I Have Followers!

I have followers on my blog! Today I checked my dashboard and I have two followers on both Life Of A Cereal Killer and [enter creative blog title here] and one follower of The Coming Of Genius.

Sorry for being away for so long! I don't remember the last time I posted but it feels like a really long time to me. So, a quick update:

Well, school is fine. I don't like the Spanish teacher, which is weird for me because I'm usually the only kid who does.

Kaplan is so annoying. They give us pages and pages of homework not to mention I have to lug around their HUGE lesson book. Along with all the textbooks I'm bringing home and the notebooks for homework. *sigh* It'll all settle down after the test.

I started swimming again today. Wow. I didn't swim all last year and I am so out of shape. I was a light shade of purple when I got out of the pool. I almost collapsed, my legs were so tired. It was embarrassing. I'm sore all over.

So you see why I haven't been writing? Sorry for my rambling (again), but now that the update is done with more interesting things will come tomorrow. And I would like to welcome Fugi to my blog. He's my friend from school. That's it! See ya!

The Dark Knight

Over the summer I went to see The Dark Knight. I've been meaning to post about it, but I hadn't really thought about it. So, here goes.

Right off the back I have to say that Heath Ledger was amazing. There's rumor that he may be nominated for an Oscar and I really hope he is. The movie would be nowhere near as good without him. Christian Bale was good as Batman, but I hope you understand that it was hard to judge his acting when he was working along side Ledger. Everyone else seemed kind of bland, you know?
It was really sad what happened to Harvey Dent. Batman wanted to leave the city in his hands, he thought Harvey was a great guy. I was so sad that ___ ______ got to ___ before ______ could. Sorry, but I don't want to give anything away ;)

That was definitely a 5 star movie. Wait- do movies only go up to 4 stars? Even so, it was still a five star movie, lol :D I suggest you all see it because it's a great movie and it's easy to follow. Three Cheers for Heath Ledger!

"...we are all a bunch of animals who never paid attention in school!..."

School again. I saw Fugi, he's in my class. He got a really awesome haircut and he looks really good [all the purple grew out of his hair from last year, lol ;)]. Sarah and Casey (my two other friends) are in the other homeroom, but we- Fugi included- are all in the "red group" which means we have almost all our classes together. It's really great having all my friends in the same group as me, last year we were all split up :(

We also have a lot of new teachers which means we have to learn how to please them the hard way, but so far they all seem pretty nice. I actually really miss Ms. Lowenstein even though I really disliked her last year. She's really nice when she's not teaching and I think I'm gonna have lunch with her on Monday....

So Thursday was our first full day of school. I'm so excited to be back at our old lunch table we used to have a couple years ago. It's weird how I change so much over time but in the end it's your old friends who are the best. David and Julian sat with us and I realized I have more friends than I thought I did; we haven't sat together in so long I almost forgot about them! It's nice to finally find my place. It's good to be back.

After school I went to my test prep class for the SHSAT and I was so late. I got out of school late and then the bus was so slow. On top of that, I absent mindedly got of on the wrong stop (7 blocks away) and then in doing so I got all turned around and when I finally got there, I spent another five minutes trying to find the class. I was SO very late.

Today was nice. Another half day. It's nice being back on schedule, doing work, doodling, sitting and observing people. In science the other day Mrs. Ramos us who didn't like to work in groups and my hand shot up. When she called on me it was really hard to explain why so I just ended up saying "I don't like people." Everyone laughed, but it's true! That story was actually pointless but I just thought it was funny :D

So here's a little update and sorry for another long post:

Books I'm reading: Beachglass by Wendy Blackburn, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Music I've been listening to: Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's, Pretty. Odd. album by Panic At The Disco
Movies I've seen: The Dark Knight (review coming soon)
Things I'm looking forward to: Apple picking, fall, Halloween, homemade pies, Twilight the movie

"...I've got so much left to say..."

...if every simple [post] I wrote [for] you would take your breath away, I'd write it all...

