mardi

Scarlet Letter reading marathon. I'm re-reading my last assignment. I read too quickly and didn't comprehend enough. The tests are pure nit-picky comprehension, too. I ought to get back to that, but I just took a shower which interrupted my work, so I thought I'd quick hop online. Anyway, there's fun stuff to look forward to, namely The Queens of the Stone Age and The Distillers tomorrow night!! It means extra reading tonight and tomorrow morning in ST, though, because I'm going straight to Jesse's house with everyone else for a while, then to the concert, and I'll get home late. Well, Lego League was really fun today, and we finally really started working on the actual problem we have to solve. Lego League's great fun; I'm glad I joined. Well, the extra reading tonight is totally worth it. I'm really, really excited... It'll be great! Anyway, that's all for now; I have to read...

lundi

I really feel like I ought to be doing something productive. But I'm not. I've been sitting around, watching TV, and half-asleep daydreaming. I sort of feel like going outside. It was misty earlier, but I think it's stopped. Maybe I could run over to Neda's... Or call her and hang out at the park. I just feel like I need to do something. I wanna bake.

I've also been full of anticipation. There are so many things I can't wait for, but I have to, and it'll take forever to get to next summer. I can't believe it's still September... Okay, here's a list:

THINGS I WANT TO DO NEXT SUMMER:
1. Go to Europe (England, France, etc. to visit cousins and practice French)
2. Go to Camp Warren for 4 weeks
3. Go on Long Border (9-day canoe trip) during 2 of those weeks
4. Go on the 50/50 (5-day sailing trip in the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. With Warren.)
5. Go to Mori No Ike Japanese Concordia Language Village
6. Go back to Lac du Bois CLV as a credit student (not very badly, though)
7. Work at the Renaissance Festival
8. Make Travis fall in love with me and go back 4 or 5 years

The End.

But, realistically, I'll probably do about 3 of those. None of which will probably involve Travis. I don't really mind, though. I don't really have an obsessive nature, so it's no big deal. It was just cool talking to him. So I'll refrain from mentioning him, unless #8 comes true. I'll keep you updated. In other news, I love High School. English is absolutely fabulous, and I'm in love with Patrick Henry's writing style (*Interesting note: I'm somehow related to him.. I dunno exactly how, but I am.) in this speech of his that we read today. It was very well done... Anyway, high school classes are much more fun, plus I skip homebase, get extra time after class, get free reign to run around, para staff know me and don't really care what I do, and I get to do the fun high school activities. The people there are cooler, too. Other poor, unfortunate souls don't know what they're missing. College'll be better, too. Wee, can't wait. Well, see in "Today" of my last post. Also, midquarter grades are coming out probably the end of this week. English has pretty tough grading, but I think I'm doing well in all of my classes. Gee, I wonder if I'm failing Yearbook... No tests, no homework, no grading of anything. It's probably based on participation, which is voluntary. I think if you show up at least half of the time, you get an A. Hmm... Nothing is really going on today... I have Lego League tomorrow, and Queens of the Stone Age and The Distillers are on Wednesday!! I'm so excited! My first concert or confirmation? It was an incredibly tough choice for my athiest self, but I think I'll make the sacrifice and skip Ephphatha. Ha, I realized I haven't gone to confirmation or church since summer. Maybe I can make this a trend ^^ I wouldn't get confirmed, anyway. I don't see a point in going, but my mom seems to think it's amazingly important. Maybe her being a teacher this year will show her how pointless it really is. I'm not learning anything. That's all for my religion rant. I think I'll go outside for a little. A bientot.

dimanche

I love the name Travis...

Here the recap of the past couple days:

Friday: Started feeling sort of betterish; had to go to school. It was the sort of minor illness that makes you go to school, but you're absolutely miserable the whole time. Also, Grandma and Grandpa got here on Friday morning from Michigan. I made smalltalk with them and my parents (*shudder*) after school, then Neda, Sarah, Jesse and Michael came thumping up the front steps. I introduced them to my grandparents (Yay.), then made my escape to the park with them in the rain. It started haling on us, but it was cool. We went to Neda's, then we all went back to our houses, except Sar came with me. She ended up sleeping over, too. That was really cool... We had a good talk. Lol! I forgot: Paige and Sarah and I also went outside at 8-ish. Some kids were smoking pot in the park... OUR park... It was kinda weird. They weren't very discreet, either. Anyway, we wandered around a bit, Paige found out that she lost her 3-inch buck knife that she'd accidentally brought to the park, and we went back around 9:30. A cop stopped by us just as we were reaching our yard. Three girls in black, running down a busy-ish street in the dark.. Ooh, good. Well, we skillfully DIDN'T mention that what we'd been going to get was Paige's knife, pointed out that we lived in the house a few yards away, and thanked him for making us aware of the lack of visibility of three girls wearing black running around at night. He was kind, though.

