Snazziness

Today has been pretty snazzy. Firstly, the first thing I saw when I signed onto my blog just now was my Monet painting of the day, which happened to be my very favorite, "Water Lily Pond- Symphony in Green". So that in itself just made my day... Secondly, today at school was pretty awesome since I got to walk around dressed like an ancient Greek goddess for Latin class all day, not to mention eat some awesome food (pesto and bruscetta and tira misu, oh my!) for the party we had. The pomegranate was tasty, too, even if by eating it I condemned myself to live in the Underworld. Thirdly, rehearsal for the musical started today! So far I have a grand total of ONE line ("He sure looked upset!"), but I'm good with it. Musical season just makes me want to frolic. Though, admittedly, it does reduce my ability to have a social life to nil. I had to warn my boyfriend that today would be the last time he ever saw me in a normal state of self, at least until May. But despite the sleep deprivation, grueling rehearsals, painful and decidedly unattractive character shoes, and the endless round of inane show tunes running through your head constantly, as well as the fact that your character's personality takes you over COMPLETELY (which is almost never good, especially is your character is a perky and promiscuous secretary, as was the case of last year...), the musical is what I live for. That and olives. Finally, I have tomorrow, a gold day, to look forward to! Woot for snazziness. Snazzyness. Everydayness. Stupid spell check. Arrivederci, meus parvi piscis!

La La La...

Well, I just finished taking my Biology final about an hour ago, and I think I did pretty well. Though, it was very sad walking into class and not seeing Altair :[ *crycrysobweep* I must say, Altair, you missed a golden opportunity to ask me about my break and make me turn magenta. Anyways, I've finally memorized my ISSMA song, which is pretty cool...ehrm...what else, what else...Oh, yeah, and tomorrow I get to walk around dressed like Persephone all day. 'Twill be fun and pomegranate-y.
It's nice to know that I'm officially done with finals until the end of the year. La la la la...My life isn't really all that exciting right now, so unless a meteor crashes through my roof in the next 4 seconds, there's nothing else to report. Later, gators (and the odd crocodile)--

Batmannish Glory!

So, I just saw The Dark Knight with my boyfriend, and holy COW was I ever missing out on some awesome Batmannish wonder. Though, admittedly, I had some issues with the clowns. Yeah, I'm one of those silly illogical people who is scared of clowns...don't scoff. They're creepy. Anyways, other than the many thugs in clown masks (Shudder...), the movie was flipping amazing. I'm really not sure how I've survived thus far without having seen it. Heath Ledger, of course, was awesome. Only one other thing bugged me though, and that was the discontinuity the movie had in relation to the classic comic-book version. For instance, (spoilers!!) Harvey Dent did NOT become 2-face in a burning incident, he had acid thrown at him while arguing a case in court! And Chief Gordon's daughter is DEFINITELY not that young. Barbara Gordon was in her teens and was Batgirl for a while, until the Joker crippled her, leaving her wheelchair-bound in an effort to torment her father out of his mind. So then she became "Oracle", who is basically a super-genius who helps Batman.
So.
That was just my 2 cents as a Batman geek...
But yeah, other than that, 'twas amazing.
Now it's the first day back to school, but we have a 2 hour delay. Which, in all actuality, sort of pisses me off, because I just want to get it over with. Ah well. C'est la vie.
In other news, I finally got my new iPod! Whee! It's very pretty and titanium-ish. I'm also going to see Wicked on January 25th! I have been in love with Wicked since roughly 7th grade, so I'm very excited about this.
All in all, life is pretty snazzy right now. Except for my biology final. That won't be much fun.

General happiness

I'm FIIIIIINALLY going to see "The Dark Knight" today, and I'm very excited. I've been a Batman buff for quite a long time, and I've been languishing away. So yeah. That's mostly all to report as of now... oh yeah! I've just discovered the joy that is "Charlie the Unicorn 2", and I've been singing the banana song for days now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RGt-a-XpY

tee hee.

