with words I thought I'd never speak

and so much stuff has happened! first of all, in TV land...

- The Office: Casino Night - OMG JIM. CRYING. LOVE. AWWWWWWW. ♥ SO MUCH.
- The Beatles' Help! movie - CRACKTASTIC. I think the best part was watching them mess around in the snow, LOL.
- the Monk and Psych holiday specials - were nothing really special. >.< but any new Psych is good, because it is adorable. :P

in the mail today came the movies Reign Over Me, which looked really good, so I can't wait to watch it, and THE FLYING SCOTSMAN. YAY!!! I also have Hairspray from the store, and that really has to go back, but I haven't watched it yet...

in school news, I got an A in Studio Production. as if I could've gotten anything else. and a B in math, which means I didn't do fantastically on the final, because before the final, I think my grade was about a B+... and I don't have my grade for Italian yet, but my grade prior to the exam is a 92.8, which is ALMOST an A, I think. I looked up the books I need for next quarter: Italian uses the same book I already have, which is very nice; Physics requires like, 4 different book/workbook/study guide things, booo; and the two books for Writing Fiction look AWESOME. can't wait to get those in my hands. :D

as I said a while ago, cute guy had something else going on and couldn't come to Sweeney Todd, but it's always fun when my dad and I see movies together, so I really wasn't too bummed. the movie was AWESOME. and the blood was very Tim Burton-ish: bright bright red, and therefore not very disgusting. there was a lot of it, though. but there was so much humor in the movie too, it was really cool. and then the costumes were awesome, and the singing was alright, and it was just soooo cool!! I do think the gothy makeup was overdone in a couple of scenes, though. but overall I liked it. I can't wait to see it again when it actually comes out. lol!!

currently, I'm rearranging furniture in the house. amazing how just rearranging a room makes it look so much cleaner. LOL of course, there's actual cleaning being done as well, much to my annoyance. :P my friend is coming over on Sunday night and staying until Monday to help us clean (she's getting paid to clean, btw. I wish I was getting paid. >.<) I think the grandparents are coming on Wednesday, which doesn't leave a whole lot of time... and then my dad's birthday is on Saturday next week, so that's when we're going to have the first big family dinner of the holidays, I think.

other randomness:
- I'm in chapter 4 of The Golden Compass, and so far I realllllly like it. hopefully I'll be able to finish it before I go see the movie.
- omgwtf coyote? there was a coyote in our backyard earlier today!! WTF? for reference, I live in the very densely populated suburbs. O.o
- ever since classes ended, I've been staying up extremely late at night and waking up extremely late in the morning. I dunno why. my body rebels against waking up early now. :P
- FotR last night = ♥. I don't know why I get so fangirly when the movies are on TV, seeing as I have them on extended edition DVD.... :P
- there's a part near the end of The Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks (which I finished recently and really enjoyed) that I agree with SO MUCH that I was literally saying "YES, EXACTLY!!" out loud as I listened. I don't want to spoil anyone or spark an argument or anything, so I'll just say that the passage pertains to religion and leave it at that.
- tony emailed me a photo of us from the weekend we first met. awww, we're so little! apparently we were 12, but we certaily don't look it from the picture. lol
- I started writing a Dom/Viggo ficlet a few days ago and it has since grown into something much more involved than I was planning. but there will still be porn, don't worry about that. *g*

So here's the deal: next quarter class registration is coming up soon. These are the classes I know I'm going to take:

5 cr - Italian 2
5 cr - Physics (intro or slightly advanced or something, I dunno)

which leaves me 8 more credits. So, another 5 credit class and a 2 or 3 credit one. Let's talk about the 3 credit one first.

( class options for winter quarter )

So that kind of takes care of winter quarter. But for spring, this is where it gets interesting (and exciting!!).

( spring and summer options )

So anyway, that's only one of the things that's going on in my brain right now. Others include: math midterm on Tuesday, Italian test today (it went okay; better than I'd anticipated), interview and directing tonight, talking to FIRST WA guy about next quarter tonight, and food. Not only do I need to eat something before I leave, but I think I have to bring snacks for the crew as well. I'm thinkin' left over Halloween candy and oranges. That might make a mess though... Well, whatever, one of the guys last week brought bananas.

