my little talks: May 2012

5/30/12

A bittersweet two days.

Yay, you're alive!

[Insert random message for the random person]

♥ Stacy N.

That's primarily what I wrote in people's yearbooks for the past two days. And it was a bit bittersweet considering that I'll never see most of these people again. For two reasons

1. They’re going to a different high school from me.

2. They’re still going to the same school not yet ready to move onto high school.

So it was goodbye I’m glad you’re my friend/ you were amazing, [insert other nice adjectives]/have a great life/ etc for most of them. And a see ya later to those that I know will see again. There was always facebook and life having an uncanny way of making me meet people that I thought will never see again, though, so at least I won’t be that out of touch. Still, I won’t meet them again, so if you go to my school and is reading this right now. Just know that I said goodbye/see ya later depending who you are and which high school you’re going to next year.

Now let’s move onto other stuff of no important matter, if you can call this unimportant.

What do you get for working your butt off for most of the year to create something that everyone will enjoy? A yearbook.

A yearbook that’s thankfully better than last year’s but has slightly less pictures and a whole lot of mistakes. And I’m almost tempted to go through the whole yearbook with a red pen to correct them all. Thankfully the very last page didn’t have any mistakes, because it was written by yours truly.

In fact I should have done that, discreetly edit the whole yearbook at home. And the yearbook teacher wouldn’t care because I’m on the yearbook team.

This reminds me…

And yes that is a hole cut into a shape of a puzzle piece on the front cover. My yearbook teacher haggled very hard for a lot of stuff to be added in the yearbook this year, and surprisingly it worked. Also have fun connecting to the power of knowledge, which actually helped me this year if I think about it.

Salut!

Happy Memorial Day

Merci for all the soldiers and veterans that fought to make America the way it is today.

source

The Fault in Our Stars

source
Status: Currently reading
Rating: 4 or 5 stars out of 5 stars
Page: Around 100
Thoughts: It makes you think in a slightly sad way, but there's a burst of humor to balance it out.
Recommendation: Go read it now if you already haven't.
Favorite quote: Hard to decide.

Les citations ~ quotes

For the moment I'm going to be basking in the (five) awards that I received tonight, at my school's award ceremony. Meaning, I won’t be writing a proper post today. However I will provide you quotes of anything that sounds inspirational. Also have an amazing night! ^.^

"Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop."

Barack Obama

"And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples."

Barack Obama

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

Dr. Seuss

"You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”

Dr. Seuss

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

Dr. Seuss

“If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't!

An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.”

Dr. Seuss

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”

Steve Jobs

“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”

Steve Jobs

“You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”

Steve Jobs

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

Joseph Conrad

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

Brigham Young

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”

Elizabeth Peters

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”

Jane Austen

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

Edgar Allan Poe

If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.”

Chad Sugg

Dear future me, a dare

Sorry, if I haven’t posting for the past few days. Field trips to the amusement park and solar eclipses have been caught in my attention, as well as being a bit lazy and sick. There was also something else that I was doing over the weekend as well. And it first started as a handwritten letter in math class, that my math class teacher actually made us do. It was odd considering that he’s not an English teacher but expected since we’ve nothing else to do. We already completed our studies and finals in math for that year anyways.

I bet you’ve already kind of figured it out, from the picture on the side. However if you haven’t here’s a hint: it involves writing a letter.

To who? You may be wondering. If you can read - and I know you can read - just read the words in that picture.

Dear future me…

That’s right, my math teacher made my class write a handwritten letter to our future selves, that he’s going to send in five years. It was slightly unexpected but fun as we told our future selves nearly everything about ourselves and what has happened during the year. It was fun though as I rambled on how weird it was to write in third person, and what my goals were. However it was short in my standard, and I would have written more if it weren’t for that [rainy] field trip to the amusement park.

So a day after that, I’ve went onto futureme.org, to write myself an actual letter, that will be sent out in five years. It was long by five pages, as I rambled on and on about my fifteen year old life, that surely my twenty year old self would remember.

