Heads Up!

As far as the college things go, I'm in six, and I have to make a decision by May 1st.
I think it's between St. Marys College of Maryland and University of Maryland though.
I mean, all my other nice-prim schools are $45,000 a year...and I'm really not about to pay that much. x_X

The tennis season started officially yesterday, and I lost 6-8 for the first match. Though I DID come back from an 0-4, we still lost. :(
Oh well. It was a warm-up match? 8D

I don't know why I still try at school.
I really don't want to.
But I still do.

Our graduation is now officially May 22nd!
Which is, might I add, one day before our projected last day of school.
Which means that we are going to get out of school earlier than planned! Hahahahahaha.
PWNZ.

2 Months

Two months -3 days left of school for me.

We get out on May 23rd, and our graduation is in the next week.
I'm so excited!

I'm going to Orlando for a little less than a week for our Music Department Spring Trip, so that cuts down on the days.

And I'm also going to Medieval Times this Friday for a field trip for English. (Don't ask. LOL.)

So, my mom is totally serious about me getting a job for this summer.
I don't know if I should just ditch the applications for summer camps I submitted, and just work at Giants, or if I should actually take those jobs if they are offered. :/
I feel too lazy to actually work with kids. x_X I love kids, but... I mean, I guess I'll change my mind when I get into the summer time.

My friend suggested Young School summer camps... I might look into those.

I only registered for one AP test for May.
Not only does it encase prom YET AGAIN, I know I won't do well on the Physics or the Spanish AP tests.
So I might as well not take them, you know?
I'm only going to take Psychology AP Test and hope I can get a decent score on it... Wing it like I did the World History AP Test.
(I studied the week of? Before? Read the whole AP book... And then wrote a whole essay about India when it asked for Southeast Asia... But still got a 4 for it. I swear that's the reason why I got a 4... Because I know I did pretty well on the multiple choice... .___.)

I mean, I will accept B's for my Spanish and Physics AP classes... For real. I know I can get an A in all my other classes if I try (some, without trying, but that's not the point)... But those two. I gave up. Even before I started.
I understand nothing in physics, and I really envy those friends of mine that just understand with or without reading the stupid books (which,I should probably read, but I know I won't understand any of it anyways).

I wish I could be like them and not be "good" at the subject but still get 5's... :(
I feel very left out. ;(
Especially when they got accepted into schools like Chicago, MIT, UPenn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Duke...

I totally know 4 people that got accepted into MIT this year, and they only took 1000 freshmen out of over 13,500... So they got my-county happy this year.
Usually, there's MAYBE one from this county every year, but this year, at least 5 got accepted.

Which also comes to my state university, which accepted only 4,000. That seems like a large number, but in respect to 27,000 applicants, that's quite a small percentage (a little over 15%, I believe?). Especially because it's not a "prestigious school" like MIT. And I don't know how much of that is for the spring semester. (I know a few of my friends got spring admission.)

Anyways, enough about my stupid college rant.
I've signed up for mixi, finally!
Except, God forbid, I don't think it's as good as Facebook, since everyone puts fake aliases on there, and you can't search for things very well... Therefore, I have yet to find any of my friends. (And I have like, two. D:)

April 1st: my remaining 3 colleges come back.
Have been accepted into 5, waiting for 3 more... And I have a feeling I won't get into two of them. x_X
Wish me luck. x_x

Quintessence

Totally here to pimp up my new layout for my avatar site, Quintessence! :3






Comment there will be ♥ ed! :D

Asa Ame

*points up*
I've changed the banner, and this blog's name to Asa Ame from Bon Vivant... Because I like that name.

Does anyone know?
If I put the DNS info and things like that for my domain on blogspot, can I still have hosting elsewhere and use the rest of the domain for storage or for sites?
I don't have anything planned for right now, but if I were to want to use it for something, would this domain be stuck with blogspot (and I'd have to, consequently, get rid of the blog from my domain), or can I still make my own subdomain and things like that with my own hosting? :/
Did that make sense?

