Sunday can't think of a good title

I keep getting distracted from this. I think the venti coffee was a bad idea because now I have too much caffeine in me to concentrate! I don't really have much to talk about this week. Still the most exciting news in my life is the possibility of studying abroad in London. I found a program now it is just a matter of how much my scholarship is going to cover and how much I am going to have to pay because it is so freakin expensive!

I'll start with the replies

@Tenley: SOH-CAH-TOA is not a Doctor Who reference...it is a geometry reference because I was doing my physics hw at the time I blogged last week. SOH stands for sine = opposite/hypotenuse CAH is cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse and TOA is tangent = opposite/adjacent...math nerd

Also good luck on transferring. I hope you enjoy the school you are switching to a lot more! One of my friends recently transfered from a small school to BU and she is a lot happier so hopefully you will be too!

@Chelsea: Good luck with Jillian Michaels! I can never bring myself to follow a steady exercise routine. I don't have the will power. My most consistent exercise routine is Quidditch practice once a week XD

@Carissa: Florence is one of my favourite European cities (not that I've really been to that many). I'm sure you will love it there if you end up going to Italy. It is such a beautiful city with so much culture!

@everyone else: WHERE ARE YOU GIRLS? I miss having everyone around!

Okay so apparently the theme is epic story week and is supposed to start with me, but I don't really understand why we are starting with me. Wouldn't it make more sense to start each theme week with the person who chooses the theme? That way we don't have to worry about notifying me before Sunday what the theme is to start it off we can just mention it in our blog for the week. Maybe we should skype soon and figure this all out because we seem to not be so good at this theme thing. maybe we should create a schedule for a few months of themes so that way we don't get stuck without a theme. Anyway on to the epic story which I am having a lot of trouble starting and have deleted what I've written like 10 times already so sorry if it sucks.

Epic Story:

The nerdfighters had finally done it! They had raised enough money to buy a small island of their own. It was a huge day in Nerdfighter history! Nerdfighters from all around the world were planning summer cruises to take them to the island to celebrate. The Nerdettes were no exception! They made specific plans to make sure all of them were aboard the same ship. This would be the first time they meet each other IRL after years of collab vlogging and blogging together. It was going to be the most epic summer!

The ship was scheduled to set sail at noon. Arielle boarded the ship around 11:30 giving her half an hour to get settled into her cabin and explore the ship before setting said. She didn't know what time the other girls were boarding, but hoped to run into them soon. She dropped off her bags in her cabin then headed up to the upper deck to see if there was anything going on. The top deck was already crowded full of excited nerdfighters. Arielle was searching the crowd for a familar face when she heard a familiar voice call her name from behind. She turned around to find...

"That's the nice thing about carousels, they always play the same songs"

hello girls!

To clear up the confusion about last week it was amelia monday's turn but then we realized that either she isn't participating or didn't get the switch memo. So next weeks theme starting with Arielle on sunday is.......epic story week as chosen by Tenley.

So since there was no theme (by the way if anyone talks to amelia let her know about the change again) im just going to talk about anything.

Im a month down in the 100 books in 2010 and i still haven't finished reading my first book, ive been so bogged down with course work that i haven't had anytime to really read much. But on the good side while studying i've had background movies going and its been a harry potter week for me. (i really want to go reread them when im done this current book. Speaking of which have any of you seen the released pictures of Hogwarts in orlando! HOLY CRAP!! I want to go to there!!

What do you all think of the ipad?? Personally i thinks it's cool but defiantly not worth $599 i have an itouch and its basically the same exact thing.

Chelsea asked us what our favorite musical is and i pick hands down Phantom of the opera! Ive been in love with it since i was little and i have seen it 4 times!! i cant wait till the sequel comes to nyc i will be there opening week lol.

By the way i believe we all know that J.D. Salinger the author of Catcher in the Rye past away yesterday. But i learned something new about him yesterday. My dad went to the school that holden's school was based off of. I think thats really cool! 100 points if you can guess what school without looking it up. I personally loved catcher in the rye what was your opinion of it?


@ Chelsea dont forget to say what next weeks blog theme in skype by next friday. I love jillian michaels i have her wii game and its a killer.

@Arielle im not going to infinus but im hopefully going to leaky con 2011. The italy trip is florence but we can go basically anywhere in italy on the weekends. oh and skype me your address.

@Tenley Good luck with your new school! i went through the whole transferring school and living at home for college too.

@Amelia thursday...WHERE ARE YOU??

DFTBA
Carissa

waiting for one more day... and Theme?

Well no theme? Okay I have a story. Yesterday Stephanie (favorite person on the planet) and I went to the vending machines before band practice and there was this girl there that couldnt get her dollar to work. so this is what happened...
Me: darling here (takes a dollar from my purse and puts it in the machine). What did you want?
Random girl: Gobstoppers (or something like that)
Me: (put the numbers in. the candy falls and I hand it to her)

At this point I'm thinking she's going to hand me the the dollar that didnt work.... I'm not that lucky.
Random girl: Thank you ( she smiles then walks away)
The way she was smiling when she left was awful. It was like she was saying "I did just steal your dollar! Thanks!!!!"

