How long has it been?

I swear, every time I log onto Blogger to post I get distracted/called away/uninspired...anyways, my sister and I are going to the corn maze with our youth group today. Looking forward to it as I've never been in all 16 years of living here!

And I forgot how good The Prince of Egypt is--my brothers are watching it for the first time and I haven't seen it in ages! But my goodness, I'm getting chills through it. Amazing movie--I wish they had made more!

I'm halfway through the term and I finished my midterms with pretty decent scores! I'm taking Biology, and I believe we're going to start studying cells soon, which is exciting. So far all we've done is stare at juniper trees for hours to relate our readings of Ecosystems and Biomes with the tree. I'm a lab-type person; I love staring through a microscope and slicing things open with a shiny little knife. My dad's suggested I become a writer since I love writing so much, but I think I'm going to end up doing something in the medical/science field and possibly write on the side.

Which reminds me--NaNoWriMo starts in a little more than a week! I'm all ready to go; I know which novel I'm going to write and I'm hopefully going to reach the 50,000 words this year (last year I think I only made it to 36,000). Lately all I've been writing is the random poem here and there, as a way to work out my emotions when I feel down (hence I have quite a few poems). Ha, but anyways, I'm hoping this will incite me to start writing novels again.

I was also introduced to this amazing site called Save the Words, where you can "adopt" a word and save it from extinction. I adopted "sagittipotent," meaning "one who is highly skilled with a bow." Because yes, I am a word nerd. On that note, I just discovered another beautiful long word - éclaircissement, I believe - while reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

Which reminds me of another tangent; lately I've been reading Gothic/Victorian-era novels, namely by Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Edgar Allan Poe (love his work!), because the contemporary teenage fiction I've been reading has just been...junk. I've had some recommendations and when I read them, they were too reminiscent of Twilight (at least what I've heard of Twilight, seeing as I've never actually read those books). I mean, an angsty, moody heroine who calls herself plain and yet somehow draws the attention of some mysterious hot guy who is, in actuality, some magical humanoid? Not my cup of tea, thank you!

But reading literature--I find it's more interesting, challenging, and enjoyable. That's not to say that I don't enjoy some contemporary work; the Ranger's Apprentice series, the Bartimaeus trilogy, The Looking Glass Wars--those are some of my favorite books as well. I find it's nice to alternate once in a while, to have a change of pace for my poor little brain.

And seeing as my brother disappeared from the couch and I'm now hearing a shrill whistle being blown from my parents' room, I think it's about time for me to sign out now.