Happy Halloween everyone!
(I'm really tired, so this post is most likely going to be blah.)
So, even though I'm in high school and it's halloween, I didn't go trick or treating. My street isn't really a trick or treat street. Even if I did go, I don't think anyone would have candy to give away. XD
I did face make-up to look like I was bleeding from my mouth. My english teacher thought it was real and came up to me all scared that I was hurt. :)
So I'm just staying home painting and watching "The nightmare before Christmas" ((c) Tim Burton)
We had a tea party in class today. (Since we made teapots--class was a little weird since I don't drink tea) We're also working in scratchboard in my 2D class, which can be a little nerve-wracking. During photography, we went out shooting, which i like. My photo partner is really cool and gave me whole lot of great ideas. I got to watch 8th graders play 4-square (With like, 8 people at once) while she shot.
Um. Yeah. Good night.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Evil Genius Review
(I've changed the design of this blog again. Now the rain thing acctually makes sense.)
So I just finished reading the 'Evil Genius' series by Cathrine Jinks.
It's really good. I was hooked on the first book. It was amazing.
SPOILER ALERT
So it's about this boy named Cadel who is a genius computer hacker guy enrolled in an evil college, being trained to do bad things. The first book is really good, and the whole series is full of the craziest plot twists. And even though the plot twists are extreme, the way they are presented is great. It completely works. There is so much....I don't want to say drama, but.....I guess so much mysery? So much mystery, and it's a really gripping series.
The second book changes the atmosphere (Not of plot twists and mystery) when he changes sides. In the first book, he's sort of bad. He plays for the bad guys and is really stuck up. He is trained to think that he is superior to everyone because of his mental ability. He sort of falls for this girl that he meets online (under a fake name) and really befriends her. She turns out to be disabled, with cerebral palsy (That discovery made me so sad, because he had tricked her) and she shows him the good way to think. By the end of the book, he turns around, and realises that his so called 'friends' are really awful, and....yeah. They're all murderers and such, and he realises that he's not comfortable with that.
So in the second book, he joins a group of kids working to take the one villian (Prosper English) down. Two new charecters are introduced, and they end up adopting him at the end of the book.
In the third book, there is a lot of craziness. He finally has a happy life with his new parents and friends, but Propser English keeps appearing to hurt him and his loved ones. He wants to protect them and sort of goes back to his old ways. In order to get away, he uses forged passports, steals a plane tickets, and does a lot of pretty risky stuff. He ends up working for the police most of the book, and.....the ending is odd.
Every book ends sort of the same way. There is a HUGE dramatic climax near the end, involving Prosper English (With a gun, popping out of no where, surprising everyone) and police. In the third book, everyone seems a little crazy. The bad guy is getting a little insane, Cadel going a little crazy, stakes are high, etc, etc.
It's really hard to sumerize this series. The atmosphere changes. Like, how in Harry potter, the first books have this really innocent "we are little kids" sort of air, and by the 7th book, it's suddently REALLY dramatic. It's like that in this series too, but in a different way.
I could also compare it to 'The Hunger Games'. Each book is different, a whole different major problem, with sort of the same basic problem intertwined (Well, I guess that goes for all series) and while the first book is mainly it's own personal issue, the last book gets into the HUGE MAJOR continuous thing, with the bad guy and everything. Some people have said that the ending of the hunger games is bad. I feel like it was a little cut off, and that it definatly could have been expanded. The third book, Genius wars, is just like that. The ending just cuts off.
It sounds like the ending is the middle of the chapter. It's not even the end of a chapter. It feels like the author just randomly stopped writing. Sure, the bad guy is gone, and the hero returns home, but he is still facing mental stress. He has been arguing one point (That Prosper English isn't all that bad) for the duration of the 2nd and 3rd books. He never reaches a conclusion for that thought. It could be wrapped up to say that he starts to believe that Prosper is a bad guy, or it could say that he still believes he is, and one of his friends agrees with his.
