[05 Jan 2007|03:09pm] |
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If you watch MadTV, you've probably seen this new chick they've got in the cast, Crista Flanagan. Well, she's got this video podcast thing you can watch on youtube.com where she plays this emo girl who gets herself all worked up over lame shit and tries to make it seem meaningful and dark. It's pretty funny and worth checking out: http://www.hopeisemo.com
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| Back to the drawing board |
[05 Jan 2007|01:50pm] |
I took a much needed step back from the essay and then yesterday I read some more of the book and worked on a brain-storming page to get some ideas out on paper and actually make sure they link to the thesis of my essay. So now I'm in the process of organizing those ideas in an essay outline. So far so good. It's too bad I didn't do this to begin with, but oh well, it can't be helped, I guess.
I go back to school on Monday, and my essay and radio play are due the week back. I'm not too worried about the radio play, even if I don't get to do any last minute editing, I think I'll do pretty well on it. That is, if I even get my mark back for it. :P He still hasn't given me or Anna our marks back for our ISU's last semester. We like to bug him about it every once in a while. I think it's become a bit of a joke and I don't seriously expect to get it back anymore at this point. :P
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| "No, Daisy! Noooooo!!!" |
[04 Jan 2007|04:13pm] |
I was playing this game called "Urban Myth" with Maura and Sarah a few minutes ago, and basically the players have to answer whether they think stories on the cards are true or a myth. So this one comes up under the Crime category and I'm reading the card and my eyes pass over it and once it's registered what it says I start laughing so hard my eyes well up. So the two of them are getting tired of it and just want me to read it out, and are trying to get me to stop laughing, Maura's jokingly smacking me across the face in a very non-hurting way, and then I finally read it out. Here's what it says:
"Upon convicting a cow for
murder, a French court
ordered the animal hanged
and burned at the stake."
Now, humour me and play along, what do you think the answer was, truth or myth?
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[03 Jan 2007|09:15pm] |
I've been pretty stressed lately, and I think it must be taking a toll on my ability to think properly (or maybe that's just an excuse :p) because I've been trying to write my essay on 'Vile Bodies' by Evelyn Waugh for English class, and for some friggin' reason I can't seem to keep the thesis straight in my head when I'm writing it, and in one paragraph I just started summarizing shit, which is a big no-no apparently. So yeah, I'm taking a break from it tonight, and I'll start again tomorrow.
In other news, as a Christmas present my friend Anna is going to cut my hair for me. She says she can thin it out a bit (it's like I have three heads of hair, so that would be a helpful thing to have done to it) and maybe even give me layers if I want. I'm thinking of going somewhere between shoulder length and chin length with it. I hate having long hair. I can't wait to get it done.
Happy New Year by the way. :P
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| Christmas? What? Where? |
[15 Dec 2006|05:51pm] |
I'm so busy with school that I keep forgetting that Christmas just around the corner. I still haven't got presents for most my sisters, let alone any of my friends. I don't even have cards ready for people for the end of school before Christmas vacation. I have two tests next week and part of my English ISU due next Wednesday.
I'm trying not to stress out about things anymore, though. I've realsed that I'm the opposite of productive when I'm stressed out. So, I'm trying to focus on the good things, like how I can make everyone laugh at me in English class with my slightly over-the-top readings of Hamlet and Polonius, and how I got my history teacher interested in "The Onion Presents: Our Dumb Century" (he actually photocopied something about WWI from it! I hope he uses it as a handout), how I get to watch my favourite movie for my English ISU (Bright Young Things), and read about my favourite era for my history ISU (WWII).
Bright Young Things? More like Bored Young Things!
