Ugh, shitstorm is shitty. But it will get better. Things will have to work out. Still need that stupid financial aid stuff taken care of, but other than that everything is done. Somehow, I knew to expect this, to expect that the one thing my mom would need to do would be the last to get done.

I've been kind of crabby and stressed today, but I can't really use homework as an excuse since I am taking a break from it at the moment.  |D Got four hours of sleep on a couch, which really isn't the best place to sleep. Though, in general it has just been a really long day. Especially the talk with our journalism adviser after school . She and I talked for about two hours, and in that time she came up with The Plan. I am not sure how I feel about The Plan, which is, in short:

Fire the editorial board. All of us.

Her reasoning behind this makes sense, but...well, part of it is that she wants Journalism Guy to step it up, since he is the Editor-in-Chief and knows more than all of us. She is also a little upset about how he has been treating her.

She is going to re-hire us (perhaps even the new students, if they do well enough) based on a challenge. Put on the same level as the reporters, we have been divided into groups of four, and will have to have a complete story proposed, written, and designed by Friday. One thing she also made a note on is that she expects certain leadership qualities in each of us former-editors to come out.

I am concerned, but I think that I'll be able to manage. Fortunately she won't pull this until after next week, when this next issue has been distributed.

Tomorrow before school I'm going to talk to our Bible teacher about giving Soccer Kid some of the points back for group participation. Even if he was late doing his stuff and getting an article, he did more than everyone else. They all just copied my notes, aha. But since I have pretty good leverage with the teacher, he probably won't think twice about giving points to Soccer Kid.

( baw )


Aside from that, life really isn't too bad. Things just can get complicated sometimes for reasons that don't really make very much sense at all. Or because of things that are stupid anyway.

Off-campus lunch was nice though, and I don't have to do my English homework now, so that is good. And extra credit movie night is in like...two hours. Leaving school was kind of pointless, but it would have been lame to have just waited there for so long with nothing to do. Maybe I could have watched the guys play football? They like to practice with their shirts off even at this time of year, so.

He wrote my name in the dust on the hood of my car. |D How stupid is that? 

So yeah, today was really boring, weird, and frustrating. Nothing really happened aside from being ignored by juniors, pretending to write out Bible verses, and getting more stupid mixed signals.

Also, I hate slant asymptotes. They should be easy, but for some reason they are just so cumbersome. Though, in general, anything vaguely pre-calculus is lame. Unless someone likes math. In that case, I suppose that they could be cool.

J'ai une interro demain. Selon ma prof j'ai besoin de etudier, fff.

( Just ignore this--it's self therapy.  )

Also, I need ideas for NaNoWriMo. Either short stories or that stupid multi-part piece I keep telling myself to write. Yay for choices.

THE NEXT PERSON TO PRANK CALL IS GOING TO DIE A VERY UNPLEASANT DEATH.

srsly what is this

So, October SAT scores are in. I got a 700 on literature and 660 on U.S. history.  I am not sure whether or not to be disappointed  |D I honestly thought I had done way better on literature and way worse on U.S. history. On the latter test I left about a tenth of the questions blank, so....eh, what to do. I think the poems in the literature section must have gotten me. I  never understand British poems.

Today I have done...three things: found and cleaned up a mouse nest, rediscovered why I liked yohgurt, and finally cleared a level on Disgaea 2 that kept me from beating it on the PS2. I love PSP ports. But I would like to focus on finding out what happens to Ugla.

And this.

Also, happy Halloween everyone~!

Takk for invitasjonen, men ville jeg ikke være ved et plass med hukka. Også mest mine venner gå på vår skolen, så jeg kan ikke innby dem til konserten.  Aha, det er det. Lørdag skal være litt kjedelig.

Og i morgen: fordi den er onsdag, kunne den være interssant. French Club også. Vi møtes i løpet av lunsj, og jeg er viseformann, som er kjempeflott.

Omg yey, so close to being done with applying for college. I've decided to just scrap the UCs--even though I have state-wide eligibility, the application is way more complicated than it needs to be, and I really don't plan on going to one so what is the point of tearing out my hair. Tomorrow I'll get my mom to sit down with me and do our CSS profile for financial aid, I'll write a letter to my councilor, and then she'll write a recommendation for me. So, by the end of this week, I should have my application to St. Olaf turned in. ♥ And then on Wednesday I'm getting my roots done, and Saturday is Halloween. So, aside from all the tests and newspaper junk, this is going to be an awesome week.

Oh, and I'm writing again. I think the first part was pretty good, but the second part might be put on hold. I kind of want to write something for hetalia_contest . The prompt makes me think of an idea I've had for a looooong time.

Also, also, yes.

I wanted to do something for World Hetalia Day, but my mom won't let me drive to San Fransisco. I was going to go to Discovery Kingdom, but my sister's back is still messed up. So, instead, we went to the Nordic House, which was only 30 miles away from San Fransisco. Much awesomeness ensued, aha, and they had soooo much stuff. I really wanted one of the jackets they had, but it was so expensive. So instead I got a frikløver bar, seigmenn, glögg, and a mug.

( It is kind of a joke, but most people won't get it. )

Also, my sister now understands what exactly lutefisk is. I think the yellow hue got to her.

Protip: if you don't like rich food, don't eat chocolate with marzipan filling.

