Well, it's that time again... Friday! Today was the second day in a row we've had a two-hour delay. It's so much nicer and more cheerful to get two extra hours of sleep and then get up when the sun is actually up.

My mom didn't have the best of mornings. First, she glued her earring to her head, and then she lost her car keys and had to borrow mine...

I've got the most irritating songs stuck in my head. Therefore, they're from... you guessed it! Bye-Bye Birdie. Cute movie, massively irritating music. It's too bad I don't look hispanic, I would've liked to be Rosie. Instead, I'm stuck being a whiney teenager. :(

I got another B in design. It drives me nuts! She grades everything by these rubrics that have nothing to do with the project! So there are things you're being graded on that you weren't supposed to worry about in doing the project, and I keep ending up with, like, 43/50, when she told me it was perfect and even put it up in the display case! And people whose projs she DIDN'T display, got A's! GRRRRRRRRRR ROWR!

I'm so glad we're doing Jane Eyre in Eng, I love it! Great book. If you haven't read it, DO, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! (Have you noticed I'm enjoying the use of caps today?)

Semester almost over. So no more awful psych class! Project was finished as of Saturday, thank goodness. Unfortunately, no more drawing class. *cries* And gym. *gags*

You should see my notebook. I haven't really been writing anything much lately, but it's full of sketches of my Hogwarts fanfic character, Gwen. Basically looks like a prettier me in Hogwarts robes. :) I was drawing her all through psych today b/c we had a movie and I listen better when my hands are moving, and my memory of auditory input is better with visual associations, so doodling is perfect classroom behavior for me. Seriously. I know my Eng teacher last year didn't believe me, but it's totally the truth!

I keep finding the craziest useful stuff... Unfortunately, it's useful to my stories, which I'm on a huge several-month writer's block about. :( *sobs* For instance, I've got a story with this awful vallety full of nighmarish creatures (most prominently, the demonic half-decayed horse thingy). It's supposedly impossible to get out of the valley (which isn't true, it's just that so many people go mad and die inside of it, that they never get back out again). So anyway, I found this quote on Elfwood: "Val Sans Retour means the Valley of No Return, and is located in Brittany's Forest of Paimpont. As legend has it, Morgan le Fay sealed it off by an enchantment and thus created an invisible prison to trap her lovers within." I mean, I can totally use that kind of info! Or, I've got a story in which a mythical character called 'the Jaguar', a man who can shape-shift into a jaguar, is the symbol of justice. So I was reading about werewolves, and I read this: "Lycanthropy in South America. According to K. F. P. v. Martius the kanaima is a human being who employs poison to carry out his function of blood avenger ; other authorities represent the kanaima as a jaguar, which is either an avenger of blood or the familiar of a cannibalistic sorcerer. The Europeans of Brazil hold that the seventh child of the same sex in unbroken succession becomes a wer-man or woman, and takes the form of a horse, goat, jaguar or pig." Perfect! And then, there's the story about the girl who is supposed to be some kind of ancient deity, the daughter of the sun or something. And I found this on mythology: "In Norse mythology, Sol (also Sunna, Sunne and Frau Sunne -- derivation of the words sun and Sunday) was the goddess of the sun (called Alfrodull meaning "glory of elves"), a daughter of Mundilfari and Glaur, and wife of Glen. Every day, she rode through the sky on her chariot, pulled by two horses named Alsvid and Arvak. She was chased during the day by Skoll, a wolf that wanted to devour her. Solar eclipses signified Skoll had almost caught up to her. It is fated that Skoll will eventually catch Sol and eat her; though she would be replaced by her daughter. (ahem ahem ahem) The earth was protected fom the full heat of the sun by Svalin, who stood between the earth and Sol. In Norse belief, the sun did not give light; this was caused by the manes of Alsvid and Arvak." Yeah, I love it when real life turns out to be what's in my head... It's like Jung's universal archetypes or something.

Odin spoke: 
"From whence will come the sun 
To span the skies, 
When Fenrir has destroyed the girl?"

Vafthruthnir spoke: 
"A daughter born to Alfrodull, 
Before the Fenris wolf destroys her. 
The girl will ride her mother's paths 
When the gods are slain."