Saturday: Paige and Sarah's (and my old) softball team had fall state this weekend, so the whole Robson-Gunyou-Needham clan went. It was probably about 30 degrees with windchill. Note: It halied on Friday, too. So, we watched game #1, left Paige with our 30-juice box contribution to go to the outdoor team picnic, and headed off to Ruby Tuesday. Yumm... I'd never eaten there. Good stuff; I highly reccommend it. Anyway, I got to see my cousins, which was cool, and I was feeling lots better, which was uber cool. Then everyone except my mom, who wanted to see Paige's second game, came home, and I made a delicious 2-layer chocolate devil's food cake with homemade butter cream frosting and drizzled with chocolate, all from scratch. It was Mom's birthday. And I love to bake ^^ Note to self: Make cookies for Lego League. Note to others: It's my duty as the sole female to compensate for the testosterone over-load by doing "girly" things on occasion. Like baking. Also, on a side note, my cake was highly praised, though I thought the appearance was under par. It was better than my last 2-layer cake, at least... *shudder* So that was Saturday.

Today: I was originally going to bum a ride from Aaron to the Renaissance Festival, but he left at 8:30, and I'm still recovering from illness. I needed sleep... So I got a ride from Serena. Neda was going to come, too, but she had to babysit. Anyway, we caught up with Aaron, Usagi, Liz, and Jesse. It was really fun. Serena got a blouse and bodice, which were really pretty (Usagi and I weren't in costume; it was pretty cold, and you can't wear hoodies with a dress...)., and Usagi and I got our flutes!!! I printed out a bunch of sheet music, and I'm in love with LotR. It sounds absolutely amazing on my bamboo flute, though I've not tried it on my other one. So I'm really excited about that. We also saw The Tortuga Twins, and they were hilarious! The show definately wasn't rated G... Anyway, that was great. And I was happy the whole time. And I loved my flute! I went around playing it improvisationally and playing a song that we sing at French camp... I'd never played in on the flute before, and the fingering for the bamboo one was different anyway, but it sort of just popped out.. I really like it, though. And I was playing for Usagi once, and she said "Uhm, Jenna.." and pointed. I tunred around ang this guys in costume was RIGHT next to/behind me. Lol, he just said "Keep playing," so I did. Weird, though. And Aaron and I were playing at the twirly stick place with the two sticks you hold and twirl the other one with. It's hard to describe... But I was talking with this guy who worked there. Oh man, I have this little crush on him... waah! But I was really getting into mini conversations with him. And he was really cool. We talked about languages (He speaks German and is learning Spanish. He wants to go to Germany badly.) and in languages (I found out that his name is Travis and he's 20 (bummer..) in Spanish.) and about the Renaissance Festival and working there and the weapons policy (which I had fully educated myself on prior to the festival) and Ayn Rand's philosophy on individualism versus socialism, and he expertly twirled his sticky-bobber the whole time. He's smart and easy to talk to and cute + dressed up at the Renaissance Festival. Eh, I'll probably never see him again. It makes me realize, though, that I find it easiest and most enjoyable to talk with older people. I wish I was older... I'm not really in a hurry to grow up, but I'm more mature than my friends, though I love them, and it's not the same actually talking with them, rather than just goofing around and playing. *sigh* I dunno... I hope he's still working there next year, though. I'd like to talk with him some more. Anyway, I was also quite proud of myself for a witty response I made (though praising myself is not good for my "ego"). A guy who worked there said he gave free hugs, so I gave him one, and he asked for my number. I just said "What? I don't have a number... It's the Renaissance, remember? We must be time appropriate." Touche.

Really, though, I'm not sure what my intentions were when making this, but it's turned into a sort of censored diary for me. I also never really think of who is reading this or what exactly I'm telling those people or what they might think about this, or if anyone really reads it, for that matter. I know that I'm writing more here publicly than I'd actually tell most people face-to-face. *shrug* It's strange. It's sort of nice having a blog, though, and I can actually remember what I've been doing! And it relieves boredom well. Like when you're at home sick. It's 11:30, and I'm still recovering from illness (Boo.) so I ought to get to sleep. And I have a bit to puzzle over.

jeudi

Hehe... It was in my room.

