Well, I'm not doing NaBloPoMo. Why do you ask?
Because I forgot that April is Script Frenzy. (Link in the doo-blee-do -->)
So, an hour before April began. I began frantically planning a basic plot for a story that I could write as a script in the month of April.
Thankfully, I have a reserve of story ideas I keep handy. I just had to pull up one that I could write as a script. And I found one. Yay!
I am now 3 pages into this story and I figured, being 3% done with the entire thing. I should start procrastinating.
I'll let you know more about what the story is about soon! As soon as I figure out what it's about.
Here's my little catch line:
Becoming a superhero, is like falling in love. It happens by accident.
It's an action, superhero-y, romantic (comedy?) story.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
College is Fun! (?)
Well, it's definitely been a little bit since I've posted last. I'd apologize, but I don't think there's anyone actually reading this anyways.
I was planning on writing a movie review on Limitless a while back. I still might. However, it's been out for a while. Really quick general thoughts, it's good. Makes you question how you feel about using performance enhancing drugs (aka steroids). I'll try and get that review up sometime soon.
So, I have a lot to talk about today. College, goals, writing, and other stuff I'm sure. So, let's just start with college.
College. Is awesome. It's a no BS deal. No special treatment to the jocks. (Not that there are any, it's a community college.) But it's so much more freedom and responsibility- which I personally love. I hate the high school teachers because they baby everyone. If you don't get an assignment done on time, you can go to the teacher, put on a puppy dog face, say the dog ate my homework, and you get an extra day to turn it in. Here, you turn it in. No exceptions. If you're absent on a day something is due. You can't turn it in. Call me crazy, but I love it.
Also, I don't even have class until 11 every day (except for Tuesdays, which start at 8am) and I don't even have school on Fridays.
You know how they say that even though you're only in class for a few hours a day, but you study the rest of it? Well, they're right. That's okay though. Because I like being able to control my own learning. You learn the stuff in class during a lecture. Take notes and all that jazz. Then you go and do the assignments and study and it's up to you to learn it.
People I tend to not like- (The whimpy-I-need-help-doing-everything-plus-a-reminder-everyday-that-I-have-assignments-due-I-want-special-treatment kind of people) Don't survive college. Generally, they just don't go. It's nice. All the people here care about being here. At least most of them.
Okay, on to the next topic. Goals. Life goals. School goals. Lots of goals. I love them. You know it. Secretly, you love them too. If you don't, you should. Currently, I've got a few goals in mind.
1) Get a car. I need a car kind of bad, now that I'm in college and all. It's really annoying to get a ride from my parents and take the bus and all that. Not that I want to park on campus, I'm not insane. However, having a car would be nice.
2) Get straight As this term. Call me crazy, but I think I can do it. Most of my classes seem a whole lot easier than my IB classes in high school. (Oh, I got a 3.8 last trimester! The only B was in my one non-IB class.)
3) Figure out what to do in life. If I like my engineering class, I might start looking at that. However, right now I'm looking at getting two associate's degrees- one in management, and the other in accounting. Then transfer to O(regon)SU to get a bachelor's in accounting. Do you know how much financial managers make a year? A lot. Like 100 grand a lot. And being a financial manager can basically guarantee me a job anywhere. Or at least some sort of management job. Fact: The general population cannot keep themselves organized without an appointed manager. I really like management, and after looking at the classes required for accounting, that looks pretty interesting too.
Then I'll start a custom car shop with Mr.Wonderful and I'll do all the management stuff for that as well as work on interiors and pinstriping. All the intricate detail-y stuff. At least that's the plan for now.
My next topic seems to be a reoccuring one. For obvious reasons. Writing. Do you know how excited I'm getting for JulNoWriMo this year? It's kind of insane. Besides the fact that I want summer to get here so I can go on the cruise. I really want to start writing my novel for JulNo. So, this year. I'm planning.
That's right. Actually planning. The entire novel. (Hopefully.) That way - because I'm missing 5 days at the start of the month - I won't fall behind and die.