Stephanie and I just stand there like "did that just happen?"
I guess I get a gold star for being nice and she gets NOTHING because that was just rude!

Today every time something not so great would happen I would smile and say  "I did just steal your dollar" Its going to take me a minute to get over that one.
So has this ever happened to you guys? This really put me off being nice to people at vending machines.
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I've been doing the Jillian Michaels workout thing. Its a 30 day program and I'm on day 6. When I got the video I thought it said 30 shed but no its the 30 day SHRED!!!! With an R!!!!
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I'm excited for the musical! The music is beautiful. One more day, the peoples song and the dock(the one where I'm a slut) are my favorites. Favorite musical? I think that should be the theme for this round. Musical...and why they are awesome. Next week Thursday can choose.
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@Tenley Happy job hunting. I hope you find one soon and a college that is the right fit for you. From what I've heard you get the warm and tinglies when you found the right college..and an angel get their wings

@Carissa I always wanted to be Samantha Brown... I'm a little less adventurous I guess. I love the travel channel. Why dont you think italy might happen?

@Arielle a whole semester most def pwns a week!!! I started spending all my money on headbands so when I went to the doctor who store link i was dying inside cause i couldnt get anything.

I think thats about it.
Happy wednesday
-Chelsea

Tuesday... Except Its Actually Wednesday

So... I just realized it was 1:36 AM on Wednesday. Opps... But I'm still gonna write a *fairly quick* blog.

Not much has been going on, lately my life has just been school and trying to find a job. So far I've been unsuccessful in the later of these two, but wish me luck as I prowl the streets in search of employment... and by extension, money.

The one thing that is happening that I should mention is I'm officially going to be commuting to school as of like next week. Its a big decision and in the end I made it for two main reasons:

1. Although I like the independence of being away from home the school I'm currently at is way to conservative for my liking (I will be transferring soon). Its a Christian school, so it was expected to a point, but being a strong Liberal Christian my views are constantly clashing with their's and off campus I can attend my classes without any of the... well, crap.

2. Money. My family isn't the worst off (in fact compared to some we're doing pretty well), but we still don't have money to spend unnecessarily. And so, since we live in the same town as the school its possible to commute and a lot cheaper.

But other than that not much is happening...

Except I still don't know what happened to Amelia (Monday). Did she never get the memo about switching to blogs?

@Chelsea Asian studies are fun... never taken a class, but it sounds cool. Oh and, hi Ed!

@Carissa Working for the travel channel would be awesome. And I totally understand about not having enough funds. But given the choice, Italy would be WAY better than Vidcon.

@Arielle Your Trock songs are amazing... and they also make me want to find more time to catch up on Dr. Who. SOH-CAH-TOA, is a catchy band name (I'm guessing its relevant to the show, but I'm not there yet).

Okay, well its almost 2AM now and I have classes tomorrow, plus more job hunting so I'm going to end this here.

DFTBA
Tenley Nadine

Sunday is library day...

...seriously though it is 6:15 right now and I've been in the library since noon.  I still have a ton of work to get done but had to take a break to blog.

So I was hoping Carissa was picking the next theme so I would have a theme to talk about today.  I guess since that didn't happen I will just continue on with the travel theme because I don't want to hog the theme picking position.

So a lot has changed in a week.  I started planning out my London trip but google mapping all the places I want to go and saving them into a map so I can see it all in one place.  I had a lot of fun street viewing all the hotspots like the London Eye and Big Ben.  I even found the TARDIS parked outside of Earl Court's Tube Station (see right).  But I started to realise that I can't possibly do everything I want to do in a week!  I'd want to take a day trip to Cardiff and see the capital of Wales (and try and track down Matt Smith).  I'd want to go up to Birmingham for a couple days and stay with my friends who all have a flat up there.  I'd want to go to Scotland and do Scottish things.  I don't even really know much about Scotland expect that David Tennant is from there.  I'd also want to go to Ireland because I'd be right there.  It seems stupid to pay all that money to go to the UK to just see London!  I'm a girl who loves to travel, but when I travel I want to do it right!  I still regret backing out of a Mediterranean cruise I had been looking forward to for so long to stay in Israel for my Passover Break when I was there!  From the first month I was there I decided I wanted to go to Greece for that break and then things got complicated.

But anyway...back to London. So yeah, at around 2 am Wednesday or Thursday night, I decided I am going to look into possibly studying abroad in London for a semester.  I already found a university in the heart of London that offers both the science classes and Jewish Studies classes I need for my two majors.  Now I just need to find out specifics about the program and transferring credits and cost and all those details so I'm going to a preliminary meeting on Thursday.  I'm excited!  A semester pwns a week any day so finger's crossed this works out!

