Tofu Toes

o.O I bet the title got your attention, i'll mention that later.

-So we had a fencing tournament. It actually wasn't as painful as I anticipated, me not being a very competitive person. We split into two groups, epee (eh-pay) and sabre people, (we got to chose which one we wanted the day before). I was epee, same with like lets say 7 out of the 20 kids in the class. We had the assistant person, who was going into like 10th grade as our director while the other group got the teacher. The teacher was cool, but the assistant dude was really funny and cracked up when we showed our inadequacies, he wasn't all like "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. RAWWR." so that was cool. There was this REALLY obnoxious guy who was really good (why do the two always go together in sports D:) who was really good and beat all of the people. Then it was my turn so I was like "le crai" and this girl was like "you have to beat him" and I gave her a skeptical face. But then I beat him 5/4! wahahahahahaha. jerk. he flourishes his sword too much.

-Going back in time, thursday fencing was epic. During one of the thankfully long breaks, a group of cool people, naturally containing us, were sitting by one of the big industrial sized fans. This one girl, Sophie was planning on world domination. It was AMAZINGLY LIKE SSC. Like even down to the fact that somebody was like "Oh! I'll be part of the propaganda department!" brain-washing much? Except for this was more of a hostile take over than like corporate take over. So we kept on questioning her like population control, environment, assigned jobs, etc. So she was sort of a huggy person and was like "group hug!" and I was like "The first thing you do when you take over the world is-" she interrupts "YES! WORLD WIDE GROUP HUG, THE CURE FOR WAR!" 0.0 I was actually going to say outlaw group hugs, just as a joke, but that works too. I surmised that northern africa would be the best place. but I find that posativealoutely hilarious.

-More awesome conversations-that-gave-me-a -spark-of-hope-that-the-world-isn't-such-a- dark-stoopy-place-afterall: We actually managed to branch our conversation into the fact that God didn't exist without offending anybody. Some of us were slightly agnostic but all was fine. Sophie started brainstorming religions like ones worshiping darkness, or nothing or whatevs. And we talked about religious conflicts. Then the talk of war and darkness made sophie giddy so we had another group hug. But these two brothers that were really awesome left before friday D: Saying goodbye to people that you'll never see again is so sad. I've given and received more hugs than like evar this summer. As emily posted on her blog, everybody got a gynormous hug on the way out of improv D: Anyway another cool conversation was one of the brothers was talking about socialism. And I was like ZOMG. He was talking about Sweden in particular. whenever capitalism gets me down for one reason or another i always promise the world i'm moving to Sweden. to hear somebody else talking about that made me happy. So we had this whole conversation about life expectancies based on latitudes and econ system.

-Hot. and that concludes fencing...

-My dad was hosting this debate barbecue thing and tried to get me interested in speech again, but there is this one kind of it that is somewhat interesting. It's called storytelling, it's like party in the box except for no box and only 30 minutes of prep, and i'm not sure how big the teams can be. Something to consider, not as time consuming as debate. Moving on to the title of this post, I ask my dad if there's anything I could do as the party was starting, I was thinking something like "move the guacamole outside" but actually"can you cut this tofu into cubes then skewer them, like four to a stick" "yeeesss... or I could do that." Anyway it was impossible, and I decided that the grossest feeling in the world was when I dropped some on my foot. Tofu=ickblehgrahss. So I ended up with only four skewers and a whole plate of tofu carnage. (yaaaay) hence the name.

Note: second grossest feeling from yesterday was swimming when it was dark, and picking up a live cricket from the pool, thinking it was a leaf, then having it be a squirming cricket. needless to say i yelped and threw it ^_^ but i saved it with the skimmer. yeah...

So yeah that's pretty much it. I have my cousin coming soon blah blah blah. See you guys at the world-wide group hug.

