Hi.
I bet you're all thinking, "Wow! She must be bored to update twice in two days!"
And you'd be right. That and I'm trying to avoid doing my geography homework by blogging and reading Star Trek fanfiction.
Ahhh! Where did my brain go?
Something which is truly important which I don't think I mentioned in my last blog is my plan to become an astronaut. Obviously, as I'm only 13, I have a long time to wait!
I am trying to work on the qualities that an astronaut needs, such as concentration.
Oops.
I'll have to try harder. I'm also trying to find out whether it is possible for a short-sighted person, whose vision problems are corrected by glasses, can become an astronaut. Different sources tell me different things.
Beyond Uhura by Nichelle Nichols unexpectedly told me that astronauts can in fact be short sighted, whilst How To Become An Astronaut by Amanda Li says the opposite.
I hope Ms Nichols is correct, because otherwise my dreams are kinda sunk.
I just finished reading Brisingr by Christopher Paoloni! It is so, so brilliant. I can't wait for the next book to come out.
Or for Doctor Who: The End Of Time Part 2, which airs tomorrow. What will happen?
Suspense is mean.
....And I've run out of things to say. Hopefully I'll write again soon. It's good writing practice, anyway, and at least I'm "Expressing Myself". My psychologist would be please.
Bye,
from
Tamsin
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Long time no see!
And it has been an awfully long time since I've updated this. Truth be told, I can't even remember when it last was. The end of last NaNoWriMo, perhaps?
Anyway, it was a year ago at the very least.
If anyone is reading this, Happy Christmas! I know it was a few days ago, but I hope you had a good Christmas anyway.
Now, onto updates!
In the last year I have:
Discovered MyLifeIsAverage.com
Re-learnt the words to the pokemon theme tune
Fallen way behind on my homework
Read the sequel to Generation Dead
Been forbidden from participating in NaNoWriMo
Desperately missed Doctor Who
Been ecstatic at each Doctor Who special
Read an awful lot
and loads of boring stuff.
However, my best achievement (After, of course, escaping the insanity which gripped me for eight years) is this:
I DISCOVERED STAR TREK!!
I know, I know. This seems trivial. But not to me.
I used to watch Star Trek when I was really young, my favourite character being Molly O'Brien and my favourite episode "Time's Orphan". I was very disapointed to learn of it's correct name, because for years, my sisters and I have re-enacted it, time and time again, calling it simply "Molly and the big black hole."
In recent years, I haven't watched it. It stopped being on at convenient times, I didn't watch television, and it was "The Show That Mum Likes."
I was extremely reluctant, in fact, to even watch the new Star Trek movie. I was adamant that it would be aimed at fans and have so much background for me to understand a word of it.
I even remember (Oh how I laugh now!) hearing them, in the opening scenes, mention Klingons and grumpily thinking "Oh great, it's already steeped in background. What in the multiverse are Klingons?"
Ah, pitiable younger me. :)
I was at the edge of my seat for the entire film. I loved it. Action, Sci-fi, adventure-although, as I hate so-called "mature" scenes, some of Kirk's behavoiur was repugnant to me.
As I know say, in the best form of a bad joke, my love for Star Trek was born with an action packed movie, a few childhood memories, and a desperate need to go to the toilet.
A little embarrassing, but it was said to my twin. She understands. She has now also been elevated to Trekker-dom, despite at first claiming that "The Cowboy dude was better", referring to Night At The Museum 2, which we had viewed earlier in the week.
Well! I haven't seen anywhere near all the episodes, but I watch Trek daily, am attempting to learn Klingon, attend conventions, wear costumes in casual situations-well, My life has changed a lot.
Star Trek- the epitome of awesome television.
from
Trekker Tamsin
P.S If anyone reading this thinks I'm a geek or a dork, keep in mind that, never having watched Star Wars, My taste in sci-fi is awesome. I think.
Anyway, it was a year ago at the very least.
If anyone is reading this, Happy Christmas! I know it was a few days ago, but I hope you had a good Christmas anyway.
Now, onto updates!
