Pride and Prejudice

After several years of wanting to, I am finally reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! I am really loving it.

Yesterday was not okay. Tech went lateish as usual then JSA went obnoxiously late. I did not get home til 10ish. Normally I go to bed at 10 on Tuesdays if not 9. I usually decided to watch the Good Wife at 9 after I shower and do any homework. Last night I was extremely excited for The Good Wife because the writers were doing a live event on twitter during it. I was stuck at school reading their tweets unable to watch the episode.

So my day didn't start out well considering I had very little sleep even without watching The Good Wife last night. I did watch it this morning at that helped my mood. Then I had to go do stuff for FBLA this morning which was nice because it got me away from people. When I finished that I found a text message from my dad. Apparently raven hasnt cleaned her room and had a bad attitude so she wasnt going to be allowed to go to tech tonight. Hes changed his mind on that now but he says if she doesnt clean it she has to quit the play... When I told her this i asked why he was texting me and not her even though I knew she had her phone. She explained how shes not supposed to have her phone... This cant end well.

Family is a wacky thing. Mine is the furthest thing from normal. Some days I really love that Raven and I are becoming closer but most days I really don't. I think that may be why I am excited to overwork myself next year. If I have no free time there is less time for family drama!!!!

Sam and Tyler have decided they need to get my crush to be my prom date. I simply told them "Good Luck with that" poor boy. They are going to traumatize him... haha.

Mr. Miller is making a tie out of my duct tape. I am super excited to see it! Im really going to miss him for Physics next year...

Thats all for now.

***Kat***

To go with my blog's current subtitle!

So at this point in time I think I shall be going into English and Theater for college. These are what could effect the majority of things I may want to do. I have talked to Ms. Henre who has given me approval to take AP Lit/Comp nect year even without the required writing class before it. That should be interesting. Ive also decided to go onto AP Physics even though Mr. Miller will be gone. Hopefully I get to be in German 3. We only have 13 people capable of taking it and the school is trying to make a 15 student minimum for all classes... its lame.


This week and the upcoming weeks are basically a test for my sanity. I have no free time. I am so glad I had nothing to do last weekend because that is no longer the case! I have tech after school today, tomorrow, and Thursday. I have JSA tonight. I also have to go in and do FBLA work by Thursday. Then this weekend I have tech on Sat. Monday I have Quiz Bowl, Tuesday I have either a concession stand for Quiz Bowl or tech and JSA. Then Wednesday I theoretically have nothing but I leave Thursday for FBLA so I will have to pack and do homework. Then I return that Sunday. Monday is Quiz Bowl, tuesday is JSA and Tech and now I have lost track of where I am. I think Wed and Saturday are Quiz Bowl competitions and District Music Contests on Friday. Then Monday Quiz Bowl, tuesday tech and JSA, then I think it is spring break!

So back to my topic of next year. AP Lit/Comp will take a ton of work but I am totally excited for it. Im not sure what AP Physics holds for me. German 3 will be odd because none of my German friends will be there. Choir will be choir. PreCalculus may rock because hopefully I get Ms Norman as a teacher and most math hating students will be done with math by this point. Band will be a struggle but it will be so much fun! Then I have to take aerobics which may literally kill me but its required. Psychology will be fun! I also plan on staying in Quiz Bowl, JSA, Drama Club, FBLA, and the various plays. I may actually try for a role in the musical but that shall depend on what it is. If I don't try for a part in musical I will do Mock Trial again although I plan on doing that either way and just requesting to help with behind the scenes stuff to prevent utter failure again. Its like my improv failure I cant think fast enough so I freeze although with improv I kept going I just didnt say anything else.... Mock trial I completely froze.

Well thats all for now!

***Kat***

New Movie Day

All week I was dreading my weekend of having nothing to do but I think maybe my constant busy-ness is what caused my breakdown last night.

So today I have finally gotten around to watch some new movies. I have watched The Social Network, Going The Distance, Death at a Funeral, and The Pink Panther 2. I am currently watching Pretty Ugly People. I love discovering new movies! Especially ones with epicly awesome casts!!!!!!! This has been exactly the kind of day I needed.

I love movies. They are incredible. Especially ones that are less popular. I've always preerred less known things over the things everyone is currently obsessing about. I don't know why...

***Kat***

Another attempt at improv ends in tears...

