Thuuursday
Mar. 10th, 2005 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuI need to stop making posts just before I go to bed. This seems to be a trend, and as a result of starting late, I sometimes can't write as much as I want to because I'll have to go to sleep before I'm finished.
Today was all right, and even pretty nice at parts.
Woke up at 6:30 AM as always, was slightly tired but not really, and listened to Cowboy Bebop music and random other soundtracks in the car on the way to school. Listened to choir, talked about...something Naruto-related before I went to class with Makayla, Roya, and Kathryn, and off to Creative Writing.
I've been drawing animals I don't normally draw a lot today. In Creative Writing, I drew a zebra in my journal, and later on I was drawing cute penguins. Other than drawing the zebra, I don't think I did much in Creative Writing. I did, indeed, end up writing some Naruto/Hinata fluff for class, but it turned out so simple/short/pointless, I'm not going to bother typing it up. Not worth your time to read, trust me. ^^;;
Nicole got this shawl thingy with lizards on it, so she spent all of today talking in...I don't know what you would call it. Instead of saying, "I'm bored," she would say, "My lizards are bored." It was entertaining, because people thought she was crazy as a result of it. XD
US History was perpetually dull. We (meaning the large group me and several other people in the class have been sorted into) have a presentation tomorrow, so I have no idea what I'm going to do for it. I suppose I can just stand there while James and Laura explain nationalism and attempt to look helpful or something.
Anatomy was also unexciting. We got lectured on nerves. ._.
TA period...average. Every time somebody asked what my headband was, Rory'd go, "Naruto... Japanese anime... I've heard this question too many times..." Except he kept pronouncing Naruto in an extremely American way, which caused me to correct him every time.
During lunch, Makayla, Kathryn, Zoe, Ciera and I talked for the whole period in the art room about random stuff. That lunch period went by quickly... I suppose it was because we were chattering the whole time.
Trig...average, pretty easy, actually.
During English, we went outside to the amphitheater and sat in the grass brainstorming ideas for our Hemingway satires. I ended up just being very sleepy as a result of sitting in the beautiful spring sunshine for so long. Erin and KC showed up about ten minutes before the period ended and sat with me, and we talked about penguins while I colored in a cute Raichu with markers.
Let's see...after school, I talked to KK, Nicole, and Selah for a while, and Selah showed us the Naruto keychains she got at Anime Expo. They were cute. ^_^ My Mom gave Nicole a ride to Makayla's because Nicole didn't have a ride, and she didn't seem to want to go to Bridgeport with us (which was our plans for after school).
We picked Ryan and Jake up at 3:30 PM and drove out to Bridgeport (which is a place on the Yuba River, for non-local people). It was just to go hiking and such, and this was great because the weather lately has been SO pretty. *_*
It was gorgeous out there--so green and beautiful. Rakuen, really. I can hardly think of prettier places... I went off on my own while Mom and the boys and the dogs went elsewhere, and I just wandered around and soaked in the views (and went lizard-hunting). This one meadow was so lush and wonderful that I almost wanted to just flop down on it (but I decided this was against my better judgment and didn't). In that field, I found a bunch of wild turkey feathers (apparently, one struggled and was killed because there were feathers everywhere), and I found some pretty, soft ones and brought them with me. They're currently sitting on my dresser.
I saw lots of lizards, but I'm a little out of practice with lizard catching and therefore it took about a half-hour to get me back into the mentality of the capture. I found a little alligator lizard and tried to catch him. This proved to be not difficult at all, as he didn't run or struggle or move until about five minutes after I picked him up. ^^;; He was a baby. I carried him around for a while, showed him to Mom, and let him go under a rock.
I then spent a long time trying to catch lizards. There were a number of close calls with about ten individual bluebellies (a few of which I literally had my hand on before they squirmed away), and one very close call with a medium alligator lizard. I also caught a baby bluebelly and showed him to Mom, too, and then let him go. She likes the baby lizards (and the non-baby ones, too), so I always show her when I catch them.
