OnePointFive Days

That's what I've got left for school.  That's it. And then I'm a senior.  Do you have any idea how intimidating this is??  Well, okay, so it's not precisely "intimidating."  It's just... well, really weird.  I don't know exactly how to handle it.  It's hard to think of myself in terms of a senior.  Like you don't even know.

I'm going to be taking senior pictures.

I'm going to be a senior.

I'm going to graduate.

I'm going to leave home.

I'm going to college.

This summer, I'm going to DC, South Dakota, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Valley City.  Also working around all of this, as well as applying to colleges and for scholarships and for financial aid and all that mumbo jumbo.  Life is about to get way different, way fast.  Here's hoping I can handle it.

I don't really have time to write more sooooo I'll catch y'all later. Toodles!

Been Awhile, Yes

Hello, guys.  Sorry it's been so ridiculously long.  I'll skip the details, but I've been really, really busy lately.  Like, for the entire last month, yes.  Too busy to blog?  Well, probably not, no, but you know how it is.  My every free second isn't filled with "oh, I need to blog..."  So yeah.  Whatever.

Anyway, I'm throwing my schedule out the window today--even though it's Music Monday and I love and greatly miss it--and I'm going to talk about a book we just read in English.  I may come back to music, though... just cause.  I have a confession to make, haha. =3

The Rag and Bone Shop: Robert Cormier

It's about this little 7-year-old girl named Alicia Bartlett who is "brutally murdered" (honestly, she got a rock to the head.  Brutal. Hah) and found in the woods.  The last person who saw her alive was Jason Dorrant, who is 12, and lives down the street, thus making him the prime suspect.  (He didn't do it.)

The thing of it is... The book is short, and not just in length.  It's very concise.  Frill-less.  There are very few descriptions, and those available are short and semi-vague.  It is cut-and-dry, but it all just adds to the story.  It doesn't matter what season it is (summer) or where the story takes place (Monument, whatever-state--CT?).  It doesn't matter what anyone's wearing, or what anyone really looks like.  People are described, but in a manner to make it seem highly unimportant and a person tends to just skim over it.  Well, I did.  She gave it to us and I had it read in just over two class periods.

It was really good.  I give it a two thumbs up--might give it more if I had more thumbs, even.  (=

Also, I finished reading Deathwish by Rob Thurman finally.  It was a really good book.  A perfect conclusion to the trilogy about the Leandros brothers (mostly Cal)...

Until I was in the bookstore Friday night and found Roadkill, the next book in the Cal Leandros once-trilogy-now-quad.  The guy lied to me when he told me he was only writing three books! (Yes, I emailed him once upon a time becaaauuuuse... haha, well, long story.  Anyway. Hah.)  Bitch.  Oh well, I don't mind.  I'm just... at a lost for the real motivation in it, because--I can't tell you if you intend to read them.  Hah.  Oops.  Anyway, yeah.  I'm pretty pumped because it's going really well so far and it's--of course--really good and I like it a lot.  I don't even mind theeeeee lack of a certain element.  So yep. (=

...I just gotted caught on my teacher's laptop, soooooo I'ma go now. heh.  toodles!

Thought Process(es)

So I've discovered that there is a definite difference between people who read science fiction and people who do not.  These differences lie in the imagination and in the ability to accept the farther-out ideas in the realm of not-quite-possibilities (-but-we're-considering-them-anyway-just-because).  These aren't the only things, but it's just something I've noticed.  And maybe it's just me and my friends; I don't know.  And I'm not saying that people who don't read science fiction have no imagination or anything like that because broad generalizations as such are so regularly false I daren't make them.  But with two of my best friends, neither of whom read science fiction, it seems as though they have this particular... imaginative block that stops them from seeing an entire range of possible paths.  Not that I always see those paths either, but that's beside the point.  Plus, they actually have to question the reality of my completely bizarro stories that have no point at all and are merely for entertainment value because they're not physically possible by the laws of physics and et cetera that we've come to understand!  But it's science fiction!  It doesn't have to make sense!  Haha.  Maybe I'm just crazy.  That's probably far more likely, haha.  Whatever.  But still!  Watch your science-fiction-reading and non-sci-fi reading friends and see if there's any consistent differences.  If all of your friends do or don't, you might have a problem.  Sorry. (=

There are never any emails in my sendit inbox!  )=
That's what I get for not using it, huh?  Ah well.

I still have no prom date.  But it's okay.  I'll (hopefully) have one by the end of next Monday... If not the guy I actually WANT to ask, theeeeen someone else.  Speech meet.  It'll work.  Hopefully.  There's got to be SOMEBODY that'd be okay with a blind date, right?
The thing is, (the guy I want to ask)'s prom is the same day as mine.  So if he wants to go to his, then we're kinda screwed, because I REALLY want to go to mine.  My best friends are at mine, and... yeah... I just REALLY want to be there with them... So we'll see.  And I'ma ask him anyway, and if it comes to a "well, mine's the same day and I have a date already" I'ma just say I forgot. haha... oi... Oh well.  I'll find a date. It'll happen.  (At least that's what I tell myself.)