In the last year I have:
Discovered MyLifeIsAverage.com
Re-learnt the words to the pokemon theme tune
Fallen way behind on my homework
Read the sequel to Generation Dead
Been forbidden from participating in NaNoWriMo
Desperately missed Doctor Who
Been ecstatic at each Doctor Who special
Read an awful lot
and loads of boring stuff.
However, my best achievement (After, of course, escaping the insanity which gripped me for eight years) is this:
I DISCOVERED STAR TREK!!
I know, I know. This seems trivial. But not to me.
I used to watch Star Trek when I was really young, my favourite character being Molly O'Brien and my favourite episode "Time's Orphan". I was very disapointed to learn of it's correct name, because for years, my sisters and I have re-enacted it, time and time again, calling it simply "Molly and the big black hole."
In recent years, I haven't watched it. It stopped being on at convenient times, I didn't watch television, and it was "The Show That Mum Likes."
I was extremely reluctant, in fact, to even watch the new Star Trek movie. I was adamant that it would be aimed at fans and have so much background for me to understand a word of it.
I even remember (Oh how I laugh now!) hearing them, in the opening scenes, mention Klingons and grumpily thinking "Oh great, it's already steeped in background. What in the multiverse are Klingons?"
Ah, pitiable younger me. :)
I was at the edge of my seat for the entire film. I loved it. Action, Sci-fi, adventure-although, as I hate so-called "mature" scenes, some of Kirk's behavoiur was repugnant to me.
As I know say, in the best form of a bad joke, my love for Star Trek was born with an action packed movie, a few childhood memories, and a desperate need to go to the toilet.
A little embarrassing, but it was said to my twin. She understands. She has now also been elevated to Trekker-dom, despite at first claiming that "The Cowboy dude was better", referring to Night At The Museum 2, which we had viewed earlier in the week.
Well! I haven't seen anywhere near all the episodes, but I watch Trek daily, am attempting to learn Klingon, attend conventions, wear costumes in casual situations-well, My life has changed a lot.
Star Trek- the epitome of awesome television.
from
Trekker Tamsin
P.S If anyone reading this thinks I'm a geek or a dork, keep in mind that, never having watched Star Wars, My taste in sci-fi is awesome. I think.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
What a strange perosn i appear to be...
Okay, so i haven't updated in a little *Coughlongcough* time, but i kind of lost my password...heh heh.
Anyhoo, my life is quite odd at the moment. Everything in reality that i am looking forward to is in the next few weeks. Everything on TV that i am looking forward to is in 2010.
Reality: Casting of school play, agent watching drama class, entering My Camp Rock, my birthday, finding out whether i can go to this summer camp thing.
TV: Doctor Who new series-with teh new Doctor, Matt Smith!-, My favourite book series Percy Jackson and theOlympians is being made into a film, and...ummm....Well, i don't watch TV all that much, okay!
I have finally managed to update a few of my stories on fanfiction.net as well. I've even begun a new one, a comedy called Annabeth's Headache. Now everyone is asking me to continue it and i'm like But how? I don't knkow what happens next!
I will try, though. I lvoe the fanfic too, and i did promise.
I am reading this book, Remembrance, by Theresa Breslin for Accelerated Reading at school. I am one of the top readers because I never stop reading! I read very fast, and at least one book a day.
It is a very good book. It is amazing, and beautiful, and moving, and sad, and so many other things. It is wonderful.
I've also been reading a book by Alyssa Brugman, Walking Naked. It's just amazing. I could really identify with one character, a girl called Perdita. It is really well written and is a realistic
depiction of what life is actually like in schools today.
It was just....wow. I actually e-mailed the author to tell her this, and she replied very nicely! She even gave me some advice!
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the best book series ever, all of my favourite books end in death, whenever i write stories recurring themes are torture, grief, pain, betrayal and death.
Okay then.
I'm not as morbid as you'd think, well, maybe i am. Who knows? Not me. Well, no one but me would. I do think about death and other such serious matters quite a lot. I plan to become a diplomat when i am older, so that i can help to bring peace to the world.
This is better than a diary in some ways for organising my thoughts. It doesn't matter who reas it, it's easy to write, it's just my brain, completely unedited.
