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I'll try my best to be engaging, and maybe post more than once every three months. Sound good?

So BearFacts decided to die at the exact moment that I needed it to look up the location of my French final. FAIL.
It all turned out okay. I'm still damn bitter though.

And I forgot...my favorite online forum ever...Board X is holding a contest to recruit new members. You should go join and tell them Valerie referred you.
This seems like a shameless plug, but it really is a charming, relaxed, drama-free place.

I switched to Plus, because I'm a userpic whore, apparently. Is anyone particularly bothered by it? I figure you're all reading these on your friends pages anyway so it doesn't really matter, but let me know if it does. I'll try to normalize my layout someday too.

I've got five itunes downloads that expire Sunday. Ideas? Suggestions?

I might as well post my resolution here, if for no other reason than this way I won't forget them next year. I'm going to take better care of myself. It's a really broad one, and I should hope it will include becoming more fit, eating better and such. We'll see how it goes.

Happy New Years Everyone.

Actually, here it's just after eleven, so we've got another hour until it's official, but I'm going to sleep soon, so...there.

The Literary Friending Meme!

*ahem*
I've been pretty good about not procrastinating in the past. Now I think I'm just trying to make up for all that in one fell swoop. I have so much work still to do on my summer assignments. I've discovered recently that I enjoy writing a lot more than I thought I did though. That's a problem for me though, as I seriously lack creativity of any kind. It's pathetic, really.
I start school in a week. How unfortunate.
Edit: I was cheered to scroll down and realize that I wrote almost the exact same entry about procrastination last year at this time. See what I mean about lacking creativity?
This layout is totally screwed up. I didn't do it. I tried to fix it, and made it worse. I am not heartened by the fact that the overridehelp community seems to be having the same problem.

I got back from China earlier this week (Oh yeah, that's right, I went to China for two weeks, maybe I'll post more about that later). I'm horribly jetlagged and I have tons of summer assignments still to do...bleh.

In other news, I'm thinking of becoming a vegetarian. I'm planning on try easing meat out of my diet for the next couple weeks to see if I can take it. I don't like meat all that much anyway.

I got my report card today. Straight A's. Hell yes.


That is all.

I'm done with school for the summer. Thank god. I'm hoping summer break will give me enough time to recuperate before next year starts. But I've realized that now that I don't have homework to attend to every minute of every day (well, I do have lots of summer assignments, but that's another matter), I don't really have anything to do. I've been sort of aimless the past few days. I'm sure I'll find entertainment somehow though.

I watched the Tonys last week. I'm pretty much over the rage that I felt when I saw the Pajama Game types walk off with the award for best revival, but it's still something of a sore point. I've just stopped trying to rationalize it.

I'm hoping to do a set of Amelie icons at icons100. Those will be posted over at my icon community, nybbless.

My livejournal will proably be in varying states of disrepair for the next several hours, if not longer. Sorry.

I haven't made an entry here for a while. Not much has happened, sadly enough. I went New York about two months ago. I saw Sweeney Todd...which was amazing. It made me want to pick up an instrument again. I wish someone taught violin around here. But alas, they do not, so I think I'm going to start taking piano lessons. I'm also starting singing lessons again. I have sort of unconsciously moved away from music and the arts over the last several years, which is upsetting. I want to try and remedy that. I'm not really sure how are why it happened really, it just did. I've always been in choir and such, but somehow I drifted away from my singing lessons and such.

I did end up going to Salt Lake City at the beginning of March for regional honor choir. It was actually quite fun. Beyond that, I've really just been busy with school. I'm up to my ears in schoolwork. I'm also getting a bit desperate in my search for a summer job.

On a lighter note, I've begun reading Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. She is hilarious. I suppose I'll elaborate later.

Hello everyone. I wish everyone happy holidays. I'm not sure what to do with myself for two weeks...but I'll figure something out. It's nice not to be completely overworked and frazzled...and to have free time. I could get used to this. I also can see now...which is a nice thing to be able to do, mark my words. I had to go to the optometrist yesterday, because for one reason or another my vision has gone south in the past couple of months. So, I got me a new contact lens perscription, and now everything should be better. The doctor reassuringly mentioned, "Your vision will eventually stop getting worse."
They also dialated my eyes and took pictures. I found this practice quite hateful an inhumane, but who am I too judge. You'd think that in this day and age, there'd be a better way get a picture of a person's eye than to snap a flash picture an inch away from their face. Of course this practice requires that the person in question keep their eyes open through the flash, which is more difficult than it sounds. After three tries I finally got it though, mind you I couldn't see for about twenty minutes after that.
There was also a woman in the waiting room who seemed exceedingly fond of the sound of her own. I identified her quickly as the type of person that you don't make eye contact with, or she will never cease talking to you. So, having observed this, I sat in a chair, and started reading my book, being very careful not to look even vaguely im her direction. She began speaking about contact lens solution, seemingly to no one in particular. Then she tried talking about contact lens solution to me. I didn't even know she was talking to me at first, but then she asked if I had ever considered getting contact lenses, and I was the only person wearing glasses in the place, then she just kept going. I just don't see what I did wrong. But there was no escaping after that.

