I've been pretty much absent from Livejournal since the start of summer :D I'm trying to catch up on some reading that I have (some books that I've neglected since the start of this year I really want to finish this month).  I've also been just basically taking it easy since summer started--reading, playing games, doing the occasional housework, being lazy...not doing anything...

So that's what I've been doing.

I've also been working on this one fanfiction of mine that I started way back in 2004.  I am really, really eager to finish it this summer (because I think it's time that I finished it).  So I'm also working on that whilst reading in my spare time (and the fanfiction?  119 pages long.  That's long.  For me.  I've never written that much before :P I'm really dedicated to writing fanfiction if it's about something I actually care about).  And I swear I've changed the story so much than I orginally planned it to be.  It's like when I started it, I was all, 'Ha ha *fangirl giggle* I'll write my own story where Doyle comes back!  *more high-pitched fangirl giggles*" and then it just...I don't know.  It basically went from a simple-minded idea to this, "Whoa, didn't plan for that to happen now".  I think it sort of got a life of it's own now...there were some parts that I didn't have in my very rough outline of what's to happen in the story (and when I say very rough I mean very rough.  At the beginning, I wrote down what I wanted to happen in the story, and I just sort of connected A to B, and B to C, and so on, because, personally, that's how I write best.  If I work with a very strict outline, I find my...creative side, I guess? is limited.  If I have an idea of what I want to happen, and if I just fill up the space with whatever comes to me at the moment, then I find that far better, and that helps me write...better (not better as in quality-wise, because quality-wise, I suck, but it just helps me write more than what I would write were I following a strict outline)).

*sigh* the life of a person who writes fanfiction.  In fact, there were a couple times I stopped writing the story because I thought I was writing Doyle out of character.  So for a long moment I wouldn't even look at the story or even continue writing it because I was afraid that Doyle was out of character, and I didn't want to continue writing unless I had the character down...which involved me watching nearly every episode (okay, every episode, I guess) with Doyle in it, and then pulling out my Angel books that has Doyle in them (yeah, he's pretty much my favorite character on Angel...with Wes following.  Wesley is so awesome, especially in seasons 3-5, because, wow...there was some major character development there.  He's like the most developed, evolved character in the entire Buffy-verse, with Cordelia following close behind.  I think they actually tie, though, IMO, for how evolved each of them were in the series).  

To get back on track with the writing a character out of character: and then after quite a few months of thinking about how for the entire story I was writing Doyle out of character, I realized that, in my story, he was brought back to life.  And, to him, there's no passing of time between his death and when he was brought back, so everything's a shock to him (in my story, still) and so he's not out of character, he's more in character, but he's changed...if that makes any sense at all.  Which I guess it does...(after I, like, re-read it to make sure it made sense).

Overall, the story's sort of frustrating me, because I keep on changing it too much from how I originally had planned it, and the ending also changed a lot...(the ending which I still haven't written yet but hopefully will get to sometime before December 31, 11:59:59 PM, 2008.  How I want to finish this story so badly...).  On the other hand I've recently been watching Angel (especially the last part of season 5 with Illyria (she was an awesome character, and the actress can so totally play good and evil so well) and, I don't know...I realized that Angel is just the most amazing show ever.  I mean sure I think now Supernatural is a good show, but it doesn't even compare to Angel, or Buffy, for that matter.  I just love Buffy and Angel over Supernatural anyday (plus I think Eric Kripke needs a few lessons from Joss Whedon on how to improve a story because season 3 of Supernatural?  not so much improvement.  And it wasn't the girls that made it not improve, it was the writing.  The writing was so, so...not there.  It wasn't very great writing.  And it was sort of a let-down, because seasons 1 and 2 had really good writing that I would compare it to the quality Buffy and Angel has, but now?  Not so much comparing.  Plus the writing sort of made me get tired of season 3 pretty early on, especially when they started repeating the topics of Dean going to hell, how he didn't want to, and after the, you know, say, fifth time of hearing Dean say that, it was getting pretty repetitive.  Heck, I'd be far more happier with Supernatural if Joss Whedon wrote some episodes :D but that's just me (I think anything Joss Whedon does is gold, even if he does tend to kill off characters that are very loved by the people).

Okay...umm...to get away from Angel talk and comparing it to Supernatural...I got a B in Geology?  Which, you know, I'm still slightly shocked at that, me getting a B in Geology, because I thought I did far worse in that class than, well, it shows.  I thought I'd at least get a C or something, but a B?  Wow...(when I first saw the grade I was, "I got a B in Geology?? *a minute after the realization sinks in* I got a B in Geology!  Wow...I wonder how that happened?"  Maybe it has something to do with the teacher saying that he drops the lowest test grade...or...*shrugs* someone up there *points to the sky* likes me?  Or I did that well in the class than I thought I'd do).

I also got a B in the Shakespeare class (which was a given; I was getting Bs on every test and paper in that class), A in the Geology Lab, A in Trigonometry, A in Intro to Theatre (which was also a given; that class was so super easy, I kid you not.  The tests?  Way easy.  Very, very easy.  Overall, I didn't even have to work/study for the grade, which in my book says that the class was easy), and B in History of Film (also a given).  Overall, not the straight As I had wanted at the beginning of the semester, but I'm happy with the grades I got :D I can work on getting straight As in the fall semester later this year.

