Do you know what he's saying?

I really don't understand people sometimes. What possesses someone to plant bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon? Whoever it was would know that it would be packed with people. And it would be a happy place because everyone was finishing. Why do people want to purposely hurt others? It seems like the most selfish thing in the world. It's a cry for attention. Why would you do that? It doesn't seem like a prison sentence would be enough. I don't mean a death sentence either. From my perspective death would be easier. Why not go sit in a room full of the people you hurt? Could you look a single one of them in the face?

I hope they catch whoever it was soon. I suppose everyone wants that, but I'll join the masses. Whoever the bomber(s) is(are): you are beyond words. It wouldn't be enough to say you're frakked up or that you're a total ass, but we can start there. Screw you.

I know there's not much I can do for anyone, but prayers and hope can go a long way, I think.

Seventeen

Tomorrow I'll be eighteen, legally an adult. I don't feel like a grown up, haha. Still in school, still taking tests, ect.... I'm just going to make a list of what's been up, in case I ever look back through here later.

1. I'm reading The Girl Who Played With Fire. I'm really liking the Steig Larsson trilogy. 
2. Dad and I are watching a TON of Swedish mysteries. It's ridiculous, but I swear Swedish sound like French.
3. Tennis was good this year. Cierra and I took second at Regionals and fifth at state. Listen to Steve Aoki's "Livin' My Love."
4. Garbing and assistant directing for "Carousel." It's gonna be awesome.
5. Turned out some decent art. Nothing totally wowing, but some stuff I like all right. I'm trying some pieces based off Tamora Pierce covers.
6. Taking AP Psychology was a bad idea haha. At least right now. I am SO behind. Right now it's at a 45% and I need to get it up to have any hope of being salutatorian. I'll work on it. Hard core. Being salutatorian would be legit.
7. It's been pretty good this year.
8. Battlestar Galactica. Still lovin' it. Freaking gahhhh. Also, Rizzoli & Isles is pretty funny. Maura's not Maura, but she's cool. Major Crimes season two is out next summer! YES! haha. 
9. I'm hoping to try fencing at college. Or rowing. I'd still like to play bagpipe.
10. I'd like to got to Virginia Tech for college, but I pretty much have a full ride to UW, so I'll see how the scholarships turn out. Remember to reply by May 1st. 
11. Running. I'd like to take that up this summer. Go for a run or some parcour in Beck Lake. Ride the whole way down Prickly Pear Alley. 
12. Love the dogs and the cats.
13. Brave and Promethius were good. Promethius was my first R-rated movie with Jeff.
14. Jeff and Amanda and I need to hang.
15. The regular gang needs to hang.
16. Hey, there's almost eighteen things here now.
17. Try being vegan for a bit. 
18. Be the shizzle.

I've only got a second...

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.

I am a feminist. So is Jo.

Has anyone heard JK Rowling’s “Women of Harry Potter” speech yet? It’s amazing. I never realized women were so powerful in her stories. I mean, I knew they were there, and I knew they were just incredible people, but never really thought “Crumbs, they’re such a driving force.” They are.

Hermione, take Hermione, she’s this girl, and that’s quite important, and she’s not stunning, she’s not everyone’s friend, she’s this huge know-everything bookworm. And she’s a heroine.

Ginny. Ginny’s this little girl, and I think that’s how we see her most of the time, and she grows up kind of behind Harry and the crew, and she has a lot of drama, but she ends up being this great person. I’m just like “Wow, where’d she come from?”

Luna is incredible, not for those reasons, but because she is herself. Not what someone else wants her to be. Luna (in the words of Jo) “Doesn’t give a damn.” She believes in herself. I think that is part of the reason why Evanna was so wonderful for Luna. Luna’s here, not giving a damn about how others see her, and Evanna had troubles with self-image. That’s not to smash on her. Who hasn’t looked themself in the mirror and thought something awful? I have. You have. But we can learn.

Even Molly. Molly Weasley is this sweet, nice lady who wants to be the mother of everyone. Wants everyone to have a wonderful family life. But even through that, she’s got some mettel. She is family and love.

Speaking of love, there’s Lily and Narcissa. Lily, we don’t see her much, but she starts this whole story. She loves Harry so much. She saves him and is a force through everything. She’s there for him in the end. Narcissa is much like Lily. A shadow of her, maybe. Narcissa is willing to sacrifice everything on the off-chance Draco is still alive in the castle. She loves him so much that she leaves Voldemort. And runs away. Sometimes you have to know when to run away.