Okay now here's the part where I respond to you all.  I actually hand wrote all this out while reading your blogs from the week so I wouldn't forget anything.

@Tenley - No VidCon for me =( But I am trying to drive down to Infinitus for a day or two.  I'll be in school this summer which is why I can't go to VidCon or all of Infinitus.  So if anyone is going to be at Infinitus I'll hopefully be there Saturday/Sunday and maybe some Friday but it would depend on my classes.  I have two friends going who are trying to stay in the same room so I'm just planning on crashing with them.  Oh but speaking of Harry Potter conferences...I will be at LeakyCon!  I will try any and every which way to be there even if it means coordinating my schedule that summer around those dates!  LeakyCon is where I am planning to meet all of CAT-I-TUDE* IRL so we can all meet IRL there too if you guys are there =D

@Chelsea - YES THERE IS A DOCTOR WHO STORE!!!! There was an ad for it in DWM (Doctor Who Magazine) so when I was doing my London research I google map'd it.  It's about half an hour outside the center of London.  They also have an online shop.  I found it on street view too =D  It looks so awesome!

Also, one of my friends just got back from a trip to Thailand, Cambodia and somewhere else in Southeast Asia I don't remember, but she absolutely loved it!  I have another friend trying to study abroad somewhere in that area next year.  I'm so jealous of them!

@Carissa - Italy is awesome! I hope you get to go!  I don't remember if you've said where in Italy you would be going, but I absolutely loved Florence it is so pretty there!  And Rome and Venice are great too!  I actually spent my 17th birthday trapped inside St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome because the president of the Philippines was visiting the pope and they would let anyone out of the cathedral until all the cardinals walked through then finally the president of the Philippines.  I'd never seen so many Asian tourists in one place! lol

Oh also, I don't have a P.O. Box, but I do have an address so if you even wanted to send me anything just ask me for it.  For obvious reasons I'm not posting it here.  I've always been meaning to send all of you guys and all of CAT-I-TUDE letters and I wrote about four before I stopped.  I should pick those up again!

This has been quite a long blog.  I didn't realise I had so much to say!  I kind of like blogging.  I should pick up my personal blog again.  But chances are that will happen for like a week then I'll get too busy or forgot or get lazy like I have in the past so I'll just stick to this.

And if you haven't already seen, I posted two videos recently.  Both are trock songs I've written.  I've been in a song writing mood lately.  I'm thinking about starting a new youtube channel as a music channel and take my songs off my personal channel.  I'm trying to come up with a good name for the channel so I'm open to suggestions if you have any.  I randomly had the idea yesterday that SOH-CAH-TOA would be a good band name...I think I've been doing too much triangle stuff in physics lol but I if I'm picking a name for a music channel for myself it has to be nerdy so it can encompass trock, wrock, and nerdfighter related music.  I know I don't have the greatest voice, but I really enjoy making music and sharing it.  Below are links to my two new songs and to a cover done of a song I did a little while ago.

Totally Fucked (a trock parody of the Spring Awakening song)
Ode to Ten (a trock parody of Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright)
Bad Wolf Bay by BLUEBOXX (a cover of my song Doomsday)

Okay I've successfully killed an hour in the library so I think it is time to get back to work so I'm not here all night.

DFTBA
Arielle

*CAT-I-TUDE is the name of a skype chat I have with a bunch of nerdfighters.  We are one of many nerdfighter cliques out there.  There are about 15-20 of us in it.  I'm sure some of you probably know a couple people in our group.  We've actually become quite well known in the nerdfighter community even if most people don't know us by name but John has even referred to us as "the group" =D

Traveling the world

So I have this dream that ive had since a was a little kid to be a travel writer/ work for the travel channel and go all over the world and experience new and exciting places, like Anthony bordane on the travel channel.
Like i said im so excited to be going to italy this summer but i cant get to excited because it may not happen.

The only time i have ever been out of the country was when i went to toronto a few years ago. but thats it and if you think about it thats what 8 hours away? thats like driving to north carolina. Not that far.

England would be amazing but Ireland is where i really want to go.

@ chelsea- i havent watched marykate and ashley films in over 14 years lol. oh i miss full house. I have eat pray love but haven't read it yet its on my 100 books list. Galapagos islands would be such a cool trip!

@Tenley- I want to go to vid con but if i go to italy i probly wont be able to go. :-( but i am trying to go. i want to study abroad in australia but my school doesn't offer it right now.

@Arielle- TEVANA IS AMAZING!!!!! I watched the Intercollegiate world cup online back in october and it was awesome!

Well im off to the post office to go pick up a package from my po box. do you girls have po boxes? i want to sent letters and small packages to you guys lol.

