Long Live Dji-Madas-Gard, Aaand I'm Assassinated

Hello world!

For some reason, everyone was just being so rudely sassy at church today. It was like "Hm, who's gonna get roasted next?" and even the teachers accidentally started roasting people too. Insanity.

It's almost time for my sis to come home from China, and just this weekend she got the chance to actually go walk on the Great Wall. Apparently, she thought it necessary to twerk on the Wall... and put it on Facebook. Not quite sure what to think of that. *chuckle*

So, um, this was the last week of the math program... and I'm a bit sad it's over. By this last week, I actually felt like I was more friends with Cameron than Animo. Not that Cameron's a bad kid (though there were a few things he did that annoyed me a bit), but it was a bit disappointing that Animo seemed to gravitate more towards a few other people. I mean, I know plenty what it's like to end up being more of a backup friend than actual, close friend, and I'd been hoping such a thing wouldn't happen over the program, but... it kinda did, in my perspective. At least I never felt abandoned, because there were still other students and even TAs that I talked to.

At the very last minute, I got killed. In front of quite a bit of the group of students, too! Ugh, it was so embarrassing that I fell for Wei's trap so easily! *sings "Tears come streaming down your fa-ace~"* Like, I knew it was coming! I knew I should've known better the moment I blurted out "pencil"!  GRAH!

Yeah, um, I doubt I actually explained... There was this thing going on where everyone was given a target that was another student in the program and the "kill-phrase" (which had been encrypted with Caesar shift, so easily solvable). Basically, you tried to get that person to say the kill-phrase, and if you succeeded, then you got their card for their target and tried to assassinate that person too, and keep going like that.

It was actually through the help of my friends that we got my targets to say the kill-phrase, so I had two victories under my belt, and at the very moment I had been gunning to try to get my 3rd person, who just so happened to be standing right next to the girl who I found out at the beginning of lunch was trying to kill me. So I'd already been wary of Wei because I had the sneaking suspicion that she'd already tried an attack before. I had a feeling the word was "pen" or "pencil" or something like that because of the attack.

But then Wei totally threw me off when everyone was preparing to leave the cafeteria cuz she'd looked so concentrated on whatever she'd been writing or doodling or whatever in her notepad. Cameron asked her what she was doing, and she said she was writing a poem. She then said loudly in general: "Can you guys think of a word that rhymes with 'stencil'?"

I was an idiot and blurted out my first thought without thinking, then immediately regretted it. She laughed in victory while I groaned in self-depreciation and mentally kicked myself, and people started "Ooh!"ing once they realized what happened.

How did I fall for that trap so easily? I knew she was trying to get me! And I'd heard she'd already gotten, like, 4 other people killed already! And I was yet another victim!

Since she managed to get so many people, her team got extra points, and the competition between the teams really got heated, as if it wasn't already. That was noon on Thursday, our last day of camp and of being able to earn point so our team could win. There was Jeopardy after that, and the same team remained in front of the pack, just like the rest of the week.

Our last hope for the crown was the last hours in the computer labs, where our teams had to decrypt some questions and earn points for having the answers for them. However, every person in the team had different keywords that were required for different questions and we needed to send them to each other in order to have what was needed to crack the question. The difficult part is that we needed to encrypt the keywords, because if another team figured out what one of your words were, you lost a point and they gained one. So it was a battle of being able to send and receive messages in your team and also hack others while hoping your own code wouldn't be too easy to crack.

Things weren't going well for my team, because we got a new member at the last minute and we hadn't had time beforehand to properly communicate. One of the guys in our team had made an advanced version of the RSA code we'd use, but it was only useful if all of us had it, and that was easier said than done. Some took a while to be able to access the updated code (and the new guy might've never found it, poor thing) and sending things to each other became more difficult than it should've been.

