I like facebook's new format.

(what I saw when I went on facebook today)

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One o'clock Ramblings

I'm just going to type everything that comes off the top of my head....

Doctors.
They scare the hell out of me with their probing eyes, needles, and scalpels. Yeah, they're beneficial and blah, blah, blah- we all have to admit they're terrifying.
Well, at least to me. Cause I've got a doctor's appointment on Tuesday since I found a weird bump on my left breast and don't want to end up looking like my poor rats.
(this isn't my picture, but I think it shows my point.)
Future me isn't looking too good.....

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Mockingjay comes out tomorrow!!
The long awaited finale to The Hunger Games series, which I have mentioned before.
If you haven't given it a try, do so now. What a gripping, heart wrenching tale... and finally the conclusion to the trio is out. I'm really regretting pre-ordering the book (since I'm getting it around September 2nd. I didn't know there was going to be a release party at borders...)
That party-- I'm so going to.
4:00 PM. I'm semi-pumped since all my former plans were canceled.
Though I'll kinda be going it alone....
At least I'm going to buy some merch. and new manga- also The Iron Daughter, sequel to The Iron King.
Which are definitely worth a read.
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I've got to go soon (being banished to the downstairs realms).
Before I leave, I've got to touch on one last subject----

          NosTale


An adorable MMO, lemme tell you. As my friend Brette told me--- if you want to play the game, avoid the "world server" --hence it's of the world and runs very slowly.
And I'LL be on the UK version, so you'll HAVE to go on it. Problem solved.
I don't know how to explain the game.... but it's so adorable to kill things!!


Here's the basic instructions she gave me:


1. Go to us.mmogame.com and browse the games until you find NosTale.
2. Click and go to "help".
3. Make sure the setting is on "UK" and download!


--You might need an account to the site first, which takes roughly a minute.--


THE WELL DESERVED........

goodnight my lovelies.
<3, Kayla.

OMAHGAWD, DOUBLE RAINBOW, OMAHGAWD!

Today I got to watch

"SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD"

P.S. It was hilarious, folks. So hilarious in fact, it receives:

So does this,
A new phenomenon- the double rainbow song- whom I would sell out all my friends just to hear.
It's that addictive. (sorry everyone... not really)

Just in case you don't know what all the fuss is about:
Here's the videos!

(WATCH THEM ALL, DAMN YOU!)






And the best part: someone's remix.

I'm seriously going to buy this thing, and the best part, I think I've driven my parents half crazy!!

Look at all the other people who've gotten into this craze!!
(I'm so proud *gush gush*)

See, now you can get what the hell's going on!

Foxtrot.....

Adventure Time..... (thanks, Alaina for cluing me in!)




A double rainbow ice cream shop.... (who knew?!?)

http://www.doublerainbow.com/dr/

This..... is just amusing...
(dude... you can stop frickin orgasming with your cereal...)



OkaY... i OFFICALLY NEED THIS. HEH, CAPS LOCK



I'll add more things when I see them... (I think Brette's getting impatient)

Hey, Gaia Online's part of it, too!! (Katherine told meh)

http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/57091

Insight into the pod-people

*sits down in a ballet style, grinding to the beat, waving arms like swatting mosquitos*

"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars...
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now...."

    I know I promised that I'd never fall victim to the music the "populars" worship, but I can't help but like "Airplanes" by B.o.b. (almost started crying!). I've always liked music that's a synthesis of Alternative and Rap. I'm not a fan of rap, but like this, it fits perfectly. Same with "Hero (Red pill mix)" curtesy of Superchick.

Still, I don't understand pod-people. Even though I am now one of them.
*GASP!*
.....
Not really, I kind of like using my brain.

Right now, I'm here to talk about this terror above all terrors-- something worse than "Beiber Fever".
We've all gotten our vaccinations, so I believe it's fine to move onto something slightly less scarring but a whole heck of alot scarier.

Yeah, that.
We all know what I'm talking about- the dumbasses who frolic around school singing only songs that their leaders have approved (which are usually found on one of the top 10 iTunes lists- how original) wearing advertisments plastered to their butts or chests (abrozombie and witch, tommy hillbillyfinger, and ect.).

It's probably been like this since the beginning of time.

But it's only been recently that people have begun to fight back in the form of:

Alternative music
Hot topic
Parodies of popular movies/songs (Weird Al Yankovic, Scary movie, Vampires Bite -recent-)
Birth control
Common sense.

Come on people!! It's not that difficult to combat!!
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(Have to go soon, let the ferrets out, highschool info night, too)


Awww, look at my manly Romeo soaking up the camera light~! <333

Here's an adorable shot of my dog, Penny.

(I PROMISE that I didn't stage this.
My dad was walking/hobbling down the stairs when he showed me THIS!)

One last thing....

J-U-H-I S-E-Z H-I!

Sorry, my loffs!

I will get back to writing very soon!
The wait: cause I was in washington D.C. for nine days anddddddd....
THE BIG OOOOPH FACTOR!
.....
I'M GETTING FERRETS!!!!!!!
(took like....3 minutes of begging.....dad saw it coming four months ago)
Unoffical names:
Romeo and Juliet.
Getting them tomorrow!!!
JUST WAIT AND SEEEE!!

But..... I'M SLOW!!

Time to catch up on the books I've been reading the last few months.... stupid slacker tendencies. I'll see if I can remember what I had to say about them- I really hate my memory.
It'll recall stupid minute details, though nothing important.

Starting with....

Cut by Patricia McCormick

Starting with what the back cover had to say....

    Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
     Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residental treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She doesn't want anything to do with anyone. She won't even speak.
     But Callie can only stay silent for so long....
---
My take on it:

It's never a good sign when a book begins with three pages of positive reviews.
Why?
The publisher is basically putting the raves up as a safety net-
     
"Don't like it? You.... you have to like the book! Look at these famous people! See all this?! They liked it... So you ha-have to... Have to! HAVE TO!!!"