Near the bridge that has the highway on it, I found a whole bunch of scraps of skunk. Literally, pieces of a skunk. It was pretty weird and disgusting. I wonder what could have torn it up like that...? I'm curious as to whether it's the same thing that killed the turkey in the field. There were about thirty chunks of the poor skunk scattered over about fifteen feet. ;_;
I started feeling all nostalgic as I was walking along the path that leads to the swimming hole we used to go to all the time (before everyone else discovered it, and it became a popular tourist attraction). I kept picking Miner's Lettuce and eating it, and I hummed a melody that I made up on the spot and thought about ways to capture how I felt just them. I didn't find any, but I did start thinking about story ideas. I want to write some really deep, incredible stories. Y'know...the kind that would be really life-changing. I have a lot of those types of stories that have affected my views on life (whether they be anime or books or something else entirely), and I want to tell some stories like that.
I'm not even going to try to describe how lovely the Yuba River is, because I don't have the time and I have no writing skill whatsoever on this LiveJournal (it seems all my creative talent is lost on this journal...it is unaffected by how I normally write). Maybe I'll write a story that takes place there someday. I've found that writing stories is the best way for me to communicate my views on things. Show, not tell. Make a demonstration-type story. I'm better at expressing myself with words (words on this journal excluded) then I am even with drawings. With drawings I usually feel like I'm holding back a little...being disciplined. With writing, I sometimes feel that way, but oftentimes I don't.
In fact, I don't do justice to myself with how I write in this. I am, really, when it comes down to it, a person who thinks a lot. I'm not nearly as focused on shallow things as I project myself as being-- I'm always thinking about the world, the human condition, the way things are, and the way things aren't, and the mysteries that surround life and death. I don't want to live an ordinary life. I don't want it to be mundane or like other lives. I want it to be unique... I want to live, and to live fully. I try to enjoy every second of life, and I can't always do it, but I think I'm one of the happiest people I've met as a result of this.
Not that anyone can tell from my journal, but I just thought I'd put that out there so you know. XD
Ack, I got off-track. So, we dropped Jake off with his Mom, went home, and Ryan and I watched Naruto and I ate an artichoke. That's that, pretty much.
Oh, and we saw a little gray fox cross the road on the way home! So cute~! It was only about one hundred feet from our property, too. I love how many foxes we have around here! They're like Eevees...kind of. ^^;;
Anyway...I'd better go to bed. Good night!
Today was all right, and even pretty nice at parts.
Woke up at 6:30 AM as always, was slightly tired but not really, and listened to Cowboy Bebop music and random other soundtracks in the car on the way to school. Listened to choir, talked about...something Naruto-related before I went to class with Makayla, Roya, and Kathryn, and off to Creative Writing.
I've been drawing animals I don't normally draw a lot today. In Creative Writing, I drew a zebra in my journal, and later on I was drawing cute penguins. Other than drawing the zebra, I don't think I did much in Creative Writing. I did, indeed, end up writing some Naruto/Hinata fluff for class, but it turned out so simple/short/pointless, I'm not going to bother typing it up. Not worth your time to read, trust me. ^^;;
Nicole got this shawl thingy with lizards on it, so she spent all of today talking in...I don't know what you would call it. Instead of saying, "I'm bored," she would say, "My lizards are bored." It was entertaining, because people thought she was crazy as a result of it. XD
US History was perpetually dull. We (meaning the large group me and several other people in the class have been sorted into) have a presentation tomorrow, so I have no idea what I'm going to do for it. I suppose I can just stand there while James and Laura explain nationalism and attempt to look helpful or something.
Anatomy was also unexciting. We got lectured on nerves. ._.
TA period...average. Every time somebody asked what my headband was, Rory'd go, "Naruto... Japanese anime... I've heard this question too many times..." Except he kept pronouncing Naruto in an extremely American way, which caused me to correct him every time.
During lunch, Makayla, Kathryn, Zoe, Ciera and I talked for the whole period in the art room about random stuff. That lunch period went by quickly... I suppose it was because we were chattering the whole time.
Trig...average, pretty easy, actually.
During English, we went outside to the amphitheater and sat in the grass brainstorming ideas for our Hemingway satires. I ended up just being very sleepy as a result of sitting in the beautiful spring sunshine for so long. Erin and KC showed up about ten minutes before the period ended and sat with me, and we talked about penguins while I colored in a cute Raichu with markers.
