http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:fieryrain618&section=today deviantART RSS for by:fieryrain618 en-us Copyright 2010, deviantART.com Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:03:31 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/29116604/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/29116604/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:51:15 PST
...does anyone know someone who celebrates Kwanzaa?

When I tried to write out Hanukkah I spelled it wrong. The computer wanted to make it Unukalhai or Sihanouk. Weird. I didn't spell it THAT wrong.

Can I also just say that the term Happy Holidays is disgustingly cheerful?

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/27695146/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/27695146/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:29:57 PDT
So, to news.

1) I'm back in college and so far have been diagnosed with the flu and recovered.

2) I should be doing homework instead of updating this.

3) I went to a State Radio concert! They're awesome (and it was my first concert ever!).

4) Margaret's 18th birthday approaches! YAAAAY MARGARET!

Love and Hugs to all.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25342133/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25342133/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:03:03 PDT
Okay news first:
It looks like I might have to get a background check on myself

Good news:
I'm not on record in the federal system, which means I'm not wanted by National Security, FBI, CIA, etc. At least, not openly.

Great news:
MAT IS COMING TO TOWN ON WEDNESDAY! AHHHHH SOOO EXCITED!

Plus, Fetish, you need to come to my birthday party on Saturday.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25228631/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25228631/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:42:30 PDT
It's around 9:30 or so, and my plane comes in early. You all know how LAX is: terrible. Our plane has to stop at a gate outside of the main terminals, so we take a bus back. I'm helping this elderly Filipino lady navigate the passport check, baggage claim, and then customs. At customs, the guy at the counter sends me down row "B", the aisle where more thorough inspections are made.
I'm like, "Okay, whatever, I just flew in from a Communist-controlled country, I can deal with a few extra precautions, no problem." The guy looks through my bags thoroughly, has a spasm over my tampons (lol), and turns toward the computer.
After typing on it for a good long while, he asks, "So what was the purpose of your trip?" I, of course, respond that I was visiting my dad. A logical response, don't you agree? It was only the truth.
Then he asks, "Have you ever been arrested?"
I said, "No."
"No DUI?"
"I don't drink."
"Are you SURE you've never been arrested?"
"YES! I have NEVER been arrested. I think I would know if I had."
"Well, you have a criminal record."
"I...what?!"
He goes back to check the computer. And then re-checks it, and re-checks it. I'm standing there for like 20 minutes waiting for him to finish.
Then he asks me, one last time, if there are any occasions I can remember that I've been in trouble with the law. Of course I respond with an emphatic no. By that time I'm nearly crying, because I've been held at customs for 20 minutes so they could check for drugs because I have a non-existent criminal record.
The guy checked my name, birthdate, and parents' names. All matched up. He assured me there was no arrest warrant, but there IS a court case in which I'm involved.
Meanwhile, my brain continues saying, "Wait...WHAT?! Court case? Arrest? Ahhhhh!"

So if I get arrested or have to go to court in the next couple months, can you guys come visit me in jail? I would definitely appreciate it.

And to this date, the worst law I've broken has been not telling the cops about one case of child abuse. After that, it's illegal use of firecrackers. And after THAT, it's underage drinking, which I stopped. Okay, so I maybe once took a vicadin when I was in extreme pain. Sue me.

But seriously, someone want to tell me how I suddenly became a criminal?

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25082767/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/25082767/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:54:30 PDT
So Laos would have been fun if Dad wasn't working so much. And it would be better if he stopped trying to call my step-mom + me + him a "family". I've known my step-mom for a whopping total of a week. She could belong in my family someday, but not yet.

The air conditioning is too cold.

It's raining. Outside, it's too hot.

I either spend all day on the internet, or I spend all day watching bad movies and reading.

Margaret and Fetish: Can we do something when I get back on June 9th? Maybe not the same day, but soon after?

LAUREL! You need to get your butt down to Los Angeles, since you had finals when I was in San Francisco.

Oh, and I was browsing the personals ads on Craigslist just for kicks, when I realized how disgusting some of those people were.

Does anyone want to make a trip up to San Francisco this summer?

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/24966935/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/24966935/ Tue, 26 May 2009 18:17:12 PDT
Last night, Rent came on television. I was all excited and happy. I started watching. Guess what? Laos censors EVERYTHING.

