Spring Break

I'm just gonna say it again, I can't wait til SB '11. I can't wait to sit at the beach, read H to the P without getting yelled at by teachers, and GO ON COLLEGE VISITS AND MEET COACHES. I am sooooooo ready to start this process. I want it to be Monday morning so that I can just be at Coastal Carolina meeting coach Quinney. UGHHHHHHHHHH HURRY UPPP !!!!!!!!!!!

Action List 3.29.11

#1:
I agree most with Jeremy Land, not because I want to be an EMT, I don't even like blood and gore all that much, but for his perspective on life. He wants to do something that makes him happy, just follow his dreams kind of, and that's all I want. Jeremy doesn't care about how much money he makes, he doesn't mind not being this extremely wealthy person and that is how I feel. I'll probably be starting out working two jobs to make a living after college because lets face it, it could take a while for a TV show to get picked up, but I am not worried to much about that, so that is why I agree most with Jeremy.
It is not that I don't like Raquel's viewpoint, her attitude just throws me off. She says she doesn't think she's pretty and she lacks self-confidence. She was definitetly the prettiest one on their, so that just kind of makes me mad. Not that I have all the confidence in the world or anything, because I don't, but I wouldn't go and say "I just want to do hair and make-up because I don't really think I'm pretty...". Sounds a little rude on my part, but come on Raquel.


Ten years from now, I see myself extremely happy.
Career: I would have a degree in Liberal Arts and Communications and a MFA in screenwriting, being out of school for three years. My TV show "Let's Face...It" will be finally kicking off, after being accepted by the CW or ABC. Writing scripts throughout the week, but weekends would be devoted to my family.
Family: My husband (I don't care what he does for a living as long as we love each other) and I would take morning strolls before work with our Golden Retriever, Hugsie, and maybe our child, depends on how we are doing career wise. We'd play golf on Saturdays, and I'd play 18 holes with my dad and brother on Sundays -- every weekend. We'd be living in Los Angeles, right next door to our best friends, not sure who yet though. We'd all meet for dinner or go out in town every Friday night after work.
As long as I have my screenwriting degree and am making or participating in the process of a TV, I really don't care what happens outside of that.





#4: Poem - Happy High

sitting here in class,
i can't help but to think,
about all of the things in school,
that makes a day stink.

why do kids not do their homework,
and fail every test test?
when teachers are constantly pushing us,
to be our very best.

why do kids always give up,
and storm right out of class?
if i would even try that,
my parents would kick my...butt.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (253-295)

The first Quiditch match of the year comes, and the Gryffindors were planning on playing Slytherin but apparently Malfoys arm is still hurting from when Buckbeat "broke him"...get over it Malfoy. So unexpectingly they play Ravenclaw. Harry about to catch the snitch, sees a Dementor floating up to attack or actually idk what they were doing. Anyways Harry faints and falls 500 feet from the sky, but Dumbledore slows his fall. He still is badly hurt and his broom is broker, so now he needs the Firebolt back. The team ended up losing, putting them in a bad position to win the Quiditch World Cup.
Snape catches Harry coming back from Hogsmeade through the secret passage, but not red-handed, just off of instinct. Harry plays it off as if he doesn't know a word of what's going on and Snape just threatens him even more. Professor Lupin however comes in and saves Harry. Although he does show his disappointment in Harry for not being a smarter student, especially with Sirius Black running after him. Harry loses the Maurder's Map to Professor Lupin.