Let's see...after school, I talked to KK, Nicole, and Selah for a while, and Selah showed us the Naruto keychains she got at Anime Expo. They were cute. ^_^ My Mom gave Nicole a ride to Makayla's because Nicole didn't have a ride, and she didn't seem to want to go to Bridgeport with us (which was our plans for after school).
We picked Ryan and Jake up at 3:30 PM and drove out to Bridgeport (which is a place on the Yuba River, for non-local people). It was just to go hiking and such, and this was great because the weather lately has been SO pretty. *_*
It was gorgeous out there--so green and beautiful. Rakuen, really. I can hardly think of prettier places... I went off on my own while Mom and the boys and the dogs went elsewhere, and I just wandered around and soaked in the views (and went lizard-hunting). This one meadow was so lush and wonderful that I almost wanted to just flop down on it (but I decided this was against my better judgment and didn't). In that field, I found a bunch of wild turkey feathers (apparently, one struggled and was killed because there were feathers everywhere), and I found some pretty, soft ones and brought them with me. They're currently sitting on my dresser.
I saw lots of lizards, but I'm a little out of practice with lizard catching and therefore it took about a half-hour to get me back into the mentality of the capture. I found a little alligator lizard and tried to catch him. This proved to be not difficult at all, as he didn't run or struggle or move until about five minutes after I picked him up. ^^;; He was a baby. I carried him around for a while, showed him to Mom, and let him go under a rock.
I then spent a long time trying to catch lizards. There were a number of close calls with about ten individual bluebellies (a few of which I literally had my hand on before they squirmed away), and one very close call with a medium alligator lizard. I also caught a baby bluebelly and showed him to Mom, too, and then let him go. She likes the baby lizards (and the non-baby ones, too), so I always show her when I catch them.
Near the bridge that has the highway on it, I found a whole bunch of scraps of skunk. Literally, pieces of a skunk. It was pretty weird and disgusting. I wonder what could have torn it up like that...? I'm curious as to whether it's the same thing that killed the turkey in the field. There were about thirty chunks of the poor skunk scattered over about fifteen feet. ;_;
I started feeling all nostalgic as I was walking along the path that leads to the swimming hole we used to go to all the time (before everyone else discovered it, and it became a popular tourist attraction). I kept picking Miner's Lettuce and eating it, and I hummed a melody that I made up on the spot and thought about ways to capture how I felt just them. I didn't find any, but I did start thinking about story ideas. I want to write some really deep, incredible stories. Y'know...the kind that would be really life-changing. I have a lot of those types of stories that have affected my views on life (whether they be anime or books or something else entirely), and I want to tell some stories like that.
I'm not even going to try to describe how lovely the Yuba River is, because I don't have the time and I have no writing skill whatsoever on this LiveJournal (it seems all my creative talent is lost on this journal...it is unaffected by how I normally write). Maybe I'll write a story that takes place there someday. I've found that writing stories is the best way for me to communicate my views on things. Show, not tell. Make a demonstration-type story. I'm better at expressing myself with words (words on this journal excluded) then I am even with drawings. With drawings I usually feel like I'm holding back a little...being disciplined. With writing, I sometimes feel that way, but oftentimes I don't.
In fact, I don't do justice to myself with how I write in this. I am, really, when it comes down to it, a person who thinks a lot. I'm not nearly as focused on shallow things as I project myself as being-- I'm always thinking about the world, the human condition, the way things are, and the way things aren't, and the mysteries that surround life and death. I don't want to live an ordinary life. I don't want it to be mundane or like other lives. I want it to be unique... I want to live, and to live fully. I try to enjoy every second of life, and I can't always do it, but I think I'm one of the happiest people I've met as a result of this.
Not that anyone can tell from my journal, but I just thought I'd put that out there so you know. XD
Ack, I got off-track. So, we dropped Jake off with his Mom, went home, and Ryan and I watched Naruto and I ate an artichoke. That's that, pretty much.
Oh, and we saw a little gray fox cross the road on the way home! So cute~! It was only about one hundred feet from our property, too. I love how many foxes we have around here! They're like Eevees...kind of. ^^;;
Anyway...I'd better go to bed. Good night!
