Feeling too giddy to sleep, did a Facebook survey

~~ Basics ~~
Name* Megan.

Gender* Female, but it's apparently debatable. :/

Horoscope* Pisces.

Religious Affiliation* Firmly agnostic.

Orientation* Lesbian.

Eye Color* Greenish bluish. One or the other, I don't know.

Hair Color* Too many.

Hair Style* ...Short?

Height* 5' 8".

Grade* Junior.

School* Silverado.

Where do you live?* Vegas.


~~ Music ~~

Favorite Genre* Shoegaze, Trip-hop, Punk rock, everything else.

Favorite Song* Having a musical vocabulary of over 5 decent songs makes it hard to pick one.

Favorite Singer* Um. At the immediate moment? Probably Laura Veirs and Stacy and Sherri DuPree.

Favorite Band* Pick one for me.

Favorite Rapper (if you like rap)* Hurr.

Can you sing?* Not really. I mean, I can sometimes, but I'm all lispy and crackly.

Do you play an instrument?* No. I wish I could (just like everyone else.)

Does music have an impact on your life?* A pretty big one.

Is music important to you?* Yup.

Are you in band?* Naw.

Are you in Chorus?* No.

What is your least favorite type of music?* It was so bad I didn't even bother memorizing the name of the genre.


~~ Food ~~

Favorite* Sushi, Salad. I love sushi enough that it's exceptional to my vegetarianism.

Least Favorite* Uh, I really don't know.

Was there ever a food that you thought was gross, but tried it and like it?* Yeah. I can't think of what at the moment since I'm tired as dicks.

Do you like seafood?* Yup.

Ever tried sushi?* Yeah.

Favorite fruit* Black cherries, cantaloupe.

Favorite veggie* Gnar. Pretty much everything except for kale. Kale is fucking vile, man. D:

Favorite meat* Tofu.

Favorite fast food place* Probably like, Qdoba.

Favorite restaurant* (not fast food) /toomany

Favorite Candy* Those tasty strawberry candies. You know the ones in like the strawberry print wrappers? Yeah, those.

Favorite Drink* Smoothies.


~~ Friends ~~

Do you have a lot of em?* Yeah. That's kinda what I get for jumping around places.

Are they always there for you?* Some of them.

Who is your best friend?* Plural? I have 5. Mari, Kibi, Mello, Xoli, Jed.

Smartest* No.

Dullest* No.

Shyest* The ones I hardly see anymore.

Loudest* Look at their hair color.

Most caring* All of them.

Best singer* Halee and Nann.

Best dancer* I don't care...

One who is always there to talk* The ones who answer their phones.

Funniest* You.

Most attractive* Shrug.

Most random* wat

Newest* None of you know them yet.

Nicest* The one that gives me candy and takes me for rides in their van at night.

The bragger* Can I be vague some more?

Ditziest* Sorry, Halee, but this is what happens after I watch you hiking though the wilderness.

Acts the most stupid* /sigh.

The one who always brightens up your day* Anyone who's willing to see me?


~~ Clothes ~~

What kind of clothes do you like?* Whatever looks good on me.

Do you like preppy clothes?* What the fuck does that mean?

Do have a lot of Band T-shirts?* Most of my shirts are, I think...

Do you have any toe socks?* Tons. 8D

Do you prefer jeans or sweats?* If you're reading this you've probably never seen me in a pair of sweats. I'll let that answer for you.

Etnies or Vans?* I don't wear either.

Adios or DC's?* See above answer.

Do you go to the mall a lot?* No.

Do you wear "revealing" clothing?* FUCK YEAHHHH. =|

If you're a guy, do you prefer Boxers or Briefs?* Can I say boxers if I'm a questionable girl?
Because they're hella comfortable.

If you're a girl, do you prefer thongs or briefs?* Lingerie.


~~ Love & Relationships ~~

Are you currently single?* Yeah.

If yes, are you looking?* Sure?

If single, do you like someone?* Ha.

Are you taken?* See above...?

If yes, by who and for how long?* asfgdsaf

Have you ever been in love?* Yes.

Longest relationship* Not very long.

Shortest* Short enough I don't think it actually counts.

Ever been kissed?* Yeah.

Ever kissed in the rain?* It never rains...

