velociraptor52
29 October 2008 @ 08:19 pm
 

Is it Saturday yet?  *groans* I just want this week to be over.  Done.  Finished with.

So we can get to November.

And this will probably be a crazy rant about church choir so you can skip this if you want.

I swear this was the hardest month, in terms of, well, choir, mostly.  I mean I like being busy but, yeah, singing in two choirs is making me go crazy.  Mostly with spending all day at church some days but...I just so totally hate chapel choir at this point.  The alto sections is super weak without Chelsea there.  Most of the times Sandy has to help the altos, and she's not even techincally in the choir; she's assistant director for chapel choir.  And during the big concert in October she sang with the chapel choir for all of the songs, helping the altos.

And then the other day we were practising this one piece (apparently we do Handel's Messiah every four years??  I love that piece of music.  It was so fun to sing) and Hanan, the official director, was helping the altos.

I mean I like being there but...my god.  The kids are so immature.  The alto section is weak.  The only plus of being in the choir is being able to talk to Khyrstina and that's about it.  And since she's moving to Seattle in January, and I'm all worried that the musical will be a not so terrific musical, or so I've heard, I'm just, 'Drop or not drop?'

...I would drop.  But Hanan just makes you feel so guilty if you so much as miss a rehearsal because you have class on the night of a rehearsal.  Or if you have to miss second service, even though you were supposed to stay because you had missed half of the first service and being there is a good example.  Hanan just the type of person that makes one feel guilty about even thinking about missing a rehearsal or a Sunday.

So...I don't know.  Maybe next year's musical I'll do pit choir.  If it turns out to be the one Khrystina says is really bad.

But really at this point I love chancel choir and hate chapel and wish the high school kids would just grow up and stop goofing around when people keep on shushing them and...yeah, me=annoyed.

But thank God November isn't as busy as October, in terms of music.  December is the next month I'll have to worry about busyness in the choir, so I am taking November and I will be doing NaNoWriMo and not stress out about choir and try to not procrastinate with school work.  Go productiveness.

But really, if Khrystina is moving away next year (and she will be so me= D:) and Nick just happened to go away for some strange reason (which hoping he doesn't--this is the first year in all my years I've been in choir with him that I'm actually talking to him.  Yeah.  I'm surprised myself.  I've got this crush on him, sort of, and I would always be so nervous around him and nervous to talk to him and...this year I've talked to him some.  So yay?)  then I would seriously not be in chapel choir anymore, because there's just no point in being in it (though I would come back for Handel's Messiah...and if, for some strange reason, manage to do Jesus Christ Superstar for a musical.  Which this year, seriously doubt.  We are the weakest this year, IMO, in terms of singers and choir and everything.  The weakest.  In all my five years I've been in chapel choir).

The fun thing is the young adult choir though.  That's fun.  Yay young adult!  And it's so big this year.  In all my one years I've been a part of the young adult choir.  But it really seems big.  And fun.

Okay.  Back to homework.  Boo homework!...but I procrastinated, so it's my fault.

And me=sad about the Doctor Who news.  Though I still need to watch the rest of season 2, all of season 3 and 4.  I'm just wondering who they'll be getting next.  And who it'll be.

 
 
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Why Me?--Mike and the Mechanics
 
 
velociraptor52
29 October 2008 @ 08:19 pm
 

Is it Saturday yet?  *groans* I just want this week to be over.  Done.  Finished with.

So we can get to November.

And this will probably be a crazy rant about church choir so you can skip this if you want.

I swear this was the hardest month, in terms of, well, choir, mostly.  I mean I like being busy but, yeah, singing in two choirs is making me go crazy.  Mostly with spending all day at church some days but...I just so totally hate chapel choir at this point.  The alto sections is super weak without Chelsea there.  Most of the times Sandy has to help the altos, and she's not even techincally in the choir; she's assistant director for chapel choir.  And during the big concert in October she sang with the chapel choir for all of the songs, helping the altos.

And then the other day we were practising this one piece (apparently we do Handel's Messiah every four years??  I love that piece of music.  It was so fun to sing) and Hanan, the official director, was helping the altos.

I mean I like being there but...my god.  The kids are so immature.  The alto section is weak.  The only plus of being in the choir is being able to talk to Khyrstina and that's about it.  And since she's moving to Seattle in January, and I'm all worried that the musical will be a not so terrific musical, or so I've heard, I'm just, 'Drop or not drop?'

