Today is awesome because my room is almost clean and the sun is bright and I'm able to comfortably wear shorts and a tank top.
I realize now that, in my 50(!) blog posts before this, I never really introduced myself. So hello Blogger people. Here's a list about me:
My name is Desi
I'm fourteen
I'm almost through with the ninth grade
I live in the wonderful state of Utah
I'm a nerdfighter
I'm a huge Harry Potter and Hunger Games fan
Pottermore declared me a Hufflepuff, but I believe I'm a Ravenclaw.
I love Starkid. Like a lot.
I don't know, I'm just your run of the mill nerd. I'm not into comic books or superheroes, but I really like books and writing and YouTube and all those nice things. I also really like Boy Meets World. Not that that's relevant, but I'm watching it right now.
So yeah. It's a little late in the game to introduce myself, and I'm pretty sure that if you've read any blog posts of mine before this you'd know these things, but I was kind of at a loss for what to blog about for the day. I have nineteen posts that I haven't published though, so expect some of those coming your way.
Until tomorrow
xx D
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
BEDA 1: On Nostalgia
Hey there guys, I'm bringing back BEDA. And with BEDA comes Why Today is Awesome. So today is awesome because I'm going to be able to curl up and watch One Tree Hill on my iPod and stay up as late as I want because I'M ON SPRING BREAK. But that's not what this post is about.
I'm a very nostalgic and sentimental person. I'm that one girl who has ticket stubs and things that my friends have given me just because they're nice and remind me of things and make me happy. Right now, I'm nostalgic for two particular things: junior high and summer.
I've mentioned before that although I'm in the ninth grade, I'm still in junior high school, and this month is my second to last. Junior high hasn't been the best time for me, this year especially, but there are definitely things I'm going to miss. Sitting on the floor of the arts building with my friends finishing homework before school, for one. And talking during Spanish class instead of learning anything, and games of Egyptian Rat Screw in Journalism. I know that it's a little early for these graduation goggles to set in, but I have to realize that after my last choir concert, I'm never going to perform on the stage in the stupid auditorium ever again. And I have to know that I'm never going to have to get ready in the girls dressing room again. I've had my problems, but I just know that I'm going to miss it.
I don't know that I've mentioned it before, but summer is my favorite time of the year. It's gotten to that point where I leave the window open in my bedroom and it smells like summer. Like, my dad registered me to go to camp this summer and I'm just so ready for it to come. This spring has been unseasonably warm, and I've definitely started aching for the summertime. I miss staying up until all hours of the night talking to my friends via Facebook and watching YouTube videos and writing all the freaking time, even though it happened to be nonsense.
Maybe it's weird to be nostalgic for a thing that you're leaving and a thing that's coming up all at the same time, but I'm a weird girl. I don't know, it's something that I can't really explain.
I guess I'll talk to y'all tomorrow.
Until then
xxD
I'm a very nostalgic and sentimental person. I'm that one girl who has ticket stubs and things that my friends have given me just because they're nice and remind me of things and make me happy. Right now, I'm nostalgic for two particular things: junior high and summer.
I've mentioned before that although I'm in the ninth grade, I'm still in junior high school, and this month is my second to last. Junior high hasn't been the best time for me, this year especially, but there are definitely things I'm going to miss. Sitting on the floor of the arts building with my friends finishing homework before school, for one. And talking during Spanish class instead of learning anything, and games of Egyptian Rat Screw in Journalism. I know that it's a little early for these graduation goggles to set in, but I have to realize that after my last choir concert, I'm never going to perform on the stage in the stupid auditorium ever again. And I have to know that I'm never going to have to get ready in the girls dressing room again. I've had my problems, but I just know that I'm going to miss it.
I don't know that I've mentioned it before, but summer is my favorite time of the year. It's gotten to that point where I leave the window open in my bedroom and it smells like summer. Like, my dad registered me to go to camp this summer and I'm just so ready for it to come. This spring has been unseasonably warm, and I've definitely started aching for the summertime. I miss staying up until all hours of the night talking to my friends via Facebook and watching YouTube videos and writing all the freaking time, even though it happened to be nonsense.