And the final topic is NaBloPoMo. I think I'm going to try it again in April. Which means I have to start posting tomorrow for it. Am I crazy? Is it even possible for someone to do this? I feel like I'd have to get up and post before school every day. And weekends it will be particularly hard to post every day considering I get home at midnight every night. :/ Should I do it????
I was planning on writing a movie review on Limitless a while back. I still might. However, it's been out for a while. Really quick general thoughts, it's good. Makes you question how you feel about using performance enhancing drugs (aka steroids). I'll try and get that review up sometime soon.
So, I have a lot to talk about today. College, goals, writing, and other stuff I'm sure. So, let's just start with college.
College. Is awesome. It's a no BS deal. No special treatment to the jocks. (Not that there are any, it's a community college.) But it's so much more freedom and responsibility- which I personally love. I hate the high school teachers because they baby everyone. If you don't get an assignment done on time, you can go to the teacher, put on a puppy dog face, say the dog ate my homework, and you get an extra day to turn it in. Here, you turn it in. No exceptions. If you're absent on a day something is due. You can't turn it in. Call me crazy, but I love it.
Also, I don't even have class until 11 every day (except for Tuesdays, which start at 8am) and I don't even have school on Fridays.
You know how they say that even though you're only in class for a few hours a day, but you study the rest of it? Well, they're right. That's okay though. Because I like being able to control my own learning. You learn the stuff in class during a lecture. Take notes and all that jazz. Then you go and do the assignments and study and it's up to you to learn it.
People I tend to not like- (The whimpy-I-need-help-doing-everything-plus-a-reminder-everyday-that-I-have-assignments-due-I-want-special-treatment kind of people) Don't survive college. Generally, they just don't go. It's nice. All the people here care about being here. At least most of them.
Okay, on to the next topic. Goals. Life goals. School goals. Lots of goals. I love them. You know it. Secretly, you love them too. If you don't, you should. Currently, I've got a few goals in mind.
1) Get a car. I need a car kind of bad, now that I'm in college and all. It's really annoying to get a ride from my parents and take the bus and all that. Not that I want to park on campus, I'm not insane. However, having a car would be nice.
2) Get straight As this term. Call me crazy, but I think I can do it. Most of my classes seem a whole lot easier than my IB classes in high school. (Oh, I got a 3.8 last trimester! The only B was in my one non-IB class.)
3) Figure out what to do in life. If I like my engineering class, I might start looking at that. However, right now I'm looking at getting two associate's degrees- one in management, and the other in accounting. Then transfer to O(regon)SU to get a bachelor's in accounting. Do you know how much financial managers make a year? A lot. Like 100 grand a lot. And being a financial manager can basically guarantee me a job anywhere. Or at least some sort of management job. Fact: The general population cannot keep themselves organized without an appointed manager. I really like management, and after looking at the classes required for accounting, that looks pretty interesting too.
Then I'll start a custom car shop with Mr.Wonderful and I'll do all the management stuff for that as well as work on interiors and pinstriping. All the intricate detail-y stuff. At least that's the plan for now.
My next topic seems to be a reoccuring one. For obvious reasons. Writing. Do you know how excited I'm getting for JulNoWriMo this year? It's kind of insane. Besides the fact that I want summer to get here so I can go on the cruise. I really want to start writing my novel for JulNo. So, this year. I'm planning.
That's right. Actually planning. The entire novel. (Hopefully.) That way - because I'm missing 5 days at the start of the month - I won't fall behind and die.
And the final topic is NaBloPoMo. I think I'm going to try it again in April. Which means I have to start posting tomorrow for it. Am I crazy? Is it even possible for someone to do this? I feel like I'd have to get up and post before school every day. And weekends it will be particularly hard to post every day considering I get home at midnight every night. :/ Should I do it????
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
RambleRambleRamble
WARNING: The following post may ramble.
Well, in case you failed to notice my absence for the past four days, I've been busy. And as such, lost NaBloPoMo for March. *sentimental tear* Well, I suppose I should just keep blogging? I'm sure I'll try this again some other month. For now I'll just keep posting when I can. I want to get to 5,000 views by the end of July. So, hopefully, I can reach that goal. (The fact that I only have about 1,300 views as of right now will not stop me.)