Nevermind.

Can't find Monkey Island...

Heads will roll.

I think paranoia multiplies when you're sick... I woke up around 10:30, completely disoriented and dazed. There was also a fairly loud (or relatively, at least) banging noise coming from, it sounded, below my room. I was supposed to be home alone, so I was reasonably unnerved. I called my mom from my room, after locking my door as a precaution. I'd told her I'd call her when I woke up. We did the normal "Oh, how are you feeling?" and, instead of "Like I took the full impact of a swiftly-moving train in the head," the reply of "I have a really bad headache... Lots worse." And I asked if there was any construction going on because I heard a banging noise. She sounded nervous and mentioned that she locked the doors on her way out so no one could have gotten in. She didn't, however, sound convinced. Well, I sleathily snuck around the house, discovered no one, and grabbed a Mountain Dew and some ibuprofen before settling down on the couch to watch Modern Marvels on the History Channel. Really, though, you get very paranoid for no reason. Also, I just looked out the window while upstairs. I've now associated the banging and such with regular house noises and the construction workers outside.

I got to skip confirmation last night, though. Ah, the silver lining...

All I really want to do right now is fall into a blissful drug-induced slumber. Or play some Monkey Island.

I think Monkey Island will win. I've slept a lot today already.

So, my sickness has flared up again, and I'm sitting at home in my pajamas, wrapped in a blanket, drinking Mountain Dew and orange juice in alternation and snacking on crackers through a haze of antibiotics, ibuprofen, excedrin, and allergy medications. Also, I just realized there is something very disguisting next to me, appearing to be about the consistency of vanilla pudding, though I'm sure it's hard, that I'm guessing to be very old ice cream. I'm also assuming it was left there by Paige.

I'm really bummed out; not only am I allergy-ridden, achey, and nauseous, I also had to cancel today "social gathering" that has been planned for some time. It wasn't one of those "I'm sorry, but I can't come over" misfortunes. It was "I'm sorry, but none of you can come over." So that sucks. I'm not even sure if any of my few social events for this weekend will pan out. A number of possible fun things already fell through. It looks like I might just be sitting here, in my basement, still sick, making small talk with my grandparents. I love them, I really do, but they aren't the kind of people who really want to know who their grandchildren are or get into any sort of interesting or slightly meaningful conversation with them. They just want to comment on how tall you are.

So, I guess I have a slightly more pessimistic attitude than normal, but, under the circumstances, I think it's justified. My mentality is highly correlated with my physical health. Anyway, I think more rummaging through random strangers' blogs and Monkey Island will help matters somewhat.

mardi

but I love them! But I hate them...

Well, I love them, but they have some crazy ideas... I'm not going to go into full detail (Okay, this is my idea of a censored diary- I don't know who reads this!), but they [Neda and Sarah] want me to help recruit people for a Japanese class. we need 25 people to start up this class and 20 not to drop it right off. Well, the way Neda greeted me ("Hi, Nerd Magnet!!" and 'We have a proposition for you..."), I knew they'd been talking, since that's what only Sarah calls me.. and I knew it wouldn't be good. Anyway, that + a naughty schoolgirl outfit and I think you get the picture. Oh yeah, bouncing, too. Maybe some "accidental" tripping cause I'm kinda clumsy sometimes. Well, only when I'm hyper, really. Anyway, it was absolutely hilarious, especially when we decided to go over to Michael's to see if he wanted to come play at the park (Max was there, too) and I asked if they wanted to join Japanese. The three of us cracked up ^^

I'm actually in a really great mood, though. Everything's going well in my life... It's nice :) And I have all this fun stuff to look forward to!! I wrote it all down in my planner so I could remember ^^;; Here are my upcoming events: (Things in italic are bad things :( )

Tomorrow: Lego League, Ephphatha (confirmation)*
Thursday: "Social Gathering" (aka anime, cookie baking, playing @ park with the Justice Squadron)
Friday: Maybe a musical with Stepdaddy John, Grandma and Grandpa get here from MI
Saturday: Paige has State for Softball... hours of games + G&G smalltalk, Erica wants me to go play at Ragstock, but that's not happening...
Sunday: HOPEFULLY Renaissance Festival with the Justice Squadron
Oct 1: Queens of the Stone Age & The Distillers at the Quest! ^^ My first concert... !!!
Improv social things & Lego League

*Kyle and I were talking to my mom today... BREAKTHROUGH!! Maybe we (being athiests) won't have to go to church anymore!! She wavered relatively a lot...

