Council of Elrond's Journals

snoopy_hobbit's Journal Add to Favorites Today's my birthday and I just thought I would share. Saturday, September 04, 2004 @ 6:34 AM Title pretty much says it all. I just wanted to say how great my day was today. It didn't rain on my birthday for once like it has for the past six years. And that's about it. Good night. 4 Comments       I think I've found the college for me and wee bit of life reflection... Monday, August 09, 2004 @ 1:29 AM I've typed about this before but I'm going again. The weekend before I started high school, I can remember my parents making such a big fuss over it. They kept talking about how the next thing I knew I was going to be a senior and soon enough it will be time for finding the right college. Well I think I've found it, even though I have only visited one college (even though it is my number one choice) at Christopher Newport University. After the three hour campus tour I went to today. I'm in more eager to get in then I was yesterday. The school is so nice and pretty. And it close enough from home that I can come home begging for money if I need it but far enough to experience the cold, cruel world on my own. But it is funny. As I sat at a Taco Bell not to far from the college eating lunch with my dad, I wondered if I was going be there in the same place a year from now. Would I be going to college there or would I be at another college in Virginia? Then I thought back to three years ago remembering myself laying on the couch sick to my stomach about the perspective of starting my freshman year at high school and my parents' constant words of "The next thing you know you'll be going to college..." ringing about my brain. I remember how hot is was that when I was laying on the couch. But now I look towards now and today. Three years have passed. A long time no doubt but it doesn't seem like that long of a time in my mind. I can still remember moving away from Annadale, Virginia when I was eight to my current home. But that was nine years ago next month. My how time flys. 1 Comment       I just feel like writing. Sunday, August 01, 2004 @ 2:27 AM Ever have one of those moments where you just feel like writing with no real point? I do as of this moment. And I wish there was a little icon that I could find that seems to say, 'Because...'. And I also feel like a bit of complaining which I won't get to right away. I'm using a lot of 'ands', right? Too many in fact. It has been raining off and on all day today again, like it has for the past week. My dad is quite happy because he old 1977 MGB is all fixed. My mom starts her new job tomorrow and she's dreading it. And I? I designed a new layout for my other journal and I have a paper to write that is due on August 5th for AP English. (There's the complaining). And I only have two paragraphs. I have take a historical perspective on it and compare/contrast two novels and the authors' purposes/themes and I also have to incorporate what resonates from each piece today. The books are Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. And I still have to work on it. Sounds fun doesn't it? Anyhow, sine I have only four to five days to work on the thing, I'm off. Comments?       This is really weird or something like that; just sharing a pic with everyone. Wednesday, July 28, 2004 @ 9:01 PM I am on my second bowl of cereal this morning and it has been raining for the past week or so nonstop I was just thinking how weird this was. Or at least I thought it was. Then I remembered a picture my dad sent me and I thought I would just share it with the rest of you. Well, yeah, that's about it. 4 Comments       Why do I keep procrastinating? Tuesday, July 27, 2004 @ 1:01 AM Why do I keep putting things off to the last minute? Why am I talking about this now? Well, perhaps I should explain. I'm an upcoming and rising senior in high school and we all know what the senior year in high school means. Slacking off, making the best year of our teenage lives, prom, and (my personal favorite) applying to colleges. But before I apply to college I must first visit sed college. Which I've have been putting off all summer. One of the college's I have my heart set on right now is Christopher Newport University. But for some reason, I just can't bring myself to call to set up a campus tour. Now what could be the meaning behind this? I don't want to face the fact that I am going thrown out upon the world's mercy around this time next year? Wait. That last sentence was a bit to dramatic. Let me try again. Maybe I just don't want to face the fact that everything will next year will be new and I don't like change. Perhaps I have neophobia: a fear of changer or anything new. Who knows? All I know is that this sounds like ranting of a teenager (me to be exact). So I leave you now with a question. I'm in a