Um...I have no idea what to call this.

Ok, well…. I’m bored. I ‘m at work right now and I’m bored. That

is…annoying, because I have 8 hours and 20 minutes left of work.

Luckily though, no one has been particularly nasty yet. If I wasn’t

here I would be sleeping. Granted I am getting paid $14 an hour not

to be sleeping and I have been doing a lot of sleeping, but I like

sleeping.

I had a really weird dream last night. I dreamed that I was on an FBI

task force hunting a serial killer and so I woke up at 2:30 am and

couldn’t get back to sleep, because all I could think about was

catching this guy.

I am really thirsty, when Nancy gets back I am going to get some

water. I wish that I could work an operator, but generally they don’t

have those anymore…but can I tell you how annoying automated systems

are? You listen to all of these prompts, but none of them apply to

you and all you want is to talk to a human and that is that last

prompt on the system. I think that if a company got actual operators

then it would have a much higher customer service rating. Is there

such a thing as a customer service rating?

Nancy and I were just talking about good cop/bad cop which made me

think of Die Hard and that John McClane is the epitome of bad cop. I

really want to watch all those movies again. It’s like the 80’s were

the Golden Age for action movies. They had stars like Arnold

Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis. I don’t why,

but they were just better…maybe it’s because they used physical

stunts, instead of CGI. It’s actually cooler to see a physical stunt.

I think that’s why Live Free or Die Hard stood up to the original 3,

because it was mostly physical stunts, so visually it was the same. I

think that in some ways too much CGI (as much as I love fantasy

movies) messes with the age old tradition of film. Well, technically

its not age old, because film was invented in the 1880’s, but still.

I want to create a fantasy world with as many physical stunts as

possible, because its just not as fun when you can tell they didn’t

actually do it themselves (or that it wasn’t even done by a human).

I am bored again… I now have 6 and ½ hours until I get to go home. I

just killed two hours. Well, not really killed, because I was

answering phones and typing messages and scanning Driver’s Licenses

and Insurance cards and checking patients in and such. I actually

don’t mind working, while I’m here, but I hate the idea of working, so

I get a stomach ache the day before, but once I am working, its all I

can do, there is no room for extraneous thought. Well, when the phone

is ringing at least. When it gets quiet I think too much and then

apparently I talk too much. That is why I am writing this right now.

It is an effort not to chatter. But the thing is that I love to

chatter. I talk to myself, to my computer, to my cat and dog, to

characters in books, movies and tv shows. I just like to talk. I

have thoughts and opinions about everything and I like to share them

with the people around me. Apparently people find me annoying, my mom

even cuts me off, which just makes me mad. That’s probably a

character flaw. But everyone has character flaws, so I’m not that

worried about it.

I’m starting to get nervous about college. I’m worried that I’m not

going to be creative enough. I have a lot of ideas, but I can never

seem to bring them to fruition. I have a hard time creating character

and my stories are never indie compatible. I just hope can find

someone who likes Buffy and 80’s action movies as much as I do. If I

can’t I’m afraid that I’m going to be very lonely. I could never be

completely lonely with Harry for company, but still. I also hope that

I can find someone to go to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and

the Deathly Hallows, because that would be a sad event to attend by

yourself. But I am excited to be able to film things and learn about

the process and what is possible. I am a little worried about being

behind everyone else, but I guess at this point the most I can do is

jump into whatever they give me feet first. Still, I can’t help

thinking about how far behind I could be. Ok… I want to be done with

the pity party now.

Now there are 2 hours to go until I get to leave!!! Yay and I

balance, even better. I have nothing to say…I am going to go home and

watch NCIS, maybe I’ll even call Erin.

Now there are 25 minutes left in my scheduled day…I still have to wait

to see if the 5:30 is going to show and then make sure I balance and

do all the wrap up stuff, but its so close. Nancy likes Bruce Willis

too. Yay!!!! Positive vibes. What can I say that’s positive?

Um…..I"m home!!!!!! Thats positive and now I get to sleep and read Live Free or Die Hard Fanfiction.

One more thing...the formatting on this post is all weird, but I'm too lazy to fix it. Sorry!

