stormityne

I am terrible at updating this. The random snippets from here and there in my oh-so-interesting life make this journal pretty schizophrenic. Not an excuse, just a warning. ;)

Also, I have another blog that I have been updating slightly more often than this one of late. It's here, if you're interested.

( A list of things I like )

Got a 4 on my AP Composition and English Language exam! Sweet. I thought I'd get a three, so I was pleasantly surprised.

I also saw Rent in Boston (with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal!) last Saturday, it it was extremely awesome. The stage show is tons better than the movie; much more balanced.

I also love Anthony Rapp a whole lot.

Tomorrow I am going to be a pseudoprofessional photographer. Ok, not even that, really, but I was asked to take pictures at an event for my mom's friend, who is an enormous photography fanatic. He sold my my current camera, which is a lovely Leica point-and-shoot named Lucy. I'm not really sure why he's asking me in particular to do this, because I don't think he's seen any pictures I've taken, and I'll admit I'm pretty mediocre.

So, I'm kind of nervous, even though it isn't really a big deal at all. Hopefully it'll be good, I just finished reading through a digital photography book he (my mom's friend) lent me, so I've kind of refreshed my memory on good technique, so... we'll see how it goes.

In other news, I did not totally fail my SAT subject tests. Managed an 800 in Math II (which is some kind of miracle, I didn't even get to answer the last three questions), still only got a 730 in chem, second time taking it... but oh well. It is good enough for now.

I am also making a squid hat. I worked on it today and it is coming along nicely. Perhaps not quite as good as the real guy's, but I think it'll be good nonetheless.

there are things
and I dislike them

also a lot of times I am not very good at being a Citizen Of The Internet. But I guess.. it's ok.

Sometimes, I am talking to someone new on im, and I don't know what to talk about. I think lists of questions are always really contrived, but I think if approached correctly, a list of questions can be helpful. I might say to someone; "Hey, because I am really bad at thinking of interesting things to talk about, I created a list of questions for situations just like this; let's have an interrogation session! Only if you want, I mean. I guess it's kind of awkward if I don't really know you. But hey, do you have anything else to talk about?"

Also, a list like this might be more helpful if you admit how ridiculous it is; "So this is really dumb but I made a list of questions for something like this. LET'S ASK EACH OTHER RANDOM QUESTIONS"

Or maybe it would start a conversation about how all these questions suck and you can think of new ones. Then you can tell me what they are and I might add them to the list if I feel like it. But maybe not. At any rate, this is mainly for my benefit:

One disclaimer: many of these came from random websites and thus sound dumb. Some I wrote myself and also sound dumb.

( THE LIST )

I typed an entry and then I hit backspace and firefox went back a page and I went forward and it was gone. Took like 20 minutes because I'm slow, yes I know that isn't that much, but it's still a little sad. Oh well.

I went driving. It was ok. Not too hard, I think I'll be ok at it.

I also found out that miss dannichu  has a livejournal! What are you doing never updating updating it, Danni? I would like to hear about your life goings-on. Although I'd enjoy it even more if your layout wasn't so painful to look at. Still. Do it. Maybe instead of updating your twitter constantly when you're nervous about exams, you can make an LJ entry. I tell you, Twitter can be stressful; what with my rambling, I often have to seriously do some wordworking to stay under 140 characters. It's a pain.

In other news I am coloring a beautiful picture of a personified Raikou. Her name is Harriet and I am getting pretty good at coloring with colored pencils, I tell you.

Other things that happened today include making a post in my other journal (I... I think that was today) playing around with last.fm and realizing that it's probably bad for me, because I'll listen to music in order to get counts on songs, and getting a little upset and sad-feeling for no reason and saying something to surskitty about it and she is a magical person that made me just realize; "oh! Uncertain bad-feeling for no reason! That's silly. Better be done with that." I am unsure of why I cannot have this realization without the help of some outside source, but such is life.

Sometimes I wonder why I keep two journals. I hardly have the not-laziness-ability to update one.

...Although, since I've made the other one, I've started updating this one more. Something to think about...

To wrap up this disjointed post I would like to say that the song "Electricity" from Billy Elliot is fantastic. I think I have posted that everywhere today. But I've listened to it so many times I think it's warranted.

I haven't talked about generally what has happened in my life at all for the past year. Not that it's anything earth-shattering, but.

Last summer I went to a camp called MSSM (MSSM summer camps, that is) that I've been going to for quite some time now. I decided after I went that I'd like to go to school there, at the school, which happens to be called the Maine School of Science and Mathematics. It's a good school.

It is a boarding high school, so I went and lived there and abandoned my internet life because there is so much work/social activity going on there. I took some classes. They were hard. 

The year ended. I was a little sad that my senior friends were graduating.

I came home.

I typed this entry. Thrilling.

I really ought to study for SAT IIs, as I'm... taking them next weekend. And I took a diagnostic test for the math one and did meh-ish-ly. But I... don't want to... right now...

So, I just discovered something awesome. Thanks to antialiasis, indirectly, I found Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It's about an aspiring super-villain, and it's hilarious and adorable and awesome all at the same time. Go watch it if you haven't before~

Also, I've been obsessed with Avenue Q, lately. I want to go see it. 

I'm just to lazy to post.

SO. MSSM was fabulous, and I was silly for worrying about it. Without Jimi there it was much more.. peaceful, but there were still super-awesome people there and it was generally good. :3

I think I may possibly be going there for school this year, too. Hearing about the school made me want to, so I'm applying and hopefully I'll be able to.

(can you tell I fail at post titles?)

Anyway, I seem to post a bunch of posts right in a row usually, all showing different things I'm thinking so I can be like ANGST in one post and then PHOENIX WRIGHT 8DDD in another, oh I'm so cool.