I wish I wasn't so scared. I love everything about improv. I got brave tonight and that was stupid of me. Since my last attempt at improv I have improved my social skills so much. I can handle scripted acting just fine. okay... too many tears gotta stop blogging.

***Kat***

What Kind of Day Has It Been?

I haven't even been on my own computer in days aside from a school assignment. I have had a few off days but other than that the last few weeks have been incredible.

Today was theoretically a quiz bowl competition at Weslean. We made it about 10 miles past Columbus then ms Norman decided we had to turn around. We stopped at McDonalds for breakfast and stayed for well over an hour playing the games! It was a great morning. Tonight I have been convinced (All it took was the guy I like saying he was going to go so I dont know if convinced is quite the right word) Its gonna be awesome! I have had several really good days in a row with him.

This room is full of different computers playing Rebecca Black's Friday... This is awkward... The Funny thing is I just swore at lunch I would never look it up... This is really odd... Its about as catchy as justin beiber's baby... and i hate it as much. Wow that sentence was capitalization failure.

This weekend I have no plans which is strange... Maybe I can find a solution... Maybe...

This week has been really busy. I havent even been tweeting as much. This morning (at 4 am!) I watched 30 Rock and The office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AARON SORKIN WAS ON 30 ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And MICHAEL PROPOSED TO HOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the best morning TV ever.

I am very lucky for having friends with cars... The change in plans today almost made me walk home after school... Luckily Andrew offered to give me a ride! The darn snow ruined my day but I think it will end up okay. The morning was fantastic already.

So I think I have finally decided for sure that I shall try out for the musical next year (this also may have something to do with a certain guy saying he might be...) Hopefully its something good.. I already know what roles I would audition for in certain plays! Of course this means I cant fully do Mock Trial... I will probably talk to Steinkamp and see if I can just help with the paper stuff and such on days I could go.

I think I understand why blogging is becoming more difficult... I talk more! Only to certain people (Tyler, Brooke, and Andrew seem to be the only ones really.... ) but way more than I used to... And now that I think about it its mostly Tyler and Andrew... I dont see Brooke as much.

This class is very musical today. I need to look up more modern videos... Also I still need to look up superbowl commercials...

Well today rocked and hopefully it shall continue to rock!

***Kat***

Mini Post Because I am all caught up!

I am finally caught up in all of my classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been so busy this week. It has been an interesting week although I only have 10 mins so i cant go into much detail now... I will probably post after Open Mic Night / The Abstract show tonight.

Today I finally started learning Baritone! I am pretty sure it will be a lot of fun. I am excited!

Glee this week made me happy. I believe it has finally refound its former awesomesaucity! Ive been listening to the fifth CD Constantly this week. Such good music.

This weekend I have nothing planned except for tech so i am happy. Last weekend was too much for me!

Well thats all for now.

***Kat***

I wear the cheese it does not wear me.

The current title of this blog post is a Firefly quote. I couldn't think of anything better but it will probably change before I am done.

Today has been a very lazy day for me. Tomorrow at 9 am I am heading for Lincoln for state basketball... The band doesnt even leave til nearly noon. I am going with My friend Helen and her sister Angie and Raylee Vosberg and her daughter Beth. It will be a lot of fun! We already have made plans for shopping while we are there so I get to go convince money out of my mother when I get home! I plan on taking my camera (Well my moms camera because my camera sucks) so I can take stalker pics of my Band friends. This will be my last time hearing the band play at a game without being a part of it!

Tyler and I were discussing how odd it feels to not have a quiz bowl competition this weekend considering we had 2 last weekend. We are also plotting ways to convince Norman to let us leave in the morning even though it doesnt start til 3 something. Our curent theory is that if we leave during first period we can be in Soiux City for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and tea! Then we just talked about tea for a while. I would love to see our quiz bowl team go out for tea. That would be comedy.

I am extremely tired today. I am not quite sure why. I wasn't up too late because The Good Wife wasn't on. Glee watching ended up rather entertaining. My mom was shouting "get the hose! get the hose! I hate her. I want to kill her!" at Holly. We weren't very happy with her. It has also caused "afternoon delight" to be stuck in my head all day. Such a great song. haha!

Well that is all for today! My title did not change. wait! It is going to change now. now it is a buffy quote!

***Kat***

Ummm... Yeah.