The dogs have fleas. The HOUSE has fleas. I DON'T WANT FLEAS!!!! *shudders*

The Assertive Communication class is finally over. It was a good class, but about 90% of the students didn't want to be there, which made it difficult for me and the two other people that did. I spoke to the teacher after we let out yesterday and he said he really appreciated my being in the class, because the rest of the idiots weren't cooperating at ALL and they kept saying stuff like "how soon is lunch?" "when can we get out of here?!" *STABS THEM* I didn't learn much I didn't already know, but it was good and I think I'll be able to use some of the techniques. I discovered that while I usually speak assertively, my body language is completely non-assertive. Also, I say "I'm sorry" for EVERYTHING, which I need to stop doing. LOL By the way, I got about 9 hours of sleep on Saturday night, which was COMPLETELY AWESOME. I love it when I get enough sleep to survive the day. :P

So, my NaNo fic is still on the high end of 2000-something, because I haven't had time to sit down and write uninterrupted for a while. :( I'm hoping I can set aside some time this afternoon, but I have a(nother) play to film at the theatre tonight! Which brings me to this bit of news:

On Saturday, my mom got a phone call from the theatre lady, asking me to come film because it was the last night of the production. This is right smack in the middle of my weekend class, remember. I would've refused, but the play just HAD to be interesting. And it was. It was called "Deathtrap" and it was about a playwright who commits murder and there's a lot of double-crossing and dry humour. But now, for some reason, there's ANOTHER play ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") this evening that I'm now scheduled to film. (I don't know how they had another production so quickly; apparently it's like a 45min one-act or something...)

In February, they're having "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)", which I cannot WAIT for, because it sounds so awesome. It's by The Reduced Shakes Spear Company. HEE.

So anyway, I have a math quiz today that hopefully I'll be able to do well on. *crosses fingers* I also have a ton of Italian homework to finish between classes. And I also have to call the original "cute guy" and ask him to step in to be the host for my studio class. I don't even know if he's still at the school..... >.< So yeah, that's my day today. How 'bout you?

( The Lincoln Project premiere - cut for spoilers and length )

*sigh* Wow, that was longer than I thought it was going to be. The gist of it is, the movie was great. Could'a been better, but it was pretty impressive. :)

I got my most recent SAT scores back today: writing was a bit lower, but I expected that. math was EXACTLY THE SAME as last time (640, if I remember correctly), and the reading? up by 80 points. *\o/* YAAAAAY. Hopefully this means I qualify for the highest scholarship at SCAD. :D :D :D I'm very excited. I need to send in my application packet today with my updated scores, homeschool transcript, and personal statement. Hopefully I'll know whether I'm accepted by Christmas or New Years. YAY.

I got 46/50 on my studio quiz last Thursday. And ok, y'know that movie premiere the guy at class invited me to? There's an article about it in the newspaper. Jeff is the guy I know. Didn't I tell you he was good-looking? ;D This is so awesome. And I didn't know he was homeschooled!! I'll have to ask him for tickets tonight. I'm very excited about that also.

Tomorrow night's the Halloween Dance, which I went to last year, but besides a mild desire to go, I'd totally forgotten about it. And anyway, the premiere is the next night, and it's probably better not to do two things in a row. Besides the fact that I haven't even thought about costumes... I dunno what I'm going to do for Halloween...

I'll be posting RunAway in a few minutes and OMG I LOVE THIS NEXT CHAPTER. It ends with a bit of a cliffhanger, though. SORRY.

And one more thing: the Across the Universe soundtrack is so awesome and I've been listening to it non-stop since yesterday. omg this song makes me laugh. "They're great, they're just... chillled out!"

pop quiz in italian today. i didn't do terribly, but i got a few things wrong. stupid indefinite articles. >.< at least i'm good at verb endings. i'm a bit behind on math homework, so i'll try to catch up on that tonight. there'll be a quiz tomorrow in studio, but it's just a fill in the blank type thing, and i'm pretty sure my semi-photographic memory along with some common sense will help me out there. and then, NO SCHOOL FRIDAY!!!!! i dunno why. is it a holiday? LOL i need to start a painting, though, before going to art class, so i'll have something to work on.

i finished editing the epilogue of runaway. and then i formatted it all into a new document and did a word count and stuff, which was WAY harder than it should've been, because i had to NOT count all the chapter headings and the "***" i use for scene changes. it came out to 50,360 words, but the last 100 of that is a quote and the the source of the quote and the fin. but that's okay, it's still over 50,000 words, which was my goal while writing the last couple of chapters. it helps for the upcoming nanowrimo to know that i've at least written that much for one fic before now, y'know? anyway, i think runaway will be finished posting on nov 8th, and then i'll have a q&a post and i think i'll upload the completed .doc for anyone who wants to save it all in one place.

