Sunday, April 17, 2011

Life and Its Gifts

Hey guys (or whoever's still actually using their blog),

Yeah, it's me again. After a long time of having not updated, I finally got around to it. Thank Sprite if you want anyone to thank; she wanted me to check out hers and I decided to update my own while I'm at it.

Life's interesting. AP World is still to be the death of my GPA. I mean, I just can't do the whole learn-on-your-own-and-take-a-quiz-over-the-chapter thing. I prefer to have a teacher teach me, you know what I mean? Anyway, if I'm lucky, I might be able to pull off this semester with an A but that's only if my teacher gives another massive curve on the final and I do well in the last quarter.

In other news, I'm beginning to be kind of annoyed with piano. I mean, I don't have time to practice and that fact is revealed every time I compete or perform. I've asked my parents if I can quit (again) and they seem to be considering it, at least for next year. I'm still not sure what I'll do if they actually say yes this time and I think I'll mull it over some more before I make up my mind. Still, this is a pretty life-changing thing for me and I thought I'd throw it out there.

In other news, some nice releases are coming up. For lovers of Rick Riordan's The Red Pyramid, book two will be out sometime in May. Additionally, I believe The Warlock (by Michael Scott) will be release about the same time. The sequel to The Lost Hero is being released next fall, I believe, as is Runelight and Inheritance. All in all, this will be a good year. Over the summer, the last Harry Potter movie is coming out, but I might not be around for that, which is kind of disappointing. I mean, it's coming out on my birthday and I was going to have a big midnight release/birthday party for it but not it seems like it won't happen. :(

Anyway, that's all for now. Live long and prosper and May the Force be with you!
~Tina

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Welcome To A New School Year

Hi guys (though I doubt any of you still read this accursed thing),
Welcome to a new school year! I hope you find it relaxing and fun! Not! Maybe that explains why I haven't posted on here in forever.

Well, I honestly think that should be what the school tells us, especially for AP World. God, I hate that class. I used to think I was taking on way too much last year when I took AP Calc BC. This year, I'm taking AP World and a math class at MSU. I think that qualifies as more work. Completely. At least last year, I actually had time to do stuff.

What's new? Not much. A couple new obsessions (I'm never without those, even with the homework load). I love love love Phantom of the Opera and Star Wars right now. The Phantom and Darth Vader rock. That's all I really have to say about that. I will accept no other answers. Got it?

Well, fanfiction is still major in my life, apparently. I spent way too much of this summer reading said writing so my writing has changed a lot. And I can't stop reading or writing it. It's not entirely helpful when I'm trying to stay up to date with homework and stuff. Then again, neither is typing this but I'm still here, aren't I?

I don't really have much more to say. Sophomore year is a pain-in-the-bum. I mean, the testing is really easy (ACT Plan today was sooo ridiculously easy) but the workload the teachers give are just nightmare-ish. I honestly think they're trying to work us until we collapse. I feel like I will collapse relatively soon. I'm surprised I haven't yet. Maybe my endurance is better than I thought. Or fanfiction is keeping me sane. One or the other.

Anyway, I don't really have much else to say. I'm mainly just writing this for my own benefit now. I mean, how many people still read this crap? I know I haven't looked at any of my friends' in too long and I bet the same is true in the opposite direction.

My last comment, I guess, will be that I really need work in AP World. The truth is that I'm feeling like maybe I should drop the course. I can't keep my grade at an A and that's going to look terrible on my transcript. Yeah, I know, not everything is about the transcript. Blame my parents. Their thought process is getting to me. Plus, I'm sick of getting a B on the tests and quizzes. While I know that it's my fault, I'm not really sure how I can fix that problem and I'm too lazy to do anything else.

Thus is the story of my life. May the Force be with you! Live long and prosper!
~Tina

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Agh! My Parents Are Going To KILL Me!

Hi All,
I realize it's been forever. Between the absolute lack of interesting stuff to talk about and the completely insane homework load at the high school, I've not had the time, or the need, to come onto here and share my thoughts. If anyone's even keeping track of what's being posted here anymore, anyway. I can't say I blame you. I would have long given up on myself. Wait, I have...

