Listening to: Music Box - Regina Spektor

Small Regina Spektor obsession lately! I have also been in love with the Arctic Monkeys (the lead singer, Alex Turner, is sooo hott! Don’t worry I wont ramble about boys for the rest of this post!) Also The Fratellis.. Sadly my itunes money is dwindling.. I really need to get another gift card.

So today I went to shadow at my high school to be! It’s like 2,500 kids which will be crazy.. They have off campus lunch though which is awesome (I had chinese food!). First period was Tech. and that was one of the easiest classes I have ever been to. It was really sad, me and three of the boys there knew more about computers than the teacher. Poor guy (the teacher). Then I had Science which was really really really (etc.) boring. I almost fell asleep true I woke up at 4 AM but whatever.. Then was history.. We had a sub today which was uhm *cough* interesting. I think he was deaf, half the class was listening to their ipods really load and he did notice.. Then was english. That was my favorite class. I got a really good teacher and they were doing a unit on advertising and I’m really good at designing adds and stuff like that. (We did a unit on advertising in the 6th grade) Then was lunch which was well, lunch. Then I had Spanish which I did actually fall asleep during. Then I had PE so I just sat and talked to Anna and Gaby during it since the shadows weren’t supposed to participate. Then I had math which was uh sad truly sad. It was an Algebra 1. We talked about linear graphs the whole time. The only kids who knew what the teacher was talking about were the 8th graders from other schools! So that was my day.. Overall it was pretty good, I would end up going there like it or not so it doesn’t really matter what I thought..

I went by the mall today and got two new pairs of jeans, sadly they had to be altered so I can’t wear them for 10 days. I also got a ton of purfum samples, I luuv this one purfum I can’t remember the name of but I still have the sample bottle so I should really say I am to lazy to find the name..

So you, as usual, may be wondering about the title. Well there will be no new episodes of Bones until April 28th! Then there will only be around 6 more episodes in the season! I cannot believe that Fox could do this to such an amazing show and keep up with really crappy shows!

So I am still working on the site. I need to make new previews for most of my content and reorganize it. I also need to work on the new theme. I have been working on learning about template tags and other WP stuff.. I really want to work Gravitars into my new theme and make images for each tutorial so it looks more organized.. I have also been thinking about selling some old layouts and such but I’m but sure how that works.

I am also working on finding some new plugins and such. I also really want to make more perfessional CSS.. I have been studying the CSS

I am very proud of my self. I have been writting mega long blogs like 4 times in a row now! Another thing I want to improve with the new layout is to bring back the word count so I can feel super proud..

In video production we have to write this essay about our favorite 5 minute section of a movie.. I think it might be more excited to sit and stare at a blank tv screen all day, seriously. It sounds like fun but its just really tedious. Oh well I should go work on it anyways..

TTFN..

~Athena

PS. I finished The Sweet Far Thing and I was so sad I almost drop kicked it out of a window!! @)*&#(*& LIBBA BRAY! YOU NEED TO WRITE A FOURTH BOOK!!!

Listening to: Hotel Song - Regina Spektor

So I am currently cleaning my room or at least I should be.. It looks clean on the surface as long as you don’t look to hard you wont notice the desk covered in assorted crap, the overflowing laundry basket, the cracker crumbs on the floor, the books piled up so you can’t open the closet, the barely closed dresser drawers, and the closet which is a walk in by name only. I feel bad letting it get this far and my mom promised me she would take me by barns and noble tomorrow if I clean it up.. Once again my unread book supply is dwindling..

I am almost done with The Luxe, Hero, The Queen’s Soprano, The A-List, and The Sweet Far Thing. So about 500 pages of reading left.. I will finish The Sweet Far Thing today no doubt, it’s getting really good but I don’t want to give anything away ;).. I’m not quite done with the other two but here is my review of each..

The Luxe: This book is ok.. It’s set in manhattan at the end of the 19th century. Basically Gossip Girl with balls and horses. It’s rather predictable and the charicters are very steriotipcial. I’m really not that wild about it, there are tons of better books set in this time period *cough* A Great and Terrible Beauty *cough* I wouldn’t really recommend this book to anybody, it’s like 400+ pages long and plotless. Final verdict: 4/10 (The balls and manhattan count for something..)

Hero: This book is about a teenage boy with a homophobic father and has been hiding from him that he’s gay. He also happens to be a super hero. This book puts a good twist into an old story. I would recommend this book to anybody 14+ it isn’t really something you would read to your 8 year old as a good night story, it can be violent at times and also deals with racism and sexism. Overall I would give this book a 7.5/10 It can drag on sometimes and the plot moves along very slowly.

The Queen’s Soprano: Wow! I love this book. It takes place in 17th century Rome. Angelica’s voice is beautiful beyond belief but the pop has banned women from performing in public and her talent could get her killed. She falls in love with Theodon, a French artist, who listens two her sing from behind closed shutters. Her mother is trying to sell her off to the highest bidder to marry and is determined to control Angelica. Angelica runs away from home and joins the court of Queen Christina where she is allowed to sing freely. But even then her life is in danger. Many people want her silenced. So yeah pretty suspencefull I would recomend this book to people +13 it can be a little graphic at times and it might be a little disturbing for people younger than that (no offense). I would give it a 9/10 I really am loving it and it shows how sexist the society really was.

You already know what I think of the other book so I won’t review them..

I am currently in love with block quotes for some reason! They are so pretty and they break up my blog nicely..

The revamp is moving along, slowely. I am at a dead loss of what to do for the next layout. I am still getting the rest of the pages worked out and I am planning on fixing up the brush previews and font previews and other minor tweaks like that.

Yesterday I stayed up until after 4 in the morning watching movies with my neighbor Evan (He is Annalisa’s older brother. You may of heard about her in my blogs and she comments sometimes..) . I’ve known him since third grade (we were in the same class)..

We watched The Simpsons movie twice.. It was really funny and then we watched some documentary on OPB about some bridge in China and then we watched Cheaper By The Dozen 2. It was better than I thought it was. The ending was fairly fluffy but some parts were really good. It wasn’t as good as the first though.

So tata for now I better get back to my room cleaning..

~Athena