DFTBA
Dont Forget to Blog Awesome! lol

Carissa

Travel? Yes please

Hey ladies!
I’m so jealous!!!! I want to go back to London and Italy. This is stupid but I want to go to Scotland to find someone as adorable as David Tennant. Or I would go to Montreal. I have this little running joke that I want to go to Canada, be a waitress, and stalk Rufus Wainwright on the weekends.



All fangirling aside I really would love to go to Southeast Asia. I remember never really thinking about the other side of the world. Then I took this Asian studies class and it really opened up the other side of the map for me. I really want to travel. Right now I feel awful because my whole life is school, my friends and prom. The world is so much bigger than that. (That’s good I should have put that in my diversity easy) I want to hug some Cambodians. That whole Pol-Pot thing freaked me out so much that its one of my life goals to hug as many Cambodians as possible. I’m actually planning a major trip to the Galapagos Islands (inspired by my Latin American studies class.) Oh and I would love to go to Brazil!


Fun fact about Brazil


Brasilia was built up to be shaped like an air plane.


@Tenley you have it right. I want to go everywhere… Ed says hi.


@Carissa Italy is just like a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie. There are cute guys on mopeds everywhere. Have you read Eat Pray Love? The Eat part is all about Italy and food. It’s fantastic.


@Arielle There’s a proper Doctor who store???? OMG!!!!


@ Amelia Yay puppies!


Happy Wednesday


Lots of love


Chelsea

Traveling Tuesday

Well, I'm back at school. I didn't sound very excited about that, I need to more excited. I'M FINALLY BACK AT SCHOOL! (does that count as traveling? No... okay, didn't think so). Much better... Seriously, I don't remember the last time I was this excited for school. I mean I've always been a nerd when it comes to school, but never this nerdy about it. Probably because I have a lot of really awesome art classes this semester (my major is Interior Design). The only downside of all the art classes is all the supplies I had to buy the other day. Lot's of money, specifically, lot's of money that I was trying to save for Vidcon.

Speaking of Vidcon, let's talk about it, because the theme is travel and the only place I'm planning* on traveling in the near future is to Vidcon. I am so excited about it. I will definatly be there assuming I can get the money in time. I'll I have to do is find a job... stupid economy.

Are any of you planning on being there? Because it would be freaking awesome to meet all of you person. Well, actually it be awesome to meet you all in person anywhere, not just at Vidcon.

But yeah, that's really the only place I'm planning on traveling to in the near future. Long term, I'd like to go... everywhere. Specifically, I want to visit Venice, Amsterdam, Brazil, somewhere-in-Australia-that-I-haven't-decided-yet and London. Those I think are the major ones... when I'll actually visit them, no idea. Hopefully soon, but who knows?

@Arielle Lucky! I wanna go England! But I've decided since I can't (at least not yet) that you have to have fun for me. Okay? Good. lol

@Amelia Aww... I want a puppy (why I am I responding to everyone like that? Apparently I'm really jealous)! Just like Arielle as to have fun for me, you have to enjoy your puppy for me. lol

@Chelsea That essay is awesome, it makes me wish I was a Nerdfighter back when I had to apply to colleges so I could have written something like that.

DFTBA
Tenley Nadine

Sunday picks a theme: Travel

So I finally remembered it was Sunday without being reminded to blog =D This is a first.

Carissa, I LOVE tevana teas too!  I discovered the store over break and bought some tea they had for sample that was really good and drink it every day now!  I don't remember what it is called.  It is a combination of two different chais.

So nothing much going on here really.  We had one of our best Quidditch practices this past week!  It was freezing but so much fun!  We are finally starting to get to know each other and getting comfortable enough with each other to not be afraid to tackle and stuff.  Our scrimmages are getting really competitive and I think we will actually have a pretty good team if we can find other teams to play against =D

I started rewatching Lost yesterday.  There are six or seven nerdfighters watching it for the first time so I joined with them.  Lost has changed so much from the first season it's nice to rewatch the beginning.  It's also fun to see people's reactions to finding out things for the first time because Lost will answer one question for every 500 it poses!

I guess I was supposed to pick a theme for this week.  I didn't really have time to think about it before posting this so I'm just going to think of something now.  Okay so this is kind of relevant to what I was going to talk about any way so theme for this week is travel.  Talk about a place you want to go, a place you've been and love, anything about travel okay?  Good.  Theme picked.

So I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I've been thinking about going to London for Spring Break.  My friend Bradley has been begging me to come visit for years but I've never been able to find a good time, plus it is expensive.  He has been begging me a lot lately and I realized I don't really have plans for Spring Break so we are trying to make it happen.  I can find flights for under $700 which isn't bad considering I don't have to pay for hotel or anything because I'd be staying at his house.

I've never been to London but I've always wanted to go!  For as long as I can remember there have always been two places on my top list to travel to.  The first is Israel, the second is London.  And you all know I've been to Israel multiple times now.

