I REMEMBERED :D

See i remembered to post today! :D And i have nothing to talk about.
Therefore i will talk about all of the problems of getting into a already sold out high school show to see your friends.
1. All of my friends are in this play (Beauty and the Beast) Therefore i had to go find people that i sort of hang out with and ask them to come with me and convince my sole friend that i hang out with out side of school to try and get her parents to let her come.
2. Getting the tickets, they have tickets that you can pre order but the first night is already sold out. If i don't get into this show my friends are going to kill me.
3. This is fun but, planning all of the stuff you are going to do if you can not get tickets. So far we have going threw the stage entrance and sitting on the floor, going back stage and being stage crew and then being useless because we don't know what we are doing therefore they will let us sit there and see the show.
On another note i get to sleep in all of this week because the older kids are taking standardize test so i get to come in late. *happy dance* Another one of my friends got tormented because she didnt have a ride to school late so she sat in a room with bad kids.
Well thats all i can think of for this week other then this question, what trends do you still like even though there outdated.
Sorry im so boring today,
Samantha

Hair Dye and Frustration.

Ok, first of all, where are you all? I miss you!

I had to get up really early today because I wanted to get my hair dyed again (all my roots were coming in brown and it looked awful) and the only appointment I could get was at nine, and it took forty minutes to get there. I got a letter the other day telling me, somewhat out of the blue, that my usual stylist had moved to the Canary Islands or something. I was kind of disappointed, because usually I just show up and kind of let him do whatever he wants with my hair. But today I actually had to tell the woman what I wanted. I asked for my hair a slightly darker red this time, and she wanted to put a little bit of violet through it, and that sounded good to me so I just went with it. I was a little nervous because my school has all these rules about the colours you can dye your hair (you can't have it an "unnatural" colour, so no green or blue or whatever) and to be honest I don't think they're going to be very pleased with it.

But I really like it. So they're just going to have to deal.

Here's a picture:

You can't tell very well but it's really, really red. I'm kind of in love with it.

And yes, that is a Pizza John shirt.

I really should be studying for Latin right now, but I don't want to. I discovered three years ago that I'm much better at ancient languages than modern ones. I was so happy to drop French last year and now Latin is the only language I study at school. It's just a nice language. It sounds really good read aloud. 

I'm not overly opinionated on many things, but when I believe in something really strongly, I get angry very quickly whenever someone doesn't agree with me. I don't mean what you believe in a religious sense, that's a  personal thing, and what does it really matter anyway? No, I mean other things, points of morality. We were having a discussion in English class the other day about the death penalty, and I was extremely surprised to find out that the majority of the people in that class were in favour of bringing it back.Even though I knew that it wasn't going to happen, that the opinion of that one, very small English class wasn't going to bring about any change, I still kind of wanted to cry. Throw up my hands. Ask them if they could hear themselves, if they knew what kind of idiocy was coming out of their mouths. Usually, during these kind of debates, I enjoy myself, and make well-reasoned points, and don't get frustrated. That, uh, wasn't the case that day. I think I may have offended some people. 

Um. If any of you don't agree with me, it's okay. I don't let peoples' beliefs colour my opinion of them. Just don't engage me in a debate. It wouldn't be pretty. 

Another example of this: my friend and I have very differing opinions on the whole Kony 2012 issue. I won't tell you where we each stand, as I know views on this are divided. I understand and respect that he has made his own, informed decision, and I agree that he is entitled to his opinion, but...I don't know, I hate talking about it with him because I can feel myself getting angry. I'm pretty good at not losing my temper in this kind of situation. I hardly lose my temper at all (except that one time when I, uh, kicked my ex-boyfriend , um, that's a story for another day) but I do get quietly frustrated. It's something I'm trying to work on. 

On a more cheerful note, I started watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and it is, indisputably, the best thing ever. 

I hope you're all doing fine, best wishes,

Julia x 

Volunteering and thoughts

Hey guys,

Well, me week in a nutshell. College, college, boyfriend, college, volunteering and worrying about my results tomorrow.

Most of that’s boring or private but I’ll talk a bit about the volunteering.

One Saturday I helped collect for Marie Curie Cancer Care by standing in my local town centre with daffodils. I expected more people to avoid my eye contact and walk quicker but most looked at me, smiled and either donated or went about their day.

It got me thinking about why. Is it because we are all a little more desensitised to charity now-a-days? We are used to people standing there with poppies and other flowers and we know by a certain age if we are the kind of person who gives or not. Or is it just that the nature of the person determines it.