Edit 2:
Alright (do I ALWAYS start my edits this way?). I'm going to stick with this thing... for now. I'm forcefully sending http://asaame.hirokache.com to http://xhirokox.blogspot.com... So it's a redirect.
Not a real solution, but there's nothing THAT bad about it. And people won't go, "Agh. Blogspot. Stupid thing."

Yeah. I guess that was the effect I was going for. >_>
And I might just get the domain when I graduate/before I go to college, as a "start anew" kind of thing?

What do you think?

Edit:
Alright... I've been looking through my GoDaddy.com account and it seems as though I can't do that...? I mean, I can't find a Total DNS Control And MX Records link that I apparently need.
And I do have a Total DNS: (Not hosted here) , but I obviously can't do anything there because of the... "Not hosted here"...
This is so aggravating. ;(

If I bought a new domain, would it let me edit a Total DNS...? x___X
Or should I just start a whole new blog?
But I like the fact that I have nice entries here. ;(

Curly Whiskers

Yup. Curly whiskers.
The totally intelligent kitty got a little too close to the frying pan when mom was cooking dinner.
Another reason why you don't put your face close to the frying pan, eh?
(If you can't tell, the whiskers on her right side are permed.)

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School is over after tomorrow. Spring Break!
I have some things to do tomorrow for Child Education & Head Start that has to do with Spring Egg Hunt (because we can't have religious references...) and Beanie Baby Hunt.
It's been a pain to plan & prepare for, and of course, they threw this whole thing upon us at the end of last week. And left it to us to make the supply list and do everything.
So irritating.
But I'm skipping most of Spanish for that. But my lunch as well, which is pretty bad. I need my food.

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The Japanese Sister School is coming again, apparently the week after spring break. Students from a Japanese school come to homestay at hosts' houses for a week and "experience America & its school." So they're going to attend the classes of their hosts, and go to the mall, etc. etc.
I was part of the whole committee that did everything 2 years ago when they came, but last year, when we were planning to go over to Japan (I was going with my family anyways, so I wasn't really part of it), the sponsor and I had a glitch (or more like my mom), so I quit Japan Club, and so I'm not helping out this year.
I'm sure it's causing a few problems. lol.

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So I've been counting how many steps I take with my pedometer. And today, I walked 10790 steps. Including my tennis practice, which was like an hour.
10,000 burns 3500 calories, which is equivalent to 1 lb. But the fact that I'm not losing anything comes to show that I'm consuming much more than that, or at least over the max of like 2100 calories, so it's not even balancing out... I've been gaining fat sooo much. And I dont like it.
But of course, it's not like I can stop eating. :(

Yahoo! News reported that the last Harry Potter book is going to be 2 movies instead of 1... Money hoggers. D:
I really want to read that Jodi Picoult book...

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My neighbor was just cussing and yelling at his dog and dragged her away by her collar even though she was screaming in pain. Dragging her, yelling at her as he did. Because she didn't listen to him when he cussed and yelled at her to come, and wanted to play with my dog.
All he had to do was pick her up. She's not that big.

He is the most amiable person ever. He's always so nice, and lets my dog attack him in zeal, lets her lick him and hugs her. But tonight, he scared me.
Like, really scared me.

I don't know which is the true him. We have been thinking, almost jokingly, that he hits or abuses his dogs. You would never think that by looking at him. How he plays with his dogs and kids every day outside. How nice he is.
But we've also taken care of his dogs, and for more than a week at a time, and we know that they are scared of the hand above their heads.

My dog isn't. I don't know what kind of a home she was in before she came to our house, but whatever abuse they did to her, it wasn't physical. She loves people, and have no idea what's going on when someone makes a gesture to slap her, or show her brooms, or things like that.

But his dogs... They flinch and run away. It really scares me.
Which one is the real him?

I'm losing more and more respect for men every day...