So, until that whole issue got worked out, he and a few other guys in my team decided to go on a hacking spree, sabotaging the other teams. And they were good at it. Boom, boom, boom, they got word after word from the others. And our own code was capable of having much larger numbers, so most of our stuff was too big for everyone else to handle, and we never got hacked back.

Within the last few minutes, everything pulled together a bit more and he got enough codes to decrypt two of the questions and get more points for us, sealing our victory over Olympus, the one that had stayed at the top since Monday. VICTORY TO ASGARD! (Asgard was my team for the last week.)

That was a glorious moment. So proud of my boyz.

It was fun being in all three of my teams (Djibouti, Madagascar, and Asgard). I remained at the same table every time, and the teams that formed there were really ferocious and did what it took to try to make things difficult for everyone else. Using long numbers and messages (often the longest out of everyone) was practically our MO, along with showing pride for our name. ("Long Live Djibouti" became such a common phrase heard in the first two weeks that it ended up being out in the Jeopardy game, along with the fact that French and Arabic are the official languages of that country, which was something my team wrote for our very first decryption, which had been by Scytale. Animo won the points for that question cuz she managed to remember that! I was upset I couldn't quite think of the answer in time, but at least it was a fellow Djiboutian that got it, right?) We were kinda the team of jerks, I think (this table changes you...), but I had fun and wouldn't want it any other way.

I have a long way to go still in reading the book they gave us, The Code Book by Simon Singh- partly because I have library books that are more pressing to finish than a book I was given- but I'm hoping reading it and having it around will help me remember the material I was taught, along with keeping around all my notes and codes. I can use the codes we wrote on Sage anytime I want, since it's linked to my Google account, so that's good. Maybe sometime I can find someone who would like learning a bit about cryptography and the codes from me and/or want to trade encrypted messages with each other to see if we can crack them. And I'm hoping I can keep up with the number theory stuff I learned by going over my notes (which are all in pencil, so I hope I can still read them fine in the future...) and playing the dice game we'd play every day in class. It was fun but nerve-wracking cuz we always had a time limit to come up with an answer, so I probably wouldn't worry about doing it fast.

I wonder if I'd ever find someone to play the game with me?... The only people I can think of besides those from the program are maybe my sis or her boss (who was my math teacher last semester)? Maybe?

I went with the youth to the SLC temple for baptisms later on Thursday, which was different. I actually became a little bit closer to the other two girls that were there too, so I'm a little less sure about moving out of the ward or not.

While there, I wanted to have a calm song going through my head instead of what was usually in my head these past few weeks- Vocaloid, Paramore, etc.- and ended up with "Cold Inside" by B Story. Ah, good memories. I first found that song in Alabama. I was then a little less into it than "Back Then", but I still liked it a lot. I've been trying to keep it in my head since then since it's among the most quiet songs I like. I feel like too much has been going on in my head lately, and having loud songs stuck in there just doesn't help. This'll hopefully help clear it out a bit.

To my surprise, they actually like to go out and eat something after the temple, so we ended up at McDonald's. Not exactly my favorite place ever, but I wasn't going to complain, and I was actually hungry... Plus, I got a vanilla cone, which was pretty satisfying. I'm not big for the burgers there, but I learned in Mexico that McDonald's ice cream is actually pretty good. It was a little bit too much food for me, but otherwise it wasn't that bad, and the trip was actually kinda fun. (We went to Astro Burger yesterday, first time for me, and I think the food there was better. I ate far too much, but at least I succeeded in going just slow enough and leaving enough on my plate, for once, so I could have another full meal today. And again it was too much. My dad decided to buy a lot of food at once there, in case you couldn't tell.)

I believe I forgot to mention that my mom and I finally tried Café Rio for the first time two Saturdays ago. It was unexpected for me, because I thought it was more like the kinda of place where you sit down and order and get a platter of things like... um... I dunno, enchiladas or something? And I thought it was going to be way Tex-Mex and stuff. But no, it turned out to be like Barbacoa. My dad had already eaten Café Rio before, so he was like "It's good, right?!" and yeah, it was, but... I think I might like Barbacoa a bit better, even though last time we had a burrito from there was years ago. According to my memory, I feel like it's better, but it could just be stubbornness and bias. Yeah, probably.

