..::I Can Touch The Sky::..
Gmail Chat with Anon, on Sunday Mar 22
me:
1:51 PM I’m disgustingly cheerful1:52 PM SojajajajaJAJAHAHAJA1:53 PM -sings “We Are The Champions” by Queen-1:58 PM anonxeidrii: >DWHY?me: CU>BECAUSEI GOT INTO MT HOLYOKEAND LIKEI HAVE A SCHOLARSHIPAND LIKEI CAN TOUCH THE SKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYanonxeidrii: >DDDDDDDDDDD YEEEAAAAAHHHHH1:59 PM omgTHATS SO GREAT O__Ome: YAHAJAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHanonxeidrii: STJYTRTERTYETYRTKYDRJIOHHIOGme: IT FEELS SO FUNKYanonxeidrii: G’GUYTYSEYHme: IT REALLY DOESDID YOU KNOW TOUCHING THE SKY MAKES YOU HIGH?anonxeidrii: xD all the crap pays off?!HAHAme: JAJA IT DOESanonxeidrii: THE SKY IS MADE OF CRACKme: THE SKY IS THE CRACK2:00 PM OF ALL CRACKS
- *shrieks* AAAAAAAAH I GOT INTO BARD COLLEGE! AAHH!! *screams* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH =D
- Universe, are you TRYING to make me extremely happy? Because it’s working.
- I love you! I promise I’ll work my arse off to take advantage of all these opportunities! I’ll get started on my homework right now! = D <3
- Ok, so I danced first, which half the time consisted of jumping up and down in time with the beat. But still!! JAJA
Ajajajaja I’m so happy = ´D ;w; TwT
Smith Lightens My Horizon
Today, I was informed online that I had been accepted into Smith College. I learned that my friend -S- also got in.
I’m so happy. I’m so happy!! My dad was very proud! When I ran down to tell him, he made a funny motion with his fist and said “YES! I KNEW IT!” in Spanish. He then just HAD to check all my other colleges, even if they won’t post the decision yet. <3 I’m really happy! My mom was happy but I had to tell her through chat. I think I’m making them proud = D
My dad says we might travel together during Semana Santa to visit my top 3 choices when I find out about all of my colleges. I’m both looking forwards to and terrified by it.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Like -S- says, “2 down, 7 to go”.
Dad and Books!
My dad came back from his business trip to Boston, which makes me a very, very happy kid. Additionally, he talked to a trustee of Mount Holyoke, who reassured him and through him me, that I’m probably going to have a good time getting into colleges. I certainly hope so.
My dad is baaaack *sings* I really missed him, especially since soon I’m going to have to go away to college, and well, I’m going to miss my family. He also got me some two shirts even though I didn’t ask him for any – I specified books, and maybe a pashmina, jajaja! He’s been amazing so far, no fights etc, and I’m just… overjoyed his back.
THE CRUX of this post, however, is the list of books my dad got on his trip! Here they are! I can’t wait to read them!
My Requests
He wasn’t able to get all of my requests, obviously, but he did amazingly well. I gave him two authors, a few specific recommendations from Mr. Pruzinksy, my English Teacher, and requested some books about Third Culture Kids. My dad was really impressed with Mr. P’s recommendations, as well as my request for Earth Democrac. He plans on reading them as well, so I guess these are going to become family books.
- Earth Democracy – Vandana Shiva
- What is the What – Dave Eggers
- Drown – Junot Diaz
- Terrier – Tamora Pierce
- Unrooted Childhoods; Memoirs of Growing Up Global – Anthology
- Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds – David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken
- A Gift of Dragons – Anne McCaffrey
Family
- Dreams from My Father – Barrack Obama [Everybody is going to be reading this...]
- The River of Doubt – Candice Millard [He got this for my brother but really recommends it to me as well]
- 2009 State of the World: into a warming world – the Worldwatch Institute [We are getting a lot of books and reading regarding this subject in my family. My dad says this was an amazing book.]
Of course, he brought magazines and a few candies as well, but it’s the books that I like the most. Besides, I’m glad I can hug my dad again, and I’m all the more aware how I’m going to miss my family.
Gods above and below, I am grateful for my family and life.
I think he meant a different closet
Maybe I should make a little category for “anecdotes”, since I’m going through them so much. Ok, remember from one of my previous post the “P.M.” guy I kicked after his idiotic comment? I swear the guy likes making me uncomfortable (well, a lot of people do XD) but still… I think this guy makes a hobby of making everybody as confused and off-balance as he can.
So, during Study Hall, I went to my art classroom to get some work done. During that period, P.M. is in said classroom giving my teacher a hard time with his half-assed concepts and jokes. I started getting some feedback from a friend of his, E. about an artwork I had, and we started talking about the stigma and exclusion of homosexuals in society and similar, very lightly. P.M. comes in saying that there wouldn’t be a problem if everybody went into the closet! (Or something similar). I don’t know how he comes up with lines like that.
Then he grabs my arm and pulls me closer, asking me if I want to go into the closet with him.
Yeaaaaaaah… I pulled away as gracefully as I could and continued the conversation with E. But mier, that was weird.
