Mockingjay and Banking

Today I went to the bank, deposited my babysitting money/check stuff, and got my copy of Mockingjay. I'm not realy in a reading-marathon-mood so I took a break. I'm also gonna try to fit in a run somewhere between the reading and watching and blogging. Oh my life is SO busy.
I leave soon, so I've stacked up a pile of hangers from my closets and various other knick-knacks from my room...a wooden turtle, a porcelain China cat from Chicago, a paperweight snowglobe type thing...of Chicago. I don't have some strange love for Chicago, haha.
I'm slightly worried about having too much "stuff". I brought like 2 weeks of clothes, a trunk full of shoes, books, hangers, towels and sheets, a duffel bag full of school supplies and knick-knacks (i'll use the duffel bag for camping next week) and then one big suitcase and one teeny suitcase.
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Gamer Girl?

Today was spent babysitting a friend of my mom's, which is good, because I need all the money I can get before I go off to college and use said money for food/textbooks/other necessities.

I played Beatles Rock Band/Guitar Hero with the kid (who is 8 and really awesome). We then went to Walgreens where I bought a cheap-o bouncy ball to play volleyball with at the park. This was a bad idea, because I had forgotten the meaning of the saying: "Like a kid in the candy store." He made a beeline to the candy aisle and I had to make a great effort to get him outside again. Phew.

I then played BioShock 2 after he left, which is really fun, even though I don't really like first person shooters. Makes me think of cosplay ideas for Animazement.

Mockingjay comes out tomorrow so I'm going to get a copy (if possible) then read all day :D
Sadly, no bookstores in my area are holding midnight release parties.

That is all for today, tune in for tomorrow's post!
lololol.

Heads will roll (on the floor).

If you're wondering about the blog title, check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDtccZHRFE <--- that out. Haha, yeah yeah yeahs are awesome (apparently the badn is NOT called THE yeah yeah yeahs, so yeah...)


Today I went to get black yarn so my mom can crochet my hufflepuff scarf (I made six this summer so she was nice enough to make one for me :D) and also buy some headphones for college (unfortunately they aren't the super-cool-big-black ones I would have ilked, but they work just fine).

Now, I'm listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs on YouTube and...well, blogging. I also finished Season 3 of Doctor Who. I loved the 3rd season! It had more...powerful, emotional episodes. And I really loved Martha so much more than Rose. Rose just kinda annoyed me. And now there's Donna. I don't think I'll like her very much. I'm kinda delaying watching the first episode of Season 4. Martha was really good though. She saved the world and all! The whole last-time-lord-dying thing was sad. Poor Doctor. AND JACK IS THE FACE OF BO WHAT!
(Also is it a requirement that Doctor Who's companions wear big ol' hoop earrings? Rose did, Martha did for like one episode, and now Donna is.)
I'm sorry. I'm just ranting now. It's good to have something to replace LOST...no, LOST can't be replaced, ever. It's soooo gooooooddd.

Well, this has turned into a tv-show-rant, my apologies. I'm babysitting again tomorrow and Tuesday, most likely. I'm also finishing up my summer reading (few pages left now). Leaving Friday...getting stuff together and whatnot.
Until tomorrow...

I'm turning into a bonafide nerd, here

Sally Sparrow: Aren't you on duty, *Detective Inspector Shipton*?
Billy Shipton: Nope. Knocked off before we came down here. Told them I had a family crisis.
Sally Sparrow: Why?
Billy Shipton: Because life is short and you are hot. Drink?

So I'm watching "Blink" (Season 3 Doctor Who) and it's amazing so far but I interrupted to get today's blog post out for you anxious readers because there's so many of you! :D
hahahahah, I'm J.K rowlinng you (get it)?
(I just went downstairs to check on my slice of pizza in the toaster oven only to discover the toast oven was off. Woe is me. Also my brother tends to use way too much of his suave smells-like-manly-man-sweat body wash at NIGHT which leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Anyways.)
So today I also watched the Human Nature/Family of Blood episodes and they were fantastic! I tihnk the history themed episodes are really great. Like the girl in the fireplace, and the shakespeare one. Also, to see John Smith was kinda heartbreaking. And to see John/The Doctor LOVE SOMEBODY was really weird
like realllyyy weird
In other news, I'm pretty much packed for college. I've got one big suitcase with all my clothes, one small suitcase for carry-on luggage on holidays that has random stuff in it, a trunk (like harry potter!) filled with shoes, sheets, towels, and books (goblet of fire, will grayson, will grayson, looking for alaska, and extremely loud and incredibly close. so had to limit myself to four. I kinda wanted to bring golden compass, but i'll reserve that for re-reading once I'm home for a month during January break.
As of today, all my friends are at college already, making friends and having fun and going to parties and what-not, and I'm in my room watching Doctor Who (but that's okay because I'll do all that college stuff in one week, 2 hours and 55 minutes (as of 9:05 P.M) or something close to that.
The open curriculum is really amazing and scary. I'm find myself looking at math classes (MATH CLASSES? REALLY?) considering taking them but then remember that i ABHOR math even though my last teacher made me forget that sometimes (just sometimes). I have heard that calculus is easier than pre-calc, but this is coming from kids who are /good/ at math. Sooo we'll see.
I really want to take a French class (I kinda have to), an art class (pre-req to photography), and a history class. My freshman seminar is Friendship. It's about (take a wild guess,) friendship, and we read Greek stuff and English lit and all that. It's an English class. I'm semi-excited
I also have a chapter or so of my summer reading left, and I'm reading Leviathan (Scott Wetserfield). MOCKINGJAY COMES OUT SOON.
So I'm gonna go back to watching Doctor Who, I tend to pause it for too long and then I'm like "oh crap i'm watching doctor who". So yeah, back to that.
SO LONG!