Maybe it's weird to be nostalgic for a thing that you're leaving and a thing that's coming up all at the same time, but I'm a weird girl. I don't know, it's something that I can't really explain.
I guess I'll talk to y'all tomorrow.
Until then
xxD
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Hunger Games (I don't know what constitutes spoilers anymore)
I know, I promised a different post at the end of my last one but guys... Hunger Games.
Disclaimer: I slept for like four hours last night and am not really sure what's happening right now. Fair warning. Also probably mild spoilers. It depends on how you define spoilers.
Last night at 12:15 some of my friends and I went to see The Hunger Games. We all dressed up in like really sparkly outfits and had eyeliner all over our faces and people looked at us like we were crazy but it was great.
The movie started probably at about 12:30 but then didn't end until three in the freaking morning, so it was a little bit long for me, especially for me late at night, but The Hunger Games was one of those movies that I didn't even realize how long it was until we were walking out of the theatre and suddenly it was three. That's how intense and brilliant and great it was.
My experience with the movie was a lot different from that of the book. I didn't hate Katniss, for instance, and I really liked Peeta. He was funny and there was one scene where they're in the games and Katniss and Peeta are together and he goes, "I'll take the bow," and then they just look at each other for a moment before he states that he was just kidding. It's things like that that I think made the movie what it was. Little humorous things in the middle of the intense, bloody war.
Another thing about the movie was that I really liked Haymitch. He was just a fun character and a really fantastic actor. He just said things and no one was really sure why but then it made sense and it was really funny or touching or things. And the notes he left on the gifts from the sponsors... Just great.
Like I said, there was a lot of light little things that cut the intensity of it, but there were still parts that were positively terrifying. I was sitting in a row with four of my friends, and all of us except for one were clutching each others hands because we knew what was coming. It was like, there was a really out of nowhere loud noise and my friend squeezing my hand frightened me almost as much as the noise.
One of the things that I was concerned about going into the movie was the choice of actors. I hadn't seen any of them in anything except for Liam Hemsworth and to me he was always going to be that guy in The Last Song and that was a terrible movie. But they all really pulled it together and there was a point in the movie where they all became their character to me. For Katniss it was her volunteering, for Peeta it was when he was all "I want them to know that they don't own me," and for Gale it was at the reaping when he looked over at Katniss and just mouthed "It'll be okay." They all were their characters for me, and that was one of the best things of the movie for me.
This movie was good enough that I want to see it again right now. That may be in part because of the fact that I stayed up until almost five in the morning after the movie and have proceeded to forget a lot of little details about it, but it really was just fantastic.
There were a few little things that were pretty different, but none of it bothered me. Honestly, I think it was one of the best film adaptations of a book that I have ever seen. For me to not be sitting here nitpicking every little thing that was different is truly amazing.
Also, did anyone else realize that Peeta's name sounds like a person with an English accent saying Peter?
Until next time
xx D
Disclaimer: I slept for like four hours last night and am not really sure what's happening right now. Fair warning. Also probably mild spoilers. It depends on how you define spoilers.
Last night at 12:15 some of my friends and I went to see The Hunger Games. We all dressed up in like really sparkly outfits and had eyeliner all over our faces and people looked at us like we were crazy but it was great.
The movie started probably at about 12:30 but then didn't end until three in the freaking morning, so it was a little bit long for me, especially for me late at night, but The Hunger Games was one of those movies that I didn't even realize how long it was until we were walking out of the theatre and suddenly it was three. That's how intense and brilliant and great it was.
My experience with the movie was a lot different from that of the book. I didn't hate Katniss, for instance, and I really liked Peeta. He was funny and there was one scene where they're in the games and Katniss and Peeta are together and he goes, "I'll take the bow," and then they just look at each other for a moment before he states that he was just kidding. It's things like that that I think made the movie what it was. Little humorous things in the middle of the intense, bloody war.
