....the blogosphere! 

As of now I have a wordpress, LJ, and tumbler. And random notes/crap I post on Facebook. This is what happens when I sign up for anything that looks even remotely interesting. 

I've been looking back at some old LJ entires, and I'm wondering WHY ON EARTH I'm sharing my personal feelings with basically anyone. Then I realized: this ain't for you, it's for me. Like a diary, but with less cramped wrists. And no eraser marks when I decide to get rid of something.  

Things are confusing. I have this weird thing where I get uber attached to people, and can't ever imagine letting them go. When I figure out they feel the same way, I'm ecstatic.

Yet when the time comes I find that it's really not so hard for me to let them go. Is it my commitment issues? Is it my ideals of love, or friendship? 

I 'spose it's just the way I am. 

(via Thoughts By Julie)

Oh my. How did I get here? Wasn't I going to continue this streak of not LJ posting ever?

....Guess not.

I'm beginning to see what Peter Pan was saying when he said he didn't want to grow up. My future terrifies me. And though I know I'm smart and if I apply myself I can achieve things and crap yada yada yada, I just don't feel like I'll be doing anything worthwhile in 10 years if I do go to college and become a good little scientist like my parents want me to be. If I do get accepted to anywhere decent, what with my few extra-curriculars and sparse amounts of volunteering I'd be extremely lucky to do so, and graduate with honors, and get a well-paying job... will I be happy?

Also for some reason I'm having trouble concentrating in class. Not sure if it's because I've not been getting enough sleep or I need glasses, or if I've been stressing out over all of the above.

'Nuff said. Maybe I'll go write something to calm myself.

Julie

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Things have been crazy lately. I'm trying to understand people in general. It's not working out very well, as you might have noticed.

Why is it that some people seem to think that you don't mind when they screw you around and play with your feelings?
And why is it that there are people on the other side of the spectrum who will go miles for you, who love you no matter what?

Contemplating these questions has really messed up my mind. I'm thinking of taking the Psychology class offered at my high school in my senior year. But when discussing this with a friend, she said it's pointless. Ahhh! What do I do?

Maybe we're not supposed to figure all this out. Maybe life isn't about understanding life, it's just about getting through it and making the most of your short time here with the people you love.

~Julie
-----Beedle review coming at 'cha soon!

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Hey kids!

Nothing much has been going on, I guess. Mostly school (ugh) and life in general. As soon as we got back from break, it was back to cracking down.

I still haven't read Paper Towns. How sad. I feel like a horrible nerdfighter. But I AM planning to, whenever I can scratch up the money to buy it. (Gotta read Beedle the Bard too....) And I'm doing the Paper Towns Collab Album Challenge. I'm planning on doing all 3, taking screen shots of each, and posting them into one gigantic image. I'll probably shrink it down though.

Beedle is coming out tomorrow! (Or in 7 hours, however you wanna look at it.) It makes me sad that I can't go to a midnight release. I remember the good ol' days when I could actually go to one of those.

Aaaaand.....

I have gotten re-acquainted with friendship bracelets. I never realized how versatile they were until now... I'm planning to making some for my friends for Christmas, if I can make it. (Ugh, it'll have to be after we come back from Winter Recess)

I found this really easy, but pretty pattern:

Friendship Bracelet: Heart Pattern

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Ok, since a lot has happened since the last time I posted, I shall do a quick list to prevent my head from exploding.
I saw Twilight. It was ok, i guess, I would give it a C-. And I'm on the verge of not being a Twilight fan anymore. I'll post about that sometime later though.New layout! It works in both Firefox AND IE!I saw Heroes last night. I nearly exploded when the screen came up, saying it was a 2 parter. Grrr.....I went to the hospital today, and got 4 SHOTS, and one inhaling vaccine. My arms are sore like you wouldn't believe.There is a large abundance of guacamole at my house. I like it!I've already finished the 2 books I checked out for the break. Shrimp by Rachel Cohn, and Endgame by Nancy Garden.Fringe is on tonight.I'm making brownies for Thanksgiving.And.....I made a MySpace. I know, I feel horrible, but it just got to me. Now I'm getting mad at how it's being really stubborn and not letting my layout show up the way I wanted it to......
 

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Ok, I got sidetracked

I found a video describing how to play Viva La Vida, by Coldplay. I can't believe it was so easy to play. Just 5 chords, and a simple strum pattern. I'm still doing the Deathcab song though. ;-)

Also, I stenciled me a t-shirt today. I'm going to wear it to Twilight later today, because if it weren't for WB, I would be seeing Harry Potter 6 right now. Here's the stencil:

It's on a green t shirt, with Ebony fabric paint. I used freezer paper. =) The font is like 100 pt Cheri or something ridiculous like that.
In other news, I'm seeing Twilight today. I'll try and post my thoughts later today. (OMG! 2 posts in one day?!)

Also, I got about 7 hours of sleep last night. It's really bothering me that I can never get sleep.

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Well, today is the first day of our lovely Thanksgiving break. I'm off the whole week. =)
 

I found these sites, and I must say, my keyboard is all drool-y now.
Harry Potter Tees
Dr Horrible Tees

And I'm getting really good at the Deathcab song I was blogging about earlier in the week.

And Christmas is coming up! Oh boy, seeing as how I'm basically broke....Oh, I'll figure out something.

A bunch of my friends and me are going out to see Twilight on Sunday afternoon. It should be good; people tell me it's better than what they had expected.

