We got this, yo.
I would like to announce to the world in general that I, Anna Estelle Goodling, am now officially a Creative Writing major. Oh. Yea. That’s right. What now. \m/
I’m planning to declare my Dance minor tomorrow, when I actually have a consecutive amount of free time that’s longer than ten minutes and is also during the hours that the Dance office is opened (seriously, why do they close at 3:00? Are we dancers really that opposed to the idea of a nine-to-five shift? Every OTHER department office doesn’t close that early. -_-)
Registration is coming up in the first week or two of November. Don’t remember when, exactly, only it’s far too soon for my liking. I’m graduating a semester early, so my tentative schedule for the remaining semesters of my college experience are jam-packed and totally not flexible. Again, partially the fault of the dance department (certain necessary classes only offered Fall semester, every other year, and other needlessly complicating things like that. I guess if you can’t fight ’em, join ’em. Gosh I love dance.)
Also I am hoping to stay for May Term this year. Meaning I’d finish with school at the end of May, rather than the end of April. Super not happy about having to stay a month longer, but at the same time…it should be fun. =) Maybe. And it would make it ever so much easier (I think?) to graduate early. (Taethiel, this means you have to come visit me sometime after May. AND stay for a month. or three. Please? <3)
Also, I jumped ship (campus?) for the weekend and hitched a ride with my Roomie to Hillsdale to visit with my sister and the rest of the Fam this past weekend. Just got back last night. I totally missed Sacred Dance and my first Nutcracker rehearsal, and don’t feel bad about it at all. Hah. Mother Dearest brought me lots of epic food and a Ricey (don’t ask), Sister Dearest made me dance with cute guys (seriously though Em, that WAS totally awkward. *grins* but epic nonetheless), Father Dearest was all sappy and funny and epic and bought me more food (food is a major theme in my life…itz good), and Brother Dearest wore his Red Sox shirt three days in a row and composed sketchy poems with magnetic words on the side of a drink machine thing…
that part was weird.
Also I got to braid Katie’s hair and it was def a highlight. There are people here whose hair I can (and do) braid, but…they just aren’t as appreciative as Katie. They all can braid too, at least to some degree, and they all know their hair is awesome and don’t hesitate to say so, so they aren’t all impressed or appreciative or anything. But Katie has absolutely no idea how amazing her hair really is, and doesn’t really know how to do much with it I don’t think, so she’s always like *mind, blown*. It’s hilarious and awesome. I did a dutch (inside-out french) five-strand braid for her on Saturday (it was totally epic if I do say so myself) and a lace four-strand braid wrapping around from one side of her face across the back and down the other side on Sunday (her hair is so thick you can do stuff like that and it still look amazing). And she looked at them backwards in the mirror and was like…whaaaaaaaaa. O_O And it made me feel so epic. XD And it was fun. And awesome. And I rally like Katie and EMILY you need to get her to visit us again, ok? Ok. Good. And Katie’s hair is the thickest, most beautiful I’ve ever seen, anyway…Agh. I bet it weighs like fifteen pounds. 0_0 Ok maybe not quite that much. But it would if it was a little longer. 0_0
And I’ll stop raving about hair now and go do my homework so I can have some time (maybe) to do some NaNo-planning tonight…I need to name my characters. For loving names as much as I do, I certainly have a rough time with this part of the writing process. If anyone has any random suggestions, please feel free to drop them below in the comments. I’ll going to be writing semi-fictional memoir, so no whacked-out fantasy names. Any more normal sounding ideas, though, are welcome. Inspire me, my muses!
k that was weird i’m sorry.
Between Horizons 
Wal… Julie helped me name the characters for the modern novel. =P The names for me sci-fi one are typos, like Lioh and Sec and Ead. *grins* Just put whatever sounds good.
You. must. visit. O.0 as in, you don’t get an option. If you don’t, I’ll sic Cath on you. *bawls* why on earth was I such a scaredy cat on the forums?? Think of all the fun we could have had, killing people…
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Lol. Typos make for great names, sometimes. XD Just not for real-life names. =P
I still don’t know where you live. How do you expect me to visit? I’m not gonna wander the earth asking people if they know a Marie who rides around on scorpions with wet-noodle-whips and stuff…that’d just be weird. and also, I didn’t do much on the forums my last couple years. I stalked them a lot, but didn’t post much at all. XD …I do miss them ever so much though…*sadface* and I miss doing RPGs. -_- Those were fun. If only I was brave enough to barge in on a meeting of the Geek Club here, I could probably join a real-life one. However, I’m not nearly geek enough to do that o_O I dun do video games or computer games or nerf or harry potter or pokemon or Sherlock or any of the other geekish things they does…I just does Doctor Who and Tolkien. And my Tolkien-thing is of a much more scholarly kind than befits a geek club anyway…I not a fangirl. I a dedicated scholar. *sigh* alas, there are too few of us, too few!
