dearest darling,
why are you always gone?
you are dearly missed.

Amorcito,

I love that you read so much. I am reading The Secret and I like it a lot.I am also denting into the Captain Alatriste. I also like it a lot, but I have a long way to go.

I love you very much. Have a properous and happy 2008.Be very positive and always think with the intention of getting and becoming whatever you want.

With love,

Mabba

This is all I am going to say in public of a certain incident: I think you got your point across to someone quite well, Steve. What is that everyone says-'kudos'?-to you. :)
My first day as a senior went by rather smoothly, by the way.

I am a tiger again because I wanted to copy the location of my avatar picture, and instead it deleted it, and this computer doesn't have it saved in the pictures folder. So I had to upload a different picture-yes, another tiger (I like it better than the other tiger I had by a lot). People whisper about me in school because I am shy and don't like talking to people all that much, so I take a book with me just about everywhere.
You're right....I am intelligent, and there is pretty much zero chance that I will do any of the said foolish things that most do at college.
I am glad your situation is improving, and I think your whole last paragraph was rather amusing, though I must disagree with you on one point. Sleep is NOT for wussies. I find sleeping is very enjoyable and I wish I could stay in bed and not have to get up ever. Well, okay, I don't like sleeping that much. Still..........
SOOOOOOOO...back to books, which is what we really should be talking about. Have you ever read any Louis L'Amour books? If you haven't, you should...they're like all western stories, which I am really not into, but he makes them interesting. Of course, he's dead now, but his son (or is it his daughter?) has been finding manuscripts of his that were never turned into books, and turning them...into books.

Hannah is a tiger again. So... why in the world would people point and whisper "what's wrong w/ her"? Do you drool a lot? Are you constantly setting fires? College... well, college is a lot to chew on. I would say it would DEFINITELY be in your best interest to consider some other schools than just two. After all, you could transfer or go back later on in life if you like. "Have to take math and Spanish and all that", makes it sound as though you're not looking forward to that. Am I reading that right? And the bit about college kids being in any way developed human beings? Man! Think about all those Old School and Animal House movies. College is where youth are unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Nobody knows what the hell they're doing. They're all miscreants and kids w/out chaperones. They often drink to excess, have a bunch of sex, make insanely stupid decisions and generally carry on in a most ignorant and unsavory manner. If you are at all intelligent, and you ARE, no matter what you want to convince yourself of, you should navigate the whole bloody thing quite easily. If all else fails, move out, get a job, save your money and grow some comfort with independence. THEN go to school. That's what I did and am doing.
In my sphere, I moved, money's on the way and sleep is for wussies. Hehehe. I like coffee and unfortunately a side-effect of the love I hold for it is that I don't get much sleep but that'll work out too. Everything does.

I'm already back in class actually. My summer has been... kinda crazy I guess. Weird roommate stuff, various relationship issues and a healthy dose of money troubles all conspired to offset the otherwise quite enjoyable season. I'm writing this at 2:20 in the morning on a neighbor's weak connection because I've got class and work everyday this week and I work in a coffee shop so I can't sleep. As for your writings, I am sorry to say that I haven't much time for reading these days but I WILL get to it. The bit I have read I enjoyed and yes, I would probably buy it, though I feel obliged to warn you that I almost exclusively purchase second-hand books.
I haven't added anything to Goodreads in a while. When I joined I just kinda added all I could think of at the time. If I had a bunch more time, I would put more on I reckon.
Class starts soon, eh? You excited? A senior now or what? Whaddaya think about college?
-Me

This has nothing to do with what I previously typed, but oh well. When I first discovered this website, I couldn't recall half of the books I read. I still can't. But the really great thing is that I can scroll down the list of recently reviewed books, and usually find one or two that I have read and forgotten, and then instantly recall what it was about and add it to my 'read' books list. So fun! If I can't recall what I read, I just have to wait and see if anyone else has read what I have. It's so much easier than staring at the computer screen for like half an hour and trying to recall even one of the thousands of books I haven't immediately remembered reading.
Is that how you search for books you've read, or do you only add books to your shelves when you've recently read them and found them not all that horrible? How is the last week of your summer going, by the way? I have to go to school in like a week-agh! I said the forbidden word! Okay, I'm done. Heh. :)

Thanks for explaining who Carver was, as well as Kipling. And for the advice. How are you doing on the (my)story? What do you think so far-about the people, plot, etc.-do you like it? If I ever got it published would you read it?

