anyway I'm in an all star mood today :) how is everyone? where is everyone? I have high-speed!!! well...my grandparents do anyway......
Random question of the day: who's your favorite author and why/what is their style like, etc.?
did everyone go to Sarah's blog and see the Camp Pope video yet?!?!?!??!! It's amazing...and it's got All Star!!!!! and lots of cute pictures/videos.
oh yeah. i was gonna tell you about fair. I got first place in fitting and showing!!!!!!! yeah!!!!!!!! only I had to do round robin, which is when all the winners of fitting and showing in Dogs, Cats, Rabbits, Cavies, Chickens, and Pigeons have to show each others animals. umm....can't pick up a chicken or rabbit sorry ;) I pretty much got last place, but it was cool. Comet tried to bite someone so we brought a different cat in (thank you Ashley!!!). Comet will not be participating in round robin in the future. so yeah - Comet got fifth in her breed class; not great but still not too bad. I got first in our Written Test, second in Judging (which is like multiple choices and you have to rank things from best to worst, and identify some breeds and stuff), and third in Knowlege (which is another type of written test...this year SUPER-HARD with anatomy and breeds. the breeds saved me from getting crushed, because I pretty much sucked at anatomy, but I think I got the most breeds of anyone)!
so it rained all weekend at fair, and we made this one dude cookies who was standing there in the rain running one of the game booth places. he kept thanking us every time we walked by, lol. we are the only animal project in 4-H without a permanent building, so we had this tent that sort of....leaked.
;)
Saw the hypnotist about five times, ha-ha, and took lots of pictures and videos that I might put up sometime. not at home though *is sad*
*is happy again* I wish I had my dad's laptop here so I could post some, but it will have to wait. *sigh* I really need this vacation. I haven't really had summer yet, so I will be reading, writing, - and what else...? whatever I feel like. can't wait to be on a boat again!!! what is everyone up to this week?
there's not really anything else to say....lalala! I plan to finish Les Mis this week, and then start David Copperfield. and work on my book.
and I'm talking an awful lot about me, sowwy. have we found any traces of mnm or sam or mj or Legolas yet?
I should be on later...my grandpa's bringing his laptop and he has this cool handy-dandy little internet card thingamy (no, it doesn't work at our house).
til then!
Well,
ReplyDeleteseeing as blog post are writing about yourself . . . I think we will forgive you.
oh, thank you so much! I'm forever indebted to you.
ReplyDeleteI have internet!!! I'm in Roche Harbor right now, and we *might* get to see the Comedy of Errors tonight in the park for free! Pray for good weather so we'll be able to stay here and do that. I'll be posting soon!
Wahoo- thanks for the free advertising of the Camp Pope movie :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had fun at the fair :) I'm sure you did the best that you could in all of the competitions.
ReplyDeleteHey, the second part of my camp post is finally up!
that was an inspiring post.
ReplyDeletei don't know why, i just feel like going and doing important stuff now. the fair sounds like a blast!
oh, my all time favorite author (though i've only read one of her books) would be Ann Weil, author of Red Sails to Capri, which is a childrens book.
ReplyDeleteI've read it probubly close to fifty times, and I cannot possibly get tired of it. The way she paints the simple, mundane things in a very realialistic, quaint way while also constructing a brillant plot with threads of brilliant philosophy running through it...
and the characters. they don't draw any attention to themselves, and she wastes no time on elaborate explinations, but they are SO vivid. brilliant, i tell you, simply brilliant.
Okay, I need to read that. We might even still have it . . .
ReplyDeleteOh I know!!! I read that in like sixth grade or something and loved it.
ReplyDeletethink we've all read Mara, Daughter of the Nile too, right?
Oh Yes . . . I love that book
ReplyDeletemy all time favorite author is dave eggers.
ReplyDeletehe is extremely original, his style defies any type of genre or categorization or even grouping him with any other author.
he mostly writes fiction, loosely based on some things that may or may not have happened to him or someone else.
every rule you can break, he breaks it.
his stories are very personal and very very quirky and quite strange.
you could call his writing humorous, but it's actually quite dark, if you weren't imagining him on the other end on his keyboard laughing his head off at you and everyone in particular.
you can sense a kind heart when you boil it all down.
or maybe donald miller. he's the bomb.
who's your favorite, verya?
i loved this post. i agree with emily.
is he the guy that started one book on the cover?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, what's your favorite, Verya?
oh yeah. guess i should've said that huh! did he write What is the What?
ReplyDeleteI need to think it over and I have to run now...so I'll write later! It's somewhere between Stevenson and Dickens, but definitely classical.
yes dave eggers is the guy who had the book that started on the cover and the guy who had a short story with only a title and the guy who had four blank pages in the middle of a story to illustrate a point and the guy who wrote What is the What.
ReplyDeletedickens is great...