There’s McGonagall. She’s my favorite. I love her. She’s strong, right from the get-go. She sticks to her beliefs, rather like Luna. But unlike Luna, she isn’t holding to the self-image ones. She’s holding to the morals. The rights and wrongs of her life. I don’t think she’s immune to words, like Luna is. I’ve read the Pottermore stuff, but even before that, she’s just had this feeling that was like she cared, and she knows it. She loves people, but she’s hiding it, she’s hiding her great admiration/respect/love for people under her “obey the rules or die” shell. She’s this great rock. She’s always there, after Lily’s gone, Lupin, Sirius, Dumbledore, Snape. She’s ready to go and stand for her right. Not in the “Might is Right” sort of sense, but “Right is Right,” if you understand.

The Potter women are a huge force, and I never really knew. This really raised my respect for Jo, higher than ever before. It brings her on par with Tamora Pierce. In case you don’t know, Tamora Pierce is… well she created the shero, from my view. Her women are strong, kick-arse, and ready for everything. They are a bit more than real maybe, but it’s okay. Now I have real and not real. (Haha, Hunger Games reference!)

Mastiff

I'm sorry for not posting, but time seems to be so short at hand now. There's spoiler code in this post, so just highlight the blacked-out bits with your mouse to read them.

At any rate, I just finished Tamora Pierce's Mastiff Beka Cooper #3. I nearly cried at the end. I can't believe it's over.

So Beka and Tunstall end up going on this huge Hunt to save Prince Gareth, the King's four-year-old son, who's been kidnapped. She and Tunstall join forces with Lady Sabine and a mage named Farmer Cape. They travel all across Tortall, fighting for every step. But then, oh it's terrible! TUNSTALL TAKES A BRIBE!! Seriously. I was like "Tunstall, you sarden looby, what in Mithros' name are you doing?! You're being a total coney! A crooked Dog! A gods' fool, cracknob, scutty, mumpin', new Tom! You need to get your fambles back where they belong afore you get bit! I thought it wasn't for real, that they were smarter than that. And then the sarden looby betrays them all to Prince Baird's men! The end, oh, the end was so tragic! Beka figures the whole thing out and- I'm going to cry- Tunstall attacks her. He says he doesn't want to, but if need be he'll push her over the cliff. Beka asks why he did it, and Tunstall says he did it because they promised him a barony and the Lord Provost's spot. He thought that way he could marry Sabine without her having to be disgraced for marrying a commoner. OH MITHROS! This is beyond Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Aragorn and Arwen, Snape and Lily. *Cries.* Oh, Tunstall, why did you do it? You know she still loved you! You betrayed her! And then, at the end, Beka talks to Goodwin. All that's mentioned of Goodwin is she had a "chill voice." How she must have suffered.

Don't let that get in your way of reading it. This is one of the best books I've ever read. I LOVE IT!!!!

*Cries some more.*

But I still love it. I still love him.

Tumblr

Tumblr is pretty legit, as I've found out. If you want to check mine out, it's http://www.lavictoiredanslabrume.tumblr.com. I'll talk to you later.

PS- Nanowrimo starts soon... ;)

Apparently Snape does normal things.

 

I am Snape, the Kitchen Cleaner

Computers.

I now have my school computer, so- hopefully- I'll post more often.
Just a quick bit, here's what my teachers said about their classes.

Chemistry- "It's going to be glorious. Chemistry is all about linebackers, farts, and burps."

Biology- "Someone needs to say something! Anything! What's your favorite candy? Someone?"

British Literature- "This class is hard. You need to read books. No Markert- Harry Potter does NOT count as British Literature. Yes, the Hobbit is fine."

French- "Hello, I want Techworld. My class can't get online, heeeeelp."

That was about the extent of my day. Haha.

Dreams Not About Flying

So flying was pretty fun. My dad and I held this competition between our two hosts aux aire, Stripes and Nice Sweater. I think stripes was the new guy because he was constantly slightly behind Nice Sweater. ;) Stripes did have a nice smile though....
Last night, when we were at my uncle's house, I had this big long complicated dream. All I remember about it now is that my friend, a runner, had her feet amputated. It was like she had had it done a while ago and I hadn't noticed until she pointed it out. What is a dream like that supposed to mean, eh Professor Trelawney?