Another self portrait.

Birthday

It's odd to think that I'm eighteen now, if for no reason other than because now I'm technically an adult. I'm just so used to being the little sister that I tend to think of age relative to my brother. Eighteen and (not quite) twenty just sound so... Old, even if they're not.
I dunno.

I GOT INTO COLLEGE!

I applied Early Action to my top college, and, a week later, got my response. The letter of admissions hasn't been mailed to my house yet, but my account online told me I was accepted. 

I AM SO HAPPY I AM GLOWING.

I've applied!

I've finished applications for two colleges! Yay!

I keep seeing all these cool tea flavors sent around on mail blogs--like mint chocolate or vanilla or what have you. I really want to try a vanilla or chocolate tea, but they don't sell them here!

WHY.

Yesterday I tried taking some self portraits. I've been thinking about posting some of my photos, maybe from class or otherwise just so that this blog isn't empty. I swear I'm not dead!

These are my favorites :)

So. Lately I've been intentionally forgetting my taekwondo classes, simply because I haven't been in the mood and it hasn't been fun there in a while (since the instructor broke his ankle about a year ago and brought in a replacement). I was even going to go today, I just... forgot. For real.
I feel bad about it. But at the same time, I don't enjoy going anymore.
It's kind of lose-lose.

I've fallen in love with octopuses.

Seriously. I love them. I've been endlessly googling videos of them just so I could watch them move.
I've been looking for octopus-shaped stamps or other octopus things online (to no avail D: )
I want more octopus things.

Also, I kind of have a small obsession with cecaelia. They've become my favorite mythical creatures. Seriously. They're so cool.

Hello again! It's been such a long time since I've written -_-
I'm sorry! I'm so horrible at this.
So anyhow. Today I went to the library and picked up all seven of my holds. Added to the five books I now have at home to read, that's quite a bit of time. But if you're reading this Beh, don't worry--your book takes priority :)

Just updating on all the awful tests I'm taking: I have my SAT subject test this Saturday and my ACT the Saturday after that. UGH. Not to mention that I'm totally unprepared for the US history subject test--I have done no studying other than taking the class this year, so I have zero confidence in my knowledge. Taking practice tests totally reinforces that, because seriously, I have no idea what I'm doing.

I got two letters from The Netherlands this week, which is freaking amazing. I promise I'm going to write back as soon as I can, but I'm seriously busy right now. In two and a half weeks, school will let out and I'll finally be able to write back at a decent pace :)

I also finally sent a mysterious book to Beh--hopefully she likes it, although it is rather strange, so I don't blame her if she doesn't.

I ought to go, I'll try and blog again eventually :)

No mail this week

Woe is me.

Oh My Gosh...

I just found the letters from my Spanish pen pal from when I was in the fourth grade. I thought I lost those letters.
He only sent me three, then never again.
I still have the earrings he sent me. And now I have his letters, too.

So... I used to be 35 pages behind on my Script Frenzy script.

I wrote 13 pages today.

I suppose I'm catching up.

Day of Silence

This friday is the Day of Silence.  It is a "national youth-run effort using silence to protest the actual silencing of LGBT people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools," and our school participates in it every year. I've definitely been participating for as long as I've known about it. 
I'm kind of pumped for it. In the past, I've brought whiteboards to help communicate, though I think I might actually go for some hardcore silence this year. 


Also, next week I'm going to donate blood! I've never donated before; hopefully there's nothing wrong with me preventing me from doing so (I'm more afraid of being turned down for donating than I am of the actual needle.) You have to be at least 17, and none of my friends are either old enough or willing to... I can't understand why you wouldn't want to, though! 


Plus, I have type O blood (though I'm not sure if it's positive or negative!), making me a universal donor. I want to help the best I can!

What makes me really angry, though, is that when I got my driver's license, my mum didn't check the donor box. It wasn't her decision to make--I would rather be helping others than taking my organs with me to rot. 


Yay activism!

Wall Art! :D

I put this up on the wall :D It was approved by the vice principal, so it wasn't even against the rules. 

Also, now there seem to be tons of cute posters appearing around for no particular reason. For example, high five posters with giant hands to slap while walking by. I don't have anything to do with these--they just make me happy :)

EEEP!

