OK first off, sign my guesbook! It's entry 1 in my journal. I'll make a link in a little bit. I want to see who exactly reads this, maybe for use in future friends-clean-up... so you'd better get cracking!

This is aforementioned link to guestbook and will be posted in every entry henceforth.

It's 12:31 and I still don't have Metroid Prime. My sister is lazily eating chips on the leather couch and delaying our little jaunt to the mall. And the other one is practicing flute :evil: so hard to find good siblings these days.

I haven't practiced violin today! Haha! Props to Mark for telling me the composer of Bacchanale. Thanks. I still have an indent in my finger :( Really need to check that out... Last night I watched ALL the special features on X2 and drew a couple pictures, one of Zelda and two of my heroine. Later I might do something with them, something involving a scanner, Word, and MS Paint... I got pretty good at Paint over the last few years. I'll scan the Zelda pic, make it smaller on Word (it porportions them, Paint doesn't), and then meticulously trace every line over and color in by hand with the little paintbrush tool since the paper has distortions in the color; it's not straight out white. It'll look good! I have done this before, in like May. On the Lion King! I might put the pics up on some site for you all to see, later today.

But then if I get MP, I won't (^^) because I'll be in love with MP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well actually I won't; MP is an inanimate object and the hero is female... as am I...

OK! I reviewed Animal Crossing, check it out. Constructive criticism.

I'm feeling really weird... Like I'm really sugar high but I'm not... Just had a Cherry Pepsi a while ago, but those don't get me hyper, only the really concentrated lollipops do.

OK! My nana came today to give me a violin lesson on my district music. I played it way better like I always do when she teaches me. She's good. She's been playing for like 50 years, which is 10 times as long as me! WHat we have for districts is Finlandia by Jean Sibelius, Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach, Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, and Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah and I don't know the composer. It's all over the level that it should have been but I still have like 3 weeks and I'm chugging along! And it's not so tough, now. I can at least practice it! Before I was so bad, I couldn't even practice them.

Then I practiced when she left. What I played, in this order, was Dancla's 4th Air Varie, Moldau, Reflections from Mulan, Eighteenth Variation on Paganini's theme, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirate's Legend, and finally, Dance of the Choral, Sherzo, and Dance by some guy. In March we have a huge concert called All Strings Night where every group from 5th (beginning of program) to 12th (end, duh) comes and plays like one or two pieces. Then we have the finale with everyone. The finale this year is Pirates of the Caribbean and there's a whole like 30 measure section (that's like a whole page!) where only my group can play because it's weird rhythm and besides, it's in 12/8 time so it's not like they can even count it! That's the part with the cello solo that I can't really describe over the journal... lol. The theme of the concert is Water Music so we're calling it the H20 Concert! Well not really, that's just what WE call it, it's really called All Strings Night.

My violin teacher's name is Mr Vinci and he's the conductor, too. He's cool. So sometimes when he's not looking or out of the room I leave notes (haha, pun!) that say, "YO V-DAWG!" and sign it in someone else's name 8) I'm a cool kid! T-chilly L.J Coolio! Next year I'm taking Music Tech I which is like composing on a computer and he teaches it :) I'm going to have an A for sure.

This year I've gotten good at violin, like faster than I was before. Last night I had a great dream (READ MY DREAM!) The concertmistress, who is incredible and she's going to the National Orchestra, told me, "Nan, when I graduate you'll be concertmistress!" YEAH RIGHT! But I'll tell her about it when vaca's over. I'm like 1st violin 4B, yeah right I'll be concertmistress! No way. If I practiced every day for three hours and everyone good died, maybe.

Well!

jekyll wrote:HAL-9000 wrote:jekyll wrote:

HAL-9000 wrote:Why do you need a reporting feature though? Aren't the mods competent enough to be able to moderate themselves? I know a mod who thinks the system should be done away with. Like I said before Lithium ran fine without reporting why can't these forums?

Competence has nothing to do with this. There are far too many post for MODs to look at all of them to see if they're up to snuff, just like there can't be police at every corner looking for crime. They are dependant on reports of violations that need action.

Agreed.. A lot of times even posts that get reported don't get locked or deleted for a while

^^MY 1000th POST! Normally I don't celebrate these, but... :):D:P;):lol::oops::roll:8):!::o:evil:

See, you really need to check back here if you ever want to know anything since I update so much before posting anew. Now here's some avatar urls that are ONLY for me, even though I just got them off google. W/e, use it if you WANT... I want to be unique, can you blame me? lol, no one is going to use my avs. So whatever, these are just here for me to use at the moment...

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The last one's the one I'm using right now.

