David Prouty and Big Y May 26, 2008

David Prouty. My Highschool. In this tiny town in the middle of nowhere… my graduating class is like.. 120something students.. Which is decently sized I guess actually.. Maybe.
Anyway

This post is to mention

That Tomorrow

Tuesday May 27, 2008

I, Kiinu No Baka

WILL BE DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!

AHAHAHAHA!!! YESSSS!!! LIFE IS GOOOOOOOOD! XD

I can’t wait. I have my accoutning final tomorrow and I’m exempt from my Marketing Ed. final (All Ihad left were business classes) So I’m DONE and OUT tomorrow! Dance with me! I NEVER have to go back there again! Except for Class Day where I’ll get my yearbook… but still! That’ll take like… a half hour at most :)

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As For Big Y. That is my place of employment. I workj at the Deli.. I play with a big slicer and they gave me my own box cutter, and it’s GREEN!

Honeslty I thought I was going to haaate my job.. I thought I was going to despise going there all the time. Then again… prior to turning 18 I’d onmly be able to for front end or something. I am SO not good with small talk, or strangers. I am so shy it’s almost a physical need to run away sometimes.

But the deli is okay.. I’m behind a very large counter and people usually go there first (cause it’s right next to the entrance) so they’re still all joyful and such. Not stressed yet. The moms get all happy with you when you offer their kids cheese and talk to them while you’;re doing stuff, and I can do that. I’m WAY better at talking to kids. Mostly because they like to talk about EVERYTHING. so it’s easy.

And the people I work with are funny. My manager sings while he works and the assistant manager is actually kinda scarey and REALLY anal-retentive. But, most of the time I’m comming in at the end of both of their shifts so I don’t see them too much. I think they want me warking on closing shifts, which is totally fine with me. There aren’t a billion customers and I can just clean up the windows, wrap up stuff and talk to the two other ladies who work closing. They’re deffinatly more laid-back and the night manager of the store is much more laid back too.. she hangs around and talks to the other two deli ladies.

But some of the customers are funny. I had this older guy come in and ask for a sample taste of like six different salads. then he bought the one he didn’t taste. I mean it must have been one he always buys or something. But it was still funny.

And this one woman who asked for a piece of cheese even though she hald like three kida with her. I thought maybe only one of them could eat cheese so I gave her the one slice, and she started folding it to plit it between two of them. so I gave her a second one and her daughter got all happy and bounced about eating it and asking questions. It was very amusing and really cute. :)

Anywhooo! I’m done rambling like a loon.. Bye for now!

Spring has Sprung April 20, 2008

Well.. Schools not even out yet…

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It hasn’t been above 70 for more then three days in a row..

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It was amazingly beautiful out yesterday..

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My shoulders are already sunburnt.

Laugh, you know you want to. XD
I was outside for 20 minutes under sunlight and TaDa!

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I’m the amazing burning girl ^.^

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I’m really not complainging. I just think it’s hilariously ironic.

Like people who have tans in te dead of winter. XD

Anime Boston Recap April 14, 2008

Well.. I had Grand plans for a page and pictures and gos know swhat else..

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But I am far FAR too lazy.

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So Thursday.. Went to school.. Freaked out the entire day XD Got NO work done. Walked to Kate 2.0’s house after school to et her stuff all together. Bobbert picked us up from there at 3. Picked up Natty and went back to his house to wait for my Mom and all the other girls going.

She got there late and we nearly misssed the train. BUT! We met a whole bunch of people going to AB too! Yay train friends!!

We walked from South Station to a mall.. across a skybridge to another mall down the stairs to the Hynes. Woohoo! There was already a line for Pre Reg Pickup. Sam and I waited in it. I picked up the badges for everyone and she grabbed her’s. We hung out with train friends for awhile and then met mom and Co. at the food court for food… yummy food. And headed back to the hotel room for poolage. Whee pool!

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Friday was a barrel of fun too! first day of the con! Whooo!!! I puttered about talking to random people and keeping my friends stuck in line nourished.. XD They were in line for a looong time. ^.^

Kate 2.0 and I walked over to This shop on Newbury St. called Johnny Cupcakes. she bought a shirt and we headed back to our hotel room to drop off the stuff we’d gathered along the day. Swin for awhile and shower.

Took an hour to get ready for the Dance/Rave. Waited in line for an hour. turns out we were actually in line for a small JRock concert that was right before the dance. But that was good. The band was ridiculously cute.. Though I think the only things they could actually say in English were Herro Boston! and Do You Like (insert random halfword)?!

Needless to say.. we raved the night away! Techno music and bad dancing and smelly otakus! It was great!

We spent all night with some crazies in out Lobby.. it was fun

saturday went almost the same way cept I kept falling asleep places.. I went swimming again too XD

Sunday was lazzzyyy… wandered the dealers room and artists alley before going home..

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~Okay so I was even too lazy to go into detail… but it deserved a mention at least.. ^.^

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I had fun and made many friends ^^

A Design and a Gift March 17, 2008

Well.. Amognst all the crazy things I want to do before I’m old enough to have a mid-life crisis about not having done them. I want to make my own line of semi-formal dress designs.

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I know… not something you expect from someone who dresses like a bum all the time. :)

I think i have a certain flair for it… But even if I’m never famous or anything I wanna make a few and sell them at flea markets or something. It’d be a cool thing to do I think :) Mebbe an internet shop someday. When I take the time to learn to make patterns myself XD

Whaddya think of my latest adventure into Dress designing?

