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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Christmas Shopping!

Okay so today is a Saturday, but I got up to an alarm and I have been working all day. This morning we watched the Hobbit! AWESOME!! It was super good and I want to go see it again. I cannot wait for the other parts to come out. After that me and the family, all six of us, went Christmas shopping...for each other. I got presents for 2/3's of my family and they are awesome. I won't say what I got them until after Christmas just in case, but know that their presents are awesome. Currently I am being rushed to order presents for the other third of my family before we play Settlers of Catan. I cannot wait to play it for the first time because Will Wheaton makes it look super fun in his TableTop episode where they played it. So go play fun games and have very merry Christmas shopping.

Love,
Alora

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Crazy Studying

So I have been studying all day. It is soooo not fun, but I am taking a break for a little while to tell you about my day and what I have been up to on this lazy day of unlazy days. I call today such because I have been sitting on the couch all day (lazy) while working my but off (unlazy). Now Blogger spellcheck says that unlazy isn't a word, but I do not care. I have both of my portfolios mostly done, I have learned tons of new stuff for chemistry, but still not enough. I will most likely fail the final, but its okay because he curves it like 20 points because half the stuff we don't know.

Yeah so that is pretty much my day, but I also went to a surprise birthday party. My friend Mariah's birthday is this week, I think, so her roommate threw her a party. Free food, balloons, and cake. It was fun and now I have chocolate.

All in all my day has been pretty boring, but my High DM from D&D has given all of us electronic versions of the first editions of the two D&D magazines. I can't wait to read them.

Also, the Wogsland family has created a blog. I am a Wogsland if you didn't know and my Dad has created a blog called Adventures in Wogsland which I think is pretty witty. So you can go check it out. I do believe the entire family has the ability to post including me. My posts will be shared on my twitter and I will sign my name too.

I have to go write another blog post.

Love,
Alora

Friday, December 7, 2012

Finals

So I just finished my last class of the year, and I am borderline freaking out. I'm excited: "yay no more classes!" and terrified: "holy crap FINALS!!!" So now I am going to finish both of my portfolios today and then study for my finals all weekend. This is the plan, but I don't know how well it's going to work.

So um, I have to go study. :(

Love,
Alora

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

English Teachers

I have a pretty cool English teacher. She dresses stylishly, treats us like adults, and she doesn't play favorites. Oh wait yes she does. I will not name names, but she is one of the worst English teachers I have ever had. If she does not like you, you will not pass her class with above "B." However, if she likes you, you are free and ready to go. Finishing with an A. The problem is that English, like art, is arbitrarily based on the ideas of the teacher or the audience. My research paper, that I just got back, received a grade of a ninety-two. I know two other extremely smart people who both got lets just say not good grades as in D's and F's. They were some of the people that she didn't like. I am mad about my grade, but I have no one to be mad at because they are all mad at me for getting such a "good" grade. I have higher standards than that though. I want 95's or above on everything. A 100 average is something I shoot for. This may seem crazy, but it works. I have super high standards and then I push myself to do better. Everyone else just lowers their standards.

I need to stop now before I start crying. I am going to go talk to a living person or just listen to some music and calm down.

Love,
Alora

P.S. These words were written in a fit of passion, so any offense is totally not meant. Not all English teachers are horrible. In fact my one last year was quite awesome.

Tedious Tuesday

I have been exhausted all day long. This morning I got up at 8 after to going to bed around midnight and then I fell asleep after getting dressed and showering. I was almost late for work-study because I slept until 9:30. I was still tired after that. I am just mentally and physically exhausted and it is only Tuesday of Hell Week. I mean what is going on here?

Whatever. Today I did some fun stuff in the office. I made a birthday bag for our December birthday (not you Mom), and I wrote notes to prospective PEGs. I had so much fun. I got to write in fun colors to hopefully next year's freshmen. My hand cramped up after a while, but it saved me from cleaning out one of the PEG vans. Yay! I am working again on Thursday, but then I am off for the rest of the semester.

Also, after work-study, I was still in the office and I helped Candice make a twitter for Virginia Paws for Pits her non-profit pit bull rescue. She works all over Virginia helping pits find homes. On Friday she brought this adorable puppy in that was being adopted later that day. She had a broken jaw and was blind in one eye. Her veterinarian was adopting her. She was adorable. I spent a good 20 minutes petting her before one of my classes. Ok enough with the adorableness because I have no pictures to share it.

Lab was fun. Not. We just worked on worksheets. Also, a photographer came for the newspaper and took pictures of me just writing on paper. Blurgh. It was the last lab too. I am going to miss my awesome lab instructor so much.

Madi is apparently sick. I have been hanging out in the lounge all day (not because she's sick though. Just cause).

I'm going to go to bed now. Go, follow Virginia Paws for Pits.

Love,
Alora

Monday, December 3, 2012

Manic Monday

Yes I am referring to the song and right now I am eating yummy cheese from Chanelle. It is really good. She gave it to me as a bribe to get me out of Brittan's bed. I was trying to sleep in it because it was super comfortable. I was tired too. I got in a ten minute nap though and now I am not tired. Yay! Oh my dead wizard god this cheese is good. It's almost out too. I do love food which reminds me. Today I dinner I was eating with Madi and Hannah and Brittan and I got repeatedly smacked with hands and breadsticks for saying band is awesome. Please all band members let us unite! I sat there and took it though. I am proud of myself. Usually when someone hits me, I hit band and everything falls apart. Today, however, two people hit me and I did not fight back once. This is not to say I wasn't defending bands honor, but I was at a table of choir people and you know how they are. I love choir, but band is so much better. Yes, I did just say that.

Moving on.

I have gotten quite a bit of work done. I am finishing my chem lab tomorrow and I got most of the way through my English portfolio. I worked on my Personal Finance portfolio too.  Also in fencing I finally got to do wet fencing where you are hooked up to a machine and it registers whether you hit on target or not. The foils were being really pissy though and they kept going off even if they didn't touch anything. It was still fun though. I fenced twice, but then I left early to come back to the dorm and work some more. I am going to go to bed soon because I am exhausted. I wanted to tell you guys about my day first though.

Last night a water main in front of one of the main buildings on campus broke and flooded the sidewalks in front of Academic and the library with mud and white insulation. This morning they were still cleaning it up at nine and the water main wasn't fixed till around four. They did a pretty fast job and the water was only off for about two hours and I wasn't even in the building. Yeah I took a picture and tweeted it which you can see on my twitter.

Also I have been working the third floor lounge all day. I moved in around 9:30 and I'm still here working away. Yeah so the whole area is strewn with my and Hannah's stuff (I don't think that sounds quite right). So...um...I seem to have lost my train of thought. I wanted to talk about something else, but I do not remember what it was. It'll probably show up in a later blog post.

Night. Night.