But the ending is that he has his idea of Prosper, and no one agrees with him. They all sympasize (How do you spell that) with him and pity him, but they DON'T BELIEVE HIM! The book ends with him crying over his internal turmoil. It feels really cut off.
Another thing is the charecter of Sonja. Sonja is his friend from the first book with Carebral Palsy. He cares SO DEEPLY for her. They're best friends, and he never wraps things up with her. He doesn't even talk to her in the ending, even though she is RIGHT THERE. He should at least apologize, or kiss her (He says he wants too (As a friend, I believe) but that there are 'too many people around'), or even talk to her, ask her how she is feeling, tell her how he cares for her. But no, he just ignores her!
Sonja has had a crush on him forever. He thinks of her as a friend, and doesn't really seems to care that she feels that way about him. That is especially annoying, seeing as the series ends without any wrap up of that. I feel like the should have a mutual feeling towards eachother, wheather it be friendship or love (Even though he is only 15, and should wait a year before dating).
Cadel (That's the main charecter's name, FYI) does not seem to have any charecter growth. Sure, he learns right from wrong, but by the end of the 3rd book, he still blames himself and sticks to his own way of thinking.
On a better note, i love the charecter of Cadel. He graduates from highschool at the age of 13, and is adorable. He is described as looking really really young, almost feminine, or like a child. He has curly chestnut hair, and big blue eyes. I personally think that he sounds gorgeous. And i can see his point of view for the most part too. I love his charecter design, but I still think more things could have been wrapped up in the ending.
Another point of interest is Gazo. This charecter is sort of...used by Cadel in the first book, (He's not the smartest, but he has a great personality) and for most of the third book too, as Cadel suffers a relapse of his old, controling personality. Even though he manipulates Gazo, he NEVER APOLOGIZES. He seems to drown in apologies for others, like his adoptive father, but he never once considers Gazo. In fact, He and Gazo don't even really talk at the end at all!
I also feel as though the ending had a lot of loose ends. I may just not be getting it all (There is a LOT of informations shoved in these books), but some things i feel were not wrapped up very well. The ending of the last book is also fairly frayed. Did Prosper save Cadel? Is Cadel just deluded? I think if that one question had beed answered, that the ending would have been a lot more resolute.
For example, if we KNEW for certain that Cadel was saved by Prosper, then we could agree that Cadel is in the right. If there is still that uncertainty, then we never can tell if he is just misguided.
I personally think that Cadel was rescued by Prosper, and that Cadel is right. But as I've said before (Sorry for the repitition), no one agrees with him! You can't come up with a resolution, unless there is some agreement among the charecters!
Okay. So I feel like I'm stressing the parts of the book that I don't like.
Please don't take this the wrong way. The series is AMAZING (I mean, the charecters could have cleaner language) and it's extremely deep. I don't want my opinion of the end to stop anyone else from reading the series. The first book, for example is FANTASTIC.
And if there ever turns out to be a 4th book that wraps up the confusion at the end, then I'm sure that everything will be great. The series is amazing.
Okay. This is a sort of awkward way to end this post, but bye.
(Gosh, I feel so bad. I don't want this to be a bad review, I really don't!)
'Evil Genius', 'Genius Squad', and 'The Genius Wars' (c) Catherine Jinks
'Harry Potter' (c) J. K. Rowling
'The Hunger Games' (c) Suzanne Collins
So I just finished reading the 'Evil Genius' series by Cathrine Jinks.
It's really good. I was hooked on the first book. It was amazing.
SPOILER ALERT
So it's about this boy named Cadel who is a genius computer hacker guy enrolled in an evil college, being trained to do bad things. The first book is really good, and the whole series is full of the craziest plot twists. And even though the plot twists are extreme, the way they are presented is great. It completely works. There is so much....I don't want to say drama, but.....I guess so much mysery? So much mystery, and it's a really gripping series.
