Random David Bowie Chalk Physics

Just some random thoughts because I am a random person. Plus, it will help you know me better.

I am horrible with earbuds. Seriously, I’ve broken more pairs of earbuds than most people have ever owned.

There are these plants called air plants that don’t need any care except for an occasional drop of water and a sunny place. I can’t care for plants, but I love plants, and these seem like the perfect solution for my dilemma.

Ban and Jerry’s is a really cool company. I’m doing a research project on them for German and they’re super socially and environmentally contentious.

I have so many photography ideas and I can’t wait until summer so that making my sister model doesn’t get in the way of her homework. I also really really really want to go to the foothills and just take a sleeping bag and hang out for a night on some boulder with my friends or somebody and take pictures of the night sky.

I don’t understand over-protective parents.

I am going to fail my physics AP.

Why do we have to take classes that we know we will never use the knowledge and that we don’t enjoy when we could be taking something else that we will use or enjoy?

I wish I were braver so that I could participate in activities that I am very interested in, even when I don’t know anybody/am pretty sure the people who do it don’t like me.

I have a huge crush on this girl and there’s no way it’ll ever work out.

I also went on a maybe date last weekend with a guy who’s in the play with me and it was fun.

I keep waking up in the middle of the night, and when I wake up on weekend nights I like to get up and wander the house for a bit (I haven’t gotten the courage to go outside yet because I’m afraid I’ll wake my parents when I open the door).

Nobody who I know in real life knows that I have a blog. I like that.

My family has a party lamp that is covered in beads and tinsel and ornaments. It was a Christmas decoration that has become a part of the landscape.

Baby ducks grow up so quickly.

If you call me fat, I will give you an overcooked watermelon.

I feel done with high school, but I still have over a year left.

I finally understand the whole David Bowie fandom. My friend insisted that we watch Labyrinth and he was gorgeous so I looked up his music and it’s perfect and I understand everything now.

I cringe so much when I remember anything that happened in the past, especially when it involves feelings/ allowing myself to recognize my feelings or tell others my feelings. How much am I going to cringe when rereading old posts in the future? I mean, I’ve already deleted a few.

Creating chalk art makes me happy. Except when people smudge it. That’s really mean. Don’t smudge chalk art.

I like bananas. 

Stresssss

Agggggg I am so stressed. There is way too much happening now. I'm taking the ACT Saturday (I hate the concepts of standardized tests) and then I have the SAT subject tests just 2 weeks after that and there are APs to prepare for and finals and essays and tests and since I'm so stressed I've just given up on all of it. Wow. That was a huge run on sentence. Plus, my AP teachers have not done as good of a job as my AP teacher last year, so I feel completely unprepared (I know it's also my fault because I haven't been doing as much as I could be). Anyway, that's why I haven't been blogging. But it's not like I actually do anything more productive, so while I'm procrastinating, I might as well be doing something cool like blogging, right? I always just do the bare minimum (or less) of homework for the next day and leave all of the rest of it for weekends, but then I get stressed because I can't do anything with my friends because I have too much homework.

 Also, I'm in a play! Which is totally fun! I have a super minor role which is good because it gives me more time to do homework and such, but I still have a speaking part so it's exciting! And I get to interact with people who I really want to be friends with, which comes at a perfect time because I am loosing most of the rest of my friendships. :/

I also learned yesterday that women do not have equal rights under the constitution as men. I am honestly shocked that people wouldn't support equal rights, regardless of sex. Even some women don't support it. The arguments against it are: no more single sex bathrooms or schools, the draft, and getting rid of traditional female roles in the home. Like, gah people are stupid. What do you guys think of this? Is this common in countries other than the US?

OK, thanks for reading my word spew.

I'm A City Girl

Well. DC was amazing. I learned that I LOVE the city. Like, everything. I also fell in love with public transportation. Like, we were able to get anywhere by the metro or a bus or walking easily. Where I live, that is not possible at all. We went sight seeing and toured a few colleges, which really helped cement the idea that I'm going to college in a year and a half. I can't wait. Like, I am so ready to go live alone.

This is going to sound a bit weird, but while we were in DC, I saw a woman hail a taxi for the first time. It was really cool to watch. Like, before this trip, I've seen about 20 taxis total and it was just kinda empowering to see somebody take advantage of a taxi and make it stop for her. I dunno. I told you it would sound weird.

Ok. Here are some pictures from our trip:
Sorry none of the photos are edited... I don't have any good editing software on my laptop.

ze metro

sooo many pillars

national cemetary

just some cool rocks

sister imitating a bear sloth thing

library of congress

we don't have squirrels where i live, ok?

the capitol was under reconstrutcion

our only family portrait

WHAT IS UH TITLE?

