I haven't been on the computer in a really long time! I feel guilty about not having checked my email in a long time, so I don't want to think about it, and I don't check it.

The main reason is I'm occupied playing my DS game Etrian Odyssey. I couldn't play it most of the summer, but now I'm close to being done. It's really fun~.

Stardust! Rose and I went to that movie the other night. It was really great! It felt a lot like The Princess Bride, if only The Princess Bride had a chorus of dead princes and a crossdressing pirate. Seriously, Stardust was super awesome. Go see it.

Okay, so... London was super awesome. It was totally fun and we also went to both the Lord of the Rings show and Spamalot. Amazingly awesome.

It's weird to be back in school. But also normal. My schedule:

AP Spanish - Cade
AP Calc BC - Albert
AP Physics B - Perkins
AP English Lit - Woods
lunch
German 1 - Tilson
AP US History - Senter

It's a pretty good schedule. Spanish seems fun, and I'm really excited about German. (Although it's frustrating how incredibly slow things go at the beginning. I don't need to know how to count or how to tell time, teach me grammar structures!) Nothing seems really hard - except Senter, whose complex plots to get out of actually lecturing us like a normal teacher are not all that fun. I also wish I didn't have physics right after math, since physics seems pretty mathy. Furthermore, I don't like having lunch fifth period because I get hungry...

But the biggest problem with my schedule is I don't have any class with my close friends, except once or twice. I barely ever see my friends, and it sucks.

I'll be okay, though. I don't know why, but compared to TIP, I'm a bajillion times less worried about bothering people with my delusions of friendship. That's probably a bad thing, but I'm not as stressed out about social stuff, which is nice.

I'm serious, look at the cover.

( TiP angst much? )

Harry Potter. I don't really have anything new to say, so there aren't any spoilers. I was sad about some things and the ending was confusing and kind of lame. Yeah. Also, I saw the Order of the Phoenix movie. It just kind of sucked in general. Nothing was right, it all seemed really rushed, and if I didn't know what was supposed to happen, I would have been totally lost. Furthermore Tonks wasn't cute enough and the only Marauder they showed was James. XD

Right now I'm at Pawley's Island, SC, with my family. In a couple days Rose and I are going to London. I really miss my kitties. :(

Currently in New York! We haven't gone into the city or done anything except hang around - which is sort of nice.

I was grumpy on the plane trip here because since Jane, who's eleven, was with me, we somehow counted as unnacompanied minors and they made this huge, stupid fuss. My mom had to take us through security to the gate, the stewardess had to walk us on and off the plane, and then my grandparents had to come through security to sign for us as if we were a package. I guess I'm overreacting, but it just felt sort of patronizing...

Movie update time! We rented Pan's Labyrinth and watched it last night. I never went to see it because it looked too violent and scary, and guess what? It was really violent, really scary, and really, really sad! So although it was interesting and thoroughly engrossing, I don't think it's see it again. Although it was fun to listen to the Spanish - here's a question: Why does the faun address Ofelia with 'vosotros'? A mystery.

( Ramble much? )

Anyway, tommorow morning Jane and I are flying to my grandmother's on Long Island in New York. I'm depressed because my new game doesn't have any sort of quicksave when you're in a dungeon, so it's not any good for playing in the airport or anything. Hah hah...

Last night, we went to go see "Paris, je t'aime." It's a collection of 20 short short films, all set in Paris and about love - although not necessarily romantic love, but also familial love and so forth - all by different people. Obviously, it's in French, with subtitles, but there was also quite a bit of English. Anyway, it was so good! The stories were moving - happy and sweet or terribly sad - and thoughtprovoking, and also funny. It was just arresting overall. So that's my good review, hah hah.

I just got the DS game Etrian Odyssey - an oldschool dungeon-crawler type RPG, but one where you create your own characters, with the choice of four different cute character portraits for each. Not that that was the reason I bought it or anything. Anyway, I read this online before I bought it and maybe I should have payed attention, but it is sooo hard! >.< For me, anyway. To tell the truth, I'd really love to get better at making tactical decisions as far as character growth and skills and such go. Because right now I'm pretty bad, and thus, I keep dying. >.< But, it's lots of fun.

That seems like it! Maybe if I had a more exciting life, I wouldn't talk about movies and video games so much..? No, just kidding, I still would.

So, I'm home. Yay. Hershey was lots of fun. We also stopped at the Virginia Renaissance Faire, and it was cool, but all the vendors were so pushy! Which I really dislike. ( About TiP. )

So, it was imperative that Rose dye her hair blue to carry on some tradition among her TiP friends. We bought blue hair dye and dyed her hair in the hotel - staining the hotel's shower curtain blue in the process, heh heh. It's not as cool as blue, but I also dyed my hair! It's now a reddish brown that's a just a little different than my normal color. Still, it feels like a big change, hah hah.

Tommorow, we're leaving to pick up Rose from school. Mom, Rose, Jane and I are spending the weekend in Hershey, PA, going to the amusement park and chocolate factory and all that. I think it'll be a lot of fun. Sunday, we're dropping Rose off at TiP and coming back home.