They censored lesbian kissing. They censored Maureen's ass during La Vie Boheme. They censored SMOKING. Like no one smokes. Granted, it was probably weed, but I didn't know it was weed until they censored it.

So here's what they DIDN'T censor: gay kissing (guys, not girls!), heterosexual kissing. I see a gender bias here. I'm just sad I missed the part at the Catscratch Club, because I'm sure 50% of that would have been censored.

In the entire movie, I didn't notice a single word being censored. Even though most of the visuals were. Then again, I wasn't paying THAT much attention to the movie, but still. It seemed a tad odd.

Lol, and can I just say that Chinese soap operas are one of the most painful things to watch? The acting is purely ABYSMAL. And lol for terrible Chinese movies that have horrible acting. XD Makes you appreciate Hollywood. By a lot.

HAHAHAHA this particular soap opera has the worst makeup jobs ever...loool...gang fights lead to lipstick all over the face to represent wounds...and the guys wear lipstick and look so much like girls that the one girl actually looks more like a guy...I think it would be perfect if lazers shot out of the girl's eyes...hahahaha she's going to take on the entire rival gang...hahahaha okay I need to stop watching this. [giggle]

The Avatar movie looks bad, by the way. The costumes and sets look teh AWESOME, but the actors look terrible. Bleh.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/23721943/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/23721943/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:49:04 PDT
Yeah, that's sane.

Anyway, I was panic-studying for my midterm tomorrow when my brain suddenly melted into ridiculous poetry. I thought I might share just how far gone my brain is...

Then again, if you feel so inclined, skip it. It doesn't make any sense to me, and I'm the person who wrote it. How sad is that?

Anyway, here goes. There is no title.


Part of my brain weeps softly;
This encapsulated world is pulled taut
With moonbeams on water far too often
Without a ripple.

The ripples are necessary;
They give space like rubber bands
Stretching beyond the walls,
belying their size.

Rubber bands fail to stretch,
leaving me stuck with no room -
I cannot reach through the walls
Without a hand to pull me.

I wait, the hand comes forth;
Solidity no longer exists -
the walls pour forth from my brain
and leave me gasping.

Structures form again,
but the walls warp,
trapping me once more
within the rubber bands.

The rubber now changes color;
it gies me structure that is not structured -
the true nature is hidden beneath
the ever-shifting hues.

The ripples now move, softly -
With gentle changing colors
the moonbeams disappear
Into the ripples.


Can you tell I've gone insane? Waaah I miss Poly people.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/22964731/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/22964731/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:40:33 PST
Whoo I'm procrastinating on studying for a Chinese test, which I have in an hour-ish.

So I've been having fun with hair dye. I dyed my bangs (if you can call them bangs) green and maybe will change to pink or something when the dye wears off. It's a lot of fun...I don't know why I didn't do this earlier...oh wait, it might have something to do with me living at home.

Anyway. I'm off to go fail my Chinese test. Whooot!

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/22439140/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/22439140/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:35:25 PST
I'M IN CHICAGO. Life is good, especially since I'm not at home right now. I'm staying with Vanessa until Sunday. She's good - physics panicking, as usual, and Chinese homework is actually getting done on both ends (surprise surprise).

I hear ALA was a blast, and I'm SUPER BUMMED I couldn't come. Margaret, Laurel and I are kidnapping you after making you take finals early so we can go to FANIME in SAN JOSE.

So yeah. I'm sitting here in a dorm at UChicago messing around on the computer and watching it SNOW! It's like the first time I've ever watched it snow. It's AMAAAAZING! I caught snowflakes on my tongue!

I miss nerds. Like, a lot.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21930215/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21930215/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:04 PST
Does anyone besides me find it unfair that the vast majority of these are horror movies? I don't watch horror movies like...EVER. Maybe that's why it says I have a life. Because I don't.

And Fetish: I watched less than you, so .

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
() Neverending Story
() Blazing Saddles
() Airplane
Total: 5

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth (with David Bowie)
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
() Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 11

( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 12

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
( ) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 17

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Begining
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) Suddenly 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots
Total so far: 21

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
( ) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) KING KONG
Total so far: 22

(x) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 25

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 27

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
( ) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 30

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 36

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
( ) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
( ) My Boss's Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
( ) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 38

( ) Best Bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
( ) Forest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 39

(x) X-Men
( ) X-2
( ) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
(x) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 47

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
( ) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A... ]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21785659/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21785659/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:18:07 PST
** Make a post in your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

** If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

** Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal, so that others can join in and participate to spread the holiday joy!


