Comedy + Horror Movie = A Drama With A Hell Of A Lot Of Teen Angst

Dear Bloggie,
      I had no plans of blogging for a while (seeing as I have a hectic schedule and problems in Math and Spanish -- both of which I failed this semester!--) but something happened today that has caused me to blog. I'm going to admit it; I feel bad and like a major bitch since just a few posts ago (which is also sad in the sense that it was over a month ago but I haven't posted much in the last few months) I had a whole post about bullying and meanness and people who are poop heads, and still I wasn't very nice today. It went down like this.
      First period was science class and my teacher wasn't in today so we had a sub, which basically meant we talked all period. My friend Jake and I were texting (even though we were sitting right next to each other) because he has problems with a girl in our class named Julianna. He had made the huge mistake and had put a status up on Facebook a few weeks ago about how the drama should stop and then added "That goes for you too Julianna".  As you can imagine, she wasn't thrilled.

      So he was texting me about her and saying she was the main person from the whole that she couldn't stand because she acted fake. Though I sorta agree, I told him she wasn't the number one person I considered fake. That person was no one else but Jaine. Remember here, the girl who was Stage Manager for the play?

     You know on the first day of school when you first get to know people you can just tell who you're gonna like and who is going to be irksome? Who will be popular, who will be the stereotypical artsy kids, and who will either be geeks or loners or fall somewhere in the middle? She was just one of those people you knew from the first day where she fell: the populars. But that's not my reason for not liking her. It's because she does act fake, and then goes around calling other people fake. Like I remember the beginning of the school year she was always going on with things like "Glastonbury people are so snotty and so fake and that's why I didn't want to go to Glastonbury High School". All the while, she was acting JUST LIKE SHE SAID THEY WERE! That upset me. Then when she showed up to school orange a in November, well that was just ridiculous. Then you also have her constant flirting! There was this guy in the play that a lot of the girls had crushes on simply because he took off his shirt. Whatever, he was hot and all and there is nothing wrong with thinking as long as you didn't do anything since he had a girlfriend. But she was ALWAYS flirting with him and hanging out with the actors instead of the the Tech people. She kept on acting like she was better then us (as in the tech people), and that was VERY irksome.

     So I told Jake and he said he agreed and he actully considered her slutty. I thought about it and I realized she was. Maybe she isn't doing it with people, but she is very flirty, even with guys who have girlfriends. After first period I went to second (History) and Jake and I didn't resume our conversation because we instead watched this video and sang the song so many freaking times. After second period we had a R block (short for "Resource", which means it's a study hall) and on the way he sent a text that read "Jaine a slut" or "Jaine's slutty". The only problem was instead of typing my name into the "To" part, he was thinking "Jaine"  and typed her name in. I'm sure you can guess you know where this is going.

     Jaine is now very pissed, as you can imagine. We're hoping she will calm down enough not to tell Guidance. We know she tried today, but Guidance is supper swamped because something is going on (though no one -- "no one" as in students -- seems to know why or what's going on). They probably won't be tomorrow, and if they aren't I'm pretty sure she is going to go to them. While I won't get in trouble (especially because I'm not the one who sent it and I can't be pinned for anything seeing as there is very little evidence of my involvement), Jake can get in trouble. They can say that he is bullying her, even though that text was never meant for here eyes and it's not against the law to not like everyone. Jake tried to cover his tracks by saying he was only joking around with me and saying random things, not things that he meant, but I don't think Jaine is an idiot enough to believe it. I'm worried for him. He's a good guy but he can sometimes really put his foot in his mouth. I hope everything will work themselves out. I really, really hope so.
                              ~ Ariana <3

Evie J ( of the Peace, Love, & Books blog) Blog Layout GIVEAWAY!

Dear Bloggie,
      Since joining Inkpop, I have come across many writers like me (young and unpublished that is). Evie J had three books in the Top Ten before she left the site. THREE BOOKS! I discovered her when her second Inkpop book (Lost Spirits) was climbing the charts. Well, as you know I haven't really been blogging a lot these days, so you can imagine my delight that the day I come check out what has been going on in the great big world of bogging is the day that Evie posts a giveaway. Not just any give away (by the way, I STILL haven't received those books I won from the Treehouse Gang blog!) but a giveaway for a blog layout! I JUST LOVE HER LAYOUTS!!! Really hope I win. I really like the template/layout I have now, but it's just not quite perfect for me. Still, I can't find anything I like better. If I win, I will surely have something better. Here's a link to the contest. May the odds be ever in your favor...

