COLLEGE STUUUUUF!

So. It's getting down to crunch time on my college applications. Just because I can, I'm posting my chart on things I need to do. I got accepted at Tulane before I made this list, so their not on here, and I got accepted to KU last week, so they'll be comming off soon, too. I just finished applying to Truman here an hour ago, so hopefully that will work out for me.

Or course I just had to choose tonight to get inpired to do some of this. Tonight - when collegeboard.com just decided to go into mainanance mode for awhile and ACT.org took a 5-hour haicienda. (I think I even spelled that right).

So. Yeah. Fun fun.

I'm sadistic. 

BUSY!!!

I feel like a social butterfly!!! Check this schedule:

Thurs (today): Babysit Brockmeyers at 6:10 til 9:00-ish

Friday: Gabi coming over directly after school. Stay awhile to work on powerpoint

           Beth Starts work at 5:00 - try to see her

           7:00 babysit at Yosts

Sat:     Work at school garage sale drop off 9:00am til 12:00

           Go Shopping around 12:30 / 1:00-ish with Melissa and Beth

           May have to babysit at 7:00 for Browns

           Melissa is spending the night

Sun:    Fairway Fun Festival - face painting between 3 and 6

           Attempt to do homework!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Currently Reading Fruits Basket, Vol. 4 By Natsuki Takaya see related

Hello! I've decided to make it my goal to try to post at least once every 3 weeks. So... new stuff...

How about my schedule? Just so I can laugh at myself a couple of years from now.

Hour 1 - Calculus BC (IB/AP)

Hour 2 - English 12 (IB)

Hour 3 - American Government / 20th Century World History (IB)

Hour 4 - Psychology (AP)

Hour 5 - Choraliers!!!

Hour 6 - Music Theory (IB/AP)

Hour 7 - French 5 (IB) in a French 4 Class (Honors)

Dang. I AM sadistic.

Oh! Other newness. Last night us Choraliers got to go ON STAGE at the Irish Festival to sing with the Elders. (A really funky group with a full drumset, an electric guitar, a bass guitar, and an accordion. And yet they produce Irish music.) We sang this really sad song called "Men of Erin". Because I can, the lyrics:

Fare thee well my boy as you wonder this night
Be not feared in the darkness my heart is your light
As you go brave Men of Erin
Faith and love by your side
I will dream of your peace in the night.

Please don’t cry my Mother as you sit by the hearth
I will dance your memories with joy in my heart
I will go now and pray as I travel this land
And live by the lessons you gave.

CHORUS

Please don’t cry my Father as you sit by the hearth
I will dance your memories with joy in my heart
I will go now and pray as I travel this land
And live by the lessons you gave.

CHORUS

Please don’t cry my Children
As you stand by my Grave
I have danced your memories all of my days
I will go now and pray as I travel this land
And live be the lessons you gave.

It's really sad, really slow, and really sweet. This song was written by the lead singer as he left Ireland to come to America - leaving his entire family behind him.

Okay, something else...

I finally finished my Extended Essay! I've spent nearly a year on this stupid thing, and at least 40 hours on it and now it is DONE!!! The topic? A Comparison of Anit-Utopian Motifs in Brave New World and The Giver. FUUUUUUNNNNNN.

Also, I have picked up my first time-travel romance in FOREVER. Usually, they annoy the living daylights out of me. Most authors spend the entire book dithering... "Do I stay in the past/future?" Or "Do I go home to my friends and family?" "Do I love him/her enough to stay forever..." And the like.

(Damnation, I wish that I could double space these paragraphs!!!)

This book, called When I Fall in Love does a great job, in that they only spend a chapter or two on it, rather the entire book. Also, they include, like, OMG, like SUBPLOTS!!!!111

What a concept. I drives me up the wall when authors think that timetravel alone is enough to make their story worth reading. Seriously. They just have to be thinking, "Hey I just made a modern-day woman fall 2 centuries back in time. What more do you want from me!"

I wonder why it is that all my posts have to be super long?

And the most depressing part? This post is currently 532 words long. My Extended Essay had 4000 words. Do you hear me? FOUR FREAKING THOUSAND WORDS. Drove me crazy. It drove me blooming crazy.

Okay. wrapping up. Ummm...

Read the Anita Blake series

Don't do IB unless you enjoy pain

Any type of music sounds better with a bass guitar

Labrador Retrievers were not meant to be indoor dogs

Nothing is as cute as a baby and a kitten. Proof?

(From Deviantart.com, entitled "Kittylove")

Currently Reading When I Fall in Love By Lynn Kurland see related

Just Because...

Name: Kristen

Age: 17 going on 37

Birth Day: February 22nd 

Height: 5'4"

Weight: I'll never tell

Hair color: Dirty Blond / Brown / Mud

Eye color: brown, with honey flecks (if you really care to know...)

Piercing or Tattoos: Just my ears

Skin Tone: right now? tan.  

Facial Hair: Umm... eyebrows?

Favorite....

Drink: Mountain Dew Code Red

Food: Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo. Or Ice Cream

Color: PURPLE!!!