Again, I ate way too much.

My mom wanted to try playing Michael Jackson: The Experience for exercise, so I finally plugged up our Wii and we played for a bit. Just a few songs in, though, she got called by Abuelita, so our session was over and she told me to play whatever. Since I hadn't played Tamagotchi: Party On! in quite a long time, I decided to try it again. I discovered while playing that there were a few things I hadn't understood before, but I guess I learned them too late in the game, cuz the CPUs crushed me devastatingly. Even though they're supposed to be normal but slightly closer to being idiots. That was rough. I kind of regret giving that game another chance, cuz it was pretty mean to me.

The short story is so far only titled "Demon Story", which kinda sucks, but otherwise I think it's going okay. I plan to just try to have the whole thing written and then go through and speed things up and add more interest, because I'm already a bit concerned that it might be slow. It's frustrating because I feel like I need to explain things so the reader isn't totally lost, but at the same time explaining everything makes it go unnecessarily long and bore everyone! And I also need to figure out how much humor to put into it! Mraugh!

Last thing. I keep remembering how a few years ago I put up a pic of a product I found in Smith's that amused me so, which helped me decide to do it again. This time, it's Walmart. You know how you can sometimes find things like sandwich cutters and sandwich boxes hanging around, especially in the bread section? Look what I found~

The photo might be a bit stretched for some reason, but you should still be able to see that it's supposed to imprint Spider-Man's face onto your sandwich. I would've wanted to get it because it's so funny if it didn't also waste a lot of sandwich!

Later this week I'll be going back to my normal school for Financial Lit, so I hope that goes okay and isn't too long and painful for me. *zombie groan* Wish me luck!

Let Us Decrypt My Future and Stories

Hello world!

Happy Father's Day!

Trust me when I say I'd actually written part of the post last week, but it was put on hold because it was Darkrai's b-day, and, well... That's more important than getting to finish a diary entry. And, of course, I had it copied just in case, but then I lost it all again because of copying and pasting song lyrics. Ugh. That happens way more often than it should.

I don't think there was much besides talking to Darkrai and mentioning that he has a pretty cool story called "Wander" on Wattpad, so at least it wasn't like I lost hours of work... but it's still frustrating!

Okay, a lot's happened these past few weeks, so I'll get right to it and hope I get everything down.

The biggest thing has been the summer math program. It's definitely not what I expected. I mean, I'm not entirely sure what I expected, but I guess it wasn't this.

For one thing, the subject matter's actually more about cryptography than pure number theory, so most of what we do is actually related to using or breaking ciphers. There's been plenty about theory, of course, but we put it in practice through quick games and ciphers and codebreaking competitions! In fact, since all our tables are teams, practically everything's a competition. I'm not quite so big on this sort of thing as a lot of the others, but it's still been fun.

In fact, the girl who's pretty much been my best friend (I'll call her Ani) thrives on this sort of thing because she loves sports. We have a lot in common, but there's certain things like that where we're opposites. (She's a dog person!

NOOOOO!...) She keeps saying we're half-twins due to that.

Really, it's surprising to see how different everyone is. No one's a pure nerd. She's straight-up tomboy, some other people are LotR geeks, and some of us (like me) suck at chess (yet Ani and I have ended up playing 4-player chess with these two other kids a few times during lunch anyway)... Then there's all the different races, and a surprising amount of kids that were literally born in China. But all of us are united in that we are good at math, and most of the kids there love math. I don't know, I think it's pretty cool. (I'll admit, though, we all kinda have dorky laughs.)