Aaaaaaand... yeah... that's about it.

Until next time,
--Emily
~xoxo

I keep finding the BEST music on my pandora stations lately!  Goodness, I don't know what I'm going to do.  haha.  OH HEY GUESS WHAT!!!!!!

I FOUND MY ZUNE LAST NIGHT!!!! XD
That's exciting, in case you weren't sure.  It's been lost for like, 5 months.  I found it one night and then I lost it again a couple months ago, but I haven't a clue how, and I just found it again.  I'm freakin' pumped.  So yeah. hahaha

Anyway.  I have NO idea what I'm "supposed" to be talking about right now, soooo maybe I'd better check. haha.  ROCKIN'!!  Album art day!

 This is the album that my mom stopped buying me Britney Spears music when I was little... It was really kinda depressing... I was sad. )=  And actually, I was really mad at her, haha.  Damn you, Britney!



The Used's new album is really good, and I think that the album art is interesting, but I don't really like it.  I mean, there's SO MUCH that they could've done for an album called "Artwork" but they went... with that... I mean, it's okay.... But... I personally think they could've done better.



By the way, I'm totally clueless right now, so I just googled "Album art" and am picking from whatever it decides to give me.  How original, right? hahahaha  It still works though!

This totally gave me the WRONG idea about this album.  I was just a tad hesitant.  I don't know, it just looks...... I don't even know... Star Warsy.  It does!  Not that that means anything.  This is where the Don't-judge-a-CD-by-its-cover business comes in.  So yeah...

Kay, that's all I've got.  I'm done.

Until next time, with love,

--Emily

~xoxo

Post Playlist (http://www.pandora.com/):
Drops of Jupiter--Train: Drops of Jupiter
It's All Been Done--Barenaked Ladies: Stunt
Whoa Oh! (Me Vs. Everyone)--Forever the Sickest Kids: Underdog Alma Matter
Gifts and Curses--Yellowcard: Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack

It's 2010, yo!

Dude.  I've got 3 semesters until I'm done with high school.  How freakin insane is that?  (It's pretty insane, in case you're unsure.)  I'm getting so old!!!  Gah!!  It's okay.  I'm pretty excited for college, really.

Remind me to go post something in my other blog.  It's important.  Thanks, I knew I could count on you.

Sooooooooo... Friday.... Oh, Friday is "do whatever" day isn't it?  Well, since I missed my album cover day, I'ma do that.  At least at first.  Cause I can.  So there.

Vanessa Hudgens--Identified.
Why would she do this to herself?  Like, seriously!  She's so pretty and this album cover makes her look awful!  I mean, she looks washed out and like... on drugs or something...  A bit on the slow side--if you know what I mean.  Her eyes are empty, her mouth is... weird....and her hair's a mess.  It's not pretty.  I do not get it.  I don't get it at all.  Another pretty girl portraying herself terribly.  *le sigh*

I mean, seriously! She's pretty!

Next album iiiiiiiiss...

Ke$ha--Animal
Kay, so just gonna start by saying the album is amazing.  Love it all.
Anyway. Album cover.  Right.
I really like the effect that she gave it, ya know?  Like, I love that it's black and white but her lips are gold and her name and album title are totally glitter-fied.  It's so... fun!  And Ke$ha's all about fun, so I really think this album cover represents her and her music well. It's fun to look at, it's cool, and it's real.  And I think Ke$ha herself is absolutely gorgeous.  She has a really, really nice face.  Not gonna lie, if I were a guy (or a lesbian) I'd totally want her.  I'm not and I think she's hot!  haha.  Go Ke$ha.  Two thumbs up.

Saosin--Saosin
I don't get it.  I totally DO NOT get it.  I know I listened to a... a.... um... ohhhh what's it called?  OH! A webcast!  with you guys about this album and I know you guys talked about it and all, but like, I seriously... What's the point of having an album cover/artwork or whatever that has absolutely nothing to do with anything?  It's a... what'd they say? War beetle or somethign?  Saosin's first album isn't about war, at least not as far as I can tell.  I mean, I really love this band and everything, but their album art just doesn't make sense to me.  Oh well.  Can't always have everything.

Circa Survive--On Letting Go
Once again, starting with saying it's a great album.  Now that that's out of the way--
I really do like this album art.  It's colorful, bright, and it's... mysterious.  Like, it's intriguing to me.  I could sit and stare at it for long periods of time and make personal discoveries about it, or myself, or about life in general just by observations made here and the application of my philosophical tendencies.  I really like it.  It makes sense--in a detached, slightly ambiguous kind of way--and it's pretty!  I don't know... but I like that the girl's head is fire to keep the balloon up.

Weeeeeell I ran out of class period, so I'm going to end this here, okay?  Great, thanks.  Sounds good.  I'm so glad you agree.  (=

Until next time, with love,

--Emily

~xoxo~