Snack: ....icecream?

Current TV Show: Heroes

TV show of all time: probably Sailor Moon!

Book: Anything Anita Blake

Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean

Comic Book: (Manga) : Vampire Knight, or Vampire Game

Fictional Character: Anita Blake

Band: Evanescence

Type of Weather: Full-Flegded Thunderstorms

Holiday: Christmas (or summer break!)

Quote: "One good reader in worth a thousand boneheads"

Friend: ALL OF THEM!!!!

Game: DDR MAX 2

Gaming system: PS2

Pass Time: Reading!

CD: My iPod?

Animal: White Siberian Tiger. (Does a unicorn count?)

Hobbies: reading, planning, being with my friends, sleeping, procrastinating

Vehicle: Honda Wagon

Subject: Choir and (oddly enough) Math

Sound: THUNDER all the way!

Do you...

Play any sports: I've played soccer since kindergarten

Read: Oh hell yeah!

Write: A bit - though not much of late

Work out: when I feel guilty enough

Have a job: Babysitting

Drive: Thank God

Own a Car: Yep. The Honda.

Get up early or sleep in: Sleep in. Of course!

Smoke: NO

Drink: see previous answer

Have any special talents: Speed reading? Wiggling my eyes? Talking to people?

Keep a journal: Only Xanga

Like to help people with their problems: Yes, very much so

Like people to help you with yours: Sometimes I like to hear others' opinions. Sometimes.

Have many close friends: Three

Have a close relationship with your family: Not horribly close, but not completely distant either

Cry a lot: Not if I can help it.

Laugh a lot: Yeah, I try to.

Have any Phobias: I hate live fish that lurk in the bottom of lakes where I can't see them. ICK

Have any obsessions: Reading and collecting my books. Also, I've been told my future-planning is a bit obsessive

Have any OCDs: Not that I'm aware of

Daydream: A Lot. Mostly about the future and my house decorations and my husband

Hold grudges: Only about certain acts or certain people (cough cough NY cough)

Beliefs...

Heaven: Most of the time

Hell: Some of the time

Purgatory: Occasionally

Angels: Kinda

Demons: No - not the traditional kind

Spirits: Yes

Saints: No

Devil: Not really. Not the Christian definition of him.

God: Most of the time, but again, not always the Christian god

Soul: Not really

Soul Mates: Yeah

Love at First Sight: Of a sort.

Destiny: Like PreDestination? No

Afterlife: Sometimes

Aliens: Yeah

Ghosts: YES

Vampires or Werewolves: I wish

Bigfoot and the Lockness Monster: I could see it, yeah

Fate: Again, Predestination? No.

Karma : Sure

Reincarnation: Sometimes

Psychics: Not often

Telepathy: I wish

Mind Control: I REALLY wish

Luck: Yes

Time Travel: Maybe... eventually

Immortality: In one fashion or another

Second Chances: Yes

Forgiveness: Most of the time (Say no to Serial Killers!)

Have you ever...

Traveled Outside the state: Yes, many times to VA and FL, etc

Traveled Outside the Country: Yes, once to Canada, once to Mexico and once to Paris

Flown: quite a bit

Road more than 24 hours in a car: Unfortunately

Drove more than 24 hours in a car: Not yet

Been in a car accident: kinda....maybe....

Been in a serious car accident: NO

Caused a car accident: Unfortunately

Caused a fire: nope

Almost died: Define almost. Lacking blood? Almost snapping my neck?

been attacked by an animal: Not unless you count Duke

been seriously attack by an animal: No

Been hospitalized: Only for the blood transfusion....

Had surgery: Does a transfusion count?

Broken Bone: I fractured my big toe...(pathetic, I know. But it HURT!)

Smoke a cigarette: Never

Been high: Never

Drunk: Took some sips

Kissed someone of the opposite sex (not family): No...

Kissed an animal: Only Duchess on the nose

Been in a relationship: no...

Been in a serious relationship: no

Been in a long distance relationship: no

Been in a online relationship: Kinda...vaguely...

Been rejected: Nope

Loved Someone (not family): never seriously

Told someone that you loved them and actually meant it (not family): No

Been Skydiving: Not yet!

Been rock climbing: yes

Been mountain climbing: No

Skiing: No - don't ever really intend to

Hang gliding: no

Paintballing: no

Hunting: no

Jumped from higher than 2 stories: in video games?

Arrested: no

Been in court: no

Been in a fight: Only with family and friends

Been in a fight with weapons: no

Been outnumbered in a fight: no

Considered Suicide: never TOO seriously

Seriously Considered Suicide: Not really

Attempted Suicide: no

Purposely injured yourself: Only if you count chewing on my fingers or the random bite-to-make-it-stop-itching

Been Depressed: Yeah

Been Hypnotized: Not that I know of

Had a crush on a celebrity: Can you say Bloom and Depp?

Been to a concert: Kinda... it was Jesse McCartney at a mall

Been to a magic show: Yep! Kirby down in Branson

Air show: Yep

Professional Sports game: Baseball a bit, and soccer once or twice

Race: OH yeah. LOTS of Roundy-Rounds

Your Friends....