And just so you know, this may be a very very long post that hardly anyone will actually read - especially considering the fact that I actually had to write everything I wanted to talk about down on a Post-it note so I wouldn't forget it all.
Movies:
I saw The Social Network finally. It was a great movie and I think the characters were portrayed well. Not like a lot of movies, where the main character is very lovable and you have no problems except for the fact that s/he's just too amazing and the antagonists are just horrible. In this case, Mark Zuckerberg was very much a real person and played very well. However, I'm not too sure about having Justin Timberlake playing Sean Parker. That seemed a little strange to me.
I also saw District 9 last night. That was one of the more depressing movies I've seen in a really long time. It was good though. It made me think about a lot of things. Like how would we react if we ran into aliens. It's a really interesting idea and the movie was made incredibly well. The graphics for the "prawns" were amazing.
Life Stuff:
College starts in a week and a half. I still need to buy my textbooks and figure out how to get a ride there and back. I'm mostly worried about Mondays and Wednesdays, because I think I'll be taking the bus there and back. That would suck just a little. Tuesdays and Thursdays I can just get a ride from my mom if I need to. I should also get a bus pass for the month or something like that. I should just look up how to do that. Also, I should get a parking permit.
I've felt rather demotivated lately. This is bad. So, I've started making a list of things I can do to be interested in and all that jazz. The list is as follows:
Well, in case you failed to notice my absence for the past four days, I've been busy. And as such, lost NaBloPoMo for March. *sentimental tear* Well, I suppose I should just keep blogging? I'm sure I'll try this again some other month. For now I'll just keep posting when I can. I want to get to 5,000 views by the end of July. So, hopefully, I can reach that goal. (The fact that I only have about 1,300 views as of right now will not stop me.)
And just so you know, this may be a very very long post that hardly anyone will actually read - especially considering the fact that I actually had to write everything I wanted to talk about down on a Post-it note so I wouldn't forget it all.
Movies:
I saw The Social Network finally. It was a great movie and I think the characters were portrayed well. Not like a lot of movies, where the main character is very lovable and you have no problems except for the fact that s/he's just too amazing and the antagonists are just horrible. In this case, Mark Zuckerberg was very much a real person and played very well. However, I'm not too sure about having Justin Timberlake playing Sean Parker. That seemed a little strange to me.
I also saw District 9 last night. That was one of the more depressing movies I've seen in a really long time. It was good though. It made me think about a lot of things. Like how would we react if we ran into aliens. It's a really interesting idea and the movie was made incredibly well. The graphics for the "prawns" were amazing.
Life Stuff:
College starts in a week and a half. I still need to buy my textbooks and figure out how to get a ride there and back. I'm mostly worried about Mondays and Wednesdays, because I think I'll be taking the bus there and back. That would suck just a little. Tuesdays and Thursdays I can just get a ride from my mom if I need to. I should also get a bus pass for the month or something like that. I should just look up how to do that. Also, I should get a parking permit.
I've felt rather demotivated lately. This is bad. So, I've started making a list of things I can do to be interested in and all that jazz. The list is as follows:
- Programming (I used to know html, I forgot. I should learn again.)
- Read more; specifically more informational stuff. Maybe a little fiction here and there.
- Write more; generally I save my writing for July because that way I don't get burned out, but I've had a lot of ideas lately. I'll make a separate post about all of those ideas running through my mind.
- Exercise; once again, I really need to start doing this. I would run, but it's rainy and we have a Nordic Track (Google it), if it was a treadmill, I'd run more. They're just more fun.
- Blog! Find a more thematic blog maybe? More on that down below
Friday, March 11, 2011
Video Games
Well, the title of this blog post was originally going to be about the fact that I am going to go play Sims 3 in a moment instead of making an in depth blog post about something interesting. Though I do have a growing list of things to talk about. However, I never seem to find the time to write a long in depth researched post about something nerdy and interesting.
Then, I decided I'd throw something in here about Pokémon, because today while I was at Game Stop randomly, I thought I'd check out the old Gameboy Advance games - because these are the only games I have a system for and that I have enough money to buy. And I was never allowed to play Pokémon as a kid, or watch it, or have anything to do with it really.