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Ummmm. *considers* I spose I could mail it to you. Do you still use your gmail? Or not? :} You were on “WMMST” or whatever a lot. You didn’t blog much though… wise decision. I didn’t ever do the RPGs. =P Except for the Lotr vs SW one, and we had to shut that one down. 0=) That was totally Shift’s fault, he wouldn’t give up and submit to my elves and hobbits. And then he said he could use the force, and I couldn’t use the music of whatever-you-call-him.
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Uh. I live on my gmail. Are you kidding me? Forums gone = gmail the New Black Hole of My Life. Except that nothing ever happens there so I spend a lot of time refreshing my inbox and staring morosely at my empty chat list…*koff*
However, even did I have your address, I wouldn’t count on my visiting in the near future. *cough* I also don’t have a car, or money to pay for gas or a plane ticket, and am never anywhere in the country other than Michigan or New England, and I dun have a TARDIS to get me anywhere else…*sad*
K, true. I really only ever posted on WMMST and the Status Update one. Those required no intelligent thought and no debating skills…usually o_O
*grins because this conversation must look like gibberish to any non-TPSers reading my blog* …of which, actually, there are very very few…XD
and that would be the music of the Ainur. But I’m guessing you are referring to Iluvatar. Who is not of the Ainur.
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Heh. I’ll flood your inbox sometime then. In the near future. Well, a lot of random people happen through where I live. So… there is always a chance. x)
I beg to differ. I always ended up getting myself in a mess if I ever posted there. XD
Ya… I meant Illuvatar. Sheesh, Tolkien was good at complicated spelling. ^^
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Lol XD
No, see…you post once, and then…disappear! poof! and then if a mess happens you just sit back and watch, laughing silently to yourself all the while and leaving the mods to clean up the remains…*grins* I know nothing of this, of course. Just…theorizing…*shines halo*
*ahem* one ‘l’ m’dear. One ‘l’. Iluvatar.
…gosh I need to go to bed. I’m getting weird. I can just sense it.
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Why didn’t I think of that? =D I should have vanished a lot more often. But that one time I got sick and left for a few days, everyone had heart attacks. :} Oops. Well, I tried. *is finally discovering things*
Pahaha.
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Rofl. Yea. Well. You don’t disappear entirely from the forums as a whole…you just disappear from that thread. *grins* and I know how that goes. *cough* that’s what comes of living every second of your life online and then suddenly losing the internet…XD
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…Where in sanitation is that compose button???? *glares at Google* xP I’ll remember that next time I go on the forums. XD Exactly, that is why I went into that major withdrawal after forum retirement… every few seconds my brain would be like, “forums! Forums! Forums! Oh look, you still have the forums on your favorite’s bar! Forums! You gotta check your profile! For-” etc.
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Yep. Me too. It was…sad. Like, really sad. Like, pathetic. XD
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It was really bad in church. At the crucial peaks in the middle of sermons, my brain would send me a funny conversation, and then I would be gagging into my purse. Didn’t exactly help that we always sit in the front pew.
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Ok stop. I can’t keep from laughing any longer. The whole dorm will think I’m nuts. …I seriously got like the best mental image of that scene ever…o_O and seeing how I’ve never actually like seen a picture of you (the back of your head dun count. -_-) it makes the mental picture even better…*dies* DOCTOR WHO MOMENT. Agh.
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Oops. Why does everyone say that I’m funny. o.O Okay, I promise I’ll send a picture as soon as it loads. XD
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…think about it. Girl sitting in front row of church. Gets funny thought. Lightbulb over her head. She suddenly begins “gagging into her purse.” Every head in the building turns. The pastor is like…um what…?
Enter the ambulance.
Then the padded armored car to take said girl away to the asylum…
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It was Zaby’s fault! She said she wanted to smack a smack of jellyfish, and I asked her if she meant smack as in kiss or as in whack. Then she said if she kissed a smack of jellyfish, she would have swollen lips for a month. >.< It was just too much to handle, even in the middle of the crucifixion or whatever. xD
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*cracks up* Thankfully, my roomie left like exactly three seconds before I read this and started dying.
*cant stop giggling* Whyyy…but like, if you whacked them, then your hands would be swollen. and that’s almost as bad. …though not quite…*dies laughing again*
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That wasn’t even the funniest one of my conversations. *shuts mouth* xD I had better go to bed before I kill you or something.