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| "No bread? Let them eat cake!" |
[09 Dec 2006|07:42pm] |
I've got homework on the French Revolution for world history, and I've been having problems concentrating. It feels as though no new information will fit into my brain, and almost nothing the textbook is telling me sounds familiar in the slightest, even though my teacher has gone through events of the revolution in class. I just about had a breakdown Thursday night when I thought the questions were going to be due the next day (I think he's giving us until Monday to complete them). I'm doing a little better today, and I'm going to try not to be too defeatist about it, so that maybe I can finish them tonight. Did I neglect to mention we're getting marked on our note-taking? 'Cause I think we are. I'm pretty sure we are, anyway. xp
I've made a bit of progress on the radio play. So far some of the dialogue is a bit cliche, but I'll fix that in editing. The board game is coming along nicely and once I've finished maybe I'll get someone with a camera to take a shot of it so I can post a picture in my journal. :)
I've been so unbelievably stressed out lately. School, life, the holidays coming up... I've been more of a basketcase than usual. I almost started crying in my world history test on Monday. I had to write a 750 word essay (I think I only managed just over 500, hopefully that'll be enough), and I had a little tiny (very quiet) mini-breakdown at my desk. My teacher was really good about it though, and gave us more time over lunch. And he must've noticed I was upset because he walked by my desk and drew a smiley face on my paper. <:) I hope I didn't fuck up the test too badly. xp
I've registered for my classes next semester. I'm going to be taking more math (staying in the college stream), Classical Civilizations (which covers ancient Greek and Roman civilizations - and I'll learn some LATIN! Booyah!), and Canadian Families - "Can Fam" for short (a kind of psychological/sociological/anthropological look at families). Unfortunately I won't have any classes with my friend Anna, or my ultimate favourite teacher (world history / anthropology, etc. from last semester), so it's definitely going to suck a bit... but hopefully not too much. Fingers cross'ed as Shakespeare would say. :P
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| Too much on my plate? |
[02 Dec 2006|11:22am] |
I've barely had time to start my English and World History independent projects, and I was hoping to have this weekend for them, but because my WH test on "Contact and Conflict" was moved from friday to this coming monday, I have to study for it all weekend.
I'm hoping I can squeeze in some time to work on those projects, though. Especially my radio play for WH, which I haven't even started writing yet and it's going to be three acts. I have to write a three act play in 21 days! *sighs* I hope that once I start, the thing'll just write itself.
I hope.
God, I really hope.
*shakes head*
Anyways, other than that, I had to read a poem I picked to read out in English class yesterday. I picked sonnet XVIII by Shakespeare ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?..."), and I think it went down pretty well. One of the other girls in class read a Tim Burton poem about this kid called Oyster boy. Basically what happens is his parents sex life struggles and they end up eating him in the end, because oysters are supposed to be aphrodisiacs. It was pretty funny, and the drawings in the book were adorable.
On the whole I've been kind of stressed out lately, but I'm trying not to let things get to me too much. It actually snowed yesterday, the first real snow of the season, which was nice. But then of course we got the freezing rain, which was a bit of a pain in the ass, but could've been worse if the temperature had been lower.
Oh, and I also have to read so many books for school it isn't even remotely funny. Books (at least 8!) for my WH project, plus Hamlet by Shakespeare, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (the book for my project) for English. And for my projects I have to write the radio play, an essay, a comparative paper and make a board game. Fun times. I'll get it all done somehow.
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| Not in school... 'Cause I'm not supposed to be. :P |
[14 Nov 2006|11:59am] |
For the last hour I've been looking up information on a topic I'm leaning toward doing for my World History ISU, which is the occupation of the Netherlands during the second world war. My ISU is going to be in the format of a radio drama, so I was thinking of trying to fit this radio station called "Radio Oranje" into it. Radio Oranje was a Dutch language station that was broadcast from Britain's BBC radio (I'm pretty sure, anyway, don't quote me on that part :P), and a lot of the Dutch resistance papers apparently got their news from it, because the official papers were only printing Nazi controlled news.
Anyhoo, I think it has the potential to be a pretty interesting topic. I'm not sure how exactly I'm going to do it, but I think I can figure it out. Maybe I'll talk to my teacher about it. *shrug*
Remember that Iron Giant essay I was all worried about doing crap on? Well, I got it back at the end of last week and I got a friggin' 93.6% on the damn thing! And I did really well on my last World History test, surprise surprise! I wasn't expecting that. I had had a really crap morning and was pretty stressed out, plus my confidence was shit because of the test before that, so I wasn't really expecting to do all that well... but hey, I did. So hey, I'm happy. :P
I had a math test yesterday... yeah, and I totally forgot to study polynomials on the weekend so I had a bit more trouble with the test than I thought I would. x[ But my teacher seems to think I know what I'm doing, so I guess we'll see. I'm not all that worried about it, seeing as I'm doing well in the class and it's not even my favourite subject. :P
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| Not in school... just like the old days. :P |
[06 Nov 2006|01:07pm] |
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This might have been a mistake, but I decided to take today off school because I got crap sleep last night and was feeling really horrible this morning. I just hope I didn't miss anything too important in any of my classes...