Ever been pushed up against a wall or locker and then been kissed?* Nope.

Where do you think is the best place to kiss?* Is this just open to interpretation? Think ("She
kissed me." "Where?" "In the car." Baha.)

Are you a hopeless romantic?* I don't know.

Have you ever had your heart broken?* Not really.

Ever broken someone else's heart?* Yeah. :/ It's a horrible feeling.

Ever cheated?* Nope.

Ever been cheated on?* Not really, I guess.

Ever been dumped?* Yup.

Ever dumped someone else?* Yessir.

On the opposite sex, what qualities do you look for?* Nothing really. Same sex? Generally has a sense of adventure, artistic, intelligent, appearance, and... Well, just generally a bit off. Haha.

Are looks more important than personality?* Um, no? :/

Favorite eye color* Blue.

Favorite hair color* Umm, all of them? Some look good on certain people and some don't. I generally like redheads. c:

Best Height* Doesn't matter. Around or less than my height. It feels weird when girls get much taller than me.

Best clothing style* Uhm.

Best personality style* Personality style? The fuck is that supposed to mean?


~~ Some randomness ~~

Do you like sauerkraut?*Ew. No.

What is something you put on your food, that your friends think is weird?* Paprika. Nothing really strange.

Do you like ritz crackers?* I guess.

How long have you had myspace?* A very long time.

How many myspace friends do you have?* I don't know. Does it matter?

What is your layout?* Minimalistic something-or-other.

Did you like this survey?* Er. I don't care. I couldn't sleep so I did this. Feeling too giddy. c:

Ann

Xoli

Hatedisgustremorseentrapment.

Sometimes everything hurts. Sometimes everything completely and utterly fucking hurts.

Oh Darling, You're Charming, Please Don't Find This Alarming

He told me that I knew just what to laugh at...
.~.~.~.

If there was ever one band that I could say I appreciate and could relate with lyrically, I'd have to say it's the Dresden Dolls. You know, that thing that all the teenage girls rave about? I guess a fitting example could be the whole "Gerard understands me, mcr saved my life!!11" But really. I dunno. I guess it's just inspiration.
On inspiration, I'm working on some new art. Probably not any you'll see a great scan of because most is too large to fit on my scanner, but I may post some photos at some point. It's funny. I've hit this horrible depression period over the last month and I suddenly started pulling art out of my ass on an intimate level. Real art, I guess. I did, however, do some completely random fanart a week or two ago. A friend left a sketch of Rei Ayanami (for him) on the scanner at my house, and too lazy to look for something else I scanned it and colored it. The results actually came out pretty nice.
Now to totally change the subject, school ends in three weeks. I have so many credits I need to make up over the summer. It's ridiculous.
So yup. I'll finish this later. Off to bed with me.

Sex Changes-The Dresden Dolls
Girl Anachronism-The Dresden Dolls
Sing-The Dresden Dolls
Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner-The Dresden Dolls

55 Things That I Love ♥

So, the other night I decided to write a list of things that I love. I guess the reason is kinda corny, but I'd like to share it with you. :) I'll probably just keep adding to it for a while. I highly advise you make just such a list, too.


1. Photography

2. Girls

3. Chocolate Chip Cookies

4. SLR Cameras

5. Nintendo

6. Dancing to David Bowie and Michael Jackson

7. Dancing in general

8. Drawing in ink

9. Drums, bass, and trumpets

10. Ska

11. Girls with punk hair styles

12. Naturally wavy hair/Virgin hair

13. Art

14. Music

15. Performing

16. Rainy days

17. Being barefoot

18. Colorful socks

19. Pale skin

20. Poetry

21. Creating zombie uprising survival plans

22. Sushi

23. Independent people

24. Boy shorts

25. Fashion

26. Rockabilly

27. Classic pin-up girls

28. Silly sunglasses

29. When you get a fresh tangerine that the skin just sits on. ♥

30. Making CDs/Playlists

31. Singing at the top of my lungs

32. Books

33. Fresh paper

34. A story in mind

35. Possibilities

36. People more intelligent than a pile of bricks

37. Improv. theater

38. Psychology

39. Sociology

40. Empty Canvas

41. Finishing paintings

42. Walking at night

43. The ocean

44. Wet pavement

45. Festivals

46. Snakes

47. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

48. Charcoals

49. Blogging

50. Sculpting (Through melting objects together/ carving soap)

51. Video Games

52. Hipsters

53. Pokemon

54. The expressive

55. Meeting people
Royksopp- Remind Me

Reading List

So this is pretty much a public personal reading list. For each book I've provided descriptions from other resources to give some idea of what the story is about. I surprise myself at how few of these I've actually read.