I'm a bit of an Anglophile so I'm really excited about possible going to London.  I also found out that one of my nerdfighter friends, Abby (kaireky), will be in London at the same time with her mom and aunt so we could potentially meet IRL in London which would be awesome and then we could go to the Doctor Who store together =D

I really hope my London trip works out because I'd love to see London and take a trip up to Birmingham to visit some friends in uni there and also to see Bradley who is the Brit i was the closest with on my program and the only one not to come visit the US since so it's been almost three years since I've seen him.

Well, I should go now.  I'm going out tonight with my sorority family then having a sleep over at one of my little's dorm rooms because her roomie is out of town.

Until next week,
Arielle

Friday night dance party

Oh girls it has been a very long week but a good one.

• I've recently become hooked on the show Fringe. its so good!!
• I have become addicted to Teavana teas they are so good too!
• I found a comic that i love called The Phoenix Requiem. Its only second to The Dreamer that is my all time favorite online comic.

Hopefully Arielle will pick a theme on sunday so we all can have alot more to write about lol.


I watched Food, Inc. last saturday. It's a documentary about the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. The film is by director Robert Kenner. It's an in-depth introduction to the horrors behind why a hamburger costs less than a bag of carrots. Its really sad to see how basically 4 companies own the entire meat market in the USA. Few people would let cameras in to see the conditions the animals are kept in, but one woman showed her chicken coop. You also see "tame" footage of slaughterhouses (compared to the stuff you might see on a PETA website). You hear about the dangers of E. Coli in the food supply - it's not a matter of "if" but "when". You can probably google E. Coli outbreaks and there's something in the news about it somewhere. If i learned anything from this film it is to READ LABELS!


I had my first week of classes this week and it was crazy. My italian teacher is hilarious. I can't wait for my next class.


I'm hopefully going to see avatar or sherlock holmes this weekend. Plus i've started taking my dog to the local dog park. 


Im going back to watching season 1 of fringe and reading my web comics.


Night girls! 

Why is it I always have trouble signing into this thing? I mean you think it wouldn't be to hard and then I spend like ten minutes looking. I'm really pathetic sometimes girls.

Anyways in other news. I'm getting a new puppy! She's a little pure white miniture schnauzer and she is the cutest little thing. She looks just like a polar bear puppy. We get her some time next week when she's on solid food. I am so excited about it! Her name is going to be mochi.

School is a horror with exams starting next week and I rather it not exsist.

I really don't have much to talk about really. Themes is an excelent idea!

I have to get back to my creative writing story so I think i'll end this here. Sorry my life hasn't been anything interesting

wednesday has 87 ish days to go

Rough essay for maryland

I have been very influenced by the nerdfighter community. This sounds silly but ever since I saw four minutes of John Green talking about the Project for Awesome on YouTube I was hooked. The Project for awesome is an annual YouTube event where regular people make videos promoting their favorite charities and try to make them the most watched videos for days. From the first time I came in contact with this community I have been more encouraged to do really awesome things like start a 50 book challenge, learn to knit, and further pursue my fall challenge of collecting over 500 lids for Susan G Komen for a Cure.


John and Hank Green, the men who started this community as just a fun way to keep in touch, have taken the word nerd from a social slur to a statement of pride. Saying "I'm a nerd" is now just another way to say I am passionate about something.

I've noticed that in my generation it is cool not to care about things and that it is geeky to get excited about things. Before joining this community I found myself holding back, not laughing when I thought something was funny, and not sharing large parts of myself. Now I feel okay with saying something like "I love Harry Potter enough to dress up for the book release" or "I care about what is happening in Israel"

Being a nerdfighter is about taking what you know how to do and using it to better the people around you. “A lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”- Hank Green

 
Its a work in progress... I wrote it about a month and change ago and the deadline for my application is most definately friday. why do i do this to myself? Its not like I havent been working on this forever but it still doesnt read the write way. And I have another one that total crap about diversity and people...its a work in progress. I only have 2 more school to apply to but the only thing I want is Maryland. If I dont get in I'll cry (or something equally lame)
 
Okay moving on now...
I had a real crap day yesterday and the only plus is I graduate May 28 and I'm going to Maryland
Right I said I was moving on....
 
Books
I've havent been reading much
movies
yal should watch Green Street Hooligans. I love it so much
music
no headphones so my ipod hasnt been used
life
crap except for les miserables and my friends and my teaches
I get to be a slut in the musical!!!! I'm really happy about that.
@ladies I'm talking an awful lot so I'm just going to finish up my applications.
lots of love
Chelsea

Tuesday and that Hideous Creature Called Boredom

Its Tuesday... six girls a blogging... I feel completely ridiculous. lol Fiveawesomegirls references? Anyone... anyone? No... okay, moving on.