STEP TWO

** Surf around your friend list to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

** If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

** You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

1. A GPS thingy for my car (I'm saving up for it, hopefully I'll have enough by Christmas)

2. Christmas Break - without Mat going all the way back to Boston

3. smoked salmon. lots of it.

4. to go to a good sushi place

5. I want my dad to come home for Christmas (and be able to come home for Christmas)

6. my mom to feel better about life

7. Annie's mom to get better

8. Grandma to feel better and not so sad about Fred

9. to see my high school friends again

10. Margaret to get her license so she can come visit me more often

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21024523/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/21024523/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:21:49 PDT
So everyone who reads this pretty much knows I have a boyfriend. He's shy, don't scare him off.

It was good to see Fetish and Margaret and people today! Huuuuugs! I miss you guys like all hell. (ALA IN JANUARY WILL BE AWESOME)

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20881347/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20881347/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:33:18 PDT
Good news: I HAVE A COMPUTER! And it works and surfs the internet and has working speakers! Okay, so I'm really overenthusiastic about that, but I still has a working computer! (Ignore the incorrect grammar) After a month of not having one, it's lovely to have a computer...now I can't get offline. XD I'm terrible.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20762321/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20762321/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:46:03 PDT
MARGARET LENT ME HARUHI! I'm sooo not getting any work done this week!

And it appears I'm going to ALA in January, which should be awesome (I GET TO MEET LAUREL! FINALLY!).

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20311594/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20311594/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:46:41 PDT
My compy seems to be holding up okay after the crash...[crosses fingers]

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20277675/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20277675/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:18:42 PDT
Other than that, college is rather awesome. Except I miss Poly people, though I'll probably be on campus tomorrow. W00t.

Lindsay came to visit me! And brought me pad thai. And generally showed Oxy people how completely insane I am. Thanks, Lindsay.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20117155/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20117155/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:08:10 PDT
I have a social roommate who swears she'll turn me social. Somehow I don't think that's going to happen.

Time to go pass out.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20001672/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/20001672/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:45:10 PDT
FREAK OUT TIME! SPAAAZ ATTACK!

Yeah. This is gonna be a lovely week.

I had a good time in Pennsylvania with the cousins, by the way. They're all nuts. It's sooo not cool that Kevin is 12 and taller than me. I need to get like a Mario hammer and pound his head until he's smaller or something.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/19509301/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/19509301/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:17:34 PDT
defenestration (n.): the act of throwing a thing or esp. a person out of a window

If someone in your group of friends organize for most of them to go to Hawaii together so that the majority of your close friends miss your 18th birthday, I think defenestration is a fitting punishment for the organizer, don't you?

[edit]

Oh wait...I forgot to mention that they didn't tell me. I found out by going on facebook and seeing someone's pictures.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18903055/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18903055/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:49:53 PDT
Technically, I don't turn 18 until...9:49 pm tomorrow. But I still have all the legal rights of an adult, which kind of terrifies me. I don't want to make big medical decisions or anything, though it will be nice to legally drive people around even if they're under the age of 20.

T_T I like being a child.

Though...you know...now I get to see all those things on devArt that have the restricted sign on them...

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18712007/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18712007/ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:16:55 PDT
stolen from

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle name)
Anne David

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
David John

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Powfra (okay, so first 3 letters of my first name, but Powfr is hard to pronounce)

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Periwinkle Hedgehog

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Marie Philadelphia

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Black Iced Tea

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Frer (lol...)

8. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Strawberry Chocolate Chip

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name)
Bell Mendocino (this actually isn't that bad...)

10. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy)
Jasmine Milky Way

11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
Lucky Sierra Bonita

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18305905/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/18305905/ Tue, 13 May 2008 13:54:49 PDT
Once upon a time, a girl stared at herself in a reflection pool. She stared at herself for so long, and wished so hard, that she turned into a dragon. Destroying villages and towns, she wreaked havoc on the countryside until she was chained up to guard a princess in a tall, tall tower. Then Shrek came along with Donkey, and while Shrek rescued the princess, the girl-dragon fell in love with Donkey. They had many little donkey-dragons and lived happily ever after. The end.