Yeah, you see where I'm going.

The second thing- Patricia McCormick's take on self-multilation was very shallow feeling. And fake. In her interviews (and on the book's back) it stated that she took three years to interview people and write this 149 page book. This brings up the question... Had she ever done it? No.
Not that I have a problem with that, it just seems very artificial in the book...

In an interview:

Q: How much research did you do for Cut?


A: Writing Cut took three years. I started out doing a lot of research. Then, at the advice of an editor friend, I decided to put all my research material aside and let the story come, not from my notes or my books, but from my imagination. After the book was finished I visited a clinic for girls who self-injure. I was terrified that I'd gotten everything wrong. I was pleased and touched to see that my imaginary characters were surprisingly similar to the real people who shared their stories with me.


More importantly, I was gratified by the girls who read the manuscript and who told me how pleased they were that someone was interested in telling their story.

Very sweet and all....
See how this was a bad combination?
You can't turn feelings and the lack of into notes, graphs, research-- you'll get it wrong.
Gah! Sorry, but this bothered me, how she portrayed everything (as much as I remember).
At least this book (overly)simplifies things so they make sense to those who aren't too familiar in this territory.

As a character, I didn't care much for Callie, either. Not that she had much of a personality to begin with.
At the end of the story (believe me, you're not missing anything), I believe she escapes "Sick Minds" (what she nicknamed the place) to see her family. After getting tired and winding up Dunkin' Donuts, she calls her dad. They talk for a bit, a back and forth conversation.
Then he says- "So. Where we going? Home?"
And little miss Callie goes "Back to Sick Minds."
...
Bravo.
....
Didn't you just run from the place?
And I thought you didn't like it there... and didn't want to go back?

I GIVE UP ON YOU!

Kayla's remembered rating/guesstamation:
3.5/10


Tiddles And Bits from other people's reviews!


Terrence Ibarra (1/5) *stars 
"Creating a contrived "cutter" does nothing but harm"
I'm not sure who was involved in letting this thing out, but perhaps they should reevaluate their criteria, not to mention their careers. As for the author, if in fact she never has cut herself, I would suggest she look, in the future, towards her own experience, rather than co-opting a serious issue that afflicts so many. It is already misunderstood enough. Cutting does not need this sort of false publicity, this pseudo-understanding, this ingenuous "creativity."


A Customer (2/5)
"Superficial treatment of a deep subject"
I had expected more from this book when i bought it. After reading the summary on the back cover, i was hoping to read a serious novel that truly confronted the issue of self-injury (SI). Instead, i found the book to be lacking in depth and using SI as a gimmick to establish the lead character, Callie, in the setting of the book.    
     "Cut" is not a novel about the issue of cutting. It is a novel about a girl in an adolescent psychiatric ward. As written, the book is a very diluted version of "Girl, Interrupted," describing Callie's stay in the ward and some experiences with her therapist and with the other patients. With very little effort, this book could be rewritten as a story of a girl with an eating disorder or a substance abuse problem--the type of mental-health issue is unimportant to the plot.
     If you are looking for a story about life in a psychiatric ward, written at a middle school level, this book is perfect and very readable. If, however, you are looking for a book for older teens or adults, or for a book specifically confronting the issue of self-injury, you will likely find "Cut" very disapppointing.


ON THE BRIGHT SIDE:


Mid-Praire Teen (5/5)
"A great book on real life problems"
I'm reviewing a great book called Cut by Patricia McCormick. It is a wonderful descriptive novel about a girl named Callie who cuts herself and her father works a lot to make money so they can take care of her brother since he's sick. Her mother doesn't work and she stay's home with her brother Sam so he doesn't get sick anymore. Callie's parents send her to Sea Pines so she can get better just with a little help. Her parents can visit, and do a couple of times. She has to go to group with other people with the same problem as her or something else. Callie doesn't talk during group or even sit by the group. She sits by herself by a window not really paying attention. After group she goes to talk to a counselor to talk about things somewhat personal. To find out what else happens and what Callie decides to do you have to read the book yourself.

I thought this book was very descriptive, and really good to read. If I could rate this book between 1-10 I would rate it a 10. That's how much I liked it. I don't have the same problem as Callie, but I know people that are so it gave me some new perspectives to think about. If you like books about real life problems then you would like this book.
 


Woops... Who let the toddlers on the computer again?!
Good job, you summarized the book, gave it a perfect score..... but didn't give any good reasons why you could stand the thing!!
 
*huff*
 
My friend Juhi suggested it to me.... but honestly- I didn't care for it. Sorry, loff. (Luna, that's a different story)
What's even more disappointing is that I had to special order it. EIGHT BUCKS. It's tiny, too... (didn't check the pages when ordering.)

On the bright side (a less sarcastic one), one less book I have to review.... a good six to go.

Until next time!

Today Is Finally Tomorrow

As I promised, I'm posting before leaving for my camp trip!

Oh, and to explain my title-- I've been long awaiting these five days ahead, and it starts today (now it's 12:28 AM) ... which is the tomorrow I've been waiting for. Sleep makes it the "next day" too. Why am I making things complicated? I dunno, it amuses me.
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BAD NEWS ALERT!!!
For those following the manga series "Alice in the Country of Hearts"--
The series has been cancelled. Called off. Unfinished at suspenseful volume #4.
With no ending in sight.
How could this be done to us?! *swoons*
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When I get back, I'll finish the crocheted seal that I've been working on....

Right now, it's all head and shoulders.

Haha... hah.....

I would show you the unfinished product..... but making you wait is half the fun! 'Ta'ta and see you in a week or so! *skips off*