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Haha in my title I went all the way to the cahracter limit! OK, first off, I made another review: Cruis'n World for the N64 . (That's a link!) I think I'll be having to write another one today... It was the only reason I posted up to level 6, to get reviewing powers :D Good news about my reviews: ON Star Fox I'm No. 2 listed! Yay! Featured reviewer! I'll review something popular next, like PM2.

Um today I have made up my mind to go to EBX and buy MP and PoP SoT, even though it'll be hard to get my parents out of the house. It's snowing again... three inches and still coming down :o Oh no! Three inches! But it's snowing pretty hard. Of course we live like 10 minutes from the mall...

If you rearrange "minute" you get "minuet" and minuet is a type of song. I remember playing Minuet in G on the piano when I was like 8. It was my favorite piece :D Then I quit piano for violin. I'm thinking of picking up the cello :? Because I've always loved the tone you can pull from it and I think I'd be able to since I play violin already. Plus, I have 'arm' vibrato, as opposed to wrist vibrato (arm is when you move your whole arm basically back and forth to get the sound, as opposed to shaking your wrist) and arm vibrato is what they do on cello. Sometimes practicing vibrato can give you tendinitis, but since I've got it now I think I'm in the clear. My violin this weel have me really sore fingers from pressing on the strings and (GASP!) I have an indentation on my index finger because of it! Like a visible indent! I think it's healing up... So weird! On the bright side, I finally learned how to correctly count music :D Five years after starting. Up until this point everything was just really easy. I was able to remember, when the violas do this I'm supposed to come in, but now that I'm in the big leagues (String Ensemble whoot) I have to count. So in "Chamber Camarata" (good chamber) we're playing Reflections from Mulan and it has a lot of dotted quarters, which I couldn't count until about two weeks ago, when I was practicing. That song will live in infamy since it taught me how to count!!!!

Ok then. I'm sure you're glad you know that. Great story, huh? Our String Ensemble pants are coming soon and we're wearing them into the terminal on the music trip and we'll all look like a cult :D I'm on the same flight as my friends (to Florida).

More later! I tell the best stories. Fabulam optimam narraro.

OK it's later! I put together a floor lamp in my room and vacuumed up the styrofoam chips that were all over my bed. Last night I watched Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life. It was good! Apparently the only scene she used a stunt double in was the skydiving one... she apparently even did the wavebike flip in the beginning. Right! I was thoroughly weirded out because she's not even British but in the whole movie she does a British accent... weird! But at least Gerard Butler really has that accent. Ok! Good flick.

The Golden Age of Video Gaming lol this forum kind of stole its name... But I'm joining anyway, in the hopes of becoming a mod (I'm the second member, lol, no advertising, and I made the only real thread). I need to become a mod.

Here's a link, for me or you, whatever. So I rememebr to go there. Crispy's Dungeon. I figure I ought to check it out since I haven't after all these months of Gamespotting.

http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_topics.php?board=909101349" title="http://forums.gamespot.com/gamespot/show_topics.php?board=909101349">The Authentic Anything Board

OK so here's what's what. This week is February vacation so I dunno what I'll be doing. Probably writing, gaming, coming here, and practicing violin. Fun fun!

My book rewrite isn't working on the computer. I just can't get into typing it. I have to handwrite it again and hope I can get someone to type it up for me. I mean, you can't submit a handwritten manuscript to an editor, can you? And there'd only be one copy. But in my room I'm so much more creative! I can't get my juices flowing any better than I do in my room, on the bed with lots of pillows, with Phantom playing :) Or Jason Mraz, there's some good tunes. My mom said she'd type it for me, even though it's long, as long as I wrote big enough. But it's going well so far. This book I just read, The Goose Girl, really gave me some ideas and pinpointed exactly how I want my heroine to be. That's a great book, by Shannon Hale. It isn't really a girl book but it is a fairy tale type story. That's my new favorite genre, fairy tales. Not like Grimm's but newer ones and retellings of older ones. Maybe later I'll say what it's about. So check back.

I'm going to review a little more... Maybe of some more popular games. If I do a nice job it'll be featured, anyway, and people will trust it. So. Tedy Bruschi with a stroke! Hear! Save him! He regained his vision and was sent home, but still... I hope he's OK!

I want a couple games: Metroid Prime, PoP: Sands of Time, Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion.. I'm demanding :D I probably won't get any of them in the near future, maybe MP and MC.

More later, when something good happens.

Well my new CD player didn't hold a charge so we decided to return it. Then I took the CD out and shut it only thr little latch thing broke off and so now it won't shut. I suppose I can say it's defective. As a result, I have lost the ability to listen to my new CD of the Phantom of the Opera on headphones. To reiterate, "Oh well".

