Sometimes, I Wonder

          Sometimes I wonder if I am too much of a mediator. I work hard to try and give people good advice and to listen to them, but then others come along and put their moral foot down and I wonder if maybe my advice would work better if I did that.

          A few minutes ago my friend, lets call her Bianca  came in complaining about her mom. Her mom was forcing her to give up her Facebook password and Bianca is convinced that over spring break her mom will go through her laptop. Now she has somethings that she does not want her mom to see which is understandable. She came in to complain about how she then had to delete all of those things. She was then talking about how much she hated her mother. My other friend, Beatrice, got frustrated that Bianca hated her mom at all. I tried to mediate and make the two of them feel better, but they both walked out frustrated, at life, if not each other.

          Beatrice was defending her beliefs. I know that I try to defend my beliefs, but do I really do a good job. I need an opinion on some of these things. I have to hope that Bianca will grow out of her parent hate, but I do not know. I do think that family is family, and I have unconditional love for my family. I will love them forever I just do not know what to do about other people's families. I cannot fix families. I cannot help them. I can help teenagers and that is about it. I give advice and homework help, but not much else outside of that.

          I wonder, if I really do have as my teachers say "a strong sense of right and wrong." What does that even mean? Every day I try to hold up these morals that I have developed, but sometimes they do not fit the situation and I do not know what to do.

That is my look into my mind for the day.

Love,
Alora

Thursday, Again?

          I feel like just yesterday it was last Thursday. Where has this week gone? Oh, yeah, the homework monster ate it. I have tons of work to do and I have been YouTubing. Yesterday/early this morning I finished editing my most recent YouTube video. Check it out:

I also convince my friend Cassie to join YouTube. Lookie what she has made. I am so proud.

Yeah so my week has been sucked into a black hole of homework, but it is almost spring break. Week after next I will be blogging from home.

Don't kill people.

Love,

Alora

P.S. I have Twizzlers!!!

I am a Superwholockian.

          Do you want to know why I haven't blogged in a while? I have been watching Supernatural. Netflix is awesome, but I have now become part of the big three. I am a Superwholockian. I am scared. There are so many people in this fandom. I love Supernatural so far, but I have many seasons to go. I am only on the second season. No spoilers. Yesterday though, I was looking through a Doctor Who Facebook and I found a but ton of awesome pictures. I am going to share the best with you guys.

So I had some cool pictures up here, but I had to take them down due to copyright. Sorry guys. If you want to though I found most of them through the Facebook page, Doctor Who and The T.A.R.D.I.S. Have fun wasting time.

Love,
Alora

Doctor Who Episode Ideas

         Season seven has been quite intense and very dark. There is a major battle approaching on the field of Tensalor (sp?). I think that Matt Smith will soon regenerate into someone new. I have not looked anything up, but I am just guessing. On this thought of regeneration I have had a marvelous idea. I do not know if I am the first to think of it, but I know that no one has enacted it.
          Before I get into my great episode or special idea, we all must be clear on the facts. Everyone knows that when the doctor regenerates he has the same memories and even though he is genetically a different person his personality is quite similar and he has all of his memories. On this note it would be very fun to have multiple doctors in an episode. Different incarnations, but not all at the same time. It would bump the doctor count up, but it would be very fun.
          Say it is some really bad times and the Doctor is fighting a horrible war. He is on the front lines and gets shot. He regenerates. His new body goes back to the war and he gets shot again. He regenerates, again.  Over a span of a few weeks or a month or two we could go through a few Doctors. This would be centered over a huge battle, and it would emotionally scar the Doctor without a doubt. The final regeneration that wins the war will have the split second memories of countless regenerations that lived a matter of days.
         I am not sure how he would react to those huge emotions, but it would be a very fun special. A long invasion maybe, but not destroying Earth. Maybe he gets stuck in World War Two. Possibly he gets trapped in a concentration camp somewhere and he is somehow contained. Obviously we can't use the Silence because they fall with the fall of the Eleventh when the question is asked. Later maybe. If someone, somehow gets a hold of him and they are trying to harness his regeneration energy. They could play on the number of regenerations that River apparently had before she saved the Doctor. Does he have a number of regenerations? Does every new Doctor that quickly dies lessen his number of possible regenerations?
         I cannot answer any of these questions. It is all up to the writers, but I think this would be something fun to play on.

Run clever boy and remember.

Love,
Alora

Band T-Shirts and New Uniforms

          Yesterday band let out early and the trads ("traditionals" AKA non-VWILS in this case) headed over to VWIL Supply House for  new uniforms. We got fitted for our dress mess tunics (jackets) and we got our dress mess pants. They are white and brand new, so they haven't been fitted to anyone. Mine are huge on me because the size smaller didn't fit at all, but the seamstress when we take them to get hemmed will take them in. We also got windbreaker pants and jackets. The jacket is the warmest jacket of all time and I can wear it in regular daily life if I want too. Yay. We also got PT uniforms: basketball shorts and VWIL t-shirts. All of this stuff took about an hour to get for the tenish band trads. Band ended at 7 yesterday and I didn't get back to the dorm until 8:30 ish.
         I did get my band t-shirt though!!!!! Picture time!