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-Fencing is cool. Like usually the bouts are like 4-5 or 5-4 or whatever, most people are pretty close in talent because we're all beginners. and like nobody is taking it insanely seriously, like scorekeeping has been really lax and nobody really minds losing a bunch. unless you get completely slaughtered 5-0, that is just plain embarrassing. that only happened to me with somebody who actually fences, like wasn't in our class i don't think or is but has a bunch of experience. o.O I dunno, it's really hard to tell who people are because they have their helmets on. Speaking of helmets, picture this: it is summer, the room is sort of cool but not exactly cold. It is mandatory to wear sneakers and sweat pants. You wear these padded jackets that are long sleeved on your sword hand and cover most of your torso. Then you have to wear a fencing helmet. And a glove. Dude, hell is cold compared to doing a decent workout in those clothes. It's like 3.5 hours but it goes really fast.

-I had to leave fencing early today to go to the theater project. We're slowly starting to drag together the show that we're going to perform. We did some improv and 10 minute prep plays where we had to incorporate like a billion things, it was so hard. Ours was like this: I was a nerdy janitor who had a ghost companion and I was hopelessly in love with a ditzy prince. I go to cupid to get a love potion but she gives me a hate potion because she's actually in love with the prince so he hates me and falls in love with her. Then we realize that she got owned because he shows how stoopy he is. And I end up being in love with the ghost, which is sort of... questionable.

-It felt so weird doing improv without my old group! blagh! I've even known these people longer than them -.- but really, like the same trust level and chuminess really isn't there. like before we start, the SV part of the group like hangs out regularly and obviously not with me so it's sort of cliquey. Plus we didn't really learn all of the rules of improv so I just wanted to yell "relationship!" or like start looking at modern art in Guam but um nobody would get that. All in all, some people are cool, some people are just not as cool. But all of the old improv. peeps are so much cooler. I miss them! ;_; ;_; ;_; they were so epic. They are so epic, i just won't get to see some of them again. :::::::-([

-I drew people! (le gasp) It's been forever! I'm surprised I even know how anymore! Ive been working a lot more with collages and knottings and clay. So yeah, not exactly the most exquisite masterpieces I've ever conjured but they're dece. I'm in the middle of this one master idea but um I'll have to just jump the "I can't draw guys" obstacle. I don't know, I've drawn a few dece ones in my time, like Traeg and um Traeg and Damon and um Traeg. currently my guy looks like a doe-eyed scarecrow. not a pretty sight. It's either amazing how much better i've gotten with sketching people, or I just really really sucked before. I think both. I've been slowly modifying my form. Like newest acquisition is the elbows-to-wrists curve. mostly i have to appear a bimbo by staring at myself in a mirror and noticing what i'm sucking at when i'm drawing. it works. plus staring at actual people would be scary.

-anyway i miss my brother, he's at debate camp for two weeks. so when he goes to college... i'm going to try not to think about that. try really, really hard...

-I'm getting really annoyed about band and music. it seems like so many time I have to sacrifice the artistic integrity of a piece to do it the "proper way" which of course is proper, but i properly hate it. HATE IT. I can deal with "moderato" okay, i'll play at a moderate tempo but like "quarter note=225" ... good for the quarter note? no, i know that it's a metronome thing but hell if i'm going to use one. And then while i'm playing a piece I can't hear the song, or what i'm doing wrong because my teacher counting out every note. i mean It's not easy to keep it together with "1 and 2 and 3 and a 4 and a 5 6 7 and an 8 and a 9 e and a 10..." the whole time. 12/8 time is killing me. I've hard the official CD recording a billion times and I copy the rhythm I hear but apparently it isn't correct. KILLING ME. I couldn't care less about 6/8 time! Plus: Fussel Book= Fussy book. I mean it has FUSS in the name. This was ominous "It's the hardest the first time, then you just do the same thing over and over again for years." uh... I'm not sure what the worst part of that was, being hard the first time, or doing it over and over again. fussel book=scales. scales... eh. I know this crap is meant for me to get better and develop as an "intermediate musician" but i'm not that into some kinds of music and quite frankly, almost everything technical. I don't care about "oney and a twoy and clap with me, three e and a fourfive" or "music man in 6/8" or the Dflat scale or the Fussel book. blagh. My music lessons are not helping, my teacher is really nice and a great person, but I don't learn music like that.