Packing

Sometimes I want to just write...just babble on here, but I am afraid, because even though the only person who reads this regularly is my mom...it is public. I started a Die Hard fanfiction the other day, but I will likely never finish it. I have started packing and I never realized how much stuff I have. I mean I know that my room is at capacity, but I never actually thought about how much stuff that was. And how many boxes it takes to pack up... especially the books, because you can't put them in big boxes. I have maybe half my books a little over half in 8 or 9 boxes and I haven't started to pack all my other stuff. I mean I have a record player and over 100 movies, as well as at least 65 seasons of television and a closet full of clothes and then assorted awkward things that don't really have categories. It is quite an adventure. I'm trying really hard to only take what I can't live without, but I have always been an overpacker. I'm hoping to keep the book below 25, but that probably won't happen. I am taking all my DVDs, but I am compacting them, by putting them in a giant CD case (at least the movies). I am also trying not to take the gitchy stuff that fulls every momentarily empty space in my room. For example in plain sight from where I am sitting I can see: Uno cards, a bottle of ibuprofen, a set of dominos, quidditch Uno cards, a nativity carving, pink and orange stationary, 4 Entertainment Weekleys, a clock with no batteries, my prom shoes, my math book, an empty pack of gum, history flashcards from junior year, a greecian urn, a statue of Storm from the X-Men, a barbie doll of Storm, 8 candles, two empty water bottles, a broken watch and about a million other things. The fun part is I get to pack that all. I am going to end up with a million miscellaneous boxes. Well bye.

Disney Musicals

I love Disney musicals. I love the lyrics and the heart and the love in all of them. I love that they're so fun to sing along to. I think that everyone (even the boys) should watch them as children. They are such a fun, solid base for morals as you grow. It sad that they don't really make them this way anymore. I mean The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White, Mulan, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Jungle Book, Aristocats, Pocahontas and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. I love them and the art is so beautiful and there is so much there that you could watch them a million times, which is good, because that's what most kids want. Disney's more recent children's efforts are awesome too, but you lose something with computer generated animation. It feels like there is less blood, sweat and tears, less of a bond between the animator and the kids at home. It is almost purer. I will be sad if there comes a time that children don't know these movies, because I found that they often connect people with huge differences that otherwise would never talk. We all wanted to be princesses and wanted a man to sing to us. There is no greater magic in the world than a four year old in her Ariel costume sitting in front of the television singing Part of Your World at the top of her lungs, unless its being able to match her word for word and off key note for off key note. People who say that there are bad messages in Disney must only look for the bad in life, because these movies are about joy and love. There is a reason that Disneyland is called the happiest place on Earth. It's because that's what this is all about. It about joy and laughter and bonding and love and fun.

Sorry for the random rant about Disney muscials. Let us not forget the live action ones like Mary Poppins. I mean Julie Andrews won an Oscar for that. That's how awesome it is. Okay now I'm really done.

IB SCORES!!!!!!!!

IB Scores came out today. Look at the screenshot above to see mine!! In case you were wondering about the scale & is a perfect and 4 is passing! SL stands for Standard Level and HL is Higher Level. (The picture you can see part of in the background is a screen capture from the Outsiders. Its my desktop background.) I did pretty good. Whatever anyone else says I'm proud of myself, because this was hard!!!

Let's see in English I got a D on my final oral commentary, so that grade was a little shocking. I am very proud of my theatre grade, because it was my hardest class. I did a really good job on my history Internal Assessment, but I don't feel like I knew as much as I could have during the test. Math was hard, because my teacher was not very good t commanding a classroom, so it was not easy to learn in that environment and I must have one really well on my test, because I didn't do so well on my IA. I am so proud of myself!!! :D

Huge

I watched the first episode of this show yesterday and I am not at all sure how I feel about it. Maybe its just that I'm lucky enough to not really have a weight issue, so I don't really understand where the characters are coming from. I do really like Nikki Blonsky though. I felt sympathy for her character not wanting to be made to hate herself, but at the same time I was worried about the characters being healthy. I didn't really care if they were skinny or anything resembling it, but I kept thinking would being healthy be so bad. I don't know this show may just not be my thing.

New phone and Computer

This week with the exception of a panicky hour from about 5pm to 6pm has been a good week with me and electronics. On Tuesday, I got a new phone, because the screen on my old phone stopped working. I had my mom's old motorola razor and I got a Nokia Twist 7705. Closed its dimensions are 2.7 inches x 2.7 inches x 0.59 inches, but it swivels open and has a full keyboard. I can text much easier now.
Then today I got my brand new 15 inch MacbookPro for college. In fact I am writing this blog post on it. I have not had a chance to really explore it yet and see everything it can do, but unlike the laptop I was using which was my mom's old laptop this one has working speakers. The operating system is very different, but I will figure it out. I just discovered that there is no end button, hopefully there is a command that does the same thing. I am excited to keep learn about my new gadgets. At the very least it will be an adventure and I will probably have frustrated moments along the way, but my friends who have already been converted assure me that once you go Mac you never go back, so we shall see.