Quiz About Me

Once again, I want to eventually get things of Facebook, but have them saved elsewhere on the internet.

I'm BrownYou have brown eyes. Brown is the color of the earth. Your eyes symbolize your comforting and fostering nature. You are stable, grounding, sophisticated, considerate, conventional and orderly. People may consider you to be cozy or warm. People feel safe when they are with you. Some words to describe you: reliability, elegance, security, healing, homely, grounding, foundation, and earthly

AQUARIUS - Does It In The WaterTrustworthy. Attractive. Great kisser. One of a kind, loves being in long-term relationships. Can be clumsy at times but tries hard. Will take on any project. Proud of themselves in whatever they do. Messy and unorganized. Procrastinators. Great lovers, when they're not sleeping. Extreme thinkers. Loves their pets usually more than their familiy. Can be VERY irritating to others when they try to explain or tell a story. Unpredictable. Will exceed your expectations.. Not a Fighter but will Knock your lights out.

You are Green! You are a cool yet energized person. You probably tend to be a little more introverted than extroverted - while you love being with your friends, you still need your "you" time. You are probably a rather laid back, zen sort of person, unless you get a good kick of energy; then you can be crazy fun! You are probably insightful and smart; logic comes easily to you. You tend to be a balance between red and yellow. Reds are passionate and intense, and tend to walk over people. Yellows tend to be the walked on, because they like to keep the peace. You, however, are a balance of both. You know when to lie down and let someone take the lead, but if you feel strongly about something, you're not afraid to stand up for it! You are probably compassionate as well, and like animals and plants. You may be a little off-beat, and feel like not many people really see the depth in your personality. You would probably rather keep things on a superficial level that other people can understand than show the deeper side of yourself. You, in a nutshell: Cool, energized, balanced, strong, funky, zen, deep, intelligent, logical, compassionate. GREEN! .

Which Avatar: the Last Airbender Nation do you best fit into?Your Result: The Water TribeCongratulations! You are a member of the Water Tribe! The people of the Water Tribe pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic. They want their lives to be self-actualized and have meaning. They strive to be genuine and to be in harmony with the inner experiences of self. They try to avoid a life of bad faith and to live a life of significance, making a difference in the world. They want to help others become kinder, warmer, and more loving human beings. They seek to reform the world and to romanticize their experiences and lives, and also the experiences and lives of others. At their best they are altruistic, benevolent, conscientious, empathic, enthusiastic, ethical, even-tempered, genuine, idealistic, inspired, intuitive, loyal, persistent, reliable, respectful, self-sacrificing, sensitive, sincere, sympathetic, thoughtful, understanding, visionaries, and well-organized. At their worst they can be credulous, critical, depressed, detached, difficult, exacting, guilt prone, hard to please, indecisive, inflexible, judgmental, moody, moralistic, negative, perfectionists, picky, resentful, self-righteous, stuffy, suspicious, touchy, unforgiving, and unrealistic.Result Breakdown:77% The Water Tribe67% The Fire Nation17% The Earth Kingdom10% The Air Nomads

Quotations!

Some of my favorite quotations! I want to eventually get a lot of my info off Facebook, so here is a place for all of my quotations!

"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." -Blaise Pascal.

I might be simple but more and more, I believe God works in love, speaks in love, is revealed in our love.-Jamie Tworkowski-To Write Love on Her Arms

"Love is always worth the risk. Eternity is a long time to live with regret."-Henry Fitzroy, "Blood Ties"

"Life is the most wonderful fairytale."-Gravemarker store's billboard

"Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him. This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven."- 1 John 4:7-10

"And accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."-The Declaration of Independence

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours. "-The History Boys

"Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket."-The History Boys

"I want you to be yourself -- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself."-The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."-Robert Frost

Basically any line from AVPM. For example:"Get me some Nasonex you swine!""What the hell is a Hufflepuff?""I'm tired. Can't we all just be Death Eaters?""Pigfarts in on Mars.""The headmaster is Rumbleroar. He's a lion. Who can talk.""*claps hands* Rascist sister!"This could go on for pages, I'm not even joking.