Another thing about the movie was that I really liked Haymitch. He was just a fun character and a really fantastic actor. He just said things and no one was really sure why but then it made sense and it was really funny or touching or things. And the notes he left on the gifts from the sponsors... Just great.
Like I said, there was a lot of light little things that cut the intensity of it, but there were still parts that were positively terrifying. I was sitting in a row with four of my friends, and all of us except for one were clutching each others hands because we knew what was coming. It was like, there was a really out of nowhere loud noise and my friend squeezing my hand frightened me almost as much as the noise.
One of the things that I was concerned about going into the movie was the choice of actors. I hadn't seen any of them in anything except for Liam Hemsworth and to me he was always going to be that guy in The Last Song and that was a terrible movie. But they all really pulled it together and there was a point in the movie where they all became their character to me. For Katniss it was her volunteering, for Peeta it was when he was all "I want them to know that they don't own me," and for Gale it was at the reaping when he looked over at Katniss and just mouthed "It'll be okay." They all were their characters for me, and that was one of the best things of the movie for me.
This movie was good enough that I want to see it again right now. That may be in part because of the fact that I stayed up until almost five in the morning after the movie and have proceeded to forget a lot of little details about it, but it really was just fantastic.
There were a few little things that were pretty different, but none of it bothered me. Honestly, I think it was one of the best film adaptations of a book that I have ever seen. For me to not be sitting here nitpicking every little thing that was different is truly amazing.
Also, did anyone else realize that Peeta's name sounds like a person with an English accent saying Peter?
Until next time
xx D
Friday, March 9, 2012
Writer's block
Hey guys, do you remember me? No, you don't? Perfectly understandable. It's been a nice long month since we last talked. Why yes, I am writing this on my iPod again. So good of you to notice.
Well, in all actuality I've just lost the motivation to write. I don't have anything to say, no stories to tell. And that's always been my writing experience: writing because I need to. I don't need to anymore; I hardly want to. But here I am, forcing myself. And it feels good.
I've started a thing where, for the foreseeable future, I'll be writing one scene a day in a notebook. Maybe it'll be something when it's done and maybe not, but I need to push myself. Which is also why I'll probably be doing BEDA again this year, but in April rather than August. I may not though, but it was a thing I really enjoyed.
This was short, yes, but I'll be back soon with a post about personality types that I'm trying to write.
Until next time
xx D
Well, in all actuality I've just lost the motivation to write. I don't have anything to say, no stories to tell. And that's always been my writing experience: writing because I need to. I don't need to anymore; I hardly want to. But here I am, forcing myself. And it feels good.
I've started a thing where, for the foreseeable future, I'll be writing one scene a day in a notebook. Maybe it'll be something when it's done and maybe not, but I need to push myself. Which is also why I'll probably be doing BEDA again this year, but in April rather than August. I may not though, but it was a thing I really enjoyed.
This was short, yes, but I'll be back soon with a post about personality types that I'm trying to write.
Until next time
xx D
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
This is what it's like inside my mind
I've tried to blog for the longest time but it's really hard so now I have like three different started posts that I have no intention of finishing in my repertoire of posts. There's that.
Last month I read Candide in a day and then wrote an analysis on it. That was fun. I don't remember what happened in that book because of the fact I read it so quickly.
This is a poem that was written for me on Valentine's Day:
Thanks Claire.
In English we've started reading Romeo and Juliet and last year my friend Gaby and I wrote a rap about it (similar to the Christopher Columbus one... We rap about a lot of things.) All I want to do now is tell my English teacher that I can rap about it. It would certainly influence her nonexistent opinion of me.
Oh hey, I wrote a submission for the lessthanthreebooks thing that Hayley and Kristina are doing. I don't know how it'll go because I don't know how good it is but I think it would be really freaking cool if I got it.
The Adobe plugin crashed and now the pictures I was trying to upload to the yearbook site aren't going to be there and I'm sad.
My computer is broken again and so like the entire frame is cracked and sometimes it refuses to turn on for me. So that's nice. Except for my sister is hopefully going to give me her very very old Mac computer and I don't know what kind it is except for it's like six years old and we have to order a charger from the internet so that it'll work. But if it works at all better than this thing I'm using I will be forever grateful for everything.
