To Do:
-UC Essays
-Calc HW/Rewrite due Friday @_____@
-Bio lab due Wed
-Gov ch 20 due Wed
-Read Hamlet by Wed
-Band recording soooooon

This is my favorite song of the moment.

Demi Lovato, you're so talented. Its hard to imagine that you're part of Disney.

So that boner post has been sitting at the top of my page for the last week? Ahaha, totally not intentional! x))) (Seriously; it wasn't.)

Anyways! Two songs you really should listen to! :D

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Owl City- Fireflies
(aargh embed doesn't work)

Well, I recommend anything by Owl City, really. One of the few musical artists who truly writes poetry within lyrics. Most of the time, its the melody and sound that catches me, but listening to Owl City, I really stop to listen and comprehend how he phrases things. Man, its artists like Epik High and Death Cab for Cutie and Hem and Owl City that really make me appreciate poetry. Most of the time, I don't really get what's so special about it, but there's just something about how he phrases it.

Also, he reminds me of The Rocket Summer! The Rocket Summer's music has the best piano hooks! And its so catchy that I feel so much more upbeat listening to it.

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Train- Hello, Soul Sister
(aaargh, yet again, embed doesn't work) 
I love the video concept. :) That, and note the ukulele! The song too is catchy. 

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Lots of not much and much of a lot has gone on all at the same time this past week. 8) Took my SAT subject tests (Eng. Lit, Math II, Biology M). English went well-ish; good, but not as much as it could have. Everyone was freaking over Math II because it was a lot of stuff that the upper math kids have forgotten, but actually, it went really well for me, because I DID remember all that stuff! 8D The only problem was time management, though. Knowing how to do all the problems isn't as effective when I can't FINISH all the problems. :( Bio... I had the molecular part down really well! But I didn't review for the general bio questions. Lots of Mendelian genetics, and I owned that stuff. A lot of basic general knowledge stuff, although I did forget where fertilization of the egg occurs within the human body. (It took me a while to remember if it was in the fallopian tube or uterus, and being female, shows quiteeee a bit of FAIL amirite?). But over all, decently well. And thus, I am done! With SATs! For.... ever! (Unless I decide to take my subject tests again in the next four days.)

Wednesday was a minimum day; I ended up ditching the entire day of school altogether though, and listened to Taylor Swift while catching up on Calculus. Hm, had an emotional breakdown in Latin the day before, but that's another story for another day entirely! But let's not talk about that now. Also had a not-sectional and stuff, which was all good. :)

I've decided to drop Senior Arts Seminar, too. 

Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine; aka Megaten Online. I... kinda am dropping Mabinogi. Sorry! DDD: I dunno; its interesting, but not interesting enough for me to devote time to it on a regular basis. Although, since I pretty much never log on, its not that surprising, though. xDD I'm kind of tired of the whole fantasy feel. Megaten looks so pretty, though!  The atmosphere of the game is so different- I''m interested. The client size is a whopping 1.3 gigs, though. Dx I have a strong feeling that the graphics will be a killer, though, so I bet I'll try it and it won't even work, or I'll decide I hate it anyways. Dxxx But its better to try, than sit around and wonder! Haha. Official game site is ovar here.

I want to be a cow for Halloween.

WHOO YEAH QUICK LIFE UPDATE OVER! now back to calculus. :(
 

To Do List:
- Gilgamesh Dialecticals, due Tom (30/30 quotes chosen; 0/30 actually typed up and completed)
- Calc assignment due tom (0% actually understood)
- AP Gov assignment due tom. After two years with my teacher, I've come to expect 2-3 hours per assignment. ):
- Latin translation. Because today being the day that she confronts us about our non-participatingness is just perfect.
- Bio quiz, in which I realize that I'm falling behind
- Finish rewriting the final section of the Totoro duet by tonight
- Figure out Frigate stuff for lunch's meeting oy vey
- Baaaand on top of everything else. Although really, I'm actually on top of things for once ! 8D Yeaaaah!


aaaah,life. @____@

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Oh yeah, the boner story:

So, we were doing parade marching and I was a section of one and thus, kinda drifting around waiting to see who needed a spot filled and so I was liek, "HAY BARITONES, DO YOU NEED ANY HOLES FILLED" and they were liek, "NO" and I couldn't really tell what was going on in the trumpet row and then I was liek, "HEY TROMBONES, HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU HAVE CAUSE I'M A PARTY OF ONE TODAY :(" and they were liek, "NO WAAAAI, WE HAVE NINE PEOPLE!!!" and we were liek "SWEET, TWO FULL ROWS!" and so their section leader was liek, "HAY GUYS, RISA NEEDS FOUR BONERS!" and I was liek, "lulz WOW, AT THE SAME TIME?!" and everyone else was liek, "lulz lulz lulz" and so this other guy was all, "I'LL BE ONE OF YOUR BONERS" and were were liek, "OKAY COOL HAY GUYS WE NEED THREE MOAR BONERS OVER HERE LULZ LULZ LULZ" and you can imagine how the rest of the story goes.

My Wacom isn't working. It no longer hovers- it's constantly stuck on "click".

D:

Looking at new tablets anyways. The Intuos4 Medium looks reaaaaaal nice, but I'm hesitant to shell out $315. Another option is the more dated Intuos3 for $230. Whereas the Intuos3 was released six years ago, the Intuos4 was released this March. I might as well just shell out the $85 for the most recent tablet so it will last longer. Hm.

Then there's always the lower level tablet, the Bamboo Fun. But looking online, it appears to be nearly $300 for a fourth of the sensitivity of the Intuos4...? Weird.

Of course, this is all assuming that I can't find a quick fix for my current one. Worst case scenario, I shell out $30 for a new stylus and that doesn't fix the problem.

I was looking at majors online (and watching Bones) when all of a sudden, it hit me: "Anthropology is the study of all aspects of human beings. Anthropologists look at everything from people's culture, their language, their biology ,and their physical and archaeological remains. Anthropology is natural major for students interested in exploring both their own culture and other cultures. (source)". Its a study of life itself, of how humans developed over time, of cultures and traditions and human nature. And now that I think about it, isn't that what I've always been interested in this whole time? Its the study of people, in all aspects.

And anthropology isn't that far from the science field. (Look at Bones! 8D Haha. Using her biological know-how to analyze, well, bones, working for the Smithsonian as a scientist solving murder mysteries. And like I said, I can deal with the sciences/biology. If working with live people doesn't work out, I could take a look at forensic anthropology. Still related to people and bodies and stuff... only the people are kinda, uh, dead. But then I wouldn't even have to worry about them dying on me! Because they already have!!! lolol.) But seriously, I think this could work. Like in this article about an anthro-turned-med-school major. 

I dunno. I'm really digging it right now. There's still a bit more of research on it I want to do as well as talk with a few people (ie teachers/counselor), but I dunno. I think I'm gonna roll with it. :)