wah whatever it's getting late. i'm sore but mostly like my right hand (sword hand). I'm probably going to have my theater project meeting like first thing in the morning after Breaking Dawn comes out! oh the humanity! lololol good night yall. (ps we should do a picnic thing. doesn't even have to be a picnic we should just all do somethang.)

PPS: Zo fjaict jemo e facexo weff.

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I've noticed disaster always seems to strike when I'm doing my summer acting camp and my brother is conveniently in california at debate camp. first my dad was in the hospital, then my grandpa, then my uncle and cousin were in a car accident, and now my mom has belspalsy. So now I heard my parents having this (censored)y argument and I think they're still at it. my god they're both being really really stoopy. PEOPLE. can't live with them, can't live without them. Especially the former... no, maybe the latter... what evs.

Operation become an emo werewolf and get security job in fancy building during night shift! Or just turn 18 and go to college... that would work too. WHATEVER. i am so over like everything. I just want to like sleep till 11 and be an arteest the rest of the day. is that too much to ask?? besides the fact that I'd be putting myself in insomnia danger and i'd get sunlight starved. No, I don't hate all people, i love you guys. some people are just so... illogical and shortsighted and egocentric and unobservant and stubborn and close-minded.

Anyway, i'm sorta freaked for the improv show tomorrow. i mean it's in front of a whole bunch of people, and obviously we make everything up on the spot. eeks. I also sorta want to get it over with because it's daunting and I don't want to wake up at 7. ALSO I don't want it to end because I've become incredibly close with the people in our group and I basically may never see them again or not until next year, and it was really fun. I mean not close in the way that like I got to school with you guys and know you for years but in the "i trust you to cover my back" and skipping around in circles every morning together way. i don't know, it was just really fun and went fast. like this july has like owned all! July is always the best. like fourth of the july was awesome, and improv, now fencing, and like xjo fellex weff zef paac!

on a happymaking note, it rained. not for long enough though. I still feel the agonized cries of yellow grass, but it makes the earth feel more hydrated. rain is so awesome. I continue my eternal refrain. there was some lightening but not enough to make it not-cool. I dislike it when the element of fire intrudes on the water element's moment! I'm not so much a fire person as some people could tell >.>

There was this talent show at improv during rec and I am so sad that this person made up their own song! because it is so awesome and stuck in my head! I want it on itunes! augh!

New twilight trailer out. A few lines of awesome editted vampire sadism! woo! I'll watch the movie even if it's only for the last scene! When they said that the security guard was killed by an animal, i'm like "WHAT!" new moon and twilight combined??? then I realized that the vampires don't just make two nice holes in the neck they just like chew on you till you bleed, so it would appear that way. woo! you can find that and more here

yeah so my parents stopped arguing it seems but they're both still stoopy. and my mom just always walks away from an argument whenever she wants to. bleh. i'll tell you how the improv went tomorrow.

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Sooo... tired... i was up 17 hours yesterday. i'm so used to falling asleep at 12 and i have to wake up at 7 for improv. it just comes too close to school for me to not whine about it. improv is really awesome:

-we do a bunch of improv games, mostly. it's from 8:30-4 with an hour and a half for lunch/rec. The teachers are cool, and most kids are.
-We did trust building on tuesday! the thing that just kept on cycling through my head was emily falling out of that tree at wooddale when maren dropped her! team building at its finest. We did a blind trust walk, lifting a person all the way above our heads, having you fall blindly and the people in the circle making sure you don't actually fall. some of it was scary, but it was cool. this helped smear the dangerous "elite clique" line that was sort of forming.
-Today we made masks! Just the plaster part, the "victim" would put saran rap over the top part of their face, like just to the tip of your nose, and the applier would apply plaster and it took 20 minutes to harden. Some of the time i was was left there by mira (rawr) and had no idea where she was and ended up accidentally getting plaster on westley (what a great name). and when i wasn't attacking bystanders, mira was torturing me until i wanted to seriously maim her.