Anyway, I'm pretty happy right now.. Just talking to friends mostly. I have a huge essay test on The Crucible tomorrow, and we had the comprehension test today. That was no big deal compared to the essay, though o.O;; My teacher grades REALLY harshly on the essays. Last year, I got 100%, top-of-the-class grades on my essays... now I'm not (nor is anyone else, for that matter) sure exactly what she wants or expects of us. Oh well.. I'll study a bunch later. I like falling asleep with info in my head. Ought to go now... bye...

dimanche

or does anyone else find this unbelievably frightening?

I really, really hope this is a joke...

I played around with my answers on this one, and I got different results (ie Goddess of Winter, Green, etc) by changing one or two answers, so I'm pretty close on all of them... but this was my "real" one.


Water Goddess. You like peace and serenity and are
usually content with life.


What element would you rein over? (For Girls)
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Ichi - "That one with wisdom"


What would your Japanese name be? (female)
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Morpheus


?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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Today is a very lazy day.

I'm entertaining myself with Quizilla (obviously) because there's nothing really needing to be done. It's very overcast outside, and it's kinda chilly. It's starting to be fall :) It's 11-ish right now, and I've already been up for hours... I just woke up in the early morning for no reason, and I didn't even realize that I was awake for a while, then I must have gone back to sleep for a little while, but it was still pretty early when I woke up for good. I've been just lieing around, listening to music and thinking. I think I've realized something pretty important, but I need to think a little more... I dunno. It's confusing. I'm just going to amuse myself with Quizilla some more, then do my English homework...

-Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which
means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're
the kind of chick that can hang out with your
boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't
care about presents or about going to fancy
placed. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy
being around your boyfriend.


What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
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Your anime hair color is pink.


What is your anime hair color?
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jeudi

Sounds fun.


You're goin' down! FOR HACKING INTO COMPUTERS!



What Would You Go to Jail For? (Many outcomes)
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None of this is posting. Something must be up with blogger.

It's raining now, which came to my attention by the large crash and crackle of thunder that was very nearby. Minnesota has turned itself back into the temerate rainforest as is its name on climate maps.

I just remembered how boring being sick is when you're not sleeping, though I'm enjoying myself. Since school started, I've not had any of the normal sit-around-and-watch-TV-reruns days that everyone needs every once-in-a-while. So I'm drinking some Mountain Dew, though I shouldn't be, since I might get dehydrated, and listening to semi-loud, upbeat music while staring at the computer screen, though I shouldn't be, because it might aggrivate my sensitive senses. And I really feel like running over to Ford Park in the rain, though I shouldn't, because it would further weaken my already-weak immune system.

Being sick is no fun... If I wasn't sick, I bet Neda would run around with me, and that'd be fun. Still, though, I hope it's one of those days when it stays overcast and rainy the whole day, and you can sit on the couch with a fire in the fireplace, watching movies and eating grilled cheese sandwiches with Spaghetti-Os. The sort of day when you can sit and read or talk on the phone for hours while snuggled up in bed with rain all around. I like those kind of days.