...I would drop.  But Hanan just makes you feel so guilty if you so much as miss a rehearsal because you have class on the night of a rehearsal.  Or if you have to miss second service, even though you were supposed to stay because you had missed half of the first service and being there is a good example.  Hanan just the type of person that makes one feel guilty about even thinking about missing a rehearsal or a Sunday.

So...I don't know.  Maybe next year's musical I'll do pit choir.  If it turns out to be the one Khrystina says is really bad.

But really at this point I love chancel choir and hate chapel and wish the high school kids would just grow up and stop goofing around when people keep on shushing them and...yeah, me=annoyed.

But thank God November isn't as busy as October, in terms of music.  December is the next month I'll have to worry about busyness in the choir, so I am taking November and I will be doing NaNoWriMo and not stress out about choir and try to not procrastinate with school work.  Go productiveness.

But really, if Khrystina is moving away next year (and she will be so me= D:) and Nick just happened to go away for some strange reason (which hoping he doesn't--this is the first year in all my years I've been in choir with him that I'm actually talking to him.  Yeah.  I'm surprised myself.  I've got this crush on him, sort of, and I would always be so nervous around him and nervous to talk to him and...this year I've talked to him some.  So yay?)  then I would seriously not be in chapel choir anymore, because there's just no point in being in it (though I would come back for Handel's Messiah...and if, for some strange reason, manage to do Jesus Christ Superstar for a musical.  Which this year, seriously doubt.  We are the weakest this year, IMO, in terms of singers and choir and everything.  The weakest.  In all my five years I've been in chapel choir).

The fun thing is the young adult choir though.  That's fun.  Yay young adult!  And it's so big this year.  In all my one years I've been a part of the young adult choir.  But it really seems big.  And fun.

Okay.  Back to homework.  Boo homework!...but I procrastinated, so it's my fault.

And me=sad about the Doctor Who news.  Though I still need to watch the rest of season 2, all of season 3 and 4.  I'm just wondering who they'll be getting next.  And who it'll be.

 
 
Current Music: Why Me?--Mike and the Mechanics
Current Mood: blah
 
 
velociraptor52
06 February 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I'm still alive!...  
 I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.
 
 
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velociraptor52
06 February 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I'm still alive!...  
 I have nothing to post about nowadays...when I was in high school, I was posting left and right on this journal, and now...*sigh* nothing interesting ever happens in my life.  Ergo, I don't post.  (Ha, I used a Latin word!  Take that Latin class from which I could hardly learn anything because the teacher was one of those teachers who, whenever we said, 'We want to watch the Disney Hercules movie' she put it on for us...I'm surprised I actually got into Latin 4 Honors, now that I think about it...)(she was the best teacher I ever had.  Including Bohen, Sickler, Hughes, Roundy, and Rizza.)

Kelly and I got our books for our classes on Monday.  I'm taking a Shakespeare English class and all the books for that class are Shakespeare plays I haven't read yet (I loved Sickler!  She was the best English teacher I ever had.  Whenever we read plays, we would call them novels, and she would always correct us.  Really.  She was the most awesomeness English teacher ever.  She made me regain confidence in English after Kasper took it out of me in English Honors in 9th grade).  So I'm very anxious about the class starting next week, as well as all the other classes.  And Kelly signed up for astronomy (and other classes) which is on Wednesday night the same time I have my Shakespeare English class so we get to carpool together to the college.  (Yay!)

Another reason why I am so looking forward to the class is because Khrystina will be in it!  (Yay again!)  So I get to see my friend every Wednesday night, as well as on the weekends.  (It's not that weird.  Back in high school, my physics teacher was Paul Roundy, who was also in my church choir with me.  Talk about weird.  I saw him every school day and every Sunday.  I think I got a B in that class...)

My brother is so bad at math.  Well, he isn't bad.  He just doesn't understand it.  The conclusion I came to is that most of the learning students get depends on the teacher teaching the subject.  If the teacher teaches the subject well, then the students get it.  If he/she doesn't, then the students don't get it.  So the majority of learning depends on the teacher.  The rest, probably about 50%, depends on the student, and whether or not they want to learn.  Because if they want to learn, and the teacher is good at teaching the subject, then the student will do well.  However, if the student doesn't try, then the student won't do well.  But (I know this is long; it'll end soon) if the student wants to learn and the teacher doesn't teach the subject well, then the student fails anyway, and the students who don't care about learning fail even more because the teacher won't be teaching the subject well.

