Sis and Captain made the engagement official yesterday! According to them, he took her to a park and into a gazebo. His sister was there to snap the photos when he made the proposal. Her ring is very pretty (yet adorable, since her ring size is really tiny). He actually came to church with us, today!
Captain was doing really well in my mom's dance classes, actually. These past couple of weeks, she'd been teaching "La botella" (man, doesn't that dance just make you regret everything?), and he was one of the people to get the hang of it the fastest. My mom started teasing the other guys, saying "Dude, even el gringo beat you!" ...Well, that's kinda a paraphrase, since my mom doesn't talk like that, but you get the gist.
My mom informed everyone, though, that she was gonna stop classes until we know what the heck's up with our living situation. I can't remember if I mentioned that my dad's been job-hunting and doing tons of interviews and stuff? I probably did. Anywho, that's still going on. There's... a lot of possibilities for where we'll end up going. Well, him and my mom, at least. Regardless of where his job is, I'll be at the U in the fall (and maybe summer), and my sis will soon be moving away with her fiance after they're married. My mom just wants to at least live close-by for the first semester that I'm in college, so I don't feel all alone, then she'll go move to wherever my dad ended up. We're all hoping he'll at least be in-state, but the likelihood's dropping.
I guess it's a little scary, how- much like all the other times in my life- we just have no idea what's gonna happen. My parents are a little more at-ease, at least, that I don't technically have to come along with them, at this point, but it also means we're all gonna be separate from each other.
I hope we'll all end up being happy with the situation, once things are worked out, and it doesn't get too... convoluted.
Well, let's start at the beginning of the week now, I guess.
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Uh... what'd I do at the beginning of the week?
Well, I just asked my mom, and all she could come up with was going to KF class on Tuesday (and we also went on Saturday). I guess I just did homework and fic-reading otherwise?
On Thursday, I had my first math test for the semester... Literally the only math tests I've done since last school year were the ones for Math Club. I missed having a proper math class.
Considering I've mostly done special math-y stuff, not science-y stuff, my dad's been pointing out that I could major in math. I kept being like "No, I don't wanna!", but now... I'm actually kinda thinking about it. Dang it, I'd already been like "But what if Chemistry?" or "But what if Medical Lab Technician?" (this one's a little less likely, but my dad figured there could still be some interesting stuff here), and now I also have "But what if Mathematics?" in my brain, too. I'm still put as a Biology major, but I'm less sure I'll still be that by the time I graduate...
Regardless of whatever I choose, I wanna make sure that what I study in my current Chem class will stick, cuz I'm definitely gonna need it. Unlike previous years, I'm really dedicating myself to memorizing the Periodic Table and stuff like that. (I want to reach the point where I can just rattle this stuff off like Edward Elric can. I can't find a gif of when he does that, but I know he does.) So far, I'm working on the elements in order (the first 23, so far), and common ions, and some of the key groups... Oh, and the diatomic elements. (He gave us a mnemonic, but I've just been going with "H-NOF, Br-ClI", pronounced kinda like "Enough, Br-Clyde!" I'd tried some other combos, but that's the shortest.) So... yeah. A lot of memorization now, so I can hopefully suffer a little less later.
As for my English class, my essay's refused to be short enough for the assignment given. That's right, short enough. The first draft that I printed out came out as 6 whole pages, when the max was supposedly 5. I asked my teacher to look through, and she said it was okay, since everything there was relevant and necessary and such, so at least I'm not still stressing over that. (I enlisted the help of two friends- the one with the fancy calculator from a month ago, and Carter- to get it shorter. There was a lot of hours of work put in, and it still ended up 6 full pages. Dude.) Ironically, she said I needed to add some more as to my own personal feelings and motivations and stuff, so... it's gonna be 7, in the end. Oops.