                     ~ Ariana <3

He Has A New Girlfriend

Dear Bloggie,
     The guy I like. Zach. Yeah, he has a new girlfriend. :'(

Birthday Girl

Dear Bloggie,
       So yeah, it's my birthday. Just felt like announcing it. I mean, I'm having a small party later, just my close family. If it was up to me, this would be my cake:

   But since I'm saving up for my super sweet sixteen next year, this cake isn't an option. Now, I do have one birthday request. It's quite simple, juts go here (inkpop) and read and comment on the first chapter of The Curse of the Good Girl. Is that too much to ask? I just want to know what people think about it. I haven't worked on it in a few weeks because of my really busy schedule (the play is going good and I'm really excited that we open Friday) but as soon as the play is over, I'm back to business. Well, maybe not exactly when it's over. My goal is actully to restart on April 1st. I thought it would be a funny start date, plus that gives me six days to regroup and redirect my energy into it.
    That's all for now I guess. I don't officially turn fifteen until 5:32 P.M, but whatever. Life's good for now so why complain?
                                   ~XOXO,
                                            Ariana

Random Funny, Sad, & Overall Lovely Things

Dear Bloggie,
  I finally watched (500) Days of Summer today. It's been on my "Movies To Watch" list for a while, but for some reason or another I've been holding off on it, even though I've seen it on the On Demand menu plenty of times. Today, I just decided to get over with. I loved it. And hated it. I loved the main guy character, Tom, but I felt such murderous rage for Summer that it kinda threw me off. No matter how much Summer pissed me off, I found at least one things we have in common.

Oh the Penis game, how fun it is...

   But I guess there are always going to be things in movie that upset you. One of my favorite movies EVER is Juno, but I seriously can't watch the parts that Juno and Mark are getting close without cringing. I guess the movie pie chart is true.

The only thing I rarely do is the purple section

    This hasn't really been a good week for me. Hell, 2010 sucked ass for me. 2011 really hasn't been much better, but at least it hasn't been much worse. I saw this chart today on one of the blogs I follow.

       Now I'm thinking "Oh poop, all except maybe one or two apply to me!" Which isn't good. Then I saw this picture thing on another blog I follow, and I totally relate to it too!

      But, whenever I'm feeling down, alone, and as if nobody gives a crap about me, I''ll just think of the "Penis Game" (like the two guys in this video) and try to laugh it away. It always works, at least for a bit. 

                          ~ XOXO,

                                  Ariana

Good Day

Dear Bloggie,
       I checked my email today and guess what I saw? A email from one of the blogs I follow, The Tree House Gang. It turns out I won their book give away. I won signed copies of Michelle Zink's books Prophecy of the Sisters and Guardian of the Gate. They're the first two in her trilogy. I've had these books on my wish list for about a year, but sadly they had been grouped into my list of books that I want, but never seem to actully get around to buying them. You know, those books that you forget about when your at the book store and creating birthday/Christmas lists, but then you hear something about them and you can't help but think to yourself "Darn it, I should have bought/asked for those books."

    From what I've read about them, they remind me of one of my favorite trilogy of all time: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray. They consist of A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. Some of the best books I have ever read. A true Victorian gothic. Words can not explain how much I love these books. You must all go and buy them. NOW!!!

    I'm teching for a production at my school (A Servant of Two Masters) so this week I'm at school until 8pm. That's from 7:45 am (when I start school, though I get there around 7:30am) until 8pm. Next week -- and most definitely the week after -- I'm staying later. Like 9, 10 and maybe even 11pm later. I started today, only to find out that my Stage Manager, Janie, has been at this for about a month and so has everybody else. Still, I'm the only person besides her (Janie is a freshmen too, she became Stage Manager after the original one became sick and missed too many rehearsals to catch up) who returned their Technician Contracts, making me assistance Stage Manger. Besides the fact that I'm not easing in, but instead jumping in at full force with only three weeks until the show, I may also be the only techy back stage! Janie will be in the above lighting booth during the show, and if no one else returns their forms I will basically have to do it by myself with my only help from Janie coming from a head set. Oh, and have I mentioned that I still have no idea in hell what the play is about (I read the Wikipedia page, but ours in sorta of an adaptation so what I witnessed today was different from what Wikipedia says)?! No pressure of course.

    Now, good news (have to do a good news, bad/good news, good news pattern here): It's March! Thirteen days until my birthday. Fifteenth birthday, here I come. As I said in another post, the only reason I want my fifteenth birthday to come is so my sixteenth will come faster, but whatever. Thankfully, if the schedule stays the same, I should have March thirteenth off. I have to tech the eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth and so on, but at least my birthday is my off day. Yippee!

     Oh, and one more thing:

                         ~XOXO,
                                 Ariana