with words I thought I'd never speak

things i still need to post about, before i forget them for good: robot weekend, first day of classes... shit, i'm forgetting something, aren't i? shit. i mentioned the leather-eating dog already, i think... gah, i dunno what else.

gym situation - went to do an orientation thing at the community center here (basically just a tour of the equipment). haven't bought a membership or signed up for classes there yet. had a long talk over dinner about convenience, having only 2 cars in the family and 3 drivers going different places each day. buses are apparently not convenient for going to that gym. SO, after dinner, my mom and sis went to look in 24-hour fitness center, which is really close to the house AND right at the bus stop. that's more convenient, and they talked about prices and stuff. BUT, that place doesn't have the 'boot camp' thing, and now we've met the two trainers for that and everything.

so basically, i think what's going to happen is we're going to get a family membership to 24-hour fitness, and use that place to do stuff, but take the class at the community center gym (which apparently you don't need a membership for). best of both worlds. sort of.

possibly related (but maybe not, i dunno): i have a mystery rash on my chin. it's freaking me out. O.o i didn't get punched in the face or anything, and my scratchy sweater has a v-neck, so it wasn't touching my chin, and i didn't wear a scarf today. and i don't think i've done anything weird with facial soap or anything... and it wasn't here this morning. wtf, stupid skin. >.<

also, OMG, i have a lot of reading to do. i've not taken any literature-heavy courses in a while. i don't have enough confidence in my speed-reading to try that with these books. crap. and yesterday i put together a homework schedule and oh my god. just putting the schedule together took over an hour! *headdesk* am currently exhausted, but i need to read something before tomorrow. *SIGH*

YAY for monaboyd_month starting up, but i haven't had enough time yet to do more than glance at what's been posted so far. :( i still need to figure out what i'm going to post, actually....

so after about a week of sleeping and resting during every spare moment, I'm moderately healthy again. I think. Slight cough still, but that's it.

today I met with the other two girls in my Italian presentation group, and we got a rough outline done. (I should probably be translating, actually...) schedule for that: meet tomorrow at 12:30-ish and get a rough dialogue written, have either the teacher or one of the tutors look it over on Friday, practice practice practice, present on the 14th. O___O but after today, I'm feeling a bit more confident. It's a pretty good story this time, and it incorporates all the stuff we've learned so far, so yay!

dunno what the hell's going on in physics. there's the creepy dude, the cute dude, and the freaky mean girl and none of us have a clue, and so we're probably just gonna fail or something. it's the teacher's fault. he's an idiot.

my portfolio presentation is like, 90% done. I just need the cropped pic of my Boromir painting and then jpgs of all of the pictures, and I need to fill out that form, oh yeah. and then it'll be done and sent in. \o/ (about bloody time.)

am currently writing my 'final story' for my writing class, which is supposed to be up for peer review by today (but it's not finished yet!), and in the mean time, I've been reading over some of my WIP fics, and hoping to get started on those again. yay!!

stolen from surreality_fan

( What does my Birthdate mean? )

AND OMG RAQUEL JUST TOLD ME THAT EDDIE IZZARD IS GOING ON TOUR. AND WILL BE IN SEATTLE IN JULY. I WANNA GOOOOOOO. *PLOTS*

am officially sick. most likely with the flu. and i think i was having auditory hallucinations last night. it sounded like someone walking over gravel with plastic grocery bags on top, so kinda crinkly and stuff. but the footsteps never faded away, so it was like someone walking in place. and none of the rest of my family heard it, so. O.o am on drugs now.

i was so dead yesterday afternoon that i completely forgot to do my online physics homework. oooops. and today i have 2 writing thingies due, which i haven't started. more oops. but at least my italian test was postponed until monday, and physics was easy today because he just drew a bunch of stupid-looking pictures on the board and didn't really explain much. but now i've eaten some soup, i have 'the archer' on my kindle, and am gonna go take a nap.

oh, yesterday, my physics teacher came out of the classroom and started talking to me and cute physics guy (we'd been chatting for a while), and he started telling us about learning the building blocks that'll be useful throughout the series of classes (of which there are 3) and i felt guilty about not taking the class next quarter, like, really guilty, but then i thought about how i've been doing so far and it almost erases my guilt. because seriously, i can't take another class with this guy, about this subject. it's just not happening.

also, i've been thinking about going friends-only. fic will remain public, of course. but i think i'm seeing the appeal of f-locking. something to think about, anyway.

oh crap, it's 1am. today = first day of school. Italian was interesting; there were 2 sections of the 101 class, but now there's only 1 section of the 102 class, so we've merged together. physics was kinda awesome, the instructor seems pretty cool. tomorrow we're doing some kind of experiment with bowling. should be fun. so far in writing, I've introduced myself and gotten several replies about my nano fic. \o/ speaking of, I need to get cracking on that, but not right now. I also have to choose another picture to paint; there's one I like from the second photoshoot we did, but the position's just SLIGHTLY off, and I'm not quite confident that I'd be able to wing it. I also have to take care of those STUPID FUCKING DVDS OMFG *KICKS THINGS*. it's the job that won't. fucking. end. and the worst part is, she's already paid me. also, I have to email Kevin. shit. the FIRST kickoff is like, next Saturday or something. or the one after, I dunno. and also, one of my NY's resolutions is to stick to weight watchers omg. >.< and also, I had lots of stomach pain today, no idea why. *clutches stomach* owie.