-Today we also did candlelight monologues. First we went through guided meditation in the black box and then with all the lights off one person at a time would sit up in front of the candle and tell about a time in their life when they had very intense emotion. i'm not going to actually tell the stories obviously, but oh my god. it really gives another dimension to people when you hear their stories. It was sooo sad what has happened to people, like really, it puts everything into perspective. very emo time. I always get the urge to hug people when I hear sad stories, as if that could make them happier or erase the things that happened. it can't. le sigh.

-lololol two words: Soulja Boy. (okay, one of those isn't even words) Somebody turned on soulja boy on their ipod and played it over the microphone. then... then... like everybody started doing "the soulja boy". like it was an epidemic! it was funny/sad at the same time. Then the next start of the song was all like "BAAAAAH ZAKENYA (blah blah blah i have no idea what they're saying)" like the start of Lion King so mira and I were getting so happy that there was actually going to be a wholesome song playing, and somehow it went terribly wrong! It turned into another stoopy rap song.

-So yeah, so far casualties minimum and uh... tiredness at maximum. I'm going to be a casualty if I don't go to sleep like now, i've already spilled a whole glass of ice water, misplaced a library book, ran into a door frame, spelled like 1/2 of these words wrong and named this sad excuse for a post "-.-" that is sad.

-Wait i guess I'm not done. Life lesson of the day: have confidence in yourself. you need all of it you can get. it's amazing what you can learn about people when you see a sizable amount of them for the first time in like a month. you can recognize patterns better. (wahaha, yes, people are experiment subjects.)

night yall.

Blagh

hope everybody had a spiffing 4th, yesterday was pretty fun

-we braved leeches, hugs, sunburn, trashcans, trees and clowns, for starters.
-the fireworks were stupendous. you can tell that they were really trying to impress, which they did.
-augh, one of the guys that i hate most from school came to the barbecue thing that my parents were having. It was like "WTFOMFGBBQ" in that order. he's the boyfriend of a girl that lives across the creek from me. ick.
-It was the fourth of july yesterday, correct?? the holiday where we celebrate our independence on the day that the declaration was signed/written/whatever. because whenever I mentioned anything like this I was immediately attacked. i'm ashamed to say we should just call it "fireworks and free candy day". le sigh.
-I read an article in a magazine about Dubai. Sigh, Dubai. It's so stoopy. It's just sickening to keep on hearing about their man made islands, infinitely tall towers and extreme tourist locations. THE TOURISTS ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY THAT IS WHY THEY COME TO YOUR RESORT AND PAY A BILLION DOLLARS. PEOPLE ARE STARVING AND HAVE NO HOMES. SEND OUT INTERNATIONAL RELIEF. BE HUMANITARIANS NOT CAPITALIST OBSESSED PIGS. :-p

Ceqeo'f Lacoffuhrf. Jeddeg Fellex!

Twilight: second reaction to the new twilight scene: lololol Edward is a stoopy. There is no other explanation! He runs into the ballet studio like "save bella!" and then he just stands there with a dopey expression and stares at bella as she hyperventilates, and lets James slam him into a wall by his neck. good plan edward. really. good. plan. I like it in the book better. James better not be choking him because vampys don't need to breathe. Also... Half Blood Prince movie is coming out in November, we haven't even had a teaser trailer come out yet just a bunch of pictures. For Twilight we've had a trailer, movies poster, countless interviews and two scenes and Twilight comes out in December. hmmm.
There is a Breaking Dawn release party at a Barnes and Noble that i haven't been to, but it's nearby. Not sure about that... i'm not naturally drawn to fanatic parties and parental cooperation is dubious. oh god, i just realized that I have FTP on august second! does breaking dawn come out the night of the 2nd or the night of the 1st? i'm hoping for the former because there is no way i'm missing 3 hours of reading time and letting everybody finish before me. well i guess i am...

