It snowed a ton* last night, and I woke at 5 this morning to the almost welcome text from Lindsay saying school had been canceled. Almost welcome because I couldn't fall back asleep after that, but really, snow day. I'm not complaining even if I had an early start.

*A ton being relative to the geography of Southern Illinois. So about 6 inches. Laugh if you must, but we are like LA with rain. And if you remember those Conan skits you know exactly what I'm talking about.

So I had a lazy, sit-around-and-do-nothing day. It was pretty nice, not gonna lie. It needs to hurry up and be Thursday already, though. I'm so excited for Supernatural I may spontaneously combust and that would just be messy.

Today did mean that I had time to catch up with Gunnerkrigg Court. I lovelovelove that webcomic, can't even make that shit up.

I wanted to ask, though, if you all have certain comics you like to read. Because I may not have time to catch up with them all in the next couple of days, but I'd like to have something else to keep me entertained during the week once I do.

I have to go with my mom to the ACT meeting at my school today. D: Fail. It's going to be about an hour long and will make her bug me about taking the tests in my ACT Practice book and make me stress out so much.

Besides that my day has been pretty awesome, though. Last night I had a dream about Lost and Supernatural, lol. A few of my friends and I had been on a cruise ship that crashed on the island and there were these crates with funny symbols on them. So we sent the rest of the group off to explore and were opening them and I kept saying that they were ingredients for some ritual? Only they were, like, bags of Cheetos and things? I finally opened the last crate with symbols and it was the thing we were supposed to do the ritual on. We set it all up and I guess we were going to find God or Jacob or something because I said something and then I had Dean's engagement ring that he gave to Cas necklace. Then I woke up.

So that put me in an awesome mood, because how hilarious is that dream?

Then I decided I wanted to bring Good Omens to school with me and I kept laughing in class and everyone was all :/? IDK, Crowley and Aziraphale make me laugh so hard.

I also got all my fly junk done 7th hour instead of sitting and doing nothing in Psychology so I didn't have to stay after.

Basically, this whole day has been Walter Approved and it's not even over yet.

I feel like a total loser because I just uploaded about a billion Supernatural icons and a lot of them are by the same makers, but apparantly I have an icon style I like? I'm also pretty shocked by the lack of Dean&Cas icons that I love, but I'm happy with what I picked. They're not the cleanest of icons, but when have Dean and Cas have the smoothest relationship? (And now I'm making myself look like a complete icon elitest because I'm reading a lot into why I picked icons I like. *facepalm*)

I DON'T KNOW. I've just felt all weird about SPN this weekend because something fledmusic said made me think about why we like SPN even though it has it's multitude of problems and I'm still sort of high on the 5x14 episode clips on Youtube.

1. ( I have Thinky Supernatural Thoughts (spoilers for 5x13) )

BUT EVERYTHING WAS PRETTY GOOD YESTERDAY, NOT JUST SUPERNATURAL.

( Take Fringe for example... )

2. School is over for the weekend! You can't even imagine how pleased I am about that, even though nothing happened this week. I'm just stressed about getting everything done on time and stuff like that. :(

3. And we just got some ridiculously sized television, except we have no idea how to manage the wires, lol. When I get to watch my Supernatural Season Four and soonish Five DVDs on it, I will pass out, I'm almost certain. Their faces will be ginormous and maybe 16x as hot as on the old tv with a VCR I have to watch Supernatural on now.

1. Lost was gooooooddd on Tuesday. I actually don't have anything to say that hasn't been wonderfully capslocked by everyone else, haha, but I'm looking forward to next week. :D It's so good having this weekly mindfuck back.

All my shows look awesome tonight too! If Supernatural disappoints me I'm going to cut someone, but I'M STILL SO EXCITED.

Which reminds me of writing SPN fic and Chuck's writing is hard speech. I think I've finally got this figured out; writing is not hard. Writing Sam is hard. Maybe it's just because I'm an older sibling, but I stare at the few Sam!paragraphs I have written and just cannot make myself write anymore. (The Dean!fic, however, is coming along nicely. *headdesk*)

2. School was boring/a lot of work as usual. *shrug* I go, take my tests or whatever, and do most of my homework. I did get a 92% on my Biology test yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that's the third highest score in the class. *dances*

Math is kicking me with formulas, though. And I'd be fine with them, except I put like no time into it, so I have a super high B at the moment. Ugh. I just need to focus and try harder.