The loving math is probably the weirdest for me, because these kids' brains are basically mathmatically-oriented instead of I-hate-math-oriented, so most have taken way advanced classes at school and can understand the new concepts like that, while I'm here often struggling to keep up. Nate, a kid that's been part of my team twice now, is absolutely insane. You can almost always expect him to have the answer first. Like, sometimes he only takes a second after the question's been posed to have the answer ready. Tons of multiplication and exponentiation problems he can figure out mentally with no trouble at all. He has a way of making you feel a bit inadequate... But at least I'm not alone in that. *nervous laugh and sweatdrop*

There's also been a lot of coding on computers, which is also related to the cryptography stuff, cuz we use them to make codes to encrypt and decrypt messages. I've literally only done half an hour of coding before, and that was practically copy-and-pasting instead of being taught properly. And so, I certainly didn't have it as easy as the kids like Cameron (I guess I'll just call him that since he's been going by his middle name instead of first around here) who have taken actual programming classes before. Ani apparently had a bit more experience, but she struggled just as much. It's awesome that the TAs help you as much as necessary, but I wish I could just catch on fast enough to get at least most of it done on my own. Gah.

What I've learned from this besides te material itself is that mathematicians are probably cooler than you think, and that I'm not quite as strong in math in comparison to other things as I expected. Like, I find it easier to just write out the rules and other notes instead of equations (I don't know how these people came up with the equations sometimes!) while Ani actually thinks equations are easier to write than explaining in normal sentences. I'm more writing-oriented, I guess? So, I mean, that's not horrifying, especially since I hadn't planned to get a math major anyway, but it's still a bit concerning considering I planned to go into science, which basically goes hand-in-hand with math. Would I have a hard time studying and having a career in this stuff? I was already worried cuz I don't feel like I'm as smart as some people and perhaps not smart enough for a career in the scieces, and this experience has kinda emphasized that gap. Would it really be better to be an author and proofreader instead?

Ugh, there's this divide that's been tugging at both ends of me ever since 10th grade. I thought I'd fixed it by saying "I'll do Genetics and have a Creative Writing minor, which should satisfy both pathways", but I don't think that's enough. Like, I'd want to do that anyway if I decided I really did want to go for genetics, but I don't want to go through all the trouble of a degree in genetics and then end up not using it. If I really did do just more write-y stuff, I don't know if I'd even want to bother with some sort of degree. That field is a lot harder to get into, though, and I've already said I don't want to bet on my writing skills for my wage. I'm a bit inconsistent, and I don't think I have enough inspiration in me to complete all the books I'd need to write to make a living off them, so I'd really rather not risk it. And, well, most proofreaders are free-lance, and would require really good knowledge of grammar, which would mean you would need to have some sort of degree, and taking classes about the fine points in written English does not sound fun at all. There's very worrying things about both paths.

So what

do

I

do?

Whatever the case of my career path, my parents think my "sales pitch" to colleges should be being a writer, since everyone knows I've done a pretty decent amount lately (though my mom and dad don't know it's mainly fanfics...), which I understand, but that also means... Well, I need to have work that I can actually show to colleges. Completely original stuff. Allí está el detalle.

If I actually manage to get WFAM written at the end of this year, that's definitely a point for me, cuz it'll show I really am passionate about writing and I can get stuff done. But just in case, I should have some short stories done by the time I do my college application.

That's why I'm so happy that I found the inspiration for a possible short story I could make. And I can say it's original because the inspiration's actually from stuff I wrote 2-ish years ago. I read through a few of my old works two weekends ago, including one I'd titled "Anticlimatic". That was basically the first draft to "The Shortest OC Story Ever". Not sure if I talked about it on here... Probably not.

Anyway, the idea starts out basically the same as the one-shot I actually posted: Truth comes to the OC, asks if she wants to go to Amestris, she says no, and she wakes back up in her original world. There's changes in how all of that came to pass, but the basic plot is in both. However, near the end of "Anticlimatic", it's shown that the OC actually has some sort of power that was able to overcome Truth's grasp, rather than him just letting her go, so it leaves you wondering how she was actually capable of doing such a thing and whether she'd ever make use of the power again. Though I'd cut the story there, I'd thought that it was rather interesting, and I could possibly make something out of it in the future.