So it's like about 60% of the learning depends on the teacher, the 40% depends on the student.

I mean if I look at the school my dad taught at for the past 6 years, the reason why the students were failing was because of the students, ultimately.  A majority probably didn't care about learning, while a minority did care.  And there were probably some teachers who just didn't teach the subject well enough, or wasn't dedicate to the subject they taught well enough.  But I blame the students, because the teachers must be trying, but the students aren't willing to learn.  It's like what my English teacher used to say: "You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make the horse drink the water."

As for my brother, he just didn't get good math teachers that I got.  In 9th grade math, I was very lucky to get Hughes, who just made me so passionate about math.  She made me like math; she made me get it, the way she taught math.  And Bohen in 11th grade was also a very good math teacher (and very funny, at that.  He and Namba had the same type of humor; I think 11th grade was the funniest year I ever had what with Bohen and Namba cracking jokes left and right constantly.  And I had math 1st period, so it was good I had Bohen then, because he always made me look forward to mornings) and made me like math, and made me get it.  But 12th grade...I think the reason I got a C in Pre-Calc Honors was because, first and formost, I was a senior.  At that point, I had it in my mind that I shouldn't try so hard at math because I was a senior; I wasn't going to be coming back to school the next year.  So I wasn't as dedicated to learning as much as I was back in 9th and 11th grade.  (And this is so totally reflected in the last report card I got.  So totally reflected.)

So if my brother had Hughes back in 9th grade, I think he would have enjoyed math.  I think he would have understood it, and gotten it, and liked it.

So that's my rant about learning.  I have another rant on the English portfolio grading system (basically all the CP English portfolios/essays get graded by the Honors, AP, and IB teachers and all the Honors/AP/IB English portfolio essays are graded by the CP teachers.  So no matter what all the CP English students will always get 3 or lower, and all the Honors/AP/IB English students will always get 4 and higher.  So that system is totally corrupt, IMO.)

Okay, enough ranting from me.
 
 
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velociraptor52
28 June 2007 @ 09:29 pm
May the best man win  
I was at Santa Ana college today to apply to college because apparantly my parents want me to go to college which I already knew so I'm appeasing to their appeal and I saw this guy there in a wheelchair and he had on a Monk t-shirt.  You know, Monk.  I love Monk.  I can't wait until it's back on; even my brother likes Monk.  Though he doesn't like Psych.  Hmm...

My dad though?  He likes both Monk and Psych.  As well as my mom and I.  So my brother's sort of the odd duck out, or something like that.

(I can't wait until Psych starts too.)

In fact, I can't wait until July period.  First there's summer choir at church, where I can go and enjoy meeting Khrystina and Mallory.  And we can gush about Harry Potter and the super secret ninja squids (don't ask; long story).  Anyway, there's that, and then there's the fifth Harry Potter movie, the seventh Harry Potter book, The Simpsons movie, Psych, Monk, and Lake Tahoe family reunion...at Lake Tahoe.

But still...only two weeks until Monk and Psych.  And I will be very happy.

Okay, so there was the Monk t-shirt.

And today I was watching Battlestar Galactica (the episode 33.  Apparantly the one with the Olympic Carrier.  And not the one where (I was about to say Tony and Ziva.  Okay...) Lee and Cally and some others get kidnapped by Tom Zarak (I finally just remembered his name) and a bunch load of other bad people.  I think that episode's Water) and I forgot how wonderful striking BSG is.  The scene where all the pilots filed out of the room and touched the picture of the profile of this guy kneeling in front of a destroyed city (or whatever that was)?  That was just so touching.  And then Dee (I forgot what her full name is.  Bad me!!) searching for her family and the entire hallway with pictures up of people's families and friends.

BSG is an excellent show (even my friend said that.  And she went further and said it was even better than Lost.  Which caused another friend to be all, "Really?!" because she, the other friend, is a big Lost fan.  An even bigger romance fan.  And she said Serenity was corny.  Well, the parts she saw of it when I did the film analysis project on Serenity because I didn't tell this yet, did I?)

Okay, pause while I explain something awesome: a few, or maybe more, months back we had to do a storyboard project where we take a scene from our favorite movie, storyboard the scene, and then stoaryboard it agian with changes that we feel will make it better.  I did The Great Escape at first but I got sick and tired of watching Ducky (David McCallum) die multiple times.  So I did Serenity.  The one where Simon breaks River out of the (I was about to say Initiative and then remembered that was from Buffy.  Not Firefly) Alliance's academy.  And I did very good.