...It was supposed to be a small welcome-back-to-milk treat.

Oi, inspiration, get the hell back here. If it's the sick heart that is scaring you off, we can talk about it.

This is totally not a meme, but I want to know, what is your favourite word?

( Last night )

Happy birthday spiraling_sins!

Okay, so like, in the past week I have read...four books? I have read The Hand of Isis, In the Wake, Out Stealing Horses, and The King's Grace. What do they all have in common? I dunno. Nothing, really, when one gets down to the logistics of each book. I think that of all of them, Out Stealing Horses was the best. I am not sure why, but there is something about Per Petterson's writing. Usually first person doesn't do anything for me, but his strange and detached stream-of-conscious style of narration is really gripping for me. The changing from present actions to memories can be jarring, but it is also realistic--that is how memories overcome someone. Sometime soon I'm going to start Kristin Labransdatter, which is pretty exciting. I hope it will help me get a better grip on Norwegians and the Norwegian culture. Lately I have had the feeling that I'm just on the cusp of a really, really great idea for a fic, so I am trying to soak up as much information about the country as I possibly can. I miiight get something for the plague, since that is when Kristin Labansdatter is set, and also that something like 65% of the population of the country died within two years. Next I'm going to try and find the history behind a reference of Aftenposten being....communist I believe it was.

Ugh, and I need to respond to the meme. I'll get on that. Really.

And how is everyone doing? Enjoying cooler weather yet?

Also, also, help me decide: should my number in softball be 19, 47, or 50?

♥

So, you know that saying about things coming at you from left field? That is, something happens that you utterly did not expect? There have been a few things in the past two days that have come at me so. Among them are the 40 graphs I had to do for our group project last night that took me until 2 to finish, actually beginning to like The Things They Carried, my mom leaving with my sister today, and being nominated for homecoming court.

Yes.

For some reason, I find that the latter is the most hard to believe. I just don't even know. There is even a little anecdote to it, but I won't go into that. But yeah, man, I got nominated for the homecoming court! I doubt that I will be the senior queen or princess, but this means that I have to go to the homecoming game now. I think that one of my mom's friends is coming now since she is so happy for me. Even if it is kind of troublesome and no-one goes to the homecoming dance, I'm pretty psyched.

Anyway, I am currently at Barnes & Noble. Using the internet. I found a novel by Per Petterson that I did not know existed. I am going to sit here with my over-expensive tea, reading this book until it is time to go home. Then I will buy it and take it back with me. I'm pretty happy right now. 

Also, also, this was stolen from iamsolazy :

Give me a fandom and I will tell you my:
OTP
Runner-up
Honorable mention(s)
Crack pairing(s)
Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

I think I am going to join the softball team.

I am not sure that I like sleep anymore; or, really, if I ever liked it at all. I do relish waking up in the morning and not being able to get up because the bed is warm and the room is cold, but it isn't the right time of year for that yet.

Instead, sleep hasn't been very restful for me lately. I can sleep for hours on end and still be tired, and when I dream I have such weird, unsettling dreams. The type that are a kind of half-vignette from real life, which end up subliming from reality to dream and back. That is, bits of my thoughts and day are combined in a dream, and then the dream combines itself with my waking thoughts and I end up dwelling on them all day. And, honestly, I would like my thoughts to be my own, plzkthx. And it's not like I don't have enough to think about during the day already.

But I know that other people have waaaay worse problems than this. I will shut up now.
 

I think I have been losing weight, but I am not sure. The scale that I have is really finicky, so who can say for sure? I certainly hope I am, though! I have not been eating as much, my clothes fit a bit better, and I have been taking longer and longer walks. Still need to start running, but I hate getting sweaty and bitten by mosquitoes, so I'm going to wait until it cools down a bit. In the meantime I'm going to make it my goal to walk/jog ten miles every day, which isn't too bad. That's what, two hour everyday? Also need to start doing squats again. That way, by the time November rolls around I should be able to run two or three miles at a time without blinking an eye.
 

Also, this is very, very serious business:
 

358/2 DAYS COMES OUT TOMORROW.
 

It is very serious, I swear, since it will help keep my distracted. |D

Also, if anyone is interested, I would take this quiz. It is basically a "where are you on the political scale?" quiz. I was actually surprised to find out I was more of a communitarian than a libertarian.

Er det tirsdag ennå? Hvis du kan forstå dette, miste jeg deg muligens. |D

( Desktop )

Ønske meg hell. c:

My day consisted of:

-Loving even more on my journalism adviser. OMGYAAAAAAY. That is pretty much how I am feeling, seriously. More about this....sometime? At least, I am pretty sure that I'll probably talk about it some more. Lots more. Because it gets better and better even if I am slightly anxious.

-Moodiness (not the bad kind, but the kind that involves going from chipper to "omg this is too much to do /tears")

-Angsting about the B I got my Federalist Paper essay

-Filling out the order form for my graduation cap and gown

-Deciding I want to do an Iceland cosplay (in addition to Rin!) if I can find hooker boots without heels. Close (since the laces can be changed) but no dice. |D

-Realising that the above is a goal I can set for myself to, um, do the stuff I did last year.

-Being confused as hell since it isn't light out when I wake up

-WANTING 358/2 DAYS LIKE BURNING

-Getting a door slammed in my face since I can't take my sister to school tomorrow and still be on time. |D