And I haven't gotten to the point of completely loathing my NaNovel either, thank goodness.

YAY!!! *breaks out the balloons and cake and champagne*
 

So. I have a dilemma. I have been invited to apply for this "UW Academy", which, essentially, is a program where high school sophomores are invited to start college their junior year at the University of Washington (I live in Seattle, for those of you who don't know). It's mostly based on academics (ie GPAs, SAT scores, ACT scores), and my parents are encouraging me to apply, but if I actually get in (decisions are made in, like, May), I really don't know what I'd do...

Cons:
1. I've heard that the UW Academy kids are very immature/socially stupid. More so than me. And if I get into that program, I'll be seeing them a ton.
2. This is a terrible reason, but... The UW Academy kids are very stereotypically Asian and I don't really want to be lumped in with them. I'm Asian but I rarely get along with other Asian girls. Well, in Seattle anyways.
3. The college tuition is more or less the same as if I go to the University of Washington after I graduate high school. As are the scholarship opportunities. So it's not like I'm saving money for myself/my parents.
4. NO ORCHESTRA :(
5. University of Washington, while a perfectly fine school, is not a Dream School. I'll probably apply for it senior year anyways, but I'll always feel some kind of regret if I don't get the chance to aim for a Dream School.
6. I have no idea what to do with my future, so why should I jump-start my future?
7. I don't want to miss out on high school life. I hate high school, but for some reason, I still want to get through it.
8. I won't be a high school graduate.

Pros:
1. I can graduate college younger and make money and junk. I'll probably seem very smart or something.
2. There's a good chance that unless I get into a better school that offers me better opportunities (AKA cheaper tuition), I'll go to University of Washington, so why avoid the inevitable?
3. I'm not going to pursue music professionally, so who cares if I miss out on the greatest high school orchestra in the northwest?
4. I have no idea what to do with my future, so why don't I start college earlier to figure it out?
5. I can go to my Dream School for graduate school. (Whatever that entails.)

I guess it's pretty obvious by now that UW Academy is not truly something I want to do, but I'm just afraid that I have no chance of getting into a better school than the University of Washington and if I pass this opportunity up, I'll regret it 2 years from now when I DO in fact make the decision to go to the University of Washington as a high school senior.

I miss being a freshman. Or better yet, a middle-schooler.

so yeah, I've always wanted but never remembered to do this...

CHRISTMAS FIC GIFTS!

Yes, you point and laugh at me because it's like, I dunno--AUGUST, but I'm a procrastinator of Olympic caliber so it'll definitely take me four months to accomplish this on time. Plus I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year, so that's the whole of November, gone. And no, I don't care if some of you don't even celebrate Christmas.

I've always liked the idea of being a Santa Claus (of fic) and posting multitudes of pieces here on the 24th of December, and plus I'll benefit from writing more now that Scribes is over (sigh), so just comment on this entry with a description of what you'd like for Christmas and I'll do my best to finish it by December 25th.

I can do both original fiction or fanfiction, and my fandoms are: Harry Potter, Tamora Pierce, (sadly) Twilight, Ouran High School Host Club, Doctor Who/Torchwood, anything Sherwood Smith, Artemis Fowl (and other Eoin Colfer stuff), and pretty much any other book I've mentioned in this LJ. (No I'm not going to do any Wuthering Heights 'cause it suuuucks.) I probably won't do any Edward/Bella either because that too sucks, though I'll consider Draco/Hermione or Harry/Hermione ONLY if you ask me reaaally nicely. I have no qualms about gen, het, or slash, though I'm not going to do NC-17 for obvious reasons. I can also do original fic if you give me a genre and a prompt, though you should probably know I'm best a fantasy, romance, humor, and/or contemporary. No poetry.

So, yeah. Request away! I am quite at leisure!

- First off, does anyone know what the hell "bffl" stands for? Cause I just checked my email and apparently, some girl wrote "bffl biatch" to my honesty box, and I CANNOT imagine that "bffl" stands for anything good. I mean, I'm pretty familiar with chatspeak and shit typing, but geez I'm baffled. Google seems to think it means "best friend for life", "Blackice Fantasy Football League", or "be fit for life", none of which works.

I highly doubt I have a best friend, and definitely not a best friend for life. And very few friends I possess will ever ever use the term "bffl" or "biatch." Wth, Facebook.

- Yes, I realize this should be a post about The Sweet Far Thing. I'm still kind of digesting since it was neither squee-inducing like Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox or puke-inducing like Breaking Dawn.

- Writing Camp (AKA Scribes) is so amazing. Seriously, I've never had education this... fulfilling. I'm not churning out brilliant stuff but I don't feel self-conscious and just--ugly like I do when I go to school. I'm sad that it's going to be over on Friday.

And I have to do a READING. Of my WORK. In front of PEOPLE. It's hard enough for me to be the center of attention, but to read prose? My prose isn't really fit for reading aloud--it's better on paper, unlike poetry, where sound and passion is a lot of things, if not everything.

- I've just realized Trombone Player (yes, him) has kind of improved and screwed up my writing at the same time. Before he and Cellist completely KILLED MY SOUL, my writing was less feeling and less effective in general. Now stylistically I'm better than I've ever been, but I can't write anything that doesn't hurt like hell.

- I wish somebody, ANY body in real life from school will at least ATTEMPT to contact me. I know I don't have any "true" friends at Garfield High, but it just sucks that nobody cares... I'm not anything. Nobody'll miss me if I don't exist. It's very John Green.

Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...