Anyway, high school is ridiculous. Especially math right now. I think I was expecting too much out of myself to sign up for Calc BC. This is becoming insane. I mean, I just seriously bombed a math test. It was far beyond Asian fail. How's 19/30? That's a D, for anyone who's actually interested. Very near a 60%. Ick. However, because majority of the class - certain other genius freshmen excluded (you can make your own assumptions here) - didn't do the best either, given that we had an unexpected fire drill and whatnot, Mrs. Carpenter agreed to curve the test, lowering it by 3 points. Now, I'm at a C-. It's better, but not much. This'll definitely bring my final grade down to points where I'm probably not going to finish this quarter with an A. Epic Asian fail. I'm dead.

However, after spending a while surfing the Internet, namely www.fanfiction.net, I feel much better. I may be an utter dork, finding that reading random stories about Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Star Trek, etc. make me feel much more relaxed, but nevertheless, it does and I intend to take full advantage of it. And yes, if anyone was wondering, I have been able to become obsessed with Star Trek, which was evident from my souvenir from New York for choir. Rather than getting anything actually related to said city, I got a Star Trek magnet which is stuck to my locker as I speak - er, type. Speaking of which, the trip was really fun. However, I do wish we got more time to just explore on our own. Most of what we did was all in a large group, like a tour or something. Then again, they probably wouldn't trust 50 high-schoolers to make it safely around New York City.

Well, I have fully seen how random I can be whilst typing away at anything and everything that comes to mind. For instance, I just remembered about Teacher Recommendations and how I still haven't figured out whether I want to do the science research thing or not. Alas, I cannot decide. I suppose I better discuss this more with my parents, once my mom gets home from Utah.

Oddly, writing this has calmed me down from my complete freak-out mood from earlier, which I had been on the brink of ever since I found out my math test grade. Since Mrs. Carpenter weights the tests out of 100 points, it has a large impact on my grade and I'm just concerned about what has happened to it. Now though, I feel quite a bit better, though I'm no doubt going to get chewed out by my parents about it. *sigh*

Thanks for reading! Live long and prosper.
~Tina

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Harry Potter Survey Thing

Hi all,
So I was bored the other day, so I was checking out a fanfiction website and I found a really long and interesting survey which I promptly completed. Because I have no place else to post it and because I was bored, I thought I'd post it here. Cheers!

General
Are you obsessed with Harry Potter?Just a little….
Could You Prove That Statement In Court?Sure, I could.
Do You Know Any Of The Characters Middle Name’s?Many.
What’s Hermione’s?Jean
What’s Ron’s?Bilius
What’s Harry’s?James.
What’s Ginny’s?Molly.
Have You Seen All The Movies?I own them all…
Read All The Books?Yeah. Totally. At least 20 times each.
What Do You Think Of JKR?What an amazing author. I wish she’d continue writing.

Favorites
Weasley?Ginny.
Character, Overall?Lily Evans.
Female Character?Lily Evans!
Male Charcter?Snape!
Group Of Characters?I kind of like the Next Generation
Adult?Dumbledore
Professor?Lupin
Ship?No laughing, but I kind of like Snevans.
Spell?Expecto Patronum.
Sweet?Fizzing Whizbees
Place?Um… totally Hogwarts.
Weasley Twin?I kind of like George better
Product?Shield Hats. So incredible. Though I kind of like wands…
Shop?Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Least Favorites
Weasley?Percy. He was a pain in the beginning.
Character, Overall?Voldemort. Must I explain?
Female?Umbridge, the hag.
Male?Voldemort.
Adult?Voldemort
Student?Draco Malfoy
Spell?Avada Kedavra
Book?Goblet of Fire
Ship?I have issues with most non-canon ships.
Sweet?Cockroach Clusters
Death Eater?Does the Chief Death Eater count?
Shop?Borgin and Burkes.
Place?Chamber of Secrets, or Malfoy Manor
Professor?Umbridge or Lockhart

Couples? What Do You Think?
Ron/Hermione?Eh… Why not?
Harry/Hermione?To quote Emerson from Mugglenet “Delusional.”
Harry/Ginny?Yeah. That works.
Harry/Luna?No. Not really…
Harry/Pansy?Ew, ew, ew.
Ron/Lavander?Hysterical in the book, but not actually going to happen.
Ron/Luna?Kind of interesting to see what happens, but no.
Ron/Pansy?Ew! Gross!
Ron/Fleur?She’s kill me if I said yes.
Hermione/Krum?Ha ha. That was entertaining, but really, I don’t think it’ll continue.
Hermione/Draco?No. Way. Not. Ever.
Hermione/FredORGeorge?Ummm…. No.
James/Lily?Purely so Harry’s around.
Lily/Snape?Yes, but there must be Harry somewhere.
Lily/Sirius?Bleh!
Lily/Lupin?That won’t work.
Tonks/Lupin?Sure, why not.
Draco/Pansy?Umm… It was implied, but… no.
Fred/Angelina?Well, I was thinking that in the beginning, especially with all that in GoF, but since he died…
Bill/Fleur?Well, it works, doesn’t it?
Harry/Cho?Keep on dreaming.

