Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Project for Awesome 2008

The Project for Awesome is a project that the nerdfighters do once a year where we all (or a good portion of us) make videos of our favorite charities and post them on YouTube. We then comment on each others' videos and try to get them to the most discussed, most viewed, most rated pages on YouTube. Nerdfighters successfully took over the most discussed page last year, so we're trying to do it again!

So, I would like everyone to go to YouTube and look up Project for Awesome 2008 and watch and comment on the nerdfighters' videos. My sister and I have a video!! So if you want to see that one it is Project for Awesome 2008: Lymphatic Research Foundation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5nFxktW-oU is us, so watch and comment everyone!!! Thanks a bundle and DFTBA!

Please spread the word, this is a great way to learn about charities and what they do, so please enjoy! And comment and rate and such....
Project for Awesome! Fighting to decrease World Suck!

p.s. yes you will need a YouTube profile to comment, but it's free, so go for it!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Nerdfighters

I have a new found like for the word nerd. It used to be that I hated the word and didn't think it applied to me, that I was a geek and not a nerd and how dare you think otherwise. But after all my grumblings and mumblings and vehement protests, I have come to the conclusion that nerd is not a bad thing. In fact, being a nerd is the equivalent of being made of awesome.

I have only two people to blame for this sudden and complete 180: John and Hank Green. The brothers decided last year that they were going to fore go textual communication (texting, e-mail, IM, etc.) and instead communicate via video blog (aka vlog) and phone for one year. The two created videos on alternating days (sans weekends) and posted them on YouTube to keep in touch. They inadvertently started a movement.

The nerdfighters followed the brothers loyally as each new video was posted, giving (and receiving) challenges and questions, punishments for failure (and rule breaking) and rewards for success, and fighting against world suck. When the year was up, the nerdfighters despaired, fearing that they would never again see John and Hank, but the brothers hatched a plan and decided to keep up the vlogging but, instead of every day, videos would be posted once or twice a week. Nerdfightaria rejoiced!

The vlogging continues to this day, and can be accessed via the link in the title. I suggest starting at the beginning, though, or all of the inside jokes are going to make you very confused. It's easy, when you click the link, find and click the link that says "videos", go all the way back to page 20(? i think) and watch from Jan 1, 2007. Is worth it. Trust me.

DFTBA,
Catherine

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

End of the Semester

As I reach the end of my first semester of college, I look back and see things that I really enjoyed and hope to continue, I see new friends (or at least acquaintances) I have made, I see new and exciting things I've learned, and I look back on those and give a contented, happy sigh. I also look back and see the friends at RRHS that I miss, the poor choices I made regarding class work, and the class I failed. I look and see these and know that I will force myself to do better next go around. I do wish that I hadn't failed rhetoric, that I had tried harder not to fail rhetoric, that I hadn't procrastinated and missed the drop period for rhetoric, but most importantly, I have vowed to take a choir next semester because choir is, as I have stated on several occasions, my therapy. I would have had a little less stress if I had had a choir class; not to say that it would have been better for my work load, or that I wouldn't have still failed rhetoric, but I'd be less stressed about it if I had a choir class to relax in.

I am getting my license this winter break and as soon as Financial Aid comes in I'll be buying my own car. That, I have to say, will be pretty freaking sweet, until I fill it up the first time... gas prices are low (for now) and that's good, but that's still an expense I didn't have to deal with earlier. That and insurance. I'm hoping to go onto my parents' insurance and just pay them a portion, but I don't know if that's what'll happen. I am excited, despite the scary thought of gas and insurance, because i'll have my own car!! I don't know what I'll be getting yet, but it should be a fairly reliable POS for a little less than 4k. :) Another reason to smile, is that I'll be getting this car before my sister gets a car of her own. I don't generally like to rub things in her face, but this is pretty much worth her wrath.

I don't have finals... so this is my last week... scary. I may go to campus once or twice next week for like work and stuff, but mostly I'll be at home... cleaning my room... which really needs my close undivided attention for a few days. I'll be spending the first day of my winter break gathering all the clothes off my floor, sorting them into what I will and will not wear, and putting them into trash bags. I will then wash all of them, bag by bag, until they are all clean. Then I will donate (or sell) the clothes I won't wear anymore and put away everything else into my newly accessible closet and dresser. This is the plan, and hopefully I will stick to the plan, but I have been known to procrastinate... on occasion... you know, just once or twice...

So anyway, that's all for now.
DFTBA,
~Cat =^.^=