I told Carter about it, since we were texting, and he voiced how cool he thought the idea was. I then remembered that a short time after that I'd started on the story I'd tried to write in Spanish, which was supposed to have a similar premise but never got past the exposition, which is quite a disappointment. (If you're curious, I'd gone digging for when I'd written about this story, and finally found that it was in the post titled "Bratja" from October 2014, and I also talked about it in "He's Not Truth" sometime last year.) He also thought that idea was fascinating, which kinda boosted my self-esteem (about my ideas for stories, at least, since I'm generally embarrassed about my old stuff), and I really got to thinking about whether I could really made a second attempt at this sort of plot.

It finally came to me late on Friday how I could convert "Anticlimatic" into an original short story, so I started writing for it after I finished with this one-shot called "Food Fight" I was asked to do by one of my favorite fic-writers, so I'm really hoping she likes it!

Since I pretty much have framework already laid out for the basic idea, cuz this is based on a complete one-shot, I think I'm more likely to manage to finish it and thus be able to use it as an example (though I'm worried about whether a dream demon is an acceptable main character for something I wanna show Stanford, Duke, and BYU? *sweatdrop*). And, well, if I managed to come up with more complete short stories over the summer, that'd be really awesome!

If I may return to the math program real fast, I'm gonna mention that they've made us do two scavenger hunts around the college campus twice now... I'm so completely incapable of withstanding all this running around. At least the last one they'll give us will have the smallest amount of distances to travel, but the clues will be harder to solve.

Also, I've basically been dared by a TA to make 1,000 origami paper cranes by Monday, and, um... I kinda only have 10 so far. The problem is that I tried to make the squares as small as I could to not waste too much paper, and that means I have to take longer to fold them properly in comparison to the typical sizes of paper people usually use. I'd planned to aim for a hundred over the weekend, but I procrastinated more than I should've (along with taking so much time just to do those tiny 10), so I think I'll try for a hundred by the last day of the program. Wish me luck.

There's also that I'm thinking of trying to write my own way of encrypting. I mean, I'm gonna base it more on classical ciphers rather than modern (like the public key cipher) since it's funner, but that means it's more likely to be broken. Oh well.

So far, I've gotten ideas about how I could remove or add letters to the cipher alphabet so it's a little harder because frecuency analysis won't be as useful and it'd confuse someone over whether they were actually decrypting correctly. Besides that, I figured autokey or Vigenére and columnar transposition would be a decent combination. We'll see how that goes.

Oh! I finally remembered something that I'd talked a bit about last week that got erased! I mentioned that that week there were less Young Women at church for some reason... and that actually made church a bit more enjoyable, as bad as I feel about saying it. There's a few girls that just make me feel a bit more uncomfortable about talking in front of than they should... and, well, since they weren't here, then it was easier to goof off. In fact, probably a little too easy. I ended up letting slip a few more surprising things about me that they didn't know before, like how I dance... (At that part, one girl was like "I knew you weren't as innocent as you look!" Um, how am I supposed to respond to that...?) And how I say "Savage!" and do the whip and stuff like that far more than I should, considering it's popular stuff from a year ago or older. I still Doge, in fact, when that's more like three years ago. I should not be Dogeing.

I think pretty much all that's left to mention is that the Open House thing our ward was trying out two Saturdays ago... was basically a fail. As far as I could tell, no one besides actual members of our ward showed up. And so, all the lessons were being given to us instead. It was actually kinda fun, honestly, but I felt bad about the sister missionaries coming all the way here to teach and only getting us instead. We tried!