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I’m scared. O_O
yea…I’m prolly going to turn in soon too. since I was up til midnight last night. and the night before. and prolly the night before that. and then I have to get up at 7 all the time…or earlier…
Ah. So THAT’S what’s wrong with me…
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XD
o_O Bed. Those are some naughty habits, girl.
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\m/
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a new person who i doesn’t know just followed my blog and now i’m freaked out because this isn’t public and like WHAT HOW.
must be a TPSer. or related to a TPSer. or trained to stalk people by a TPSer.
O_O my life is in jeopardy. New follower, if you see this, whoever you are, I command thee, reveal thyself! Or go back to the shadow from whence you came, Flame of Stalkerishness!
*grins*
…also one time a random person commented on one of my posts and I was like…wuthowno. but then I never heard from them again so it was all good. *beams*
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Hi, didn’t mean to freak you out! =D I’m Bessie’s evil little sister “Alana.” I’m working on setting up my own blog. Been reading yours for a long time. So I’m both a TPSer AND related to a TPSer AND trained to stalk people by a TPSer. 0=)
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…0_0…Valar help us. It’s a triple attack. Farewell, world! Nevermore shall these darkling eyes gaze upon the wonders of your blogdom! I sink beneath the overpowering strength of…TPS-stalkerishness! Remember me…when I am gone! *dies*
*ahem*
I see. Epic. Well, consider yourself stalked by me in return. *grins* And may you use your TPS-stalking skills well…Grace is prolly a pretty good teacher in those matters.*cough* not that I would know anything about that. *halo*
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*bows* *is trying to work that out and see if it comes to a compliment*
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Hahahahaha. *grins at you* At your service. Good luck with that.
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I have decided that it was a compliment, and so, of course, not true. *nods*
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*chokes* stoppit. My roommate already thinks I’m crazy! Laughing at my computer won’t help with my image!
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I was going to reply “Never laugh at live dragons,” but I feared what that might do to -my- image.
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0_0 …*mental image of Smaug with Grace’s head*
…idk…you seem to make a pretty decent dragon…*halo*
*flees* O_O don’t hurt me, oh Smaugette the Stupendous, Greatest of Calamities and Mistress of Chaos or whatever! O_O
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Dragonses aren’t decent folkses, precious. Tricksy and sly they is, yes precious. They love fat hobbitses–boil them, yes, roast them, yes, stick them–uh-oh. Is Sméagol quoting nasty hobbit? Bad Sméagol, precious. AHH! Crumbs on his jacketses!!
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O_O …everyone…Grace has officially gone off the deep end. May she rest in peace…*holds funeral*
…soooo…you’re saying that you aren’t decent, you’re tricksy and sly, you like to boil/roast/stew fat hobbits and presumably then eat them…and you have a phobia of crumbs on jackets? interesting…this will be a whopper of a case for the psychiatrists…
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And here I was trying to make you look insane…I’m nearly ROFLing here, girl! Don’t be hasty, Anna. I was merely imitating a twisted character from Tolkien’s wonderful saga entitled The Lord of the Rings named Gollum. *Entish noise*
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…annnnd now she’s going treeish to boot. Wow. Well. I’m…glad I’m not the one who’s gonna be doing the case study on you in the mental institution? Gracious.
just wait, next you’re going to start growing inches every minute…
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Anna, everyone knows I’m the tall one, and you’re the short one. *nods*
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Please, grace. You’re what, five-foot-eight at the most? Whereas me, I’m pushing five-nine. Five-ten!
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Hey, I’m the one pushing five-nine. *nods* But aside from that, *grabs jar of Entwash* *runs away giggling*
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…I have no idea how tall I am anymore. I thought I was 5’10” but then someone who was I think abotu my height said they were 5’8″ and now I have no idea. IS THIS REAL LIFE??!!?? who can say.
so I’m somewhere between 5’8″ and 6’2″ *grins*
=P
*shrugs and takes the lembas* you can keep your funny tree juice.
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Lembas…oh, right, one bite can fill the stomach of a grown man. How many did you eat?
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six so far. but I’m not a grown man, so I’m still hungry…*munches*
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Is it…soft? Is it…taaasty?
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…*snatches lembas away* not for you. you don’t like nasty elf bread, remember precious? ashes and dust. -_- sheesh. Go gnaw on your own dead fish.
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Fisssh…Baggins guessed it.
Alive without breath;
as cold as death;
never thirsting, ever drinking
clad in mail, never clinking.
Drowns on dry land,
thinks an island
is a mountain;
thinks a fountain
is a puff of air.
So sleek, so fair!
What a joy to meet!
We only wish
to catch a fish,
so juicy-sweet!
But keep nasty chips, precious!
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Thank you, I will. *frowns* go away. you’re slobbering on me.