I cleaned my room.  (Not that there was much to clean; just my desk, and a corner of my room, and I vaccumed the floor.)  It sort of looks slightly cleaner.  Better than what it was last week, at least.  So that's what I did yesterday and today.

Um...I'm running out of things to talk about.

I'm taking summer school this summer, volunatarily (because I can, and so therefore I will take summer school :D college is awesome).  It's History 101: World Civiizations to the 16th Century.  I'm really looking forward to it (plus I looked up on if you want to get a degree in Anthropology then you have to take, say, Cultural Anthropology (already took), Physical Anthropology, Language and Culture, and Introduction to Archaeology, and if you want to focus on Cultural Anthropology, then you have to take these 6 units out of a bunch of classes they have (okay, gee, reminded myself of Psych there.  I was about to type "out of all of a bunch of classes" and it totally reminded me "out of all of the appendages" Shawn said in 9 Lives, which just shows how sad, that anything I say I remind myself of Psych.  Other point, that was a funny line, though, and they way it was just written made me laugh), and one of them is Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization (offered in the fall; I will sign up for it this fall) and, lo and behold, Histroy 101 :P so, see, I am taking a class for credit this time (this comment was directed at my parents and isn't directed at any readers reaidng this...not that my parents read this...so basically I was just saying it for my own self-amusement)(ahh!  too many parentheses!)).

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I think I closed all the parentheses well enough, right?

To get back on topic, they also offer this class called Witchcraft, Magic, and Religion (or something like that) and I so want to take that, but I think it's only offered in the spring...and unless it's on a Wednesday night or a Monday night, then I can't really take the class (because I always think ahead; I'm thinking ahead right now to the musical next spring for church, and knowing that if there is a musical, then I can't take any Tuesday/Thursday night classes because those are the nights that are used the most for practices).

This is possibly a very long entry.  But who cares.

So yesterday I picked up my books for the History class and I just love love love picking up new textbooks.  I don't know why; but I always just love knowing what books I need for a class, and then I eagerly, but patiently, wait for the day to buy them from the bookstore.  I looked through them already, and I just love them already :P (I admit it: I'm a geek.  Or a nerd.  Or whichever.  I think I'd go with nerd, though, because geek sounds like computer geek, and I'm not really a computer geek so...I think I'll just end this little discussion now).

Well...I'm still bored.  I think I'll go read now...(not that reading will take away my boredom, but I have nothing else to talk about at all in this journal entry, and so I'll just...end this entry...now...).

It's Edward James Olmos' birthday.  He's 60.  Which is not really that old.  I mean Mark Harmon is only younger than him...60 is not that old.  (I think it's sort of weird and strange that I love Mark Harmon, who's practically old enough to be my dad.  Well, I also love Adam Baldwin, who is as old as my day/sort of as old as my dad.)

Okay, so what happened to me lately?  I got a C on my Economics test!  McQuown=evil and doesn't even know how to have fun.  AT ALL.  She's a demon.  McKinley was more funner.  (Is 'funner' even a word?  I don't think it is.)  Let's see...I also got a B on my math test.  Which, hey, I expected to get an A, but what can you do?  *shrugs* ooh!  I also have a tardy.  In Econ.  Which is really astounding because I was late twice to that class, not once, so I expected to have two tardies, but I only have one.  (To make people feel better and to make myself feel better, yes, I have been trying to wake up earlier, like, say, around 5:30ish, and I've been trying to get to school at least 5 minutes earlier.)

I saw Ghost Rider last weekend.  I thought it was okay.  You know...I didn't really enjoy it as much as Fantastic Four or Spiderman or Superman, yet I wasn't totally against it either.  My only complaint?  The movie needs more characterization.

Then today I got my hair done and then Dad and I saw The Number 23 which has Jim Carrey in it and I so totally love Jim Carrey in any role any day.  I mean if I was on a desert island and I had only one DVD player and God had me choose between a comedy/drama movie with Robin Williams in it and a comedy/drama movie with Jim Carrey in it, I would pick Jim Carrey.  Because I like him significantly better than Robin Williams.  I don't know why; so sue me.  Having seen the way Jim Carrey could play serious roles in a drama and play a comedian, I just like him better.  He can be believable in both a serious role and a comedic role.  Robin Williams, sure, he was great in What Dreams May Come, but I didn't really connect with his character.  Or I didn't really believe the actor playing a serious character.  It's complicated.

Anyway, The Number 23 was good.  See it if you like mystery thrillers.  And Jim Carrey.

All right.  That's it from me for I so am tired and just exhausted.

(Also I picked up The Pink Panther with Steve Martin in it.  Hopefully it's good.  And yes, I have seen the originals with Peter Sellers in them.  Also I have seen, for the first time in my life, the entire movie Psycho.  The black-and-white-non-Vince-Vaughn one.  For the first time in my life.  So sue me; I haven't been caught up with movies like most teenagers.  In fact, I first saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off about two years ago, maybe one and a half years ago.  Same with The Blues Brothers.

And then the next movie we're going to watch will be North by Northwest, which, thankfully, I have seen before in video production twice in 7th and 8th grade.  Gosh, I sure do miss my childhood/pre-teenage years.  Life goes by so fast and we don't even acknowledge it.  Especially high school.  Which is why I have to say this: people who are still in high school shouldn't rush to want to graduate because before they do know it, they'll be in college.  So they should take the time and enjoy high school and not rush.)