We're going to the Phantom when it comes nearby! (I shan't [shan't! heh] disclose where, obviously! Nor the date, because then you could conceivably look it up and find out where I am!) Not the movie, but in fact the 'musical'. Is it really a musical? I hate that term. Aforementioned term calls to mind Annie Get Your Gun. I was too young for that one! But now I'm really excited. Can't wait. I wish I could say it in Latin! The CD has different people than my retro tape did, since it's the movie soundtrack and has different people than the 1987 version that the boombox ate. I don't think their voices are as good, but, hey, it's still the same thing, right? I'll get used to it.

I've been practicing for districts in March only the music is way harder than the audition piece and I can't really play it and from practicing my fingers really hurt even though I've built up callous to like protect my fingers or something... Probably because my vibrato is suddenly better! That's it! Heh. Humor me. When I sing I have almost a two-octave range... Ugh that stinks! I can go from G-string G (strings reference, sorry) to E-string F or so. i can't hit 2 octaves. So like 14 or 15 notes. It's hard to sing along to stuff that isn't like pop music, since those singers have actual ranges. I have to switch octaves and stuff :P I'd never be an opera singer now. I could play in the pit, though! I'll be the young violin virtuoso with the solo and all!

OK I said I'd explain the Germany thing... Well here goes. In English we had to do a journal of where we'd be in 15 years (When we're 30) and so this was basically mine:

I am going to be married to a grossly affluent German Baron and living in Germany. [FYI: Not a strict time thing here, it's going to wander.] I will have at least 7 kids, two sets of twins (girl and boy, respectively) named Genevieve, Guinivere, Gunther, and Freidrich [after my hubbie] and then a couple more kids. I'm going to live in a chateau that was transported to Germany from France like stone by stone. Filthy rich! I am going to use my husband's money-

In addition to Latin, I am also a disciple of Pumas, Stacy, and Clinton. Pumas are fantastic shoes, and to explain why I'm going to have to explain Stacy and Clinton.

Stacy London and Clinton Kelly (Sorry if I spelled his last name wrong.... I shoul be shot) are the osts of a fantastic show called "What Not to Wear" on TLC Fridays at 9 and 10, Saturdays at 2, and various other times during the week. The show follows our lovable hosts as they jump the victim, trash his/her clothes, and teach them how to dress. It's a great show. Please watch it! (Note, these times are in EST and it's kind of a girl oriented show...) I have learned how to dress from them, exempli gratia, no miniskirts after 35 (although I don't like them now), pointed shoes make your legs look longer, and in general how to create a good look no matter how tubby you are with structured clothes!

One such item to create a favorable look are shoes. Shoe-shoes should always, always be pointed in some fashion and usually have at least a kitten heel (like an inch) but more is better! Sorry, Uggs are off-limits. Do you really want such a big, clunky, wide thing on your foot? All it does is make your legs look cankle-ish and fat and makes your legs look stumpy. I also avoid ballet-shoe type shoes, to be safe and make my legs look longer. A great type of sneaker to create a longer, taller look are Pumas (and not the white ones-they make your legs look sort of stumpy). The stripe, while it does make your feet look a bit longer, also makes your legs look longer by continuing the line of your leg down your foot. It also makes your feet, from above, appear narrower by an almost paneling effect, with the two stripes scooping out your feet, if you'll excuse my clumsy language. So Pumas are in fact a beautiful shoe and everyone should have some. They even make man-Pumas! A Puma California is a great addition to one's shoe collection and comes at a low, low price of only $30-60 US!

OK. My plan is to buy a lot of clothes at Job Lot, like with $25 or $30, and get my friends to nominate me for the show. I will play it out like I'm POed and all like everyone but secretly I'm doing it (A) for the $5000 wardrobe and (B) because they'll like me so much, they'll either ask me as host for the show or I will host What Not To Wear Europe. Clothes are way better there. Then, I will get them to bring my friend on the show (not the photo friend, a viola friend) and she, too, will bring a fake Dollar Store wardrobe. They'll like her so much that I'll get her to host with me on WNTW Europe, based in either Paris or Germany, Germany being where I will live as Baroness to my rich husband. I'm going to be a gold-digger when I grow up and I won't let him divorce because I want his Euros! I will tell more about my 15-year planner in the next entry.

So now you know what I am: a shallow and clothes-obsessed teenager. Ha.

last night my friend slept over. We stayed up talking until 2 AM. We watched Shanghai Nights and then couldn't watch any more movies though Indy Jones was planned. Oh well. I spilled my guts.

I wrote my causes and effects of the French Revolution AP application essay, which was about a thousand words. I asked my friend to proofread it. She read 3 sentences and determined that the whole essay was good, due to my lanuage in the essay. W/e. Now I'm heling her do photo assignment #1. More later. can't type now.