Response: Oh Quiditch, if only we could play it. I actually heard about super obsessed and crazed fans that actually grap brooms and play "Muggle" version of quiditch. Apparently they use soccer nets as the goals with soccer, tennins and kick balls as the bludgers and so on and so forth. Greateest and funniest part though: the golden snitch is a person that puts on golden robes and runs around as far as they want hiding from both teams. So lame what fans will do. Like yes I like the books and I'm planning on going to the midnight showing of the last movie, but am I going to attempt to play Quiditch?? Heck to the NO!!!!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (211-251)

Harry gets a surprise under his tree at Christmas, a Firebolt, the most expensive and best Quiditch broom on the market. No one has it, only the pros have them so far. It came annonymously so Harry is clueless. He suspects Dumbledore, but soon comes to realize that it can't be.
When Hermione finds out about the broomstick, she becomes terrified; she fears that it has been cursed and purposly sent to him in hopes of harming him. She soon tells Professor McGonnel and she takes the broom away to look for curse. Harry is temporarily upset with her but he soon lets it go. Ron, however, is furios, enraged, but also from the growing tension between Hermione's cat and his rat, Scabbers. They have a huge fight and end up not talking for most of the book.
Because of her abandonment by her friends, Hermione spends more time with Hagrid, Buckbeat (a Hippogriff) and the trial. Draco Malfoy's father is trying to get Buckbeat killed since it hurt Draco in class. Hermione works endless hours between the case and the many classes she has taken and becomes engrossed with school (she normally is, but this is more than normal) forgetting about the friends that have forgotten her.

Response: Ohh the dwindling romance of Ron and Hermione, the beginning of it all for them. It seems only like fate that they would fight, hiding their true feelings for each other. Lovve them especially in books six and seven...not gonna lie, I cry a little. :')

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (157-210)

On their way back to the dorms, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and other students notice that the Fat Lady who guards their passage is missing and that the portrait she lives in is slashed. Percy, Head Boy and older brother of Ron, runs to find Dumbeldore. They go on a wild goose chase to find her, spotting her four floors down by Divination.
Later, Harry begins practicing with Professor Lupin on how to stop a Dementor. They use a Boggart which take the shape of one. Hoever, everytime it takes shape, Harry passes out. He hears the sounds of his parents fighting for their life against Voldemort and wakes up weak and tired.
Next, third years and above take a trip to Hogsmeade (a town full of wizardry shops from candy stores to butterbeer bars), but Harry can't go because you need a guardian to sign a permission slip. To help out his brother's friend, Fred and George (Ron's older twin brothers) give Harry the Maurder's Map. It shows everyone's move, every day, in any place. It also has secret passages to in and out of Hogwarts, one being Hogsmeade. Harry takes it and meets Ron and Hermione; they go to the butterbeer bar. Harry ends up under the table when Professor McGonnal and Hagrid come into the bar. They begin talking about how Sirius used to be Harry's parents best friend, and how he betrayed them--causing their death.

Respone: JK Rowling is a beast, especially in "Maurders Map" chapter. The story about Harry's parents and Sirius Black is awesome, creepy, and sad all in one. LOVE THESE BOOOKSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

3.22.11 Action List

1. I think it is pretty safe to say that my favorite read this quarter was "The Lincoln Lawyer". It was amazsing to say the least, but you already know that if you have been reading my posts from February. I discovered author Michael Connely, author of "The Lincoln Lawyer", but I also have begun to fall more in love with the works of Nicholas Sparks. Say eew all you want if you are a guy, but you gotta give the man respect because he writes better love stories than most female authors.

2. I really liked "Here, bullet", infact so much that I picked it for that paragraph write we had to do. I just liked the gruesome detail that the speaker provided, it was cool and kinda racey at the same time. It challeneged poetry I think, but what do I know, I'm just a 17 year old student.

Lincoln Lawyer Movie

Oh SWEET MERCY in words of my bffl JazzyJay. Movie was great. We snuck in candy, had some popcorn, couple cokes, it was amazing.
I was soo anxious waiting for it to start and then it came on. It was weird idk it was the same but little things that seemed important from the book weren't included, I really thought that was odd, but I guess you also don't want to go exactly from the book. Other than that it was grear. I got chills when Haller discoverss that Roulet killed the victim in a previous case.

Oh and Michaela Conlin, AMAZING. SOOOOO proud of her, she did great. I smiled sooo wide when I saw her name appear at the beginning and mini-flipped when she came on.