NOVELS

Want to Read:

Hidden Faces by Salvador Dali

Description by Amazon:
In richly visual language Dali describes the lives and loves of a group of aristocratic characters who, in their beauty, luxury, and extravagance, symbolize the decadent Europe of the 1930s. The story of the tangled lives of the protagonists, from the February riots of 1934 in Paris to the closing days of the war, is a brilliant vehicle for Dali's ideas, and an evocation of pre-war Europe. Valuable not only for Dali's own specially drawn illustrations, but also because it synthesizes all of the themes in Dali's art. So full of visual invention, so witty, so charged with an almost Dickensian energy that it's difficult not to accept its author's own arrogant valuation of himself as a genius.



Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

"If you like Fielding, Smollett and Sterne, if the comic novel of the 18th century appeals to you, you are in for a treat. Lolita is a small masterpiece, an almost perfect comic novel, a rare thing in these days when we have lost sight of the purgative and pleasurable effects of comedy and when tragedy has become the small and poverty-stricken province of southern effetes and New England housewives." - Robert R. Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times






A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

"Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. The novel satirizes extreme political systems that are based on opposing models of the perfectibility or incorrigibility of humanity. Written in a futuristic slang vocabulary invented by Burgess, in part by adaptation of Russian words, it was his most original and best-known work. Alex, the protagonist, has a passion for classical music and is a member of a vicious teenage gang that commits random acts of brutality. Captured and imprisoned, he is transformed through behavioral conditioning into a model citizen, but his taming also leaves him defenseless. He ultimately reverts to his former behavior. The final chapter of the original British edition, in which Alex renounces his amoral past, was removed when the novel was first published in the United States." - The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature



Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Review from Amazon:

"Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore."-Nona Vero



Lord of The Flies by William Golding

Abebooks.com review:
"More...William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, the boy with fair hair, and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet. Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition." -Jennifer Hubert



Neuromancer by William Gibson

Amazon.com Editorial:
"Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price."



Beautiful Children by Charles Bock

Editorial from ebookstore.sony.com:
"A wide-ranging portrait of an almost mythically depraved Las Vegas, this sweeping debut takes in everything from the bland misery of suburban Nevada to the exploitative Vegas sex industry. At the nexus of this Dickensian universe is Newell Ewing, a hyperactive 12-year-old boy with a comic-book obsession. One Saturday night, Newell disappears after going out with his socially awkward, considerably older friend. Orbiting around that central mystery are a web of sufferers: Newell's distraught parents, clinging onto a fraught but tender marriage; a growth-stunted comic book illustrator; a stripper who sacrifices bodily integrity for success; and a gang of street kids. Into their varying Vegas tableaux, Bock stuffs an overwhelming amount of evocative detail and brutally revealing dialogue (sometimes in the form of online chats). The story occasionally gets lost in amateur skin flicks, unmentionable body alterations and tattoos, and the greasy cruelty of adolescents, all of which are given unflinching and often deft closeups. The bleak, orgiastic final sequence, drawing together the disparate plot threads, feels contrived, but Bock's Vegas has hope, compassion and humor, and his set pieces are sharp and accomplished." (Jan.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. -- Publishers Weekly .



The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Editorial review from Amazon.com:
"It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem."


Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Overview from ebookstore.sony.com:
"A spellbinding epic set in twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect-a man divided in his soul...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame...and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother."




Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Amazon.com review:
"Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naïve, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet's worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn't mean the book isn't a riot. Here's a small taste: 'By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room service waiter had a vaguely reptilian cast to his features, but I was no longer seeing huge pterodactyls lumbering around the corridors in pools of fresh blood.'"



Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Editorial Review from ebookstore.sony.com:
"Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and the narrator get into a love triangle of sorts with Tyler Durden, a mysterious and gleefully destructive young man with whom the narrator starts a fight club, a secret society that offers young professionals the chance to beat one another to a bloody pulp. Mayhem ensues, beginning with the narrator's condo exploding and culminating with a terrorist attack on the world's tallest building. Writing in an ironic deadpan and including something to offend everyone, Palahniuk is a risky writer who takes chances galore, especially with a particularly bizarre plot twist he throws in late in the book. Caustic, outrageous, bleakly funny, violent and always unsettling, Palahniuk's utterly original creation will make even the most jaded reader sit up and take notice. " Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.



1984 by George Orwell

Editorial review from Amazon.com: "The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book's hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses."



Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Synopsis from Barnes and Noble:
"Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think...and Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do."




A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Editorial from Amazon.com:
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Overview from ebookstore.sony.com:
"The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?"

Finished Reading:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Review by Amazon:
"Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution."



To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Overview from Allreaders.com:
"To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best accounts of the hysteria that racial hatred and false accusations could create in the deep South prior to the 1980s. The tireless efforts of Atticus to save the falsely accused black man are set in a tone to draw the reader into sympathy, surprisingly, with both the victim and his accusers. A classic that deserves the title." -Kelly Whiting



The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Review from Amazon.com:

"Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with 'cynical adolescent.' Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

Customer review at Barnes and Noble:
"Sanderson creates a very unique world, dark and post modern. The first book in the series is a triumph in characters, action, and an odd magical convention that works extremely well. We fall in love with Vin, a beaten down little girl who finds strength in an unusual cast of friends. Book two is very entertaining as well, but begins to get bogged down in the mythology and slips from book one's intense action. Book three is almost entirely dedicated to philosophy and mythology. There is some action but it lacks the energy and depth of the first book. A common mistake in fantasy is to take on the entire Universe of good versus evil. Sanderson makes this mistake in the second and third books of the series. The plot gets too big, and suddenly we stop caring about the characters that we were invested in from the first book."



Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Amazon.com Editorial Review:
"Until 10 years ago, Elantris was the capital of Arelon, inhabited by ordinary humans transformed into magic-using demigods by the Shaod. But the magic failed, Elantris started to rot, and its inhabitants turned into powerless wrecks. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives in Kae, the new capital, close enough to Elantris to constantly remind of faded glory, prepared for a marriage to ally Teod and Arelon against the religious imperialists of Fjordell. But, she is told, her fiance, Prince Raoden, is dead. She and a recently arrived high priest of Fjordell, Hrathen, clash. Sarene tries to retain the freedom of Teod and Arelon, Hrathen tries to incite the populace to convert so that Fjordell can take over. Neither suspects the truth about Raoden. Taken by the Shaod, he struggles to unite the crippled Elantrians and discover why the magic failed. The unrest comes to a head as governments topple, the Elantrians' secrets are revealed, and Fjordell's forces arrive. A surprisingly satisfying, single-volume epic fantasy that invokes a complex, vibrant world." -Regina Schroede from Booklist



What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

Editorial Review from Amazon.com:
"A classic novel of love after death, from one our greatest fantasy writers. The premise is deceptively simple: Chris Neilson has died in a car accident, but his life-force--his spirit--is still conscious of this plane of reality. And he is still too in love with his wife, Ann, to completely let go. She in turn does not want to go on living without him, as each regards the other as their soul mate. What Chris will do to get back with Ann after she dies makes for one of the most unusual love stories ever told. Even though the story can be enjoyed as pure fantasy, what makes What Dreams May Come unique is how the author spent years researching the subject of life after death. (An exhaustive bibliography is included to verify this.) And while Matheson admits that the characters are of course fictional, he also states that "With few exceptions, every other detail is derived exclusively from research." Whether, after reading this novel, one believes in life after death is of course a matter of opinion. At least you'll entertain the possibility that, even though we may not live forever, true love can be eternal." --Stanley Wiater



Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

Overview from ebookstore.sony.com:
"Beloved classic about a little girl lost in a topsy-turvy land and her encounters with the White Rabbit, March Hare, Mad Hatter, Mock Turtle, Cheshire Cat and other delightfully improbable characters."

American Gods

There's nothing better than being sucked in by a wonderful book. Cliche as it sounds, it's true. I finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods today. I'm actually supposed to be reading it for a contemporary fiction book project for English, but really it just was an excuse to get me off my ass and over to the library as I have been longing to do. Anyway, it was marvelous. It came along with the plane ticket to anywhere. A midnight trolley ride beneath the daytime America where the characters warp a blanketed reality to be stranger than fiction. Now that I've read that there's so much more I want to read by him, but I already have a super massive reading list as is.


