Writing Workshop!

Whoo-hoo! Yesterday I went to this awesome writers' workshop thing. It was such a great experience!

After I stopped at the schools store and bought strawberry Sour Punch Straws (I wanted one of those huge Laffy Taffy, but I didn't see any, so I didn't ask), it was nearly 7:30, so I went directly to the bench in front of the office to wait to leave for the workshop. I was kind of surprised to see some of the people there, namely Fetus. I chatted briefly with Shannon, and gave Fetus a horrible high-five. Finally, we boarded the bus.
I will do my best to spare you the boring details. I sat near the front, and Rachel sat next to me. Who doesn't love Rachel?! We talked for a few minutes... She writes poems, and I told her that I write stories of fiction. She mentioned Teen Ink, which I looked up when I got home (I did know what it was before!), and ordered the one free issue they give out. :D

Anyway, about the actual workshop.
The speaker was great. When he first came up, he said, "High-schoolers, this is great! Yesterday I had middle-schoolers. Check it out." He hid his mouth with his hand, as if we was whispering a secret into the mic. "Ass."
But seriously, he was GOOD! And so inspiring! During lunch (pizza and soda... yum yum) I wrote a really good passage in my story.

The speaker also talked about how writers tend to notice things people don't, and are very insightful, which will make us miserable. "Welcome to your life!" he declared. "You will never be happy!"
So I must be a born writer! I'm always noticing things, like in movies I'll see a familiar poster, but when I mention it to a friend, they're like, "Seriously? I wouldn't know. I don't notice things like that!"
(Plus, all these constant observations DO make me miserable! :D)

When we first arrived at the workship-thing, we had donuts! Oh-so good. ^__^ Mine was chocolate with chocolate frosting. I don't usually like cocoa much (ironic, seeing as my nickname is Coco!), but this was good! I sat in the back, by myself, and read Inkheart. Fetus came back and sat by me (apparently he was just going all around the room). Talked about Inkheart for a bit, he brought up an interesting point: it's just stupid to make a movie out of a book that is about how great books are!
Heheh. Fetus is awesome.
He was pretty much the only person who talked to me (I didn't mind, I don't like to talk to many people). I love how he easily becomes friends with people he hardly knows. I know that I don't just start shoving a girl I barely know, just ride the bus with! (Yeah, that happened. It was funny. ^^)

DANGITWHYDOIALWAYSPOSTSUCHGREATWALLSOFTEXT?!

To break is up, I will post a photo of my desk:

The slideshow is so you don't miss out on my lovely avatar while my Wall of Icons is MIA.
Hmm... I'm thinking of the bus ride home yesterday.
...My toothpaste exploded. =__=

Yes, I do keep toothpaste in my backpack. Or, rather, I did. The other day Heather told me that I am the most prepared girl she's ever met. She said that when Angel asked if anyone had lotion in their lockers, and I pulled a tube out of my backpack right there. (It ended up giving her a rash... Oops.)

So, anyway, I was looking through my backpack for... Something... I forgot what. But after I pulled out a few folders I noticed that there was... Something white and orange at the bottom of my bag... I was like, 'Oh, crap.' I had to shove all of my folders and books into a smaller pocket in the bag. That already had a broken zipper. But anyhow!

I asked Damien and/or Donald for a napkin... Damien offered paper (xD I have a ton of that!), but Donald did have a little package of tissue. When he gave me them, he said, "Yeah, my mom gave them to me, she was like, 'Here, Donald, in case you ever spill toothpaste in your backpack.'" (Erm... Maybe you had to be there. It was a lot funnier then, rather than reading it.) But that statement seemed to confuse Damien... XD A few minutes later he saw all of the toothpaste-covered crap in my seat and was like, "Wait, YOU spilled the toothpaste?!" He thought that when Donald made that comment about his mum, he was being serious. Freaking funny. XD

Oh, wow. My mum melted the remote!!! We have a little TV in the kitchen, and we usually keep the remote on top of a candle by the stove... Eh, well, my mother probably should have taken her absentmindedness into consideration when she lit that candle, because now the remote is horrible disfigured (but still works, by some miracle!).

Man, the spell check on Firefox SUCKS! Seriously. I spell 'miracle' as 'miricle' (because I can never get that word right!), and the options are things like Mirilla, aurical, but not miracle! Well, it's there now that I have spelled it correctly, but geez...

Whoa. I don't have an anime album on Photobucket! Sheesh, I need to change that!

Pandora.com is awesome. I used to listen to it a few years ago (when I was into Aly & AJ, Hilary Duff, that pop-crap xD)... But the other day I brought it back up. I missed you, Pandora Radio!

I'm gonna go watch When They Cry for the first time.

Oyasuminasai!

Listening to: It's Not My Time (3 Doors Down)
Reading: Inkheart
Watching: Parks and Recreation
Drinking: Green Kool-Aid! (I think it's lime)

I'm probably going to be on haitus for awhile, but I managed to get on now, so I'll post. :)
There really isn't much to talk about. We had an interesting discussion about love in English, I'm going to help with spring cleaning at church tomorrow, and I'm listening to Pandora Radio right now.

I slipped in the grass when I got off the bus. I was trying to run around the trees so I could pick some Daffodils, but... I slipped. >_> At least my skirt isn't grass stained!