thinking/questioning type mood today. What came first: the chicken or the egg? 2 Comments       I'm bored with no end in sight (very much like the rain is right now). Sunday, July 25, 2004 @ 10:33 PM I need to make this a regular habit of writing here more often because it is very much fun to write here in this journal as well as my other one. So since a new month is beginning soon in about five or so days, I'm going to try and make this a habit. That last sentence was kind of redundant wasn't it? Ah. Never mind. Need to write because I have this urge to write. Don't ask why because I don't know why. Writing is fun for me and it is, at times, very random. Like now. I actually have nothing planned out for this entry so therefore it is not as systematic as I had originally planned. A lot of my writing happens like that when I'm hyper. Like now because I am hyper right now and stuff. Yeah. Hyper. Pausing, I try to figure out if I had a purpose for typing this. Oh yes! To complain that I am bored right now. So that means I'm bored. I've been online most of the day and I wrote a fic this morning and no one has left any comments on it yet. *tear* And I'm putting off working on my summer assignments for Government and English (no surprise there) and it has been raining since Friday with no end in sight. It rains too much where I am. And even though I like the rain, I don't like too much rain. Like it is now. Too much rain makes the blood sucking biting bugs come out. But it is nearing lunch time or so right now and I'm hungry. So I'm going to find lunch. Thank you for your time. You may return to your normal lives. 3 Comments       Ramblings of the jobless sort. Tuesday, June 22, 2004 @ 8:09 AM Warning: rambling ahead. Wow. I haven't updated here in what seems to be forever. Well maybe since May. I've been busy. And it is finally summer. And I am still trying to find a job and work endlessly on my AP assignments for government and English. I find myself staying up into the wee hours of the morning typing at my computer. Hmm. It all seems very endless. Endless to the point where I can't seem to do much of anything else I want to when I want to have fun. Or I could be imagining it. Either way, I've been busy. And I am still without a job. Almost all my friends have jobs. I don't. My parents keep putting pressure on me to get a job this summer. I still don't have one. Something keeps saying to me Get a job! It makes me feel like a lazy bum in truth just getting a free ride where in truth I don't want to feel like that. I have a job application laying three feet away from me. I have been putting off turning it in in fear of rejection and not getting the job. It is a kennel worker position at a pet hotel/groomer/shelter place type thingy. Why can't I turn the blasted thing in? I am so insecure. Argh! What is the worst that can happen? I get rejected and I try again? I dunno. It is next to impossible to find a job this late in the summer. Yeppers, next to impossible. But never say die right? I guess I've probably wasted your time, huh? Well, um here's a fic I wrote back in April. Click here. It might make this entry worth while. 2 Comments       I'm sick... and today of all days too! Saturday, May 08, 2004 @ 11:37 PM I'm sick on Mother's Day. Can you believe it? I hate being sick, but I'm sick. I haven't been sick since Christmas Day. Now I'm sick again... on Mother's day. I had a sore throat on Friday, felt okay Saturday but I can hardly breathe through my nose much less taste anything today. I just woke up from taking a nap listening to my Lord of the Rings Soundtracks. And I think I might get back asleep after I'm done typing this. Talk about a fantastic mother's day, huh? At she isn't being bothered by me, she out by the pool sunbathing last time I checked. I still have homework today, a lot of it. Chemistry, studying and stuff for English. I don't think I will be able to go to school tomorrow if I'm this miserable. And speaking of English, I have to write a research paper about traveling to Scotland. If anyone lives in Scotland/ has been there, can you give me some help with it, (such as links to websites?) I'm having some trouble since I can't find anything to help. Anyhow, yes, I just had to type to anyone who would listen. Thanks again and Happy Mother's Day. 3 Comments       I think I'm going to be sick... stupid SATs. Friday, April 30, 2004 @ 4:30 PM I feel sick. I have to take my first SAT this morning at eight. And I am just so nervous. I don't know why I'm acting like this. I'm very nervous. And I just had to get that out. Nervous about SATs. Very nervous. Wish me luck. 7 Comments       I just love making pictures; what do you think? Saturday, April 24, 2004 @ 4:09 AM I was playing around in Paint Shop this afternoon out of boredom. I was trying to learn how to make brushes and