Love,
Alora

P.S. My cheese is gone. It was Laughing Cow, Garlic and Herb. super yummy you should all try it. No, I was not eating it with crackers. It tastes just as good right out of the little triangle of aluminum foil.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Day 1 of Hell Week

Okay so Hell Week is the infamous week before finals where everyone studies night and day working their buts off. However, so far I haven't done much studying. This weekend has been a break from the huge loads of work that I had last week. Yesterday I sort of worked, but mostly I watched TV and slept. I slept till about 1ish, but I kept getting up and falling back asleep because Madi's phone was going off like crazy. Also, I was really hot underneath my blankets because I fell asleep in Madi's bed and she has weird heat reflecting sheets. Blurgh. Oh well. Yeah, today I have worked much more than yesterday and played on the internet. I watched YouTube videos of cute British guys (danisnotonfire and jacksgap).
 I have only watched one episode of something which was...um...actually I don't think I have watched any TV today. Hmm... oh well.I am going to watch stuff later. Actually I need to go get my laundry.
So bye guys.

Love,
Alora

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Computer Problems

Okay so I have to do a final portfolio in two classes and I have been working on my one for personal finance, but it turns out that in my obsessive backing up of my documents in Dropbox I replaced the newer documents with the older ones and I no longer have digital copies of one of my assignments. I can't find the paper copy either. I just hope that I can't find it because my TA hasn't handed it back yet. I want to go cry now. I think I'm going to go to bed and hopefully when I get up tomorrow everything will be better.

Thanks for always listening to me internet.

Love,
Alora

Christmas Parades

Okay so it's only now December and I have done two Christmas parades this week. What is wrong with people? The Staunton Christmas parade was on Monday and the whole VWIL (Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership) core was marching in it. Mind you, Monday and Wednesday are two of my busiest days. I had the parade at 7:00 and then fencing at seven, so I did the parade (luckily we were second) and then changed and ran up to fencing. I got in a good half hour of fencing before I came back to do my but ton of homework. I stayed up late Monday night finishing my lab report.

After the Monday parade the rest of the week went pretty smoothly. I had an interview with a reporter on Wednesday, and I got Brittan's uniform for yesterday's parade. Ugh. I had to leave band an hour early for her because she didn't come because she was too busy studying for chemistry. The same test that I was going to take and yet I went to band. Oh well. She got her uniform and it all worked out.

Side note on the chem test. I think I did AWESOME. It was not half as hard as I thought it would be.

Back to the parades --> So in class on Wednesday we got Jingle Bell Rock and we played it in the parade on Friday. It sounds super cool and the saxes have an awesome part. The parade on Friday was in Lexington, VA, and for it I missed an hour of Dungeons and Dragons. It was super fun though. We played two Christmas songs in a loop and our director Colonel Brodie was finally able to come to one of our parades. We played quite well and we marched awesomely too.

WE GOT FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Band got FIRST PLACE!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!! It was so awesome. We have not gotten any awards for our parades this semester and for our very last parade we got FIRST PLACE. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about the core awards three platoons for military performance every parade, and we got FIRST PLACE. If you hadn't noticed I am super excited.

Also this was our last parade of the semester so no more parade shoes until next year. Yayish. Parades are stressful, but fun. People clap for us and smile and cheer us on. It makes me feel very special. On the other hand though it is freaking hard to keep alignment while playing. I have mastered marching in step even through wheel turns, but alignment is hard.

OK well all in all my week has been pretty stressful running from parades to homework and back.

Well I will see you guys next week in Hell Week.

Love,
Alora

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Week Before Hell Week

This week is pre-prefinals week or the week before hell week. Although this week has been pretty hellish in itself. I just took my third chem test. I have ten page paper due tomorrow. I did a presentation on Wednesday. This week is turn-everything-in week. It is drawing to a close though. I have almost everything turned in and this weekend I start studying for finals. I have two portfolios and two exams.

Wish me luck.

Love,
Alora

P.S. I don't know what is my problem, but I can't seem to write that much any more.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Homework at Aunt Cindy's

Sitting at the kitchen table and doing homework is the stereotypical place to do it. I haven't had a kitchen table to do stuff on in a while, but this is so much fun. Mom, Aunt Cindy, and GG are in the kitchen readying food for tomorrow and this is so much fun. I love everything going on. I miss the movement.

More Homework. I have to go.

Love,
Alora

Thanksgiving Break

Hey everybody,
How's life? My life is going pretty sweet. I have forgiven myself for not writing NaNoWriMo as much as I wanted to. I am also on break. I slept in not my dorm room for the first time since school started last night. My bed has springs! I'm sitting on it right now switching from working and playing on the internet. Right now I am waiting for Word to open. I miss my roommate and all of my school friends so much, but I miss home too. I'm not actually home just visiting family, but I am out of Virginia. It's nice to be able to go to the bathroom with no shoes on and to eat breakfast in my PJ's. Oh how I have missed regular life. Hopefully this week I will eat tons of yummy food and get lots of homework done. I can't wait to go back, but I want to stay away forever. Ah the college dilemma.

Well  I have to go. We are heading over to some more family's house soon and I want to get some work done before we leave.

Love,
Alora

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Long Time no Blog

Sorry about the long time between blogs guys. I have been super busy and I still am. However, Brittan has been successfully blogging on her new blog FireFlies On My TableTop. I don't know how she does it. We are taking the same number of credit hours, but she always has time to watch shows and blog. I on the other hand do not. Right now I should be writing my English paper and look at what I am doing. I cannot wait to go home for Christmas. I will have no homework to do, and I will be able to be home with my family. I miss my house and my family. It is tough to not go home until Christmas. I have seen my family, but I seriously miss the chaos of my house. I have trouble focusing on my homework without other people around me.

I have to go. Procrastinating is very, very bad.

Love,
Alora

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Life is the Biggest Obstacle to Your Dreams

Okay so I haven't blogged in a while, but I have a really good reason. I have to much stuff to do. I have been working nonstop. I just called my mom for the first time in like ever, and I only talked to her for a few minutes. I do not have enough time in the day to get everything done. I have been working nonstop all day and I haven't finished my homework for tomorrow.

When you try to accomplish dreams too quickly life just sits down in your path and will not budge. For example, I am writing NaNoWriMo right now and I was doing pretty good.

I haven't written in days. It is horrible. I miss my characters, but I cannot just abandon my studies. I know what you are thinking, "Just try harder." Well what do you think I'm doing. I'm not giving up. I'm just accepting that sometimes life gets in the way and you cannot accomplish your dreams on time. I will most likely not finish NaNoWriMo, but I am still going to keep trying and then do it again next year.

I am optimistic.

Love,
Alora

P.S. Check out this cool game called The End. You make this character, and then you die. After you die you are in this crazy dream world. You go running through levels, and before every boss fight you are asked a philosophical question. You can use your answers to compare yourself to others and to some famous people that are included in the game. It is super fun and I found in The Flog by Felicia Day. Go Geek and Sundry! Also I found a cool, awesome new game that I must have called Star Fluxx. It was in this the most recent episode of Table Top. It is a super fun simple card game, and the video is hilarious. So extremely long post script but whatever.