Seussical!

Edit: I just counted how many mangas I own in this house. Result?
457. lolol. XD
Just BTW, did I ever mention that I hate daylight savings??? /Edit



Wow, I didn't know Seussical was spelled with eu instead of ue until now! Silly me. XD
It was actually not bad at all. I was surprised greatly! I thought, "silly, stupid, childish." But if it weren't totally "Seuss," then I would have enjoyed it as a normal musical.

But then again, some things were a little lame... XD "If something goes bad, just think how lucky you are!"

But I think A person's a person... No matter how small...." was cute.

A lot of my friends/classmates were in it (obviously), and it was cute and funny to see them in weird Dr.Seuss characters.

The auditorium was PACKED when I went on Saturday, even though there for 4 days for the show. For that day alone, we had waiting list of 100 people (though I have no idea how a waiting list was supposed to work for a play that's already full...?), and they pre-sold 2000 tickets! o.o

I think I was supposed to think about my Senior Week seriously a few months ago. But I was sooo caught up in everything (midterms, tests, essays, projects, college...) that I didn't plan anything at all. And I have a feeling that it's a little late to do anything conventional, like Beach, anymore.

Everyone around here rents out beach-houses for a week, and gets wasted and drugged up there with their friends (and I hopefully wouldn't be doing that...). And I'd have loved to go there... if...

1: I had a bathing suit
2: I'd actually look GOOD in a bathing suit
3: It didn't require so much planning
4: I knew how the hell this whole system worked
5: If I had enough "close friends" that are "close friends" with all my other friends enough to go.

So basically, I'm kind of book up on the not going thing.
Poor Hiroko. So lame. ;(

Now, to be booked up again, I have an English paper due this Friday, and Unit Plan for Foundations in Curriculum and Instruction (AKA: Early Childhood Education II), which is TOTALLY a pain in the ass, another Lesson Plan for ECD that requires Easterness... For Head Start...

BUT!!! Next weekend is Spring Break!!
Our break is super early this year. And I like it! :)

Tennis practice, for me, starts for real this week. And I really need to make the ladder this year... Start. I'm a senior. It will be pretty ridiculous and disheartening if I don't make it... >_>

I'm having real issues with overeating. I don't know how to stop it. x__X It's starting to cause real problems...
Chew gum... Maybe... But other stuff are SO much yummier... >_>

I think I mentioned before that I am doing my English papers on Assisted Suicide (yes?). Today, I realized that my sister is doing a research paper on it as well... That's REALLY freaky... And you know, I don't already just have 20 sources for her to look through...?

I sent out two application for jobs for the summer today. Both of them were for summer camps. And if you haven't deduced... I've never held a job before... Somehow, I don't think babysitting counts. I've always volunteered with everything. Summer camps... making videos... So this is the first time. o_O

Thanks for all your comments, always! Makes my day when I see new comments. ^^

Rain~

Edit: My body aches ALL OVER from the conditioning from yesterday.
I have issues in the morning and after I get out of the bed with my body hurting all over the place (am I crunched up during sleep?), but today, I was in pain all day when I tried to move... While I'm sitting, it's fine, but as soon as I try to get up, or start walking... Good god. I can't even press hard or put any force into anything I do without my muscles aching. I guess it just comes to show how out of shape I am...

I went to watch Suessical!, a Dr. Suess Musical, at our school. This was the first and last time I watched a play at our school. It wasn't bad. /Edit


Contrary to the Facebook Graffiti Wall drawing I did a week or so ago... It isn't snowing. It's raining.
But we still had tennis practice.
More precisely, Conditioning Practice.

Nothing even remotely close to what cross country was, but cross country was waay back when. Tennis is now. And I'm so out of shape. I used to be able to run 1 mile warm-up, 1 mile cool-down, and 3~8 miles in between.
Now? *gasps for breath after 10 minutes* *dead*

I am writing a series of four papers about Assisted Suicide for English.
I had a few books I wanted to check out for articles, but they were already checked out, so I have Medical Ethics: Life and Death and Suicide.
My mom, when she saw the books next to my computer, naturally, went ".... O_O"

Don't worry, mom, I'm not suicidal right now.

