Blah for a Reason

Quote of the day: "They're blah for a reason; because you're gonna fill them with brilliance, you hear me?"


Word of the day: stichomythia (pronounced "stick-uh-mith-ia")


Errrm, right. So, I wanna watch Avatar: The Last Airbender now. Is it true that there's a part two? Hm…what is this "Puppetbenders: Where Are They Now" business my brother is watching?? Must find…here:

Ah, but this one was funny too...

Hahaha…Fans these days are just crazy. Meh…I guess I'm not feeling the blog today. But I will talk about the quote and stuffz…


Quote came from my History teacher. He was referring to this graphic organizer he was handing out, trying to explain why they were so plain. But I think that his quote could be applied to a lot of things in life...like, um, I don't know. XD I know that some things are just waiting to have our creativity/brilliance poured into them, but I think my thoughts were a lot more detailed and coherent earlier on...ugh, I need to do my HW.


And the word was again courtesy of my beloved screensaver. A stichomythia is a "dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse." Sounds fancy. I interpreted it as something along the lines of...two people speaking a poem/some deep or profound speech at the same time...like, reading each others' thoughts. You see it all the time in anime. Two characters start thinking the same thoughts and completing each other's sentences in their minds on some mental plane...the background is dark, and different close-ups/faded psychic images float across the screen as each person thinks a line...Too much? My apologies. I watch too many things and imagine far too many more.


Okay, Imma go finish most of my homework so I can catch up on all my anime/manga. PEACE!


My question: Why the **** does Blogger make the space between paragraphs so frickin' huge now???


Listening to: Nothing. The sound of Significant Other bustling about the kitchen.
Currently plotting: Nothing. My mind is BLANK.
Trying to finish: Math, science, lit., etc. (>.<)

Finding Yourself (in This World of Chaos)...OMG I'M A MARTYR

Quote of the day (more like a convo): "Who [here] has a Facebook?" (*raises their hands*) "Losers, all of you."


Word of the day: martyr (pronounced "mar-ter")


Ugh. I never haz time to blog these days...I'd blame school, but others manage, so I'll have to blame my terrible time management (which reminds me of another thing from today, but I'll get to that later). Any way, I'll just compile the random thoughts I've had these past few days in any random order that I please, and I'll complain about my day or something.


First: regarding that stuff up there @ the top. The quote came from this meeting we had to go to, which they called "Focus on Us," which was really a get-together to talk to us about our mental issues. (Now, I for one do not like being reminded that I have mental problems. But that doesn't seem to change anyone's mind.) Any way, we somehow got onto the subject of Facebook and its effects on us and our social/emotional health. However, I was one of, like, the three people (out of around 40) who did not have a Facebook account. The lady asked the first part of the quote while I was the one who called the others losers because they all had Facebook accounts. Note that I have no issue with Facebook whatsoever, I just feel like people spend TOO much of their time on that site; they know it too. I feel like, there's no need for you to look on Facebook when your entire life is in a single city, the one you live in. Notice that that statement will not apply to you (as much) if you have moved or you are 18+ years old and you have a life elsewhere. 

Sinners in the Hands of God-- Found Poem

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Found Poem, by TrinnBloom

The wrath of God

Is like great waters

Dammed

Rapid and mighty

When let loose.

Floods of God's

Vengeance

Withheld

Your guilt

Constantly increasing

Treasuring up more

Wrath

Everyday

The floodgate would open

Fiery floods of fierceness

Omnipotent power

The bow of God's wrath

The arrow on the string

Bends at your heart

Nothing but the mere pleasure of God

Keeps the arrow

Never

A great change of heart

Never

Born again

Nothing but his mere pleasure

Keeps you from everlasting destruction

Peace and Safety

Were nothing

But thin air and shadows

God

Holds you over the pit of hell

Abhors you

You are ten thousand times

So abominable in his eyes

You have offended him

You did not go to hell last night

You were suffered to awake again

You have not dropped into hell

God's hand has held you up

Provoking his pure eyes

By your sinful wicked manner

O sinner!

Fearful danger

You are in

A great furnace of wrath

A bottomless pit

Full of fire

By a slender thread

With flames flashing about

Nothing you can do

To induce God to spare you

You are thus in the hands of an angry God.

"If"s and "But"s

Quote of the day: "If ifs and buts were candies, everyday would be Christmas."

Word of the day: nuit blanche (pronounced "nwee-blah-nn-sh")

Hi there. 'Tis I, TrinnBloom. 'Tis late; it nears the 23rd hour. I have nothing funny to say, except that I realized that

• A) my webjournal blog matches my American Lit. blog, in the way that both are purple.
• B) my Lit class coincides (or did) with my world studies class

Ah. I should not bore you, my non-existent audience, with the trivialities of my daily life. No, I should tell you of the random happenings in my life. XD

*Rereads first paragraph* Hrm...those bullets weren't very funny, were they? How about the fact that I am listening to a Japanese voice-synthesizer-program song called "I Can Take Off My Panties!" by Rin Kagamine? (HAH! I bet THAT caught your attention.) Contrary to popular belief/first impression, the song is not dirty in any way. I've watched the vid, and apparently it's all about a girl wanting to become an adult in order to have more freedom, and to do that she must take off her "panties"...IDK. The vid said something about it being in Japanese culture... I just like the song. It's bouncy. "Pantsu nugeru mon, pantsu nugeru mon..." I don't know all the details on the song, but I like it. Here's a link to one of the videos: um...link.

Er, I think I have to go...but first, a quick synopsis on today's language spotlight-things...