Go fellow awesome people!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Busy, Busy Times

So I haven't been blogging everyday or nearly as often as I want to, but I have a good reason. I have been super duper busy. Between NaNoWriMo, a 10 page research paper, tons of homework from other classes, and life I have been completely swamped. I am over three days behind on my novel and I haven't even started my research paper and a rough draft is due on Friday. Also I have tons of other stuff to do: personal finance homework and chem studying that I need to do. I have three blogs that I want to write lined up and ready to be written, but I haven't had the time. Maybe I will just no sleep tonight and do all my homework instead. I have an awesome idea for a class next semester! I'm going to take a math history class. I love the history of math. It is so interesting.

Okay, I gotta go, class is calling.

Love,
Alora

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Day 3 of NaNoWriMo

Okay so I some how missed yesterday. I was going to do a daily NaNoWriMo log thing, but I some how missed yesterday. I wrote yesterday and I wrote today. Not enough mind you, but I still did. How did I miss yesterday? I don't know.

OMIGOD last night there were shots fired on campus. No one was hurt but it was at like 2:30 in the morning so the few of us who were awake were freaked out. There was a Baldwin Alert Message (BAM) but it was really vague  We talked to an RA and sort of figured out what was going on, but not really.There was an email this morning saying that a fight had broken out at a mixer on campus and nobody was injured, but that was all I knew. Then today during dinner I asked my neighbors who were at the mixer if they had seen it, and they had. They left the mixer when the fight broke out and when they heard the gun shots the just ran to the dorm they were staying at as fast as possible. Kinda freaky right. I was freaked out last night when we didn't know anything, but now I feel much better. Guns are still freaking scary though.

Yeah so that was early this morning. I then went to bed and slept until 1ish. I've gotten some work today, but mostly I have been playing on my computer. Yesterday we played D&D and I got to play with my brand new birthday dice which was super fun. Also some crazy stuff happened. Brittan and Madi's character's got drunk and since people thought they were married they got the honeymoon suite and some stuff happened. It was hilarious!!!!!

Well I have homework to do.

Love,
Alora

YA Book Giveaway

So guys Beth Revis is giving away fifty young adult books and I am so excited. She has a Twitter account @bethrevis and a Blog. Also the picture below includes the title of all of the books in the giveaway.

I love young adult books because they are for young adults. They are usually fun, fast reads with interesting plots and lots of diversity between titles. Beth Revis's three books, Across the Universe, A Million Suns, and Shades of Earth are some of my favorite YA novels, but I also love Ally Condie's books Matched and Crossed with Reached coming out soon. Those six titles are so different and yet they are classified in the same genre. That is why I love YA novels so much. The genre has so much diversity. Thanks Beth Revis for creating this wonderful opportunity to win signed YA books.

Her 
Blog has the contest rules and book descriptions on it, and this is the website where you enter the contest --> Rafflecopter

Thursday, November 1, 2012

not quite sure what to title it.

So I have done NaNoWriMo for today, but I have also done other things. Including but not limited to friending my TA on Facebook, making up a quiz, writing a story, and working.  It was a pretty fun day. This has been a pretty good day. Okay so this is like super short, but way to long for a tweet, so I have made it a blog post. It's a miniblog! Miniature. I love saying that. Miniature. Now say it out loud really slow. Miniature. Doesn't it sound like gullible?

Movie time. Fun Size here we come.

Love,
Alora

Day 1 of NaNoWriMo

Okay so I think I did pretty good. I wrote during work study, and then a little bit later. I reached the daily quota and then did my homework. I accidentally fell asleep doing homework, so I haven't gotten much done. But still. My story is about Amanda. She is lives in a medival mountain village. She hunts with her father, and even though she is in her late teens she is not married or even thinking about marriage. Her father is shunned by the villagers because of the way he raised Amanda, with pants and everything. Also, her mother died when she was very little.  Amanda is accepted by the villagers because they take pity on her, and she has better people skills than her father. She has carved out a spot for herself in the village, and she is accepted. I have 1717 words and I am still going strong. I have made it successfully through day one. Lets see how the other 29 go.

Love,
Alora

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Classes

I have had if not mounds of homework, mounds of studying. I took my second Chem exam today and I also had a math test (easy, but still). Even more, I have a huge research paper due sometime in the not so distant future that I haven't gotten so far on.  Personal Finance is getting harder and on top of that I need to figure out classes for next semester and try to do NaNoWriMo this year. I don't how I am going to do it, but good bye social life and hello school. I will try to still blog because, even though it is a great procrastinating tool, blogging is also very useful for future reference and posterity.

Chemistry --
Gen Chem is the bane of my existence and yet I am planning on majoring in Chemistry.  The concepts are not confusing in themselves, but I honestly wish that we had mounds of homework. Homework is a wonderful tool in a hard class. It is very annoying in an easy class; however I wish Chemistry had homework besides labs and prelabs.  I am left to doing practice in the book, but usually I don't have time to do them until right before the test. I am still not so hot at time management.  Now I just read chapter five and it really doesn't make much sense, but we are moving on to chapter six on Friday.  I am trying, but hey: do or do not there is not try. Yoda is right, but doing is so much harder than trying. poop.

Math --
College algebra (MATH 150) is my math course this semester, and right now it is super easy.  So far it has been one long review of Algebra 1 which was pretty easy too.  I am kind of glad for the review though because it is nice to go over systems and play with fun numbers before I go into Calculus next year. I'm taking precalc next semester.  The math test today wasn't too hard, but it did take a while just because I was checking my answers and making sure that I got everything right.  Bonus! There was extra credit, and I am pretty sure that I got it right. Major yay.

More Chem --
As I was writing about math I realized that I left out the crazy stuff that was on the chem test.  Okay so right now in chem our teacher is expecting us to know and understand and remember everything from the reading. I have never before had a day of Chemistry in my life so I have almost no idea what all of theses things are or what I should or shouldn't remember.  There was this one thing on the test that was mentioned in the chapter, but not in class which is not cool because everyone, including him, promised that the tests would be on material that we went over in class. However I took the test today, the second day, so I had the hindsight of Brittan who took it yesterday to study and learn how to find the concentration of ions in solution. I did that so I am pretty confident that I either got a high B or an A-. I'm hoping high A, but I am pretty sure that I did not do that well. Hopefully though everyone will do badly and he will curve it.

I really don't understand that though: curving the test grade. What is all that about? I know that it can raise your score, but how does it do that? To google.........
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Just kidding. I'm way to lazy to open a new tab and look stuff up. I have homework to do. I do not need more things to procrastinate with.

However, before I go a quick word about PEGlish and Personal Finance.

ENG 101 (PEGlish) --
We have a 10-12 page research paper and I'm not sure when it is due, but I have a lot of work to do. Haha due/do. Hehehe

Personal Finance --
The very first day of BUAD 260 our TA renamed the class Life 101. How right she was. I am learning so much in this class, but we are transitoning very much from a show up and learn class to a show up learn, do homework, and know the information class. I am kind of scared, but right now I have a 101% so I should be able to keep and A, unless I fail something. *knock on wood*

Well,I actually have a short paper for MBC 101 to write and NaNoWriMo to do.

