Summer Heat

Hey~

Y'all probably noticed for yourselves by now, but it's insanely hot here. I don't know how it's been for you crazy world travelers, but omg it is scorching in the states.

I've been in Rhode Island for the past little while, and my Fourth of July was actually pretty lovely. Like, all the family there can sometimes get hectic and make everyone more than a little angsty, but crazy levels were kept at a pretty nice, moderate amount. We went to our usual minor league game, a visit made sweeter by a Pawsox victory ^.^

Sadly, my diet that lately has been made up of fried dough, (diet) soda, and fries with vinegar is coming to a sorrowful end. Tuesday starts official summer training for soccer! While it'll be lovely getting back on the field, I'm not exactly excited to run and run and run and run... and runrunrun x.x But with eight [8. EIIIGHHHTTTTTT] seniors' from last year's spot open in varsity, there's a lot of pressure to take up the burden, especially with one of our only two [2. ONLY TWWWOOOOOOOOO] seniors this year off on injury. Gah. gah gah gah.

I miss all you guys, but hopefully I'll be seeing some of you in band camp soon ^.^

With all due respect,
House.

wazzup y'all

Hello!

Last night was our school's homecoming dance and football game and parade for all the extracurricular activities' clubs' floats. Our football team lost the game 14 - 21, but the game was pretty good, and our band was as shiny and fantastic as usual. The parade also went pretty well. This year's theme was Dr. Seuss, so a lot of the floats were, um, creative :)

And the dance.
First of all, I totally loveee seeing everyone all dressed up and groomed and everything. (Especially the boys. They, like, even shower.) It's so lovely! Everyone looks so pretty ^.^ (Especially Carrie!!!! Gurrrrlllll. You guise, she looked super duper pretty in a lavender dress.)

But yeah. Homecoming... it was pretty good. I had a lot of fun, at least :)
The music was, uh, not too varied from general heavy bass rap, so I don't exactly see my friends enjoying themselves there, so I hope their "anti-homecoming" party thing went well ^.^

And... yeah.
Let me update you on my life.

SOCCER ENDED! NO! YES! WHAT???
I cannot believe this. What am I supposed to do?
I will miss my muddy fields and lovely teammates and being able to shove people to the ground* in the sacred name of such a wonderful sport! D: Buuut I suppose it will be nice to have, you know, nights where I can start homework at a decent hour and all ^.^

Ohmigoodness. So yeah, that happened. And off-season training will probably be starting soon, then.

Aaand soccer ended because now's it's October >.<
I really dislike October. Why? First, soccer comes to an end. Second, I'm really weird, and my teeth chatter whenever it's the slightest bit cold, and this is usually when that phenomenon starts. And lastly, it's when all the horror movies start coming out >.<
Eeeeep. Horror movies. I don't mind that they come out and that people go see them, but the trailers are so sudden and scary and dark and all have creepy music, and you never know when they're coming! *shudders* I really, really, really dislike horror movies. Like, a lot. Also haunted houses. And sometimes skeletons.
So yeah. October. Eghhhr. That's what's up, pretty much.

With all due respect,
House.


*Hehe, being a defender is fun.

Winning!

Hello!

Though it's been a really hard week, this weekend has been a really good weekend for me :]
Friday night, my beautiful soccer team gathered at the house of one of our seniors to participate in some hardcore team bonding. We made really prettyful tie-dye tees ^.^
Aaaand then on Saturday, as you all know, our school's football team won their first game! Yay! And the soccer team won our first game, too! Ahhhh! So many exciting things.

It's been kinda rainy and ickyish on and off here, so the fields around the city are an absolute mess. My poor soccer cleats after our game were totally caked in mud, as were most of the players on both teams, haha.

You're just lucky the smell can't be transfered through the computer screen.

I think the team bonding thing really helped the team. Like, we're all actually friends this year, as sappy as that sounds. Last year, pretty much nobody had team spirit, there was a pretty cliquey divide, and it felt like nobody wanted to give 100%. Buuuut this season is different, yay :D

So yeah. Kinda excited for this week, since there's going to be a lot of soccer and fun and things, but I'm also really stressed, since I know there's going to be a lot of school work :/ *sigh* but it's all gonna be good.

With all due respect,
House.