This is the front of the shirt. Everyone has there last name on theirs, but Brittan didn't want us to have the same shirt so we got initials too.

This is the back of the shirt. In case you can't read it, it says "We Lure You In, We Take You Out!" We are apparently the Sirens.

This is  a close up of the mermaid in the middle.

          I am wearing my shirt today and it is kind of hard to tell in the pictures, but it is navy blue with white lettering and green designs. I love it!

Have a terrific Tuesday.

Love,
Alora

P.S. For those of you who do not know VWIL is the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership. They are basically ROTC. Their marching band is the only one on campus so it is what I am doing. All of the traditionals have to get the uniforms and follow the dress codes for parades or we make the core look bad.

Poem Edits

          A few weeks ago I wrote a poem entitled "The Beginning of All Art." I blogged about it and shared it all with you. Now at the request of my teacher to edit one of my poems (AKA homework) I have revised this poem. It now reads like this and I have changed the title. Pleas read, comment, compare the two. Suggestions, praise and criticism are all welcome.

The Father of All Art

The painter licks his lips, and dips

Into a brimming pit of thought.

The brush whips over the canvas creating.

Marking out a new form. Will it be

A person, dog, or tree?

Options are open.

Maybe just a pile of purple puzzle pieces

Stacked in such a specific way.

An author primes her pen,

Swirling it over an abyss of idea.

What shall she scribe?

Opportunities are endless.

Construct courtyards

Of crying cherubs, tears unexisting

oOn their rough unmoving cheeks,

Or take a boy on an unexpected adventure.

Now you get ready to create

Reach for your instrument.

A camera, a pencil,

A carver’s blade?

No matter. You are

Jumping into the pit.

Swimming down into the abyss.

What drives you, also

Powers the writer while she furiously clacks away at the keys,

And

Sustains the painter’s muscles when his hand grows heavy.

The father of rhyme and alliteration.

Imagination.

Thanks for reading. On a side note you should go check out my friend Sarah's blog, Bawks of Chocolates. It is hilarious and I will be appearing in one of her videos sometime soon. More details later.

Try not to eat all of your children.

Love,

Alora

Girl Scouts Science Day: My Saturday

Yesterday morning from 9:30AM -- 1:00PM I worked a booth at Girl Scout Science day. A whole bunch of Cadets and Junoirs came to MBC and we set up 18 booths of experiments for them to do, watch, etc. My booth was the egg in a bottle trick that I ran with my friend Cassie. The link has two different way to do the experiment and we showed the girls the first one, but we tried the second one with some of our broken eggs. At one point a group of girls came back to talk to us and we showed them the upside down one. They loved it.
I also got a cool water bottle for volunteering. We all did. It's a nice big, red, metal one that says girl scouts on it. It makes me happy. I have three water bottles now!! Yay.
So I learned yesterday that young little girls are quite smart. I mean I knew that already, sort of, but I really learned it. Cassie and I had at least three groups of girls explain pretty nearly how the experiment works. One group did it spot on. Others, instead of mentioning the pressure directly said that the fire consumed the oxygen and lowered the pressure. I loved being there with all of those girls. I got to see kids and young adults probably only a few years younger than myself get excited over science. I also got to show all of those girls a super fun experiment. I loved explaining it to them and I got Cassie to explain it too. She is not a sciencey person, but I taught it to her and she explained. I had so much fun. Just writing this is making me excited again!!!
After the Girl Scout thing I went back to my room and watched Merlin. I am now done with season four and I also watched Brave with all the rest of us girls. It was a lazy day.

Have fun doing science.

Love,
Alora

P.S. That is what I told every group as the left. It is really fun to say out loud. Try it. No really, try it.

Thanks.

D&D. AKA Best Game Ever!!!!!

          Yesterday I went to rm 407 of the academic building and played Dungeons and Dragons with some of my friends. The highlights include: touching scene number one, getting out of the dungeon, Moira killing the wolf, Slespigam being saved, and of course the random telepathic moments.
          We started this module about five weeks ago and we are finally done. We get XP and I am excited. Last night was very adventurous too. We started the day where we had ended last week: in a room with a hyena/coyote/wolf/bad puppy. Lele (Brittan) tried to open the door on the far side of the room and woke it up. Cue touching scene number one. Kanlis-Aerren (Jessica) was bitten on the shoulder and both her and Moira (ME) thought she was going to die. Now throughout their time in the dungeon the two of them had become very close. So close in fact that when either one of them is close to death the other goes into rage mode. When Kanlis-Aerren lost conscoiusness Moira believing her to be dead, killed the wolf hyena thing and ripped its throat out. Also luckily for Brittan she was heartbroken. Now if I haven't told you before, on a promise she made to her goddess, Lele had to break three hearts before she could leave the dungeon. She broke Kanlis-Aerren's the first day and then Moira's. In the end her third heart was her goddess, Jinx's.
          Besides all of us, but Magnus (Jennifer) almost getting killed we made it out of the dungeon alive. Now we are standing in a desert ready to walk in any direction and but tired and exhausted.