Not Twilight: I was just looking up BRMC and I came upon an awesome interview with a member of the band. I can't really nail down him as a "bassist" or whatever, because it seems like he has say in songwriting, vocals? harmonica and piano. Anyway it was Robert Been aka Robert Turner. Anyway, quote of the day:
"[we feel the need for a] retaliation, because it's time. It feels like we've all been duped with commercialism, with the religious right controlling perception, with the government, the joining of church and state. There's no separation. There are lots of things that need to be spoken about, to be said", the bassist says."I'm waiting for people to kind of tune into that. Sometimes you feel like you're the only one thinking this, and it's really hard. The only way to not feel like that is to make music, and to be part of the solution rather than the problem. A little bit at a time, it's the only thing to keep the head up, to avoid slipping into a manic depressive state! That's what we need. We really want to believe that this world is alright, that people are alright, that it's a good place and worth fighting for. Sometimes it can be pretty disheartening".
There is nothing I could possibly agree with more. qft

Twilight

if you don't like twilight, don't moan and groan about this post. you won't be telling me anything that I don't already know. kthx. Spoiler alert to anybody who cares.

zomg. I just was listening to mugglecast and the same people (they're awesome and funny) mentioned that they just started a Twilight podcast. Naturally I was all over that. But in the first 20 minutes they mentioned these two scenes that were released, so I'm like. SCENES? and had to check them out of youtube:

Here, this isn't a final cut, but it's all we have

I can't find the second one but that doesn't matter right now. Oh my god. For the first time I'm wondering if this will be a tiny bit more than a trashy teen romance crapfest. Maybe it's just really that James is perfect, but who knows. James is perfect, did I mention that? I looooove how they did the camera, I didn't pay much heed to it in the book, it seemed sort of lame, but in the movie it is excellent! Soooooo perfectly sadistic!

Okay, don't take me wrong, this is still going to be a trashy teen romance throw away. As I realize as soon as there's that somewhat corny moment between bella + edward. As for flying through the air, stupid edward, tricks are for kids. Now you might be looking at that and saying "that is the suckiest thing I've ever seen." The awkwardness and how it doesn't flow is mostly because this isn't the final cut. Rough draft.

Another point, what the heck... They are supposed to be in a ballet studio, there were mirrors... but... In ballet studios I pictured a square room, not a big high ceiling and pillars at all, with the wood dancing floor and two wall-length mirrors. I have no idea what they're doing here, it looks more like The Hall of Prophecy from Order of the Phoenix than a ballet studio. So this isn't how I picture it. And I'm sort of confused because it looks like James has already bit her? She shouldn't still be conscious :( that makes a vampire bite look like "oh, it's just a flesh wound."

So James is perfect, and I think Victoria is too, but Laurent makes me want to gag. I'm all for diversity, but vampires are sort of supposed to be more nordic/European beings. Like they all have pale skin... no offense guy who plays Laurent, but you are not from the book! You look nothing like the book description!
Here's how I picture him (ish)
Haha, that's Jack White, but it's perfect.
Not like this.

Anyway, this may sound like an obsessive ~<3fangirl<3~ rant. before everybody goes crazy, i don't think robert patinson looks like edward (ugly dude), they just did good casting for james, and this is not my favorite book or movie. Sorta goes back to that quote how i compared this to drugs. heh, twilight does have drug references like how is saying "you're exactly my brand of heroin" sweet??? seriously, NO.

el fin. when breaking dawn comes out i may or may not have to rant on here. maybe i'll let it all out to pure twilighters next time.

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