Hi everybody! I know I haven't started school yet but I decided one more post wouldn't hurt! I had a great Labor Day weekend. On Saturday, Casey and I went to Southstreet Seaport and had dinner and shopped. I got another bamboo plant because the one I had for about 7 years died :( So anyway, we went to this seafood place and I had the best lobster ravioli ever! lol sorry but it was really good :P After we ate we stood in a circle with a bunch of people and watched this guy play the electric violin. He was amazing! It was so much fun to watch him perform because he had the perfect form of a violinist (I took violin in 5th grade) and the amazing energy of a rock artist. He looked like Frank Iero with a violin! If you can imagine that.... o.0

lol so then Sunday I went to church and- even though I only got to go for sacrament due to slipping into unconsiousness right after I turned off my alarm >.<- I had fun because I got to see Casey's family again since they just got back from Utah (Casey came home alone for our church's girl's camp). I forgot how much I missed her little brothers! They're so cute and they grew up so much, especially Jeremy! (sorry for sounding like a teary-eyed mother)

Alright, so today I got up at 7:30am in attempt to get back on a sleeping schedule (and in the wake of discovering the alarm option on my iPod). My mom and I went out for brunch and then we went to Barns and Noble. We just got back and I can't wait to get my hair cut! I'm deciding on a really short hair style.

Eeek! Tomorrow I start my Kaplan prep course for the SHSAT! Then Wednesday is my first day of school. I hope I like my new teacher. Unfortunately he's new to the school so I don't know anything about him :( Ah well. I can't wait to see Sarah and Fugi again. I miss them!

Sorry for my rambling. I know I probably bored you all to death if you've even gotten to this point. I'll post back tomorrow (most likely).

"The boys and girls in the clique, the awful names that they stick..."

I just want to inform you that I'm going back to school September 3rd so I won't be posting as much as I do in the Summer. Ugh. I am seriously dreading school (hence the title). I also have to take the Kaplan test prep course for the SHSAT in October. *shudder*

I also want to introduce my new blog, the coming of genius. I didn't tell you all right away because I had to be sure that I was actually going to use it. So enjoy and I will post when school starts again! Bye!

"...we are singing in the light of God..."

Hey what's up? I know you all care about me so much that you would die to know where I've been. You can't eat, you don't talk to your friends, you're distracted from your favorite activities and you lie awake at night wondering "When is Savy going to post on Blogger again? Has she forgotten all about us?" But fortunately, you don't have endure this much longer. Because here I am!

Well, if you have been lying awake wondering about me (if so I advice some real friends and a little therapy for you) I'll tell you that I've been in NY going to YPC vocal camp. Monday through Thursday all choristers from the Concert Chorus, Young Men and Cantare divisions of the YPC are told o attend "vocal camp" from 11am-4pm. So our schedule goes a little like this:

11:00am-11:20am- free time
11:30am-12:30pm- written music theory
12:30pm-1:30pm- dance
1:30pm-2:15pm- lunch
2:15pm-3:00pm- rehearsal
3:00pm-3:30pm- sight singing or voice lesson
3:30pm-4:00pm- tutti activity

Vocal camp has been really great this year. I'm really learning how to read music and sight sing which I find very helpful. Today we had a conducting class in place of music theory which was fun. Yesterday we had a voice lesson (which we're also having tomorrow) and I really learned a lot about breathing techniques. Don't laugh! Breathing is hard when you're breathing to sing; it's different than just consuming oxygen.

It was also really fun to see all my friends again, even though they're all moving up to Concert Chorus :(

7 days! Eeek! I go back to school in a WEEK. *shudders at the thought* And I don't even know my teacher! I know what room I'm in, but rumor has it that that teacher isn't working at the school anymore and apparently some James guy is taking his place. I hope I like him! I still have to write a response to the concerts I saw in Canada. Ugh. lol I am such a procrastinator!

See you all later!

Movie Update (like I think about anything else these days)

The Twilight saga has an official claim on my life. I finished the second book today (in 2 days! I'm getting quicker!) and it was amazing. I read through Stephenie Meyer's website and I love her so much! She's so funny and nice and I'm totally jealous of those who attended the prom for Eclipse! No fair! I decided to be Alice for Halloween next year. Why? Well, I was inspired by a great Alice look-alike at the prom. Unfortunately, I still have braces, but fortunately they'll be off by next years Halloween so I can use those clip on fangs :E

This year I was either thinking Gerard or Amy (Lee). But I am seriously getting ahead of myself! What I really came here to talk about was the Twilight movie. I watched the trailers and looked at the photo gallery and I have to say: all of the Cullens meet my expectations except Edward and Jasper. Alice, Emmet and Bella look exactly as I pictured them, it's amazing. Unfortunately, Edward does not. Though it's mildly disappointing (grrr.....) I hope he's a good actor, because that would make up for it.

I'm so excited! I'm so excited about finally being excited about something! Okay, I am going to stop obsessing and I will post when I have something more exciting to say. See ya!