P.S. Homecoming is soon! As far as I know, of the 6LCF, just Carrie and I are going. (Partying it upppp.) That's also really exciting ^.^

one week down, a bajillion to go.

Hello. This has been quite the eventful week. All six of us have survived the beginning of sophomore year! Huzzah! I feel like coming back to school is a little bit easier this year than it was freshman year. Like, it's easier for me to get back into the learning routine, since we sort of already have an idea as to what the teachers expect of us, the layout of the school, etc. Our lovely JV soccer team played our first game of the season this week. We were up at against a really good school, and I kinda expected to lose. The opposing team started off strong, setting up really good passing triangles and attacking us right away in our defending third. After a few minutes of play, they had their first really good shot on goal. Our goalie (she's awesome) dove for the ball, which sailed really nicely into the lower right corner (shooter's view) of the net. A loud *THUNK.* was heard around the field. At first, we thought the ball might have hit one of the posts, but then we saw our goalie facedown on the turf, motionless. omg, our team totally freaked out. It turns out her head struck the goalpost pretty hard. She ended up needing stitches for a nasty cut above her eyebrow. (We ended up losing 0-8.) Since she's obv. going to be taking some time off for recovery, we're not gonna be having her with us for the next couple weeks. Fingers crossed! *thinks* uh, yeah. That's about it. As of now, my life = AP US History, AP Bio, soccer, marching band, coveted naps, and audition music for wind ensemble X.X {oh oh oh and Latin Club's first meeting is this Wednesday! gah exciting.} aghghghhh. okay. sleep time nao. With all due respect, House.

band camp band camp band camp

Hey, guys.

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, XIY! <3 <3 <3 :)

Today is our lovely xiy's birthdayyy. We wish her the very best =(^.^)=

Other exciting things are happening this week. For one thing, our lovely Virgil will be back with us, posting away about Harry Potter and things. And yay that Virgil is back, since that means she'll be lovely and  in time to attend marching band camp!!! Marching band camp starts this week, you guise!!! I can't wait to be back in the three hundred+ person band our lovely school boasts. I mean, if walking back and forth in the blistering sun, being yelled at by a few teachers and upperclassmen, and getting awkward suntans isn't fun, I don't know what is.
Woooo, marching band.

Also, more soccering this week! We've got two scrimmages to look forward to. Our lovely JV team actually started pre-season off really well, winning our first scrimmage last week 3 - 0 :) Looks like this is gonna be a better year than last, which is excellent.

Buuuuut... *sighs* This week is our last full week before school starts D:
I don't know about you guys, but I wish we had a little bit longer until having to return to deadlines and snarky teachers and really icky bathrooms.

Anyway, iz now my bedtime.
I hope you guys spend your last week of freedom well ^.^

With all due respect,
House.

P.S. Can you believe it? We're sophomores! Huzzah!

{{soccer soccer soccer}}

Soccer soccer soccer
soccer
soccer
soccer.

Soccer try-outs are tomorrow.
... omg, soccer try-outs are tomorrow.

As of now, our coach is planning on making a JV team, a varsity team, and a bubble team that will practice with varsity and play in the JV games. (He's rather persistent about keeping his starting eleven playing for most of the game, so those bubble team players wouldn't be getting much playing time in a varsity game.)

Since I'm really not sure at all which team I'll be making {though I'm preparing for JV}, I have three victory songs lined up for when the results are posted tomorrow night at 6:30 pm, an hour after our evening session of try-outs. A victory song for making JV (since I'll be looking forward to leading a great team), a more-victory song for making varsity (since then I'll get to play alongside some really great players and coaches), and a super-victory song if I'm on the bubble team. I see the bubble team as ideal for my situation, since practicing with players better than I am is the best way for me to improve, and game time is always important for experience.

Technically, I think the coaches all have a pretty good idea as to who is going to be on which team. Tomorrow is really for seeing which girls are going to show up that we haven't seen for the past two months... well, and seeing how far we're willing to be pushed >.<

Anyway, enough soccer talk.

Marching band camp is starting soon! I'm actually kind of excited for this football season to start. Running the same drills in the sun over and over isn't very fun, but it will be nice to be back in the big (BIG) band setting with my band friends again ^.^

School's starting soon, too.
Ughhhh, having deadlines to meet once more will be fun... but at least we won't be freshmen! :)

*sighs* I should go to bed, considering the first session of try-outs start at nine am.
Hope you all are enjoying the last bits of summer!