This Or That?
Harry or Ron?Harry.
Hermione or Ginny?Hermione.
Neville or Seamus?Neville.
Snape or Slughorn?Snape. Slughorn is all collects good people with connections.
Fred Or George?George,
Harry/Ginny or Harry/Hermione?Harry/Ginny
Ron/Hermione or Harry/HermioneRon/Hermione
Harry/Hermione or Harry/Luna?I’d say neither.
Ron/Hermione or Ron/Luna?Ron/Hermione
Hermione/Krum or Harry/Hermione?Hermione/Harry
Ron/Lavander or Ron/Hermione?Ron/Hermione
ButterBeer or Fire Whiskey?Butterbeer
Zonko’s or Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes?WWW
Hog’s Head Or The Three Broomsticks?Three Broomsticks. I think it’s cleaner.
James/Lily or Snape/Lily?Snape/Lily. But Harry better be there too.
Hogwarts or Hogsmeade?Hogwarts
Hogsmeade Or Diagon Alley?Diagon Alley has the better stores.
Malfoy Manor or Knockturn Alley?Malfoy Manor is only one house.
Beartie Bott’s or Fizzing Whizbees?
Fizzing Wizbees
Witch Weekly Or The Daily Prophet?Daily Prophet
Rita Skeeter or Barty Crouch?Crouch Sr.
Gyrffindor or Ravenclaw?How about Gryffinclaw?

Random
Have you Been to A Release Party?Deathly Hallows.
Ever cried while reading one of the books?I don’t try while reading books, but if I had to pick one, Deathly Hallows.
A Movie?No. I don’t cry for stories.
Books or Movies?Books, more detail and better.
Had A Dream About Harry Potter?Yes.
Been To A Fansite?Many many times.
Been to JKR’s Site?Yup.
Have You Ever Roleplayed?Yeah.
If So/Do..Who were you/ are you?Rose Weasley.
Did you use to have an absurd theory?Yeah.
What was it?I thought Snape would die in book 6.
Did you/Do you hide your obbsession?No, it’s clear.
Did it/ Does it work?No
Ever dressed up like a Character? For Halloween or Just No Reason at all?No, but I want to.
Ever noticed That You can’t “Spell Hermione without Ron”?Yes, actually.
Did you just try to prove that wrong?Nope...
Notice That If Harry & Hermione Got Married They’d Have EXACT Same Initials?Weirdly enough, yes.
Did you just try to prove that wrong?No.
Have you noticed That Lily Evans And Ginny Weasley are a lot alike?Yeah.
Do you find it weird that Harry & His Dad Fell In Love With Girls So Alike?Not really.
Do you know what fanfiction is?Yes.
Ever Been To A Fanfiction site?Yes.
Do you read fanfiction?Oh yeah.
If so, do you like it?I like canon fanfiction.
Are you a member of a fanfiction site?Yes.
What site?dA and fanfiction.net and mugglenet fanfiction and etc.
Do you write fanfiction?Yes.
Do you like to write fanfiction?If my muse is around.
Ever had Harry Potter Candy?Yeah. For school, but I want more.
Do you own a lot of Harry Potter Stuff?Mainly just books and movies.
Do you have Harry Potter Scene It?No.
Do You Have A Harry Potter Shirt?No
What Character Are You Most Often Compared Too?Hermione… though I like to think of myself as more of a Lily.
Do You Agree With This?See above.
Do You Have Any Nicknames That Have To Do With Harry Potter?Erm… Not really?...
What Are They?I don’t have any.
Do you object to being Called By them?See above.
Are Your friends Supportive of your obsession?Some.
Do you have any inside jokes that relate to Harry Potter?Not really.
What’s One?(You don’t have to explain)See above.
Do you relate a lot of things to Harry Potter?Yeah.
Do you love being obsessed With Harry Potter?It rocks.
Do you wish that you went to Hogwarts?Of course I do.
Have you re-read the books?Probably a hundred times.
Have you had A Harry Potter Themed Party?Nope, unfortunately.
Have You Had An RP Party?No.
Do You Want To?For a generally themed party.
Have you ever read a Harry Potter Musical?No.
Have You Ever Wrote One?No
Do You Want To?No.
Have you ever entered A Contest TO Win Something Harry Potter?No.
If You Wrote A Hogwarts Musical Would You Let People Read itNo.
Are You Going To Write One?No.
IS The Musical Thing Annoying You?A little.
Am I more annoying than Rita Skeeter?Not quite, no.