So about today. Its kinda lame. I am just too tired to want to do anything. Then at lunch I went to McDonalds with Brooke because our other friends were annoying us too much. Then I returned to find out that Sam and Andrew ended up eating alone because everyone else left too. Actually we found them all at McDonalds. But when we got back I went and talked to Andrew for a few min. That was fun.

Other than that today has been uneventful. First Crew Chief meeting tonight followed by JSA! Hopefully JSA will go well tonight because we should be finally making the last decision on the t-shirts (voting on my design!!!!!!)

Last night was the Katan party!!!!!!!!!!! There were about 12 of us who actually showed up! It was a lot of fun. Sam and I had about 12 knight cards between the 2 of us.

Last night I also found out that someone I thought was my friend has been telling lies about me so now I am not talking to that person at all. Luckily we werent too close.

Quiz Bowl Practice was fun yesterday! For the first half we watched some of the other competitions online. We tested our knowledge against the videos and won both games. Then during break I bought a vault!!!!!!!!!! During the second half we did actual questions. I failed miserably at answering the one question I was excited to answer. (Ceder City and Carson City are not the same, In case anyone is wondering)

Well thats all for now! I think I shall be stupid tonight and stay up to watch my shows! Glee and The Good Wife Tonight! I love Tuesdays!!!!!!!


***Kat***

Such a Fantastic Weekend!

So This weekend was amazing.

We tied for 5th in Both Quiz Bowl competitions! It was great to be around my friend and the guy I like for so long.

Sunday, I watched TV, Played WoW and Sims 3, went to the Mock Trial Banquet, then made snickerdoodles while watching Doctor Who. It was a nice way to end the weekend.

Today has been disappointingish. I have had some good laughs. Plus, I feel awesome in my Quiz Bowl T-Shirt!!!!! (which Tyler, Andrew, Adam, and I remembered to wear... Preston and Bryan forgot... Losers!) Lunch was awkwardness. After school I have Quiz Bowl Practice and then Tyler and I are going to Sam's house (where I get to see Sam's baby, Cooper!!!!) Then we are heading to Ms. Cook's house for the Katan Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well that is all for today because I need to work on my one act. (which is based on Firefly but I have decided to focus more on the relationships rather than the action and such, because Thats what I know more of.) I may post more about this weekend tomorrow.

***Kat***

Life Is Good.

The past 2 days have been epically awesome. Thursday I found out that I am co light crew chief!!!!!!!! Then today, we got 5th out of 32 at the bellevue quiz bowl competition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a really great day. I feel that I grew much closer to my friends on the team. We leave for Souix City in less than 11 hours... I am absoultely excited!!!! I also recieved my first Quiz Bowl t-shirt today!!!!!!!!!!

(Took a quick "does your mother know" break)

Today was full of laughs and smiles. It was amazing. I can't even put it in to words how happy it made me.

Thats all for today. Mamma Mia is too distracting to blog through.

***Kat***

It's Fake Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Yes this is a pic from my flash drive... I couldnt help it)

Today is Friday for me because in approx. 15.5 hours I leave for Bellview for Quiz Bowl. (For those who don't care to do the math its at 5 30 am.)



I am a bit annoyed by tech because it goes until 830 tonight. I have been going to bed at 9 lately and I wont even get home until 845ish. And its not like theres really going to be anything to do at tech tonight... I hate that we have to go this first week. Thats never been required before.



Tomorrow is the beginning of Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. I am having my own little ECCC. Tomorrow I plan to wear my Murloc shirt (If I don't find any WoW fans at a quiz bowl competition I will be ranting to my guildies tomorrow...) Then I will be having a Buffy Sing-A-Long alone in my room at 10 pm because thats what will be happening at ECCC. Then Saturday I will be wearing my Wesley Crusher shirt. (Once again, if noone at a quiz bowl competition is a Star Trek/Big Bang Theory fan major interweb rantage shall occur) I haven't decided what to do Sunday. Probably a Guild marathon... Yes, I do tend to geek out for Comic Cons that I am not even at.



I have decided that my goal before graduation is to go to a con. It's where I belong. I have no doubt about that.



Today I finally started reading my Buffy book. I spent the whole morning dusting off tables before setting it down. Jokes on me though, In physics I picked it up and forgot about the marker dust on my hand. Theres a nice black smear on the white cover.



