lady_koh

I was hired today at an ice cream shop in town. Starting pay is much more than I was expecting, so I'm very stoaked. I start training tomorrow. My waiting paid off - this was the job I really wanted, so all is good.

Other than that, I have actually been writing - I stayed up until two working on a story. Reading it over where I ended gave me a laugh though; I was so sleepy that I stopped really writing and just started summarizing. The end result was something like : Introduces. hahaha, raccoon. looks like one. more hahas.

That's Pulitzer material, that is.

Speed Racer was... hard to describe. Mostly like an acid trip, methinks, but rather good if you aren't expecting much by way of a plot (it has none). I do think, however, with the right expectations, most people would enjoy it, as long as they realize it's just an explosion of colours and lights. It does do a great job of transferring the original characters to the big screen though - Pops was the best in my opinion, followed closely by Speed himself.

Played warcraft for a few hours today... terribly productive, I know. I need to start working out again, but I've been in "it's summer so all I have to do is sit on my ass" mode for the past two weeks. Gah, I have no motivation to do anything!

In the... (counts on fingers) three months since I've last posted, I've graduated, decided where I'm going to college (oddly enough, the one school I applied to that wasn't on the East coast), nearly failed my science class, even though I worked extremely hard and did not use it, as previously mentioned, to write fan fiction. I also have stared writing two new fan fics, one of which, if I can find a beta, will be posted relativly soon, I would think. Of course, my typical move would be to now, in complete contradiction with the previous statement, not write at all for a month or so. This may be helped along by the fact that I need to find a job... *sigh* I've already applied a few different places, and even had interviews, but no luck so far. Damnable economy.

In other news, the boyfriend bought me a subscription to World of Warcraft as a graduation present, so I've become thoroughly hooked. I have a draenei hunter and a tauren druid, though both are under level 12. Odd how looking at the back side of a computerized fantasy creature for hours can be so addicting!

The brother and I are going to see Speed Racer this afternoon. He may be too young to remember the cartoon, but that's what I grew up on. I've heard very mixed reviews about it, all being either extremely good or extremely bad; nowhere in the middle. I guess we'll have to see, ne?

I've been accepted to two colleges so far, and I find out about a third tomorrow, but I don't hear back from anywhere else until April. The waiting is killing me!!

I get out for spring break at the end of this week, and I'm planing on updating my stories over break, because I don't have anything else to do for two weeks, so I'll have time to write. I know I'm a bad person, but real life tends to take over... *sigh*

Anyone else notice I suck at updating things?

This time I have a decent excuse; i got into one of my top three choice of college, which rocks, and has distracted me for a while, but I've also been having some drama in the boyfriend department, so that's been crappy. But, we're working things out, so I'm hoping it'll all be ok.

Right now I'm in the aforementioned slack science class that turned out to be not so slack. I mean, it's cool that i get to sit in the sun and work, but the teacher is sort of a dick. Ah, well. Such is life.

I've been revising most of my fanfiction, but I'm currently at in impasse. With luck, that'll get worked out too.

My inner dork almost exploded the other day in Art History when my teacher referred to the artists of the Renaissance as "Ninja Turtles." I love that class, I just wish it wasn't so hard. All the gothic cathedrals look the same to me.

I saw Juno last night - it was excellently funny. I recommend it highly. I also finally finished Tanabata Jasmine. I loved it, and I love Nekotsuki's writing, but for some reason, I had the hardest time getting through it. I also highly recommend that to anyone who hasn't read it, though I think very few people belong to that club anymore.

Currently uhh.... working on college apps. Yes I am, shut up. Just because I'm eating junk food and drinking white tea pomegranate soda and updating my LJ doesn't mean I'm not doing anything productive. Eh, so what if I have three schools due in two days?

:Coughcough: slacker :coughcough:

I wish it would stop raining for a little while. I'm starting to miss the sun.

So Hilary won the New Hampshire primary, which is unfortunate, but Obama still has another 48 states to go. I'm so happy I get to vote this year, I just really hope that there's a good democratic candidate to vote for. As much as I'd love to have a woman for president, Clinton just doesn't embody my views of what a president should be. I've heard her talks, and I think she's a great speaker, but I'm really just more for Obama. I feel that he has what it'll take to get our country back on track. He may be inexperienced, but he has some great ideas, and I really feel like he's being honest about everything he says, and he's not overly confidant or anything.
My political views aside, I've got some issues with school. I have three free periods, where I'm supposed to have a maximum of one. I also need a semester of science to graduate, but, even with three free periods, there is only one class option for me. It's not something I particularly want to take, but I hear it's a chill class. Most kids that take it just use it to do home work, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just not what I want to do. Oh well, I guess I can use it as my fan fiction writing time...hmm, this may work out well. Gah, and the stupid class-changer lady isn't there, so I can't fix my classes, but if I don't fix them soon, I'm going to get in trouble with the school for having too many off periods. I'm trying!!
Other than that, I'm waiting for my college counselor to get out of a meeting so we can go over some of my essays. I have three applications due on the 15th, and they are are schools that I'd really like to get into. I'm a little nervous, but things should work out ok.

Yay!!!!!!
I'm posting this from my lovely new computer, which just arrived in the mail today! Ye Gods I feel cool. Now I must go about transferring my files and downloading other goodies. Mwahahahaha!!!
Fanfiction: I'm in the process of rewriting the chapters... shouldn't be much longer before I'm back posting for real.