And the teacher never saw the movie before and we had some time left in class so we started watching the movie.  In class.  The only movie which I went apes over because Joss Whedon made it and (August!!  is that month here yet?  because 2 disc special edition DVD of Serenity I am so getting even though I already have the original DVD) it was such a big deal.

And that was the day the film analysis teacher, Laurie-Russell, recommended to me the book Dune because she figured I was a big sci-fi fan/geek/nerd.  And I am.  I mean I do like BSG, I can tolerate Stargate SG-1 and I like the show, as well as Farscape.  So I grew up because when I was young I despised science fiction.  And then I watched Firefly and realized that sci-fi wasn't all that bad.

And I'm ranting, aren't I?  

So BSG is an excellent show.  It's one of the top shows in my little list of top shows.  Actually let me think...yeah, it is.  It's one of the top shows that's still on.  Because if if were cancelled TV shows the top would be Angel.  Actually, I don't really know anymore.  Because I have too many favorite TV shows.

Well, I'm off now.  'Cause I really want to make a BSG icon.  And I want to work on my fanfiction Restless Hero because it's going so good right now.  And because I got over my writer's block :) but now I forgot what Angel's room looked like at WR&H and I need to go watch season 5's Just Rewards again to refresh my memory.

Because Wiki says Spike appears in Angel's bedroom in that episode so...I need to go watch it?  Even though I don't like Spike anymore.  I used to, but then I realized Angel was much more better.

Okay, yeah, I'll stop ranting right now.
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velociraptor52
28 June 2007 @ 09:29 pm
May the best man win  
I was at Santa Ana college today to apply to college because apparantly my parents want me to go to college which I already knew so I'm appeasing to their appeal and I saw this guy there in a wheelchair and he had on a Monk t-shirt.  You know, Monk.  I love Monk.  I can't wait until it's back on; even my brother likes Monk.  Though he doesn't like Psych.  Hmm...

My dad though?  He likes both Monk and Psych.  As well as my mom and I.  So my brother's sort of the odd duck out, or something like that.

(I can't wait until Psych starts too.)

In fact, I can't wait until July period.  First there's summer choir at church, where I can go and enjoy meeting Khrystina and Mallory.  And we can gush about Harry Potter and the super secret ninja squids (don't ask; long story).  Anyway, there's that, and then there's the fifth Harry Potter movie, the seventh Harry Potter book, The Simpsons movie, Psych, Monk, and Lake Tahoe family reunion...at Lake Tahoe.

But still...only two weeks until Monk and Psych.  And I will be very happy.

Okay, so there was the Monk t-shirt.

And today I was watching Battlestar Galactica (the episode 33.  Apparantly the one with the Olympic Carrier.  And not the one where (I was about to say Tony and Ziva.  Okay...) Lee and Cally and some others get kidnapped by Tom Zarak (I finally just remembered his name) and a bunch load of other bad people.  I think that episode's Water) and I forgot how wonderful striking BSG is.  The scene where all the pilots filed out of the room and touched the picture of the profile of this guy kneeling in front of a destroyed city (or whatever that was)?  That was just so touching.  And then Dee (I forgot what her full name is.  Bad me!!) searching for her family and the entire hallway with pictures up of people's families and friends.

BSG is an excellent show (even my friend said that.  And she went further and said it was even better than Lost.  Which caused another friend to be all, "Really?!" because she, the other friend, is a big Lost fan.  An even bigger romance fan.  And she said Serenity was corny.  Well, the parts she saw of it when I did the film analysis project on Serenity because I didn't tell this yet, did I?)

Okay, pause while I explain something awesome: a few, or maybe more, months back we had to do a storyboard project where we take a scene from our favorite movie, storyboard the scene, and then stoaryboard it agian with changes that we feel will make it better.  I did The Great Escape at first but I got sick and tired of watching Ducky (David McCallum) die multiple times.  So I did Serenity.  The one where Simon breaks River out of the (I was about to say Initiative and then remembered that was from Buffy.  Not Firefly) Alliance's academy.  And I did very good.

And the teacher never saw the movie before and we had some time left in class so we started watching the movie.  In class.  The only movie which I went apes over because Joss Whedon made it and (August!!  is that month here yet?  because 2 disc special edition DVD of Serenity I am so getting even though I already have the original DVD) it was such a big deal.