Every aspect of the movie was great, from eating candy sharks while cheering for Michaela to spending the day with my parents and brother.

The Lincoln Lawyer

Last night, my mom comes home with a surprise...A PUPPYY, no not a puppy something wayyyy better. My brother is home from spring break (still not the surprise) and to add to the "bonding/catching up time" my mom said that my parents, Adam, and I are going to see "The Lincoln Lawyer" on friday. SOOOOOOOO FREEAKKINNGGGGGGG PPPUUUUMMMPPPEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to see it, I'll def. post how it is

3.15.2011 Action List

NCAA Tournament:

I probably would be changing my bracket in any normal case, but because I absolutely loathe ND I already have them falling to Purdue in two brackets, and to Texas A&M in another. That whole article is pretty interesting on how little success teams with a story like ND's this year have. It kind of stinks, but that's the tourney for you. You never know what could happen....especially this year with not having an elite team in the country.
Watch ND win it all now because I just said that stuff...in the words of a dear friend, "I would rather watch kittens go through a wood-chipper then see that happen."

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (104-156)

Harry, Ron, and showing up randomly according to Ron, Hermione, begin their first lesson of Divination. They all find the teacher very weird and disturbing. She begins class by making them all drink tea and then after finishing, switch cups and look at the tea leaves at the bottom. She says Neville Longbottom is going to have a tragedy at home in a couple months, making the class laugh, but soon the room gets tense. She looks into Harry's and notices the Grim, the sign of death. Hermione laughs it off as a ridiculous assumption and soon the class follows her lead.
The next class is Defense Against the Dark Arts with new teacher Professor Lupin. Their first lesson they leave the classroom and go to the teachers lounge. He calls Neville up to the front as a demonstration. Their is a Boggart in the wardrobe in the room. Lupin explains that when it comes out in public, it takes the shape of everyones greatest fear, Neville's being Professor Snape [haha :)]. Upon seeing the image, you can make it not scary by adding features to it, Necille adds his grandmothers hat, dress, and cane. Soon the class follows with different things as the Boggart turns into, Ron's being a spider. When it is Harry's turn, Lupin stops the experiment and dismisses class.

Response: I love the Boggart chapter, I mean Neville Longbottom cracks me up. I also miss Prof Lupin, he's the best teacher in my book...Hagrid is close eventhough he failed at teaching his first year.

21 More Days!!!! :)

21 more days until spring break!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHH I'm so excited, I can't wait. Not just to take a break from school, but for only my second time, I'm actually doing something for spring break. My parents and I are touring the south-east coast looking at schools and visiting my cousin. I can't wait to check out Coastal Carolina and South Carolina Beaufort. Coastal is is Myrtle Beach and USCB is right by Hilton Head. Going to either one of those schools sounds amazing, so hopefully I'll love the golf program and the tour....and even more so hopefully either one of those schools will love me.

Also on the visit, we are taking a day to drive and see my cousin who lives in Atlanta. I know that no one is supposed to have a favorite cousin, it is a terrible thing, especially when one like me has 26 cousins who all love me. But I do, Ashley Dobis-Watson. She's 30 now, and she moved to Georgia with her husband Brian, who also is freaking awesome. My brothers and I are the youngest cousin. Zach, my eldest brother, is 8 years off from the youngest after us so there has always been an age difference, which when young would be uncool to watch your little cousins. But Smash/Freddy, yeah we call her both of those, always made time for us. She was just an amazing cousin, so awesome that at one point when my brother was four, he asked her to marry him lol. But with how far away they are, the whole family only gets to see Ash, Bri, and Hoosier (their dog) for Christmas. It's hard on us, but even harder on Ashley. She's really looking forward to getting some family for a day or two. I can't wait to see her.

