And I know that may be boring. But, I don't care. In fact, I doubt that YOU care, whoever you are. So. Here I go.

1) Sparkly chandelier earrings (to go with Homecoming dress)
2) Knee-high black boots (cannot have until birthday T_T)
3) Denim miniskirt
4) Rainbow striped turtleneck sweater (couldn't resist)
5) Knee-high orange-and-black striped socks (THE most beautiful things you've ever seen)
6) Orange-and-black striped ankle socks
7) Vampire teeth (muahahahahahahaa!)
8) Black lipstick (GROSS! Couldn't help it! Came with the vampire teeth)
9) Black hippie peace-sign necklace (peave, luv, and groove)
10) Silver star ring
11) Jeans

Yay! Stuff.

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Ahh, the weekend. A few days of shoving everything I didn't do during the week into my schedule and trying to make it fit. Well, it isn't all that bad, I guess, but I still have cleaning and party planning (Vicky and I are having a combination 16th birthday party next weekend) and Calculus studying to do. I slept until 11 this morning. (Subconsciously trying to postpone everything?)
Yesterday night, I just finished reading Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce (from The Immortals series, which I never got to read before), Flight by Sherman Alexie (Yes, my goal is to read every word he's published. He's brilliant.), and Samurai Deeper Kyo Volume 1, a new manga series I'm starting. Right now I'm in the middle of Bleach Volume 10 and Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan. Lined up and ready to be devoured, I have Bleach Volume 11, and Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett.
Well, must be off to tackle limits, removable and unremovable continuity, and the like.

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Finally! Stupid thing wouldn't let me log on. So I had to go digging in my computer and turn on cookies again, which somehow turned itself off. Stupid cookies. Why do they even call it cookies anyways?
I've decided that Sherman Alexie is one of my new Favorite Authors Of All Time (FAOAT - check out my new sidebar section!). I just finished reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, after having read "Indian Education" in my copy of the Bedford Reader. He is officially amazing.
I also got my hands on that Plain White T's album I wanted, All That We Needed. YAY! Now I'm adding the Moulin Rouge soundtrack to my wishlist, but I'll probably buy that myself soon.
I've been kinda sick, but I'm feeling better now. Not much else has been happening.
Black Cat =^-^=

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I burned my thumb on the oven today while cooking a chicken and rice casserole. It hurts really bad.. :(
Mom says she's doing well at training in RI.
We had a Biology test today, and the teacher had spent all yesterday talking about how VERY hard it was, but it turned out to not be so bad at all. Maybe he just likes psyching us out.
Weeeeeeeell, not much else to post about.
Black Cat =^-^=

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Today Mom left for Weight Watcher job training in RI. So until Sunday it's just me and Dad. They both left for the airport at 6:00 so now I'm eating breakfast and listening to the cricket chirp. There's a cricket hiding beside the file cabinet and he's just singing his poor little heart out. I told him that he wasn't going to find any lady crickets in our basement, but he's a persistent thing. It's slightly annoying, but I don't want to kill him. I kind of want to put him outside, but.... I don't really want to handle him, either. :? Eh, he's in between the cabinet and the shelf anyway. If he's still here tonight I'll get him.
Today I think we're going to the river in Gov school...
It's also Vicky's 16th birthday!!!!! So I'm bringing brownies to school. Oftentimes, if you bring baked goods to school, you either have to hide them on your person or bring along a large bodyguard, because otherwise you get mugged. It's like, walking in the slums of India holding a tray of cupcakes. But... most people are afraid of me, beacuse if they touch my brownies I will get mean. Rrrrrrr.
Defend the brownies!
Black Cat =^-^=

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First day of school was all right, finally got my bus arrangments meshed out.
Afternoons at Stonewall are AP Calculus (in which I am the only junior) and Bio II, which is actually sort of like AP Bio, according to the teacher, who spent about a half hour telling us (discouragingly) how exceedingly difficult the class will be. But I guess he just wants the people who will drop it to drop it by the deadline so he won't have to deal with the, er, non-hardcore people for the rest of the semester. Both classes gave me gigantic, three-inch hardbound textbooks that are heavy by themselves, and are crazy insane together. Fortunately I have lockers at both Gov. school and high school, so it won't be too bad. Now I just have to remember two combinations. Grrrrreat.
Got last year's yearbook today. *rolls eyes* Yep, that's how we roll around here.
Hope your week got off to a good start.