"ROTARY DIAL" and "BLACK & WHITE" by Ghostie are really weird but cool, by the way. I've actually been trying to figure out a dance for the first song and if there's a cool way to mashup the two together. The latter would probably be best if I waited for her to come out with the third that completes the case and put all three in one. Of course, it's not like I'll actually post any project... And not just cuz I don't have the equipment not the bravery, but Ghostie's against anyone fiddling with her songs and posting the fiddled results. Doubt the dance would've been interesting enough, either, cuz I'd imagined it would be better if it was, like, one of the corner cameras in an acapella cover so there's more going on than someone just singing, but... How are you supposed to manage to acapella those songs?

Alright, I think I'm done here... Gotta go work on those cranes. Again, Happy Father's Day! K bai!

I Have a Rory

Hello world!

Flower, gleam and glow

Let your power shine

Make the clock reverse

Bring back what once was mine

Heal what has been hurt

Change the Fates' design

Save what has been lost

Bring back what once was mine

What once was mine...

['Cause] I've got a dream! I've got a dream!

I want to go see all the floating lanterns gleam! ...

It'd be a great shame if you didn't know what that mashup thing just referenced to... We watched Tangled last Friday night, most of it at the park. My mom had never seen it, and my dad only the first half-hour years ago, so I was glad they'd finally watch it, and even more, they really liked it! I was worried about my dad because he likes to complain about Frozen, but apparently the story makes more sense in Tangled to him? I dunno, I just love the songs and the jokes.

And now I also remember my last girl's camp, since our cabin's theme was The Snuggly Duckling and our skit was making a choreography to "I Have a Dream". I think it was one of the funniest out of all the skits, but that could just be me... I don't think I ever mentioned it before.

What I can remember is that I was part of the first verse, where one (or two?) girl(s) acted as a piano and me the pianist. I went so intense during rehearsal my glasses flew off, and in the real performance I almost hit my head. I'm just too much of a rock star. *flips hair back*

The second and third verses I don't remember all that well, besides that there was a girl piggy-backing another on some line about a horse, and on "and lying on enormous piles of money!" everybody did the hand thing where you're... Um, I guess it's like in the "Dolla dolla bills, y'all" gif? Yeah, we all did that.

Then when Rapunzel sings her verse, they went all out with popular dance moves. The girls for that part were nei-nei-ing on the "floating lanterns gleam!" line, and the single whip on the "I'm so glad I left my tower!" will forever be imprinted in my brain.

While one small group from our cabin was performing for a verse, the rest of us were lined up, sitting on the edge of the stage, and when they did the more chorus-y part, we alternated between standing and crouching a bit, thus bopping up and down.

Then the finale was mildly spectacular. We all lined up perpendicular to the edge of the stage and got to one knee, and the girl who was our "Rapunzel" walked on our path of knees to the end in front of the audience, and we all went "Hey!" at the finish of the song.

I wish I remembered it better, cuz then I could tell people about it properly. *sigh*

I wanna officially memorize the Tangled songs, starting with "At Last I See the Light". I already have a few of the lyrics on my iPod from putting them there a few years ago, but I only bothered trying my hand at the song for making her hair glow. I still remembered it all right except one line.

Quick update: I have officially memorized the short version of the first The Law of Ueki opening song, along with all of "Ready Steady Go!" They're pretty drilled in there now. I have some other songs I wanna work on, too, so I'll have to get to them. Probs either "Let It All Out" or "Undo" next.

Oh! Due to the small Talent/No-Talent Show we had on our last day of seminary, I memorized "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan cuz my friends wanted us to all sing it together... but in the end they decided that was too embarrassing and we all did something different. Since it's the best I can do on short notice, I just danced and sung "Tahiti, Tahiti". People looked pretty impressed and surprised, even though I could feel my voice shaking a little bit from nervousness. One of my friends wanted me to give her the words, and so I had first written down the words how I knew them, but she also wanted a translation, so I had to check the Internet. As far as I saw, most of it we were singing right (though maybe putting the spaces between words wrong) but there were some parts we didn't have right. So, I worked on memorizing the correct way to sing it. I sure hope I remember...

Basically, a whole lot of memorizing going on here.

