Here are the rules :

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

Iambic's words:

Holy Grail, Minnesota, politics, life-altering injuries, happy endings.

( first five )

Smoke's words: Yellow, phone, Daphne, history, plane

( second five )

That was a long freaking meme. Next one~

ROLEPLAYME!

( my thread: here! )


I love this meme, seriously. Fun times.

It's my BIRTHDAY!

God I feel old. Sixteen's supposed to be this fabulous year, right? It kind of sucked. Oh well. Onwards!

ITT: awesome sparkles and the codes for them, because that's what I want for my birthday.

Tried a new restaurant today with Ben. It was good to see him, and we have a lot of fun. Food was excellent, too. Then we came back to my house and he beat me at Mario Kart. I'm out of practice!

Back from my college tours. Both places were supposed to be sunny and warm; in both it rained. Iambic you should have come, I'm sure you would have reveled in it. I was pissed.

( Hetalia )

First college trips tomorrow; I'm going to St. Louis and then on Tuesday to Chicago. Should be.... not particularly fun. But on the fun side, I am working on the arrangements for my dad and I to go spend ten days in Poland in August, which will be *awesome*.

Got my grades; they were good. Somehow managed to pull off an A in Chinese, mostly probably because the final was easy as hell, although my working my ass off second semester probably helped too. Got the highest score on the math final, with over a hundred percent, but that was because my teacher decided to make it out of 124 points instead of 135. Whatever, I'm just glad that class is done. My China/Japan teacher is keeping the three manga panels I drew and laminating them as an example, which I think is hilarious because they're actually terrible. I can't foreshorten so I just.... didn't. Still no word on APs, how agonizing.

Decided I'm reading War and Peace this summer. We'll see how that goes. Anyways, will update after Chicago!

Star Trek fic? Much love to smokexscribbles for taking a look at it for me <3, but I'd like to get a little bit more feedback on this before I go about cross-posting it. It is the first non-anon piece I've done in a while. So.

Title: K (or Constant)
Characters: Kirk, Chekov, Sulu; Sulu/Chekov
Warnings: Um, swearing? Introspection on a large scale. Probs spoilers for XI. Switching from 3rd to 2nd person and back. Chekov, which in rare cases causes heart palpitations and fainting from adorable.
Summary: There is no universe where Captain James Tiberius Kirk believes in no-win scenarios.

( MOVE MOVE MOVE )

Wow, actually, it's been a while. I'm definitely going to update more now– finished my last final exam yesterday! No grades yet, but surely you shall be hearing about those soon-ish. AP grades are the third week of July, and oh TRUST me you will hear about those. If they're good, there will probably be sparkles.

No, so I saw Star Trek for the second time yesterday. It's so. freaking. good. I've been working on a bit of fic (Smoke's seen it) that'll probably go up later today. Indoctrinated Erin anyways, she thought she was a proper nerd but hadn't ever seen Star Trek. What the hell. About 75% of my time now is dedicated to thinking about Star Trek though, which is probably bad. Also bad that everyone that's seen that movie with me came out, looked at me and said, "You're Bones." Literally, that was the first thing Heather said to me after the first time. But I'm okay with that.

I had my first flight lesson today! My instructor's super nice (and actually really adorable... albeit married and too old for me) and we're going up in the air tomorrow. He though I was 21 and smart, one of which is totally false and one of which is partly false, since I don't know a godddamn thing about airplanes. Twas fun though, and I'm looking forward to learning!

Thursday went to a Twins/Red Sox game with my mother, which was... interesting. Redmond, Gardenhire, Varitek, and Frankona all got thrown out in less than 20 minutes and 1 inning. Can they even *do* that? Plus, that umpire was SO biased for the Sox it was ridiculous. But cool to see and fun, even if we lost (3-1). Beckett pitched a great game.

Tonight my Euro class is havin' a party at Ms. Helbrecht-Wilson's house. It will be hilarious and fun. I believe we're playing Risk and watching WW2 movies. I'm going to make cookies, though, so I'd better get a move on and get to the store. Also, wash my car. He looks disgusting.

ETA: Helbrecht-Wilson thing is actually tomorrow, but car is washed and cookies are made. Also fic is posted.