Harry Potter Survey!!
Which is your favorite Harry Potter book? DH.
Which is your favorite Harry Potter movie? PoA
Who is your favorite HP character(s)? Snape, Lily, Harry, Hermione
What house do you prefer to be in? Gryffinclaw.
But what house would you think you'll be in? Ravenclaw.
Which ghost within Hogwarts is your favorite? The Grey Lady.
What subject in Hogwarts do you like the best? Potions and Charms
Who is your favorite teacher in Hogwarts? Remus Lupin.
Which position would you want to be in for Quidditch? Chaser or Seeker.
Which position in Quidditch do you think fits you the most? Chaser or Seeker.
Who do you want to make friends with? Snape (because he doesn’t have many), Lily (because she tocks), Harry.
If you were in Hogwarts, who would be your best buddy? Lily and Snape
Why would he/she be your best buddy? Lily because she’s a very kind person. Snape because he doesn’t have many friends and I wouldn’t’ laugh with the Marauders.
Which character in the book can you relate to? Hermione, I suppose, with her book thing.
What pet would you get? An owl of some kind.
If's (if questions):
If you happened to discover the Mirror of Erised, what would you see in it? I don’t know. Probably Harry Potter being real or something…
If your friend was pulled into the Whomping Willow by a black dog, would you jump in and rescue him/her? Yes.
If Sirius Black turned up on your doorstep, what would be your reaction? Why are you here, exactly?
What would be his reaction to your reaction? Him shrugging and telling me.
If you found out you could speak Parseltongue, who would you tell (characters in the HP book)? My friends. Someone who could explain what that meant, like Dumbledore too.
If you landed yourself in the same situation as Harry was in with Umbridge's detention, would you tell anyone about the marks on your hand? Maybe. It depends on the situation.
More questions:
Who do you want to go to the Yule Ball with? Nobody.
Post a character that has the same hair color as you do. Cho or Snape or James or Harry or Sirius etc.
Post a character that has the same eye color as you. Why am I stuck with Cho or Snape?
What color comes into your mind when Sirius Black is mentioned? Black.
What color comes into your mind when Tonks is mentioned? Pink
What color comes into your mind when Ron is mentioned? Red.
What color comes into your mind when Hermione is mentioned? Blue.
What color comes into your mind when Harry is mentioned? Gold.
What color comes into your mind when Draco is mentioned? Greyish.
Is this quiz getting boring and too long? It's about Harry Potter so no.
If you got hold of a bottle of Felix Felicis, what would you drink it for? (Note: it makes you lucky in everything and everything you do won't go wrong.) I don’t know. It depends.
Do you like the books more or the movies? Books. No brainer.
Who's your favorite out of the Marauders? Lupin
What would your Patronus take shape in? I don’t know, a doe or an eagle.
What would be your Animagus form? I think they’re the same.
What subject do you want to be the best in? Potions and Charms

This or that:
Sirius Black or Remus Lupin? Lupin
Severus Snape or Sirius Black? Snape.
Hermione or Cho? Hermione
James Potter or Snape? Snape
Hagrid or Snape? I don’t know
The Marauders or The Golden Trio? Golden Trio,
Ability to become Invisible or become an Animagus? Invisible
Harry or Ron? Harry
Fleur or Tonks? Tonks.
Hermione or Ginny? Ginny
Cedric Diggory or Viktor Krum? Cedric
Luna Lovegood or Cho Chang? Luna
Dumbledore or Peeves the Poltergeist? Dumbledore!
Aragog (Hagrid's dead spider) or Grawp (Hagrid's giant brother)? Aragog, he’s dead.
Zonko's Joke Shop or Honeydukes? Honeydukes
Bertie Botts' Every Flavour Beans or Chocolate Frogs? Chocolate Frogs.
Death Eaters or Aurors? Aurors.
Dumbledore or Voldemort? Dumbledore.
Bellatrix Lestrange or Narcissa Malfoy? Malfoy
Would you rather go through the first task or the third task in the Triwizard Tournament? Third Task.
Is this survey fun or boring? Fun.
Your FanFiction preferences:
Favourite femslash/het/slash pairings? Why? None.
Least favourite femslash/het/slash pairing? Why? None.
Favourite kind of FF? Canon. In general.
Least favourite kind of FF? Slash.
Things you hate seeing in a FF? OOC and non-canon

I'm impressed it you actually read through that!