My mom and I went to see "Waitress", a romantic comedy with Mal from Firefly in it. However, I wasn't that impressed. It was sort of depressing in the middle - the romance was more awkward than cute - and the end failed to leave me especially happy. I say all this, but it was still a pretty good movie.

That's about it. Still lying around enjoying vacation.

So, I went to a Combined Studies party, and it was pretty awesome.

Unexplainedly, we've been getting cable, from the neighbors or something. It's pretty amazing - I just turn on the TV, and there's something good to watch! (Admittedly, my standards are not very high.) Jane is still at school, so in the morning I have the entire house to myself and sit watching TV or playing Zelda all morning. I'm such a couch potato! Ah.

After all, this is the time I have to relax before my crazy summer plans start. (It's also the time I have to do my summer reading before my crazy summer plans start... But anyway.) Said plans: I'm going to my grandparents' in New York and then home for a few days before I go to TiP. After TiP, I'm going straight to the beach in South Carolina, and then I'm going straight to London! But I'm not going home once. And I'm getting back from London the day before school starts. So, it'll be a little crazy..

I'm sad school's over, but I also feel... so nice not to have to go to school. No more failing at art! No more row presentations in English! And no more Hillis!!!

Ah, summer.

Today I saw PotC. NOOO! I'm very saddened. T____T However, I liked the movie overall. It was exciting and funny. Or so I, the PotC fangirl, thought...

So... starting Friday, I came down with something resembling strep. But rather than go to the doctor, I just took some antibiotics that we had around the house (how unsafe does that sound?) and felt well enough to go to school on Monday.

It seems I'm the kind of person who, even when it hurts her throat to talk, still talks too much and annoys people. While looking out the window listening to music studying in Dr. Luther's room today, I reflected on this school year: I'm happier, but I'm more annoying. But I keep talking too much, because I'm selfish.

While sitting in bed with my throat hurting, I played a lot of Pokemon. Yay. Last night, I watched the season finale of Heroes. It was the best ending ever. If by "best", you mean, "most heartbreaking". Wah.

Anyway, history final.

I'm still playing Pokemon. Yesterday, I went to Spiderman! Yay!

In general, when I think about how much school I have left, I get this paradoxical feeling of both "So little time left? But it hasn't been long at all since the beginning of the year!" and "We've been in school for so long, isn't it time for summer yet?" However, this late in the year, I just think, "Only three weeks left! I can't wait to get out!"... but I also worry about the summer and next year, so I don't want this year to end.

In any case, I think I should do my math homework, but...

Things I love:
Pokemon Diamond
Heroes
Sophie's World

Things I hate:
Essays

Well, we got two new kitties on Saturday. They're adorable.

Today was the Day of Silence... I found myself a lot more tempted to talk this year than last year. In any case, it went well, excepting a few idiots like Josh.

Um... if only I knew sign language, and other people would learn sign language as well, I think I would never ever talk. Or I can just become a hermit who only communicates with the world using the internet.

So, this weekend has been pretty awesome. I've played Zelda, read, obsessively worked on Rubik's Cube stuff, reread Shoebox (yay!), played Zelda, and gone to two stupid movies. Oh yeah, and slept. A lot.

I don't want to go back to school for seven weeks. But I also don't want this school year to end... I hate the passing of time.

On the Greece and Italy trip, I tried both red and white wine, but I liked neither very much. However, we had this really sweet kosher wine for Passover, and it was really good. Why couldn't the wine on the trip tasted like that? Then I could have gotten drunk. Uh... I'm pretty sure I'd be a big idiot drunk. XD

We had our official Seder today, because Jane had a girl scout meeting yesterday. Heh. That's why I didn't do any of my homework. I was busy with religious reasons. Yeah.

We're going to watch a movie in Spanish! If all we did in Spanish class was watch movies in Spanish and read books in Spanish, I would be ecstatic. Forget speaking Spanish. If Celia can't do it, it's not worth doing.

I just, rather spontaneously, got my hair cut. It's quite short.

We saw Amazing Grace. It's really good! Go see it! I command you.

Also, since my email finally stopped working altogether, I got a new one. (Something I had been meaning to do, but could never think of a good username for...) It's northwind15141@gmail.com. It's pretty awkward, but since nobody much emails me anyway...

I'm going to do my homework this weekend. No, seriously.

So, the Greece and Italy trip... ( pretty much awesome. )

Yeah, the Learning Center is pretty sweet. But I miss the waterfall stairs. :(

I'm really excited about the Greece and Italy trip. Uh, all except one part. One part that I wish would fall off its high-and-mighty soapbox and break its idiotic neck. (Just kidding... mostly.)

But at the moment, I just feel sort of antsy and not like cleaning my room, doing my laundry, and packing.

Nothing bad ever happens to me. I sit around all day and I have this wonderful life.

It makes me really nervous. Like I have to start deserving this, or something really bad is going to happen to me.

Oh well. Back to Zelda.