I'm feeling better now, but I think I'll take advantage of this day off. I'll spend the rest of the day studying for my English test on wednesday and getting some other (much neglected) work done.
( But first let's get caught up... )
And now I'll get off my ass and do homework. :p
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| What day is it today? Oh yeah... |
[31 Oct 2006|09:42pm] |
Happy Halloween!!
Will report back on how the day went later this week or maybe on Saturday.
Have a good night, everybody. :D
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[21 Oct 2006|08:23pm] |
Do you think that there's a reason why the class I care least about (math) is the one I'm probably doing the best in? I'm not sure if this has to do with it being easier than my two other classes (grade 12 English and World History), or if maybe I'm just better at math than at writing essays, long answer tests, etc. Speaking of which - tests, I mean - I got back my test on the Reformation and the Renaissance and it wasn't the great news I expected. In fact, I did worse than I thought I was going to (didn't help I went into it all sure of myself and confident!). But, I mean, it was more than a passing mark, and it's not as if I'm going to fail the course or anything. I just have to pay attention to instructions and do all my work. And my teacher should quit giving us so many tests so close together.
We've been talking about our ISU's in history and I'm pretty sure I want to write a radio drama set during world war II. I'm not sure yet if I want it to be in a Nazi occupied country (such as the Netherlands) or what. I was looking up historical radio broadcasts online and found some neato stuff, though!
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[15 Oct 2006|02:12pm] |
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I'm feeling a little more confident about the essay now. I'm still not sure about the end and the title, but I think I'm just going to leave it, because sometimes stuff I'm not sure about is what other people end up liking. And if my teacher doesn't like it, oh well. I'm done. I've got nothing left.
Many thanks to the awesome Annie for the photo of my drawing that I'm using for my new icon. It's from my Zoo Story comic from last semester's English ISU, in case anyone's curious.
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| School and music and music and school |
[15 Oct 2006|10:20am] |
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Fixing up my Iron Giant essay before I have to hand it in tomorrow. I know it's mediocre, so I'm not expecting a really good mark. I kind of just want it done and out of my hands. What's really sad is that I am trying to make it the best I can, but all that's coming out is crap. Maybe if I was writing about a movie I actually cared about it wouldn't be so bad. I kind of grew out of kids cartoon movies years ago. And I'm not trying to be snobbish or anything, and I don't think I'm too good for the assignment; I'm just not interested. And when I'm not interested it doesn't work.
I got to perform a showcase at the OCFF conference yesterday. It was really cool, especially since I picked a lot of my songs I'm most proud of, and because Maura and my friend Anna came and neither of them had seen me perform on stage before. And I think I did a pretty good job, all things considered (splitting headache, cough, no voice preperation, being filmed by Dad, not having played a gig in months..). And I'm pretty proud that I didn't psych myself out. Which I have a tendancy to do. :P
It's weird how I'm fine making conversation with strangers but when it comes to talking on stage I'm really freaked out by it. Maybe I should take that class on making presentations and shit. I wonder if that would be helpful...
I think once I get over this hurdle of the beginning of the week I'll probably be less stressed out. Unless, of course, my history teacher decides to spring another test date on us. For some reason it seems like he loves to give us a load of work - that takes forever to get done - every week. He gets away with it though, because he's nice and funny and looks kind of like George Clooney and Dave Foley's love child. :P
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[07 Oct 2006|12:51pm] |
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Smothered by homework, sick as a dog, and worried I won't be ready to perform here next Saturday. Other than that, I can't wait for turkey on Monday, to start reading Poe in English on Tuesday, and for Halloween at the end of the month. I also can't wait to go to the War museum with my World History class on the first of next month. All I've got to do is get my hands on $7 (which shouldn't be hard to do) and I'm set.
I got back my first math test of the semester, one I hadn't had the time to study for, and I started laughing a bit when I looked at it - because I got 100%! When I told my old math teacher about it when I ran into him the other day (he had two pumpkins in his arms) he told me it was scary. It was funny. :)
I can't wait for this movie to hit Canadian theatres (whenever the hell that'll be! xp). And yeah, that is The Cure in the background. Apparently they and the Psychedelic Furs are featured prominently on the soundtrack (it's set in the 1980s). :D
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