The second book changes the atmosphere (Not of plot twists and mystery) when he changes sides. In the first book, he's sort of bad. He plays for the bad guys and is really stuck up. He is trained to think that he is superior to everyone because of his mental ability. He sort of falls for this girl that he meets online (under a fake name) and really befriends her. She turns out to be disabled, with cerebral palsy (That discovery made me so sad, because he had tricked her) and she shows him the good way to think. By the end of the book, he turns around, and realises that his so called 'friends' are really awful, and....yeah. They're all murderers and such, and he realises that he's not comfortable with that.
So in the second book, he joins a group of kids working to take the one villian (Prosper English) down. Two new charecters are introduced, and they end up adopting him at the end of the book.
In the third book, there is a lot of craziness. He finally has a happy life with his new parents and friends, but Propser English keeps appearing to hurt him and his loved ones. He wants to protect them and sort of goes back to his old ways. In order to get away, he uses forged passports, steals a plane tickets, and does a lot of pretty risky stuff. He ends up working for the police most of the book, and.....the ending is odd.
Every book ends sort of the same way. There is a HUGE dramatic climax near the end, involving Prosper English (With a gun, popping out of no where, surprising everyone) and police. In the third book, everyone seems a little crazy. The bad guy is getting a little insane, Cadel going a little crazy, stakes are high, etc, etc.
It's really hard to sumerize this series. The atmosphere changes. Like, how in Harry potter, the first books have this really innocent "we are little kids" sort of air, and by the 7th book, it's suddently REALLY dramatic. It's like that in this series too, but in a different way.
I could also compare it to 'The Hunger Games'. Each book is different, a whole different major problem, with sort of the same basic problem intertwined (Well, I guess that goes for all series) and while the first book is mainly it's own personal issue, the last book gets into the HUGE MAJOR continuous thing, with the bad guy and everything. Some people have said that the ending of the hunger games is bad. I feel like it was a little cut off, and that it definatly could have been expanded. The third book, Genius wars, is just like that. The ending just cuts off.
It sounds like the ending is the middle of the chapter. It's not even the end of a chapter. It feels like the author just randomly stopped writing. Sure, the bad guy is gone, and the hero returns home, but he is still facing mental stress. He has been arguing one point (That Prosper English isn't all that bad) for the duration of the 2nd and 3rd books. He never reaches a conclusion for that thought. It could be wrapped up to say that he starts to believe that Prosper is a bad guy, or it could say that he still believes he is, and one of his friends agrees with his.
But the ending is that he has his idea of Prosper, and no one agrees with him. They all sympasize (How do you spell that) with him and pity him, but they DON'T BELIEVE HIM! The book ends with him crying over his internal turmoil. It feels really cut off.
Another thing is the charecter of Sonja. Sonja is his friend from the first book with Carebral Palsy. He cares SO DEEPLY for her. They're best friends, and he never wraps things up with her. He doesn't even talk to her in the ending, even though she is RIGHT THERE. He should at least apologize, or kiss her (He says he wants too (As a friend, I believe) but that there are 'too many people around'), or even talk to her, ask her how she is feeling, tell her how he cares for her. But no, he just ignores her!
Sonja has had a crush on him forever. He thinks of her as a friend, and doesn't really seems to care that she feels that way about him. That is especially annoying, seeing as the series ends without any wrap up of that. I feel like the should have a mutual feeling towards eachother, wheather it be friendship or love (Even though he is only 15, and should wait a year before dating).
Cadel (That's the main charecter's name, FYI) does not seem to have any charecter growth. Sure, he learns right from wrong, but by the end of the 3rd book, he still blames himself and sticks to his own way of thinking.
On a better note, i love the charecter of Cadel. He graduates from highschool at the age of 13, and is adorable. He is described as looking really really young, almost feminine, or like a child. He has curly chestnut hair, and big blue eyes. I personally think that he sounds gorgeous. And i can see his point of view for the most part too. I love his charecter design, but I still think more things could have been wrapped up in the ending.