I was quite disappointed to find that people of the ages of about 18-30 didn’t seem to give much at all. But children loved it, or at least the bright yellow flowers they got.

This wasn’t all prompted by my finishing of TFIOS this week (I’d planned it in advance) but after reading it, I felt much better then I imagined helping. I haven’t really been personally affected by cancer you see. I know friends who have, their familes, but not me. I guess Hazel-grace’s story, however fictional, gave me the personal connection to it without the pain I would assume it would create.

On Sunday I helped out with a local ‘music and arts’ festival. Its a competition for classical musicans, speakers and drama enthusiasts. I really only helped man the doors and show people where to go, but I enjoyed spending the time talking to the women there and I knew a few from my childhood when I did it. I’m doing it again this weekend which should be fun.

But yeah, I’ve met a lot of people recently and experienced a lot of highs and lows with TFIOS and when I was walking home today, I realised something.

The smile of a stranger can make your day. Or it can just remind you that you weren’t smiling.

Hope you are all ok :D

Alix

It still counts!

Gah! I totally forgot it was Saturday! Well. It's five past midnight so I guess it's technically Sunday now. But it's still Saturday in EST right? So it still counts! Maybe! I guess!

Whenever I'm awake this late I always get really hungry. I don't know why. I seem to become nocturnal at weekends. I stayed up a bit late to finish my extended history essay, because I won't have time to do it tomorrow, and now I just really can't sleep. So there's that.

I was in town today, just to get the next volume of The Walking Dead and buy Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star because it's only £1 at Waterstone's because of World Book Day. So I went into Waterstone's and went upstairs, and what am I confronted with? It's only a table full of John Green books, with a sign reading "Nerdfighters of Glasgow! DFTBA". I was, understandably, very pleased. When I went to pay for my books I told the girl behind the counter that their sign made me incredibly happy. I'm not sure if she really knew what it meant or what a nerdfighter was, but I had to vocalise my joy somehow. I also made sure to leave a nerdfighter note in a copy of TFIOS before I left, just in case anyone was confused.

I have to choose what subjects I'm taking next year soon. Hopefully I'll get all the grades I need this year, so that next year I can just relax. I have to narrow down my five current subjects to three next year, or take three new ones. Either way, I have to pick three subjects. I'm thinking of doing advanced English and maybe taking music, though I haven't taken it since I dropped it three years ago. I'm thinking they might let me take it next year since I already play guitar pretty well.

I'm reading the outline for the Computer Science course at Dundee University. I'm immediately put off because I already know the answer to every one of the questions in their ever wondered...? section. So that feels like it'd be a boring course to take. Though Dundee does offer a postgraduate in comic book studies, which endears them to me very much.

I've been trying to write this story for a long time, and I've been thinking recently this would work really well as a graphic novel. But I've kind of brushed off that thought because I can draw just about as well as I can read minds, or fly. But then someone asked me the other day if I was doing Script Frenzy. I'm not, because I need to study pretty much all April, but I was looking at their writer's resources, and they had comic book scripting information, and I realised that I'd forgotten: graphic novels need scripts. The people who write graphic novels don't necessarily draw them. And even though I've never scripted...well, anything before, I figured, I'm just going to try this. So that's a thing that I'm doing, and it's a really fun and interesting.

In two weeks I have a youtube gathering, and my music theory exam. And they're on the same day. So that's a bit annoying. I really just want to get the exam out of the way because I am really, really bad at music theory. Incomprehensibly bad. I just don't understand. I can read sheet music in terms of playing guitar  - like, I'll look at the notes and know what frets to put my fingers on - but I really don't know anything else.

Ok, I really must sleep now. It's half past midnight.
Best wishes!
-Julia x

Geez, I'm tired.

So it's practically nine o'clock over here and I am SO TIRED. This has been yet another busy week. I finally performed Can-Can, and I didn't mess up. So that went pretty darn well, even though we had rehearsed for three hours before that, and two hours the day before. I still have to memorize majority of the bones in the body, as well as the muscles. I also have to memorize a script for a dialogue my friend and I are performing Monday (or Tuesday, if the teacher lets us). It's about seven minutes long, but there's a lot of yelling involved. I need to edit a paper on hysterectomies for Anatomy, and my head is ready to explode! You'd think that I would've caught a break by now, but NOOOO. Emily doesn't get to have breaks anymore!

On the brighter side, I made a 28 (out of 36) on my ACT, which can like, give you good scholarship money for college/university/whateverthehellyoucallit. So that's good.