Of Course I Kicked You
I mean, honestly, what other reaction did you think I would have?! (Nevermind that you don’t read this blog and I probably won’t link you to it.)
What am I talking about? Basicamente, a classmate of mine, P.M. so as to give him some sort of privacy, was being ridiculous. I was working on art during my Study Hall period, during which he has art… so we were in the same classroom. As I’m washing clean the pallete and brushes, he comes around and pulls slightly at my apron’s strings (I wanted to protect my clothes from the paint, duh), and he starts talking about how he liked pulling the bikini straps on girls, and how he had once pulled a 14-year old girl’s straps… and she wasn’t able to catch the top in time. Now, unfortunately, I was still grinning like an idiot because this dude is so ridiculous, I feel like laughing all the time.
But as he goes away, I step forwards and kick him, decently hard too (I hope I don’t leave a bruise…). And he’s all “You kicked me!” several times and by now I was REALLY honestly grinning happily. Well, no shit Sherlock. You just told me about how you apparently liked contributing in sexual harassment (why yes, exposing the breasts of bikini-wearing teenager girls against their will is sexual harassment!), and implied something when you pulled the back of my apron strings! Of course I hit you! You’ve probably seen me punch my friends (well… the guy friends) for saying something stupid, and that is soft!
I mean, geeze. At least it wasn’t like when my friend nicknamed me “Boobs”.
… I mean… seriously…
Ok, end rant.
Review: Runaways Vol. 1 : Pride and Joy
I decided to start reviewing what books I read… and this time I start with the comics I just picked up my school’s library! New shiny books… hmm… beware for spoilers, but it’s the first volume, so it isn’t much of a problem.
I had heard about Runaways before, and it was mostly good. I did like the beginning, although the pacing threw me off, the art threw me off, and the comic in general threw me off because I have gotten so used to manga. Manga tends to have a different pacing, and the art is very different – in this case, the lack of exagerated expressions shocked me a bit. I’m looking forwards togetting over this and start reading comics more regularly (when I was a kid in Boston I would read some X-men completely out of continuity or order, but I didn’t care.)
The story seems promising: we have a group of teens whose life is turned upside down overnight, and trying to do the right thing, even if it goes against their parents. The kids seem to have good personalities overall, and the way the groups (both The Pride and their kids) interact is interesting.
Things that irked me:
- The scene where Nico is inside her room going frantic for her black nail polish. I mean, can we stop with the “girl takes forever to get ready” scene?!
- Molly acts so childish. I swear I wasn’t so childish and innocent at that age! Or my friends!
- The dumb jock stereotype with Chase… I get the feel he won’t create much problems anyways and wil lalways be the annoying guy in hte group, but create really minor problems. Big problems are saved for the female characters…
- “Lucy”’s crying scene when she discovers she’s well… not of this world. It bugged the heck out of me.
- Parental race stereotype: Alex’s dad is like a a Gang boss (Anybody else headdesk at the idea of the africanamerican guy being the suit-dressed gang boss? It might just be me, I haven’t seen him yet.)
- Parental race stereotype 2 : Nicos’ parents (asian) are apparently dark cultists.
- The whitey alien parents are hollywood celebrities! XD
Things I found interesting:
- Two characters out of five are not caucasian. And one of them is their leader.
- Well, the story is interesting <3
- I have no idea what to write anymore
I’m off to do homework now! T-ciao!
Something Good This Way Comes
Things are looking up a lot since my last post – and for a while now. I just couldn’t bring myself to write about it, since I needed to let the wave of happiness take its course without redirecting it by writing the blog post.
I probably just confused everybody there.
But a number of good things have been going on since, and quite a few are college related. Life is becoming happier and I feel much better, not as much stress. I feel I can actually tackle my school work and come out winning now that the family issue is not so threatening.
First off, I had two college interviews by phone. Well, one wasn’t so much an interview, but rather sounded more like they were trying to convince me to go to Mt Holyoke. That was rather nice and flattering actually, especially when the trustee said that the office of admissions had called me “Hot Property”. While I think that “property” is a very wonky term (I’m person! Not an object! I am not owned!) I’m just going to go ahead and take that as a compliment and a good sign for the future.
The second interview was Bennington, and I really enjoyed talking to the woman, even if we kept getting some Skype glitches. I learned some very interesting things about Bennington, especially its Environmentally friendly policies (YAY!) and other details. Suffice to say, I was really happy, I think the woman was happy, and I think that it gave a good impression.
Oh… additionally, talking about Bennington… yesterday I received an email notification that I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED! MY FIRST ACCEPTANCE TO A COLLEGE! =’ ) I feel very, very happy, and it’s like I reached my first milestone. The two college interviews themselves were enough to get me into a “music high” when I had them (I think I scared a few friends over MSN because I was typing really fast, in capslock at times, and very, very hyper as I blasted music and ocassionally dissapeared to dance to my music.)
I think there was more I wanted to say, but I am extremely happy right now, and I’ll just go do my homework. (My family situation, btw, is better, but still has its problems. I’m hoping it won’t explode again and we’ll be able to fix this.)