Black Cat =^-^=

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Today is the last day of summer. *hangs head* I start high school tomorrow, so from now on I'll have full days of Governor's school and high school. AP Calculus and Biology II, here I come.
This post won't be as long as the post on books...

My current favorite bands:

Bayside
Hellogoodbye
OK Go
Flyleaf
The All-American Rejects (It's sad they're so popular, but I love them anyways)
Regina Spektor
The Police
The Beatles
Alkaline Trio
John Mayer
O-Zone
Lifehouse
Elton John
Everclear
American Eyes
Head Automatica
Liam and Me
Sink to See
Plain White T's
Jack's Mannequin
The Strokes

Aaaaand that's only a few! Lol. Right now my wishlist includes CDs for American Eyes, Head Automatica, Liam and Me, Sink to See, and O-Zone.
The TOP of my wishlist:

Bayside: The Walking Wounded

Chobits: Soundtrack 001 (Anime show soundtrack; especially wan the song "Let Me Be With You (Remix), which is the opening song. So cute!)

Jack's Mannequin: Everything in Transit

Plain White T's: Every Second Counts (the version that contains "Hey There Delilah." I LOVE that song.)

Most listened to band as of now: Bayside. Love that band.

Hope you have a great day!!!

Black Cat =^-^=

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Hey! Back again, and today I want to talk about books.
I just finished reading Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause. It's a werewolf book (I'm a sucker for werewolves) about a girl named Vivian who defies the pack by falling in love with a human boy. It was kind of short, and I finished it in an afternoon. I'd seen the book before, but mostly because of the kind-of-lame title, I decided not to read it, but several people told it was good so I decided to give it a chance. (Now, of course you hear all the time not to judge a book by its cover. I completely disagree. Nowadays, in the modern, competitive, dog-eat-dog publishing world, sometimes if you want your book to be taken seriously you need to give it a good title and interesting cover art. Now, I am lenient about the cover art (that's not always up to the author) but I am NOT about the title. The author names her book, thank you, and that's the name she should be expecting the public to be seeing and, unfortunately, judging. If you have two fantasy books in front of you, you will mostly likely pick the most interesting looking/sounding one first. There. I'm done ranting now. :P) All in all, it was a little fast for my liking, but most of the story was all right. It was slightly young for me, but there were some original plot twists that kind of stay with you. It would have been much better if it were longer and more in-detail.

If you don't already know, I am a HUGE Stephenie Meyer fan. She's the author of Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse, three books of a series about vampires. (I'm even MORE of a sucker for vampires than I am for werewolves!) It's about a human girl, Bella, who meets a vampire, Edward, who belongs to a "vegetarian" coven of vampires who struggle to spill as little human blood as possible. I just watched a brief video on Amazon.com interviewing her, and she says she's working on a fourth installment of the Bella-and-Edward series "tentatively entitled Breaking Dawn." She said that this will be the end of this particular series, but she also says it's possible that she'll be writing more Bella/vampire books afterward. Which... doesn't make much sense, but hey! I'll take what I can get. If she wants to write more books about Bella and Edward, by all means. I would buy them all. I'm just happy there's one more until the series "ends." Eclipse came out very recently, in August, and when I finished reading it I got so depressed that I was finished and that it was over that I flipped the book over and started reading it over again, right then and there. :)

On the manga fronts, a listing of my favorite series:

Bleach. I love, love, love, love Bleach. I found two Bleach posters in Canada that I bought and they're in my room now. It's the best shonen manga I've probably ever read... maybe excluding Fullmetal Alchemist which I will talk about later. Right now I need to find Volume 10 - my library doesn't have it. I'll have to request it. There's a young guy librarian there who's my manga source. I love him ever so. Anyways, Bleach is about Soul Reapers, spiritual beings who harvest souls who are trapped in the physical world and return them to the Soul Society, where they can rest in peace. If the Soul Reapers are too slow on getting to deceased souls, they turn into Hollows, raging monsters who destroy everything in their path, desperate to reach peace in the Soul Society. And then the Reapers have to defeat them with various soul-weapons. It's very cool. My favorite character is Uryu, who is not a Soul Reaper but a Quincy, a different type of soul police, and carries a giant spiritual bow-and-arrow for dispatching Hollows. YAY!

Chobits. One of the best shojo mangas ever. It's about Hideki, a college student, who finds an abandoned persocom (human-shaped computer who can act like a companion and also do several handy technological stuffs) named Chi. Chi has lost all of her memory files, so she doesn't know what she is or who was her previous owner. Hideki eventually realizes that Chi may be a Chobit, one of the legendary series of persocoms who possess unknown but powerful abilities. Have yet to find a good Chobits poster. My favorite character is Freya, who's like Chi's dark alter-ego. I won't explain further than that, so as not to include any spoilers. :) The series ended at Volume 8. *sobs uncontrollably* Yes, I cried. I always cry when good stories end.

Fruits Basket. One of the sillier and girlier of shojo mangas, but it was my very first manga, and therefore has a very special place in my heart. It's about Tohru, an orphan who eventually moves in with the Sohma family, who have a dark secret concerning the zodiac (if someone of the opposite sex hugs them, or they experience moments of extreme emotional stress, they transform into their zodiac animal. My favorite character is Kyo, the cat! I've read up to Volume 16, although I think there's 24 out there. Not sure how many are presently translated into English.

Fullmetal Alchemist. Very, very, very good shonen manga. I haven't read the whole, series, though. Only up to Volume 10, methinks. About Edward and Alphonse Elric, two brothers and alchemists who tried to bring back their dead mother when they were younger. The process went terribly wrong and Alphonse's body and Edward's leg were consumed by the dark beast they summoned. Edward, desperate to save his little brother, sold his arm to the beast in exchange for Alphonse's soul, which he then transmuted into a giant suit of armor. So now Alphonse is a giant (cool) suit of armor, and Edward's got metal robotic limbs. And now they're out to get their bodies back. It's awesome.

Absolute Boyfriend. OK, probably even sillier than Fruits Basket, but I still love it. It's basically this ongoing love triangle between a girl named Riiko and two guys named Soshi and Night (who happens to be a robot, kind of.) Classic shojo manga, but good nontheless.

OK. I'm done. That was a superlong post. Sorry if you actually read all that. Heh heh. So! Those are the books I'm in to. Later!

Black Cat =^-^=

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Sorry about the long wait for a new post! Didn't forget, honest. I've just been crazy busy. Seriously, I didn't answer any of my emails for a week either. Gov school has been absorbing, plus I had to scoop ice cream in a booth at the fair last night for my FFA chapter. I was there for about four hours (6:30 to 11:00). I mostly took orders, which is CRAZY because there are so many people there. That booth is really popular because the ice cream is really good, and at 10:00 Friday night after some concert they had, people flood in. I mean, there was always a line. Always. It never let up. But eventually I got the hang of it and it was OK. Lol... there was this one woman, who was like, "Can I have a root beer float? Except, after it's done can you fill it up with a tad more root beer because the last three i got just shoop! melted right back down, and if that works out could you then..." Lol, it was crazy. So I have to parrot all this to the shake person, and people don't realize that other people are doing the actual scooping... It was fun, though. Saw some people.
Regular high school starts on Tuesday. Yikes! AP Calculus and Bio II, yaaaaaaay. *twirls flag*
Well, that's enough for now. Hope this post sates your hunger for information on my life.

Black Cat =^-^=

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