With all due respect,
House.

Keep Calm and FIND THE QUILL

Hello.

Today is July 31st, which is a day to be celebrated across the world! First of all, it's my boyfriend's birthday (happy birthday!). Second of all, it's J. K. Rowling's birthday (!!!). Third of all, it's Harry Potter's birthday (zomg). AND today was the first of seven days on which clues [that can lead no-lifer nerds users to access Pottermore early] are released! Zomg so many exciting things!!!

I spent the past week waking up obscenely early, slaving away from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, which means this week I'll be waking up obscenely early,  slaving away from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, which means this is the week before tryouts! Ahhh! (My personal favorite portion of tryout day is when we're told to run laps around the field infinitely until the coach tells us to stop. As we're dying running, the coach will blow a whistle periodically, signaling to us to start [and then stop] sprinting.)

So, yeah. Besides soccer and muddling through summer homework and Tumblr, I haven't been up to much. Just sorta melting away in the heat. (I got a very pretty watch today, which I'm quite happy about. It's shiny; I think Lynda would definitely approve. [It also didn't cost very much, which she would also defo approve of ^.^])

*sighs* and now it is my bedtime. Have a good week, guys.

With all due respect,
House.

soccer soccer soccer and flute

Hey, guys.

Apparently, I'm supposed to take some time off from obsessing over Alan Rickman's excessive amounts of awesome [and how hot Matthew Lewis has gotten] to write this post. Idk how well this is going to go, then...

Japan won!  Yay for them! The game was mental, which I'm assuming those of you that knew the World Cup was going on already are aware of, since you had to have watched. Gahhhhahhahahhhhh.


Anyway, yeah. I've been keeping busy, mostly with soccer training/camp/practice (for the oh-so-soon pre-season!). I've been running my butt off between band rehearsals, sips of Gadorade, and quick showers, pretty much :P (Also, I've been doing a teeny bit of summer homework... not enough to, like, exert myself, but I've done a little. I took the final for this online health course thingy, so I'm officially done with listening to this lady from BYU lecture me on abstinence, hooray!!)


That's about it. Sorry about the short post... I kinda need to go to bed, you know, since soccer training doesn't go very well with being ~totally nocturnal >.<


With all due respect,
House.

Not even gonna say it...

I'm not going to mention that You Know What is coming out in a couple of hours because we all know who might just die of excitement. 

I actually can picture Virgil sitting in her room with her wand and cloak on, waiting for midnight. Just, like, staring at the clock and every few seconds jumping because it's a little sooner.

I can also picture xiy planning an amazing post for tomorrow about how it's not over yet and House screaming "And now it's even closer! AND CLOSER!!!! AND NOW IT'S EVEN CLOSER!!!!!!!!!!". I can picture Lynda being mad because she still hasn't found her replacement horcrux (cough, cough). And Carrie, well, I don't know how she is handling all this.

I really need to see you people.

I bought y'all lots of candies (I really hope chocolate is acceptable [except I can't remember if Lynda doesn't like all chocolate or not and I'm freaking out)] and I already bought some other gifts, in addition to the candies. 

I come home in 10 days!!!

It's a little sad to go, but I like being home as well.

Being home is nice.

You know what else is nice?

Soccer/football/Fußball.

The US women made it to the world cup finals--which is on Sunday btw--along with Japan. The Amuricans played against Brazil in the quarter-finals and it was really close. In fact, due to a stupid call by the ref, it ended up being tied and needing to go into overtime. The Amuricans ended up beating Brazil and going on to the semi-finals. Then, yesterday, they played France. At the beginning, they did really well and scored a goal. Then France got mad and they started being all good but couldn't make any goals (well, I mean, one). The US won.

Also, Japan played against Sweden and beat them. 

WHICH MEANS the Amuricans have to beat the Japanese on Sunday and they'll be the WORLD CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!! 

Germany be sawdy.

They have a TV magazine with all the programs for the week and for the soccer finals it says something like, "If everything went according to plan, Germany will be playing against Brazil probably". The magazines are printed, like, 2 weeks in advance. 

They are false.

Alrighty then. I've finished rambling for today. :)

Momo

I realized yesterday that it would be really funny if I made a piece of art and called it Mo's Art. Get it? No? Ok.

omg this is the end.

Hello.