let's see, what else did i want to say? um... oh, yesterday the guy who sits next to me in math class wore a fedora and i couldn't keep my eyes off him. it looked awesome. annnnd, uhh... oh, my scad essay just needs a conclusion and then probably some tweaking, but then it should be done. conclusions are the worst part of essays, though, at least for me. oh, and my sat scores will be online this saturday, i think, so yay! hopefully i did better this time than last time. i think i did, but i'm not sure.

does anyone know what happened to faces_fit/last_glances? the last post i saw, they were working out some of the issues, and then it was gone. :(

studio production quiz is finished. finally. i had to google the color temp of tungsten/halogen lights because the book DID NOT SAY. i swear it didn't. not even in the index! and i'd forgotten what it was from last quarter, because i used to know. lol! it's around 3200K. which, actually, is what i was going to guess, but it's better to be sure.

also... okay, that's about all i've gotten done so far. i have an hour until class, so i should probably do some math or something. i'm pretty bored, actually.

oh, right, one more thing. i saw the evil producer bitch from last quarter. it may have been my imagination, but it looked like she gave me the evil eye when she walked by. >.<

oh yeah, i remembered the other thing i was gonna say. in my math class, there's a gorgeous guy that sits at the table next to me, along with another guy next to him. well, today they were making gay jokes and being completely adorable and slashy and it was very amusing. :D

wow, it feels like I haven't posted in forever, even though it wasn't that long ago.

1. Tiffany gave me a very pretty silver and peridot bracelet for my birthday. :)

2. There's a guy called Jens in my studio production class that is awesome and funny. We chatted for a while when we both had to be on-camera, pretending to interview each other, and then later, he directed while I was tech director, and we kinda clicked and did really well (better than pretty much all of the other pairs), which was totally awesome. There's also a deaf girl in the class, and she has two interpreters with her, a guy and a girl. The guy's hands remind me vividly of Dominic's, and he wears a couple rings too. :P It made me wonder if Dom's ever tried sign language. I imagine he'd be good at it, what with all his gesturing and constant movement when he talks.

3. Over half the people in that class have first names starting with J. LOL

4. My room is now about 90% clean. There's still a load of crap on all available flat surfaces, but the floor is clear and I took out a lot of old books to make room for new ones. It just needs to be vacuumed and nit-picked, now. It's so much nicer this way. Although, I must admit, the other night when I was lying in bed, I couldn't get to sleep because the curtain thing on my bed wasn't hanging the same way it was before. How OCD is that? >.< I ended up getting out of bed anyway for something else so I fixed it before I went back. LOL

5. The library booksale was a success! (even though I didn't find any of the specific things I was looking for, but I wasn't really expecting to, so that's okay.) I took home about 10+ books, including one book of poetry and Macbeth. Or maybe I put Macbeth back... I don't remember. Anyway, I've already finished one of the other books, called The Assistants, and OMG IT WAS AWESOME. If you're at all connected to or interested in Hollywood or show business, you should read it. On the back cover, it said "laugh out loud funny" and I don't tend to believe that kind of thing, but it was so true. Also, Griffin is the most awesome character ever, and I love that name. :P

6. Classes have been going well, or just going. I had a math quiz today, but it was pretty easy and I'm almost positive I aced it. (There was only one page of questions, though). Also, the math teacher has a really cute ass. What? I sit on the front row, and he's always turned around writing on the whiteboard. I can't help but notice. *giggles*

7. I'm taking the SAT (again!!) next weekend. Apparently. I did not know this before two days ago. If I bring up my score by like.. 60 points or something, I'll qualify for another 5k in scholarships (I think). PRESSURE, ANYONE? dammit.

8. I'm suddenly nervous about a lot of things. Posting a fic tomorrow, my looming Italian quiz, the SAT on Saturday, finishing my SCAD essay, and finding a focus for my portfolio. fuck. And I also hate it (well, okay, I don't hate it, because I love most of what I write) that my best writing is fanfic and I can't show it to anyone outside of fandom. How am I supposed to prove that I actually can write if I never write anything for academic eyes?