So, Today I discovered that Chivalry is not dead! (yes, this is an UNO story!!!!) Today, while playing UNO at lunch my "friends" kept making me draw cards. It got to the point where I couldn't possibly hold them all in my hand. So, Andrew, who was sitting next to me, offered to hold half of them for me. It was a very simple thing but it made my entire day.



So last night my new Hard Drive, Laptop battery, and Flash Drive arrived. The hard drive doesnt fit but mom will be ordering me a new one! It was incredible to finally have a potable laptop again!!!!!!!!!!!! And the flash drive. My precious flash drive. 16 GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Its black with some magenta!!!! I love it. Its in my pocket with my school 8 GB flash drive. I now have 32 GB total of Flash Drivey Portability! Oy, I am such a nerd :)



New Big Bang Theory tonight. Another reason I am angry about tech... I have to miss it. and then I will be so tempted to watch it on DVR it will be late when I get to bed... GRRR.. Oh well, I am gonna convince my mom to buy me caribou coffee that I can heat up in the morning!!!!!!!!!



I didn't watch Serenity last night like I planned. Maybe that can be part of my Sunday plans. Along with returning to Angel watching. And maybe Desperate Housewives. I love TV so much... I learn more from TV than I do in school... That should tell you something about modern education.



I am still angry about the fact I am not in Pre Calc. Its all my mothers fault. The people in my class are so stupid and the work is simple. Heck I would probably be just fine in AP calc. But I won't even get the chance to take that. It bothers me so much. I still don't know how the MAPS tests are scored but I know my score was in the same range as many of the Pre Calc students. I am still tempted to ask ms Norman to let me borrow a pre calc book just for fun... Of course then I really would be a nerd. Haha.



I think my dad has agreed to pay for my ticket to Wicked. I am completely excited! I just need to figure out what I am doing this summer to figure out when I can go. I know I need to take Speech in Summer school then Fireworks stand if they have it and Band Camp.



Which reminds me, Tyler and I have entertaining planning skills. We were going to start teachign me Baritone at 7 on Fridays. Starting this week. Now we leave earlier than 7 so we cant. Then next week there is no school. So the 18th we shall begin. then the next week theres another quiz bowl competition. Yay! haha so eventually I will learn the Baritone it just may take a while.



I am already missing Firefly. Such a great show. Its making me hate fox even more. Glee, Raising Hope, and Running Wilde are hilarious otherwise FOX sucks. I finally emailed them about the stupid staticy lines that have been around for months. They have gotten worse since then. Its stupid.



Well thats all for today! I am in such a great mood since lunch hopefully tech doesnt ruin it.



***Kat***

Religious Naiveity

(I dont care if Naiveity is not a word.)

I was going to try to do this without saying who caused it but thats kinda impossible. I wont say names and I dont blame them.

So Monday at quiz bowl we got to a section of questions about the Bible. The boy reading questions is a religion that believes highly in the Bible. I have no clue which religion that is. He kept making innocent jokes about how everyone but the boy with no determined religion should be able to answer all of them. Then because we werent he was jokingly calling us heathens. I looked this up and it basically means a godless person.

What gets me is how even though we are taught how there are so many religions in the world, people here still assume everyone is one of a few main, similar religions. My mom and I are the only people in town of our religion and I don't mind that. What I mind is how even the teachers assume everyone understands everything religious they refer to. It is ridiculous.

The past 2 summers I went on long twitter rants after the assemblies for either memorial day or labor day (whichever is during summer school time) where we had no choice about going to the assembly and then they did a prayer during it. I have looked into it and this may be legal. From what I have found its not but from what teachers explain it is. I am not really sure. I have finally moved on past this. And I enjoy learning religious things in class. I think religion is fascinating. But when people assume everyone is the same it pisses me off.

People need to realize that the Bible isn't always common knowledge. In JSA, we are planning Diversity Day. Steinkamp kept saying how she wants to find people to talk about being another race or religion. This is the only time I have ever wished for the chance to speak in front of a large group of people. But I will be in Omaha that day for FBLA. I still need to talk to her to suggest finding someone who could spread that message.

I am an Eckist. I have been one since I was born. I plan to be one until I die. I believe in God. The same God as the majority of this town. I have never opened a Bible of any kind. I have my harsh theories on Mary. (althoguh due to Firefly I have had an urge to get a bible to "fix" the parts that don't make sense. River is Brilliant) I did grow up with a bit of Lutheran influence because of my dad's side of the family but I do not remember much of it. My religion should not put me at a disadvantage but occasionally it does. And thats just not right.