I'm back home! Yay :) Though I do miss the coast a ton already... but being back here is nice.

And my cousin got married yesterday! Yayyy for the happy couple. I had a lot of fun with the family and food [omg baclava]  and all. But I guess I'm really unfamiliar with wedding customs...? Before a couple months ago, I didn't know that there was a matron of honor. I mean, that makes sense, but I'd never really heard of it. And ushers leading women down the isle to be seated? What? >.< Maybe I should get out of the house more...

*segue* lol xiy taught me spelling!

And I will be getting out of the house for sure tomorrow, bright and early (nince o'clock a.m.) for the kicking off of soccer training! Yayayayay soccer! I'll be sweating off half my body weight on the same field for the next short ever.
Ohmigoodness...
I really hope I survive this training session >.<

So... yeah. I guess I should warn you guys that for the next while, my posts will be mostly about soccer and training and things ^.^"

Oooh, also, HP7 is coming out ridiculously soon.
Like, Virgil's-about-to-burst-into-tears soon.
Like, the entire fandom world is about to blow up July 15th.
Holy cow.
Okay. I shouldn't think about it too much. Or else I might get all emotional.

*sighs* I should go run before it gets too dark.

With all due respect,
House.

I'm at xiy's house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HER WIDDLE SISTER!!!!! and happy mother's day too :)

{^well, I'm not there anymore. but I was.}
Hello!
@Momo: OMG I LOVE TACOS <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Happy Mother's Day!! Especially to my mommy, who probably will actually read this. Thanks to all the mums of us 6LCF for putting up with all our strange shenanigans :) You all iz wonderful! Hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day and your kid[s] pampered and tended to you as you saw fit.

I spent quite a lot of my day at xiy's house. We were outlining our 9HD project, seeing as apparently we're going on... haha, we have a bit of work to do, considering how, um, informal our first try at displaying Robespierre's part in the French Revolution on a trifold board was.
Personally, I think neon backing, handwritten captions, paint smudges, and indents from footprints of xiy's widdle sister add sort of a cute touch. {Okay, the whole part where it was two mini trifolds duct taped together was a bit sketchy. But our school is kinda sketchy; it's what we know and love. Of courseeee.}
But our History teacher thinks the judges' opinion might differ.
Whatev.

Um... this weekend has been remarkably and lovely-ly chill. I didn't have to put much effort into anything (yayayayay) besides making my mum a card for Mother's Day.
I did go the library, though!
And now I'm reading The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan. I usually don't read YA, but I really like it :)

All the older kiddies are taking their AP and SAT Subject tests and things. lol @ them. hooray for being young and not taking AP or anything. (though our finals are soon-ish... *cringes* that will not be fun.)

Which means that skool iz almost out!!!! Which is just super exciting!!! Because then real soccer conditioning season legit starts!!! I love dragging my body across a 101°F field and pulling muscles and running until I can't breathe and my lungs collapse into a wrinkled lump!!! Except not!!!


So  yeah. That's about it.
EXCEPT for marching band starts soon! My piccolo and I will be reunited again <3
Can't wait to be back to playing notes >four lines above the staff.

With all due respect,
House.

being sick, nano fuss, and i hate horror movies

I be sick.

That's right, you don't only have to deal with Lynda's ill groans, but also mine.  Lucky little duck (<- THAT BE FORESHADOWIN') you.

I guess Curly Fries are a rather ill people this week.

THIS WEEK:

Start:

The soccer season is coming to a close!  As a team bonding thing, we all had a dinner and movie night at one of the girls'  house. Nobody told me beforehand that the movie we were watching was Paranormal Activity.  (A brief history of House and horror films: I saw my first one when I was in like fourth grade.  I don't remember if I couldn't sleep for three or four months, but it was one of the two.)  So I've been freaked the crap out for the past week.

(mood: freaked out. and really tired because that led to me not getting that much sleep. yayyy.)

Middle:

School whee.  (And Symphonic results were posted.  Yay, us.)

End:

Last soccer game and practice!!!  Our last practice was a few days ago; our very last game (unless we go onto regionals'... haha) is tomorrow.*  I must say that our team [despite my whining] has improved greatly as a whole since the start of the season.  So props to us.