So those are my plans for SB '11- chilling on the beach after college and visiting my cousin.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (50-103)

After Hrry escapes the home of his aunt and uncle which he ohh so hates, he finds himself standing in the middle of the road scared to death. He used magic outside of school (illegal for young wizards) and he fears that the Minsitry of Magic will come after him since he had already had his warning. He spots a black dog in the street and falls over, but to his rescue is The Knight Bus.
It takes him to the Leaky Cauldrin in London. On his way he hears about Sirius Black, a mass murder that escaped from Azkaban that is feared my Muggles and Non-Muggles. When he arrives he is met by Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic. He tells Harry not to worry about the fiasco at home, mostly due to the unspoken fact that Sirius is said to have escaped to find Harry.
After the meeting, Harry spends the remander of summer break on strict grounds in Diagon Alley, to be in crowded areas. He shops for his books and eventually meets Ron and Hermione the night before they leave for Hogwarts. On the train the next day, they meet Dementors, which cause Harry to pass out.

Response: Love the HP baby! :) re-read the first hundred in no joke, two class periods. Probably not a good thing but one was study hall and the other we watched a movie on WWII...can you blame me??....

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1-49)

The book starts out with Harry at his aunt and uncle's house. Of course it is known that Harry cannot stand that house because they have always treated him as if he did not exist. He has to stay up late at night to do the homework that he is required to have finished before returning to Hogwarts. With the slightest noise he makes, he risks being thrown in the attic.
One mornign he wakes to the news that his Aunt Marge is coming to visit. Like his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, she loathes Harry and thinks of him as a waste of space and a burden to Petunia and Vernon. Vernon makes Harry promise to say that he is attending a school for criminals. Harry tries to sweeten the deal by saying that he will be good if his uncle signs a permission form for Hogsmede.
When Aunt Marge comes, she constantly yells at Harry and dimishes him to the size of an ant. At one point he gets so extremely mad at her that he accidendtly blows her up and she starts floating in the air. He runs out of the house with his luggage for Hogwarts and terrified that the Ministry of Magic will be looking for him.

The Odds

I'm in a poetry kind of mood the past couple days, today we have a basketball banquet and I figured, what the heck I'll write a poem to give to everyone. It describes our season, well, I hope it does. I don't know, check it out if you want.

We walk in jamming to Aaron Fresh,
and then play some Family Feud,
but all throughout our weird routines,
we are always in the mood.

Thirsty for every win,
our teammates being our heroes,
we played for each other,
long after the clock hit zero.

We barely had a student section,
which made for a small crowd,
but we always had our parents,
and damn could they get loud.

So we never needed recognition,
or a front page cover,
because we had support and love,
and especially one another.

And when you think back to that final game,
remember to not get down,
because McCutcheon along with many others
will never forget about the Southwest side of town.

With little recognition,
and a lot of public doubt,
it seemed that we stood no chance,
that we could not come out.

But every day on the bus,
we knew what we could be,
singing altogether,
in perfect harmony.

And every day we fought together,
shedding tears and sweat,
and all of the goals that we had made,
well, all of those were met.

So call us the underdog,
tell the "Cinderella Story",
say it was luck we don't care,
because either way we ended with glory.

Fighting

okay so i wrote this in school, it kinda is about letting things go, realtionships, sports losses, whatever...for me it was mourning the death of my grandma. she died sept 11th last year, but her bday was today so this is just for her, no other way to put it.

when fighting is no longer,
and there is nothing left to do,
how do you go on?
how do you stay true?

it's nothing you did wrong,
just the worst of luck,
but why did it happen?
why do you feel stuck?

one moment of happiness,
that quickly turned to mourn,
just the shock of it all,
left you ripped and torn.

but instead of being mad,
or living life in fear,
honor every moment,
and let sorrow disappear.

when fighting doesn't change a thing,
learn from few few days.

To Kill A Mockingbird (Chapters 7 and 8) (77-101)

Jem tells Scout that he found the pants mysteriously mended and hung neatly over the fence. When they come home from school that day, they find another present hidden in the knothole: a ball of gray twine. They leave it there for a few days, but no one takes it, so they claim it for their own. Boo continues to leave gifts in the little knothole as school begins again; Scout and Jem check it everyday on their way home.