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Slobbering? SLOBBERING? Sméagol spies out secret ways that no one else knows, and nasty hobbitses say SLOBBER.
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Yes I does say slobbering -_- But you’re the nasty hobbit. I’m perfectly normal. You’re the one stealing my food and eating dead fish. Come on. Who’s the nasty one, here?
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Oh goodness, Bessie. What’s she doing here?
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Here as in WordPress? You’ll have to head over to her blog and find out. She’s working on her first post as I type this, so check on it later. Say around 4:30 p.m.-ish.
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*stalks quietly*
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*grins* You are epic, Anna. Even when you freak out. And YAAAAY for a CW major!!! *throws party with chocolate and ice cream*
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I like to freak out. I do it frequently, in my virtual world. So I figure I may as well do it epicly while I’m at it, you know? *totally modest*
Yea. CW major. No idea what I’m gonna do with that. *flashes of a future fraught with starving in cold bohemian garrets with my fellow artists*
that was a rubbish alliteration. *eyes it suspiciously*
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You could totally be a geek, Anna. Get yourself a copy of this: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/115746/war-of-the-ring-second-edition find your local board gaming group, and everyone will want to play it. =P
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…dang. that is beautiful. and sounds incredibly complicated. XD
the fact that I can’t find a price for it makes me think, however, that this broke college student is going to be a while in ever acquiring anything like that. =P
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ah. nvm. found the price. …yep nope, don’t have that kind of money, especially to spend on games. =P
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http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/134877 Bam. It’s not THAT complicated. You could handle it, I bet. And it’s mad epic.
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I assume you own this, given by the tone of your posts. How about I just come to your house and steal it instead?
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Nope, my older brother does. And he has it with him at college =P But you could like just visit over Christmas break or something and play it.
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visit over break and steal it? Epic. I’m there. See you at Christmas.
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Stealing it could be a bad idea. But you’re welcome to try.
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Those were some very interesting conversations up there . . . I was laughing so hard my sister asked what was so funny. xD
Yay for your Creative Writing major! And your trip home sounds like it was fun!
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yea, um…last night was weird. XD
Hehe. I didn’t go home…just to visit my sister at her school. It was family weekend or something there, so I went down and the rest of our family came out. ;) So home kind of came to me…hehe.
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I could tell. xD
Ah, got it. Well, it still sounds like you had fun!
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THE RED SOX ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL@@@@@@@@@@@@@
#BOSTONSTRONG
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Anna….you have convinced me that I do not want to be anywhere near by when you are exhausted/hyper…*is scarred for life after reading the above comments*
So you want “normal” names? Like, how normal? Because I know some pretty names that could be used in real life, but aren’t that common. Normal normal names: Umm, Connor, Aaron, Tyler, Andrew, C/Kaleb, Nate, Anthony, Jamie, Cole, Liam, Aidan, Adrian. Alyssa, Lily, Lillian Ellie, Sara/h, Allie/y, Annabelle, Lorraine, Lynn, Noelle, Elise, Rachel, Hannah, Clara, fruit of the Spirit-ish names (Joy, Peace, Faith, etc.), Megan, Willow, Rose. Not as normal names: Asher, Silas, Terence, Spencer, Hugo. Skye, Aster, Arabelle, Season names (Spring, Summer, etc.), Jaime, Opal, Serena, Elaina.
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Cmon Lala, your majesty sir, where is your sense of humor? x) For those of us who are deprived of social life… grant us some of your grace and sympathy. *kneels*
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No. You really don’t. It’s true. I didn’t even have ice cream last night either…goodness.
Like normal enough to be in a semi-factual book without making people go umwhat. =P hehe. thanks for the suggestions! =) Oo, I like Clara and Rose…*coughnotbiasedcough* *innocent look* whaaaattttt?? *hears the Doctor’s voice saying the names* <3 ..=# Hehe. But really. I do. And Hugo and Skye…hmm.
*ahem* was "Umm" a suggestion? because I'm totally using it now.
jk.
but really.
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Lala? Not you too…I’m not some freak with a television stuck in my gut! xD No, I like my grace and sympathy, thank you very much, and I prefer to keep it to myself.
@Anna, Lol, I didn’t realize was “Umm” was listed like that. xD Maybe it’s short for…Ummergioni. He’d be Italian. Now you need to use it.
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…but maybe it’s short for Umma, and she’s…idk…whatever nationality that would be. Sanskrit or something…*browses Google*
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It is just so easy to say. Like, if you sing it. LALALALA *proceeds to belt out song in off-tune voice for entire household*
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Tinky-winky, Dipsy, La-la, Po. Tellytubbies, Tellytubbies, say hello!
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You guys can stop making me laugh and let me breathe again. I don’t mind. I try to breathe a lot.
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