Oh, yeah, and all of the writing people are fussed up about NaNo, which starts pretty soon, I guess.  (I'm not doing NaNo.  Last year, Momo, Virgil, xiy, and Lynda did.  All of them are doing it this year.  [Carrie: are you being a normal person with me and not doing NaNo?  Or are you crossing over to the dark side? :) ])

And then I got sick and missed our second-to-last soccer game [which was yesterday] and a football game I was supposed to march in.  And I didn't go to school today.  ([sobbing pitifully and generally in tears] I bet none of you even noticed I was gone! D: [/jk I'm not really that thirsty for affection.]) Eventful, I know.  Don't get too excited there.

So... yeah.  It's just been a brilliant week overall.

Hope yours was better.

With all due respect,

(a rather congested) House

LOOK IT'S A DUCKIE
(he's all like "zomgdude lolidk")

*Which I may or may not be going to.  Coughing and sneezing and not being able to breathe all that well tend not to really be the qualities of a super duper athlete.

Angsty Ramblings Brought to You by House

"MASS THE CAT VOMIT."

—My frikkin crazy science teacher

Hiiiii

Right, so I logged onto the blog and I saw the new background, which I would like to call to your attention if you haven't already noticed it. Because I know that I saw it and was like "Dang, that's different... whatever. Cool," but idk if you had that same reaction. So.
...
I JUST GOT HOME FROM SOCCER PRACTICE (JV Women's). And I must admit that after all the conditioning and training and practicing and crap we've gone through, we have magically, stunningly, in-trucking-CREDIBLY gone from being a crap team to an even worser team. Which is impressive.
Because, see, you've got three types of people on the team:

1. People who have actually had legit coaching in the past, so they're 3/4 legit
There's a select few on the team that have actually, like, had actual coaches that have coached them at least one time in their life. And this group of girls can actually pass, trap, kinda dribble, and keep possession for more than two seconds. They're good enough to be bored to death at "practice," but not mental athletic machines that make the Varsity cut.

2. People who have been on this team but have actually developed a few skills!!!
I would like to give this group a lot of credit. These good people actually try try try their hardest to do what they can with the, uh, coaches we're given. However, they only get a little bit better with each practice. Not, like, a lot better, which would obviously be ideal.

3. A) People that try but still kinda suck
3. B) People that don't really try
[You're clever enough to work those two out for yourself.]


...

I think I should go now. Kay. Bye.

With all due respect,
House

P.S. Oh my gawwwdddd I got two and a half hours of sleep last night. This growing up thing suckssss >.<


-and this is the end of probably the most optimistic and vocabulary-y correct post you've ever read ever-






...

[*labels "cat vomit"* *actually lol's*]

It's Friday /Again/...

"I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin."

 —Hugh Laurie

Hello.


It's Friday, which means it's my turn to post. I didn't realise this until today at about, like, noon-ish. And since then, I've been procrastinating it off by doing things such as going to the mall, cleaning (*shiver*), practicing flute/picc, and eating, and I've been procrastinating off /those/ things for, like, ever.


Anyway. Once I realised it was my turn to post, I realised that Lynda didn't post yesterday. And holy crap. So the Six Little Curly Fries that have perfect posting attendence (well, with excused, pre-announced absences) might be able to "punish" the one [i.e. Lynda] that doesn't. And wouldn't that be fun ^_^
Unless, of course, Lynda can give a reason as to why she didn't post yesterday... however, we're not supposed to accept anything short of her being, like, sedated and in surgery all day. Or not having internet connection because of travelling/electronic complications. Or something.
... Lynda? :)


In other news, there's not much going on with me. (Exciting "news," yeah, I know.) I'm going through the hellish months known as soccer conditioning and tryouts for this year's team. It kinda sucks. A lot.


In *other, happier* news, I got a really cute dress and skirt at the mall today ^_^


(Because I want to:)


1. How is your summer going?
2. Punishments, anyone...?


With all due respect,
House [is a beeeaaaassssttttttt]
[Um. . . Why is the above text in purple? I have no memory of writing such a thing. :/ ~xiy]
[Likely story...]
[Haha, noooooo.]
[Hahaha ha ha haha... ha. xiy, you're such a kidder ^_^]

*Note* Most of this post was railing on how Lynda missed a post, but then Virgil missed /her/ post, which you might have noticed. May it be noted that Virgil has an excused absence for her July 31, 2010 post. 

xoxoxoxo

6LCF