"If you take advantage of her, you will burn in a special layer of Hell. A layer reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theatre."-Shepherd Book, Firefly

I believe in things greater than us, and I believe in love and reverence and spirituality and divinity, whether or not that is embodied in what doctrines might call God is not really important to me. I just believe in the greater something, and I believe in good people. — Darren Criss

"Religion is a response to revelation and different people respond to revelation differently. We cannot continue to assume that each religion represents only one set of ideas. […] It is not just one thing. With every revelation, some people respond by making the world better and some respond by making it worse. […] The revelation isn’t the problem. We are."- John Green

VEDA and Summer Plans

Hey!

It's almost finals time and life is pretty crazy, but nothing unmanageable. It's also time to pick my classes for next semester. I already know that I'm taking Medieval Philosophy over the summer (yugh). But for next semester, class times aren't working out the way I want them to. Anyways, the point of this post is to send you to my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/hpobsessed21. I'm doing a project called VEDA (Vlog EveryDay in April). I'm currently a few days behind because I was able to go to the Lady GaGa concert, but I'm working on catching up.

Also, I wanted to make a list of things to do this summer. Most likely, this list will be edited:

• Get through 20 items off of the YLC list and blog every other day.


• Post a video on YouTube every week.


• Take a trip to San Antonio.


• Read, read, READ!


• Work. L


• Save up enough to buy a new camera & buy said camera.


• Hang out with friends all the time!

This sounds like a pretty good list to start off with to me! Much love and DFTBA!

Nadia

Non-YLC: 4 (addition: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler and Incarceron by Catherine Fisher)

YLC: 1

Homework

Ah, just another night at my house, avoiding homework. I've noticed that my motivation to do homework is a bell curve related to how much homework I have.



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Hey, since no one is reading this, let's whine a little bit.

For school I have:

• Theology reading (Old [about 60 Bible chapters] and New [about 15 Bible chapters])
• Theology review for a test (ON FRIDAY)
• Theology research paper (Due next Wednesday)
• Meno by Plato
• The Republic (Books 1 and 2) by Plato
• Research the Tudors for an Informative Speech
• Write said speech (to be given on Wednesday)
• Read selections (about 45 pages) of City of God by St. Augustine (For Tuesday)
• Read Confessions (Books 5-10) by St. Augustine
• Read and summarize a section from my Psychology book for a project
• Write journal entries (2) for said project
• Re-memorize everything I've forgotten over the break for Arabic

And that's just my school list. That's not even any of my personal projects. Ugh, typing that all out made me want to be productive. So... City of God, here I come.

DFTBA!

Nadia

P.S. Note to self: Remember to relax and breathe occasionally.

Anna and the French Kiss

Instead of sleeping, I just finished reading Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. It was every bit as awesome as John Green (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gep4QH6U27M&cc=1#t=14s) and Alex Carpenter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo64tDej4RI) said it would be.

Summary time: A girl named Anna Oliphant is forced to move to Paris by her super-cliché novel-writing sell-out father. Once there, she meets a group of friends, including the one and only Étienne St. Clair. Romance ensues, as well as heartbreak, loneliness, contentment, and friendship.

Ok, enough with the summary. Stop here if you don't want any spoilers. Turn back now. Gushing review to follow.

FRENCH THE LLAMA, that book was awesome! I'm a teenage girl; I love the occasional sugar-sweet fluffy romance. But this book is so much more. It's about how Anna grows into herself and finally becomes content with just being alone with only herself. Stephanie Perkins did an amazing job of interweaving the characterization, plot, and themes. I never felt like she was ever making an obvious statement, but that she was allowing me to read about Anna's year is Paris. In so many words, this is a book that shows and doesn't tell. This, in my humble opinion, makes for the best novels.