There hasn't been a whole lot going on lately because the semester doesn't start till the 18th (I think I said that last time) and I'm just chilling around the house. Fortunately, this time off as giving me a chance to catch up on some reading, and start watching Dr. Who. Okay, I've only actually watched the first episode of season 1 so far, but its a start. Obviously I haven't seen much yet, but so far I like it. Oh and Carissa, thanks for sending me the links to the many places I can watch the old episodes.

As I said I've also been reading a lot, I started by rereading Harry Potter for the... well, I've lost count at this point so we'll just go with its a big number. Then I went to the library and checked out "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman. I've been meaning to read it for awhile, but haven't had a chance. I'm not completely done with it, but so far I like it.

Themes. There's been talk of having theme weeks here and I think it is an excellent idea. I also think we should start doing them as soon as possible and not put them off to long. Here's my suggestion:

We rotate through the week (Sunday - Friday) and each of us picks a theme for a week. So for this next week Arielle (Sunday) would pick the first theme and then in the Sevengirlsablogging Skype chat she can leave a message telling everyone what the theme is. Then everyone else would check Skype at some point before their post has to go up and do the theme. Then the Saturday (possibly Sunday morning, but try for saturday so Arielle has as much time as possible) after that Amelia (Monday) will pick a theme for that week. Once again we all do it and the system continues.

Does this make sense? Does it sound like a good idea? If you have ideas or concerns we should talk about them via Skype so we can get the themes up and running next week.

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@Chelsea: I'm sorry about AP Chem... *hugs* Try to be positive about your advanced breathing class, you'll get an easy A, and when it comes down to it colleges look at your grades, not your courses (because every school has a different system to measure the difficulty of their classes, so colleges have no way of standardizing how advanced a class should be in order for a student to gain acceptance).

@Amelia (Thursday): Have fun doing your massive amounts of homework! lol Seriously though, I'm sorry your so busy, and I hope you manage to find time to blog.

@Carissa: Wow... a 210 dollar book, that sucks. But Italian should be fun. Also, I'm doing the 50 book challenge, I'm only my second book right now though. Good luck with the 100 book challenge!

@Arielle: Aww... sorry you didn't get to go to Sea World. Oh, and I'm glad you like the Guild.

@Amelia (Monday): Where are you? *sad face*

Anyways, I hope you all have wonderful weeks filled of fun and blogging. Hopefully next week I'll have more stuff to talk about (since I'll be back in my dorm by then).

Until next week,
DFTBA
Tenley Nadine

P.S. Chelsea, I await your post tomorrow eagerly.

Sunday forgot again...

Big thanks to Carissa for skyping me and making me remember I had to blog.  I need to get into a routine!

So today has been on big fat lazy day for me!  I was supposed to go to Sea World today, but I found out last night something went wrong when I signed up and my name wasn't on the list so they never bought my ticket =( but it's okay because it was apparently really cold and all the rides were closed because it has to be warmer than 50º to open the rides.  Basically all I've been doing all day is go on tumblr, go on TARDISAdventures (a forum created by one of my tumblr friends for Doctor Who), watch two episodes of Torchwood with my friend Esther (@crazycrayon), straighten my hair, snack, and attempt and fail to get my homework done.

@tenley: love the guild!  I haven't watched it in a while though.  Sara (cleverestwitch, the ning master) got me into it last year

@chelsea:  Thank you so much for the scarf!  I wear it all the time!  I acutally wore it to quidditch and one of my friends goes "I thought you were all about the silver and green".  I might be a Slytherin but I still have a large amount of Gryffindor in me too.

and to answer your question about End of Time.  I loved the episodes!  RTD did a great job at wrapping up his time with Doctor Who as well as David Tennant's time as the Tenth Doctor.  Other than Mickey/Martha I loved the end.  Also John Simm (Master) was so so so good in the episodes!  I'm sad we only got to see him a few times on the show.  Oh and Timothy Dalton!  Bond as Rassilon WOW! lol

I am really looking forward to the new season of Doctor Who.  From what I've been seeing I think Matt Smith is going to do an excellent job!  He'll be no DT, but I don't think anyone will every be able to match his enthusiasm for the role since he is one of the biggest fanboys of the show EVER!

Okay enough about Doctor Who.  I could go on about it forever but we can continue the talk in the TARDISAdventures forum if you all want to join it.

I agree with Carissa I think we should have some sort of theme weeks because I too find myself struggling to think of things to talk about.

Also, I started watching True Blood.  Anyone watch it?

Well I really should go do that homework I've been putting off all day so this is all for today.  See you all again next week =D

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DFTBA
Arielle

TGIF!!

Hello Girls,

It's been a long week but I'm so glad that it is almost over. I go back to college next monday and I can not wait to start my italian class. I am SO excited!!!!
My lovely italian teacher sent me an email the other day to tell everyone in the class that our book would cost $210!!!! But since he is such an awesome person he has made his own textbook and we do not need to buy the other one!! YAHOOOOOO!! win kitty for saving money!