Another point of interest is Gazo. This charecter is sort of...used by Cadel in the first book, (He's not the smartest, but he has a great personality) and for most of the third book too, as Cadel suffers a relapse of his old, controling personality. Even though he manipulates Gazo, he NEVER APOLOGIZES. He seems to drown in apologies for others, like his adoptive father, but he never once considers Gazo. In fact, He and Gazo don't even really talk at the end at all!
I also feel as though the ending had a lot of loose ends. I may just not be getting it all (There is a LOT of informations shoved in these books), but some things i feel were not wrapped up very well. The ending of the last book is also fairly frayed. Did Prosper save Cadel? Is Cadel just deluded? I think if that one question had beed answered, that the ending would have been a lot more resolute.
For example, if we KNEW for certain that Cadel was saved by Prosper, then we could agree that Cadel is in the right. If there is still that uncertainty, then we never can tell if he is just misguided.
I personally think that Cadel was rescued by Prosper, and that Cadel is right. But as I've said before (Sorry for the repitition), no one agrees with him! You can't come up with a resolution, unless there is some agreement among the charecters!
Okay. So I feel like I'm stressing the parts of the book that I don't like.
Please don't take this the wrong way. The series is AMAZING (I mean, the charecters could have cleaner language) and it's extremely deep. I don't want my opinion of the end to stop anyone else from reading the series. The first book, for example is FANTASTIC.
And if there ever turns out to be a 4th book that wraps up the confusion at the end, then I'm sure that everything will be great. The series is amazing.
Okay. This is a sort of awkward way to end this post, but bye.
(Gosh, I feel so bad. I don't want this to be a bad review, I really don't!)
'Evil Genius', 'Genius Squad', and 'The Genius Wars' (c) Catherine Jinks
'Harry Potter' (c) J. K. Rowling
'The Hunger Games' (c) Suzanne Collins
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Blue Gatorade
I just wrote a whole long beautiful post and somehow it got deleted.
AFDLAKSJDFALSKJFLSDJFALSKJFDALSDKAJF.
That's a little sad.
I wont retype it perfectly, but the jist was that
We lost the soccer game (No suprise there), but i did OKAY in the second half.
I got to go to the library and read by the lake.
Halloween dance tonight. I made a Toothless Costume (How to Train your Dragon) which included wings made out of clothes hanger, bendy wire, and fabric. And a lot of glue. lots and lots of glue.
Last night i went to a soccer clinic that turned out to be for elementary school kids and awkwardly had to borrow a phone from a stranger to call home.
The wire/tin fish me made in Beg. 3D got hung up in the cafeteria.
Well. That's it.
Have a fabulous weekend.
How to Train your Dragon (c) Dreamworks/Cressida Cowell
AFDLAKSJDFALSKJFLSDJFALSKJFDALSDKAJF.
That's a little sad.
I wont retype it perfectly, but the jist was that
We lost the soccer game (No suprise there), but i did OKAY in the second half.
I got to go to the library and read by the lake.
Halloween dance tonight. I made a Toothless Costume (How to Train your Dragon) which included wings made out of clothes hanger, bendy wire, and fabric. And a lot of glue. lots and lots of glue.
Last night i went to a soccer clinic that turned out to be for elementary school kids and awkwardly had to borrow a phone from a stranger to call home.
The wire/tin fish me made in Beg. 3D got hung up in the cafeteria.
Well. That's it.
Have a fabulous weekend.
How to Train your Dragon (c) Dreamworks/Cressida Cowell
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Vacation and Babies
Ollo!
Okay, so first things first, I went to Florida.
To Orlando.
To Universal Studios.