Hallo there. I is Luna, Emmas Cat. Shee calls me a fish, but I know I is a Cat.  Emma are on vacation, so I decides to bee a helpful Cat and writes this post fur her. Sorry my English are not guud, I is never formally trained, I just listen to the people talk. Do you have any idea how hard it are to types with no fingers? Jeez how are people do this? Anyway, Emma LEFT ME WHOOPS CAPSLOCK IS on… So Emma lefts me here with thee other Cat. Ew. Thee other Cat are very mean. Shee cames to live with us a few years after I lives here and shee think shee own the whole huse. Shee is mean and growls at mee even tho this are MY huse since I are here first. Lets see now… my hobbees: I likes to sleep and rolls in thee dirt and then sleep on Emmas bed and eat. My favorite food are Emmas breakfast ceral with melk. Why is there red lines on the screen? They is squiggly and under wurds. Huh. The computedr must bee broken. Okee, I haves done my gud deed fur the week. Now I cans ask Emma for extraz food when she is get home. If youse peoples like me I can mehbe take Emmas computedr when she are at schuul and wrote mure blogs fur you peeps. Do naht worrie I do naht eats peeps. They is too hard to catches. Cat out.

I'm Sorry! But Now I'm Back

I know, its been forever. Good thing I don’t have any readers anxiously waiting for my posts. I just haven’t felt inspired to write or do art or really do anything that I could share on my blog. I haven’t even been inspired to bake. It’s been a listless month. Even my grades are slipping. Now look at me, I’m using this post to complain to you. That’s why I didn’t write a post in the past few weeks. I knew it would be all sad and mopey. Ok, so a quick update on my life (I’m only sharing the happy parts).

I’m applying for a summer apprenticeship where I would be paid to help make a ceramic mosaic for a public building in my city. (I don’t know if I’ll get this, but I really want to)

Remember the scholastic art award I was talking about in this post? My chicken poster won a silver key nationally! That means I can maybe go to NYC for the awards ceremony (depending on if there’s enough tickets and how much it would cost). So I’m super excited for that.

I guess I have been creating a little bit. My friend and I have been anonymously making paper cranes and hanging them in a tree at school.The two of us have turned this speech by Neil Gaiman into our motto: make good art from bad things. I like making art that nobody knows was me.

We’re going to DC for spring break! My family hasn’t taken a vacation (excepting camping and family visits) for a reeeaaaally long time and I’ve never been anywhere further east than Texas. 

I’ll be volunteering at my library this summer. I haven’t volunteered there since I was 12 because I kept missing the deadlines, but I AM NOT missing the deadline this year.

I read this super awesome book of short stories yesterday that was very very open about lesbian, gay, and transsexual relationships (like that was the whole point of the book). So much feels from this book. Disclaimer: a few of the stories were very explicit. By the way, the book was called How Beautiful the Ordinary. 

I got bangs! It was kind of a compromise with myself to keep myself from shaving my head… But I really really like them. And I really really like that if I straighten them flat they start to cover my eyes. It makes me feel like I can actually hide from the world.

I went out to dinner the other night with my friends (?). I dunno if I’d still call them my friends… Anyway, it was amazing. It was the first time in a month or so that I really felt accepted by all of them and it was hilarious. There were lots of pepper antics. Like, involving pepper and water on the table and the pepper randomly appearing in piles. Yes, we're immature. 

Ok, that’s it. I’ll try to post more regularly. Look at the pretty art:

Science Funnies

First off, gaah have you guys played 1010!? It is taking away my life. People said it was addicting, and I installed it anyway. Guess who's paying? (Me).


Now, for the real blog part. My science teacher is hilarious. He's a short old man with a potbelly who has completely different political views from most of the students. But he is FUNNY. Since I am in a class with mostly seniors, and it is second semester and they are all just done, sometimes our class gets a little off track. Here are some things that he and other students have said:

"What would you call a giant electron riding a coulomb?"

Teacher: "Are you using your phone? Put it away."
Student: *looks down at phone he is typing on* *looks back at teacher* "No, I'm not using it"

"To see if you can find my pet spider that I haven't seen in a year. His name is spidey."

"Did you recycle your lemons?"



Sorry if those are mostly inside jokes, but I find them funny. Adios!

Pants Painting

This is just a really quick post to show you some pants that I made.

I started with old, holey pants and acrylic and fabric paints.

Then I painted! Here is my finished product:

When I wore them the next day, I only got two comments: "your pants are fabulous", and "can you make me some?" The second comment was probably sarcastic, but at least people noticed.

Have you altered any old clothing to make something new and exciting? I'd love ideas!