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The cover of Battle Magic was updated. I think my heart started beating faster just looking at it.

I also finished my calculus final today. I loved trig and pre-calc and did just fine with them, but calc just isn't my friend. I suck at calc. Ah well, can't have everything, hmm?

GUYSSSSS, LOOK AT THESE BOOKSSSSS

OK, guess what?! Battle Magic (Tamora Pierce) has a (semi) set release date!!! It's before graduation, too. So excited. SO SO SOOOO EXCITEDDDD!!!! The cover looks awesomeeeee!

Amazon Battle Magic

Fief Goldenlake Battle Magic Forum

I encourage all of you Tammy fans to get a Goldenlake account. That site.... theeee best. Discussions, news, fanfic, contests... all in one site. (:

Secondly. Jo Rowling's adult book is out. A Casual Vacancy. I don't know what it's about, and it's after midnight, so you can look it up yourselves. I plan to read it. Let me know if you do, and what you think.

Thirdly. Watch Paul. The Simon Pegg and Sigourney Weaver one with the alien. It's funny. I love Sigourney Weaver. And Simon Pegg- just watch all of his movies. (Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run)

Yay!

CHS Tennis

I started this blog over two years ago and one of the first things I wrote about was tennis. Today I finished my high school tennis career. It was an incredible 7 seasons. (One spring and one fall, seniors can't play spring.) I played JV every year until this fall, when I finally made varsity. I played part of the season with Katie, a sweet junior with beautiful groundstrokes. We were undefeated and beat KW and NC on what I see as the best day of our season together. Then I was partners with Cierra, a hard-core senior with a signature slam. We had a tough start, but pulled together in time to take second at North Regionals, defeating Sheridan and NC, and losing to Gillette. The last two days we had a good time. We had an absolutely incredible match with Cheyenne Central last night, winning 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-4. It was so hard and so beautiful. We were on fire. We were racehorses at the baseline and lionesses at the net. It is such a sweet feeling to have a well-earned victory. We fell today to Laramie and Rock Springs. I won't lie, Laramie smoked us and Rock Springs was better, but we did well. I am SO proud of my team. Jenna, Taylor, Jenny and Sam, Skye and TT, Cierra and myself, Katie and Meg, Shad, Dan, Jordan and Trey, Ethan and Jess, Eric and Tanner, TJ and Angelo, Dawg and Brandt. We had an incredible season and it was the best. Play like a champion forever.

Karma

I seem to be taking a religious streak in my posts, but I don't think that's bad... I don't mean to say I'm promoting my views, though. I think everyone eventually finds their niche, and that's cool. I try to be accepting of others. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but that's okay. As long as you try, that's what matters.

Do you think there's karma? Or is it just in our heads?

Thoughts on life

I think we all need to believe in a higher being. I don't care if you think it's God, Zeus and Hera, or  Buddha, but I think we all need some kind of explanation for what happens in life. Sometimes, it's like karma is just slapping you left and right, and others it's as though you've just had a vial of felix felicis. There must be a motive, right?

It's just been a long day, and I just wonder sometimes. I don't know. Maybe it's all based off how bitchy people feel at a particular time and place, or maybe we're all just pawns in some great chess game. I don't know. I wish I did. I'd love to know why, why, why. But then, I suppose we all do. And I suppose, if we knew the system, we'd hack it and fix it.

Does it sound communist to say that I wish we were all equal? The same stuff, the same access. Everything we fight over is over someone's crap. Land, diamonds, water, nuclear warheads, shit like that. We don't need all this shit. We just need a little house, a garden, some water, and friends. Give me that and I'll show you how to live.

God help us. Bless us, keep us, and help us. 

hahaha

I love it when teachers say funny stuff. There's one I know pretty well, and we were talking and she just yells "dammit" and I laughed and she says "darn it" and it's totally normal. I like being friends.

ps. TENNIS STARTS THIS WEEK!! Frick yeah!

A Year in Review

I was looking at my "most popular" posts, and "BSG" popped up. I read it, and it's from February of last year when I started watching Battlestar. Oh my goodness. To quote myself: "Laura Roslin is really upset because she's just been diagnosed with cancer. Then, all of a sudden,  these bad guy/robots called Cylons come blasting out of nowhere and pretty much blow up Caprica." And then, later on: "Sharon (aka Boomer) and this other guy and they rescue about 50 people from Caprica, including the super-genius scientist, Gaius Baltar. Sadly, to rescue Gaius the "other guy" is left behind on Caprica." 

HAHAHAHA

I've come so far since then! Hahaha, little did I know I'd finish the whole show in a couple months, and then continue to obsess over it, haha I even have a tag for it now.... I love everything sometimes...

Crossovers....

Battlestar Greylactica. Or Battlestar's Anatomy. Haha, that one sucked. Um... Grey's Battlestar. Grey's Galactica. Hahaaa, no. 

