avatar me

Thanks to this post from Swedish Bed, I have been thinking about how well my avatar represents me in real life. I’ll let you all be the judges of that!

New Year’s Resolutions… or something

This year, I resolve

• To eat more deliberately. Not to eat less (though I’d like that too; it’d be cheaper) or to eat healthfully, but to stop eating just because I feel the need to always have something to chew on.
• To exercise more. Not going to set numbers, because those goals will just be broken. I’d like to exercise more days per week than I spend *not* exercising, and that’s as far as I’m willing to go down to specifics.
• To sleep more deliberately. Right now, I sleep as much as I want on weekends, and (usually) not enough weekdays. I’d like to balance out the workload so that I get 8-9 hours of sleep per night regardless of whether it’s a weeknight or a weekend. No more sleeping the clock around on Saturdays and Sundays.
• To schedule out my homework so that it actually gets done as soon as possible. Not half-assed either: completely and thoroughly done.
• To talk to the male half of the species more often.
• To finish editing my movie by February.
• To win Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo this year, for real. Using TVtropes.com if I must. In fact, using them not as a last resort, but as a first one.
• To make contacts and start preparing for moving to SoCal.
• To save $4,000 and keep it saved until August, when it will be needed to pay for my apartment.

Ten Things

A list of ten things I would tell myself ten years ago, if I could:

1) Life is short. Even the young can die tomorrow. Always hug your family and friend when saying goodbye as if it will be the last time you see them. Some day you will be right.

2) Smile even when you don’t feel like it. Sulking may be fun for you, but it makes you insufferable to be around.

3) Stop procrastinating now! Never put off til tomorrow what you could get done today.

4) People will try to crush your dreams. Don’t let them. No matter how crazy your ideas are, don’t let anyone take them away from you. Sure they’re crazy; what dream isn’t?

5) Do your homework. I know right now you don’t need to, but it will be absolutely necessary in college.

6) Run. A lot. As much as possible. Exercise daily: the endorphines will make you happy, and the skinniness will help you fit into your jeans.

7) Just do it. You’re gonna end up doing it eventually, and it’s so much easier to just get it over with.

8 ) Always raise your hand when someone asks “can I have a volunteer?”

9) Take every opportunity to travel, whether it be to the grocery store or the moon.

10) Write a little bit (or a lot) every day. Don’t worry about how good it is; you’ll get better as you go. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s stupid. Don’t ever stop.

Avatar List (spoilers galore, people!)

It’s rapidly approaching 01:00 here, which means I’m so tired I can’t really think straight anymore. So I’m making this list about what I’m going to write about tomorrow.

In case you missed it in the heading:
SPOILERS BELOW!
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List of things to talk about later:

1. SG-1 Enemy Mine
2. genocide hurts, man
3. I feel it… literally
4. not breathing sucks (lol I’m very punny tonight)
5. worth it just for the sfx
6. white guilt? yeah I have that…6th grade, genocide
7. ummm, dragon rider? nobody else thought of that?
8. cheating on your betrothed is bad, mmkay?
9. reminded me of Fern Gully
10. mary said the music reminded her of Lion King>>>look into composer
11. credits were GREAT
12. CCH Pounder was in it?
13. colors were so vivid
14. Michelle Rodriquez ROCKS!
15. that guy from Bones also ROCKS although he played a very similar character…
16. story was predictable, but you already knew that
17. acting was all-around great
18. took a while to be able to differentiate between the Avatars, but by the end I knew them well
19. there is no number 19
20. not racist, as far as I could tell… just naïve
21. (added later) after the credits “no animals were harmed” seriously? So they used real animals for some?
22. #Bones: so now we know how Fischer got advanced screening tickets

testing…

Random poetry

Some more angry/angsty poetry below the cut:

Stuck, Unstuck-A Short Screenplay

Sorry about needing to click to see it.  This is the only way I could think of to actually get the proper margins and spacing.  Anyways, here it is: 

99 Things (a Meme)

Sooooo, this is a meme I stole from Gunfighter1 whose blog I found while I was procrastinating.  Needless to say, I thought I’d add it here.  Things I’ve done are crossed off.  Lol I like my original and follow-up list better.

Rejected, a short screenplay. By yours truly.

The first screenplay for my screenwriting class.  It sucks pretty badly, but I thought I’d share it anyways.  Feel free to read it/use it/fix it/do whatever with it!  Sorry that the formatting is way off, but I’m too lazy to fix it right now.

Wowzers I have a real procrastination problem!

That’s the first step, right?  Admitting you have a problem?  Well there you have it.  Admitted.