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This spot is like, 30 minutes away from my school. There are dinosaur tracks and you can sit on the edge of a cliff, it's a cool place. Fun to photograph, although there was some fear of dropping my camera over the cliff.The focus is on the puddle and I feel like it should be further away >.> oh well.
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Haha thank you c:
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Looks a bit like where I used to live in the desert :3
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Yeech. I would hate to live in the desert. At least, I hated it when I had to spend 10 months in it for school XP
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Yheeeeaaaaa the novelty wore off in about half a year. Scorpions, wind scorpions, spiders, BIG spiders, tarantuala hawks, vinigaroons, and centipedes as long as my arm made sure of that.
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Oh jeez. I only saw one scorpion I think, and not too many overly large spiders, but my dorm room was infested with strange little pathetic looking spiders that were mostly legs. At least one lived right above my bed and I never got over that, but for some reason I never swept it off. And I saw a few black widows. Also there were a lot of snakes. But I lived.
I'm really sorry about the fact that I haven't replied to your other post (the super long one) yet, I swear I haven't forgotten about it, I just haven't been able to sit down to it yet. I'll try really hard to make that happen soon
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Yhea, the desert's full of undesirable creatures with nasty purposes.
TCH; it's alright; I just haven't got much to do these days anyway, so I skulk around the internet looking for things to do (except today when I was out to the cinemas), so if I seem overly active, it's because I am XP
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Literally. I used to be so petrified of Australia because everything I read about it commented on how the most dangerous species of every living organism lives there. I'm still kind of wary of it XD
Yeah, I don't even know what my schedule is going to be like. Probably because I don't have one XD I just spent a couple days at a friend's house, I'm going to a concert in a few days, I'm flying to California on the 29th, and that's about all I know about what's happening in my life in the near future. Oh, and I'm going to a little touristy island up yonder in Michigan for a couple days next week.
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Yhea. Apparently our possums are scarier than theirs, though. Australia's, I mean.
Sounds like a full schedule to me X)
I haven't been doing anything notable for the past three weeks. Just re-reading the Harry Potter series and preparing to go to a job with the Park Service.
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Really? I must say I haven't given much thought to the world's varying types of possums.
Yeah, it was decently full. Almost died during the concert (that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I did get elbowed in the face while someone was crowdsurfing and there was probably a decent chance of heatstroke), had fun on the touristy island, and should really be packing for going to California XP
I have a desperate need to reread Harry Potter. That's cool that you're getting a job, my mum had this whole thing going where she was all "oh yes you need to get a job over the summer because obviously there are places that will hire an inexperienced 16-year-old for like two months" before school was out and then I actually got home and she was like, "well duh of course you're not going to get a job I just don't want you to sit around doing nothing while you're in Cali." It was interesting.
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Sounds fun 
I haven't actually ever been to a live concert, so I don't know what that's like really.
Yhea; I finished off the series in two weeks or so. This re-entry into the Potterverse has further cemented my belief that the Weasley twins are the greatest thing to happen in modern literature. (And I'm fairly certain now that when Fred died he must have become a Hogwarts ghost to bide time until George goes too.)
This is actually the first job I've ever been able to get XP That is, if you don't count the various volunteer things I've done for the park service. I'm 19 now, going to be 20 next March. Both my mum and dad had jobs by age 16, but a lot of places don't want to hire that young anymore. In any case, I get a rental house out of this deal, and my job is to basically sit in a booth all day and hand out pamphlets.
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It's fun, but also dangerous sometimes XD
I'm finally rereading them, I'm on the third book. I'm sort of rewatching the movies too. Oh my gosh, I would read so many books about Fred and George haunting Hogwarts until kingdom come, that's brilliant.