Let's just say Battlestar Greylactica.

I watch Battlestar Galactica, and I cried when it was over. The end was sooo sad. So I looked up Mary Mcdonnell and found she's in a few episodes of Grey's Anatomy. However, she's in Season 5. Being brilliant like I am, I said "Let's start at episode one. It can't take too long to catch up." Lies. That was nearly a year ago. I watched season one, two, and maybe part of three? I don't remember. It's a soap opera; it's all the same. Anyways, last night, I skipped to season 5 and the three episodes Mary is in.

AHHMAZING!!

Ok, maybe not that great, but I quite enjoyed it. She plays Virginia Dixon, who's a great heart surgeon. However, she has Asperger's Syndrome. If you don't know what it is, go look it up, I'm not an expert. But what it eventually equated to was raising the acting bar. She did a great job. I think if you feel so embarrassed for a character that you have to bury your face in a pillow, they did well.

To the point: I think it would be rather interesting to write a Grey's/Battlestar crossover, in which Grey's is happening roughly 150,000 years after Battlestar. If you've seen it, you'll remember the whole "it has happened before, it shall happen again" prophecy and Gaius' hallucinated Six saying maybe the circle was ending.

It could be set in Grey's with Dixon as the "dying leader"/Laura Roslin, and Adama would have to be an OC, I suppose. How interesting could this get? You could do a whole novel....

What's your opinion on fanfiction? Stops creativity by already having a set universe and characters, or encourages creativity by letting authors focus solely on the plot and character development, rather than who and where?

If I ever get around to writing this, it'll be here.

It's been about a year now.

It's been about a year since I started watching Battlestar Galactica. It's probably about my favorite show of all time. I don't know how much that means, seeing as the only other thing I really watch is Masterpiece on PBS, haha.

But it's great. The acting, the people, the plot, the effects. Mary McDonnell, playing Laura Roslin is my favorite. She's wonderful, and Roslin's arc through the series is breathtaking. She changes so much.

Is it bad that I still cry when I see her and Adama kiss, or when I watch the Daybreak episodes?

A screen-cap from a SyFy interview.

Watch it if you ever can, it's on Netflix. Listen to the soundtrack, especially the fourth. Bear McCreary does a great job. The drums are absolutely LEGIT. My favorite song is "An Easterly View." Listen.

It was funny; the power in our school was out for two hours today, and the first thing out of my mouth is "OHMYGOSHTHISISLIKEACYLONINVASION!!" Followed by "HASANYONESEENBATTLESTARGALACTICA?!IT'STHEBESTTHINGEVER!!!!NO,IT'SNOTTHENERDYSTUFFIUSUALLYTALKABOUT,IT'SLEGIT!!!"

I'm a bit of a wacko sometimes. We played cards and screamed and told anti-jokes the entire time.

Any good Battlestar anti-jokes?

What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Cylons blowing up Caprica.

Why couldn't Laura Roslin shoot a Cylon? Because she was dying.

Haha, these are awful. Help me. :)

New Blogger layout....

I'm not sure what I think about it.... It's very different, rather like Google Docs....

I've come to realize I've really fallen off the ship here about posting. It's sad... I like it.... I just have been tumblring recently. I'm going to start it up again her, everything and anything...

Next up.... The Hunger Games! There's a costume party in March and I'm currently beginning a Katniss costume. Does this sound familiar, haha? Costuming in Wyoming it rather hard.

Here's my current supply list. Tell me if you've got ideas.
-Red glitter glue
-Red glitter fabric paint
-Gold glitter fabric paint
-Orange sheet
-Sparkly red fabric
-Yellow tulle
-Fake tigerlilies
-Yellow spag. strap top
-Red sequin sting elastic stuff

Here's a couple links too.
Claribel Hawkins
LaVictoireDansLaBrume

Dreams?

Quite a while back, I had a dream about mice, carrots, laundry, rats, and the color red. Don't ask, haha. I went online to a dream translator, and here's what I came up with.

Mice-To see mice in your dream indicates that you are spending too much time dwelling on minor problems and insignificant matters.


Carrots-To see a carrot in your dream signifies abundance and fertility. It may also symbolize a lure as in the pun "dangle a carrot".


Laundry-To dream that you are doing your laundry suggests that you are cleaning up your act or changing your image. Perhaps, you are too concerned about how you appear to others.
      Except I wasn't actually doing laundry... I just had a laundry basket...

Rats-To see a rat in your dream signifies feelings of doubts, greed, guilt, unworthiness and envy. You are keeping something to yourself that is eating you up inside. Or you have done something that you are not proud of. Alternatively, a rat denotes repulsion, decay, dirtiness, and even death. The dream may also be a pun on someone who is a rat. Are you feeling betrayed?

Red-Red is an indication of raw energy, force, vigor, intense passion, aggression, power, courage, impulsiveness and passion

They didn't appear to know what the appearance of Elizabeth I meant.