OH MY GOD EURO AP EURO AP EURO AP I NEED TO STUDY

I'm only on, like, the freaking wars of religion. I have SO MUCH WORK TO DO

In other news, the English Civil War is like a messy divorce. See my study guide:
( cut )

Ugh stressful week. Anyway, happy Passover! Celebrate that all your first borns aren't dead, ye goyem. I'm going to celebrate not-being-a-slave. It's a good feeling.

Art left for Japan today; I'm jealous.

Had a college meeting with my councilor and parents. Gods I hate this process, I can't imagine it's worth it. We narrowed the list down to thirteen schools though, which is much more manageable.

Fell in love with Billy Collins' poetry. He was the US poet laureate for two years, and he's... modern. Mocking. Really really good. Here's one: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/litany/

I'm back from Puerto Rico.

If I hear one more derogatory comment about my appearance or my work ethic or my intelligence or my grades, I am either going to burst into tears or punch someone in the face, and I'm not sure which is more disturbing. My phone is broken so I can't call anyone because I don't know numbers, and I started to hyperventilate and took a shot of my inhaler, which is not the best solution but it works and fast. Called Natalie because I memorized her home phone but she was at a movie... I really need to get out of the house but I'm a little shaky so I shouldn't drive.

I have to deal with prom dresses tomorrow which is bad for my emotional stability (hah, joke) and see if my camera and phone are fixable and my mom wants me to replace my dying computer, but I can't really afford to do that right now.

You have 24 hours to help decide my fate. DO EET.

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What should I rename my journal as?

ari_raid comes from air_raid. It's like an air raid, especially if you're dyslexic, but it's not. It's peaceful. And not-serious. And generally making fun of warmongers. Imagine if we had ari raided Hiroshima.

truthconspiracy is self-explanatory. It's a conspiracy. About the truth. Because reality has a well-known liberal bias, if you catch my drift.

blue_skies_ahead comes half from last night's Dollhouse (Taffy=BAMF) and half from my hope for Obama's presidency & America.


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GUYS I HAD THE BEST IDEA EVER

What if, what if, what if at the ending of Naruto, instead of, idk, defeating Akatsuki and Naruto becomine Hokage (ie the good guys win), Commodore Perry's black ships arrive in Konoha? It would be LOLARIOUS.

...okay I know that was really random, but. So I've been baking a lot recently... I made Subaru cookies for my Euro class yesterday, and am going to make chocolate-caramel cookies for Robotics in like... five minutes. Awesome, am I right? And... that's what's up. Oh! And I started Neverwhere. It's really good so far... I can definitely tell that Good Omens is a truly collaborative work.

Did nothing exciting today except fall down the stairs. I whacked my temple on a corner, though, and now I have a lovely bruise blossoming there. It's directly opposite my bangs, though, so I've got some cool symmetrical composition going on. Someone should paint me. I'm a little dizzy, too, though. Whatevs.

I tried to make plans for tomorrow, but apparently EVERYONE's out of town. It's been a fail weekend, except for starting Neverwhere. I've only read the first 100 pages or so, but it was excellent. Oh, and I also had to watch a movie for China/Japan that was excellent– it's called "To Live". Check it out, but be warned that it's sad I am not even embarrassed to admit I cried– wait, maybe I am a little.

Hahahaha, yeah, fanfic? Do I even still write that? Apparently. It's what you people friended me for, anyway, not to hear me whine about school and grades and the like. Anyway, first thing for a new fandom– sparkly and controversial Hetalia! On with it:

Title: For the Sake of God and Country
Characters: UK and US
Summary: Some things they can't help but relive, again and again, in horror.

( Go go, Hetalia ranger! )

New layout~ and headliner thing. It matches my icon! This makes me irrationally happy.

ETA: Goin' to the opera tonight to see Faust with Erin. Should be pretty good.

ETA2: Finished Guards! Guards!. It was good, but I still think Small Gods was the best.

It's.. wow. Isn't it always?

I think I'll go in chronological order backwards, okay?

( End of First Semester: Cue Me Whining About Grades )

( The Inaugural )

On a final note, I am SO excited about closing Gitmo, I cannot even explain.

1999 was ten fucking years ago. Oh my god.

Kamui is now 26.