anyway, now Raquel's got me dreaming about a new fic, as well as a couple WIPs, and omg sweet dreams tonight. *cackles*

and randomly, Brent Corrigan was awfully adorable when he was young. well, sexy and adorable. LOL

felt a bit better today. probably because of the lovely drugs that at least keep me from getting too stuffy. even with that, though, I've been sniffling and a bit woozy all day, but nothing like the constant sneezing yesterday.

and I managed to get a bit of geometry homework done! and I emailed all my teachers and got a bit of advice from last quarter's essay class instructor about my college essays. hopefully I'll get emails from my other two teachers saying it's alright to miss the first day of class. >.< and hopefully tiffany will take good notes in italian for me. *g*

Dazzle's doing better today, I think, and I think she won.... something. fastest junior handler tunnelers course or something. I have no idea. but it kept my sis mostly happy today, which is much better than her being pissy and annoyed and contrary, which is how she was yesterday (and a bit today).

after geometry, I took a NAP. it wasn't very comfy, but whatever, I got some sleep! \o/ and with the medicine last night, I actually slept all night, which was very nice indeed. anyway, then I did a bit of writing. quite a bit of writing, actually. I'm working on one of my original fics and believe it or not, it's a slightly *political* kind of drama thing. I am the least political person I know. I'd much rather just let everyone think what they want to think and try not to offend anyone, especially if they're close friends. so I'm trying to make the political part of the story as unrealistic as possible, and there's not really a good side and a bad side, and so far it's working out alright. although I do kinda wish I knew a bit more about politics. (not really, but kind of. y'know? just to get a better foundation for the plot.) it's now over 7500 words, and this morning it was only a couple thousand, so I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made on it.

I think we might actually be going back to the hotel soon. HOPEFULLY. I hate how disorganized this thing is. it's so stupid; it's like the people in charge are TRYING to be annoying and they're actively pissing people off. *headdesk* but today's at least better than yesterday. hopefully it'll continue to get better throughout the week.

oooh, Dazzle's up soon, I'd better go. *cheers*

*sigh* I've been painting pretty much nonstop for a few days. (well, not non-stop, but it's the only productive thing I've been doing). It's a picture of my grandparents for their 50th anniversary in a couple of weeks, and it has to be framed and shipped by the 17th. *headdesk* I really (really really really) wanna do a painting of Dominic, because I keep seeing pictures that I'd love to do, but this one has to get finished first. >.<

besides that, not much has been happening. oh, I dyed my hair, finally. it's not quite the colour I was going for, but it looks cool, so that'll be fine. it's kind of a deep red now; kind of darker than I wanted, but oh well.

regarding the prompt ficlets: you guys rock with the prompts omg. I've got about five of them started, now, which probably isn't the best approach, but whatever. some are going really well, and others, not quite as well, but I'm making some steady progress. but, raquel i need to talk to you about that interview one and my messenger isn't working!!! so, like, get on googletalk or something. :P i'll see if i can get on another computer later.

college quarter grades and SAT scores!!! I win. :D except, I'm going to take the SAT again in the fall because I wanna do better. >.< I think I'm also gonna take the ACT then too, which is like the SAT, only not really. LOL anyway, onto the scores...

( this quarter's grades )

( SAT scores )

oh, so, a random funny story about the SAT: the room I took it in was an English-as-a-second-language classroom, so there were alphabet posters and stuff that you might find in an elementary school. anyway. it's me and about 12 other teenagers, and we have to copy out this statement that says we won't cheat or whatever. except the rule states that it has to be copied out IN CURSIVE. >.< the funny/sad part: barely any of us could WRITE in cursive, and we had to use those stupid posters in order to write the letters correctly. LOL printing is so much better. and typing's even better than that. cursive is just... hard. lol it took us longer than the allotted time to complete the statement. >.< hahahahaha

( college search stuff )

also, an interesting and amusing tidbit: Tony's parents (and mine) all went to Georgia Tech, whose mascot is a yellow jacket; SCAD's mascot is a bee; and the place where Tony wants to go, Southern Polytechnic, has a hornet. I find that very amusing. LOL goes to show how easily amused I am...

also! thank you all for the feel-better-wishes and the prompts! am working on those now. and I do feel better. :) ♥

1 hr until paper is due. it is 1.25 pages when it SHOULD be 4-7 pages.

i suck.

also, i have a bloody nose, WTF? *gets tissues*

I did very little today. which, y'know, isn't good. >.< but it was fun, so that's the silver lining there. lol I don't know when I became so optimistic. LOL, probably since biology ended.

I did go out, though. to my sister's climbing gym for my psych experiment. I got 13 or so people, so that should be enough when I do the biology class and if my dad tests a couple people at his office, lol. Then I get to use one of his super-cool statistics programs to auto-organize my results. LOL, I love having resources like that. *g*

Also, I love that Tully's has free wireless internet, but that means I was on LJ the whole time instead of doing school. oops.

Also also, I'm going to start doing Weight Watchers. unofficially, because I don't wanna go in to the place and hafta pay and stuff. LOL *cheapskate* But yes, I'm going to start counting points and all that. I'm scared, lol. >.< Also, I bought a pair of hip-hugger jeans at Goodwill just now. They look pretty cool, but hopefully the will start to look better soon? *hopes*

ps: I think 'also' may be my new "most-used" word, omg. *facepalm*