Wish me luck,

Love,
Alora

Birthday Weekend

So last weekend was the weekend of my birthday. I'm 15 now! I can get a permit, and drive and other cool stuff. I also got tons of presents. So I'm in college and it is hard to ship big things so I just got a lot of money. I now have one hundred dollars at Walmart thanks my aunt and my great-grandma.  I have gotten so many presents, and I keep forgetting to say thank you. I got an adorable necklace and notepad from my other aunt and uncle.  Still more I got an Old Navy gift card from my other aunt and uncle, and a huge package from my other aunt and uncle. I got twenty bucks from my other great-grandma and I got a minifridge and tons of presents from my grandparents.  Oo! and I got a cool computer board thing from Mom and Dad.  Also at midnight on my birthday all of my friends here showered me and Brittan with gifts.  It was overwhelmingly fun.  I got a reversible teddy bear puppet, a nerf gun, astronaut ice cream, and tons of other random things. So I would just like to say a late thank you to all of my present givers. Supposedly I have even more in the mail. Yay! Thank you family and friends. I had a wonderful birthday with my grandparents (Apples to Apples and Chinese food FTW), and I had an amazing birthday weekend with my grandparents and friends.

Thanks again all,

I HAVE A FRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!! YAYA!!!!!!

Love,
Alora

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Homework Extensions

Okay so today in English class we were talking about our papers that were due at 5PM today. Then everyone was complaining about it being due at five and them having stuff to do during the day. Yadda, yadda, yadda one thing led to another and now the essay isn't due until midnight tonight. I already turned it in, but that is beside the point.

After that in Personal Finance we had stuff that was due on Monday, but she changed it so it wasn't due until a week from today. It is freaking easy stuff and I am already mostly done. I feel so productive. Now all I have to do is figure out oxidation states in Chemistry. Yay!





Humph. Oh well I get to Skype with my daddy and I actually had class today. Also I am turning fifteen on Saturday. I'm so happy. Today is a good day.


Also I have super secret plans for Brittan's birthday. Yes, I know it is mine, but that does not mean that can I skimp out on her celebrations. I mean seriously guys I'm not that selfish.  I'll tell you all about them Saturday afternoon.

And I get to see my grandparents for my birthday! They are bringing me a minifridge which is really good because the second floor fridge just decided to break quite recently. Now I have to walk downstairs to use a fridge and get someone to unlock the kitchen for me.  Oh well. I get my own fridge this weekend.

I just realized that I say oh well a lot. When I say it I do not mean "oh well" in the usual sense of the word.  I am not giving up. I'm just using it as a transition of sorts. I am saying "oh well, I have talked about that enough or I'll figure it out later or something." Just to clarify because it seems kind of like I give up every other sentence.

Parental Teachings

I have recently realized why I am so awesome. Wait hold up. I am not being stuck up and conceited. I am in college at fourteen I get a least a little awesome credit for that. However most of me being here is because of my parents.  Ever since I can remember my parents have been teaching me random science things. I have always excelled in classes because I usually already knew what we were doing. Now, however, I have no background in college chemistry because I never took high school chemistry. Facebook and Twitter people, do not say "oh but you are getting a 95 blah-di-blah-di-blah" I know that I am doing good, but I feel like I won't do so good next time. I worked really hard to get that good grade and that's what I am talking about having to work hard.  But working hard in itself is beside the point. The point of this blog is to talk about the awesomeness of my parents. 

Parental teachings come in handy with math and science when you have a science oriented family; however they also come in handy with friendships. My mom learned from her mom how to be caring and helpful to everyone and that has really helped me make friends and keep friends. I can be prickly sometimes, but helping others out when they need it helps them see past the prickliness.  I think that all of the good examples of help I received from my mother and grandmother have helped me stay a people person even though I sometimes have trouble with the whole people liking me thing.

Another good parent lesson I have gotten is to never give up and always ask for help. My parents have always been open to me and I have felt like I could go talk to them about anything. Also they have never given up. Mom is going to grad school with four kids and a husband who until very recently was unemployed.  Dad has been dealing with unemployment and being turned down.  Both of them have not given up and because of that good example I know that I will be able to keep going.

Thanks guys. I love you.

Love,
Alora

Monday, October 22, 2012

Kings Dominion

Okay so on Saturday six of us went to King's Dominion an amusement park nearby. It was super fun.  Also it is super small. I walked all over the park at least three times.  We got there around noon and we left around ten. That's ten hours of amusement park fun and it was awesome.  I rode the Dominator, the Berserker, Boo Blasters on Boo Hill, the Volcano, Shockwave, and the Intimidator.  It was awesome! Also, I went into a scary corn maze and walked through "Scare zones" I ran around screaming and I rode a roller coaster standing up.  It was super fun.

Debate time,

Love,
Alora

P.S. Sorry no pics my phone was in Brittan's bag most of the time.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Fall Break

So today is the last day of classes before Fall Break and I am super excited.  Fall break is this weekend: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  But get this, because labs are cancelled because we have Monday off, I don't have class until Wednesday because the only class I have on Tuesday is my chem lab.  Lab cancelling FTW.  I'm kind of sad too though because most people are going home for Fall break, but I am not. At least my roommate is staying too so I won't be alone, but I'm pretty sure that the rest of the second floor is leaving so it will be just us. Hopefully I will get a lot done during this period of me not having classes. I doubt it though. I am going to Kings Dominion on Saturday which will be fun, but it will probably also ruin my ability to study for the rest of the weekend.  Oh Well.

Happy Fall Break MBC,

Love,
Alora

Once Upon A Time: Best Show Ever

Oh My God.... This most recent episode of Once Upon a Time (Lady of the Lake) was so awesome. There are parallel times in the Enchanted Forest and Storybrook, and there are flashbacks.  Also, Emma is finally in fairytale land and Henry and Charming are totally bonding.  I love this show.  I religiously watch it on Hulu. One of the reasons I love it is that it makes me cry, and most of the time I do not cry. I cried at least three times during this episode.  Not because it was sad though, because it was happy.  This show is not only awesome, but it endorses good family values, and good relationships.  Snow and Charming, and then Emma as parents put their children first and that is just so so amazing that it makes me really miss my parents (cry one).  Also Snow and Charming have one of the best relationships I have ever seen on TV. It is not perfect, but it is just close enough to be perfect.  They will always find each other and it is just so much fun to watch people who love each other work through every hardship to be together.  There is no dumb cheating to ruin their relationship because they truly love each other and that is very refreshing.  Many movies/shows that I have seen recently have had so much cheating or discord in relationships that it really makes me wonder what is wrong with the writers. However this show is so much better than that. It takes most of the more well-known Grimm Fairytales and throws them all into one world: the Enchanted Forest. The characters have so much depth and a time goes on you just keep learning more and more about each person.  Also this show is kind of hard to predict.  Sometimes it is predictable, but when it counts you will have no idea what to expect. Especially this episode. I was dumbfounded. So much background and all of these turns that it took some I wanted it to take and others completely unpredictable.  I love this show....I think I may go watch this episode again or I could watch all of the first season over and over again because it is on Netflix. Woot! Woot!