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That's kind of all I can say.
That said, I fricken just watched the new Avatar episode, The Firebending Masters, and I'm pretty sure it was the most amazing episode all season, icluding my personal favorite, The Puppet Master.  It's...I can't even articulate how good it is.  Go watch it. NOW!!!!
*huggles Zuko*

I keep checking my order number on apple.com, and they haven't sent my computer yet.  I should probably stop checking every few minutes though... meh, whatever.
I have an idea for a RK oneshot, but I'm really having trouble getting motivated.  I'm just so tired today... I tried to do college crap for so long, but I couldn't settle down and just do it. 
Nothing really interesting happening right now, other than it's fricken cold here. 

Ah, when will the cheesy new years jokes end?  A happy new year to anyone who happens to read this, and yes, I am trying to convince myself to work on my story, but after my whole fiasco trying to get my app into Bowdoin last night, I think I deserve a little rest. 
Speaking of fan fiction, FF.net is completely f'd up the a right now...It refuses to let me open any story.  I wanted to read a few of my old favorites, but nooooo, FuckFace.net is a pissy bitch.  Oh well.  Maybe I'll go jump on the trampoline or play video games for a bit. 
Fan fiction writing to resume whenever I get off my lazy ass - although, I only have one college app in...I'm still working on the other few, so we'll see.  Please don't hate me. 

You know those days? 
The ones where you wake up early with every intent on working hard all day, but you end up eating potato chips for breakfast because no one ever goes shopping, and when you take a shower you realize the new shampoo you bought isn't really shampoo, but leave-in "creme" to make your hair nice and shiny, but only after it's been properly washed, but you deal with your dirty hair and try to phone a friend to see what time you're going to a concert tomorrow, but then you can't remember what day it is, and you freak out and think maybe the concert is today, and crap, you haven't done all the things you need to do, but then you realize it's the 30th, not the 31st, so you go see your friend at work meaning just to make quick arrangements of who's driving who, but end up spending 45 minutes waiting for her to go on her lunch break, and you walk by the the hair salon and remember you need real shampoo, so you drop $18 bucks on one that smells nice because your friend convinces you its a good idea, then goes back to work, so you go home and try to work on your college essay (which, by the way is due tomorrow), but the damn computer crashes and you spend an hour screaming and pleading and cursing and trying to get it to come on so you can at least get your files off it before it crashes for good because you haven't saved them anywhere else, and in the middle of it all your boyfriend calls and wants to know when you can come and pick him up, and your friend shows up at your house, and you would like to go out and have a nice relaxing dinner with your friends, but no one can decide anything, and in the mean time, your friends boyfriend keeps calling to ask where the hell you are, so you leave with no plans, but have to get gas first, so he freaks out even more, and you go to pick him up, thinking you're going to go out somewhere nice to eat, but then everyone decides that no, they don't want to drive all that way, even though you're the one that's driving, an you're the one who's paying for gas, so you end up eating at the god-awful burger joint in town, and you drive around aimlessly for several hours because your friends' boyfriend doesn't have to be home until 9:30, and when you finally get home and start to crawl into bed, you find no less than 9 books, a stick of deodorant, a cat, and an empty bag of Hint of Lime Tostitos in your sheets, and you're just damn tired. 
I hate those days.  They suck.

I'm very tired...  I've been running around doing errands all day, starting at 6 am.  Once I was done with that one though, I came home and crashed for another few hours. 
New Computer was ordered today, so that's a plus.  My mom got an educators discount on it, so we saved something like $200.  Very sweet.  Should be in by the 4th, the company says, which means I'll only be in danger of missing one deadline because of computer issues.  I spent a good half an hour today trying to get it to start, and it only woke up when I pounded on the key board.  Probably not too good for it in the long run, but it's working for today, and that's what matters. 

A merry whatever-it-is-you-celebrate to all!
I'm sitting here, watching my cat bite his nails and smelling Christmas dinner waft in from the kitchen.  Ah, turkey!
I got, among other things, pomegranate flavored jelly beans, and $300 from my family towards a new computer!  w00t!  That's the largest sum of money I've ever received, an I am seriously stoaked about my new computer.  I've been looking up all the extra bits and pieces I want to add to it, and with the money I have in the bank, I think I'm going to have enough. 
I'm leaving tomorrow to go see my boyfriend for two days, which I am also very stoaked about, then he'll be coming back with me until school starts up again. 
Well, it's 2:00.  Must go put on real clothing. 

Alright... I'm officially brain dead, and it's only (dear god) 5:30.  Bowdoin has a deadline of Jan. 1, which wouldn't be such a big deal if I my computer was working.  It's alive and well for the moment, but it likes to freeze the screen as I'm in the middle of an essay, forcing me to restart.  After that it sort of sits there with the screen turning various shades of grey until I turn it off.  I think it really enjoys taunting me.  Either that or it's resentful that I've been looking up prices for new computers. 
Yes, my computer has thoughts of it's own.  Hush. 
Other than that, things are going well.  My family will not be able to function without me next year, and I'm not being arrogant.  I've already been told "we'll just have to wait until you get home next year so you can wrap presents/decorate the tree/make the house look wintery."  It's not that I mind doing it, it's just that until this year, I hadn't realized how much stuff I do. 
Tomorrow: Hopefully finishing up my Christmas shopping...  meh.

Soo...
I gave in to the non-existent peer pressure and made a live journal.  I'm not sure why, but if you know me from FF.net, feel free to say hello or whatever.  I'm a little clueless, but everybody else's looked cool, so I said, "Hey, why not?"
And here I am.
That's my story. 
The End