And that was the day the film analysis teacher, Laurie-Russell, recommended to me the book Dune because she figured I was a big sci-fi fan/geek/nerd.  And I am.  I mean I do like BSG, I can tolerate Stargate SG-1 and I like the show, as well as Farscape.  So I grew up because when I was young I despised science fiction.  And then I watched Firefly and realized that sci-fi wasn't all that bad.

And I'm ranting, aren't I?  

So BSG is an excellent show.  It's one of the top shows in my little list of top shows.  Actually let me think...yeah, it is.  It's one of the top shows that's still on.  Because if if were cancelled TV shows the top would be Angel.  Actually, I don't really know anymore.  Because I have too many favorite TV shows.

Well, I'm off now.  'Cause I really want to make a BSG icon.  And I want to work on my fanfiction Restless Hero because it's going so good right now.  And because I got over my writer's block :) but now I forgot what Angel's room looked like at WR&H and I need to go watch season 5's Just Rewards again to refresh my memory.

Because Wiki says Spike appears in Angel's bedroom in that episode so...I need to go watch it?  Even though I don't like Spike anymore.  I used to, but then I realized Angel was much more better.

Okay, yeah, I'll stop ranting right now.
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velociraptor52
20 November 2006 @ 08:46 am
Procrastination is evil  
See title.

Yeah...so procrasination is evil.  And it has the Latin word 'cras' in it, which means (very ironically) tomorrow.  Hmm...

I had Physics homework to do, which is due tomorrow first thing, and I didn't even finish all the review problems.  Not to mention math homework, which I just skipped two of the problems; I have to read Frankenstien and fill out a chapter review sheet and I didn't even do that and tomorrow's the book fair at school and I'm just going to hang out there probably (unless my friends don't want to...and then I'll be hanging out alone).

And this song is addicting and I need to get to bed but I don't want to.
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velociraptor52
20 November 2006 @ 08:46 am
Procrastination is evil  
See title.

Yeah...so procrasination is evil.  And it has the Latin word 'cras' in it, which means (very ironically) tomorrow.  Hmm...

I had Physics homework to do, which is due tomorrow first thing, and I didn't even finish all the review problems.  Not to mention math homework, which I just skipped two of the problems; I have to read Frankenstien and fill out a chapter review sheet and I didn't even do that and tomorrow's the book fair at school and I'm just going to hang out there probably (unless my friends don't want to...and then I'll be hanging out alone).

And this song is addicting and I need to get to bed but I don't want to.
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velociraptor52
10 October 2006 @ 02:56 pm
TV is addicting  
I have way too many shows to watch on DVD.  First there's Brisco County, Jr., which I'm...I shouldn't really say 'suffering through', but I'm watching it every week.  Then there's The West Wing season one, which I'm re-watching because before I just jumped around the seasons for episodes that Sam was in.  In other words, I want to watch every episode.

Then Due South (re-watching, although with all the shows I'm going through, I'm holding it off), Stargate SG-1 (again, holding it off), Heroes (I need to watch the second and third episode), Dead Like Me (still need to watch the ones from September 5), Eureka (I haven't even watched the first episode of this show yet), Lost (just season two), Criminal Minds (because I'm taping Lost, I'm relying on mom for this show; I haven't even watched the second episode of season two yet.  I may just wait until it's out on DVD), Jericho (the third episode only...so far), Ghost Whisperer, and NUMB3RS.

Seriously.  It's not even remotly funny; I have so many shows to watch and so much little time to do that.  

I'm just...okay, during winter break.  I promise that during winter break I will catch up with all the shows.  The only ones that I'm all caught up with are NCIS and Supernatural.  And Battlestar Galactica.
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velociraptor52
10 October 2006 @ 02:56 pm
TV is addicting  
I have way too many shows to watch on DVD.  First there's Brisco County, Jr., which I'm...I shouldn't really say 'suffering through', but I'm watching it every week.  Then there's The West Wing season one, which I'm re-watching because before I just jumped around the seasons for episodes that Sam was in.  In other words, I want to watch every episode.

Then Due South (re-watching, although with all the shows I'm going through, I'm holding it off), Stargate SG-1 (again, holding it off), Heroes (I need to watch the second and third episode), Dead Like Me (still need to watch the ones from September 5), Eureka (I haven't even watched the first episode of this show yet), Lost (just season two), Criminal Minds (because I'm taping Lost, I'm relying on mom for this show; I haven't even watched the second episode of season two yet.  I may just wait until it's out on DVD), Jericho (the third episode only...so far), Ghost Whisperer, and NUMB3RS.