Happy New year to anyone reading this. I hope you had a good christmas.
For Christmas i got 4 Toblerone! I love Toblerone! I also got 2 cds, 24 books (Yes, i counted!), some stickers, 4 pairs of socks, a few pens, 2 notebooks, and some more chocolate.
I have a big family.
Yay!
Anyway, i'm desperate to go to this summer camp in the US based on my fave book series, but we have not got enough money because plane tickets are so expensive! I havenm't stopped thinking about it since i found out of its existence, and i hold out hope. Just.
Best wishes,
Tiamat.
Anyhoo, my life is quite odd at the moment. Everything in reality that i am looking forward to is in the next few weeks. Everything on TV that i am looking forward to is in 2010.
Reality: Casting of school play, agent watching drama class, entering My Camp Rock, my birthday, finding out whether i can go to this summer camp thing.
TV: Doctor Who new series-with teh new Doctor, Matt Smith!-, My favourite book series Percy Jackson and theOlympians is being made into a film, and...ummm....Well, i don't watch TV all that much, okay!
I have finally managed to update a few of my stories on fanfiction.net as well. I've even begun a new one, a comedy called Annabeth's Headache. Now everyone is asking me to continue it and i'm like But how? I don't knkow what happens next!
I will try, though. I lvoe the fanfic too, and i did promise.
I am reading this book, Remembrance, by Theresa Breslin for Accelerated Reading at school. I am one of the top readers because I never stop reading! I read very fast, and at least one book a day.
It is a very good book. It is amazing, and beautiful, and moving, and sad, and so many other things. It is wonderful.
I've also been reading a book by Alyssa Brugman, Walking Naked. It's just amazing. I could really identify with one character, a girl called Perdita. It is really well written and is a realistic
depiction of what life is actually like in schools today.
It was just....wow. I actually e-mailed the author to tell her this, and she replied very nicely! She even gave me some advice!
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the best book series ever, all of my favourite books end in death, whenever i write stories recurring themes are torture, grief, pain, betrayal and death.
Okay then.
I'm not as morbid as you'd think, well, maybe i am. Who knows? Not me. Well, no one but me would. I do think about death and other such serious matters quite a lot. I plan to become a diplomat when i am older, so that i can help to bring peace to the world.
This is better than a diary in some ways for organising my thoughts. It doesn't matter who reas it, it's easy to write, it's just my brain, completely unedited.
Happy New year to anyone reading this. I hope you had a good christmas.
For Christmas i got 4 Toblerone! I love Toblerone! I also got 2 cds, 24 books (Yes, i counted!), some stickers, 4 pairs of socks, a few pens, 2 notebooks, and some more chocolate.
I have a big family.
Yay!
Anyway, i'm desperate to go to this summer camp in the US based on my fave book series, but we have not got enough money because plane tickets are so expensive! I havenm't stopped thinking about it since i found out of its existence, and i hold out hope. Just.
Best wishes,
Tiamat.
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Secure and loved
Ok, i know i'm using my blog as a diary and it may be silly to confide all this in complete strangers. But you know what? It feels easier. I mean, writing stuff in a diary gives you a certain degree fo comfort, but it doesn't feel like anyone has heard you or you can get advice back.
So now i get to the point of this:
My mum just cut my hair for me and i felt really happy and safe and she did this thing she used to do when i was little and i loved it. I felt free again.
Then i mentioned how sometimes i wish i was still a toddler and asked my mum if she felt the same.
I meant if she ever wished she was a toddler, but her answer surprised me. She said that she wished that my twin and I were toddlers all the time, because when we were toddlers we were happy and free and there was a glint in our eyes showing that we knew we were secure and loved.
Apparently when my dad left that glint disapeared. I'm not surprised. After my dad left i thought no one loved me for a while. But my mum sounded so sad and wistful talking about it.
She said that even though i was secure an dlove,d i still didn't loook like i knew it.
The truth is, sometimes i don't. But i know my mum loves me and this has just proved it for me.
I do have a loving family who have stuck by me through thick and thin. I have suhc an amazing family.