3. The only other "news" is that Alex, Alle (she's in Bio, too), Ashlyn, and I (and, lol, just realized all our names start with 'a') are working on starting a film club for school. I've got a list of "classics" and I'm demanding that lots of people make them, too. We mostly have to worry about the where/how/when and not the what/why, which is fantastic. *squirms excitedly* Gosh, I just really want this badly.

1. I've now seen up to "Ballads" on Glee and I'm still loving it. My mom and I have somewhat deep conversations about how the show has been (pretty) good about giving everyone a +/- side. And she said, without prompting, that Ballads was the best, except for all the Kurt episodes. Two thumbs up, Chris Colfer. Two thumbs up.

2. Later today I'm going out with The Group to eat, then we're heading to Lindsay's house. Rachael and I are just staying for a while, but everyone else is sleeping over.

I'm refraining because school has been really stressful these past couple weeks, and even though Alex and I got to hold Fluffy (Mrs. Perkins' snake) and help him shed his skin, it definitely doesn't make up for the sleep I've been missing.

And last week, when I fell asleep at 11 and woke up at 8 on the weekend, I felt amazing and my weekend lasted about four times longer, it felt like. It was super amazing.

3. We got letters for National Honors Society a couple days ago, and my dad has really been freaking out over it. I'm not really very involved at school. I mean, I'm a Board member of the Science Club, and I'm in soccer and the Spanish Club, but I don't do much else. I've got a few volunteer things, and I'm not worried about teacher reccomendations, but the leadership bit is making me anxious.

Like I said, I don't do much. And I don't particularly want to control anyone. I'd rather pick a strong leader to follow and then have someone to report to.

Maybe I'm thinking too much. They let most of us in, and I know I have more activities than some of the people who got letters.

I also think I'll talk to my dad about volunteering at the nursing home. Talking to them is volunteer work, yeah? I could bring Ashlyn and she could play the violin and we could start YAVOP. (Young Adults Vising Old People.)

I cannot believe it's the weekend again. Wow. This week flew by.

Some tv thoughts for you, with seperate cuts for each show.

( Bones )

( Fringe )

( Burn Notice )

( Supernatural )

I'm watching Doom again with my brother and it's well worth it. Lol, so bad.

1. Physical therapy is kind of a lot of fun. Today I rode the bicycle thing for five minutes (for the first time & it wasn't set to any difficulty or anything, lol), did some ankle strength things, stretched, got some new exercises to help me build up my muscle mass in my leg, and worked on my ankle flexibility.

And they gave me cookies and we talked about music and how we don't understand why Bill is a nickname for William. All in all a good trip.

2. I have fly work to do the next couple of days! Which means getting up bright and early and ignoring the mouse in the wall (eeeep) then dozing on and off for the next hour. Or maybe I'll read. Not sure.

But I may not post tomorrow, is my point. I'll have homework and tomorrow is Television Day for me.

3. My mom and I bought the first set of Glee DVDs the other day, and I can't remember if I mentioned it before or not. Amazing, guys. Fff, I love them all, even when I'm hating Rachel because she needs to be the star (though she is getting better, and it's mostly because that's the exact opposite personality type than the one I have) and grinding my teeth over Mr. Schue being aggravating.

I just cannot adore these characters I'm supposed to see as the "good guys," but I'm thrilled with KurtFinnBrittany(mostof)Quinnandeveryoneelse. Sometimes Emma. I don't get along well with obsessive cleanliness on the best of days, though.

♥

Mmmkay, I'm off to get some more English done.

1. The website blocker is down at school so I'm posting now instead of waiting and forgetting later. :D

2. 24 continues to be pretty badass. Tortured angsty people saving the world is quickly becoming one of my favorite trends. Not that you would have been able to tell that before, what with Supernatural being a healthy and normal show.

3. School is kicking my ass at the moment. I have a crapload of work to do for my longterm projects so I'm kinda drowning in that, which is why I haven't been posting a lot. I'd much rather be rolling in the glorious hills of fandom, but I barely have enough time to keep up with deancastiel (lol, I'd find time to go there any way I could.) let alone everything else I do online.