---Nova Res---New Things---

My friend wanted me to help her with photo so she needed a picture of me on the swing across the yard. So to avoid wrecking my Pumas in the snow I ran barefoot. Only the snow was kind of deep still and it's crystallized and it REALLY hurt. She tried to piggy back me to the garage but I was too big (taller, not fatter!) and she fell over into the snow and I had to (HAD to) warm my feet in the hot tub since they wouldn't get feeling back. Oh well. It was fun, anyway.

Here's the link to my review of Star Fox. Star Fox 64. Check it out but don't say you like it just because! I need to write another.

Since yesterday I've read ahead in Oliver Twist to about chapter 40 or about page 370. I am supposed to stay behind with the class but since I know who dies I can't wait. Besides, I really love it. So I read 200 pages yesterday of Dickens! Woot for me! But it's really good. It feels like Dickens is really just using Oliver as a vassal, an excuse really, to explore the lives of the people around him. I mean Monks, Nancy, Rose, and the Jew (His name comes out as censor bypass, sorry for sounding racist) are way more developed than Oliver. It's a great read.

I think I have to handwrite this rewrite of my book... I'll be sure to do at least another besides and there's just too much distraction on the computer.

I often edit my journals throughout their span as top-entry. So check back in case you miss out!

I don't know why I titled this journal like I did. Whatever. So I guess I have to say something latin in temorary closing.

"Numquam in aqua [long mark] ambule." Never walk on water.

Generally Psycho Off-Topic Forum

Right now I'm trying to make some headway in my book rewrite... Not successfully. The internet is such a distraction.

My goal in the English language (and hopefully Latin!) is to never have to say "for lack of a better word". I absoultely revel in vocabulary. Last year I was supposed to bring pizza to a chamber party and asked the conductor where to get it. I said, "At which shop shall I acquire the pizza?" and had to repeat it a lot, much to my friends' delight, because he thought I was asking when we needed it or something. Funny. He's a cool guy.

I'm listening to the Simple Symphony by Benjamin Britten. Every movement has alliteration- Boistrous Bouree, Playful Pizzacato, Sentimental Saraband, and Frolicksome Finale. It's quite tough; SS and FF weere the main focus of the first semester and now we're on to BB and PP (they're harder). It's actually quite nice to listen to but quite a bother to play... over and over since we do it wrong so much, and we're the good orchestra. Classical music sets my mind going.

In orch, my stand partner and the partner of the girl in front of me were both out so I sat with her since we're supposed to be as close to the center as possible. It's way easier to play since the conductor and the concert-mistress are much nearer and more visible. It was cool. She told me, "You'll HAVE to love latin if you want to do AP." because I told her of my aspirations in the honored field of Latin. Everybody thinks I'm joking! I told her I went to bed at 6:30 every night and really carried the joke on and she believed me until I told her I was kidding only.

I can't even listen to Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera now because it was a tape from 1987, which makes it 2 years older than I am, and the tape got eaten up and I tried to get it out but to no avail. I'm really, really mad. Guess I need a CD. Tapes make me feel retro. I ought to buy an eight-track player.

I really want to go to the Phantom. (at a loose Latin translation: Umbrae multe ire volo, umbrae being "to the phantom" [Romans called ghosts/phantoms shadows, shadow=umbra), multe being much, ire to go, and volo I want.) That hardly took any time. I love Latin! Latinam plurime amo!

Question: Do you read my whole entry? I mean I know, it's long... But hey. Do you? (This question will show who does by who answers!)

A Prologue

Once upon a time there was a noble family in the land of France. The family was not so well put together, perhaps. The father did not much care for his wife and she had no love of him. Their daughter was often disregarded and sent to her tutor for a lesson. She gained much in the way of knowledge but always was in fear of her father, who threw frequent and violent rages, usually directed at his wife.

This girl, aged seventeen years when this narration began, was from a young age close to her oft-abused mother. They shared much, keeping no secrets. The girl was rather old to still be betrothed, but her husband-to-be didn’t care; he was an old man with no other potential brides but for her. The poor girl was forced into the marriage to better her father’s status, though her betrothed was several decades older than she was.

The girl was something of an introvert, by neither nature nor choice but because of her looks. Though she was not by any means unattractive, there was a look to her that many found unnerving. As a result, she often avoided situations that would have brought her uncomfortably close to society. Though she longed to attend the fanciful balls of the Sun King’s court, she knew better than to put herself on the spot with the often shallow lords and ladies who inhabited these sociable functions. She had her friends, mostly the people of her family’s lordship, who were faithful and good to her. There was no dire need for outside company, only a continuous wanting.