I dont know if anyone else is participating but i'm participating in 50 books in 2010 but im upping it to 100 because i  did 50 books way to easily last year.  With that in mind does anyone have any good books that they think i should read??

I very excited today because i met with my study abroad teacher and she gave me a whole bunch of information on the semester. I'm going to Italy!!! In just under 5 months!! I'm Super Excited today!!!

I think we need themes or something because this is my second time blogging and already im running out of things to say lol. so starting next blog i'll probley have a theme to my blogs or else mine ill be very boring.

DFTBA
Carissa

Right so its thursday...

Kay so first I guess intro?

Name: Li
Age: 17 in three months
Grade:11th
Likes
Internet
Creative writing (even though its after my soul)
Video games (Devil may cry series, Left 4 dead, Gears of war 2, Asassins creed, etc)
Movies (Repo! the genetic opera(must see if you have not) Tank girl, whisper of the heart, etc)
Books (lux th poet, The tricksters, The queen's wizard etc)
Cats
Hedgehogs

Dislikes
Cold
Mornings
Being lonely
Large groups of people
Being called short

Basic stuff
I get distracted really easy and really forgetful. Read alot, game alot, always like to be doing something

Really anything else just ask. I'm a pretty open person.


So yeah, school has taken over my life. I feel like I don't have enough time in the day with trying to catch up in all my classes and Exams are coming up. Its just a nightmare really.
I watched the Dr.who episode and I have to say the tieing up loose ends thing really should have been saved for the very very last episode ever. I'm couriouse to see this new Doctor in action. I hope everyone had a fantastic new years! I know I did. I went to a concert with a friend and we moshed like crazy. So much fun. I know this will be a little short for my first post but Physics, US history, American lit, and creative writing bekon (Dear lord thats alot.....) So i bid you all a good night and can't wait for tomorrows post

91 days of High School for Wednesday

Hey ladies

Soooo... I'm Chelsea Rodriguez. I'm a senior in High School (91 days left). I'm bad at this intro stuff so I'm just going to list random facts.

I love...
Harry Potter
Doctor Who
rainbow
sleep
internet
musicals and other stuff

I hate....
cold weather
being sick
and the feeling of failure


      Anyways... I'm having the longest day. I woke up really late and then I had to rush to finish my econ homework (didn’t work). I don’t know why i procrastinate so much it just bites me in the butt. On top of that I failed AP Chem so I had to go through the embarrassment of returning the book and saying goodbye to my lab partner. Now in its place I have this awful class that is more like advanced breathing than anything else. But I'm not complaining I like A's. A is one of my favorite letters along with L and O. Okay now I'm just being weird. I'm going to stop talking about school now.


Well today was the second day of Les Miserables. I love love love the music but stupid band is keeping me from having any major singing lines (I want to be one of the sluts) because our festival is the same day as the Show. If it comes down to it I'm skipping festival. Why am I still talking about school...? I need help.


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So how did you guys feel about the End of time part 2? I cried! With all of that epic epicness he dead by saving an old guy!!!! Really? I'm going to miss David. I don’t know how much I'm going to miss Russell T though. I still haven’t forgiven him for that Children of Earth mess. And I don’t know how I feel about the Doctor going around and snipping off the random ends.  Cant wait til the next series!
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@ Sunday you finally got your scarf!!!! I'm sorry it took so long.
@ Tuesday I'll watch your show if you watch Doctor Who. we can compare notes
@Friday After reading your blog the first thing I thought was Times Square is cold...13 hours of cold. As cold as it is I'm hoping to have an adventure like that someday.

Happy Wednesday (I'm going to get better at this I promise)
-Chelsea

Tuesday at Last

Do you guys have any idea how hard it has been to wait till Tuesday rolls around just so I can post my first blog on here? I'm guessing you do, at least those of you who haven't posted yet. Seriously though I'm really excited about this project and hopefully it works out better for us then Vlogging did.

I suppose I should follow tradition and introduce myself first:

I'm Tenley... or Tenley Nadine, or perhaps hangingwithNadine if your a big fan of Youtube usernames. I'm 18 and this past fall I started college in Virginia with a major in Interior Design. I also like to write, and I participated in NaNoWriMo this part November, I lost, but it was my first try and 30,000 words is still a huge accomplishment. I am Nerdfighter and have been for a little over a year at this point (October 22nd, 2008). I'm particularly nerdy about things like literature, art and Harry Potter. And finally, I suck at writing introcuctions... always have.

That being said if there's anything you want to know that I left out just ask and I'll fill you in... unless its something creepy, then keep it to yourself.

Moving on! My life as been pretty laid back lately. I'm at home on Winter break until the 17th when I go back to school, so until then I've been using my time very wisely by sleeping and watching old episodes of the Guild. Have you girls seen the Guild? If you haven't you should watch it, its amazing. But then again, I haven't seen Dr. Who yet despite how much several of you love it. Sorry... maybe eventually.