Did you spot how I said last day of seminary? Yep, it was the last week of school. And we didn't do much. My busiest day was Thursday, since we had the final assembly and yearbooks and hanging out outside. I ran around outside for, like, 2 hours, looking for friends to sign my yearbook (this is the first I actually have in a few years, and I wanna make it count!) and asking as many people as possible if they wanted to sign my sister's. As expected, hers ended up with plenty more than mine, but I almost expected even more than that. Huh.

Friday was technically the last day, but I didn't bother because not only were few people gonna be there, but the teachers were gonna be in meetings the entire day, so I couldn't get help on any final concerns I had, like that of my Chemistry grade ending up being an A- even though I had 100% on all the quizzes and assignments, as far as I could tell... I was hoping I wouldn't need to redo a test or something, or at the very least not get my grade entered in yet. It's probably not, but I'm still nervous about if it will indeed be made official before I'm happy with it. I can't expect to get into Stanford for science if everything's straight A's except science!

So I basically had Friday off, which I used to tidy up my final chap for VH and post it. I mean, it was the anniversary of when I put up the first chapter (that surprised me, since I forgot I'd done it when we'd already been in Oregon for a week or so; I remember posting something in my final weeks in Alabama, but that was a one-shot), plus it was (technically) my last day of junior year and of normal high school (as if my second semester this year was normal, but whatever), plus a bunch of authors that I luv and received inspiration from for some parts of VH (especially the alternates) posted something this week. Some of them don't post for months. This was just crazy!!!

So, perfect day to post the final chapter. For reals.

I also had this Monday off due to Memorial's Day, and we used it to go out together. We went to the special effects makeup store (where I got the fake blood for the Halloween costume! I'll need to practice using it sometime soon) and then our favorite restaurant ever, Shanghai Café (awesome food in SLC!).

Anyway, since VH is done, I've been trying to focus more on writing for "An Extra Soul Trapped Yet Saved", which I might shorten to "A Soul Trapped Yet Saved". Yeah, I think it sounds better. I'll probably refer to it as "Astys" around here from now on. I started on a few future scenes, which I usually don't like doing, but I feel like it's better to just let my brain do what it wants so I can develop my character better, and then fill in all the blanks. And I actually have been figuring her out a bit more!

Her name is Rory Madgett, and she was a ginger/redhead 15-year-old before all this stuff happened. She has a rather odd and varied list of interests and hobbies: she likes ballet and martial arts, she likes Drachman stuff (but the interest will get shifted to Xing later), and she likes trying to imitate people's voices. She likes reading novels and such, but things like math and science and trying to write something herself are difficult, so alchemy is just way out there for her, and it takes a long time for her to get the hang of it. She mothers the brothers a bit, but they barely listen to anything she says.

I think that's pretty much it for important personality kinds of things? I noted a few crucial scenes and stuff, but I won't bother with that. I hope I can truly make Rory unique and important in their lives!

Oh no, I forgot to mention! I was finishing up VH while my mom was out with my aunt to buy tickets to a Juan Gabriel concert this October, and they managed to get seats for them, me and my sis, and a friend in a pretty decent spot! So that means I really need to work on my Juanga songs so I can sing along when we're there...

Still reading Spiderman comics.

K, looks like there's two things left on my list. One, we went to Brorange's house today. Turns out their AC isn't really working, and the weather's already over 90 outside constantly. Many funtimes, right? We still got a lot of time to hang out and have fun, so I was willing to deal.

Two, I tried playing my MP3s on my flash drive on our computer, and basically all of them worked! I wasn't sure, since my old phone hasn't wanted to play some... But so all the songs I'd left over from my old phone are there, plus a bunch of others I'd tried to put on. Though it's currently only on my flash drive, I have a huge playlist I can play on our computer when I'm home alone. *little smile*

K, looks like that's everything for now. The summer math program begins tomorrow! Ahh!!! Wish me luck!