For the first time in years, Maycomb endures a real winter. Since there is not enough snow to make a real snowman, they build a small figure out of dirt and cover it with snow. They make it look like Mr. Avery, an unpleasant man who lives down the street. The figure’s likeness to Mr. Avery is so strong that Atticus demands that they disguise it. Jem places Miss Maudie’s sunhat on its head and sticks her hedge clippers in its hands, much to her chagrin.

That night, Atticus wakes Scout and helps her put on her bathrobe and coat and goes outside with her and Jem. Miss Maudie’s house is on fire. The neighbors help her save her furniture, and the fire truck arrives in time to stop the fire from spreading to other houses, but Miss Maudie’s house burns to the ground. In the confusion, someone drapes a blanket over Scout. Jem realizes that Boo Radley put it on her, and he reveals the whole story of the knothole, the presents, and the mended pants to Atticus.

Response: I feel bad for Scout, you can tell that she on some level wanted to see Boo, it's kinda creepy but cool. The fire chapter is one of my favorites, my first being the last chapter of course. The first time I read this for school, I never really got any of this, it made sense but I kept wondering where Tom and the trial were. This part sooo important to the book that and I realize it more and more every time I read it.

Spellbound

For me, the two sets of parents that stood out the most were Neil's mom and dad and Ashley's mom. Neil's parents, especially his father, were very dedicated to studying with Neil. His father daevelped certain techniques including a step-by-step process on how to spell a word. They made the Bee seem like it was the most important thing ever and that Neil needed to study the hardest out of all the children.
Ashley's mom, on the other hand, was very "chill" throughout the whole process. She was kind of shocked that Ashley made it to the final round, but had an obvious love and happiness for her daughter's excellence. Unlike Neil's parents who wanted the first place for Neil and would settle for no less, Ashley and her mom were both just happy that she had gotten this far. The mom was very proud and showed her love instead of constantly harassing her child with words to spell.

To Kill A Mockingbird (Chapters 5 and 6) (54-76)

Jem and Dill grow closer, and Scout begins to feel left out of their friendship. She starts spending much of her time with one of their neighbors: Miss Maudie Atkinson, a widow who was a childhood friend of Atticus’s brother, Jack. She tells Scout that Boo Radley is still alive and it is her theory Boo is the victim of a harsh father, a “foot-washing” Baptist who believed that most people are going to hell. Miss Maudie adds that Boo was always polite and friendly as a child. She says that most of the rumors about him are false, but that if he wasn’t crazy as a boy, he probably is by now.

Meanwhile, Jem and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream with them. They try to stick the note in a window of the Radley Place with a fishing pole, but Atticus catches them and orders them to messing with either notes or the Boo Radley game.

Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb, when he and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and peek in through a loose shutter. Scout accompanies them, and they creep around the house, peering in through various windows. Suddenly, they see the shadow of a man with a hat on and flee, hearing a shotgun go off behind them. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard, but Jem’s pants get caught on the fence, and he has to kick them off in order to free himself.

Miss Maudie informs them that Mr. Nathan Radley shot at “a Negro” in his yard. Miss Stephanie adds that Mr. Radley is waiting outside with his gun so he can shoot at the next sound he hears. When Atticus asks Jem where his pants are, Dill interjects that he won Jem’s pants in a game of strip poker.

Respone: Hahaha ohhh Dill, this book is great. It tackles the innocense of childhood and also the humor in kids. I like that Scout begins to chill with Miss Maudie. I also love that Scout is kinda a tom-boy. She reminds me of me growing up, always hanging out with boys because they did more interesting things than combing a dolls head and what not. Scout's awesome.

