"I think this line's mostly filler"

[guingel]

my LJ activities have been hampered by my discovery (and theft) of the songs from the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, aka "Once More With Feeling". XD Addiction. Must watch more of that show. Xander love! Well, in the musical episode, Tara love, Giles love, and Spike love. hoooo. ::fans self:: (translation: James Marsters love. His cheekbones have stopped striking fear into my heart, only slight nervousness) Anyway. yes. New fandom, interfering with, uhm, life. :D Although, thinking about that, I don't have much of a life, so. . .

Awesome news!!! Whoo! I don't even know how to phrase this. I mean, where to start. Well, my sister, Katie, is a fantastic photographer. And I was going to give you some examples, but her best work hasn't been uploaded or even scanned or anything. So too bad for you. But anyway, she is. :D And her photo teacher (actually, Katie is no longer in a photo class, but she goes in during her free periods and uses the darkroom) loves her, and thinks she's amazing, which she is. So she's arranged for Katie to have an entire display case to herself!! We have several display cases throughout the school, for art stuff, and different displays. There's this big sportsnite thing, where the girls who participate (a fairly large amount, made largely of people I don't like very much. I mean, some of them are ok, but it's totally not my scene. lots of popular-jap-divas-whatever-people do it) divide into teams and compete. oddness. Anyway, they do all sorts of weird things in the display cases, but they've finished. Which is excellent, because there are display cases over in the art wing, which is where the art/photo stuff usually goes (and one by the cafeteria, that we also used) and then there are several in the commons, which sportsnite uses. And we thought that Katie was going to be in the art wing, but it turns out she was able to get herself one right in the commons where everyone will see it! A whole display case, just for Katie! :D I helped make her a name-plate thingie. Waaaaaay cool. I'm so proud. It's so neat! Wowza. Very jazzed!!

Also very happy about the really fun and awesome conversation that I had with cloudtrader Sunday evening. It was great! Or at least, I thought so. Much babbling on my part. Which is actually a good sign, really. Because in conversations, especially with new people (not that cloudie is really new, but, you know. . . whatever) I'll either not be able to shut up, or won't be able to think of anything to say and there are loads of awkward pauses. So this was really good. And I think I let her get a word in edgewise. . . ;) I really enjoyed talking to her.

On a less positive note, am so sick of art and my concentration theme, which isn't even what the AP Board wants and stuff. Ugh. And I have actual work to do today!! Physics problems. . . not cool. And I've had the assignment since last thursday, so I really should have worked on it before. I'll have a lot to do for that later.

And the last day of our trial is tomorrow. I have loads of stuff to do for that. I have to write my instructions to the jury and all, and then I apparently have to write up a closing argument--my thoughts on the whole trial and all. AGH! No one warned me about that. And I need to get the notes I took during the trial organized for jury deliberations, which I'm apparently leading. We started our deliberations today, because we'd finished all the witnesses and neither counsel was prepared to give closing statements. It was fun, though. I'm with the prosecution, and so were most of the jurors, so that was good. But we were having a hard time separating the trial (where neither side made much of a point) from the book. Very difficult. Hence the reorganization of my notes. Oy.

Oh, and if I didn't tell you. . . did I? I did get accepted into everywhere, except for Wesleyan, which I have yet to hear from (but don't really care about). So all goodness. And Barnard and Smith are giving me healthy financial aid--about $13,000 from each. Which is great! :D

Comments

[renniekins.livejournal.com]

oooh, congrats on being accepted everywhere. Do you know where you'd like to go yet?

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) No, I'm not sure. ugh. This is very difficult! I'm leaning towards Smith at the moment, but I'm doing "accepted students" stuff at Barnard and I will be taking another look at Wellesley, although that's my third choice right now. It has a lot going for it--near Boston, probably near Katie, gorgeous campus, great school. . . but I think it's just too demanding and difficult a school for me. Is that a bad reason? I mean, I got in. . . and all the schools are really difficult, but. . . I mean, I didn't apply to Harvard for a reason, Wellesley has been called all-girls Harvard. :-/

Uhm, anyway. Uh. No, I don't know where I'm going ;)

Once More with Feeling...

[tiggspanther.livejournal.com]

It's amusing you should bring that up. I was watching it last night (Monday) with my friend Fiona who lived kinda down near London.

We were watching it probably sometime around midnight, and were singing along to most of it. :-)

Re: Once More with Feeling...

[guingel.livejournal.com]

::gasps:: I'm sooooooo jealous!! I desperately want to watch it. I want to see the dancing so badly!! Argh! (actually, I want to see a lot more Buffy, so I already have longings for more episodes, and then when you add dancing--the only thing that's keeping me going is that I'm going to get my hands on it, sometime, somehow ;)

I've been singing along, it's so much fun! :D I get nervous when family's around. I don't want to annoy them. I need more alone in the house time to crank it and sing. I might even dance! XD

[tckma.livejournal.com]

YAY! :)

[guingel.livejournal.com]

my thoughts exactly! :D ::bounce:: the decision process is scary, though!

[tckma.livejournal.com]

Once you're done, though, it will feel so nice.

Good luck.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

mm, I bet. I remember last year, telling some senior friends that they're so lucky to have the applying and everything over with (it was around this time of year), and they said no, because now they had to make their decision--but they were wrong. Being here is so much easier than where I was a year ago!

[d3c3p7i0n.livejournal.com]

And to think I was getting all concerned when I thought your mentioning of getting into all of your schools save for one was old news and I'd become extremely self-centered and didn't hear you tell me (us?) about it. Huh. Katie explained that you didn't want to jinx yourself. That's understandable. But congrats anyway! But I think I'll save the explosionary well-wishes for when you solidly know where you're going and send school of your dreams that first four or five hundred dollar deposit =)

[guingel.livejournal.com]

XD the reason you hadn't heard about it is that I kind of messed myself up with my incredible conceit. I keep it hidden usually, so you may or may not have noticed this, but I'm incredibly conceited. And I'd get these occasional flashes of worry, but for whatever reason, i was usually fairly confident that I'd at least get into Smith and Barnard. Which means that I wasn't all excited and telling everyone I know and overflowing. It's all seemed, while slightly surreal, not as momentous as it should. Strangeness. My parents are very excited, but while I'm very happy, I'm not that excited. So, no, you didn't miss me telling you about it.

oddness. but thank you for the congratulations :D

[cloudtrader.livejournal.com]

I had fun talking to you, too. ^_^

[guingel.livejournal.com]

yay! :D