Well, as you can imagine, Gameboy Advance games are pretty inexpensive. Six or seven dollars usually. Then I thought, "Hey, I should get a Pokémon game!" How wrong I was. There was only one Pokémon game. It was $40!!! That's almost as much as any brand new Wii game or Xbox game!
So, for all you people out there who got into Pokémon when you were a kid and held on to the stuff because you thought it might be worth something someday. You were right. It's someday now. You can get some serious profit on those things nowadays. Especially the original games.
And I am off to play Sims 3 now!
Then, I decided I'd throw something in here about Pokémon, because today while I was at Game Stop randomly, I thought I'd check out the old Gameboy Advance games - because these are the only games I have a system for and that I have enough money to buy. And I was never allowed to play Pokémon as a kid, or watch it, or have anything to do with it really.
Well, as you can imagine, Gameboy Advance games are pretty inexpensive. Six or seven dollars usually. Then I thought, "Hey, I should get a Pokémon game!" How wrong I was. There was only one Pokémon game. It was $40!!! That's almost as much as any brand new Wii game or Xbox game!
So, for all you people out there who got into Pokémon when you were a kid and held on to the stuff because you thought it might be worth something someday. You were right. It's someday now. You can get some serious profit on those things nowadays. Especially the original games.
And I am off to play Sims 3 now!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
mmmmMassages
Today, I had my first ever massage.
It was amazing. Absolutely wonderful. Full body massage. For an hour. Love.
And it was only 55$ with tip!
If I can scrounge up enough money, I'm going to start getting more massages for sure. It's also really good for your health. And makes your skin all soft. It was a good celebration for my last day of high school and a good way to relax.
I highly suggest going and getting a massage if you're stressed or you're tense or something. Personally it helps a lot with the whole random muscle spasm thing I have. I really have no idea why it happens to me, but it only happens when I'm really tense.
And, just random thought, I'm super cold and shaking from it. Like shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking, twitch. It's really annoying. If anyone has any tips on how to solve this, it'd be greatly appreciated.
It was amazing. Absolutely wonderful. Full body massage. For an hour. Love.
And it was only 55$ with tip!
If I can scrounge up enough money, I'm going to start getting more massages for sure. It's also really good for your health. And makes your skin all soft. It was a good celebration for my last day of high school and a good way to relax.
I highly suggest going and getting a massage if you're stressed or you're tense or something. Personally it helps a lot with the whole random muscle spasm thing I have. I really have no idea why it happens to me, but it only happens when I'm really tense.
And, just random thought, I'm super cold and shaking from it. Like shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking, twitch. It's really annoying. If anyone has any tips on how to solve this, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
College Bound
Well, today, I registered for college classes. And let me tell you. I love college classes.
First of all, I have no class on Friday.
Second of all, I only have to get to class by 8am 2 days out of 7 in a week.
So, Mondays and Wednesdays, I have Math 251 (Calculus 1) at 11 and Western Civ: Ancient to Medieval at 3.
Then, Tuesdays and Thursdays I have some required College Preparedness class at 8am and then Writing 121 at 1.
Also, on Thursdays I have a beginning Engineering class in between those 2 classes.
And I have no class on Friday! However, this will most likely be taken up by study time.
I have orientation on Friday and I'll probably get my textbooks and stuff then.
Bah. So excited.
It's going to be crazy awesome!
First of all, I have no class on Friday.
Second of all, I only have to get to class by 8am 2 days out of 7 in a week.
So, Mondays and Wednesdays, I have Math 251 (Calculus 1) at 11 and Western Civ: Ancient to Medieval at 3.
Then, Tuesdays and Thursdays I have some required College Preparedness class at 8am and then Writing 121 at 1.
Also, on Thursdays I have a beginning Engineering class in between those 2 classes.
And I have no class on Friday! However, this will most likely be taken up by study time.
I have orientation on Friday and I'll probably get my textbooks and stuff then.
Bah. So excited.
It's going to be crazy awesome!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Happy Fat Tuesday!
Happy Fat Tuesday everyone!