Your closest friend: Like I could choose? Each one is great for a different reason

The Funniest: Melissa, although Anna causes me much laughter

The Smartest: All in different ways - Art, Fashion, STI's ...

The Dumbest: None of my friends are truly dumb. May not love school, but they make up for it in other ways

The Dullest: See above

The Strongest: Well, Beth is strong in the way of the ant - but she weighs so little any ways...

The Weakest: Melissa IS looking a little squishy....

Best to back you up in a fight: Beth is blunt enough, but then again Melissa is a fierce little pride mother...

Worst to back you up in a fight: Duke. He'd lick them to death

Quietest: Generally? Melissa

Loudest: BETH

Most Hyper: Melissa on caffeine? SCARY

Most Religious: Probably Beth. Also Gabi. And maybe Melissa, in her own way.

Least Religious: Mattie?

Fought with the most: Beth. Although the few I had with Anna were nastier

Fought with the Least: Melissa. But when we do, It's over the silly stuff. (It WAS 90 degrees!)

Most agreeable with: Melissa. She's chill, so I chill.

Least agreeable with: Beth and I tend to have many "friendly" debates

Best to get along with your other friends: Melissa is generally great with all people. She's not too blunt and always knows lots of little internet trivia.

Known the Longest: Definitely Melissa. What? Going on 12 years now?

Most Annoying: Maybe Anna, simply because of the depression and the divorce and the boyfriend

Strangest: Melissa. Hands down. Requires no explanation

Most Trusting: Used to be Melissa. Now it's Anna

Least Trusting: Beth's pretty dang cynical. But then, so am I.

Makes you feel the best: Every single one of them in their own special way.

Makes you feel the worst: Depends. Beth REALLY pissed me off about my driving the other day....

Have you ever lied to your friends: Rarely.

Have your friends ever lied to you: I do believe so. But everyone has their secrets, and as long as it doesn't affect their safety, I'm willing to let it be.

Trust the most: Beth and Melissa. I love you guys!

Are you...

Strong or weak: physically? Medium-Strong. Mentally? Strong all the way (PARENTAL INSANITY!)

Smart, average or stupid: I'd like to think I'm smart

Funny or boring: I try to be funny, but it's rather dry, I fear

Happy or sad: Mellow. Rarely anything else

Lazy or active: I prefer the term procrastinator

Religious: Nothing clear cut.

Athletic: not really

Gothic: Nope

Annoying or Fun: I think I'm fun...

Loud or Quiet: I can be both, but I try to be quiet

Loyal to ones country: Depends. I have...issues....with our government

Weird or Normal: There is no normal. But I am not unduely strange

Agile: Of mind? yeah

Talented: Define talent. I do well on standardized tests...

Serious or Sarcastic: I like sarcasm

Hyper or Calm: Almost always calm. It takes ALOT to make me hyper

Optimistic or Pessimistic: I can see both, but I try to be optimistic

Realistic: As much as possible

Sadistic: Not unless you call taking IB such

Idealistic: Yeah.

Conservative, Liberal, or Moderate: LIBERAL!!!!

Caring: yeah

Helpful: I try...

Emotional: Not if I can help it

Sacred of Dying: Not particularly

Careful or reckless: Generally careful

Final Question...

What is the most important thing in your life at this moment?

Probably trying to absorb all the happy I can before school starts or I have to work on my extended essay. So, that means lots of friend time, lots of cousin time, and lots of sleep time. In general, though, I am fixated on College. Yes, with a capital C. Almost everything I do is geared towards getting me through Senior year and into said establishment.

And there you have it.  Lots of random little questions have been answered for no apparent purpose! Yay!!!

I'm here!

Well, hello peoples.

I am back from zone-out-ville. I really don't have anything new or profound to post. I have been trying really hard not to stress out over college, IB stuff, my grandpa's health, or the short duration of summer.

So... the good things that have been going on. It IS summer, and I am loving every minute of it. I just got back from Virginia yesterday and brought back my cousin Amanda. She's keeping me on my feet and making sure I don't do anything...drastic.... towards my sisters.

Speaking of which, there have been 2 new additions to my life since my last post. The first is Duke, a now 7-month old Labrador Retriever that puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. He weighs about 70 pounds and SHEDS. He's gold with beautiful golden eyes and a super-long tounge that always seems to be sticking out. He's cute, but lets just say I'm still adjusting to him. The secound addition is my little kitten, Duchess. (Get it?) Dutches was about 8 weeks old when we found her and that now makes her around 14 weeks, or 3 1/2 months. She is ADORABLE. She's an orange tabby with faint stripes. She has 4 white stockings and a white bib. Her eyes are golden. She got to go with us to Virginia. She travels well and was always friendly with both humans and animals.

I don't have any pictures of them on this computer, but to give you an idea:

 This colored body

 But with a face more like this

 An almost-Duke, save for the dark eyes and nose (Duke's is pink)

And there you have it! My new menagerie.