Also, I already completed one of my new years resolutions! I learned how to edit, and started planning out a video to show off my incredible new skills. Just kidding.... about the incredible skills anyway.

Do you guys make resolutions? Or do you agree with Kayley Hyde, "if I wanna change something about myself, I'll change it and I don't really need a deadline for it." Oh there's another thing about me, I quote Youtuber's a lot. Which is why the slogan on my personal blog is, "fangirl much?", its very fitting.

Well, that's about all that's going on today... I'll see you next week, no I won't "see" you. I'll talk to you next week. No, that makes it seem like I won't talk to you on the ning or on Skype till next week. I know...

Until the next time I fill up space on this blog,

DFTBA

Tenley Nadine

P.S. Chelsea, I can't wait till you fill up precious blog space tomorrow.

Oh right it's Sunday...

As usual I completely lost track of the days and forgot it was Sunday.  This tends to happen when I am on break, especially since classes start for me on Tuesday which I don't really understand.  But I've still got a few more hours of Sunday left so don't fret!

I guess I'll start with an introduction just in case anyone following us on this blog now did not watch our failed collab vlog.  Hi, my name is Arielle.  I'm 20 from Florida and currently in my second year of University studying Biochemistry and Jewish Studies.  I'm a huge nerd and have been so my entire life!  I love trying to keep up with way too many tv shows, spending countless hours on skype talking to my internet friends I consider closer friends than most of my IRL friends, and learning how to play my guitar.  My current obsession are tumblr (especially the ones dedicated to various body parts of David Tennant XD), Doctor Who, Harry Potter, and of course Nerdfightaria.  Oh and did I mention I'm on my school's Quidditch team? =D

Yeah I think that is a pretty good introduction...now onto blogging!

Sadly, winter break is coming to an end and I am driving back up to school tomorrow morning, but it has been a great two weeks!  My friend Rachel came down to Florida to escape the cold of New England and stayed with me for my entire break which was a lot of fun!  I also had a lot of family in town and it is always fun hanging out with my little cousins and my aunts and uncles.  We are a family who love board games and this year's favourite was Bananagrams!  I don't even know how many hours we spent playing but it was a lot!  Bananagrams is my new favourite game!

On top of all the family time this break, it was also a HUGE Doctor Who influenced vacation!  With End of Time Parts 1 and 2 airing bringing the end of the tenth doctor and the last days of David Tennant and Russel T. Davies, I spent a lot of  time watching the marathons on BBC America!  It was my first time seeing Doctor Who live on tv.  I tried really hard to get my friend to convert over to the Whoniverse but I have so far been unsuccessful =( Maybe another time.

Well it is now nearing 11 pm which is when I said I was going to go to bed so I don't fall asleep on the six hour drive back to school so I'm going to bring this to a close.  I am really looking forward to this new blog and hope it turns out better than our vlog did!  Amelia, I look forward to hearing from you tomorrow!

Until next week!
DFTBA
Arielle =D

Happy New Year!!!!

Hello everyone, I'm Carissa and I am the blogger for fridays. I have been going over and over in my head what I was going to write about in the first ever RotN blog post. So much pressure! I thought I would just wing it, which is probably a bad idea. I may or may not be writing this during commercial breaks for the 44 hour marathon of Doctor Who on BBC America (that I am uber excited about). 

I should probably mention some things about me, so here are some basic facts. I’m 22 years old (my birthday is June 15th). I currently live in Pennsylvania, USA, although I was born in Florida. I love doctor who it is my addiction. I love reading (who doesn’t?) I have a major fear of praying mantises and stinkbugs (to the point where if I see one I refuse to be in the same room as it). My animal is the owl; I love them even though they are considered bad luck.

So how was everyone’s' new years eve? Mine was pretty uneventful. I went out to dinner with my cousins and then played a couple of rounds of golf (a cards game) and then watched Alice (the SYFY mini series) till midnight with my sister and my “adopted” sister, so pretty uneventful. About two years ago I did the New Years eve in Times Square, NYC. It was fun but i'll probably never do that again. We stood out in Times Square from 11am to midnight. The LONGEST DAY EVER!!! Plus they don't let you leave so….. I'll let you imagine. But we did get pizza delivered to Times Square which was awesome!

With every new year people make new years resolutions and I am not an exception. But my idea of resolutions has changed over the years. As a kid it was to be nicer to my little sister, convince my parents to let me get another dog or become more outgoing. But now my resolutions are things like; lose weight, read 100 books by 2011, and study harder in classes. I miss the old kid days where ones biggest concern was being sadly picked to be an octopus in the school play instead of the princess, or being the last one to the four square game at recess. What are some of your new years resolutions?

Girls I can’t wait to see everyone’s post here on the blog. I can’t wait to learn more about everyone and improve on my lack of blogging skills.

 I wish you all the Best in 2010!

-Carissa