I finally have a topic to talk about. And it's Fat Tuesday! Albeit a little late to be talking about it, but it'll be interesting. Promise.
So Fat Tuesday aka Mardi Gras, pretty much everyone knows exists. May know a little about it. May even party for it. But how many know the history behind it. (Me? Doing history? Blasphemy...) Well, I wanted to do a little research on it and find out some stuff.
So, Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. The first day of Lent. Lent was originally a forty day long religious event to prepare the believer for the annual commemoration during the "Holy Week" that ends with Easter - the resurrection of Christ.
Nowadays, however, Lent is the 40 day period where people give up their bad habit for the 40 days. Coffee, alcohol, unnecessary shopping, and desserts are all very common things to give up. People also make goals for the 40 days - such as working out half an hour a day or praying 10 minutes every day.
Mardi Gras is french for Fat Tuesday and it is "officially" the same thing. However, Mardi Gras is no longer a day in many towns. Mardi Gras events begin in November in Mobile, Alabama! Long party... Mardi Gras is celebrated all around the world in different ways. In the Netherlands it is called "Carne Vale" which means "Goodbye to the Meat" in Latin.
The United States, however, is the biggest party of them all when it comes to Fat Tuesday. We are the most obese nation in the world after all. ;) And we love to party. It's what we're good at. The best place to go for a Mardi Gras party after all is in the heart of the southern US. New Orleans, Louisiana. In fact, New Orleans throws such huge and brilliant parties, that part of their culture is based around this celebration and they are well known for their Mardi Gras parties. However, unlike most parties, Mardi Gras parties end abruptly at the stroke of midnight. Like Cinderella, but for the whole party.
This day is also known as Pancake Tuesday (Canada and other English countries), Fastnacht Day (among German American populations), Malasada Day (Hawaii), Fettisdagen (Sweden), Sprengidagur (Iceland), and Užgavėnės (Lithuania).
So, crazy stuff, right? Whether you're having a huge party in New Orleans or you're sipping your last cup of coffee for the next 40 days. Have a happy Mardi Gras!
I finally have a topic to talk about. And it's Fat Tuesday! Albeit a little late to be talking about it, but it'll be interesting. Promise.
So Fat Tuesday aka Mardi Gras, pretty much everyone knows exists. May know a little about it. May even party for it. But how many know the history behind it. (Me? Doing history? Blasphemy...) Well, I wanted to do a little research on it and find out some stuff.
So, Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. The first day of Lent. Lent was originally a forty day long religious event to prepare the believer for the annual commemoration during the "Holy Week" that ends with Easter - the resurrection of Christ.
Nowadays, however, Lent is the 40 day period where people give up their bad habit for the 40 days. Coffee, alcohol, unnecessary shopping, and desserts are all very common things to give up. People also make goals for the 40 days - such as working out half an hour a day or praying 10 minutes every day.
Mardi Gras is french for Fat Tuesday and it is "officially" the same thing. However, Mardi Gras is no longer a day in many towns. Mardi Gras events begin in November in Mobile, Alabama! Long party... Mardi Gras is celebrated all around the world in different ways. In the Netherlands it is called "Carne Vale" which means "Goodbye to the Meat" in Latin.
The United States, however, is the biggest party of them all when it comes to Fat Tuesday. We are the most obese nation in the world after all. ;) And we love to party. It's what we're good at. The best place to go for a Mardi Gras party after all is in the heart of the southern US. New Orleans, Louisiana. In fact, New Orleans throws such huge and brilliant parties, that part of their culture is based around this celebration and they are well known for their Mardi Gras parties. However, unlike most parties, Mardi Gras parties end abruptly at the stroke of midnight. Like Cinderella, but for the whole party.
This day is also known as Pancake Tuesday (Canada and other English countries), Fastnacht Day (among German American populations), Malasada Day (Hawaii), Fettisdagen (Sweden), Sprengidagur (Iceland), and Užgavėnės (Lithuania).
So, crazy stuff, right? Whether you're having a huge party in New Orleans or you're sipping your last cup of coffee for the next 40 days. Have a happy Mardi Gras!
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