*Tears head off in overwhelmedness*

Hoooooooooooo boy, today was CRAZY. We had AAAAAALLLLL of our family over today. This annual gathering started off with 12:00 mass, at which I had to sing, and my family carried up the gifts to communion (I have no idea if this is just a Catholic thing or not, but I really don't fell like explaining Catholic masses...). Clara ended up not having anything to carry, so she started screaming in the middle of the church, in front of all creation. I observed all of this from the choir balcony at church, all the while trying not to yell down at her to stop crying. Well, after that little fiasco we went home and our relatives all came up from Kentucky. Every year my cousin James and I are expected to write a Christmas-y play for the littler kids to perform, and this year's was "The mystery of the stolen star". It was a freaking nightmare to organize, with a lot of fighting over costumes and not liking parts and forgetting lines and hitting people with frozen waffles and jumping on couches my brother endlessly pounding away on the drum set. Much fun, 'twas not. Though, some high points included my brother Henry in drag, playing the part of Paris Hilton, the inclusion of the line "Why so serious?" (I'm finally supposed to see The Dark Knight tomorrow, and I'm psyched!), and dancing fairies/goons. We finally got it all together and pulled it off, like we do every year, with no shortage of yelling and flinging of Nerf balls at non-compliant children. By the end of it all I was ready to tear my own head off, as well as some other people's. Though, admittedly, it was better than last year's, which was something along the lines of "A Very Chuck Norris-y Christmas On A Desert Island". I come up with strange and vaguely frightening ideas under pressure. So yeah...then we all ate cake, because it also happens to be my brother William's 9th birthday (Happy Birthday, dude!), and watched "2008: year in review" which is a photo slide-show that my aunt Meeb puts together every year. It had some pretty snazzy pictures of yours truly fighting with goats, I must say. Everyone kind of trickled out around eight, so now I can finally have some peace and quiet. Well, as peaceful and quiet as it can get with a family of 10... O_o
I'm supposed to get some pictures of all of this from Meeb, so I'll be posting those shortly.
Lah dee dah.. I think I'll go now. I have a biology final in 2 days, and I should probably study some more... unless Altair wants to tell me what's on the test? Hee just kidding. I think.

Twilight [spoiler alert!]

Well, I recently got back from seeing the Twilight movie. I must say, I was not all that impressed. I've read all the books, which were okay, but the movie...it was like the book only very condensed, more confusing, with less character development, and very disappointing sparkles-in-the-sun effects. Seriously, I expected some epic sparkles. But no, it just looked like he was sweaty or had been rolling around in salt or something. Sigh. I guess to compensate for all that they tried to squeeze in as many studs as possible. I mean, as if a cast full of gorgeous vampires isn't enough (though the gorgeosity of Emmet is debatable...) they had to make the werewolf pretty, too! Hearing my friends giggle and sigh over Jacob got very tiresome. And another thing about Jacob: THAT WAS NOT JACOB! HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE JACOB! ARGH! And I still can't get past the fact that they got Robert Pattinson to play Edward. I swear, throughout the movie I would look at him and the first thing that would pop into my head was "Cedric Diggory". But I s'pose that's just my Potter-headedness overriding. Grumble. Ah well, it was a slightly above-average way to spend 2-odd hours. SLIGHTLY. Though, to give it credit, I did enjoy the slightly twisted performance of Cam Gigandet, who played James, the sadistic, masochistic tracker vampire baddie. He was pretty cool and bloodthirsty. But, of course, they had to throttle him and twist his head off and burn him to pieces at the end of it all. Nyar. Ah well, c'est la vie. I must admit though, Alice did impress me with her snazzy twisting-heads-off action. Tee hee. Eeeeeeep, that there was kind of creepy, wasn't it? I s'pose I should go now. Arrivederci.

Random Ramblings

Only 3 days of break left!!!! Noooooooo! This makes me very sad, just thinking about having a whole 'nother half of school to get through... sigh. Well, at least I have the beginning of rehearsals for the musical to look forward to! I LIVE for musical season. I think it's pretty much all that gets me through the months of January through May. This year's is a production called "The Pajama Game", in which I am to play the oh-so important role of "Doris/Chorus". DORIS OF THE CHORUS! IT RHYMES! WHEE! Despite the fact that I utterly loathe the name Doris, I'm pretty jazzed. Chorus roles are much fun. Sure, they aren't as prestigious as leads, but you only have like 5 lines to memorize and you can just goof off and sing and dance!!! Woot! So yeah....not much to report. Oh, yeah, my cousin Stephanie is at my house right now...she's pretty cool, even though she's only in 5th grade. She's a lot more well-adjusted than I was in 5th grade, I'll give her that. And I peeled a good amount of the skin on my wrist off with a hot-glue gun...that was enjoyable. Must go now, there are bathrooms to be cleaned! Fahshwaaah!