So i would like to say now, mum, bobby, beco, You are the best family that anyone could ever wish for and i will always love you.
I used nicknames for my sisters by the way. I didn't think thye'd want their names online.
So now i get to the point of this:
My mum just cut my hair for me and i felt really happy and safe and she did this thing she used to do when i was little and i loved it. I felt free again.
Then i mentioned how sometimes i wish i was still a toddler and asked my mum if she felt the same.
I meant if she ever wished she was a toddler, but her answer surprised me. She said that she wished that my twin and I were toddlers all the time, because when we were toddlers we were happy and free and there was a glint in our eyes showing that we knew we were secure and loved.
Apparently when my dad left that glint disapeared. I'm not surprised. After my dad left i thought no one loved me for a while. But my mum sounded so sad and wistful talking about it.
She said that even though i was secure an dlove,d i still didn't loook like i knew it.
The truth is, sometimes i don't. But i know my mum loves me and this has just proved it for me.
I do have a loving family who have stuck by me through thick and thin. I have suhc an amazing family.
So i would like to say now, mum, bobby, beco, You are the best family that anyone could ever wish for and i will always love you.
I used nicknames for my sisters by the way. I didn't think thye'd want their names online.
NaNoWriMo winner 2008!
After working very hard all day, i am pleased to announce that i have just had my novel word count validated on teh YWP NaNoWriMo Website, and i have been officially declared a Winner!#
It was hard but thanks to Write Or Die, with gives a negative stimulus to keep you writing, i managed it! 50,000 words in 30 days!
I also have a new pen-pal. Its wierd, because we met on a pen pal website. My twin started e-mailing her and her best friend, and then i started e-mailing her too! It really is a small world.
WE had to walk to church this morning because the car is being mended. Its going to take all week so i'll probably lose a lot of weight walking to guides, to school, home, to drama, to piano, to singing.
My legs hurt already!
We got teh bus back though. We've lost our Oyster cards and she had to get us these temporary ones. It was quite weird.
I really like the book Twilight. If you're wondering how i went from buses to Twilight, here it is-after getting the Oyster cards, we went into the Odeon to see if we could book tickets for it yet. We're going with some friends in a group when school finishes. Twiligth comes out on the same day.
I can't wait til Christmas! I have had such a busy month and December will probably be no less busy. It will still be fun though. I plan o updating some of my fanfictions. I haven't done that in about a year so the few readers that i get will probably be annoyed.
Here is my winner icon thing from NaNoWriMo:
Bye for now everyone!
It was hard but thanks to Write Or Die, with gives a negative stimulus to keep you writing, i managed it! 50,000 words in 30 days!
I also have a new pen-pal. Its wierd, because we met on a pen pal website. My twin started e-mailing her and her best friend, and then i started e-mailing her too! It really is a small world.
WE had to walk to church this morning because the car is being mended. Its going to take all week so i'll probably lose a lot of weight walking to guides, to school, home, to drama, to piano, to singing.
My legs hurt already!
We got teh bus back though. We've lost our Oyster cards and she had to get us these temporary ones. It was quite weird.
I really like the book Twilight. If you're wondering how i went from buses to Twilight, here it is-after getting the Oyster cards, we went into the Odeon to see if we could book tickets for it yet. We're going with some friends in a group when school finishes. Twiligth comes out on the same day.
I can't wait til Christmas! I have had such a busy month and December will probably be no less busy. It will still be fun though. I plan o updating some of my fanfictions. I haven't done that in about a year so the few readers that i get will probably be annoyed.
YAY YAY YAY I WON!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist. I am so pleased! I didn't think i'd make it but i did! I have written it and now all i have to do is revise my novel. And edit it. A lot. So get rid of the "all i have to do is". It is going to be a lot of work. But i can't wait!
Here is my winner icon thing from NaNoWriMo:
Bye for now everyone!
Saturday, 29 November 2008
The thoughts of today
This is my blog, so, lets all talk about me! Hiya!
Only joking.Except that this is about my thoughts. I don't have anyone else's to share with you, sorry, I mean, i'm not telepathetic after all!