And one more thing: SHRINKYDINKS

I cant understand why those things aren't popular anymore. But now I'm hooked, and I wanna make some.

Sorry if this post was a bit ADD, it's 8.30 and I went to bed at like 12am. I can never get any sleep on weekends.

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EDIT// Apparently after LJ's move, they made my layout all firefox-unfriendly, which SUCKS. I tried in IE and it works, but still. Friends don't let friends use IE. If they don't fix this, I'm going to have to make another layout.... Grrr. I will NOT be a happy camper if I have to do that.

So today was a pretty good day I 'spose.

We did a total of 2 miles today, running 2 laps, walking 2 laps, running 2 laps, and then walking 2 laps. It could have been a lot worse....

But the best news is that I'm learning to play "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Deathcab for Cutie on the guitar!

(Not sure if I've mentioned this on the blog before, but I've been teaching myself guitar for the past few months....)

I know how to play it and I know all the words; it's just a matter of remembering which chords to play. I've just about mastered "Nerfighterlike" by Lauren Fairweather, and I'm planning to start on "On the Rise" by Dr Horrible after I finish with the DCFC song.

It's a whole lot easier to play than I initially thought; but then again, I'm not doing the whole finger-picking thing. Just strumming.

I play acoustic, if you were wondering. My current guitar isn't a full size, but my grandpa is going to give me his acoustic black Fender when I'm big enough to play it. =)

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I feel ashamed

Ashamed because I did not know about this amazing service. Basically, it's internet radio, but unlike all the other ones.

Because Last.fm has WIZARD ROCK. Yes, finally, a place where I can listen to all my music in one place. No more going from MySpace to MySpace. Last.fm shuffles the music automatically for you!

Wow, I'm happy.

This is turning out to be a mighty fine Saturday. Like the new layout? I still have to fix the colors to match it though. It features Milo Ventimiglia, William Moseley, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, and Kellan Lutz.

I'll probably change it whenever my tastes change.

Ciao!

~Julie

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Last night I was watching Heroes. This shouldn't come as I surprise; I am completely in love with this show, and have been since the beginning. Anyway, word was that there was going to be some kind of a "sneak peek" from the Twilight movie during Heroes, so I was doubly excited.
 

Boy, was that thing OVERRATED. It was basically Robert Pattinson introducing the clip, and then they showed said clip. It consisted of Bella telling Edward all the unusual things about him.

In short, it was a 5-second extension of the trailer.

In all, the whole "sneak peek" lasted about 20 seconds.

Thanks, Summit.

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You know that feeling?
That feeling of joy you can't push away, that stays with you all day, or even all week?
The look your friends give you when they can sense it?
The feeling that YES, you are good enough for someone, and they like you for exactly who you are?
Those shivers you get when they smile, or hug you, or even look at you?
When they could be 1000 miles away from you, and you still feel like they're standing next to you?

How much it hurts to walk away from them?
How bad it feels to know that you probably will never tell them how much they mean to you?

Yeah.

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For all of us that have facebook, I have put together a list of my favorite applications. This was hard work, as I had to revisit all my apps that I rarely use anymore in order to make this list as accurate as possible. Note: This is just my opinion. People have different tastes.

On to the list then! Lil Green Patch is an app where you can send your friends plants. When you add the application to your profile, it creates a garden for you to keep all of them. You can fend off squirrels and deer, and help maintain your friends' patches too. And the best part? Every plant you get helps save the rainforest! It's definitely something to look into.Pokey! is an app where you create a puppy, and help it grow. You can feed, play, and pet your pup. It's extremely adorable, but runs slowly on older computers.Nations is where you get to name and run your own country. Every day, or however often you want, your country is presented with an issue you must resolve. It's very fun and you can make/break alliances with others too.Graffiti  is already a pretty popular app, but it's just so amazing I had to put it here. Basically, you get to "paint" on people's walls. There are different colors and brush sizes, and it's easy to use. (Think Microsoft Paint.) And the best part is that when you post it to a friend's page, you can click "Replay" and the app will re-draw the image, using the same strokes as you did. It makes for very neat animations.Friends For Sale is basically what it's name implies. You buy your friends. Everytime you are bought, your value goes up, so there's potential for self-esteem-raising here. And you can order your new "pets" to poke other people on behalf of you, and even give them status messages.Pieces of Flair is my personal favorite app out of all of these. You are given a virtual corkboard, and you can fill it with "Flairs", which are basically virtual buttons. You know, the kind people attach to their backpack straps. There are portraits, quotes, and cartoon flairs. You are bound to find one that you like to affix to your board. And if you don't, you can make your own! You can even keep track of how many people have been using your flair. The only problem with this app is that there are so many cool buttons, and not enough space to place them.

 So there you go! Hope there were some apps in this list that you decided to check out; who knows? Maybe I'll do this again sometime.

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 I have a friend. This friend's name will be kept private, but this chick believes that fangirling is just stalking in disguise. Now, I'm a fangirl myself. Not one of the more rabid species, but still a moderately crazy fangirl. The objects of my fangirling include: JKR, Alex Carpenter, Robert Pattinson, Milo Ventimiglia, and Zach Levi. Now, on to the analysis.

Fangirling, in my opinion, is perfectly acceptable. It is not comparable to stalking. Stalking is usually negative. Most of the time stalkers are people