I gotta go guys,

Love,
Alora

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Midterms

I am officially half way through my first semester of college and right now I have A's (I think) in all of my classes.  None of my classes have official midterms, but they have all picked up the pace.  I have some much homework that I shouldn't blog for the next month and a half.  Paper due on Wendnesday, Personal Finance research also due on Wednesday, Chem lab is just a perpetual black cloud above me, and of course we have a full blown math test coming up soon.  So it's time to study, study, study. I think I am doing pretty well, but honestly it is freaking hard to study. I swear it's not that studying is really boring (I mean it is) it's just so hard.  I had no idea that studying was so hard. I understand what everyone has been complaining about all these years.  I gotta go I'm headed off to bed, but I should get eight hours of sleep tonight which is a major plus.

Good night my peoples,

Love,
Alora

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Washington DC Trip

Okay so yesterday I went to Washington DC and had tons of fun.  The PEG group that went toured the National Museum of Women in the Arts which was pretty cool. There were lots of paintings and sculptures, but there was also a rock-and-roll exhibit where they had Lady Gaga's meat dress. Sadly they didn't allow pictures so I don't have a picture, but it was pretty cool. It doesn't even look like meat anymore.  So the Women in the Arts museum had this huge foyerish area where the building had once been a movie theater and it was really pretty.
This is the foyer place in the Women in the Arts museum
Before the tour Brittan and I had gone to the DC Zara store to buy stuff with our little sister's name on it. However for some odd reason nothing had the brand name plastered on the front, but I got some pictures.
This is the store logo by the escalator
Brittan on the escalator
After our shopping of sorts and the tour we went back to the national mall and explored the Natural History Museum and I seriously want to live there. We wanted to see other things so I only got to see part of it, but oh my god was it cool.  When we were looking at the dinosaurs I felt so small, and the moon rocks and asteroids were just totally awesome.
sorry that it's a bad picture.
After the Natural History Museum we went into Air and Space which is huge. I didn't even see a quarter of it and we were in there for over an hour.  I bought astronaut ice cream in the gift shop and a cool poster and a key chain. BTW I collect key chains from places that I have been so since I've been a lot of places, I have a lot of key chains.
My cool cockpit poster

The enterprise model used for the Original Series. The original stand is on the left.
After Air and Space we met up with Madi and Jeni to check out the National Art Gallery.  It was pretty cool, but not as awesome as we thought it would be. (Yes we were looking for things from Battle of the Smithsonian.) Finally Brittan and I meandered over to the Memorials.  We saw the World War Two Memorial, the Washington Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.

Brittan with the monument

Me with the monument

The Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool from the Steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Dinner was from a street vendor and then we drove home.  DC was pretty awesome and I am glad that we went, but I missed so much. I felt so connected there.  Everything was so full of history.

(I will insert a video here later of all of the stuff we did)

Since then I have done loads of homework and I have pissed off my roommate.  At least I got some chem studying in.

The exhaustion is setting in. I may crash soon.

Love,
Alora

Friday, October 12, 2012

Just Keep Working, Just Keep Working

I did homework ALL DAY yesterday and I still am not done. I had to go to class this morning so I just finished my paper that DISAPPEARED last night. I was so sad that I started crying.  I went to bed pretty early last night, but today I am refreshed and ready to go.  Although I still have tons of work to do homework and other wise.  The rough draft of my English paper is due on Monday. I haven't even started my lab yet and there is Pigasus on Tuesday. Pigasus is the PEG dorm equivalent of clean your room or else.  We have a freaking room inspection. I mean my room isn't a total mess, but I still live here. Fall break is next weekend and I'm going to Kings Dominion which should be super fun. This weekend I am going to Washington D.C. and I can't wait. I'm going to see all the museums. (Yes, I know that this is not possible in one day, but I can still hope can't I.)

Ok well blogging break over I'm going back into the land of homework.  If I don't make it back tell my family I love them.

I'll miss you, *tear* *sniffles*

Love,
Alora

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Sleep Skyping

So apparently my little siblings don't have school today so I was skyping them earlier.  We were having a jolly old chat. The first ten minutes they were watching Ninjago, and then we talked for a little while while they played games.  I was tired so I laid my head down on my desk and I fell asleep. They didn't even notice. I was asleep until Madi came back from class and woke me up. They didn't even notice I was asleep they just kept on talking. Then when Madi came in they realized that I had been asleep. I had no idea what they had just said.  It was insane because it was one of those times where you are so tired that you don't realize that you fell asleep until you wake up.  That's how tired I am. I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight because I am exhausted. I have been doing homework all day which probably isn't helping, but I got about nine hours of sleep last night so I should be fine. Oh well, I'll just sleep in this weekend.

I need to go study.  Just a quick post for now. Bye,

Love,
Alora

P.S. I'm still really tired, but I don't have time to take a nap.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Random Rambling About Random College Student Revelations

So I have classified my days as either good or bad for forever, but in reality the entire day depends on what happened right before my classification.  If I was a happy and bubbly before someone asked me how my day was then my day would be good and so on.  I realized that I do this a few years ago and I have just ignored it.  Recently, however, I have started to notice a great many differences between myself and the people around me.  That really isn't one of them, but it is something that I have noticed frequently lately, especially today.

I have always been tall. Maybe not the tallest, but still quite tall.  Since I started school, I have noticed just how tall I am compared to everyone else. I look down on almost everyone and it is just because I am taller than them.  Ciara is the only exception. She is about six foot and super skinny, so whenever I stand next to her I always feel very short.  And she talks so intelligently that I automatically begin to use huge words again. When I was in fifth grade I used huge words all of the time, but hardly anyone understood me so I dropped out of the habit. However, I have a feeling that I should get back in the habit of it.  She makes feel like I have a horrible vocabulary and I am super short. She's cool though.  Her hair is really cute too.  It's short and blond and it totally matches her style.

I also randomly realize that I am four years younger than most of the people that I am in a room with at any given time.  It is quite annoying to do that in the middle of class because everyone has a different light about them.  Later though I realize that this "18 +" year old that I have been hanging out with is an at large (out of the dorm) PEG or an ECA (Early College Academy) student and that is really weird.  The other day I learned the last name of my fencing club captain.  Then I realized that I had seen her name in all of these places all over the PEG office. It was really weird because before that I had had no idea that she was only 17.  Then I learned that she too got a full ride through the Malone Scholarship Program.  She is pretty boss.

Ugh. I have homework to do. Gotta go,

See you on the flip side of the coin,

Love,
Alora

Learning to Study

I have never had to study a day in my life and now I need to be doing it all the time.  I have mandatory study hours on school nights, but it just isn't enough for my homework load.  I am slowly learning how to study because today I set up specific hours that I will study for my classes.  For example from now on every Monday, Wednesday, and I Friday I will study Chemistry between the hours of four and five.  I set up a  number of study hours for everyone of my classes that correspond to the number of credit hours the classes are.  Another example, Chem is 4 credit hours so I have made myself four mandatory chem study hours.  If I don't get all of my work done within the time frame I have the rest of the day to study and my mandatory PEG study hours. (I scheduled all of my class study times outside of my other study hours.) Hopefully, I will now be able to have a 4.0 GPA. Although it's not there right now I don't think. It is very close.  Well I wish all of you other smart people struggling with learning to study the best of luck. Just remember, if you don't try you won't succeed. So go, and open your textbooks.  No more blog reading procrastination for you.