This reminds me of why you’re here. As you can see by the title, this post is going to be a dare. Not to me, since I’ve already done it, but to you.

I dare you to write a letter to your future self, using futureme.org. And send it to yourself in five years or so. Describe how your year has been going and how it went, describe your current dislikes and likes, your goals, your crushes, etc.

It’s going to be fun, and I bet your future self would appreciate getting the letter that you wrote five or so years ago. And it’s easy as well, futureme.org lets you set your own date of when to send it, and it will actually send your letter on that date. Also once you’ve submitted it, you’re not allowed to change or even look at that letter. It’s like a time capsule, only electronically.

So what are you waiting for? Go write that letter to your future self, right now. Don’t procrastinate, just write, write, and write, till you are satisfied with the whole thing. It doesn’t matter if it’s short or long or somewhere in between, just as long as you’re happy with what’s in it.

Also, you can’t back out of it, it is a dare.

source

(e)Book cover designs

Want an amazing, professional cover for you ebook, but don't want to pay a lot of money for someone to do it for you? Well you've come to the right place, because I know a person who makes amazing and professional covers, for a really low price.

He's cnsamson from here. And it only costs $5.00 if you order one.
These are some of his cover artworks.
So click on the picture right now, if you want cheap, amazing, professional, ebook covers.

[source]

Only two more weeks

Till the last day of school comes, and I’m already sad thinking about it. Sure, I’m a bit happy, considering that it is the last day of school. And then three months of no schoolwork and you get bored. But you can stay up, sleep in late, and have fun.

Not unless you’re taking online schooling for the summer (like me -_-), then you’re not completely out of the ballpark for schoolwork. At least you won’t lose any of the information you learned in school, if you do take online schooling over the summer. It’s also the reason why the first part of school is just reviews, because teachers are trying to make you remember what you’ve lost during summer.

Now, I shall stop rambling about summer break, and just tell you guys why I’m sad that school is ending. It’s simply because it’s my last year at school. It’s the last time I’ll go walk the halls, have a half locker, and eat the lunch food. It’s also the last time that I’ll see the teachers that I’ve known since seventh grade. Practically much, it’s the last year of everything that I’m going to do there.

And that’s what makes me sad, knowing that it’s last year. It also scares me, knowing that I’m going to the actual high school next year. My just-barely-turned-into-a-sophomore head is probably going to explode from most of the work that I’ll receive. But I’m glad that I’m only going to be a sophomore next year, because they don’t receive really, really hard homework and have college pressures (yet).

However that eventually passes. So does college, and life, and everything else in between.

That includes being sad because it’s near my end at Jr. High. And I’ll probably be sadder when I’m finished with high school and college.

But enough with being sad, here’s something happy.

I can't wait till Friday, because I'm going on a field trip to the amusement park. ^.^
[source]

[source]

It reminds me of the disney movie, Bugs Life

[soruce]

[source]

Dear mom,

[source]

Love,

^.^ No more math kidding

I finished that placement algebra 2 test yesterday, and got a score that I'm comfortable with. Even though I scored badly on the second session of the test which was college level math. And I knew when I got the question wrong for the next question would be easy, then when I got the easy question right, the next question would be hard. And the cycle would repeat, easy question, hard question, easy question, hard question etc.

Then when the test ended and my friends and all the other alg. 2 kids got back to school, we celebrated with pizza. Courtesy to my math teacher, who was also kind enough to excuse every alg. 2 kid from their classes for the rest of day. That meant four options...
1.) Go home
2.) Go to one of your favorite teacher's classroom.
3.) Go back to class, because you like it.
4.) Stay in the teacher's lounge (that's where we ate the pizza, because everywhere else was full).

Everyone that I knew most likely didn't choose option number three, and that included me as well. It was simply because, I don't like my geography teacher. He rants too much and he blames nearly everything on his last period class (that I'm in), and he hates the kid that sits next to me.