To The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
It was pretty neat. It was way smaller than I imagined (They could have made a whole theme park if they wanted to) but it was great. It was really well detailed. The food that I ate at the Three Broomsticks however, was AWFUL. and the butterbeer I thought was nasty, but I guess it was like a root beer float? Hmm, I don't know.
Also, my family has decided that we are getting another kitten. My aunt got some kittens from a stray cat, and is giving one to my family and one to my aunt. They are twins. I want to name them either Peanut butter and Jelly or Bonnie and Clyde.
They sort of have siamese patterns. THEY'RE ADORABLE.
I would love to write more on the subject (And other awesome things, Like my huge pile of homework and 3D project) but I'll give it a rest. G'night.
Harry Potter (c) J., K. Rowling
The Wizarding world of harry potter (c) Universal Studios
Okay, so first things first, I went to Florida.
To Orlando.
To Universal Studios.
To The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
It was pretty neat. It was way smaller than I imagined (They could have made a whole theme park if they wanted to) but it was great. It was really well detailed. The food that I ate at the Three Broomsticks however, was AWFUL. and the butterbeer I thought was nasty, but I guess it was like a root beer float? Hmm, I don't know.
Also, my family has decided that we are getting another kitten. My aunt got some kittens from a stray cat, and is giving one to my family and one to my aunt. They are twins. I want to name them either Peanut butter and Jelly or Bonnie and Clyde.
They sort of have siamese patterns. THEY'RE ADORABLE.
I would love to write more on the subject (And other awesome things, Like my huge pile of homework and 3D project) but I'll give it a rest. G'night.
Harry Potter (c) J., K. Rowling
The Wizarding world of harry potter (c) Universal Studios
Friday, October 7, 2011
*insert unhappy face here*
Sigh. I know you probably don't want to hear a rant, but i didn't have a very good day. I mean, it started out great. And it was good. Today was the first day all year that i was confused in Algebra. I've been doing pretty well.......but today i just didn't have a good grasp on what was going on.
I had a soccer game tonight. We lost 8-1 (It's always the same team. On this league I have never played in a game against any other team...) Our one goal was scored by a girl who filled in for our missing player. She was younger that the rest of us, I believe, and completly amazing. And while she was fantastic, I felt bad that our only goal was from a temporary team mate. also, I felt like a dirty player. I keept shoving (Which I've always had a problem with, but never THIS bad) and I even played from the ground, when i fell down, and I never got called on it. I feel like i should have gotten a yellow card from all the stuff I did, and i felt awful about it.
Last, In a few weeks, there is a 'reception honoring your student, whose artwork is on display this school year at the.....;ldfj;aslf"
So it's this superintendent's art reception, and i REALLY want to go. I've never gotten a legitimate reward for my artwork (Other than these medals we got for everything in middle school and stuff in elemenatary school) and I really want to go. They're handing out certificates and everything. EXCEPT. I have drivers ed that day. And since I'm already missing a day next week to go on vacation, if I miss that class, I'll fail.
So I can't go.
So.....I'm not in the best mood. Oh well. Life goes on. :)
I had a soccer game tonight. We lost 8-1 (It's always the same team. On this league I have never played in a game against any other team...) Our one goal was scored by a girl who filled in for our missing player. She was younger that the rest of us, I believe, and completly amazing. And while she was fantastic, I felt bad that our only goal was from a temporary team mate. also, I felt like a dirty player. I keept shoving (Which I've always had a problem with, but never THIS bad) and I even played from the ground, when i fell down, and I never got called on it. I feel like i should have gotten a yellow card from all the stuff I did, and i felt awful about it.
Last, In a few weeks, there is a 'reception honoring your student, whose artwork is on display this school year at the.....;ldfj;aslf"
So it's this superintendent's art reception, and i REALLY want to go. I've never gotten a legitimate reward for my artwork (Other than these medals we got for everything in middle school and stuff in elemenatary school) and I really want to go. They're handing out certificates and everything. EXCEPT. I have drivers ed that day. And since I'm already missing a day next week to go on vacation, if I miss that class, I'll fail.