Ah, okay XP I've edited books a couple times, but all but one of those were my stepdad's books. So partially because I dislike him strongly, but mostly because they were the worst books ever to disgrace the name of literature, I did a really awful job on them, honestly XD But he did pay me for that. And the one that wasn't written by him was also awful, but the guy was broke or something so I didn't get paid for it. And for a while I had this thing where I would enter people's email addresses into Gmail for my stepdad, for his (pathetic) newsletter thing, which was the absolute worst, but my mother made me do that. And that's the closest I've come to having a job XD
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I know right? I think that's why I'd like to see something on the Next Generation because they'd be able to hang out with Fred, and also since they grew up in the information age just there'd be all sorts of muggle-born antics having to do with technology.
Eesh. Sounds like a job I would NOT want to do. Whatever people say, I personally believe that writing is not entirely a learned talent. You have to have at least some.... I dunno, some predisposed skill towards it. I've done a few commissions for people; I once was paid $20 dollars to design a Celtic cross for a guy, because he wanted to get a tattoo of one. So there's that, I suppose.
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Yeah, that would be interesting. Kind of off the subject and random, but I'm really hyped about the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them movie and will probably continue being hyped for the next two years.
Oh, it was awful. I agree with that sentiment, at least as far as creative writing goes. I really kind of dislike writing and don't think I have a predisposition to it at all, but I can generally pull together a better essay than story, I think, just because I tend to think more logically than spontaneously, and it's easier for me to maintain a logical line of thought than a creative one usually. Which is odd, because it's way harder for me to read nonfiction stories (like history) than most fiction (except things like historical fiction). I can read stuff like theology, although it takes me a lot longer than normal, but not really most nonfiction.
That's really cool. I think I would like to design tattoos, but I would also freak out constantly if somebody actually got one, because I'd be afraid there was a mistake in it or something.
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OH YES I'm VERY hyped about the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
I have trouble writing nonfiction if I'm not at all invested in what I'm writing. For example, I could write you a rousing essay on Education but say you wanted me to do a short summary of the history of American healthcare? Forget it, I wouldn't get past the first few lines. I'm a creative writer; I've got stories in my head. Too many, in fact.
It's a bit nerve-wracking; I only designed a tattoo that once and I hated what I'd drawn and was like "Please don't get this tattooed on your body"
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I thought I heard (I think my brother told me) they were even making two movies out of it, but everything I can find only says one. But two would be...fantastic.
Well, the history of American healthcare is probably the least interesting subject ever to write an essay on XD Sometimes when I have to write stuff, I hit this obscure little niche where I can go for pages at a time (even creative writing) but sometimes I have to work for every word and it's not great. People have told me that they think I should write a book. I think I come off as the writer type because I read so much or something XP I did write a couple short story things in school that weren't awful, but I doubt I could write a whole book.
I would be afraid that they would get it tattooed, but then hate it later on, and then have a vendetta against me for eternity XD
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I have this thing where if I'm writing a book chapter, I'll sit there until I finish it. But you know. I haven't actually written anything for almost a year, really. It's getting to me. I've got some major writer's block. Not that I'm lost for ideas, but I can't seem to find a style that I'm happy with. The most recent thing I've written was a Halloween short story that I've actually posted here on Deviantart. It's not much, and I no longer think very highly of it. (No good at creating suspense).
I... I think that's what I'm really afraid of XD
WAIT NO I actually designed another tattoo; one for my friend. With flowers and an old magnifying glass. It came out really quite nice.
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I don't think I could write an entire chapter at once. At least not a normal length chapter. I'm so slow at writing that 'faster than normal' for me is like a page or two typewritten, or a few pages handwritten. I'm desperately hoping that when I go to a real school (which is in like a week) I'll magically discover hidden writing skills I didn't know I had that never appeared while I was at the old school with pathetically weak 'academics.' Well, even if you have writer's block, you can probably still write more, better, than me XP (I suppose I'm kind of in a situation where I perpetually have writer's block. that seems like a good way of putting it.)
XD It would probably make me nervous every time I saw the person. So did they end up getting either of those tattoos?
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Real School? Public? Personally I'd opt for one of the Charter Schools. California Charter Schools are the best in the country.
Eh, well, not everybody is predisposed to it. Writing, I mean. You're eons ahead of me in Photography, you should know. I can barely hold a camera straight. (Can't even do that properly a lot of the time).