...and that's an example of how bored I am.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17949152/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17949152/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:59:50 PDT
Once you have been tagged, you have to write a journal with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. Don't forget to leave them a comment (you're it!) to read your blog for instructions. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.

1. My desk is so messy I can't even tell when stuff falls off it unless it falls on my chair.

2. I watch Bleach on a regular basis.

3. I just got out of a 4 hour rehearsal today after a 7 hour rehearsal yesterday.

4. I hate summer and love winter. Too bad I live in Southern California WHERE WE HAVE NO WINTER!

5. I can crack my toes.

6. I play badminton...when I'm not in tech.

7. I make origami lilies out of the removeable advertisements in the New York Times.

8. I enamel.

9. I collect postcards.

10. I love altoids, but only if they're wintergreen altoids.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17855411/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17855411/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:43:20 PDT
Econ project = death.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17756241/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17756241/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:11:42 PDT
Not long after that, musical.

Not long after that, graduate.

Not long after that, leave for college.

And then all hell breaks loose.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17529676/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/17529676/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:42:02 PDT I suppose I'll tell the bad news first.

Bad News:
1) Dad is moving to Laos in mid-April
2) Some of my friends have SERIOUS issues, and I'm trying to address them
3) I got rejected from Davis, which means I'll probably be rejected from Berkeley, too
4) I didn't get any financial aid from the Cal-Grant for colleges, which means everything that my college tuition will come from loans, savings, and whatever the college can give me in terms of financial aid. Which sucks.
5) My aunt is having health problems...again.
6) I might get fired

Good News:
1) I got into Occidental (1st choice), Kalamazoo (3rd choice), and Puget Sound
2) I actually got a job for the musical, unlike most other people who are playing badminton.

Well, that's basically it for now...Hugs and well-wishes to Margaret and hopes for good outcomes for everything.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16852799/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16852799/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:10 PST
So I met this kid William. Technically I've known him for a long time, but only now has he begun to talk to me, and he's amazing. He has issues at home, so I've kind of kidnapped him and he stays at my house after school sometimes now. He's a good kid, and I hope things turn out for the better for him, but for now, I think I might adopt him as a little brother. It would totally make me happy, and Joyce likes him a lot, too. Anyway, we'll see how things turn out, but duuuude...yay. And he has mad karaoke skills.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16793602/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16793602/ Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:20:18 PST
One of our spotlights = EPIC FAIL. You just DON'T mess around with the lightboard when you've never been trained on it. You DON'T.

Junior Dance coming up. Debate as to whether to ask someone or not.

I get to meet Sara tomorrow!

Valentine's Day is coming up. Just...let me hide on Valentine's Day? Please? I hate Singles Awareness Day...it just SUCKS...

We had another father of our class die. We've had three deaths of relatives of classmates in the last year, and it's getting to me. First Courtney, then the Penningtons' dad, then Bryan's dad. Amanda's mom already died in 8th grade. It's like...we've had enough, stop torturing us.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16666794/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16666794/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:30:08 PST
It's a rather odd coincidence, isn't it, that Margaret finds a girlfriend right around the same time that I discover I like someone...who likes someone else. It's just a depressing week for me. GAH! Hopefully it's not love or anything and everything will go away soon...but right now, it certainly feels like enough to break my heart. I guess it doesn't matter, since I have so many long-term issues I couldn't handle a relationship anyway.

So I'm production stage manager for our dance concert. Poly types, you must come, some of the dances are AMAZING. And some of the dances are okay. BUT THE AMAZING ONES ARE AMAZING. And they make me wish I could dance. Or rather, wish that I had taken dance classes because it would be obscenely fun. I like dancing a lot, I just never have time to do it...
But I do get the wonderful joy of being with Cocumelli for hours on end. [hides behind theatre seats] For once, I think I'm on her good side, mostly because I've spent 8 hours in rehearsal, willingly listening and patiently writing down everything she says...and trying to stay on top of it. DAMN HER AND HER CLAIM OF THE ENTIRE BLOODY STAGE. The techies are never going to get lights done. Ever.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16556793/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16556793/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:54:57 PST I've got 5 from fabricated (i.e. computerized, drawn, etc) and 5 from photography. These are in no particular order, since I couldn't possibly choose an absolute favorite.

