Journey of a Flute Freak

Better than my ridiculously low expectations, and my inner fangirl was insanely happy, but this movie seriously needed a different director, rather than one who has no talent except for making huge explosions. Good God.

I do think the pacing was better and I liked the addition of more Autobots and Decepticons (even though 90% of them had no lines whatsoever), but there was still way too much focus on the humans. Come on, this is a Transformers movie! Not a "Those Humans Who Hang Out With Transformers" movie!

5/10 Because my inner fangirl was pleased, otherwise 4/10. We deserve better. :(

You Scored as Constructicons You are the Constructicons. ONe of em', take your pick. Got any oil? Wreck-Gar 75% Shockwave 71% Ratchet 67% Black Arachnia 63% Blurr 63% Bulkhead 58% Starscream 58% Lockdown 58% Prowl 54% Ultra Magnus 54% Blitzwing 54% Lugnut 50% Grimlock 50% Omega Supreme 50% Bumblebee 46% Soundwave 46% Optimus Prime 46% Wasp 42% Sentinel Prime 38% Megatron 29% Constructicons 25% Swindle 21% Jazz 21%

Also, if I didn't think Deadpool (see my icon) had a major hard-on for Cable, we would be married. Yes.

(And the quote is one of his from Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Heh. And to think I barely knew who this guy was a week ago.)

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101. [In-Progress] Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn
p. 242/263 {92%}

102. [Complete] The Circle of Blood, Alane Ferguson
p. 238/238 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 93/50 {186%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 30737/30000 {102%} COMPLETE
CHALLENGES COMPLETE - SUCCCESS

In other words... I rock!

Almost done with this, just in the nick of time! Woo!

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91. [Complete] Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
p. 247/247 {100%}

92. [Complete] Ninth Grade Slays, Heather Brewer
p. 278/278 {100%}

93. [In-Progress] Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
p. 226/287 {79%}

94. [Complete] City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
p. 541/541 {100%}

95. [In-Progress] Capt. Hook, J. V. Hart
p. 116/332 {35%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 29017/30000 {97%}

Sad day. :( And I did no school work! Woe. I'm going to hate myself this week, and all I want is sleep...

I still hate guard but at least it is almost over for EVER thank God...

And I really gotta get back on those books I haven't finished yet...

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86. [Complete] Extras, Scott Westerfeld
p. 417/417 {100%}

87. [Complete] Crazy Diamond, David Chotjewitz
p. 249/249 {100%}

88. [Complete] The Angel of Death, Alane Ferguson
p. 258/258 {100%}

89. [Complete] Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
p. 310/310 {100%}

90. [In-Progress] Wicked: Witch, Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
p. 61/361 {17%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 27609/30000 {92%}

I seriously need a break from life. Ugh. Too much stress, too much everything... I wish I could be like half of the other teens in the world and just have no life whatsoever. Or at least only band. Guard is killing me.

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81. [Complete] Ink Exchange, Melissa Marr
p. 325/325 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 25377/30000 {85%}

I don't understand why life has to suck so hard. Ugh. I'm busy all the freaking time and I hate it. What's the point of it all?

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76. [Complete] Gothic Lolita, Dakota Lane
p. 194/194 {100%}

77. [Complete] Annie on My Mind, Nancy Garden
p. 234/234 {100%}

78. [Complete] The Christopher Killer, Alane Ferguson
p. 274/274 {100%}

79. [Complete] Tallulah Falls, Christine Fletcher
p. 372/372 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 24762/30000 {83%}

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71. [Complete] Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
p. 179/179 {100%}

72. [Complete] Into the Land of the Unicorns, Bruce Coville
p. 159/159 {100%}

73. [Complete] Song of the Wanderer, Bruce Coville
p. 330/330 {100%}

74. [Complete] Dark Whispers, Bruce Coville
p. 464/464 {100%}

75. [Complete] I Love You Philip Morris, Steve McVicker
p. 246/246 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 23688/30000 {79%}

I'm counting Watchmen. If it can make it onto Time's "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century" list, it is welcome on mine. :D

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66. [Complete] Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
p. 416/416 {100%}

67. [Complete] The Tempest, William Shakespeare
p. 215/215 {100%}

68. [In-Progress] How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
p. 20/450 {04%}

69. [In-Progress] Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
p. 14/628 {02%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 21784/30000 {73%}

I also love Rorschach to smelly little pieces. I use that wording intentionally. Best comic ever. Epic, epic, epic. So I made myself an icon. Hurr.

I'll do the book list thing later.

...mostly because it gives me time to work on things! Ugh. T-T

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61. [Complete] The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
p. 361/361 {100%}

62. [Complete] The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
p.180/180 {100%}

63. [Complete] The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud
p. 462/462 {100%}

64. [Complete] I am Apache, Tanya Landman
p. 305/305 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 20645/30000 {69%}

But just books this time.