The Magnifying glass WAS carried out; the artist at the tattoo parlor modified it to fit his style, I only did a rough reference.
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Well, by 'real school' I mean it's actually accredited and it has in general a more normal atmosphere than the school my mother made me go to last year. She's still making me go to a school that's affiliated with her denomination of Christianity, which is definitely not mine, at this point, but I think she thinks it will 'fix me' if I get indoctrinated with it enough (nevermind that she made me go to church every week my whole life so they can't tell me anything new), so there's still all the (ridiculous) mandatory religious observances that, incidentally, almost completely disagree with my whole worldview (sorry for harping on about that but it's been annoying me for the past 3 years or so that she forces her mentality on me XD) but other than that it's pretty much better in every way than the religious asylum she shipped me off to last year. And it's in Monterey Bay, which is really pretty, and also the temperature will be a lot more moderate than down here in Orange County, which I'm kind of looking forward to. I think the year after this I might go to a public school, but my mum will undoubtedly have all the issues with that and then there are a bunch of other variable factors involved so that might not happen.
That's definitely true, about the writing XD That's nice of you to say, I don't have a lot of faith in my photography skills; it always seems to me that something is really lacking from my pictures and it bothers me a lot because I can never really fix it. It might just be because I haven't really taken classes or anything in it yet so I haven't actually learned how to take good pictures. But I feel that way about most of the things I like doing. I'm not actually good at them, but they're fun so I persist anyway XP
That's cool, did it turn out well? Sometimes I think being a tattoo artist would be fun, until I remember that the fear of people not liking it would be 10000 times worse XD
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AH YES MONTEREY BAY I've been there a couple times, though not recently. The Aquarium is something to see; and it IS quite pretty over there. Central California is definitely more enjoyable as far as weather goes. Yhea, I've never been forced into going to Church or anything, but when I was on the North Coast I DID attend the service at the Lutheran church my mum used to go to in college, which was the first time in three or four years that I've gone to church. I'm spiritual, but not religious, and so is mum. I used to go to a Catholic school on the East Coast when I lived there, and it was one of the best schools I've ever been in, so I guess time will tell whether or not this school you're going to is better (would it be impertinent to ask what denomination of Christianity that is? Because right now Baptist is springing to mind). Trust me though, you do NOT want to end up in a public school under any circumstances. ESPECIALLY one in Orange County. California may be at the top of the game with their Private and Charter schools, but the Public schools are some of the worst in the entire country (behind the schools in the Southeast, of course). Trust me, avoid at all costs. I know what I'm talking about, I tried one for half a week and was so put off by it that I basically walked out in the middle of the day and went home.
I have that problem with my art and stuff too. I just don't think I'm any good at it, but I put some crummy captain america comic I'd drawn up on tumblr and now it has like 400+ notes even if it has no punchline and there's thumbprints all over it. I'm the same way; I keep at it because it's fun X3 The tattoo DID turn out pretty stellar; she likes it a lot and is really happy with how it turned out :3
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I still haven't been to the aquarium, but the weather is amazing XP The denomination is Seventh-day Adventist, and it's kind of like Baptist except they're fanatical about going to church on Saturday, because of the fourth commandment or what have you. But they tend to be really conservative and a little obnoxious about their beliefs (in general) although this school is definitely the most tolerant version of Adventism I've ever seen, which is nice. I actually like it there, so I'm thinking about going there next year (also they're taking people on a Europe trip next year, which is kind of a factor in me going back, although it shouldn't really be XD).