To start off, the characterization. Anna is perfectly believable. She's the girl that every girl wants to be: not flirty, fits in with the guys, but still is completely herself. But that doesn't mean that she has her faults. More often than not, she says or does the wrong thing. She tends to just skip situations that she would rather not deal with. It's these faults that add up to the credibility of her character. Also, Étienne St. Clair, teenage-boy extraordinaire. He's the perfect boy that every girl wants to date. He's charming, funny, gorgeous, and just a good guy. But, he has his faults as well. He's absolutely terrified of heights (which I think, symbolically, translates into his fear of falling. But, that might just be my over-analytical mind looking for more meaning than was intended) and he avoids change. Basically, St. Clair is the ideal mix of fantasy and reality.

Next, the plot. Every time the reader things that St. Clair and Anna might FINALLY get together, something else happens that drives them apart. St. Clair's mom gets cancer. Anna talks about her pseudo-boyfriend in America. They get closer and closer, until they drive themselves away. The plot of this novel (all 371 pages) is a roller-coaster ride that takes over the mind. It has one of those plots that keep you up all night reading, even when you have to get up early the next day. Then, all you want to do is tell everyone you know that they should read this book. Then, you end up creating a new blog, just so you can review it. What? It's not as if I'm speaking from personal experience or anything.

Finally, the themes. Mainly, I took two different themes that intertwine: the fear of being alone and the difficulty of the timing of love. There are plenty of others, but these were the two that struck me the most. Throughout the whole novel, both Anna and St. Clair struggle with the fear of being alone. Even though Anna is right in front of St. Clair, he doesn't break up with his current girlfriend. Anna refuses to take the signs that St. Clair likes her because she would rather have a torturous friendship with him (even if it includes his girlfriend) get her hopes up about their situation. When it comes down to it, life (and hormones) drive them together and they finally have to man-up and deal with all the difficulties that they have to overcome to be able to be in a relationship.

I think one of the only cons of this book is that it's too short. I honestly want to read about so many other events that were going on. What about Anna's website? There was potential for that to lead to some amazing opportunity for Anna. It's just mentioned several times, but never really illustrated. Also, I kept waiting for Anna and St. Clair's current girlfriend to have a fight. They both feel threatened by each other, and were forced together several times. One other thing was Meredith, the girl who lives next door to Anna and is the one that makes friends with Anna first. I feel like the books should have had a few more scenes of friendship between them. There was basically the scene where they met and the scene where they made up.

In conclusion, I think one of the most compelling things about Anna and the French Kiss is that every person has an experience that makes them relate to this book. There's always been that one person that you wanted to attempt a relationship with, but life just kept getting in the way. You never knew if you were reading the signs right; you keep doubting the other person. This novel does an excellent job of illustrating the difficulties of getting into a meaningful relationship, and it does it with grace. I know I can't wait until Stephanie Perkins publishes her next novel.

Until next time,

DFTBA!

Nadia

Non-YLC Books: 2 (And Nation by Terry Pratchett, another book I highly recommend)

YLC Books: 1

[School related reading doesn't count unless it relates]

Obligatory Opening Post

I've been contemplating on whether or not I should make a personal blog. "What's the point?" I told myself. "You have a blog, you have a YouTube channel. You do NOT need another random media source in which you just bore people with meaningless thoughts and tidbits of your life."

I just told that voice to shut up and made this.

This is going to be my personal blog. Also known as personal musings, random events, and maybe some book and movie reviews interspersed. I already have a blog called A Year of Literary Confinement where I review works of literature that I'm reading off of BBC's "100 Books You Should Read" list. If you like classics, I suggest you check it out.
/shamelessplug

Oh, about the name. Yes, I know it's horribly cheesy and cliché, but my last name is Hartley. Hence the purposeful misspelling.

Well, I think that's it for the obligatory opening post.

DFTBA!
Nadia