The quote came from my teacher, Mr. M, talking to a student who was protesting about...um, something or other. I looked it up, and apparently the original quote goes like: "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts everyday would be Christmas." He left out a little bit. But the context in which he used it was hilarious...you had to be there. (I seem to be using that point-of-ellipsis-thingy a lot today..--NO! STOPPIT!!--I am not even omitting anything; I just like trailing off...) Either Mr. M was slightly mistaken, the saying got twisted someway or another like in the game Telephone, or I just had a hearing issue, which is also very likely.

The word of the day also came from my magical screensaver. It is French, and it literally translates to "white night." The term's definition, however, means "a sleepless night." I thought it was cool, because I have a character whose last name is [de] Nuit, and I think it'd be cool if he had an attack named that...

Ok. Gotta sign off.

Listening to: "Quutamo" by Apocalyptica
Currently plotting: My weekend--starting mañana.
Trying to finish: what I started.

Hands of God

Quote of the day: "Apparently, the hands of God have nicely manicured fingernails."

Word of the day: eudaemonism (pronounced "yew-DE-mon-izm")

"Hallo, Harry, what sort of tomfoolery shall we get into today?" "No tomfoolery today, Ron." Hehehe. No, sorry, that was an excerpt from one of my favorite Potter Puppet Pals vids, "Wizard Angst." There's the link, and if you are feeling too lazy to move the mouse (in your hand) 1.2 inches from point A to point B, here's the video:

Hehe. I STILL laugh at it, and I've seen it around 20 times. I can recite it by heart. Just about. I think.

But anywayz, the quote of the day originated from moi, and it had to do with a project I was working on. I had to draw a picture for the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by...um, Jonathan Edwards. Anywho, I was drawing the many hands of God (you can see the pictures at my art blog, Doodlistic), and there was a recurring issue. I draw manga-style people, but I focus on girls, for some reason. May'aps I find the challenge of the curves and such a fun thing to figure out, but the fact is, all my people have feminine features. Now, this is a good thing, as a lot of the "handsome" boys in manga/anime are slightly girly-looking. HOWEVER. This would not do for God. (Is it wrong that I laughed when I typed that? *flashback*: "Be like Jesus.") Hehe. Anyway, all of the said hands of God had feminine fingers, hence the quote above.

The word of the day was found the same way as the last one: dictionary-screensaver. Miraculous thing, that. I don't know how to paraphrase the definition of "eudaemonism," but I like how it has the word "demon" in it when you pronounce it. ^-^ The dictionary says it is "a system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood that good actions will produce happiness." When you break the definition down and take the meanings of the words "ethics" and "moral value," I guess you could get something like "eudaemonism is a type of behavior that utilizes/judges actions with the belief that doing good things will bring happiness." Hunh. If you cross out and rearrange some words in that sentence, "Eudaemonism is [...] the belief that doing good things will bring happiness." Well, there you go. I just gave you 3 ways to see eudaemonism. Do you have a better, simpler, more easily understood definition? TELL ME. I WANT TO KNOW.

That's all today, I guess. I haven't heard anything that makes me start criticizing the dumbness of some humans yet, so you have been spared. Rejoice.

Listening to: "Shiro no Musume", by Haku Yowane (Yowane Haku)
Currently plotting: What to do Tuesday.
Trying to finish (start): cute simple faces for food.

Blinded By Sight

Quote of the Day: "Most people are blinded by sight."

Word of the day: echt (pronounced "ekt")

Hello. This here's my webjournal. I have an art blog and an English blog, but those are for pictures and assignments, respectively. I felt a need to TALK, and, iDunno, I felt like making another blog (let's hope I won't prove my mother right; that I WILL be able to work 1+ blogs). This is where I'll share my feelings and my views on events, random things, and life in general (my life, anyway). Like the title says, I'm just thinking to myself. If you are a person who has somehow found this needle-in-a-haystack of a blog, you don't have to read it. It's a journal. Leave this page and Google something, if you want.

But all that aside, it's ten minutes to 2 a.m., and I just wanted to get my brilliance of the day out there. For one thing, I had a Eureka moment yesterday: "Duh! It's a chinrest!" That was regarding my viola and the mysterious pain in my jaw. Don't worry. I fixed it.

About that stuff up there @ the top of my post: I thought it would be cool to have a quote of the day and word of the day for every post. It'll keep me interested in my daily activities, as I'll have to be more alert in order to find cool sayings and words. I made up that quote for a character of mine who's gonna be blind...The moral of the story is, basically, almost everyone (if not everyone) will be blinded at one point. They'll still be able to see, sure, but what they see will affect their judgement, cloud it. I think it's a subconscious thing. Like unintentionally discriminating against someone. We probably don't mean to do it, but we'll take something that makes a person different and use it as a reason to push them away, be it to a large or small degree. I'm sure I've done it without knowing it. But the quote describes assuming something about a thing, event, or person based on sight or observation. Don't do it so often. Keep an open mind.

The word is something that I came across by pure chance. My computer's screensaver displays random words and their definitions, and "echt" was on the screen when I looked at it (OK, auto-spellcheck, "echt" is SO a real word). It is an adjective, and it means "authentic and typical" (real and um, typical of). It can also be used as an adverb, "authentically and typically." I had a hard time grasping that concept, but I'm gonna try to use it a lot more; I needs ta build up mah vocabulary.

Listening to: unidentifiable music, courtesy of a class blog.

Currently plotting: a small project due Monday.

Trying to finish: several pictures; Curse of the Blue Tattoo