I want to come back, though. I miss you guys and your snarky, responsible, crazy fun (often not all at the same time, though I won't say I'm never surprised by some of the antics you guys seem to get into).

4. Oh, and this weekend I finally bought and read Good Omens. It was amazing. I really enjoyed it a lot and even ended up laughing out loud. I got some funny looks, but it was so worth it.

I keep accidently watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and I'm loling so hard at all the Borg stuff. I love it so much. *clings to TNG*

I've been busybusybusy, so I haven't had much time to update, but things have been going wellish. *shrug* It's just been a lot of school work, then me thoroughly enjoying Glee.

1. ( Okay, so remember that I love 24? )

I know it's a tough show to watch, I know, but go see the 7th season so you can join in the 8th. I'M JUST SAYING MAH FEMALE CHARACTERS ARE KIKING SERIOUS ASS AND TAKING A METRIC SHITTON OF NAMES.

2. Yesterday I saw my doctor, who told me that he can't even see the break in my ankle anymore and I started physical therapy today. Exciting. This means I can start doing the walking motions when I hobble through the school halls and can start putting weight on my ankle when I do.

3. Not so much homework tonight, yay!

4. In celebration, I'm going to watch the first episode of Glee. You know, as a treat.

5. And Supernatural is new this week! (And Bones/Fringe/Burn Notice, haha)

My brother and I have been fighting the past couple days because he's worried about me. Or it ends up like that when you scrutinize his behavior, but we're getting along again today, so it's all good.

We were fighting about my math grade and how my teacher needs us to work out every single problem and only gives us half of the credit until we finish them all. And a lot of times, I need help figuring out some of the trickier problems so I have a couple 50% homework grades. Which wouldn't be a huge deal AT ALL because I have until the end of the quarter to grab a friend and make them teach me this stuff, but OF COURSE my mom uses the grade thing online and my math grade says a big fat F b/c of the homework.

This will be fixed as soon as I have the freaking time to do it (and damn all my teachers and their sudden need to assign time consuming projects anyway).

Ugh and then it all blew up.

Better news is that I may or may not be addicted to my school library's inter-library loan program. Because I rented Doom and it was sort of a rush? Like, I want to start ordering all sorts of movies and things from other libraries because it's fun.

I don't think that's a very good sign, but I'm super excited to watch it, even though Alex is all "I swear, it's the worst movie I've ever seen" and "It's not even bad-funny, it's just bad." THIS ONLY MAKES ME WANT TO WATCH IT MORE.

Hmm, I also fell asleep at 10:30 last night, woke up at 6:30 feeling refreshed, then slept for another 2 hours. Yay.

I'm so amused right now. I just saw a rec on kirk_mccoy for Twice Shy (and I lovelovelove that fic), which got a comment about someone wanting to read it for a while now. The reccer then responded with "The other good werewolf one is here"

Fucking-

That's the most hilarious, awesome shit ever. "The other good werewolf one."

The fic recced was Bad Moon Rising, if anyone was curious.


So today was a day. And that's pretty much all I have felt and will feel about it. Except I need caffine like two hours ago, but what can I do? Cause I'd really like tea, but there's no way I'm hobbling through my house with scalding water.

Tell me you guys had better days than I did.

I've been uber super bad at responding to comments lately. I just wanted to toss out a formal apology in case I leave you hanging for a few days, ha.

In high school, did any of your class schedules change from semester to semester? My first two classes switched this semester, so I now have Math before History. I kinda hate it a lot. First of all, the kids in my classes now are really obnoxious and I only have a couple goodish friends to help me carry my books. Second, having History first was a free wake up hour: in Math I feel like I have to pay attention. Third, my new Math teacher treats us like kindergarteners. She teaches so slowly and I know that I have to pay attention, but I mostly spend the first 50 minutes of school wondering how much terror I could cause with a mechanical pencil and a locked door.

And I miss my other Math teacher Mr. James. Omg, his kids sold my family boyscout popcorn and we found out that we both love Supernatural the last week before winter break so we didn't even get to talk about it much. Freaking sad. We have standing plans for me to stop by on Fridays after a new Supernatural episode and chat about it for a few minutes.