Seriously.  It's not even remotly funny; I have so many shows to watch and so much little time to do that.  

I'm just...okay, during winter break.  I promise that during winter break I will catch up with all the shows.  The only ones that I'm all caught up with are NCIS and Supernatural.  And Battlestar Galactica.
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velociraptor52
06 October 2006 @ 08:23 pm
Battlestar Galactica  

I like to think that Battlestar Galactica redeemed itself with this two-hour premeire of the third season from the second half of season two.  And it did!  I love this episode so much.


Okay, so the first senior munch is on Halloween this year and it's a dress-up munch.  A costumer senior munch on Halloween.  And supposedly there's this 'tradition' that friends go dressed up as the same thing.  And so my friend tells me if I want to go with them and hang out with them, I'm supposed to dress up as a cat.  A frakking cat.  And all along I'm thinking, 'Um...why?  is this a written rule? where can I read this rule?'  And you know what?  Screw tradition.  I'm going dressed up as a Blues brother and no one can stop me.  Besides *sniffs* dressing up as a frakking, gorram cat is so frakking unorginal.  I'd rather break out of the bounds.
 
 
Current Mood: annoyed
 
 
velociraptor52
06 October 2006 @ 08:23 pm
Battlestar Galactica  

I like to think that Battlestar Galactica redeemed itself with this two-hour premeire of the third season from the second half of season two.  And it did!  I love this episode so much.


Okay, so the first senior munch is on Halloween this year and it's a dress-up munch.  A costumer senior munch on Halloween.  And supposedly there's this 'tradition' that friends go dressed up as the same thing.  And so my friend tells me if I want to go with them and hang out with them, I'm supposed to dress up as a cat.  A frakking cat.  And all along I'm thinking, 'Um...why?  is this a written rule? where can I read this rule?'  And you know what?  Screw tradition.  I'm going dressed up as a Blues brother and no one can stop me.  Besides *sniffs* dressing up as a frakking, gorram cat is so frakking unorginal.  I'd rather break out of the bounds.
 
 
Current Mood: annoyed
 
 
velociraptor52
05 October 2006 @ 02:40 pm
The future of TV (for me)  

It's a rule: every TV show that I love dies.  Or may die.  Or it may not.  (The 'may not' part would be a miracle and make me insanely happy.)

Warning: this is a rant about TV shows.  You have been warned.

First it's Studio 60.  After such a big rating percentage during the first episode, I've read, or rather, saw, the ratings drop for the second and third episode.  And now I'm just worried it's going to be canceled, which, in turn, would make me angry at NBC.  Because I love Studio 60.  And I watch it.  And more people should watch it and love it.  But they're not and I know that the future is bleak.  (Come on people watch the show!  make it live!)  I just want to go to NBC and tell them to switch the timespots of Heroes and Studio 60.  If Heroes is so good, then let's see how it goes up against CS: Miami.

Then there's Supernatural.  And I'm worried for it.  Because...it's also against CSI.  (I feel like killing CSI.  Forensic evidence?  Ha, after killing those shows I would bury the evidence so good that new shows would have to come on to analyze the evidence.  Like CSI: But-Not-Really-CSI-But-Another-Show-Of-The-Same-Name.)  And then I start wondering why do all my favorite shows have to be up against some form of CSI.

Anyway, what's so good about CSI?  If people want to be a CSI, then they should watch NCIS.  At least Abby doesn't carry a gun.

And then I just read (after a rude awakening of "This issue 7 of Battlestar Galatica Magazine will be the final issue") that if Battlestar Galactica's ratings don't improve significantly for season 3, the 3rd season may be its last.  Which is so so so very much with the depressing because I love Battlestar Galactica and I just got into the fandom...like since summer, I guess, and I want it to continue because it's my drama show.  I watch it and the characters have a worse life than me and they have Cylons to face; I only have freshmen to face.  (Now that I think about it, both of them are them are of the same annoyance.  High school freshmen, keep that in mind.  Annoying, giggling, think-they-can-talk-loud-and-chase-eachother-around-because-they're-freshmen-and-in-high-school kind of freshmen.  Like 8th graders mentally except they're in high school.)