Not to add to the emo-ness, but I'm also reading An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison.

We have our third work-shop for the PCs4Kids Workshop. It's just slightly behind schedule... Like... We were supposed to be doing two workshops a month. This is our third in three months...
Just a little. ;)

And I have to get up so early for that. And get to school around 8:30. That's too early for a Saturday.

And I just realized that it's already 11... And I've done nothing.
Woops?

I'm going to go watch Suessical, our school play, tomorrow. Everyone says it's good, but I don't see anything all that exciting about a cat in a hat prancing around stage, or little kiddies wearing yellow tu-tus tap-dancing on stage.

Defintion of "Loneliness"

I have put up an English paper I wrote on the Definition of "Loneliness." The definition of the world loneliness isn't just what you expect...

Because it's a little long, it's been cut for conveninence. :)

And a "movie" I made for my presentation of it:



We had our first day of Girls' Try-Outs for tennis today. We ended up with 13 girls trying out! I thought we were going to have like... 10. Well I guess we have our complete team right there... Which is pretty depressing, seeing to it that most of the incoming freshmen can't hit... But I guess we can't be wishing for too much... After all, it's OUR school who lost half of the ladder last year.

Haosi's 2-Second Chinese Lesson:
Haosi: wo bu xi huan chi _______
I dont like to eat _____
Hiroko: penguins
Haosi: qi'e
企鹅

Ican't believe he translated that. D: That's terrible! You should NEVER eat penguins!!!

I really want to learn Chinese.
But I have a feeling this isn't the way to go. XD

March: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

Book: An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison
Song: Cassie Flyleaf
Pieces: Concerto No.1 J.S. Bach

So cold.
Sooo cold.
But no matter how cold it is, it's still March.
I guess the saying, "March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb" is pretty true. Actually, I think it's practically true every year except for the fact that sometimes, even the end of March is feaking freezing.
My freshman year, I think our try-out days were below freezing every day, and the north wind was... agh. We were all bundled up. My fingers couldn't move off the racket or on its own accord so I stood there with my hand glued to my tennis racket, and the other hand barely having a life of it's own. I thought my fingers were going to freeze off.

Our pre-season tennis hitting thing is today at 3. I'm semi-excited. Now I'll have no more time for myself after school, which is kind of annoying, since I can't get through the day without naps. But I hope I can get rid of at least some fat? That would be great.
Try-outs day is on Tuesday (only one day this year instead of three...), so we get to freeze in the cold. Ice-cubed Hiroko, ready for serving.

The wind is so hard that it's shaking the house... I don't know how we're supposed to play tennis in this weather...

We have two weeks left until Spring Break. It's so close. And then a month later, we go to Orlando for our spring trip! A week away.
Well, it would be even more exciting if it weren't for the fact that I am so bored of going to Universal Studios and and Disney World, moreso becuase we used to go every year, but that's okay.
It's with our music department at the school, so a lot of my friends are going. That should make it a little better.
20 hour bus rides! W00t! So exciting! Painful necks, backs, legs, brain. And we have to turn in every single homework the day we come back... But that's okay.
We went to Orlando 2 years ago too, so I don't know why we are going again.
My freshman year, we went to Virginia Beach, then Orlando, Florida my sophomore year, and Myrtle Beach my junior year, and Orlando, Florida again, my senior year.

I added Labels for this blog. *points to right bottom*
Now you can browse through all my rambles and shambles by looking up what you want to read about. Haha.
I had to spend a while, knitting together the loose labels so that it wasn't such an enormous list of categories. So I'm down to those few (still a lot, but the list was ENORMOUSLY long before I started).

Happy One-Day-Late February 29th! We'll see you in 4 years!