Bye now!

~Tina

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Summer, Whoopee!

Hey guys. Once again, time seems to fly by and suddenly, you realize that it's been about a month since you last posted. :P
My summer hasn't been the most fun. Sure, I get to not go to school and practice the piano and violin and read and... yeah, you get the point. Oh, and I forgot! I stay home and study for testing out of Physical Science too! It's not the easiest thing. Maybe, when I go to Britain, I'll have something interesting to post about.
I went and saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the day it first came out. I have to say, it was the best movie yet! Before hand, my sister and I worked on my dad and managed to change him. He is ofiicially a Harry potter fan now. We all went the day it came out and watched it. I also saw two interesting trailers, one for New Moon (it looked a lot better than the one for Twilight) and one for the Lightning Thief. They were both really cool!
How's everybody else's summers?
~Tina

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

School's Almost Over!

Hey guys,
I'm sooooo sorry I haven't posted in ages. But, I figured that since I am too lazy to start memorizing my poem for LA that I'd post here instead. I'm not a very good student. :P

Anyway, my life has been... good, I suppose. I lost the student council election, but I pretty much expected that. And, I'm not upset. Yay me! School's ending soon, which I'm still trying to decide if I'm happy about. The couple years at middle school have been some of the best in my life. I met new friends, and it's just been awesome. On the other hand, Senioritis has caught up to me and I find myself getting bored in class, especially Language Arts. It'd be nice to be able to just read in that class sometimes.

Okay, another issue is the Choir Concert. I mean, I don't frinken' have all the pieces memorized yet. For instance, I don't know the ending to Inscription of Hope at all. I'm pretty sure it's not my job to be worried, but I am anyway. And now my CHAMP grade is back and I got an A- in the quizzes section. Probably because I've gotten some 80% ish scores, but still, my parents may be mad.

On the plus side, I'm looking forward to building my rocket, the trip to Cedar Point (maybe), the 8th grade dance (actually, not so much), and Summer Vacation, even though I'll probalby spend more time than I care to think about on the piano and violin, practicing. I know it's a good thing, but still.... I don't look forward to that. Also, I'll have more time to kick back and relax, which will be strange.

Another thing to look forward to is Harry Potter 6 coming out on my birthday. That'll be fun! Maybe I'll find a way to convince my parents to let me go the day it comes out. I can't wait.

Whoa, I wrote a lot. I should probably get to work on my memorization. I picked a long poem and I need to know half, at least. Oh the joy of poems in Language Arts.
~Tina

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Just Skiving Dance

Soooo...

Sorry I haven't posted in a little while and thanks everyone for posting. It made me happy :)

Okay, so an explanation of the title. I had a lot of homework to do because I didn't do my S.S. essay that's due tomorrow or my CHAMP and I was afraid that I would have no time to do my CHAMP assignment tomorrow (hooray for procrastination!) so I told my mom that I would skip dance today to get everything finished and leave me time to practice the piano, because I didn't really yesterday, due to my lovely DBE that I turned in today. Okay, big run-on sentence right there. And, by I told my mom, I meant I really believe that. I really believe that I should skip dance for homework due tomorrow and the day after and practicing the different instruments that I play...

Anyway.... Onto a more interesting topic. Well, actually, not so much, but I figured I should probably post a little more often here, because as Natalie pointed out last time, I have to post more often for people to read. Thanks Natalie, for enlightening me on that one. (Really, there was no sarcasm there. I'm not Sarah G, you know.)

As far as school's concerned, I'm doing okay. I've taken my SAT (thank goodness that's over), gotten my ACT Explore score back with everyone elses, and think I failed in my CHAMP test because I left out a square sign when I was drawing a graph of an equation... but, that's okay. Since CHAMP is technically pass or fail, I'm good. Plus, last year, I scored a 4 out of 10 on one of my tests, and I ended with an A, so all's good.

Well, bye for now. I should get working on CHAMP homework. ;)
~Tina