Fabricated:
[link] Believe by Messa
[link] Dynasty Declining by feimo
[link] Halo, Master Chief by adonihs
[link] Seasonscape by alexiuss
[link] Avatar by arriku

Photography:
[link] Bringing the World Together by gilad
[link] Hard Rain by foureyes
[link] In This River by werol
[link] Of Determination by rhapsouldize
[link] Nature's Fireworks by davincipoppalag

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16521908/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16521908/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:03:59 PST And I have pictures of fire. Will come up soon.

Get well soon wishes to Margaret!

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16422795/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16422795/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:02:48 PST ). I failed at negotiating a truce between two hostile parties. I have finals. I'll be going to London with Marugareto-chan.

I'm tired of drama between classmates. End it before it kills my Forensics grade. End the drama or I will strangle both of you because this is essential for my grades. At least one college decision is resting on my grades from finals, if not three or four. You're as good as 18, both of you. Now act like it.

Yup, that's pretty much it.
Good luck to Marugareto-chan and earthbendingmage during finals this week. Chin up, dearies, and don't lose heart. It will be over soon.

I was typing in a title for this journal and I discovered that my compy saved all the titles for e-mails and other stuff over the years. I used to be uber-obsessed with Neopets, and it's HYSTERICAL to see some of the titles that came from that...they make absolutely no sense.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16390376/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16390376/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:11:45 PST
I went to the SNOW this weekend. In California, snow is not a meteorological condition, it is a geographical location. Some of the guys went a bit crazy and I got pwned by snowballs. It ROCKED. And then we had the dress up dinner (I refused to dress up as a fairytale...I mean, REALLY...) and the No-Talent Night we always have. Ohhh....plenty of skits were awesome, but most of them were inside jokes, so I can't really repeat any of those, 'cause you guys wouldn't find them funny at all...but I was still entertained.
IT WAS BEAUTIFUL up there. I'm so bummed I forgot my camera, we had the PERFECT view outside the dining hall. And two feet of snow.

My first meme! Tagged by: earthbendingmage
The rules of this tag are:
-The first 15 people to comment on this journal will be featured by me. I will pick 3 of their deviations. This gives me a great chance to look through people's galleries.
- In return, whoever I feature will have to do a similar journal once I feature them.
1. earthbendingmage (drawings)
[link] Winter
[link] Paradise Colored
[link] Need Some Sleep
2. tacklethebear (a.k.a. Marugareto-chan, enamels)
[link] Clock
[link] Tree with Blossoms
[link] Bird Tray
3. sminthian (photography)
[link] Glowing Needles
[link] Florida Everglades
[link] Wild Flowers
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]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16335963/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16335963/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:12:02 PST Cross your fingers, knock on wood, buy a shamrock. I want to get into this school.

February 17-19 will be the best weekend EVER. Joyce + Me + Marugareto-chan, WITH THE HOUSE ALL TO OURSELVES! Not just one, but TWO. PAAAARTAAAAY!

Egh, finals soon. Conscience is telling me to go be anti-social and study. Procrastinator is telling me that this is more fun and therefore screw the Forensics test, I'll wing it like I always do.
Conscience wins...mostly.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16321706/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16321706/ Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:06:49 PST
[WARNING: ANGRY RANT]

Mom seems to be laboring under the false assumption that I CAN attend my high school and have a life.
No, mother, I can't deal with your divorce and school.
No, mother, I can't deal with braces and school.
No, mother, I can't remember that doctor's appointment, I HAVE SCHOOL.
Does 4 hours of homework a night mean ANYTHING to her? Does the fact that almost EVERYONE at Poly is smarter than me mean ANYTHING? Do my C's from previous years not indicate that POLY IS HARD?! OH MY GOD HOW DO I GET THROUGH TO THIS PERSON?!
I already told her I've had to deal with a case where I thought my friend was being abused. Twice.
I already told her that I try to take care of my friends. Right now, she wants me to do well in school. So, in accordance with her wishes, I dropped almost everything in '07 that I could and focused on school. Now I'm dropping EVERYTHING outside of school. Period.
And then she gets angry at me for missing a doctor's appointment. F***, there's only so much one person can do.
You know what, Mom? Right now, screw you. I can't do everything you want me to do, I'm not super human, so either shut up and leave me to work or watch me be miserable. Take your pick.
Or, no, you know what? I'll choose. Shut up and leave me to work.