Gotta go,

Love,
Alora

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Boring Old Tuesday

So well today was kinda boring with some fun bits. Either that or it was awesome and I'm just bored now.  I worked this morning which was fun because I get paid to do that.  Then I went to lunch and ate some fake mashed potatoes that looked and felt like mashed potatoes, but they tasted literally like water. It was gross. Mostly what I had for lunch was the trail mix that they had for dessert.  After lunch I went to chem lab which was fun and boring at the same time.  After lab I came back to the dorm for a few hours and did homework then dinner and then more homework until now.  However that was the boring overview. Now I will fill in the interesting parts.

In chem lab we reacted sodium with water and it was awesome.  My lab professor Jenny had a glass oven tray type thing that she filled with water and some phenaltheylin.  Then she pulled the sodium out of the kerosene and showed it to us.  It was all dull except for where she had recently cut some off. There it was all shiny.  Then she cut (she cut it with a freaking knife! A metal! How cool is that?) a chunk of sodium off and dropped it in the water and shut the hood. (Forget to mention. The tray of water was in the hood and the hood was on.)  Okay well we did it twice and the first time it freaking exploded! E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D!!!!!!!!!!! I was right next to it with Rachel, my DM is in my chem lab, so it was super duper loud.  And yet it was the coolest thing that I have seen all week. hehehehe. The second time we did it the sodium only fizzled.

So after chem lab I was hanging in Brittan's room and she was decorating for Halloween. Her door is now covered top to bottom in black spider webbing. It looks pretty boss. So aside from messing with the webbing to annoy her, I also taped Madi up with Chinese caution tape. It was hilarious. She could barely walk and when she tried to get out she totally cheated and used her hands.  I took a video of her escaping, but I can't put it on the internet because Brittan, Chanelle, and Hannah think that it could be considered hazing and they don't want to get in trouble. After that Madi didn't want it online either. I kind of got mad at all of them and left after that, but I'm better now.

I think that was the last really interesting thing that I did today. I mean I did some homework and I'm reading a book that I'm going to evaluate for English. It's called Things We Couldn't Say. It's written by Diet Eman. It is about her resistance group in the Netherlands during World War Two. It is also a beautiful love story between her and her fiance Hein.

Random side note: I drew Brittan's (River) and Madi's (Lyrica) D&D characters
I know that Lyrica has no face. Madi is going to add it. Also, River is a rough draft.
Well I have to get up early tomorrow, so see ya,

Love,
Alora

Monday, October 8, 2012

I am back. (in a deep Arnold Schwarzenegger voice)

Sorry for the blog break.  This past weekend was parents weekend and I was super busy. My family, including my two dogs and my little brother and sister, drove the entire nine hour drive up from Nashville twice in the course of the past three days.  They left on Friday after school and they drove the entire night.  When they got here the next morning we hung out together until the evening, and then they left and drove back home.  They are insane.  They also caused me to get injured for the first time since I got here. I ripped skin out from underneath my toenail with a door, a freaking door.

Warning there is a picture of it directly following this sentence. Oops glitch. oh well. my apologies to the squeamish ones. hehehehe.  Yeah it really hurt so I couldn't march in the parade that day and I have to wear socks all the time until it heals, so my band-aids don't fall off.  Yup, it's gross I know.

Well class time y'all,

Love,
Alora

Thursday, October 4, 2012

College Sickness (I'm not sick BTW)

Getting sick in college just seems like the worst thing that could happen to you. You can't go to classes if you're sick enough and even if you aren't how do you focus when you feel horrible or you are constantly blowing your nose.  Luckily I haven't gotten sick, yet. *knock on wood* However, people around me have. Ciara was sick about a week ago with a fluish ear infection thing, but she looked horrible when she came to class.  Then there is this other girl Cassie who went to the ER yesterday, but she got some meds so she should be getting better.  I have Emergen-C which is a vitamin c drink mix and is supposed to help with the whole not getting sick thing. Well, I have my fingers crossed, but it's almost winter and I have the reputation of the girl always blowing her nose. So fingers crossed.

*waving good bye with crossed fingers*

Love,
Alora

Presidential Debate Recap

Last night I promised to make a video, but I haven't done that yet and I may not. However, I am writing my blog post. I did not watch the whole debate, but I watched enough to know that we are screwed if we elect either of those men. I mean really people listen to their words and realize that they don't make sense or they really don't know what they are talking about.  During the debate, one of them would say something that we should do, like cut spending. However Romey's plan to cut spending is to shut down PBS. I don't know about you guys, but I kind of like PBS.

Twitter is now in an uproar over the debate. Last night during the debate there was a new tweet every 30 seconds or so and most of them were about the debate.  It was funny to look at people calling out the mistakes and then others completely ignoring them.

That debate was pretty similar to past presidential debates that I have watched.  The two candidates ran in circles saying, "I'm the best. I'm the best. You're the worst. You're the worst."  They were like kindergartners fighting over a toy.

Please listen to your candidates guys. Pay attention to their faults and their promises.  In the future try to get some background on your candidates before you vote two not so great people into the candidacy and then one of them into the presidency.

Thanks guys,

Love,
Alora

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The First Presidential Debate

Okay so for most of my life my dad has had the kids watch the presidential debates and then respond to them. He usually makes a video. Well, since I'm away from home I figured that I would watch tonight's debate and make my own video, but I cannot get the live streaming to work. So tomorrow after the debate I will watch it do a belated blog post response and a youtube video.

I had marching band today which was pretty fun, but for now I'm going to do my English paper Hopefully I will get an A on this one.

Well wish me luck, (by Friday at 5 PM if at all possible)

Love,
Alora

What day is it?

It has felt like Tuesday all freaking day. I mean I know that its Wednesday, but I've only had two days of classes so it feels like it should be Tuesday. I keep half forgetting what classes I have next. Oh well tomorrow is Thursday and then it Friday and then I get to see my family!!!!! I can't wait!!!! I miss my family tons and tons. Also tomorrow I get to work in the PEG office and I think that I'll be putting up Halloween decorations.

Halloween is my favorite holiday of all time because it is four days after my birthday. I'm turning fifteen. I'll be able to legally drive with an adult in the car once I get my permit which probably won't be until Christmas.  That is the next time that I am going home. I do miss my house some, but not as much as I just miss the chaos of six people and two dogs in one house. It is very quite here.

I also have tons of homework. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!! Not really, but tomorrow is my do homework day because I only have one class. That is a major yay!!!!!!!!! I have to go. I really need to pee and I'm hungry. So bathroom and then dinner my friends.

Bye. *hand wave*

Love,
Alora

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Apple Day Carnival

Apple Day is officially one of my favorite holidays of all time. This morning we went gleaning and this afternoon we had a carnival. The carnival was freaking awesome!!!!