But! Complicating the whole issue is that all my shows are coming back on Thursdays. Bones, Fringe, Supernatural, and Burn Notice. Burn Notice and Supernatural are on at the same time. *headdesk* Which means I can tape SPN and have a four hour television block of insanity and little sleep, or I can wait a whole weekend and talk to him about whatever shinanigans the Winchesters + Cas have gotten into.

Tough choice.

I've been getting up at 5 AM to let out my AP Bio fruit flies and I kinda like it? Idk, I get up, freeze my ass off, then go and huddle under my blankets in my room and doze for another hour and a half or w/e. I've been more awake in the mornings at least.

Umm, I'm shocked by the number of my friends who've yet to see the Star Trek XI. I'll have to do something about that soon, maybe next weekend because we're off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (Woot!)

I'm loving the strange balance I've struck between SPN and Star Trek. It's this crazy thing where I feel like I can remain emotionally stable and have an interest in more than one show at a time. IS THIS WHAT Y'ALL FEEL LIKE ALL THE TIME? It's marvelous, if it is.

Not gonna lie, school is going to suck ass tomorrow. I will be getting up at 5:30 to release my flies for Bio and it will spiral steadily downwards when I realize that the furnace in my house decided to die yesterday.

But I'm seriously hoping that some Dean/Cas or Kirk/Bones will magically appear and make it all better.

Which reminds me, I owe the universe (specifically fledmusic and bubbles83) Sam/Becky/Chuck OT3 of awesomeness fic and I feel like a total douche because I keep forgetting to write it. I promise to think only of The OT3 when I get my measley school breaks!

Also: I miss my shows, want to watch Star Trek XI again, and still need to pluck up the courage to just tell my mom (oh, honored holder of the credit cards) that I want a paid account.

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1. I guess I should say that these past couple of days have been snow days, haha. I'm not sick, not anything except healing from surgery still, so it's been nice to have extra days off. But really, we're just as bad about 2-6 inches of snow as LA is with rain of any sort.



Like this, lol, except it's Northerners like my mother (from Wisconsin) and those of us raised by Northerners and are out of St. Louis that take Conan's place. But this is a pretty accurate portrayl of the media overreaction to snow in Southern Illinois.

2. Next on the agenda is a preemptive list of Things That May Keep Me From Posting In The Future. Not that I want them to, but unfortunately it looks like this school quarter will be busybusybusy.

a) AP Biology fly project (the breeding of multiple strains of flies)
b) AP History quarter project (on the Zimmerman Telegram)
c) AP English research paper (I'm writing about comics in today's society.)
d) Spanish music project (we get a genre/artist and have to present about them)
e) Psychology project (whenever that comes up)

Still, I'm thinking that now that I don't have to really worry that much about stitches and such, I'll be on more.

3. It's weird having snow and not being able to go out into it. It's even weirder that I'm saying stuff like that because snow is uncomfortable. Fun for a little while, yeah, but once the wet starts seeping into my clothes, I'm pretty much done. It'd be nice to have the option, though.

And this means I can't go ice skating this year, dammit. I love skating.

4. Oh, that reminds me, I keep meaning to tell y'all that I finally found a sport that I love to watch. I mean, baseball is great and all, but it's slow and I always feel like I should be doing something instead of watching and football is... well, you know. Basketball gets better when it's college and there's a good competetion.

I really love hockey, though. I don't even think I could pin down all the reasons why. Something about the mixture of speed and ice and violence captures my attention and keeps it glued to the screen.

And the Blues totally suck this year at home; they haven't won a home game in months, but I totally understand that whole "support for the home team" thing now.

1. Recovery on the couch sucks major ass. Just so y'all know if you happen to get injured and don't have a laptop available for use. I had the PSP, but that has just enough power to handle community posts, let alone my flist. You guys are kinda intense, haha.

That being said, I haven't been on LJ in about three weeks and I missed it. *hugs*

Not that my resting period has been completely depressing or anything. I made my parents watch the fourth season of Supernatural with me and my dad is now hooked and hating every second of it. It's hard for him to admit that he could enjoy a show about demons where the angels are douches. He's sorta sweet in a pinch-your-cheek way.

And I've been able to read fic, so I'm caught up with that at least, lol. And I started watching Glee and have succumbed to it's powers. I've got such a weakness for musicals and this is sliding nicely into that place in my mind. I seriously love them all.

