Entries tagged with christmas

...Hey, LJ! How about "Happy Birthday Popo-Licious" day? XD What a sad birthday this was... My family dropped me off at school this morning and had to leave quickly after due to circumstances beyond their control. I celebrated with my friends last weekend, and had a family party in the hotel last night with some apple pie and champagne and presents, but I really wish they didn't have to leave me today. But then again, I don't like it when they leave me at school anyway, so I guess I would most likely still be feeling pretty bummed-out whether it was my birthday or not. HOMESICK. D: But, thanks for the shout-out's Mike and Foxy. And Andy... your video message made my day. ♥

But to answer the question, I guess I'm most like Owl and Pooh. Owl, because I like to provide advice and opinions, whether or not they're asked for, and enjoy drinking mass quantities of tea. Plus, I think he's cool looking in the original picture books. And Pooh... because I love honey. XD ♥ Sometimes I'll take the bottle of honey off my shelf and suck on it like candy, or squeeze some on a spoon and try freeze it or make it into a lollipop. A'yup. XD

Sorry for being MIA over the last month, guys. I hope none of you thought I actually did chuck myself into the Duckpond. XD If you didn't catch the entry I'm talking about... don't worry. XD

Love,

Popo

PS Among the other interesting presents I received for Christmas and my birthday this holiday season, my sister gave me this really cool Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney Tote Bag that I've had my eye on. Yay! It's perfect for carrying books. :)

Wow... I just realized something pretty much kinda-but-not-really horrible: my LJ account expires in 19 days. ;__; Nooo! XD I'll be back with the commoners and their six LJ icons and mediocre layout designs! How you've spoiled me so,

aryador! It's like riding first-class and getting bumped to coach on the return trip! Bah, I'll deal, I guess. This is mostly just a plea for some kind soul to renew my account, but I won't bet on other people's hospitality. ;D Still, just throwing the thought out there in the open... in all its nakedness... What a bad way to open an entry. XD

Anyways, things have been going pretty well for me lately. I've got a few worrisome events on the horizon ((i.e.: Calculus test; brilliant/amazing/awesome substitute English teacher leaving to make way for real teacher, who will be postpartum and angry seeing as she's ending her maternity leave...)) but other than that, I'm happy with my lot in life. Christmas is around the corner and I made little goodie-bags for all my friends; they're adorable! ((The bags and the friends!)) Each one is similar but different. They each contain something delicious, toasty and gourmet, something yummy, and some sort of... toy. XD That's all I can say! The only hamartia is that there's this one specific person who I for some reason feel obligated to get something for, but didn't. Maybe I shouldn't feel obligated; we borderline the notion of friendship and even though I've gotten her something the last two years, she never get's me anything is return. ((In fact, last year, she kinda took my gift half-heartedly and ran! No thank you or anything!)) I guess I shouldn't feel too bad, it's just that the whole gang exchanges gifts in class together and since we all sit at the same table, she'll notice for sure if I don't get her something. I guess it's not even about the "getting" when you break it down on my end; it's just that she's so ungrateful about everything. Bah... I'll risk it. XD I'm sure she'll be understanding, or hopefully, like last year, apathetic!

A few nights ago I experienced my first truly executive action as a Robotics captain; my fellow leaders and I cut three members from the team. Wow... Never saw that coming! We had an event at the University of Virginia last Saturday and they made us wait forty-five minutes in the cold at 5AM outside the high school for carpooling down to the university. And you know what? They still didn't show up! We called all three of them, multiple times, and they told us some variant of "drop-dead" before hanging up the phone and going back to sleep. One of the members said he was just on his way out, despite being thirty minutes late, and even though we waited for him, he never showed up. Later, he tried to defend himself with "I couldn't get a ride!" Umm... Then what's with telling us you were going to meet us there? Honestly... those damn freshman. XD So, yes... That's the end of the line for them. It felt pretty good to send them back to the big division, seeing as they're now someone else's problem. XD We also had talking-to's with other members, notably those with commitments issues, and in just minutes there was a huge upsurge of productivity and work ethics. As they say-- it's good to be the king. Or Queen. XD

Speaking of which, I was faced with a mini-moral dilemma the other day involving the other-fab-four. Basically, I got points taken off on a project for respecting Queen too much. XD I did a research project on Brian May, which turned out quite well considering he currently appears to have a PhD in bull-turd ((FYI Bri: Put your thesis online so we can all see what you actually contributed to science!)), and my teacher took points off the final grade because I refused to write an obituary segment for a man so full of life and love and happiness, and who, duh-- isn't dead yet. ((Really, the obituary would have killed the bright pink and yellow color scheme. XD)) Most of the astronomers we were allowed to cover ((I asked for Brian specially! XD )) are deceased, so there was an obituary portion we had to write as to constitute a biography. Well, I thought it would be bad karma and maybe even a little rude in some small way to reflect on the not-death of Brian, especially since he had that creepy-ass death-threat a few months ago, so I wrote a very comprehensive biography on him and wrote at the bottom "in place of obituary". I mean... wouldn't that be okay? The only real difference between a biography and an obituary is that one has a date of death and the other doesn't, right? She only gave me half the points on that section ((5/10)) and it made me a little mad. I would have argued the points with her if she didn't scare me so much. XD My grade in astronomy is way too good to jeopardize. Sorry, Bri. XD Anyways, I did the whole project in Photoshop so it took way too long and looked pretty spiffy at the end. I'm proud of it. Thank God the project wasn't on Roger! XD

...Can't you just see it now? *cackles*

So, the 7th marked my Three-Years-Of-Knowing-You-Through-The-Computer anniversary with Eli in England. Yay! I still can't believe it's been three years; it feels like soooo much longer! I remember one night a long time ago I missed the Super Bowl with Paul McCartney because I was talking to him about outer space. Pretty... cool? Lame? Trippy? XD I dunno. That memory just tends to stick out in my mind, for some reason. The conversation delved into a beautifully-platonic-but-sort-of-not, "I can see the moon, and it's nice to know that you're out there, somewhere in the world, looking up at the same moon..." sort of thing. Ah, the old days. XD I think I saved that message... I'll have to dig it up.

Which is a good segue into my next semi-pointless topic. FESS moved... again. Our domain was cyber-squatted and we all had to stare at this little peach for the next two weeks. Shifting locations with FESS is a little bit like graduating; the more you move onwards and up, the better things get, but you sacrifice tons of good ((and bad)) memories and compromise some of your comforts. Right now I'm having trouble adjusting to the new skin, as well as the commands ((member and mod)) but I'm sure I'll adjust to things soon. FESS 5... wow. XD

Okay... I think that's everything I have to say for now. Sorry this was so long, for anyone out there who finished this! I was in a writing mood~!

Love,

Popo

PS: Dirty Harry? Clint Eastwood? Is it worth watching? Do I feel lucky? Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya' punk? XD

Writer's Block: Honey Bear

Christmas Magic

Looking At The Same Moon