However throughout the short school day (Friday is the only short day throughout the school week, because the teachers have to go to meetings afterward), I felt average. Because nearly everyone I know got into a higher math than me, and that included a couple of eighth graders as well. Eight graders that probably got their genius mind by being dropped on the head a couple of times.

Only a couple of ninth graders got the same math score as me, and then there were two people that I know of that got a lower math score than everyone else.

It's slightly obvious that they won't be doing college level math when they're in high school.

Well moving on. In honor for the math score I've received, and the free day at school, it's time for a video by One Direction.

If you're wondering, if I did that last night, I didn't. I got tired around the usual one or two am, then went to bed. And I'm still tired.

[source]

So au revoir, because I'm going to try to get some sleep... or not.

Procrastinating on schoolwork

*Caution rant, about school* *Read at your own risk*

I'm supposed to do an essay that's due tomorrow. And it has to be exactly one page, in a 12 size font, must be Times New Roman, and have five paragraphs. This would be possible if it weren't for the whole essay must also be double spaced. Now that's slightly impossible, but not possible if it was two or three pages.

My geography teacher is a stupid guy sometimes. He expects too much out of his honors students. It's amazing that I haven't died from his rants and the work he gives us. But I might die tomorrow doing a three hour math test that also has an English test attached to it. And it's only for the Algebra 2 students. -_-

[source]

Plus there's the math finals, that I have to do as well. ^ [why???]. Now as I think about it, I have to collect some videos/pictures for my communications technology, and edit it all tomorrow. Only, I won't be in school the whole day because of the math test.

So that's both good and bad news. Good news, I'll have more time to get my pictures/videos, bad news I'll have to work extra hard on Tuesday.

It doesn't help that...

[source]

I'm slightly sick, from something called milk. And I'm not even lactose intolerant >_<

J'aimerais voyager en Europe. (I would like to travel to Europe, now).

Especially France, so I can visit my pen pal.
[source]

Just to get away from the final weeks of school, that is filled with work, work, and more work. Or just skip to the final week of school that is most likely going to be filled with picnic during English (because we have lunch then English), signing yearbooks, and going to the amusement park the next day. All for the special ninth graders that's going to the actual high school next year.

In fact, why am I writing all this? I should be working on my essay, and I should be studying, and I should just read the book that I'm reading right now. Not procrastinating on it, especially since this is the last month of school. Bye et être heureux (bye and be happy). And...

[source]

Anime

I'm sorry if I haven't posting for the past couple of days life and school got in the way. I was also a bit lazy to upload the pictures from my camera to my laptop. But I finally did, yesterday and that was simply because I needed the room on my camera to take more pictures for a school project.

Well enough about me rambling about why I couldn't upload pictures. I did promise you the cosplayers (costume players) I saw two weeks ago at the Japanese Festival. So here they are with their anime/manga that I most likely forgot by now, for most of them.

The Legend of Zelda~

Unknown by my account

The main anime characters of the show

Unknown but he's good with fighting dragons

Franken Stein - Soul Eater~

Unknown, but I think the characters in this one is part of some American computer game.

Unknown anime, but they do carry their props very well.

Pokemon! (Obviously), dancing to the tune of this, there's the a** word in it, so caution.

One piece~

Shugo Chara~

Unknown anime, but he's might tall

Pika :p

Just pictures

I'll do a real post on Saturday, that involves anime. Just like I promised you a while ago. I can't really do it tomorrow because my older sister is graduating from college ^.^ And I can't do it now, because I'm tired from doing my math homework.

It was hard, considering that I've never really learned about right triangle trigonometry. Sure, I was supposed to take geometry and algebra 2 this year. However, there's a new math program my school district is doing that's called secondary math [honors], and I'm in it as well as algebra 2. And it's surprisingly easy considering that it's a less condensed version of algebra 2.

Well that was random, but here's the pictures I promised.