I'll be catching up with you guys today, but if there's anything cool or sad or happy that's happened to you that I may miss by skimming posts, you may want to drop me a comment here.

1. Surgery on Monday went well. It was scheduled for 2, but we had to be there at 12 and we ran a little late because my brother was taking his time (we had to drop him off at my dad's office so he could go to his orthodontist appointment later), but that was okay. Probably the worst part of it all was getting my IV put in because it took three tries before they finally found a good vein or whatever. Ouch, you know?

They gave me some meds to help me relax and I was talking really slowly, which was hilarious. Then they took me back to the OR and were giving me my oxygen mask when I passed out. Waking up in the recovery room was scary, though, because I guess some kid wasn't waking up and they were yelling at him. But I woke up just fine and they gave me some more meds because the morphine wasn't enough and I was cheerful enough after that.

Vicoden's kind of a mixed bag, but they don't tell you that when you're handed the prescription. It knocks the pain outa my ankle, sure, but it's definitely not as mindblowingly fantastic as everyone makes it out to be. Then again, Advil has always been the pill to make any pain vanish without even a puff of smoke for me, not Tylenol, and they effect different processes in the body. Maybe it's understandable.

2. So yesterday was totally my birthday as well. A bunch of my friends came over and gave me things (coloring books ♥, socks, slippers, pictures of us) and pretended to watch Beetlejuice with me while really staring at my bandaged appendage with pity. It was a lot of fun and then I took a nap, lol.

Omg, but my parents gave me even more socks (!!), a hat that I wanted, another scarf (♥), and a fucking guitar. I'm in love right now, seriously. It's so pretty. Only problem is I have no clue how to play and it'll be a while before sitting in front of the computer is comfortable enough to watch a lot of youtube vids about it. But still. Guitar.

3. Last thing, on Saturday my family rewatched Star Trek. We bought my dad the collector's edition for Hanukkah and he finally got to watch it. It was just as amazing as the first time, and I came away shipping Kirk/McCoy. I thought I wasn't going to, but I guess seeing it more than once ruined my attempts to refrain from shipping. Oh well. *shrugs*

4. Wait! I wanted to thank rainbowstevie for sending me one of those $10 LJ paid account things. I haven't used it yet, but I think that I'll be able to convince my mom to go with it with little effort. I'm injured and if I can't milk it, who can?

1. More bad news on the Ankle Saga front; I have to get surgery on Monday. I went to Doctor Penn (the guy who's going to be doing my surgery, btw) and he told me that the bone is not in a good position to heal by itself, so they're going to screw the pieces together. I have to keep my foot elevated as much as possible to help the swelling go down.

Then my mom and I picked up my brother and got called to do pre-op down at the hospital. Did you know that all those shows that have people getting wheeled around hospitals and things, and everyone stares at them or w/e, is exactly what it's like to actually be in a wheelchair? So weird. But I got my pre-op done and had my blood drawn for the first time, so that's a milestone.

Of course it's the worst case scenario, though. *sigh* I'll be all drugged out for my birthday, too. And depending on how good/bad the surgery goes, I may have to stay overnight.

This is beginning to look like the worst winter I've ever had.

I will get to have a special lamenated "there's a screw in my ankle" pass for metal detectors, which I pretty cool.

2. And I'm getting a new phone tonight! An env3 thing or whatever. Not the touch one because I'd find a way to fuck it up, but my dad's getting us unlimited texting and I'll have internet access on the go now. Woot for Twitter when stuff happens to me.

3. I was supposed to take History, Math, and Biology tests today, but Perkins said I could take Bio tomorrow. Pretty sure I dominated the History and Math ones though. Oh, and my English and Psych teachers say that I don't have to take exams, which means I won't have to find some time to make up what I'd miss for being under the knife.

4. You guys have been fantastic the past few days. Thank you so much for the support, it means a ton.

Jenny! I got your card! Thanks so much, bb! ♥

5. I forgot to say that I'm eating a dead man's cookies. My dad had a patient that died last week, I guess pretty much right after he finished baking cookies. Today his daughter brought them into the office and my mom brought them home. They're delicious cookies.

I really just wanted to say that I'm eating a dead man's cookies. How often does someone get to say that?

ETA: This was posted by bubbles83 a few days ago, but I just got around to watching it and I wanted to share the adorableness of Misha.