(In which I portray my love of parentheses and tackle controversy once more.)

So RamblingsofaRose and Alyenfrance are doing this little project where you blog everday for a month. Seeing as I'm leaving for college in a week, I'm assuming this will be a "big change" that will be good to "document" for "the future" and all that stuff. So I've decided to do it as well! (Let's hope I don't need to make pictures like Hayley G Hoover (I love following the 5AG BEDAs!)) okay that was parenthetical suicide, no more of that.
I recently gave my email to the Amherst Student (the school newspaper) to maybe be a photographer/writer. They sent as an optional assignment where we could write about a certain topic. Seeing as I have never written a newspaper article (but I did get an editorial published once XD) I decided I'd just do it on my blog! I will be tackling that subject that you MUST have heard about, that people just can't shut up about, that is annoying me to DEATH...the "mosque at ground zero" debate.

When I first heard about these plans my thoughts were mixed. I felt that there really shouldn't be anything near Ground Zero...but then I looked into it and discovered that the building isn't even a mosque, it's a community center with one floor reserved for Muslim prayer. It's meant to cross bridges, to unite people of different faiths as a sort of YMCA. Here's a quote from the Cordoba Initiative website:
"The community center will be a platform to amplify the voices of the overwhelming majority of Muslims whose love for America and commitment to peace gets drowned out by the actions of a few extremists. ....As Muslim New Yorkers and Americans we want to help and be part of rebuilding our neighborhood in lower Manhattan. It is important for all of us to show the world that Americans will not be frightened or deterred by the extremist forces of hatred."

Essentially, The Cordoba Initiative is meant to help improve relations between the Islamic world and the western world, something that I believe really needs to be done.

"This building will serve as an emblem for the rest of the world that Americans ... recognize that the evil acts of a few must never damn the innocent."-Donna O'Connor, whose daughter died on 9/11

My point here is that we must remember the bigger picture of America, the whole "Puritans came here to have religious freedom" thing. I don't know if these people have heard of "Freedom of Religion but it's kinda one of our founding principles.
Anyways that's just my two cents.

Twilight? Harry Potter?

So I seem to be entering what seems to be a World War III battlefield. Anyways, my viewpoint on this debate is...either, or. I don't think it matters if people like both Twilight and Harry Potter. I've read all four Twilight books *insert groan* and even had a Twilight themed party in the midst of the Twi-mania. Then, it kinda spiraled out of control with the rabid tweensters and the Twi-moms and the cardboard cut-outs and it got mildly disturbing/obsessive. I did enjoy the books as a guilty pleasure, and yes, the writing was kinda bad, (she uses couldn't've...) Bella serves as a horrible example for young girls (okay, so you seriously can't function because your boyfriend leaves for a few months? You fall into deep depression? Unrealistic to say the least), and the whole imprinting thing was more than a little bit creepy. But I enjoyed reading them, all the while waiting for them to get better, and I thought Breaking Dawn was HILARIOUS (which was not the intended effect, I'm sure).
But now it seems like you can only like HP or Twilight (and I'm a huge HP fan, I've spent this summer re-reading the books and even read Sorcerer's Stone in French thanks to my friend, and I went to WWOHP, and I've read the books since I was 9, sneaking around my mom who forbade them.) I think it's kinad ridiculous to compare the two series at all, one is a romance...fantasy-ish thing, the other is an epic that stands alongside The Chronicles of Narnia and maybe even LOTR one day (one day...)
But in the long run, Cedric Diggory > Edward Cullen, always, Robert Pattinson.
And Lupin > Jacob.

why i'm annoyed.

So everyone has gotten their roommates and everything, and most are moving in this or next week (this week really), and here I am anguished over the fact that my email was supposed to go out today and it was delayed.
It's really not that big of a deal, really. It's just annoying, and I need to vent, and one of my pet peeves is complaining on facebook (if you notice I hardly ever say "bad day" unless it was a REALLY bad day, just because I don't like to). So yeah, that's the end of my ranting.