Yeah, now I'm going to maybe do science homework.
xx D
Last month I read Candide in a day and then wrote an analysis on it. That was fun. I don't remember what happened in that book because of the fact I read it so quickly.
This is a poem that was written for me on Valentine's Day:
Baby you have me spellstruck
Mostly your butt
Mostly all butts
You are a very cool person
I can’t think of any rhymes with person
I’ll Google it
Oh, worsen
That’s certainly what I’ve done to this poem
Wowzers
Here just have some flowers
I cannot write
My face is growing white
Thank goodness for Rhymezone
Sorry the only rhyme I could think of was bone
Mostly your butt
Mostly all butts
You are a very cool person
I can’t think of any rhymes with person
I’ll Google it
Oh, worsen
That’s certainly what I’ve done to this poem
Wowzers
Here just have some flowers
I cannot write
My face is growing white
Thank goodness for Rhymezone
Sorry the only rhyme I could think of was bone
Thanks Claire.
In English we've started reading Romeo and Juliet and last year my friend Gaby and I wrote a rap about it (similar to the Christopher Columbus one... We rap about a lot of things.) All I want to do now is tell my English teacher that I can rap about it. It would certainly influence her nonexistent opinion of me.
Oh hey, I wrote a submission for the lessthanthreebooks thing that Hayley and Kristina are doing. I don't know how it'll go because I don't know how good it is but I think it would be really freaking cool if I got it.
The Adobe plugin crashed and now the pictures I was trying to upload to the yearbook site aren't going to be there and I'm sad.
My computer is broken again and so like the entire frame is cracked and sometimes it refuses to turn on for me. So that's nice. Except for my sister is hopefully going to give me her very very old Mac computer and I don't know what kind it is except for it's like six years old and we have to order a charger from the internet so that it'll work. But if it works at all better than this thing I'm using I will be forever grateful for everything.
Yeah, now I'm going to maybe do science homework.
xx D
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Fault in Our Stars (If you're looking for spoilers, go somewhere else)
Tonight, I finished TFiOS after buying it in an airport kiosk six days before. I have several good reasons for not finishing it sooner. I didn't want to break down crying in Spanish class, for one, and I was out of town for most of the time that I had it. But really, aside from it being incredibly sad, I didn't want it to end.
I'm not a crier, normally. There have been like three books that I've read that have made me cry, and TFiOS bypassed them all in frequency of crying and the amount I did. I was crying, hard, when I finished it. It's incredibly heartbreaking, and incredibly lovely.
Hayley Hoover said something in her blog post about not wanting to share TFiOS with other people. When I first read her post tonight, I didn't understand. But when I finished the book, I understood. The emotions that I felt with this book, the passion and intensity I felt for it, I didn't want to share that. I didn't want to share Augustus Waters. It's like Hazel says in reference to An Imperial Affliction, that it's the kind of book that's "so special and rare and YOURS that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal." That's the way I feel about TFiOS.
This book was fantastically written and it was full of emotion and wit and humor. Hazel Grace and Augustus speak in a way that I only wish people would speak in real life. I aspire to write conversations between people that are that poised and witty and intelligent. There is nothing that could make this book better than it is.
This book was horribly heartbreaking and incredibly witty and hilarious. There wasn't a time while reading that I didn't feel something; be it humour or loss or terrible sadness. And that's what I want in a book: to feel something. It's perfect. It's extremely beautiful.
I'm sorry if this post is kind of scattered and inconsistent and weird, but tonight I finished this book that made me feel like my emotions have been taken and tied into knots and put back, and I don't know what to do with it. And now, I'm probably going to read it and go through that again. I don't expect anyone IRL to understand this, and if anyone will it's Nerdfighteria.
Until next time
xx D
I'm not a crier, normally. There have been like three books that I've read that have made me cry, and TFiOS bypassed them all in frequency of crying and the amount I did. I was crying, hard, when I finished it. It's incredibly heartbreaking, and incredibly lovely.