PS: To those who were here for the Avatar Casting Fracas, I’ll start updating again – I’m sorry I zoned out of it, but I had a lot to deal with : ( But I shall! *determination*
Anxiety Overload
I haven’t really told people, but I’m currently having some family problems – or well, the family is having problems. Yesterday, Sunday, was pretty much the huge gunk mess up, but I really don’t want to talk about it.
Today, after fighting with my brother at around 5 pm, I began to feel pain in my chest, where my heart is. At first I tried to ignore it, but after a while I started getting worried and googled the symptoms for a heart attack. I KNOW I am too young to have a heart attack, but if you feel pain right hwere your heart is… well, you get scared. I got scared enough to call my mom while I was walking my dog, and she sent me back home, where I waited for my dad.
He called a while before, as sweet as he can be, the moments when I love him most, but since before we had been so off that just added more pain. When he arrived and started calming me down, I did start feeling better, and told him that it had started hurting after my fight with my brother (when he hit me in the head). This led to him calling my brother back and telling him to never touch me again… which made it hurt more. Based on that, he reached the conclusion that I had been having an anxiety attack based on all the drama that we’d just been going through. He calmed me down, gave me yummy stuff to eat, and I started talking to him about webcomics.
I’m better, my chest stopped hurting, although the left side of my neck really, really hurts.
So I’m going to go distract myself. Draw. Do something. Calm down.
Yeah.
The pain will go away.
I Can Dream Of Better Representation in Fantasy
Oh please do. I’d make one female character with the muscles I can only dream of.
Is it too much to ask? When I played WoW, I would wince constantly from the female version of some clothes. Not to mention my then-friend’s Succubus, especially considering how he always made his warlock summon her so I would be irritated.
I can still hear her horrible lines and fawning “seductive” tone. And the objectification of her body…
And there wasn’t even an Incubus for female Warlocks. D <
I’m not a huge gamer, but I really love MPORGS, when I find the time for them. I love fantasy stories, epic journeys, quests (that aren’t too repetitive and annoying), and I love the interaction you can sometimes find in these games. But honestly? Not a very safe or welcoming place for women or girl gamers.
So at least this is a step in the right direction.
Note: I’m too depressed to write about anything else. Sorry about disappearing, but massive personal upheaval in the family area, and honestly, I just don’t want to talk about it.
I just can’t wait to get away to college.
And a month ago, I couldn’t imagine wanting to leave my family, despite still doing Finacial Aid forms.
Sending Off My Hopes + Steph’s Bday + Insun and Her Prom Dreams
I know I haven’t been blogging a lot about my personal life (like Steph complained), and I decided that today’s achievement is enough to write a post about.
First though, I’m going to recount the last two friend-things I did.
First, I went out with my friend Insun a few days ago to one of the malls near where I live. We were originally going to watch a movie, but we ended just walking around and catching up, before she brought up the Prom up, when we saw some dresses. That led to a discussion of what type of dress would fit our respective bodies, why, what colours, etc… etc… To be honest, she got me kind of excited about choosing a dress, even if I’m not exactly the “Dress! Make up! GET READY FOR TEH PROM!” type of girl. (Actually, I’m pretty sure you can’t really give me a “type” or label, so that works just fine for me.) Unfortunately, then she went on to talk about dates and the rest, which didn’t make me too happy. At least we figured out we could manage to make a gals-only table, since the boyfriend for my friend Mabe won’t be here at the time, and we could perhaps organize it with our mutual friends. I’d rather not start worrying about the whole issue, oh… I don’t know, four months early? It became a pretty funny conversation though. After buying ourselves an ice cream, we walked to my place, where we played Wii DDR, and had loads of fun with that thing. Honestly, I’m using it to workout in the mornings now! XD Oh Nusni…
Second, I went out yesterday for Steph’s birthday with her, (obviously), Mari, Kate, and a new girl whose name I have no idea how to spell, at Jockey. Eating, talking, and following Mari take photos was pretty damn fun, and I think it’s rather interesting how we ended up seating when we ate. See, to my left was B-day gal and Kate, to my right was Mari and… the girl. The two on my right were the randomer, rather perverse people of the group, to the left were the more sensible and withdrawn (that doesn’t make them less awesome) gals, and I was in the middle. > D I guess I was living up to being a Libra or something similar. The only sad thing is that when I arrived home I couldn’t find my wallet, and I called TGI Friday’s in case they had found it, but nope. I don’t believe I lost it, for once, and my mom agrees that it was probably stolen. I’m glad they didn’t get my cellphone… I JUST got it.
Finally, my supposedly real reason for this blog post (It kind of is)… I finished submitting ALL my college stuff. Finally! Today, I sent off all the last forms needed for my Financial Aid Applications at all my colleges, so I don’t have to worry anymore! I just have to wait for the letters, and trust me, I will NOT do a countdown. At least not until there is like a month left. Next on my list of things to worry about: Homework and IB Exams! Oh, and driving!
So yes…
I’M FREE OF THE FRIKKIN COLLEGE APPS! SIII FINALMENTE, LIBRE!
*dances a small jig*