Raymond Carver was (is?) a short-story writer who was super blue-collar and had a drinking problem, a failing marriage, and a bunch of kids. Everything worked itself out but when he wanted to write he would go into the driveway and sit in the car writing in short bursts. He developed a very swift and economical style. Rudyard Kipling wrote Gunga Din, The Jungle Book, The Just So Stories, and a TON of other stuff. As for fights, try maybe describing what the characters are thinking while the fight is taking place. Stuff like what hurts, what the plan is to beat the opponent, their fears, and their peripheral noticings or lack thereof. Never, ever worry about the length of your comments. I swear I don't mind.

To find/get to my blog all you have to do is put http:/hannahswritingblog.blogs... in the search thing and you should get there.

I just meant that whenever someone mentions college for some reason I think of people in their thirties. And if you had your age up there the whole time...I just never noticed it. You just sort of looked older ...and I mean that in a nice way. Like there is this teen at my church, an exchange student, and I always thought he was like 25 because he seemed so mature. Turns out he is only 19! Wowser! Okay, enough about that.
The website is actually www.blogger.com, and then you have to create an account (I think) and search for blogs. Okay, nevermind, I don't know what I am talking about.
Oh, yes...who is Raymond Carver? Rudyard Kipling sounds familiar, though. Only slightly.
I never thought my writing style seemed like any one else's. Because so many writers are so detailed but not in an excessive, dull way. I tried writing like them and I couldn't, so I've written a lot of books and come up with my writing style.I don't say much about background/setting, but when I do it's short and descriptive. Same with fights...I always like a lot of those but am so bad at describing them and I'm just not good at making them long and drawn out. So I say just enough for the reader to visualize what's happening but not make it all gory and disgusting or drawn out. Yeah. This 'comment' was longer than it was going to be.

I'll check out the blogspotty thingamawhatsit. And yeah, I definitely thought you knew I was and am 23. I don't know if I should be flattered, confused or insulted or what. I think I'll just decide on miscellaneous for now. I like your writing style by the way. For some inexplicable reason it reminds me of Raymond Carver. Maybe because it seems so economical at times. And, not that your writing doesn't have character or tone or whatever its called but you might be sort of influenced by Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. They are a great example of strong tone. The tone in them would probably not work in your stories so I wouldn't suggest copying it, but nevertheless its something to think about.

How are you coming along on my book, by the way? Found any more mistakes? When I reposted the story on my blog (hannahswritingblog.blogspot.com) I corrected everything that I could find that was grammatically incorrect or whatever. I just haven't done that here.

Eldest is the second book in the trilogy. And the Eragon movie was pretty bad...it barely followed the story line, basically skipped all of the middle of the book. I'm glad that you finally answered. I thought you like totally thought that I dissed you, so you didn't even want to talk about books. Apparently (and thankfully) I was wrong

I am indeed here. I have not read either of those you just mentioned however. I saw the Eragon movie and thought it was a gigantor slice of inane crap. Really bad=really funny, so I kinda liked it, but for strange reasons. Eldest... No idea. What's all that jazz about?

Hello are you there?

Have you ever read Eragon or Eldest? What did you think of them?

They are Christian books, but really cool if you like all that police stuff. The O'Malley series is centered around a family that was formed after a bunch of kids got out of an orphanage and grew up. They all chose careers like:negotiator, firefighter, medic, a sort of psychiatrist or something, etc.
Basically, each book is how one member of the family finds love and accepts God as their Saviour, but there's action and mystery involved too. Like in one book there's a stalker, in another, one of the main characters (the firefighter) has to deal with an arsonist.

I think you may have already asked me about those... No, alas and alack, I have not. What are they?

Have you ever read any Dee Henderson books?

Yep. I love 'em. They have a great, nostalgic view of childhood.

Do you have every Calvin and Hobbes book there is?