That's a quote from one of my favourite books, Generation Dead by Daneil Winters. One of the characters jokes that she has telepathic powers, but that they're more telepathetic than telepathic.
I finished that book today, but it was amzing! A great blog for other Generation Dead fans to visit is www.mysocalledundeath.com
It is another blog on here, sharing the same name as the blog of Tommy Williams, one of hte main characters.
On to other things, i am taking part in NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. Despite the fact that there is only one more day and i am about 10 days behind, I am going to succeed!
Hopefullly.
Then i will edit it, and rewrite it, and delete parts, and then when that is all done after about 2 years i will send query letters out to some publishers.
I'll probably end up talking about my day, my fave books, any movies or TV shows i've seen, all my obsessions and my progress on my own novel on here. I might even ask for help with homework!
Not that anyone is likely to actually read this. This blog, after all, is simply the ponderings of a teenage girl. A teenage girl who is on the Young Writer's Program for NaNoWriMo.
I don't know what else to say, except that sometimes i get really morbid. So don't worry if istart questioning death and all sorts of stuff one here, folks! I am (Hopefully) sane. Although i might be crazy, considering i think i can write 12,000 words in one day. Then again, my twin sister managed it, so why shouldn't i?
I really miss Macbeth. I starred in a school play of Macbeth last year, as Macbeth, and it was so amazing. I felt like i had done something i would be proud of forever. My Drama teacher was the first person to really belive in me, because despite the fact that I was younger than everyone else and i had only just joined the drama club, she beleived i could learn my lines and practise and do well.
Now my Drama Teacher, who's name i am not going to share, is ill and i miss her. She is reallly nice and she treats us all like adults. You can always trust her.
I am making her a Get Well Soon card. There are auditions for our next play, Romeo and Juliet, on Tuesday and i don't think i can do it without my teacher there to support me. She made me feel confident in myself last year. Now that she is ill i don't feel like i can act well at all. I am going to do my best though.
For my teahcer. I want her to be proud of me.
Only joking.Except that this is about my thoughts. I don't have anyone else's to share with you, sorry, I mean, i'm not telepathetic after all!
That's a quote from one of my favourite books, Generation Dead by Daneil Winters. One of the characters jokes that she has telepathic powers, but that they're more telepathetic than telepathic.
I finished that book today, but it was amzing! A great blog for other Generation Dead fans to visit is www.mysocalledundeath.com
It is another blog on here, sharing the same name as the blog of Tommy Williams, one of hte main characters.
On to other things, i am taking part in NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November. Despite the fact that there is only one more day and i am about 10 days behind, I am going to succeed!
Hopefullly.
Then i will edit it, and rewrite it, and delete parts, and then when that is all done after about 2 years i will send query letters out to some publishers.
I'll probably end up talking about my day, my fave books, any movies or TV shows i've seen, all my obsessions and my progress on my own novel on here. I might even ask for help with homework!
Not that anyone is likely to actually read this. This blog, after all, is simply the ponderings of a teenage girl. A teenage girl who is on the Young Writer's Program for NaNoWriMo.
I don't know what else to say, except that sometimes i get really morbid. So don't worry if istart questioning death and all sorts of stuff one here, folks! I am (Hopefully) sane. Although i might be crazy, considering i think i can write 12,000 words in one day. Then again, my twin sister managed it, so why shouldn't i?
I really miss Macbeth. I starred in a school play of Macbeth last year, as Macbeth, and it was so amazing. I felt like i had done something i would be proud of forever. My Drama teacher was the first person to really belive in me, because despite the fact that I was younger than everyone else and i had only just joined the drama club, she beleived i could learn my lines and practise and do well.
Now my Drama Teacher, who's name i am not going to share, is ill and i miss her. She is reallly nice and she treats us all like adults. You can always trust her.
I am making her a Get Well Soon card. There are auditions for our next play, Romeo and Juliet, on Tuesday and i don't think i can do it without my teacher there to support me. She made me feel confident in myself last year. Now that she is ill i don't feel like i can act well at all. I am going to do my best though.
For my teahcer. I want her to be proud of me.
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