such. But I decided to play and test it a bit, so I made a wallpaper. This is what results of an afternoon of experimentation. What do you think of it? 4 Comments       It is almost 1 AM and I'm still not a sleep. Monday, April 19, 2004 @ 12:02 PM I hate nights like these. I stay in bed tossing and turning for about two hours unable to sleep. I try to read, to write, but nothing seems to work so I always find myself coming back to cyberspace. In the wee hours of the morning, I'm online when I am suppose to be in bed sleeping like the rest of the world. I just hate night like tonight. So I'm awake, wide awake really and I'll probably end up feeling rather cranky. Anyhow, yeah. It is also during the wee hours I feel inspired. It's not my best poem (and I'm rather nervous about putting it up) but please tell me what you think of it! It is called restless. I lay in bed at two o'clock in the morning. In every direction, I keep tossing and turning. Am I awake? Am I alone? I can't seem to rest No matter how hard I try my best Something keeps flashing my mind But it is something I cannot find. Why am I awake? Why am I alone? I am sick of feeling like this. I do not know why I am awake. I do not know why I am alone. It continues night after night With no end in sight. Whoever is listening, please let me go back to sleep. 2 Comments       I have made too many conspiracies about school and Mondays. Monday, April 19, 2004 @ 7:49 AM I just got done with my homework. I swear the school system is against me. The icon I choose describes my mood best, even though I am not sick. I've been a bit overwhelmed. Today was a Monday and the first day of school since my Spring Break ended. I have four classes that are about 92 minutes long each. I usually have about 90 minutes of homework normally from all my classes but not tonight. It was more like three to four hours worth of homework tonight. Work upon work upon work. And of course, three out of my four teachers weren't there today and we had subs. Which might had been a cause to have so much homework I suppose. It is a conspiracy! Why does my school give us a ton of homework every time we come back from a day off or a break? I would think teachers would easily ease students back into a routine. But I guess my school differs since I'm a junior in a high school in the middle of nowhere. *shrugs* I'm still recovering. Call me a drama queen but I just had to rant. Ah! I see it again. My homework! Ahhh! Hide me! You just gotta love Mondays. Comments?       Dreams are a very odd thing, honestly, they are! Wednesday, April 14, 2004 @ 10:45 PM Dreams. Sometimes it is hard to tell what is real and what is false. How do you know if this is truly reality? Who can say I've been The Matrix again? (I just got Revolutions yesterday.) Mine were very bizarre this morning and for some reason I remembered them. Right now, I'm on Spring Break from school. And I had a dream this morning about my teacher declaring we had a homework assignment due when we got back (even though we have no homework) and I found myself questioning if it really was real. And it all involved writing a paper on the division and classification with the relationships of LotR and a bicycle. Now, I do not know why I would have a dream like that. It is all just too crazy. Is there a relationship between a bicyle and LotR? Is it an analogy perhaps? Nuts, I know. I just came over from the forum and there was thread on dreams. (Hence, what inspired me to write this entry about.) I am rambling like a fool and I am having fun at the same. Sorry if this seems rather pointless. 3 Comments       Well, there's a first time for everything... Tuesday, April 13, 2004 @ 5:15 AM Well, first entry. Yesterday, I finally joined the CoE and I have been looking around since. I come across the journal feature and decided to give it a try with a first entry which happens to be this one. With journal entries, I usually feel like I have to do something that is deep and meaningful (just because I love philosophy so much.) But usually my life is normal and boring, which in most cases is a good thing because it stays within the realm of human control and understanding. And without reason we would not exsist. Honestly, I've been really bored lately becuase I've been off lately and I've had a lot of time to think. Well, I just thought I would try this out and say hi. So, hi. Hmmm, I seem to have finally done something producative today. It is great feeling random. I'm starting to feel sick again, allergies and all just because it is that time of year again. Spring: sometimes this season seems so unbearable to me. Am I the only one here who suffers from seasonal allergies? Anyhow, I feel as if I've been a complete bore and a very random person... or something like that. Till next time, good day to all the readers. 8 Comments