[END ANGRY RANT]

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16260204/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16260204/ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:51:06 PST
I my iShuffle. I can take it EVERYWHERE.

Marugareto-chan and Fetish, I miss you guys dearly. That'll be one reason I'll be happy to go back to school. ENAMELING FOR THE WIN!

Rain rain, stay all day, wash our nice big school away, that way we don't have to play, rain rain stay all day. [end ]

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16197859/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16197859/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:43:12 PST
Sorry for the rather lackluster goodwishing, but my new year has started out as already irritating. My first two conversations with Mom this new year consisted of her criticism of my driving and her criticism of my grades. My grades are B's and A's this semester, wtf is wrong with that? Oh, and just now, a mention that I'll be sharing my room with someone tomorrow night. Thanks a lot, Mom. What a great start to a new year.

This is going to both be an exciting and stressful year. Three college apps are due in 10 days, and when those are finally in, I get to wait and wait for those decisions to come in. Once they're in, I have to decide on a college, move there, and start classes and a new life. Stress stress stress. George Bush finally leaves office. Yay yay yay.

Just shoot me now. Please.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16173305/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16173305/ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:00:16 PST
The photos I just put up are all from the hike. They're slightly different than the ones I normally put up, but keep in mind that So Cal scenery is WAAAAAY different from anything I'd normally photograph.

Kudos to earthbendingmage for getting me a better photo editing program that was free. It helped with the small details of the photos that consistently annoy me that no one else notices.
More kudos to earthbendingmage for the ENTERTAINING YouTube video...

There's a chance I might just be able to print some of these photos. I doubt I'd be able to get any to people who don't live near me unless someone tells me they want it, in which case I'll put them up as prints for a postcard or whatever you'd like if I can.
Marugareto-chan, this means I might be able to get you the picture of the car lights or one of the waterscapes.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16131458/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16131458/ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:02:38 PST
I've got some photos from all the events but I doubt I'll put any of them up...I probably put up my quota for the Christmas season unless I decide to take pictures on the (forced) hike tomorrow with my mother and her college friend's family.

And can I just say that Marugareto-chan makes me happy? Bitch boots pwn all.

[edit]

Bleach 154 = WHAAAAA?! OMG AWESOME YET WHAAAAAAAT THE HELL. But I've found a new psychotic crazy man for my harem...though he's surprisingly like my classmate at school who I abhor...hum. There will be future debate as more information appears on this person.

[edit #2]

And as a wonderful Christmas gift, for those of you who can't access the Dattebayo website due to the immense traffic flow of angry Naruto and Bleach fans, they've stopped subbing the episodes because too many people upload them to YouTube and Veoh and Dailymotion and Stage6 and whatnot. >.>

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16083448/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16083448/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:55:48 PST
I'm debating whether or not to put up a poem about what happened on Thursday night...oh dude, I have yet to check messages on my phone since then. The only person on devArt who really knows what happened is Marugareto-chan, even though most of the lunch bunch knows by now...but it was really upsetting, and I don't know whether I should write something about it. It would be a REALLY SAD poem, though, and I don't know that people want to read something like that around Christmas time.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16046699/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/16046699/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:13:21 PST
But yeah, that's my life for the moment. Winter break RULES, by the way...I'm not thinking about ANYTHING, and I must admit, it's quite lovely. Margaret's only a few hours north of me with Laurel, but I'm not gonna be able to see her this time. Gosh darn it. I do have her Gunslinger Girl, though, so I've been watching that obsessively. It seems the series will end waaaaay too soon for my liking. I only have 4 episodes left.

I walked into a jewelry shop with Grandma today, and since she knows like everyone in town, she introduced me to the owner, and he up and decided to give me a bracelet from Istanbul to ward off the evil eye. It's pretty and kind of awesome...for those of you who know me, I'll show it to you when I get home.

I'm too lazy to keep updating this...

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15949621/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15949621/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:23:30 PST
A lot of those pictures also held memories I really cherish, or for some of them, that I'd rather forget. I found my great-grandmother's funeral program among the photos. She died in 1996. I still have the program from the memorial service from when my mom's best friend died, just to remind me, but old memories are still both good and bad. It's weird to look at my house in the Philippines and remember all the memories in there; some bad, some good...