So I can't go.
So.....I'm not in the best mood. Oh well. Life goes on. :)
Monday, October 3, 2011
ALSDKFJ
Today i started drivers ed.
Three hours nearly entirely made of boredem......LAJFDLASJDFALKSfd Plus now 5 of my afternoon plans have been ruined for the week......oh well.
This was my reaction to Driver's ed:
My mommy made me cookies. :)
Three hours nearly entirely made of boredem......LAJFDLASJDFALKSfd Plus now 5 of my afternoon plans have been ruined for the week......oh well.
This was my reaction to Driver's ed:
My mommy made me cookies. :)
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Lovely lovely lovely
I'm having an amazing day.
I got a flu shot, and I didn't cry. In fact, it only hurt a little. I cried during my last shot which hurt a LOT.
Dad an I went to the park and it was lovely.
We had a great soccer game.
I mean, we lost about 3 to....4 or 5. but I scored a really great goal. Right up high in the back of the net, and i am so happy! I feel really accomplished. We played really great, seeing as last time we scrimaged against this team, we lost 5-0.
I always feel like i get things done when i'm happy. When im sad or bored i sit around and shirk work, but now i can do stuff happily!
Also, it would be cool if you could check this out. :)
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/a3ce99f8a9c839d948564710f0ddb63d5146104d
(Just wait until it's done loading and press the play button on the bottom left. I hope you like it. :)
I got a flu shot, and I didn't cry. In fact, it only hurt a little. I cried during my last shot which hurt a LOT.
Dad an I went to the park and it was lovely.
We had a great soccer game.
I mean, we lost about 3 to....4 or 5. but I scored a really great goal. Right up high in the back of the net, and i am so happy! I feel really accomplished. We played really great, seeing as last time we scrimaged against this team, we lost 5-0.
I always feel like i get things done when i'm happy. When im sad or bored i sit around and shirk work, but now i can do stuff happily!
Also, it would be cool if you could check this out. :)
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/a3ce99f8a9c839d948564710f0ddb63d5146104d
(Just wait until it's done loading and press the play button on the bottom left. I hope you like it. :)
Going to Carolina in my Mind
So my dad (Like he's been wanting me to for a long time) took me out to look at all the scenery and such. We drove to this beautiful park/woods, and walked through it, and it was just so tranquil. It was really beautiful and i want to go out and take pictures one day. It brought back a lot of memories of when i was little and our class would go hiking through the woods or go to the park. I was feeling so nostalgic.
It didn't help that then we went driving to another place that he's been dying to show me. It's this beautiful little street with big houses and HUGE front lawns. It secluded away from everything else, and it's just beautiful. It rememinds me of my old babysitter's house....in a way. I guess it was the huge lawns and white picket fences. She had a really nice house, to. I think either she or the house next to her had a donkey. I don't exactly know who's it was. I have a lot of memories from there.
Wrap that up with the fact that its the first day of october and definatly feels like it, and you've got a very peaceful girl. I'm not a fan of winter, but i love fall. It's just got that chilly feeling where your cheeks are really cold, and you still love it. I always liked autumn best.
I love North Carolina.
Title (c) James Taylor
It didn't help that then we went driving to another place that he's been dying to show me. It's this beautiful little street with big houses and HUGE front lawns. It secluded away from everything else, and it's just beautiful. It rememinds me of my old babysitter's house....in a way. I guess it was the huge lawns and white picket fences. She had a really nice house, to. I think either she or the house next to her had a donkey. I don't exactly know who's it was. I have a lot of memories from there.
Wrap that up with the fact that its the first day of october and definatly feels like it, and you've got a very peaceful girl. I'm not a fan of winter, but i love fall. It's just got that chilly feeling where your cheeks are really cold, and you still love it. I always liked autumn best.
I love North Carolina.
Title (c) James Taylor
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