I'm sick. :(

I've not really had any free time at all lately. This weekend was swamped with social things, and now I have homework and Lego League started (I'll explain that later.), and now I'm sick, too. I don't really have any energy, but I can get up now. Uh, on Friday, Neda, Michael and I were talking on the bus about how when you're little, you always go run around outside and play in the woods and build forts, then build traps to defend those forts. And it was a nice day, so we all decided to go play at Ford Park (which they just redid, and it has really nice swings, which are the best part of a park) after getting some ice cream, since it was hot. I walked over to Neda's for a little, too. Then, I went over to Usagi's on Saturday for a few hours, then we walked over to Aaron's house for a social gathering. We played Super Smash Bros and Jenga, then we walked around, and there was this HUGE dirt pile/cliff from the construction over there, and we decided, after walking down around the side, that we'd climb it. (It was a lot bigger looking up from the bottom than down from the top, btw.) Then we went to the park and hung out for a little, then we went to watch some anime at Aaron's. Since I was sleeping over at Erica's, we went back there, and we just did the weird little things that we do to keep ourselves occupied. We got kinda crazy-bored (to the point where you think "Hey, I'll make a scepter out of this paper towel tube, pom-poms, and pipe cleaners!"), so we went to The Depot cause Michael's brother was playing there. It was pretty cool, even though we weren't there long, and we spent most of the time outside cause Usagi's not used to loud music lol. On Sunday, we went to the Renaissance Festival (all prettied-up in costume, of course... I'll have to upload pictures of us sometime), and that was really, really cool. I wanna ask my dad if we can go again this weekend, since he likes to go, but it might be too short notice. I think Aaron and some other people are going this weekend, too. Usagi and I want her to come over to my dad's if we can go, and Sarah's never even been there, so she'd have to come, too! But I'm not sure if that's possible, especially since I'm not feeling well. Anyway, it was really fun, and, instead of the normal midevial harassment that you get, people were nice to Erica and I, and I got some compliments on my dress ^^ Lol, and there was this guy wearing all black leather with a sword strapped to his back and a dagger and knife at his belt, and I told Erica he looked very threatening. He heard me and laughed and we talked to him for a minute. We also found out that he had two more knives, one in his boot and one on his arm, and he agreed with me that it's a pity you have to keep them peace-tied. It was cool. And now Lego League has started, and we build robots and program them to do these objectives, then enter competitions. So far it's been fun, but I'm the only girl lol.. It's alright, though, cause I've spent enough time around guys to not mind them. Also, my girl friends and I act a lot like these guys do, which a lot of people don't realize. It's like being with them, except guys are a little more agressive in the violent sort of way. I'm glad I'm in it, though. Well, that's pretty much all I've been up to, in the condensed version. I think I'm gonna go take a bath or something.

dimanche

I've had a super busy weekend (and it was really, really fun!! ^^), so I haven't had time to blog. And I have to go to bed now, so I'll write about it tomorrow. Bai~

mercredi

Just got back from Ephphetha orientation (all ages church fellowship, optional, + confirmation with a jazzy name). Olivia was there, and I realized I hadn't seen her since confirmation let out (ish). So that was kinda cool. She's fun ^^

I'm becoming more of a MegaTokyo addict. It's fun, you ought to try. Except the site or my computer + the site is being weird, and I don't know why, and it's not loading >.< But I'm listening to Ces Soirees La, so I can't really be upset at all.

School is getting more fun, even though I'm getting quite a bit of homework/tests now (although my constant reading as abated- yay!). We're getting into some good conversations in English about Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) and Anthem (Ayn Rand), so that's neato. And there are cute guys at the high school ^^! I also have more freedom than the high schoolers are allowed, and I'm enjoying it (you can throw this in my face when I have to traipse around outside when in subzero temperautes...). I'm still sort of bummed about the 7-9 Junior High setup, though. I could be in High School full time right now :( But my classes aren't too bad. Yearbook is a total slacker class, but I'm choosing to do work, since it's fun. We go around to our friends' classes, take pictures, hang out and talk, play on Photoshop and PageMaker, and do designery things, which I like. So it's cool enough.

I'm off to do current events... Boo, homework! >.< bai~

dimanche

I've been swamped with work lately. School started on Tuesday, ad that was probably the most chaotic morning of my life. The scheduling for my high school classes got messed up between the Junior High and High School, so I ran all over. I ended up spending about 20 minutes in band (which I'm only taking first semester, apparently, and I won't be able to go to Branson, Missouri!), then left to get over the the high school for English (and I'd already been over there once for French, which, apparently, I have second semester instead of first). Also, when I got over to English, I found out that I was supposed to have done the same project that Kyle did over the summer, but I wasn't told about it. So, I've been having a Grapes of Wrath marathon. I've been stopping only to eat... I also just got assigned another, though short, book to read this weekend. At least I don't have to do the whole project. School hasn't been too bad, but I don't have any classes with friends. Oh, and I had to get new electives because the school messed up on my schedule. I don't have Advanced Comp, Comic and Fantasy Illustration, or Photography anymore. I was really, really bummer about that, but I guess it can't be helped. I should be finishing Grapes of Wrath and reading Anthem and doing some other homework, but I wanted to get online for a minute. I never get to talk to anyone anymore between homework and being too tired to stay up at all. Anyway, I'm feeling better now, and I'm catching up with my work, so I'm happy ^^ I think I'll be able to be online more now, and I got to go to Sarah's on Thursday for a little. I'm also going to the Renaissance Festival and some other things with Erica, plus we get to have a Halloween party, which'll be really cool! So I'm in a pretty good mood :) Well, I'm off to Paige's softball game, then to my mom's. I'll try to write more often.