My time off from school is almost over. I hate that. I'm so busy now that the weekends and holidays are the only times I have to do...anything, really. On weekdays I wake up around five a.m., leave around 6:30, return home around 4 or 5 p.m., and do homework until I go to sleep. It's hard to imagine that I've almost survived an entire semester like this. I think it'll be better next year, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm just going to have to take it.
Mock trial county competition is in less than two weeks. I need to get my questions memorized, but beyond that I'm not too worried. (at least not for myself). I've gotten myself a new pair of evil-lawyer-heels. I'm senior consel for the defense after all, I have to be evil. And as I see it, evil female lawyers have to wear heels, it's just the way it is. Cody's going to be mad though, he's very proud of himself that he's finally taller than me, but my three inch heels ought to take care of that. I'm not used to wearing heels though, so to avoid falling down in the middle of competition I'll have to pratice around the house. So those are the two things I'm worried about, memorizing the questions and the heels.
I'm also going to winter formal. I'm not sure what state of mind I was in when I decided I was going to go, but I guess there's not really any turning back now. I have no date, but it's really best that way. I think that Karen, Rachel and I will end up hanging out and talking most of the time, why we're paying so much money to do it is what confuses me, but I'll let it go.
Another thing that has been neglected in my schedule recently is reading. Between the stuff I get assigned for English and all my other homework, I don't find myself with much time to read whatever I please. I've recently gotten in the habit of binge-reading on Sundays, since that's the only day I have any time.

I think I'm seriously a workaholic. Either that or I'm just stupid. I suppose it's possible it could be a combination of the two as well...I have so much crap I have to do after school, and I tutor people three days a week during lunch, this on top of my eight classes with loads of homework. I'm not even going to pretend it's not my fault either, it was completely my choice to get invovled in all this stuff (well, I suppose my list of colleges which to which wish to be admitted had some influence, but that's not really an excuse). Perhaps the most suprising this is that I'm not feeling beaten down by it. I think back and wonder how I did it, but I don't generally feel overwhelmed or frustrated at the end of the day. It's a strange thing, to be sure.
So, Friday I was somehow convinced to go to the dance. That was a foolish idea. Rachel and I ended up sitting outside and talking most of the time. At least I can say I've been to a dance now, and that's--something.

I started school two weeks ago, and I'm actually coping okay. Of course we're only two weeks in, so it'll get much worse, but I've managed to organize myself a lot better. I've also so far managed to do less procrastinating (for example, it's Saturday, and all my weekend homework is done.) To be fair, I didn't have much weekend homework to begin with, but still.
On the internet front, I think I want to learn to be a better icon maker. I've started a challenge at icons100 to make a hundred West Wing icons. We'll see how that goes. I'm also trying to finally make use of my icon journal, iconsinc. And, as some of you may have noticed, I'm trying to get this layout looking a bit better, it's not there yet, but know I'm working on it. Slogging though LJ tutorials trying to find something that works gets old fast.
At this point in time I also don't have many ambitions of resurrecting azelma.net, but I think I'll keep the domain name, because I love it. I've also de-friends onlified my journal. I figured there was no real reason for it to be that way. If reason arises, I will make it friends only, but at the moment I'm happy the way it is.

Lately I've gotten a good deal of summer-assignment procrastination done over the past several days. But I think I will manage to get everything done on time. I (sort of) have a plan, and I've filled my quota for the day, so I write this guilt-free. I seriously think I do have a procrastinating problem though. It's not even that I don't try to do everything ahead of time, it's just that I have trouble actually doing it. I'll just sit in front of a blank page, unable to come up with anything. Or whatever I do write is absolutely atrocious. For that reason, everything I've been writing for my summer assignments now will be undergoing a massive revision Sunday night. It just seems like I can't work properly unless I'm under pressure.
On another subject, my mom and I went into town yesterday. I'm not quite sure what posessed me to get a manicure and pedicure, but I can say it hindsight that it was not a very good idea. No one in there seemed to speak much English, except that the woman doing my nails seemed to know enough to tell me that I was too tense about thirteen or fourteen times. Aside from that, I really couldn't understand a word that she was saying. As a result, I agreed to have a French manicure, although my nails are too short for it to look any good. So, I now have funny looking nails, and I'm too tense, apparently.
We went shopping briefly, where I accomplished a few last back-to-school shopping missions. Afterward, we went to see Batman Begins, which was fun, if completely ridiculous.

I haven't posted here is ages. I've made promises in the past to post more often which have never been kept, so I will make no such claim now. I have decided that I'm a shameless livejournal lurker, who rarely has enough interesting to say to post any comments, much less actually update her own journal. I got a blog at Philosophy.nu which seems like a nice place to blog, my blog is located here. I may update it more than I update my LJ, it's too early to tell. I'm slightly peeved by the fact that I can't cutomize the layout. Not that I really have time to come up with layouts (let this livejournal stand as a testament to that), but I like to have the option.
There are many things which have taken place since my last post (which I just re-read, I'm going to try and spend less time being so gloomy). For one, I did get into Chamber Singers, much to my suprise. I also finished sophomore year, somehow managing to pull off all A's second semsester (math had me worried there for awhile). Then, I proceeded to go to France. Maybe I'll go into more detail on that later, but for now I'm just leaving it be.
I've got summer assignments galore, and school starts next week. I've finished all the books I have to read, but I've still got essays to write and such. I'm taking eight classes, seven of which are IB, so junior year is looking like it may be a little--intense.

And finally, the Rent movie is coming out November 11th. So go watch the trailer