Hayley Hoover said something in her blog post about not wanting to share TFiOS with other people. When I first read her post tonight, I didn't understand. But when I finished the book, I understood. The emotions that I felt with this book, the passion and intensity I felt for it, I didn't want to share that. I didn't want to share Augustus Waters. It's like Hazel says in reference to An Imperial Affliction, that it's the kind of book that's "so special and rare and YOURS that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal." That's the way I feel about TFiOS.
This book was fantastically written and it was full of emotion and wit and humor. Hazel Grace and Augustus speak in a way that I only wish people would speak in real life. I aspire to write conversations between people that are that poised and witty and intelligent. There is nothing that could make this book better than it is.
This book was horribly heartbreaking and incredibly witty and hilarious. There wasn't a time while reading that I didn't feel something; be it humour or loss or terrible sadness. And that's what I want in a book: to feel something. It's perfect. It's extremely beautiful.
I'm sorry if this post is kind of scattered and inconsistent and weird, but tonight I finished this book that made me feel like my emotions have been taken and tied into knots and put back, and I don't know what to do with it. And now, I'm probably going to read it and go through that again. I don't expect anyone IRL to understand this, and if anyone will it's Nerdfighteria.
Until next time
xx D
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Important life events (sort of)
It's been a while since I posted a post that makes since to someone other than myself and that I didn't type up on my iPod, but I have a good reason! My computer kind of... broke. But it wasn't my fault!... As far as I know. Basically the hard drive crashed and I lost everything I had saved including all of my novel that wasn't in my email. So that was nice. But also beside the point. Not that there is one, ever.
I started this post about a week ago and then I forgot I was writing it and it then became moot because everything I had written about then happened. So here's a recap of my life:
Earlier today I auditioned for the play that my school is putting on. I'm not expecting much of it because I didn't really want to audition in the first place but was bullied into it. Because I'm easily persuaded to do things that I don't want to do. That's a fun fact about myself.
Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Texas to be holy and do church things. And also to play basketball. I don't play basketball. It's going to be interesting.
My first semester of school ended today. I didn't clean out my locker although I was supposed to. I got an A in math like I wanted to so badly.
I downloaded Skype. I'm still really confused.
In orchestra we went to see the Utah symphony and then it ended with my friend falling on the floor of the bus when we were getting back to school.
The first yearbook deadline for my yearbook class is on Tuesday. We aren't ready. It's interesting.
I keep getting confused because 2012 is different than 2011. Not sure why I don't just automatically realize that.
I got an iTouch for Christmas and then today successfully connected to my schools WiFi and then wasn't able to go on Tumblr during my audition because of web blockers. That made the audition process much more boring because people were giving me dirty looks for having my earphones in while other people read from the script.
Someone who I'm not friends with on Facebook made her status:
I started this post about a week ago and then I forgot I was writing it and it then became moot because everything I had written about then happened. So here's a recap of my life:
Earlier today I auditioned for the play that my school is putting on. I'm not expecting much of it because I didn't really want to audition in the first place but was bullied into it. Because I'm easily persuaded to do things that I don't want to do. That's a fun fact about myself.
Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for Texas to be holy and do church things. And also to play basketball. I don't play basketball. It's going to be interesting.
My first semester of school ended today. I didn't clean out my locker although I was supposed to. I got an A in math like I wanted to so badly.
I downloaded Skype. I'm still really confused.
In orchestra we went to see the Utah symphony and then it ended with my friend falling on the floor of the bus when we were getting back to school.
The first yearbook deadline for my yearbook class is on Tuesday. We aren't ready. It's interesting.
I keep getting confused because 2012 is different than 2011. Not sure why I don't just automatically realize that.
I got an iTouch for Christmas and then today successfully connected to my schools WiFi and then wasn't able to go on Tumblr during my audition because of web blockers. That made the audition process much more boring because people were giving me dirty looks for having my earphones in while other people read from the script.
Someone who I'm not friends with on Facebook made her status:
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