Lunch was great yesterday. xD I stayed for both B and C lunch* (okay, half of B and all of C). I did miss the food Kaity brought from her foods class (Holleigh kept going on about how good it was... GAH), but Kenny gave me a chocolate bar, and I was able to spend lunch with my BFFs (bffs being Nudge and Angel... But they're not my only best friends!)! And Stacey... Oh, man, Stacey. She had a package of mini donuts, and near the end of lunch she just started rubbing it on Katy's arm affectionately... In a way that made it look SO wrong (kind of like the time she kept rubbing her leg on ours randomly under the table... O_o). When Katy asked what the HECK she was doing, Stacey replied, "I'm rubbing my 'nuts on you."
...Yeah, well, you can probably imagine the kind of conversation THAT started.

Oh, sorry about the mega-long post below. u///u
OMG! We have ice cream! I totally forgot!

Courtney

*At my school, we have three lunches: A, B, and C. Each are about ten minutes apart from each other, and what teacher you have third hour (which is the lunch hour) depends on what lunch you have. If you have A lunch, you go directly to the cafeteria, and when lunch is over you go to third hour. If you have B, you go to class, go to lunch, then go back to class (I have B right now). If you have C, you have to sit through an entire class hour THEN go to lunch.

It just never gets old. XD

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.

She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po.

She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

This book… Is amazing.

Two weeks ago my friend (Emily) lent it to me, said that it seemed like a book I would like. She was dead on!

I’m not going to go very far into what it’s about, exactly. You can read that right up there. (Points.) ^ See? Up there ^ But this is my review of the book.

My favourite part were the characters. Give me a book with basically no plot, but as long as the characters are interesting, I will keep it dear to me! (Like the movie, Keith. Awesome movie. Not really a plot, but Keith is fascinating!)

ARGH PEOPLE KEEP TALKING AND I CAN’T WRITE!

Heehooheehooheehoo… Give me a moment.

Okay. The characters.

Po is my favourite, by far. He’s cocky, playful, strong, and very lovable. (laugh) I don’t know why all these girls want their own Edward Cullen… I’ll be waiting for my Prince Po! xD

But the characters were so believable. Sometimes I have a hard time believing that they’re not real. (;_;) (I found myself relating with Katsa -the protagonist-… A lot!)

Other than the characters, the books itself was quite exciting. Seriously, I had trouble putting it down… And keeping it down! (I don’t think my Algebra teacher was very happy with me…_)

The end of the book was so sad. (sniff)

*cough* Erm… The funniest part of the book! Whenever I think about it, I can’t help but smile (I kept laughing and laughing when I first read it). It was when Po and Katsa were riding their horses (to somewhere) and Katsa screamed his name… I will say no more than that. You just have to read the book to get it, really. (It was so funny!)

I could feel the emotions that I’m sure the characters were feeling. The delight when Katsa fought Po. The horror when she figured out someone’s secret… And the dread and anxiety when Katsa figured that there was something wrong with a certain prince (near the end).

I finished Graceling last night, and I was so sad when it ended. See, this is why I hate reading! They always end. >_< But as endings go, that was a pretty darn good one. Very emotional. Many emotions.

I convinced Holleigh to read it, so yay. ^^ Now, you! Go forth! Read!

(Oh! I just read on Kristen Cashore’s blog that the prequel (Fire) will be coming out this October… But better than that, the third book, Bitterblue (taking place a few years after Graceling) will have appearances of my favourite characters… Katsa and Po! (silent happy-scream))

(Holy crap, I wrote a lot! My apologies!)

Concert

In answer to your questions, yes, I had a great time at the concert!

My mum took for-ev-er to get out of the house. And into the car. And, finally, out of the driveway. >_> I think if we stop at a gas station, it should at least be 7-11... They have good slushies. TT_TT
*cough*
When we got there, the lady at the entrance made me dump my mother's coffee (because, for some reason, I had been elected to carry it). She wasn't too happy about that. Then we found some seats, but they were way up in the nosebleeds (which, I found out, has nothing to do with hentai xD), but that made my mum dizzy (not to mention me), so she left us to find a lower seat (even though the good seats were all taken). After a few minutes, Kaity and I (did I mention that I went with Kaity?) went down to find lower seats, too (I don't like heights...), but we couldn't find any! We ended back up in the nosebleeds anyway, but somehow on the other side of the... Whatever that huge room is called (I'm at a loss for words right now).

Later, after Hawk Nelson, we went down to get Pepsi. When we were about to get in line, I heard "I love your shirt!" I was just like, "Eh? Wha- who?" So the guy called it out again, looking directly at me (and my GIR shirt of awesomeness). That made me happy (I replied with a "Thanks!" and a big Sora grin xD). He was kinda cute, with a faux-hawk. (Okay, okay, getting back to the subject!)

Umm... Not much happened after that. My mom called me and we met her in some better (lower!) seats. I did some jumping (umm... That's relevant because I'm not a jumper, a screamer (shuddup, you know what I mean!), or anything of that sort). Aaand that was about it.

I was going to talk about something else... But now my mother is yelling at us to go to bed, so I had better go. (sigh)

I was going to upload some pictures, but this computer hates me.