That's not the only essay I'm working on, though. I want to get the one for the scholarship at the U I wanna apply for done before the housing app opens, which is... this Friday, I think. I still have a lotta work to do, in that case. And I haven't even asked for my recommendations yet! *facepalm over and over*
Anyway, the essay's supposed to be about expressing my interest for math/science and my career goals. I have an idea for how I'll go about this, but I'm worried that it might just not be very impressive compared to some of the other girls that are applying. I mean, there's a lot of girls going into science now, and some of them have probably done really impressive stuff already. I feel pretty confident in admitting that I'm probably not as impressive. I really want this, though. It's not just money, but a guarantee that I'll get to do undergrad research. It's a little scary that I'd have to present what I do, but I'd have to do that if I sought out my own research opportunity later anyways.
Pretty much the only event left to speak of is a family friend, Pope (you pronounce the "e"), coming with her boyfriend and daughter for some tacos al pastor. I searched for a mention of her and/or her daughter in this blog, but I haven't found it! I thought I had during Winter Break 2014-15, at least... Nevertheless, her daughter's 7, now, and much like how she was when I played with her during that time mentioned. She definitely talks more now, though. Unlike that other time, where both of us went back and forth with the pencil, we kinda collaborated in a different way. This is what we ended up with, on my paper:
The face is a little disproportionate, but it's pretty decent otherwise. (I think the colors that she picked look pretty dang good, too.) Fun fact: it's probably not particularly noticeable, aside from the neck, but I'd put a bit of gray for shading in some parts. I'm pretty sure she had no idea what I was trying to do.
I also watched Alice Through the Looking Glass with her, which had some cool stuff, but... It kinda seemed like too much of a stretch from what I would call canon. I liked the interpretations of what the backstories could be, at least. And I approve the career they gave adult Alice!
Once they had all gone, I worked on QQ with Liz.
Oh, I'd forgotten to mention that, on Thursday and Saturday, I'd spent quite a bit of the evening working with Carter on his writing. He already had some random scenes written for his story (as far as I understand), but wanted me to give my two cents for the first chapter. (He actually recently added a character into the story who is introduced in this very chapter and has the same name as me, besides a very small change in spelling! Her appearance and personality and everything is very different, though; we basically just share name, gender, and wearing a pair of glasses.) I... usually can't provide very good advice for this sort of thing, so I dunno why Carter keeps asking me for it, honestly. I got to proofread, though, and it was fun reading the chapter.
As for my own work, WFAM... I haven't really done much actual writing for it, but... for whatever reason, I decided to write out a short script. I mean, I've kinda done two or three of those for school assignments, but I never did that on my own time. ...Though, now that I think of it, the RP-ish stuff I do with some friends is more script than prose... Whatever! The point is, it was a weird urge.
I guess I do kinda know the reason for how this happened, actually. It was pretty early in my WFAM notes, when I'd been thinking about "What if this was a movie?" since that would entail a different approach to the beginning of the story, as well as have music. I'd thought that, maybe, it could be shuffling through Cami's baby pictures, where it shows her normal, yet also contains pictures of her when she'd suddenly shifted into a random animal. Cami would say something about how weird it still is to know that that was her in all of those photos. For music, I'd thought something like Green Day or Paramore would be cool. A few days ago, though, I'd been looping through my Totem City CD, and thought "Hey, this music would work, too! This song could be for the final fight, or something else equally intense, and 'Prequel' could be in the opening!" Besides the fact that I love those songs, I figured it could also be a way to help the guy out to become better-known in the world, since he certainly deserves it. You know, if he wouldn't mind being known through a movie about shapeshifters.
I think it's from thinking about how "Prequel" could be used in the imaginary movie's opening scene that I ended up being like "I gotta write this down". And, since describing what's happening on a screen isn't the same as writing a novel, I wrote it like a play.
I don't know if this could really count as writing for the novel, since it's not in the style/format that I want the novel to be written in, but I don't think it's exactly bad that I'm trying this out.
Something different's gonna happen this week, so tune in next Sunday to find out what! Bye!
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