Mrs. Black

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the obligatory "yes-I've-actually-finished-breaking-dawn-and-stuff" list of thoughts:

SPOILERS AHEAD

- First of all, it was an okay read. Better than some romance novels I've read but certainly WAY beneath my standards for the YA genre. Certainly the quality of Stephenie Meyer's writing did not decrease, but I hope you're not interpreting this in a positive way since it wasn't too elevated to begin with. Keeping up with modest (AKA mediocre) standards is not exactly a challenge.

- I'm not really sure how I feel about Breaking Dawn. Certainly I'm not outraged since my expectations were modest at best, and it did have its entertaining moments and yes--moments of heart (though those are hidden like gems). 

- Overall, I just think that there's a huge disconnection within the book itself. For instance, as much as I love Jake and as much as his chapter titles are MADE OF WIN (SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T GRASP THE CONCEPT OF "UNWELCOME", THE TWO THINGS AT THE VERY TOP OF MY THINGS-I-NEVER-WANT-TO-DO-LIST), what was the POINT of that? It didn't add anything to the overall smoothness of the story. In fact, it made the middle section of the book quite disjointed with the other two thirds, both of which were narrated by Bella. 

- Also, the lack of ARTISTIC INTEGRITY is amazing. It overwhelms me and disgusts me. We can all agree that we are reminded over and over (and over and over and over...) what a BIG CHOICE and how frickin' DANGEROUS and TERRIBLE becoming a vampire is. Bella constantly dreads over it. Rosalie mourns never being able to conceive. Edward thinks it's a curse. Yet once Bella becomes a vampire, all her hardships are just KAPOUSH in comparison to all that the other characters have had to suffer. She looks better, she's graceful, and guess what... she has The Most Gorgeous and Brilliant and Wonderful and Sweet and Immortal Baby Ever.

- Honestly, I feel like the moral of this story is that if you secretly despise your parents, alienate your peers, act completely helpless at every hardship, and whine a lot about being "average" and "clumsy", you will be constantly rescued by a handsome sparkly vampire that is of no danger to you because he's on the side of Good and does not drink blood, have the most beautiful The Most Gorgeous and Brilliant and Wonderful and Sweet and Immortal Baby Ever, and live happily FOREVER after.

- Also, to live happily FOREVER after with your shiny vampire husband, you have to trample over the heart of your best friend ten million times and get pissed off when he connects with your daughter.

- And RENESMEE has to be THE WORST NAME IN THE UNIVERSE. GET SOME CREATIVITY. (while the name is non-traditional, it just shows how little resolve Bella has since she just decides to MERGE THE NAMES of her mother and mother-in-law together.) I was rooting for Edward Junior.

- Alice still kicks ass. Of course.

- So does Jasper. He can scare my lawyer any day.

- Edward just does NOT have my respect at this point, though it absolutely made my day that the reason he's a musical genius and speaks many languages and all that is because he wasn't getting any at night before Bella.

- What's up with all the "keep your head in the game" mentions by the werewolves? HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL MUCH?

- I laughed my way through the sex scenes.They were not at all "dangerous" considering at any given moment, Edward could have supposedly ripped Bella's throat out. All he did was rip the pillows.

- Again: RENESMEE.

- Oh Jake.

- Overall, I'm just incredibly grateful that the Twilight Saga is over and done. For now. Or until Stephenie Meyer wants Edward and Bella to like, buy a dog and they end up defeating the Evil Overlords of Volturra and becoming the King and Queen of Vampires. Despite my, um, passionate criticisms above, I didn't really mind reading all this unnecessary junk because well, even if she sucks at everything else, Smeyer is very good at keeping you hooked. She's like a crack dealer. 

Nevertheless, the end of this saga did not have as profound an impact on me as Deathly Hallows did, though I guess I'm pretty glad fandom got me some good friends and a lot of laughs (not sure if they were good laughs though...)

- Who wants to write me some Kate/Garrett, my favorite colonial vampire?

&; I just got back from New York City on Tuesday, and it feels amaaazing to have my own room and bed and books and laptop again, as much fun as New York was.

&; I have a (sigh) Twilight fic that I started on the 6-hour plain ride back to Seattle that I need a beta for. (When I finish that is.) I would love you forever if you're willing to go over it for me. I'm not good at writing Bella, at all. 

&; The Dark Knight looks so ridiculously good--storyline, characterization, Christian Bale and all. I can't wait to see it, but I need somebody to see it with me. Either way, I feel compelled to see this movie even if it's just to stare at Christian Bale for two-plus hours.

&; I have absolutely nothing to do until August 4th, when writing camp starts, so comment me, email me, IM me, you guys!

So yesterday was the Day of Silence, and as part of my school's GSA, I of course participated in it. It was really cool, since we set up a table in the front of the school passing out notecards with an explanation about the Day of Silence for people to use and rainbow ribbon pins (they're kind of like those breast cancer ones--only rainbow-colored). Not talking through the entire day was a lot harder than I thought it'd be, since I tend to think aloud a lot...

For people who are familiar with one of my favorite movies:
Emmett: (this guy I have two classes with) Have you taken a vow of silence because of Frederick Nietzsche?
Me: (written on my special Notepad of Silence) Yes, I've decided to take a vow of silence until I get into aviator school.
Emmett: (also writing on my Notepad of Silence) I hate everyone.

Oh, and I have also signed up for summerwrite . I couldn't resist.

So freakin' cool XD

Past In Present
about 1600 words.
She is one of those people who like to flip through Oscar Wilde’s short stories over breakfast... he is the type that rereads Catcher in the Rye in the dark, seeking hidden intentions in the 60s slang


( this is not a romance )