I think you have a really unique style that looks really cool (and I don't mean that in the 'I don't know what to say about your drawings so I'll just say it's unique' way XD). I've never been brave enough to put any of my art (except pictures) anywhere except dA really XP That's awesome that the tattoo turned out well. I really want a tattoo, but I have no idea what I would get. And I'm awfully indecisive, so I would probably walk into the tattoo parlor, be like "Wait actually I don't know about this, I'm not mature enough to make this giant decision" and walk away XD
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Up here it's been a bit cold out. Y'know, October an everything. AH yup. Well, it's good that you like your school. I remember my Catholic school was pretty awesome. They constantly threw parties. Saint Patrick's Day, Halloween, Christmas and Easter were the big contenders. Also our P.E. coach would have us play Quidditch sometimes. I never really got to go on a proper senior trip. I went to Disneyland with my family, though. My brother wants to go on his senior trip, over to Washington D.C. and NYC. (He hates it there too, but I think he thinks it'll be fun to parade his friends around and act like a safari guide on a dangerous hunting trip through Alligator-infested waters or something.) Aw, thank you! Lately I've been drawing Gravity Falls too much. I like the pictures you take; I don't show NEAR as much promise with a camera. As for tattoos, I always told myself that if I were to ever get one (I probably won't. Too afraid of needles.) I'd get the Tolkien symbol on my wrist.
Anyway I've been spending the last few months ordering bits of my Halloween costume, watching cartoons and doing college work. My mum's taking two weeks off of work to do stuff with the house, and also take our backyard shed down.
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It's now almost December; I'm on Thanksgiving break, and it's still 90 degrees in southern California. XD That sounds like a really chill school. My PE teacher is a little bit of an arse. But maybe I'm biased because he makes us run miles and I hate running >.> I'm forever a little bit angry because I was 'homeschooled' and didn't get an 8th grade class trip XD Thank you ^^ I really don't know very much about photography, but I try. That's actually a really fantastic tattoo idea. I Sharpie'd that on my wrist once XD I would want one on my wrist too
What was your Halloween costume? I was at school during Halloween and it was sad because they told us we couldn't dress up and they said all this about it being a 'holiday that celebrated death' and I was like 'I don't know what holiday you're celebrating, I'm celebrating free candy and pumpkins.' College sounds terrifying XD
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Yhea, that Catholic school I went to was the best.
I was Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls; I was on candy hand-out duty and kids that showed up to our house would gasp and be like "IT'S DIPPER; OH MY GOD IT'S DIPPER PINES"
Halloween is the greatest, and actually, it's about dressing up as things that aren't you to confuse bad spirits that are roaming about on that particular night.
College is..... dull. At least, how I'm doing it. I think I might try something else for a while; my heart's not in it. Lately I've been seeing all these cartoons, like 'Over the Garden Wall', and thinking "DUDE, I WANT IN ON THAT" So I might put together a pitch bible and try for a show.
How was your Thanksgiving?
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I think I accidentally deleted this message from my inbox or never got it or something, because I don't remember seeing it and obviously I never replied to it, so. XD
That's awesome XD One time my mother made me this pretty fantastic Pocahontas costume, and my dad took me trick-or-treating even though it was rainy and gross outside. Good memories ^^ That's interesting about dressing up; I never knew that.
I have not the faintest idea what I want to major in. I feel like I could do something involving graphic design with my life, but there's so many other things I'm interested in, and I'm so conflicted XD I have a friend (whose name is also Lauren, incidentally) who works for Disney and a show she worked on is coming out next year. It's called Penn Zero, Part-Time Hero. I have no idea what it's about, it's just really cool to have a friend who legit works for Disney.
This is super late, but it was pretty good XD There was a lot of food, but that's typical of most Thanksgivings. How was yours? (also really late, and I feel like I might have asked you this before, I'm really sorry)
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That's alright; sometimes I do that on accident too.
Sweet! Costumes are the best. I'd dress up in a costume all the time if I could :I
WOAH YUP That's what I'd like to do. Work for one of those animation companies. Preferably, I'd like to work for Frederator, because then I could live where I want to live instead of having to move to Los Angeles.
I had a good Thanksgiving, actually; We had a traditional Turkey dinner and stayed at home. It snowed a bit, too, which was VERY nice. We haven't had snow up here since 2012 (which is bad, where I live. We should be having at least three to five feet of snow on the ground at all times.)
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Yeah it's a nice place to sit and think
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