As for music and bands? Oh dear, that's rather difficult to think of. I am a big fan of classical music, especially Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. I adore Lindsey Stirling, who's a modern-y violinist who dances AND plays at the same time. As for groups that won't get me made fun of, I listen to Celtic Woman, Bjork, The Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cascada, Paramore, and many more. Now that I think about it, I'll still get made fun of for those, but who cares? I enjoy Korean pop as well.

And it has been decided: I'm going to Panama City Beach, the place where ALL the crazy college kids go for spring break. I'm a little nervous about that, but I think I'll manage. I forgot to mention, that I'm a very paranoid person when it comes to men. Earlier on the bus talking to my bus driver, I thought I had it all planned out. If a guy would try and hit on me, I would say I'm a lesbian and that the friend I'm going with was my girlfriend. But then Steve (the bus driver/my friend) made a good point that the college boys would totally dig that, so my lovely plan was ruined. Besides, my friend was all uncomfortable about being my pretend girlfriend. How sad is that? I got pretend-rejected! By my best friend! So, my next plan is to just be extra weird in hopes of scaring the creeps away.

You see, ever since I can remember guys have always made me incredibly uncomfortable. I hated being hit on, and I was disgusted whenever someone would cat-call me. Now not all guys freak me out, but a lot of them do. I've never liked flirting with them, and I still don't. I hope you guys at least somewhat understand my frustrations, because sometimes, even I don't. So, if anyone has good Spring Break advice, let me know, otherwise I'll be an awkward turtle.

Well, I'm going to bed now. Good night.

Lots of Love
~Emily

Wow, I listen to a lot of bands

Hey guys, how are you all?

My life has pretty much become me waiting for my exam results next Thursday :S and I really don’t want them back.

But anyway, Julia asked about our music tastes and I don’t have a lot else to talk about so I might join in.

Between the ages between 10 and 14 my music taste was basically McFly. A little Busted and V. But mostly McFly but I loved it.

Recently, my music taste changed a lot. I now listen to a lot wider range. From Twin Atlantic (who you should check out Julia, awesome Scottish band I don’t think you mentioned) to Bullet for my Valentine.

I like bands like the Ready Set, who I would describe as more ‘Dancy’ then most of my music and I really really like NeverShoutNever. Chris Drew (their lead singer) really inspires me with his lyrics. Youmeatsix, Kids in Glass Houses and Paramore are also awesome.

I also had an obsession with a band called Secondhand Serenade for a long time. It got to the point where I almost expected men to be just like him. Dissapointed me a little when I found out that most aren’t.

80s bands and Motown also play heavily in my music collection, mostly from my mother. Tears for Fears is awesome as well as people like Blondie.

I like a range of female singers too, Christina Perri, Kelly Clarkson and others.

But the vast majority of my music now is youtube and unsigned bands. Alex Day’s album Parrot Stories got me through one of my break-ups and without it I wouldn’t have been as strong after. Mike Lombardo has a good few songs on my phone’s MP3 player.

In a later blog post I may post some links to some of the best unsigned ones I know but I love discovering new artist and youtube and other social media is the best way for me to do this.

Anyway, hope everyone’s really good and talk soon.

Alix

I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON!

I always forget to post intill the last moment, this time a rent reference saved me. (sorry about grammer and spelling i dont have time to spell check!!!!!!)
So my life as been good in the last few weeks. I've been having some friend issues (its really girly issues over a guy soooo) But i was wondering if we should all try and meet up again for a chat in the chatroom thing i set up? cause we need a topic cause i have nothing to realy talk about. But here gose nothing. Today is say i love you day according to a few of my friends so share the love whenever you read this.
Im going to talk about mussicals today, my friends are having there lives consummed by one and mine is beeing consummed by another 2. There all doing bueaty and the beast and it sounds epic because ik the guy thats gaston so that should be fun to wacth. But there lives consist of this musical. They are there all the time so i never get to see them. That show is in two weeks.
My life has been taken over by RENT and Wicked. Also Idina Menzel. But im not in them but god i wish i could be! I've been listening to them non-stop for the past few weeks and i'm currently typing the whole Tango Maureen with this one person on your pants. (still funny!)  If you dont know what i am talking about they have For good, defying gravity (wicked) and Seasons of Love is from rent. I must ask dose anyone love these musicals my town hates them and its a terrible terrible thing!
Alrite, off my small musical rampage. I realy have nothing else to say considering i forgot my own name there for a little bit. But i would love to actually talk to you people so send me a message in your pants or something!  ive also missed talking to you guys. :(
I wont forget next week i promise! -Samantha
PS- who ever is going to the beach (as i said, in one ear out the other) Have fun and if you live on the east coast TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!!!! :D