***Kat***

Its Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!

I get to go home semi early tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yesterday JSA got cancelled. So I went to the game. That was dumb. It was scary crowded and I ended up standing on the stairs by the one person I hate most... So that was lame. But it was fun by the end!!! I may go to state to listen to the band one last time But I am not sure...

Today, I had 3 people remind me to get a green sheet. I got my green sheet then forgot to have my first period teacher sign it... Oops! I have 3 quizzes Friday... LAME!!!!! I had a good laugh with Andrew at lunch while talking about how Ms. Cook makes a big deal about you having a green sheet for her to sign then just writes TBA and says "check with me when you get back." It has become a joke between Tyler and I because its everytime... And we tend to have green sheets on the same days because of Quiz Bowl!

Tonight is tech again... Yesterday wasnt fun. I need to remember to tell Rowse I may be late to tech on Friday... Unless she reads this... Although I should still probably tell her... I will probably be back in time though.

I am so excited for Friday! It helps that this week is going quickly! I only have one more class today! Then only one more day of school this week!!!!!!!!!! Then Quiz Bowl, Quiz Bowl, Snickerdoodle baking, Mock Trial dinner (YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), school, Quiz Bowl Practice, then KATAN PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then comes next tuesday where everything goes back to normal... Boo.

I finished the series of Firefly today. I was going to start the movie finale of it (Serenity) but my mom said she was interested in watching it so I should wait. I will watch it after tech.

I feel so much better today because I remembered my watch. Although I know my voice is going away. I need it to last through the weekend then I will gladly accept silence then Rizzoli voice (ok not so glad on the first... although the second is entertaining) Over vacation after I lost my voice for a few days when it started coming back i sounded so much like Angie Harmon that I now refer to it as my Rizzoli voice. Fits well with my Rizzoli glasses if I ever remember them...

I spent most of German writing my one act. I have about 3 pages hand written which basically equals one page typed. It is pretty much like Firefly although I have created different characters. I think it will end up pretty good.

I was so excited to watch Glee last night then I realized it wasnt on... Thats why I decided to go to the game. The game was very exhausting. I forgot to take tylonol this morning so that wasnt good. My hip hurts like heck right now. So do my ankles. I feel so awkward when teachers comment on the fact I occasionally limp and I just reply "I am used to it." I am 17 years old and I am already falling apart.

My hands are very blue because of Physics. Then I keep touching my face making it blue... Its not a good thing.

Well, I have a mini rant to go on but I think I will make it a different post because it isnt so happy ish like this post is.

***Kat***

Here Comes the Sun.

March is packed. I have a whole 5 days free this month. I am not too worried about it. I am feeling much better about everything this week. Over the weekend my room became clean. I admit my mother cleaned it because when I try I just get distracted and nothing gets done. Plus both of the apartments next to ours got new windows so logically we figured we would be next. So far nothing. Drive down Norfolk Ave I am sure you can find ours above the Kitchen Place... Its pretty easy to spot now.

I am also starting to get better at falling asleep. I think it may be the lack of clutter. Plus I have yet to move one of my laptops back to my room so that helps me with the distractions while falling asleep.

So that random stranger from the other day has actually become a very good friend. I have found out he is a guy. And I am pretty sure he is an adult. also he is a member of my World of Warcraft guild. I love twitter. It gives me good friends.

Lots of upcoming quiz bowl competitions!!! There is Bellview on Friday, SC North on Sat, Morningside on the 16th, and weslean on the 25th. I am absolutely excited! Although Friday I have to be to school by 530. Wont that be fun! I just hope we don't get back during school... Although either way I have Tech after school. I will be so tired. Although rehersal doesn't go too late.

This morning I started the final episode of Firefly. Its a bittersweet thing. I will probably watch Serenity (the movie that was the main finale) tomorrow after tech.

Today, it is sunny. Aside from the drive to school, I don't get to see the sun today. Hopefully it will be sunny for a few days. I miss it. Even though I hide from it.

Well that is my little post for today!

***Kat*** (P.S. I totally have "Here Comes The Sun" by the Beatles stuck in my head now...)