I wish you many halaflings.

Love,
Alora

P.S. I started this blog on Saturday and finished it today on Sunday. Oops.

Strange Snow

          No it is not telepathic. I promise. It is just new and unexpected. It fell some time last night and now it is slowly melting. I am not sure if it is below freezing because the snow is watery and sticky. Very good for snowballs. Mwhahahah! I went to breakfast by myself this morning though because Brittan decided that she was to tired to get out of bed. I sat alone thinking and eating french toast sticks. Surprisingly Hunt did not mess them up this morning. Usually they are really hard and slightly burnt. So today has been good so far except I realized this morning that I totally forgot to buy sleds when I went to Walmart yesterday. I bought snacks, a computer mouse, gum, and mouthwash, but no sled. I didn't even see any which is sad even by Walmart standards.

          OMG!!! Band shirts are here today. I am going to go pick mine up later. They are super cute. I will add pictures when I get it. So check back around 1PMish (EST).

          So no sleds, but I did get a 102.5% on my Psyc test. Yay! My mouse is super useful too. I can scroll easily and just yay! I love using a mouse. Track pads get super annoying some times. And it works on almost any smooth surface!

          Also tomorrow I am going to be doing experiments for Girl Scouts. Girl Scout science day is tomorrow and I have volunteered. I will be running a demonstration of air pressure with the egg in a bottle trick. I get to do it with Cassie too which will be fun. I can't wait.

          I have to go to class now. I have a poetry test. Wish me luck. :)

"Don't kill people." -- Sarah

Love,
Alora

Signature Ball

          Last Saturday we had the Signature Ball which I forgot to mention in A Very, Very, Very Long Week. The Signature Ball was sort of the college version of prom with tickets that cost only $12 bucks and fun college people. It was super fun. I wore an orange strapless dress with rhinestones on the top. Brittan did my hair in a super cute bun. Look at the picsures!!!!

TJ watching everyone else get ready before she puts on her secret and adorable dress.

Brittan doing something for getting ready.

Brittan's hair that I did. Sorry that it's sideways I didn't have time to rotate it before I published it.

Gorgeous Mimi, sadly also sideways.

Brittan doing TJ's make up.

Glorious Mimi once again.

Brinley putting Anneliese's makeup on.

Hannah in Brittan's dress. Also sideways

Hannah's super cute eye shadow.

Meme's making silly faces

TJ's make up in progress.

Mimi  borrowing my camera to take her picture in my mirror. I am behind her on the left/bottom of the screen.

More silly faces.

Chanelle curling Cassie's hair with a straightening iron like a boss.

I think Cassie was looking in the mirror for this one.

As you can see we had tons of fun getting ready to go to the ball. I did not get any pictures of myself, but other people did. The ball was super fun. Yummy food, hours of dancing and beautiful friends to hang out with. I did the Wobble, and the Cupid shuffle in a ball gown that night. I had tons of fun even with my aching feet.

Keep dancing.

Love,

Alora

Very, Very, Very Long Week

          Last weekend I did absolutely no homework. I watched a ton of Torchwood which was a bad idea. I haven't had time to blog since then because I have bee doing homework constantly. I had two tests last week and a paper due. It was not the best idea to procrastinate. I still got everything done, and this weekend I am getting back on track. I may be starting to make some Youtube videos soon because I want to film and show everyone my Dungeons and Dragons group. I just have to clear it with my DM first. I had a pretty fun week last week. I wrote a good English paper in roundabouts of a day. I played in the snow that fell. I think we have had snowfall three times this week. Sadly it has all melted within a few days. We had snow yesterday, but today it is all gone. Also, at home, in Tennessee, they have gotten tons of snow and it lasted a few days. Why, Virginia, why? I am so frustrated. I miss Nebraska winters so much. Ahhhhhhh! I need snow! I have been tweeting about snow, but it is little baby snow. I want big mamma snow. :( Sadness.
          Also, yesterday I finished what I can watch of season seven of Doctor Who. I am currently listening to Chameleon Circuit on Spotify. It is super fun. I love all of their songs. Hehehehe. Doctor Who band. Who'd a thunk! Well I have to go. I have homework to do as I said.

Watch for the blue police box.

Love,
Alora