Anyway, this is of course about Phoenix Wright, more specifically, Phoenix Wright fics I've been thinking of doing. They all take place in my own little fanon so I kind of want to have an overarching title or something because they do all tie together and have parallels and similar themes and whatever, I was thinking maybe (at least for the von Karma/Fey parallel lines) having one sort of collection title, like... hmm, I was thinking something like Legacy, because it's all about... uh, that. Legacy. Echoes and Parallels, you know? That's another one I could use, Echoes and Parallels.

They both sound pretentious to me, and also kind of not very, uh, clever or creative. Especially for fanfiction it's like what.
Unfortunalely I AM NOT WITTY OR CLEVER, so I have trouble with titles. And writing in general, hehe.

ON ANOTHER DIFFERENT NOTE: This icon has nothing to do with this post, I only have it because I'm on case 1-5 or PW:AA and this is the only Gant icon I have and I LOVE DAMON GANT
(even if he is going to turn out to be evil, he has that vibe about him. I love him anyway.)

It's sort of... short. Actually it's really short, but I had a two-page limit so eh. There is more I needed to put in to develop her character more and have more about her and Ginger and stuff that I should have said but I was nearly out of room. And I'm too lazy to write more, maybe I will later (HAH I doubt it) but um. Yes.


In addition, we write six-word autobiographies to go with these stories to put into an anthology (I did this at a writing-camp thing) and mine was like this:
Elizabeth in six words: Only six words? That's not very

I liked it. :3

I was thinking about how there are people I know in real life that can read this. I think I've told them about it at some point or another, and quite honestly, there are friends I have irl who I would... prefer not to read this, perhaps? So I think I might start friendslocking some things here, I dunno.

Probably a good idea. If you read this and don't have an LJ, make one so you can read everything I put, ok?
(I'm talking to you, Dannichu.)

The PW games I ordered got here two days ago, and the sad thing is, I'm more than halfway through the game. In fact, I'm in the last day of court for 1-4. I have immensely enjoyed 1-4, too, not only because of all the Phoenix/Edgeworth subtext (I'm awful, I know...) but because you learn more about lots of characters (Edgeworth, of course~) but also von Karma, and... I feel bad for him. I don't really feel like putting up all my thoughts right now, as I have to leave in about two minutes, but I will ramble more on PW later.

...But you knew that already.

EDIT: Manfred's from-the-front sprites look JUST LIKE FRANZISKA, does that scare anyone else?
And also, surskitty, if you see this, I think I'm past the part in 1-4 where you were stuck at (?) or at least will be soon, so I am so giving you a hint or something so you can finish that game. I'm reading KHR, so you have to play Phoenix Wright, ok? Ok.

So I've been looking through LJ, apparently looking at surskitty's journal thing was a gateway of some sort for me to realize that HEY there are people that I know (of) on here other than... the few people I know. I mean there are people I know of from TCoD.

Hurr, is it just me or did that make no sense.  

Oh well, I just wanted to say. Even though I just posted that meme about thirty seconds ago, I'm posting again to say this, what of it. One other thing is, I realized I know nothing about LJ etiquette. It sounds really stupid, but you know how some places, there are things you shouldn't do, like... well I can't think of anything, but. You know what I'm not making any sense to myself so I think it'd be best if I just shut up now. Bye.

PS. Phoenix Wright crossovers are taking over my brain, I keep thinking of new things to do and it's bad. But kind of good at the same time.

I LIKE CAPS YES I DO.

I don't think I managed to express the extent of my pain in the last thing.
PAINFUL PAIN IS PAINFUL

It's painful to just walk around. Bah, running.

...It'll get better, though.

Oh oh oh I am so excited, I ordered the other three games, (just had T&T, now I will have ALL OF THEM) and I even braved the wild jungle that is Ebay to get the first game because apparently you can't get it anywhere. By the way; Ebay hates me. It took two days to successfully pay for PW1 because Ebay is stupid or my computer is stupid or something, and so I had to go through hell and back to get that game, so it had better be good. (Hello run-on sentence.) Actually you know what, it's going to be good because Edgey is the main prosecutor and more learning about Edgey's character will be wonderful. I'm excited to play the other two as well, though, because I get to learn more about Fran in JFA, and I get to meet Ema more in AJ, so it's all going to be wonderful.

I drew more Phoenix Wright crossoverey pictures, too. This one frightens me. The faces and arms are kind of messed up, and it makes me sad that Edgey's expression got kind of watered-down in the coloring (the expressions are better in the sketch.) but overall... uh... I'm not sure what I'm on to draw Phoenix and Edgeworth as Elphie and Galinda, but I fear that they are quickly becoming my crossover guinea pigs.

Mhals is to Phoenix and Edgeworth as Dannichu is to Elphaba and G(a)linda?
...That would be bad. In a good kind of way.

ANYWAY if this doesn't mean I'm obsessed I don't know what does.

PS. I love this icon.
PPS. Even though I'm happy about Phoenix Wright I'm also unhappy because OW I went running yesterday and it was extremely painful. Ah well, I'll get better, I suppose I'm just terribly out of shape. -_-

Arrrgh, I keep changing how this journalthing of mine looks because usually something about the one I have right now will irritate me and so I will change it until I find one that I like. >:(

Kind of like desktop backgrounds, I can't seem to keep it constant since I had the longcat one. I put another longcat one up today MAYBE IT WILL STAY LIKE THAT? PHOENIX AND EDGEWORTH AND MAYA AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH? Yeah, it just didn't fit.

Also I meant to draw something for rockerbot27 today for her birthday because I like doing birthday pictures but I was lazy so maybe I will just draw a late one like I always draw people late birthday pictures. I guess it's kind of like a tradition. Or something, not really.

Man, I guess I really don't care about sounding stupid here anymore? Guess nooooooooot~~
8D