Today I came home and there was a fat package from Poland! EEP!
I sent Ada poptarts a couple weeks ago, since she had never eaten them before, as they don't sell them in Poland. Well today I got a giant envelope full of her favorite sweets!

Ahh, I was so excited opening it! They're so foreign and amazing!

Plus, the outside of the envelope had little Super Mario stickers :3 

She also sent me pictures from her hometown, of her family and pets, as well as a letter on nyan cat paper :D

Yay!

Oh my gosh. I got another letter today, so now I have three things to respond to! Two of which I will have to start on right away because they came when I was on vacation! SO much writing to do today!

In other news, I'm almost done with one of two essays!

I'M BA-ACK!

...Although I realize I may have never said that I left.

Anyway, I just spent the last week road tripping up from San Francisco, through Oregon and Washington. We saw tons of colleges (six, in fact). I also met up with my brother's best friend (at the University of Oregon) and his girlfriend (at Puget Sound) and hung out with them a little :)

But anyway, it was pretty cool! I really loved Seattle. I could live there, I think.

In other news, when we were in Seattle I found this japanese import shop called Daiso that is SO AWESOME. I'm generally not the biggest Asia nerd, but I started geeking out when we were there because they had so much stationery and other cute things, it was awesome. I bought eight new stationery paper set thingies, and tons of new tapes and punches. I got an embosser too! Other than the paper goods, I also bought a couple bento boxes--they're something I've always wanted, but never really known where to get (or else they would be expensive!) The AMAZING thing about Daiso is that EVERYTHING is $1.50--it's so unbelievably affordable :D

Being back home kind of sucks, though. Mostly because I realize I have to write 2 essays, and only really have tomorrow to do so. Oh well.

I am so sorry about how grammatically incorrect the majority of this post is. I would like to point out that it is midnight and I just spent the last 5+ hours either in an airport or on a plane. At this point I'm just beyond caring :)

So last year I did a few anonymous projects around my school to make it more fun and colorful. I hung colorful happy tags from the locks on strangers' lockers, drew smiles on some glass pebbles and placed them around--simplistic things that still make people smile.

Well, this week I finally had the time to spread some more little projects.

I hung a colorful banner in the staircase, and placed a few love posters around the school (with little tabs that you can pull away-- it was inspired by this.) I'm working on making more non-permanent paper art to stick to the walls!

What I find funny is that it's technically against the rules to put up anything that hasn't been signed and approved by the principal-- so if they really wanted, they could get me in trouble for putting up the love posters, or for hanging a paper banner. But I don't see the harm in hanging up positive reaffirmations :)

Most of my ideas are inspired by Katie Sokoler, a really cool photographer and street artist! She's one of my favorite artists and role models :)

So I've never written a screenplay before. I've never had any interest in it either.

I got emailed by the NaNoWriMo headquarters today-- I generally just ignore their messages. I opened it today out of boredom-- it turns out that Script Frenzy is 12 days away.

For whatever weird reason, I decided that I'm going to do it.

I spent a long time reading about how to write a screenplay. I even made an account for celtx, which is a free script writing software.

I have no idea what it's going to be about. It'll probably be one of the crazy fun ideas that I had always considered for NaNo, but turned aside for whatever reason. (I usually treat NaNo as though it's Serious Writing Time, which is sad. It would prolly be better if I let myself have a little more fun with it, but then I wouldn't like the result.)

So yeah. Any suggestions for what I should write about? I think I might just lump a bunch of unrelated prompt-y type things together (Barista? Zombies? Greenland?) without a plot in mind at all and see where it goes. And throw things in for no particular reason when I'm getting bored. Heh. I'm kind of excited.

So now I just wait, I guess.

Foreign Mail!

Hello! Today was a good day :)

I got a letter from Hortense, my pen pal from France! She sent me all sorts of adorable goodies!

The entire letter was covered in cute stickers and happy drawings! I don't want to post a picture of the letter itself :P

She tucked in the postcard from Paris. So pretty! I want to go to Paris c:

She also sent me some tea (it's in french!) and a little pink bracelet. I love it!

You may also notice that my fingernails are tuxedos. Indeed :)