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As for the gift.. My mom asked me to make a simple sketchy for one of her friends who just started her own massage therapy buisness called a Touch of Time. She wanted me to color it with the companies colors. But. She wanted the sketch for tomorrow and she told me about it… a few hours ago…

And the sketch idea that came up just doesn’t match a red and gold coloring. I didn’t realize those were the colors until AFTER I drew it because mom couldn’t find the business card. XD

So it’s just a simple sketch. But she’s gonna frame it and make it look all lovely I guess before she gives her friend it as a gift.
A Touch Of Time

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~Four Days Left on my countdown! I’m headed out Thursday evening at 4 to the train station in Worcester! w00t! I’ll take LOOOOTTTS of pictures. And probably make the con it’s own page so nobody has to look at it everytime they’re here. or at all if they’re not interested. XD

FOUR DAYS!

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~I will miss Scabbers while I’m gone though. XD

A Warm Fuzzy Feeling March 16, 2008

I feel so very normal right now.

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It’s amazing! I’m not being sarcastic either. XD

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you see… I’m 18.. I’m thinking about colleges… I have a liscense… I’m ridiculously giddy about an upcomming event.. I’m going to my Senior Dinner Dance.. I even have a date to it. I’m socializing quite well with people I’m just meeting. I’ve actually made new friends without the help of anybody else in one of my classes. I’m not failing anything. I even have a boyfriend to complete the totally normal picture.

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Though the thing that tops it all off, this normal thing.

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My mom doesn’t like my boyfriend. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Is it bad that I find this to be a comforting thought? Maybe not COMFORTING… but like.. a small little thread to keep me from being totally odd.. Because really. I’m pretty far from normal. even when I dress the part XD

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Though I like him for other reasons of course… that one is sticking out right now. Point of tension in recent days kind of thing.

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I’ll probably post an update or two before the Con. but from Thursday to Sunday next week. I’ll be off in the land of awesome!

OHMYGODLAUGHOUTLOUDBARBEQUEROFFLECOPTEREPICWIN! March 11, 2008

I am a dork and I am a nerd.

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My favorite thing in the whole world is comming up soon.

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Ten days. The countdown starts TONIGHT! TEN DAYS UNTIL HEAVEN AND HELL COMES TO TOWN!

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ANIME BOSTON 2008!

This my friends is the second biggest Gathering of Anime Fans on the East Coast. A bnch of insanely hyper, sugar loving, costume wearing 10-30year old people (and that one lady with the hats.)Come together for a weekend in Boston and take over the Hynes Convention center/Sheraton/Prudential Mall/ Comply place hotel/ alot of the surrounding area.

You will see many crazies wearing strange getups (yes strange even for Boston) And you’ll hear more people screaming and galavanting in the late late hours of the night. All the 24hour feeding places will remember why they’re open at 4am.

The conservative people who don’t know of this comming will feel confused. Though hopefully not threatened. For we are a friendly bunch and will answer any and all questions (no matter how rude) with a huge freaking smile because we are SO HAPPY to be together again for another weekend of constant sugarhighs shared by over 9,000 people. (not a lie… check the site)

There will be a ballroom full of amature (and not so amature) artists selling their wares. There will be a gigantor ballroomand a half filed with online shops come to life. There will be 24/3 showings of anime. There will be 24/3 game room time.

And there will be raves. Oh yes the raves. Two of the Sheratons Ballrooms filled to fire hazard capacitey with people jumping and screaming and dancing. Dj’s blaring mixes scattered with anime theme songs. And people selling glowsticks.

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Yes all of this insanity is an anime convention. A Convention full of people going crazy over cartoons. Damn straight. It’s the best weekend you’ll ever have. ^_^ I’ll be there in my weirdest clothes though probably looking the most normal

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~ And it’s in ten days man! Well… we’re headed to Boston in ten days. I’ll pick up everyones reg badges in ten days. and in 11… the party begins!!!! Get your cat ears and bring lots of pocky to ward off the fangirls!

WOOT!

Kiinu is an Experiment! August 29, 2007

Today was my first day of school. My senior year. w00t! I get a ride this year that isn’t the bus… yey!

MY homeroom was changed… which was weird… but I got moved to the library.. Because of the Digital Communicats class I took. As it turns out. That class is an experiment about intergrating online courses into highschools.

The point of the whole thing is to prove that we as students CAN learn off eachother witout a teacher leaning down our throats. That the web can be used to help us learn better. So over the course of this year 22 sudents will be enrolled in this course online without a teacher watching them.

We’re allowed to learn whatever we please, however we please. Just because it’s the first try. They’ve basically given us our own server with blogging capabilities and a forum. Our job is to learn how to best use our server. The best way to post blogs and the best way to post in the forums. How to post pictures there. And eventually, how to post up podcasts and videos onto it.

Our ‘assignments’ are to keep a blog and a personal word document journal about how we figured each thing out. even if we just learned it off of one of the other students who possted earlier in the day. we just copy their instructions and cite them with their username.

So we’re hopefully proving that students can learn off eachother without having to be in the same place at the same time with a teacher preaching to them and making them take notes. That we don’tNEED to be at school to learn. That the internet can be used for good. And that in a few years we can hopefully learregular courses on the site. But for now it’s just for our technology classes… and only a select few of them too.

But If I get an A or a B my name get’s put on one of those plaques on the wall that nobody ever reads… though it’ll still be cool to be on one. XD