Sorry for not posting last Thursday. I think I mentioned it in my last post that I would be on vacation and wouldn't have any internet access, BUT I had planned on having someone fill in for me.
Which as you can see, did not follow through.

So anyway, this is where I was for five days!

Lake Nacimiento, CA
Unfortunately this is a picture taken from last year, for this year my camera had broken before the trip -_-
Despite that the trip was loads of fun and ended up being exactly what I needed. Although today I'm beginning to feel the aftermath of it all. Every single day we ate excellently three times a day. Today I had some cereal in the morning, and then went on my computer for the next seven hours. As that is usually how my diet is, my fivedaysofregulareatingvacation brain did not like that idea one bit. I developed a terrible migraine that slowly ebbed away 400 calories, a cold shower, and two advils later.

Elayne: Sup?
Madi: That picture also brought me much entertainment for a few hours. & That video, as William put it, is "Epic-tastic" indeed. Although I don't think I'd want to be the one editing that.
William: I'm so sorry your apartment was flooded. World suck levels have risen. On another note, I have a question for you. My birthday is coming up soon, and instead of paying for my other camera to get fixed, I think I'll just ask for a new one entirely. I'm torn between getting and old 35mm SLR, or a nice point and shoot digital. Do you have any input?
Tom: Why have I not thought of that?! That would get me out of so many situations.

Quickly before I go, I wanted to share what book I'm currently reading.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Certainly an interesting read, but not a book that you read from front to back in a few hours. More like reading a chapter whilst having coffee in the morning.
After I complete that I want to read World War Z by Max Brooks. I need to feed my zombie craving moderately.
What are you all reading at the moment? And if you're not, what tv series or movie have you been into lately?

Farewell!
We'll see you tomorrow Tom

-Madison/Thursday

I have decided to limit myself to watching merely one episode of any given television show on any given day. I realize now, that, just maybe, zipping through entire seasons of shows in a matter of hours can't be the most healthy thing in the world. Even if the show was Dexter or Firefly or something.

It is July, finally. A lot of things are happening this month.

-A cyberwebz meeting between myself and some members of various trock bands to talk about the website I'm trying to put together.
-I get my AP test scores back for AP World History. Will have to text my teacher my scores, because she seems in capable of waiting an extra month to get them herself.
-Orientation. How exciting.
-White water rafting with my family, because of,
-My sixteenth birthday

Today is awesome because of this video, which I just rewatched.



William: I really like that picture.

Madison: Hello. I like this picture from your tumblr, but especially the "conversation" of sorts that went with it.

Tom: Every time I hear that word now, I think of this commercial. Kind of sad, but true.

And, I suggested that you were Confidence Doe, because I was under the impression that only Ningmaters could get folks' email addresses. And now I'm worried.

Elayne: Ahem, excuse me for caps lock, but YOUR VACATION STARTS IN JULY?!?

Also today: my brother left the house to go to our neighbor's to play video games for five hours straight. No big deal, even though he did leave the house wearing his flannel pajama bottoms. Whatever. But, nearer the end of that five hour streak, I decide to watch television, which, as I said before, I've been rationing.

I was incredibly busy today. I did three more scholarship applications, refined my writing skill with some short prose samples, read "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut, solved the weird math problem at the end, got back to a few trock people in regards to an approximate meeting time, wrote a song, fixed my computer, and cleaned the kitchen, after I practiced the guitar. So, of course, I'm glad when I can finally relax and choose a show at random on Comcast On Demand to watch.

But, my brother comes home with his ickle friend Joe when I'm half an hour into the show. Joe was carrying two Sony controllers. Joe's house was basically Nintendo-central, but our house is dedicated to Sony. So, after five hours flipping around on the Wii at Joe's house, they expected to come traipsing over here to play more video games of a different sort for another three hours, give or take.

Maybe I was unfair in thinking that they had absolutely no right to waltz in and try and commandeer the television for their own recreational purposes just because they were bored flinging nunchucks around. But, that doesn't change the fact that the same thing had happened last week. That time, I let them have the television. This time, I did not. They were perfectly willing to take everything, and leave me with nothing. And I didn't appreciate it.

So, that's all, I guess.

"Brianstorm" by Artic Monkeys,

-Madi

So, no video of the cruise yet. I've been slack.

Actually, I've been writing and rewriting a short film with some friends. We were brought on as script doctors because the original version was a little bland and generic (no offense to the original writer, but it's true). We're currently working on our 3rd draft, the 4th total.

Also, I'm currently editing the footage I shot of my friend Corbie's band Battle Rockets back in May. Talk about slack, it's been a whole month!! Anyway, that will be posted over the next few days. There are six songs, I'm going to post two a day starting tomorrow. One will be up later tonight if everything goes according to plan. I'll tweet when it's up.

But, in the meantime, here's a picture of Jenny and I that I think is just great:



I don't know how many of you tune in to DFTBA Radio when it first airs on BlogTV Wednesday nights, or if you are signed up for the e-mail list, but Alan announced on his live show that there would be t-shirts available. Well, they just became available today. There are only 200, so go get one if you want it. Here's the link:



I've already ordered mine.

Madison: That picture is awesome indeed. My favorite word, based on usage... can't be repeated on a public blog. It starts with 'f' and ends with 'uck'... and it ain't firetruck.
However, one of my favorite words has to be "scuba" because it's just a fun word to say.
Tom: Yo, Ningmaster; how's things?
Elayne: I have very high hopes for "The Last Airbender". Mainly because it's James Cameron breaking ground with an all new technology (just like he seems to always do). Also, I randomly caught an episode of Degrassi earlier today, so it's weird that I'm responding to you after seeing it.
Madi: I don't think I mentioned this before, so it's funny you brought this up. Nicholas Sparks wrote the movie that Miley is currently filming in Savannah. He lives in my home town of New Bern, much to my detriment. This also means that he wants all the filming of his properties to go on in Wilmington (or North Carolina in general). Well, the NC Film Office screwed the pooch on the deal and the film moved to Savannah (I was one of the few people in town who was happy about this because I didn't care about losing the work). There are guys like this MILEYROCKS person all over Wilmington. They would be saying the same thing if the movie was here. I find it funny that this kid is doing the same thing there.


OH! And today is awesome because I just found out that my friend Stan won the Granlibakken Viking competition. Not only was he one of the three chosen, he's the LEAD VIKING!! W00T!

I think that's all for me, so I'm going to sign off and head over to J and Brea's for our weekly meet-up.

This has been your Wilmy-wood Wednesday,


William



Madison, we'll see you tomorrow.