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61. [Complete] The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
p. 361/361 {100%}

62. [Complete] The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
p.180/180 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 19878/30000 {66%}

The good news: marching season is over! The bad news: winter guard has started! The good news: we have lots of new people! The bad news: I hate the show we're doing and I'm generally pissed about it! The good news: at least practices are on days I'm not too busy! The bad news: I'm too busy even for that and college apps are due soon, UCSD on the 30th! The good news: I don't need teacher recommendations for UCSD so I don't have to beg the counselors to write one in a week! The bad news: my grades are starting to suck! The good news: I read more books!

...how sad. *cries*

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56. [Complete] Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
p. 635/635 {100%}

57. [Complete] grl2grl, Julie Anne Peters
p. 151/151 {100%}

58. [Complete] Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
p. 663/663 {100%}

59. [Complete] Ironside, Holly Black
p. 323/323 {100%}

60. [Complete] Keeping You a Secret, Julie Anne Peters
p. 250/250 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 19337/30000 {64%}

One, I got an amazing Metroid wallet with Samus on it at Hot Topic yesterday. Two, I found an amazing Optimus Prime shirt at Sears that was on sale and bought it. Three, I'm going to be playing piccolo in band this year unless someone comes and tries to fuck me over! Woo!

In other news: books.

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56. [In-Progress] Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
p. 201/635 {32%}

57. [In-Progress] grl2grl, Julie Anne Peters
p. 58/151 {38%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 17444/30000 {58%}

Boo. D: I was hoping we would win since it's my senior year... Oh well. I'll get over it.

In the meantime, I finished The Poisonwood Bible except I wasn't supposed to. XD I couldn't help it! I got to a certain point where it stopped being boring and started being awesome and I couldn't stop myself! Even though I'm supposed to stay with the class... Silly school books! *shakes fist*

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51. [Complete] Mexican WhiteBoy, Matt de la Pena
p. 247/247 {100%}

52. [In-Progress] The Dream Merchant, Isabel Hoving
p. 46/630 {7%}

Totals:
Books read: 50/50 {100%} COMPLETE
Pages read: 15471/30000 {52%}

For Whom the Bell Tolls = AMAZING LIKE HOLY COW. I watched the movie and then finished the book, and wow. So awesome. Loved it to pieces. I also finished Brisingr which was, of course, not as good, but IIRC wasn't as annoying as the first two books. Maybe the last one will be almost decent?

( First fifty under cut... )

51. [In-Progress] Mexican WhiteBoy, Matt de la Pena
p. 126/247 {51%}

Totals:
Books read: 49/50 {98%}
Pages read: 14931/30000 {50%}

I've got UIL today, wish me luck! And I finally finished The Count of Monte Cristo! AMAZING BOOK.

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46. [Complete] My Swordhand is Singing, Marcus Sedgwick
p. 205/205 {100%}

47. [Complete] Shade's Children, Garth Nix
p. 310/310 {100%}

48. [Complete] So Hard to Say, Alex Sanchez
p. 230/230 {100%}

49. [In-Progress] Brisingr, Christopher Paolini
p. 126/748 {17%}

50. [In-Progress] The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
p. 54/543 {10%}

Totals:
Books read: 47/50 {94%}
Pages read: 13856/30000 {46%}

I finally gave in and got a Facebook. D: AT LEAST I TRIED TO RESIST. I seriously hate the layout of that place though, it's even worse than MySpace...

Aaaaaaanyway. I seriously need to get working on my college applications. And finish my national merit stuff. And my homework. And GAH Ike, this totally didn't work.

And I'm still upset about the Sonata Arctica/Nightwish concert getting canceled!

My house is still standing! :D My room got water in it through the ceiling though... Thanks, Ike. :| I hung out in San Antonio for a week, and got lots of reading done! And none of it was for school! Omg! :D I'm almost done with the 50 books, but I'm still way behind on pages... almost halfway there though!

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46. [Complete] My Swordhand is Singing, Marcus Sedgwick
p. 205/205 {100%}

47. [Complete] Shade's Children, Garth Nix
p. 310/310 {100%}

Totals:
Books read: 45/50 {90%}
Pages read: 13089/30000 {44%}

Busy, busy, busy. School starts tomorrow bleeeeeeeeeech. And I have to spend an entire day with a certain someone. She wouldn't be so bad if she didn't insist on using me to get whatever she wants all the time... At least I got a lot of reading done over the summer... I need to pick up the pace though! Only 10k pages out of 30k read! I need to check out longer books...

And Jay! Come to the CC vs CB game on September 26. It's our only home game we have around contest time, unless you want to drive to Dickinson or G-Ball. We don't play you until the end of the season and we don't march the whole show at that point. You must see the awesome in its wholeness!


36. [Complete] Valiant, Holly Black
    p. 314/314 {100%}

37. [Complete] The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Sucks, Heather Brewer
    p. 182/182 {100%}

38. [Complete] My Heartbeat, Garret Freymann-Weyr
    p. 154/154 {100%}

Totals:
    Books read: 37/50 {74%}
    Pages read: 10266/30000 {34%}