The carnival was from 2 to 5 and I was there the whole time. From two to three I helped run the fencing club booth and after that I wandered around spending money. I was super fun. There was free popcorn, cotton candy, and snow cones. It was awesome. Also there was a free mechanical bull and free blow up jousting. I rode the bull twice. I also won an apple pin and some candy. I bought some cookies and a breast cancer awareness keychain that I put on my backpack. Heath also came home with me. He is my new pet octopus and he is so adorable.

Speaking of adorableness, Madi has been fan girling over this VWIL chick. Her name is Katy and she is a beautiful she-male. She looks like a gorgeous boy from behind. Well, today while Madi was riding the bull she locked eyes with Katy and then fell off the bull. Sadly, I wasn't there to see it. I did hear about it though. Then later Madi looked all over Hunt for her and finally found her as we were leaving. Along with her other two targets, the "cute" guys who work in the kitchen. Madi is adorable.

Parents weekend is this weekend and I'm so excited. I get to see my family and my dogs and I'm so happy. I can't wait!!!!!

I have to go guys. Serious roommate talking to do.

Love,
Alora

Apple Gleaning

Well, my super secret secret is out.  My fun activity this morning was apple gleaning. Gleaning is different from picking because we are getting the still good apples off of the ground and bagging them so they can be donated. As we speak the apples are heading to DC to be handed out to the hungry along the streets. We got about 350 bags of apples and each one had about as many apples as a small bag of supermarket apples. I am very proud of us. Although we apparently collected more last year. It wasn't cold and rainy last year and I the owner said that there were more apples to collect last year too. Oh well, I am still very proud of us and I had tons of fun.

I got up at 6:30 and the buses left around 7:35. I slept almost the whole way there which was nice because I was exhausted   We got there and headed out into the fields around 9:15 and we wrapped it up and headed back at roughly 10:20.  The entire time it was cloudy and for most of it it was also raining. However, lots of us were there and even the president of the college Pamela Fox was there gleaning. I slept on the bus ride back too and now I am fully refreshed.

We got back around noon and ate the awesomely yummy lunch at the dining hall while all gross and muddy from the gleaning. Now I must get ready to go help run the fencing booth at the carnival. Apple Day is the best. It's like Christmas in October.

Have fun,

Love,
Alora

Monday, October 1, 2012

Aftermath of Apple Eve

I have survived the Apple Eve dodge ball games, and they were freaking boss. The first game was us, freshies against the juniors, and guess what? We beat them, and we beat them good. I didn't get out once that whole game. The next game I didn't play in because it was sophomores versus seniors and no surpirse here the seniors won.

Physch!

The sophomores actually won and then after that they pummeled us too. It was quite sad. However we did make it into the finals, and as freshmen too. I think we did pretty awesome.  I also got my apple day t-shirt which I am totally wearing tomorrow and cookies and cool apple-themed drinks. Apple Eve isn't actually over yet, but I wasn't feeling so hot, so I walked back with Brittan. Now I am here talking to you all.

Oh and sadly there was no capture the flag and the dance was pretty lame. Although we did get glow sticks. That was a major plus.

I'm heading off to watch Once Upon a Time, do homework (maybe) and eat my apple.

Talk to you tomorrow after my super secret awesomeness.

Love,
Alora

Apple Eve

Hello all,
Here at Mary Baldwin College we have a few very special traditions and one of them is Apple Day.  Well that is tomorrow, so today is Apple Eve. We are having dodge ball games tonight between the classes and then we have a dance and tons of other fun stuff including glow in the dark capture the flag. I'm very excited and for a very good reason too, but you don't even know the half of it. 'Cause guess what? We have no school tomorrow and I am so excited. I still have to get up early for a super secret project which I will tell you all about tomorrow, but for now I have homework to do and a fun night ahead of me.

I have got to go.

Love,
Alora

P.S. I'm doing something related to apples tomorrow. Hehehe! I can not wait!

Sunday, September 30, 2012

My First D&D Module

OHMYGOD...............................................................................
Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is the best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay so we started playing at 2 and we just finished our first module. They should make these things into freaking movies. It was that intense. So all of our characters, Amanda (me), Lyrica (Madi), Factorial (Natalia), and River (Brittan) ended up in a tavern in this town called Alusia. We did stuff in the tavern and then all four of us ended up sharing a room. We got to know each other and then we explored around town and became a group.  I went looking for info on my grandparents in the market (Amanda's end goal) and everyone else wandered around town. River (Brittan) took a tour of this huge manor that was in town and became very curios because weird things happened. Lyrica (Madi) is a cleric so she went to the temple in town. Factorial was busy feeding the poor outside of the city. After a while we all went into the temple and prayed/stole four 5 hours (Factorial is a thief). Then we went back to the market and asked around about the manor. We found out tons of info, then we went into the manor (by now it was nighttime). It was unlocked and the butler opened the door for us and his eyes were rolled back into his head. Lyrica, River, and I all sat down in three chairs that were in front of the door. Factorial hid in the shadows. So the butler walked up to Lyrica an stuck out his hands and said "Follow me" (his eyes are still rolled back.) The room went black for everyone but Lyrica.

When Lyrica touched his hands the room transformed into a party with music and decorations but no people.  He led her through the library to a side room where he shut the door, but she couldn't tell if it was locked. A vial of red liquid and white powder were in the room and both of them were poison. When she tried to bang on the door, she became paralyzed with her hands stuck to the door.

After the room went completely black, the lights came back on and the butler looked at me and said "Follow me." After I touched his hands my hands and feet were immediately bound and he carried me to the library and locked me in a box.

Okay so this was a four hour thing and I don't want to type it all up, but tons and tons of even more creepy stuff happened. I mean seriously Brittan killed herself, but in the end we were transported to the nearby town of Melenis and Rachel (the DM) said that it was all a dream and the manor didn't even exist.

I know right. It was insane. Well afterwards Brittan, Madi, and I were all super hungry so we ordered pizza and ate in. It was super delicious.

I can't wait to D&D more on Friday!!!

See you LARPing.

Love,
Alora

P.S. LARPing means Live Action Role Play which is mostly what we are doing in our version of Dungeons and Dragons.
Guten Morgen my friends,
My arm is much better now and I have pictures of everything. Ok, so last night my arm hurt like hell, and now it is perfect which is good. Another thing happened last night that I left out because of my extreme pain. We gave Madi a mohawk with shaving cream. What up? That's about it for last night, although I did rewatch the first episode of Once Upon a Time because it's on Netflix.

Picture time...
Madi's Mohawk Pitcures
The beginnings of the first mohwak

Madi being attacked by Brittan, Kristin, and Mimi

Laughing histerically

This entire time Brittan's boyfriend was watching them through  Skype on the computer I was holding.


Front to back mohawk




Spike mohawk


Flattened spike mohawk




First final mohawk

Fish mohawk
Fish mohawk from front (sorry so small phone not cooperating)


From back

Start of random curly hair stuff

End of random curly hair stuff
 My Burnt Arm Last Night and Now
My arm right after I burned it (PAINFUL!!!)
My arm this morning (much much better)
So those are all of my photos and if you read all the way through and got to here after reading my captions then you get a free internet hug.

