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?

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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!

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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!