To Kill A Mockingbird (Chapters 3 and 4) (28-54)

At lunch, Scout rubs Walter’s nose in the dirt for getting her in trouble, but Jem intervenes and invites Walter to lunch. At the Finch house, Walter and Atticus discuss farm conditions and Walter puts molasses all over his meat and vegetables. When Scout criticizes Walter, Calpurnia calls her into the kitchen to scold her and slaps her as she returns to the dining room, telling her to be a better hostess. Back at school a tiny bug crawls out of a boy’s hair. Burris Ewell, a member of the Ewell clan, which is even poorer and less respectable than the Cunningham clan. In fact, Burris only comes to school the first day of every school year, making a token appearance to avoid trouble with the law.

Summer comes at last, school ends, and Dill returns to Maycomb. He, Scout, and Jem begin their games again. One of the first things they do is roll one another inside an old tire. On Scout’s turn, she rolls in front of the Radley steps, and Jem and Scout panic. However, this incident gives Jem the idea for their next game: they will play “Boo Radley.” As the summer passes, their game becomes more complicated, until they are acting out an entire Radley family melodrama. Eventually, however, Atticus catches them and asks if their game has anything to do with the Radleys. Jem lies, and Atticus goes back into the house. The kids wonder if it’s safe to play their game anymore.

Response: Atticus is the man. Haha. He always has these inspirational messages, and that began in Chapter 3. I knida find it cool that the first four chapters only take a year. Everything is face-paced until the summer when the real stuff goes down.

3.1 Diction Exercise

A)
-clavicle-snapped
-gristle
-adrenaline
-aorta
-inexorable
-rifling
-insane puncture
-synaptic gap

B)
-elevation: dignified language, anatomical references, disturbing and eloquent diction
-sound: body-shattering, bone-cracking, biting, exploding

C)
The dignified, bone-cracking diction includes an abundance of anatomical references in Brian Turner's "Here, Bullet" which gives light to a disillusioned war possibly indicating traumatic familiarity with the trepidation of bloodshed.

My Future Career...Hopefully

Over spring break I am taking campus tours along the east coast, schools like Coastal Carolina, South Carolina Beaufort, and Auburn, all for golf. I'm checking out programs to see not only where people want me, but where I want to be. With this comes questions like what I want to study. I know what I want to do, and so do my parents, but lately it seems as if they want me to take a reality check and pick a safer field. It is so hard for me to describe out loud why I want to do what I want, I can't get it right when I talk to my parents, so I thought I'd blog about it instead...so here it goes...

I have changed what I want to do so much throughout my life. I wanted to be a chef, after I dropped that I wanted to be a surgeon, then an architect, or a lawyer. I kept changing what I wanted to do, but the past year I have realized why I kept changing what I wanted to do. I wanted a career that I saw on TV from a character I liked; I wanted to be a chef because of Monica from Friends, a surgeon from Grey's Anatomy, and so on and so forth. Once I realized that, I knew that I didn't want to be all of those things that I saw on TV. I wanted to be the person behind the show, inspiring people all around the world.

I have a few shows that stand out to me over others, I follow at least 30 shows, but three of them I pretty much am obsessed with. Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and of course Bones. I was always addicted to Friends, my family would all watch it together and we all know more than we should about the show. I fell in love with HIMYM and Bones in a different way. I was flipping through the stations late May on a Thursday and Bones was on. One scene was all it took for me to get off the couch and go to my computer and not leave until I had seen every single episode.

I am a little weird about TV, but it along with the golf course, is where I am most comfortable. All I want to do with my life is give someone that show that they become engrossed in. I want to give someone else that feeling that I get when it is Thursday and I can't focus at school because I am so pumped for Bones to come on. I want to inspire people with my writing, give someone a future, make them feel like I do about TV. That is ALL I want with my life.

I don't care how radical it is or the possibility of there is to have a show be successful, I will do everything it takes to get there. I stink at math, I'm terrible at science, besides sports, writing is all I have to build a future upon. I want to be that one in a million chance and mom and dad, if you give me a chance to pursue my dream, I will not let you down. I promise.

Five years from now, maybe sooner if I release the show I have already created and I get some help on it, I will have a show on the air.