*HUG*

Yay! Now everyone is happy! I have to go, but I think you should go on twitter and follow @madisonkay1998 because she put up with the shaving cream.

TTYL,

Love,
Alora
Hey guess what, guys?
I'm in a whole bunch of pain right now. For those of you that don't know I have thick curly hair and tonight my friends decided to straighten it.  So Mimi and Madi got their straighteners out an went to work.  Well, you know how it is with friends everything goes everywhere so, they were taking a break from straightening my hair.  Lucky me, I leaned back to put my elbows on the ground and what did I find. A burning hot, water sizzling, super strength hair straightener.  I said ouch and then sort of went into shocked mode and asked for some ice.  Yeah, so now I'm sitting on my bed in the dark with ice and netflix ready to go. It's hard to type so I'm out.

Alora signing off.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Good Morning Family,
Yesterday was Friday, as you know, and today I slept in!!!! Yeah!! Although in reality I only got seven hours of sleep because I went to bed at 2:30.  We watched The Avengers, but we started it at like 1:30 so it wasn't eve over yet when I went to bed.  It was super fun to just watch part of it though because I was able to watch it with a large group of girls and we sat there commenting on the hot, sexiness of the guys.  I mean who doesn't love Captain America and Thor and Iron Man all in the same freaking movie.  Then when I got up I watched the next episode of Grimm and it was AWESOME!!!!! I won't spill any details in case you haven't seen it yet, but it rocked. Yeah!!! Well, I'm past the fun part of the weekend. Now it's time to do homework. yay...

Talk to you later,

Love,
Alora

Friday, September 28, 2012

Dear parents,
I am an official geek now. I have Minecraft and today I started my first game of Dungeons and Dragons. It was so much fun!!! I have never played D&D before, so tonight I made my first character ever. Her name is Amanda and she is a human ranger: basically a girl version of Aragorn without the whole royal blood line thing.  She has studded leather armor and a long bow. On Sunday we are meeting to play our first module and I am super excited. I must remember before then though to finish all of my homework.

More exciting news, season six of The Guild premieres on Tuesday and I can't wait.  A whole bunch of nerdy stuff has been happening lately and it's just so awesome.  Now I'm going to go watch the first two episodes of the new show Revolution on Hulu because the next episode of Grimm isn't up yet. Hmph. It should be up tomorrow though.

I just glanced back at this post and realized what a major geeky nerd of a person I am, but hey, it's fun to be a nerd.

See you in Nerdfighteria,

Love,
Alora

P.S. I'm sorry Hank Green if I spelled Nerdfighteria wrong.
Hola Padres,
Did you know that the only Spanish I've ever had was one quarter in sixth grade. Amazing right. I know. Yeah, I know that I can't actually speak it, but I can throw random words in my sentences for effect (or affect?). I had a math test earlier so I got out of class early. Woot! Woot! It was super easy and I'm pretty sure that I will keep up my average of 100%.  So...um...yeah...I'm going to go do my math homework.
Adios,
Alora

Dear Parents,
Yesterday was pretty awesome. I worked most of the morning, but it was really getting paid to do homework.  My supervisor didn't have much for me to do.  However, I did send mail and use the copy machine yesterday. I also played Minecraft...a lot.  I played for most of the day. I did still do homework.  I just didn't have that much homework yesterday and now it's Friday.  

It's Friday, Friday. Gotta get down on Friday.

Sorry, force of habit. Now, more about yesterday...I ate candy corn!!!  I love candy corn and my TA for Personal Finance brought it to lab yesterday. Then, guess what? I ate it. hehehe. I love candy corn.

I also only had work and the one class yesterday. Woot! Woot! 
I will talk to you all tonight.

Love,
Alora

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Dear Parents,
Today was very hectic. I had five classes today and I kept losing track of time while playing on Minecraft. I am doomed. Madi (my roommate) helped me get Minecraft, and now I am addicted.  I played for two hours this morning, and I did tons of new stuff.  I killed a cow, found coal, found iron, made torches, finished my tree house with a ginormo sunset window, and I made a furnace.  Playing on peaceful mode is nice: monsters don't come get me and I don't have to eat. Ooh, and I made a door for my house.  I'm so excited, and I don't have much homework right now.  Well, except for my English paper that's due next Friday which I should probably be working on right now.  Oops. Oh well, time for a break down of my day.

First I went to Chemistry and we learned how to calculate moles and number of molecules and molarity. It was kind of confusing, but I think I get it now.  I definitely should know it because that's what I have to do on my lab.

College Algebra was EASY. I mean really. Did we have to a practice quiz for the test on Friday. The test is on factoring and solving quadratic equations by factoring.  Super easy.  Also, Mr. Bredder promised that all of the questions would be straightforward and simple: not frustrating and fun.  Oh well, next semester I get to take trig and then in the fall I get to take Calculus.  I can't wait! I've never really ever been challenged much in math.

Next class, PEGlish was kinda fun. We went over the theses that everyone had submitted for our papers. It was quite amusing at times. At one point a stink bug was flying around the classroom, and then we had an impromptu grammar lesson on apostrophes and the Oxford comma (the comma before the "and" in a list).  Dr. Kennedy is very much for the comma.  I must remember to put it in my lists.  Also, we had a long discussion on the usefulness of standardized testing.  All of us were against it, so we just shared stories.  I talked about the TCAPS (bane of my educational career) and the CRTs and the NeSA (both not too bad).  I think that standardized testing can be useful, but most of the time it just makes teachers teach to the test which is no fun.

Personal finance was fun. We discussed credit reports today, and we talked a lot. Most of that class is discussion, but Professor Ewing some how still manages to cram and homework into each one.  Last weekend I spent all of Sunday working on homework for that class.  It wasn't supposed to take all day, but luckily I'd already finished the rest of my Monday homework. Oh and o m i g o d they had moose tracks in the ice cream thing at Hunt for lunch: moose tracks.  Usually they just have chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.  Today, they didn't even have those. They had lemon sorbet, mint chocolate chip, cookies and creme, and moose tracks!!!! It was so yummy which was good because the real food was d i s g u s t i n g.  I waited for like ten minutes for beef ravioli and guess what? It was bow ties with beef sauce not ravioli. It was actually better than dinner, but hey. I wanted ravioli.

Class five, marching band!!!!! I love marching band. It is so much fun!!! We have really fun music an we march around.  Ooh and we got to see the design for the t-shirt today and it is awesome!!  Also, also...wait for it...we have a free trip to New York next semester to play in the Saint Patrick's Day parade. Yes I did say "free." I can't wait!!!!

Also guys you should check out Madi's blog (collegewithchester.blogspot.com).  I'm on there some too, but just in spirit I don't actually post.

I'll see you on the morrow. Good night guys.

Love,
Alora Wogsland

P.S. I don't have class tomorrow!!!! MBC 101 was canceled!!! I'm ecstatic!!!