Yeah...*off to do homework*

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velociraptor52
05 October 2006 @ 02:40 pm
The future of TV (for me)  

It's a rule: every TV show that I love dies.  Or may die.  Or it may not.  (The 'may not' part would be a miracle and make me insanely happy.)

Warning: this is a rant about TV shows.  You have been warned.

First it's Studio 60.  After such a big rating percentage during the first episode, I've read, or rather, saw, the ratings drop for the second and third episode.  And now I'm just worried it's going to be canceled, which, in turn, would make me angry at NBC.  Because I love Studio 60.  And I watch it.  And more people should watch it and love it.  But they're not and I know that the future is bleak.  (Come on people watch the show!  make it live!)  I just want to go to NBC and tell them to switch the timespots of Heroes and Studio 60.  If Heroes is so good, then let's see how it goes up against CS: Miami.

Then there's Supernatural.  And I'm worried for it.  Because...it's also against CSI.  (I feel like killing CSI.  Forensic evidence?  Ha, after killing those shows I would bury the evidence so good that new shows would have to come on to analyze the evidence.  Like CSI: But-Not-Really-CSI-But-Another-Show-Of-The-Same-Name.)  And then I start wondering why do all my favorite shows have to be up against some form of CSI.

Anyway, what's so good about CSI?  If people want to be a CSI, then they should watch NCIS.  At least Abby doesn't carry a gun.

And then I just read (after a rude awakening of "This issue 7 of Battlestar Galatica Magazine will be the final issue") that if Battlestar Galactica's ratings don't improve significantly for season 3, the 3rd season may be its last.  Which is so so so very much with the depressing because I love Battlestar Galactica and I just got into the fandom...like since summer, I guess, and I want it to continue because it's my drama show.  I watch it and the characters have a worse life than me and they have Cylons to face; I only have freshmen to face.  (Now that I think about it, both of them are them are of the same annoyance.  High school freshmen, keep that in mind.  Annoying, giggling, think-they-can-talk-loud-and-chase-eachother-around-because-they're-freshmen-and-in-high-school kind of freshmen.  Like 8th graders mentally except they're in high school.)

Yeah...*off to do homework*

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velociraptor52
14 May 2006 @ 06:02 pm
 
Chapel choir's over at church and I'm sad, needless to say. And Lauren wasn't present this morning. I will hunt her down and see her...either that, or I'll excuse her, which seems rather fitting; she was part of the bell tour on Saturday, so she was probably tired.

Yay, summer choir! The only place to see all my old friends. and it's in July. So far away...

So, guess what? Come on guess! The DVDs for our production of Godspell aren't in yet, apparantly. They'll call us when they do have them ready though, which is good news.

I am so addicted to the manga Dragon Knights. Makes me want to get more from Barnes and Noble.
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velociraptor52
09 March 2006 @ 10:29 pm
*cries*  
Paul...Roundy...teaching...physics...maybe it's true; then again, maybe it's not.

I am so seriously considering taking physics now but damn it! I already turned in the registration sheet

*thinks; ponders; bites at nails*

When it's time to go to school in August and do that long thing before with the getting ID picture taken and all, maybe I can talk to my counselor and add in a 0 period. Because I am seriously considering taking physics.

If Paul Roundy teaches it.

No, I am not obsessed with Paul Roundy; he's just a good friend and if he's teaching physics next year then I so want to be in his class.
 
 
Current Mood: worried
 
 
velociraptor52
09 March 2006 @ 10:29 pm
*cries*  
Paul...Roundy...teaching...physics...maybe it's true; then again, maybe it's not.

I am so seriously considering taking physics now but damn it! I already turned in the registration sheet

*thinks; ponders; bites at nails*

When it's time to go to school in August and do that long thing before with the getting ID picture taken and all, maybe I can talk to my counselor and add in a 0 period. Because I am seriously considering taking physics.

If Paul Roundy teaches it.

No, I am not obsessed with Paul Roundy; he's just a good friend and if he's teaching physics next year then I so want to be in his class.
 
 
Current Mood: worried
 
 
velociraptor52
09 March 2006 @ 03:16 pm
There are rumors circulating, I have homework, babysitting and I left my Rent soundtrack in the car  
So, the subject basically sums up all that is this entry.