Then there are the pictures of people I've forgotten or once knew but no longer remember. In some ways those are the saddest of all, because one day they had an effect on my life and now I don't remember who they were.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15921065/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15921065/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:54 PST
BUT DUDE I GOT INTO COLLEGE!

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15894325/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15894325/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:20:29 PST
DeviantART is totally having an influence on me, for better or for worse...I find myself drawing during class all the time. I'm TERRIBLE at drawing (thanks, Margaret, I can never use the word horrible ever again), but somehow I've managed to draw semi-passable feet...don't ask me why I'm drawing feet, I have no idea. Hands are giving me a hell of a lot of trouble, and it'll be a while until I can properly do those.

So teenage boys can be disturbing, but I think I landed myself among the most disturbing of them all: the combination of Macky, David, Derek, and Brandon. They're all awesome, and they're all disturbing as hell. Margaret, I think I'm more your brand of insanity. Speaking of insanity, I love Mr. Ballara...

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I love how deviantArt always distracts me from what I should be doing. Right now I should be writing my research paper due Monday so I'm not so screwed. But I'm more interested in doing this because I don't like working. And it's been a HELL of a week, so I'm just happy I can take some time to do this tonight to maintain my sanity.

Most of the people who look at my deviantArt go to my school, so I'm not going to go into the details of what happened, but GOD. Lunch was quiet in mourning for the first time I can remember...we've never been that quiet before, and I rarely see Vanessa or Joyce cry, but cry they did.

Hopefully these next few weeks will be better than this week was. (Wow, optimism. How unusual for me.)

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15786300/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15786300/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:00 PST
All the power in the world to you, Darius, and find your dream. You're an excellent photographer in the genre you choose.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15653738/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15653738/ Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:45:23 PST
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I discovered the emoticons list...and I'm way more entertained than I ever should be. Some of these emoticons are CRAAZY and totally represent what half of my friends do ALL THE TIME. Count on me using emoticons to excess now...


But seriously. Uploading more pictures = fun, but uploading more pictures = ARGH I CAN'T DO IT! wrong house. Still. I found one picture that will work magnificently once I crop it, but I totally can't yet.
I took some pictures of people, but they're more of my friends than anyone else. Some will work in black and white, but most of them are just sentimental for me. I really need to work on getting out more and taking pictures. Of course, I have to finish my college apps and two research papers first.


Aaaanyway. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! And if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, have a good break.

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15554239/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15554239/ Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:02:16 PST
I'm considering starting to add pictures of people. I'm not as good at getting people at exactly the right moment to make it look good, but I may as well begin to try. All of my pictures that I have up are nature shots, and while they're decent, they are all unmoving and kind of lifeless. So I'm going to try to take some action pictures. You'll know if it succeeds if some come up in the next six months or so...(yeah, I know, long time, but dude, I have ZERO time...)

Margaret: Just because I'm not willing to cosplay doesn't mean Sasuke can't be mine. So . (Hahaha...I'm gonna quit arguing this, since I have fallen in love with other badass anime characters XDD...Sasuke isn't the first.)

Two days of school until Thanksgiving break...

]]> ~fieryrain618 http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15525882/ http://fieryrain618.deviantart.com/journal/15525882/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:53:15 PST
THANKSGIVING BREAK NEXT WEEK! Totally looking forward to sleeping and uh...procrastinating. On deviantart. WHOOT!

I <3 finding friends and other Poly people on here. YAY Margaret, Galia, she-who-must-not-be-named (a.k.a. earthbendingmage), and Nikita.

Hopefully I'll get the chance to take some new pictures over Thanksgiving...I'm going on photography withdrawal. I should just get my camera and carry it with me everywhere, except I don't want it to get broken. Yes, I'm paranoid, but it's also my only happy camera...

I see all the pretty drawings on deviantart and want to learn to draw. Then I start practicing and realize I TOTALLY don't have the patience for it and that's why I started doing photography and enameling instead anyway.

Okay, I really should stop this enormously long post and go work on my essay...

[ahem...edit]

I kinda just realized how much of a Sasuke obsession I really have. Yes, my favorites are half full of Sasuke. That's really okay...riiiight?

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