Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas! Happy Christmas! [whatever word you wish to use] Christmas.

Well, Tenth's Christmas Eve is over, and it was so fun. I was in the choir, as you most likely know, and my favorite piece to sing was "Masters in this Hall" which has such a lively tune that it made me smile. Second in my favorites came "Comfort, Comfort," and then "for Unto us a child is Born". Oh, and then "Ding, Dong, Merrily on High!". Oh, they were all fun to sing, and despite being SO hot in the choir-loft. And I think I most likely over-sang on the hymns. But who cares....

"Time! Time!"

Only two days 'til Christmas! And soon after that it will be 2007. 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!! How odd it that? I remember (dimly) Y2K, and it was six years ago, but you know that. I seem to be noticing that time is going faster the older I get. Specially if i have a History exam or something to write by next Thursday. Thankfully, this being Christmas break I have no History exam or something to write looming TOO close. True, I do have to write more of the story for writing class (currently entitled the slightly worrisome title of "It was the Lamp's fault really...").
However! I lost my "bet" that Sarah Em and I would finish editing The List of Names by Christmas. Given that we are 24 letters into a 71 letter editing process I have rather given up home... Oh, well! It's not like I want to be done with The List of Names, but I desperately want to move on to writing The Room of Darkness (the sequel). Oh well...

Harry Potter Title!!!!!!

J.K. Rowling has just released the title of book seven. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows... What do you guys think? Do you think it fits in with the rest? In case someone out there is reading this blog and doesn't know the titles of them I shall list them. Besides I want to, as this will be the first time I see all seven titles in one place.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I shall ask yet again, what do you think? I think it is a bit corny to have the word deathly in the title but I suppose that it will grow on me, and after all it isn't really what I think that matters. And as J.K. Rowling knows what is going to happen I am sure that it seems like the best title to her.....

Eragon!

Despite everything that everyone else says I really liked the Movie of Eragon. People have said the they left too much of the book out, and that there weren't enough people in the final battle. However! I think that we can't really judge them on what they put in or left out until we have seen all three movies. Because, although they did leave out things that I would say are "important", (such as Roren's Katrina, the child that Eragon blesses, and the Star-sapphire) I think that they will easily be able to put in the child and the Star-sapphire in a flash back and Katrina they will most assuredly be able to put in the second movie, Eldest.
And they did some things really, really well. The Sephira was really good (so cute when she was born, and then really impressive grown.) Brom was exquisitely well done by Jeremy Irons and was sarcastic and jumpy and all that he was supposed to be. Ed Speelers played Eragon very well, making him strong headed and slightly arrogant when it comes to his skills. I don't know HOW they found someone to play Roren who looked so much like Eragon. The Shade, Durza was satisfyingly creepy and mad looking and i really liked how they showed how powerful he was. Because in the final battle he actually made a dragon-sized creature of Dark magic to ride and fight Eragon and Sephira. My favorite character, Murtag(sp?) was also well done.
The only problem that I really found was that sometimes the way the people said things didn't really match the era that the movie is set in. But all in all I really liked it and it is the first move I have seen in a long time that Daddy said the he really liked.

Break!...... and things.

Christmas Break is here! Oh, Happy, day! I spent all day Friday reading, and then today (Saturday) my Grandmother graduated from Lancaster Bible Collage (College?). She is officially the oldest graduate that LBC has ever had. How odd.

I Don't like coming up with titles... my blogs always ramble anyway

I am SO ready for Christmas Break! I am studying and trying to remember all the slightly queer, and generally murderous leaders of the Greeks and Romans. I spoke of them in my last post. Oh, and as if I did not have my fill of Greek and Roman stories, I just finished reading the Odyssey for Lit Class, Hannah told me that since I am studying the Roman emperors as soon as Christmas Break starts, we need to watch "I Claudius".
And speaking of movies, Eragon is coming out on Friday. It is rather convenient as I will have finished an Exam on Thursday. A movie I want to see always seem to be coming out just as I finish my first semester at Westminster. Narnia came out the day after my last exam last year... How odd... I sort of think its cool.

Argggggggg.... School

But it is really my fault that I am behind in Algebra and German. Or the fact that I realized that the best way to study for my History exam would be to type in my notes. All 42 pages of them. I should have remembered to start work on it yesterday, or even Friday, but no, I only remember it this morning. So I worked on it on and off today and, low and behold, I didn’t get it all done. I still have about ten pages of Roman Emperors to type in. How Caligula elected his horse to the senate, and how Nero "fiddled while Rome burned", and how Claudius pretended to be retarded for however many years his nephew, Caligula, was emperor....

And yet, I think it is important to be able to stop at 10:00 and answer the phone when my best friend calls, and to be able to laugh and giggle with her about the most random things. About how we really do need to finish editing W.O.M. (Short for Worker of Magic, which was a sort of working title for our novel The List of Names) and that we really do need to start T.R.O.D. (Short for The Room of Darkness (Which, yes, is just as ominous as it sounds)). And guess what, I think I feel the better for having laughed at the antics of the Blancon(is that how you spell their name?) boys and at the ridiculous letters Sarah and I wrote to each other, and the Diary entries that we sometimes keep merely for the purpose of going back and laughing at ourselves. I realize that it is good to have a friend like her even if there are bumpy moments when we don't agree...

"Children's Book"

I don't think I knew a school assignment could seem like something I would do on my own. I have been assigned to write a "Children's Book" for writing class. Now a "Children's Book" can be for anyone between the ages of 2 and about 13, but I think what I am working on is aimed a bit more towards the 10-13 age group. It doesn't really have title yet (I hope to name it after the as yet unnamed country that it takes place in,) but the title right now is It was the lamp's fault really... Which just happened to be the starting line. I fear that some of the ideas are somewhat (what am I talking about?) VERY cliched but i hope that it will work out... As we all know, there is nothing new under the sun, right?

Melted marshmallows...

After making rice-crispy treats today, I am fairly sure that melted marshmallows would be sufficient to hold an anvil onto the side of a cliff...

New thing....

For any of you out there who are interested there is a new set of coins that are going to be soon released from the U.S. Mint. They are starting a new series, rather like the 50 State Quarters Program this new one is the Presidential $1 coin Program. Four of them released each year starting in 2007 they are planing on having one for each president. I think it sounds really cool, but then I do love collecting coins...