First off: rumors. There are rumors circulating around school...okay, it wouldn't really be called rumors, more like who's who and all. So, new Physics teacher next year. Guess who it is? Paul Roundy *insert screaming, crying, and shouting here* Why oh why didn't I pick Physics!! It was either that or Pre-Calc Honors and I wanted to see Hughes again; if I'd known Paul would be teaching I would've...

grr...I am so frustrated now. Here's Paul, he'll be teaching Physics and I'm not even taking the class next year. Excellent irony.

Okay, you know what? At least I know him outside school; if I did sign up for Physics and actually got him for my teacher, it would be highly awkward seeing him at church. I mean, if I felt weirded out seeing Munhall in that old, beat up car, think how weird it would be seeing Paul at choir. It'd be like, 'Kasey, I reviewed your quiz. Are you planning on studying...blah blah blah blah?' It'd be freaky; best if I just see him sometimes around the campus verus actually having him as a teacher.

Listen, folks, it was either to continue math or continue science! I picked math...

All right, I have homework and baby-sitting tonight and I still need to finish my DBQ thesis/proposal for history, so I'm off now. Bye!
 
 
Current Mood: frustrated
 
 
velociraptor52
09 March 2006 @ 03:16 pm
There are rumors circulating, I have homework, babysitting and I left my Rent soundtrack in the car  
So, the subject basically sums up all that is this entry.

First off: rumors. There are rumors circulating around school...okay, it wouldn't really be called rumors, more like who's who and all. So, new Physics teacher next year. Guess who it is? Paul Roundy *insert screaming, crying, and shouting here* Why oh why didn't I pick Physics!! It was either that or Pre-Calc Honors and I wanted to see Hughes again; if I'd known Paul would be teaching I would've...

grr...I am so frustrated now. Here's Paul, he'll be teaching Physics and I'm not even taking the class next year. Excellent irony.

Okay, you know what? At least I know him outside school; if I did sign up for Physics and actually got him for my teacher, it would be highly awkward seeing him at church. I mean, if I felt weirded out seeing Munhall in that old, beat up car, think how weird it would be seeing Paul at choir. It'd be like, 'Kasey, I reviewed your quiz. Are you planning on studying...blah blah blah blah?' It'd be freaky; best if I just see him sometimes around the campus verus actually having him as a teacher.

Listen, folks, it was either to continue math or continue science! I picked math...

All right, I have homework and baby-sitting tonight and I still need to finish my DBQ thesis/proposal for history, so I'm off now. Bye!
 
 
Current Mood: frustrated
 
 
velociraptor52
04 March 2006 @ 12:01 pm
'who are you? who who, who who...'  
Ahh, this week has been so much with the fun. We studied blood spatters in Forensic Science! Very much with the fun. And then we had to write our own crime scene reports and our own sketches of this fake crime scene that was set up in the classroom. Aaron's sketch owned everybody's sketch; his was so good.

And we watched CSI and Rizza was completely spazzing out on the theme song. She wanted eveybody to do the 'who's' and we were all like, 'No way!' She said the theme song should be our theme song for the class.

Okay, for lent I gave up chocolate candy. Just chocolate candy; I can still have chocolate milk and hot chocolate and cookies, but no of those See's candy or those loveable chocolate candy eggs with the sweet center and all. I'm not suffering; I also gave up chips. But now I'm compeletly addicted to the wheat thins. Umm...yeah...

Senior registration: I can't believe I'm gonna be a senior next year! I'm gonna miss Aaron and Christy and Jon and Joe and Tim (a.k.a. Timmy, dubbed by Christy), Wesley, Peter, James, Paul, Grace, Cynthia, Travis, Jason, Naijelli(?), and some other seniors. I so need to get a yearbook so I can get them all to sign it! And so I can look at their pictures :D

All right, senior registration. So, I'm thinking of signing up for English 3 CP, Am. Govt/Economics, non-AP because AP US History is killing me now. I mean, I know AP classes look good on transcripts but still...suffering...anyway, umm...Latin 4 Honors, Pre-Calculous Honors (hopefully. Bohen says there's some stuff Algebra 2 Honors covers that Algebra 2 regular doesn't, but he'll talk to Hughes and get back to me on Monday), Advanced Band (non-marching advanced band)(and if that doesn't fall through, then it'll be photography 1), half-year of psychology regular and then the other half-year sociology. Those are the major classes I want to sign up for.

Well, I just got back from going out. Guess who I saw at Tustin Brewry? Monica's parents. It was...awkward, to say. Like driving behind the car Munhall was in that one time. Highly awkward, that incident.
 
 
Current Music: Who Are You?--The Who