Rabbit in Your Headlights (w/Unkle) - Radiohead

Uninteresting catching up to do.

The school year is nearing an end. We have a few months left and it feels like it barely started. I love the lack of awareness of time as you get older. Every week turns into an hour and every year is about a month. Anywho, during this point in the school year we need to register for next year's classes. I might take Journalism next school year as well as Theater II (I got a recommendation) because juniors get two electives. Oh god, I'm going to be a junior? Yeah, weird. I moved out here just before seventh grade and it sure as hell doesn't feel like it. And even so, it feels like my life didn't start until I moved out here.

Anyway, back to the registration tidbit. Journalism. The school paper sucks dick. I think I'll write short stories for it because nobody that writes the paper can write. I feel so disappointed every time I pick it up. So many of the articles I read are semi-grammatically correct versions of the essays we had to write in 3rd grade. Have the standards for such things only dropped so low lately or am I just now noticing that so many people are dumb and uninventive? We see the same regurgitation of bullying and violence in video games and how we celebrate the holidays in every issue. Is it anything to really read about issue after issue? I mean, I'd complain that the school is just wasting paper if our highschoolers weren't so genuinely interested in what the "journalists" have to say. As a result of that I'm left bitter at the recognition of the average intelligence of our school.

Onto theater. This school year theater has been pretty okay. I mean, Demain can be pretty bitchy but as long as she tells me she likes my scenes and that my acting is fabulous, I'm a-okay with that. Right now for her class we're actually writing an episode of a sitcom, much of which is based off of QC, The Odd Couple, my family, and video games. It's coming along really nicely and me and my partner, Joey, seem to be the only group getting anything done for it. Haha.

So what's been going down other than mediocre classes lately? As far as clubs and extra-curriculars go, I've been in Drama and GSA. Lately, though, I've been going to Drama less and less because they're working on the Odd Couple right now (which I didn't audition for due to grades. Had it not been for that little detail I would have been all over it seeing as how I adore the Odd Couple.) Next quarter I might audition for Anything Goes and I'll probably sing "Just a Housewife" from Working for my audition, though. I'd totally love to get the part of Hope Harcourt but I really doubt I will. But yeah, anyway, I've been showing up less and less. Why, might you ask? For two reasons: Drama Club has had meetings fewer and farther between because of rehearsals and I've been going to GSA (the Gay-Straight Alliance) more and more often. I'm discovering how much I love the crowd that goes to GSA. :)

Setting school aside entirely, I finally got to meet some kids in my neighborhood around October. Jed, cool kid. Really cool kid. Probably one of my best friends. And then we have Michael. He gets bored easily and can be slow. After that we have Bill and Ben. I swear that Bill hates me for no reason. Seriously. And Ben is a unhygienic, fairly dumb, big, gaming teddy bear. I don't talk to him a whole lot outside of school. November I asked CeeJay out and we dated for about 3 months. I broke up with him recently. That's as far I'll go on that topic. December rolling around, I fly to Minnesota to visit relatives. It was pretty boring. I got comic books for Christmas (The Sandman, the be precise ♥) and sat around shut in the house due to the minus-zero blizzard outside. That adventure was dull. So following the flight back to Vegas, I rushed to finish homework.

Since 2010 started, though, I've hardly done anything noteworthy outside of school. It's mostly just been high school politicking, seeing Jed REALLY often, hanging out with friends, drawing, and expanding my musical horizons. Oh, and I'll be 16 in two weeks. Going to see Tegan and Sara on my birthday. And with that said, I am off. I'll get back on a regular posting schedule at some point.

Peace, kids. :)

Sleepy Seven - Bonobo
Recurring - Bonobo
The Con - Tegan and Sara

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I've been doing okay. I'm not dead or anything. Been drawing, writing, failing classes, the usual. Something I haven't done much of recently is taking photos, but I've been drawing and painting. Just finished a Kurt Cobain painting recently. It looks pretty snazzy. Some details I need to add when I get it back. I actually did it for an assignment and I really like it. c:



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