L.M. Davis's Blog, page 19

So, If You Don't <3 Fantasy…

A few months ago, I blogged about what I liked about the fantasy genre (here).   There, I was talking about the possibilities that fantasy has always represented to me.  That the world can be anything that you want it to be; that anything was possible in the worlds inside of fantasy novels.  That the world wasn't just  what I saw each day, but that there was so much more beneath the unscratched surface.   That, alone, was enough to draw me to the genre again and again.

Recently though, I have ...

2nd Post A. G. (After Grounding)

Not much happened in school today, so maybe I will write a little about my family.  You already know about Ris, so here's a little about my mom and dad.

Mom is a freelance journalist. She writes about the environment and animal behaviors. Sometimes she has to go on trips to conduct "field observations" to write her articles. She's on one now.  She left yesterday.

Being a free-lance journalist gives her a lot of time to be at home with me and Ris. She has been taking more jobs since we...

The Aftermath…

I know. It's been a while. I have been grounded since the whole soccer thing. No television. No computer. No internet. No nothing.  They took my television out of my room, everything. The only things I have been allowed to do for the past two weeks is eat, sleep, and go to school. I am actually surprised they let me off of punishment so soon. They were so angry that night.

Oh, plus dad has lectured me for like two hours straight every night about why what I did was so wrong. He could...

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Soccer Tryouts

Ok.  I know I haven't posted in a couple of days and there is a reason for that.  Here's the thing.  I tried out for the soccer team anyway.  Even though my parents said no.  And now, I am in a lot of trouble.

Tryouts started yesterday. There were cuts last night and then a second round of tryouts today.  I thought that it would be ok, because parents only have to sign a permission slip if you make the team. I thought that if I didn't make it, they would never know. On the other hand...

The Panthers

I actually want to tryout for the soccer team.  Ray and Eric both play for one of the best teams in the league, the Panthers, which is funny.  They have these cool uniforms that are black with silver letters.

I am pretty good.  I could probably make the team.

So I asked my parents about soccer tryouts, which are next week after school.  They said that I couldn't tryout.  I begged.  It's too dangerous they said.  I  mean I really begged.  They still said no.

I told them that I would be...

Weekends

I wasn't really going to keep this blog on the weekends.  I mostly wanted to keep it about school, so I thought that I would just be writing it on the weekdays.  But I really didn't get to write much this week.  I guess I must have been busy.

So like I was saying last night, this week was a little better for me because I have finally started meeting people.  Things have been a bit harder for Ris though, because the girls are less friendly than the boys.  Ris thinks it's because she...

Meet the Crew

So Ray seems cool.  He is in my grade, but he is a year older than us.  Maybe I should have mentioned that before.  Ris and I just turned ten, during the summer.  I think maybe we are a little advanced because of the home-schooling.  Come to think of that, maybe that's why all of the kids were staring at us last week.  I guess, really, we are supposed to be in fifth grade.  Maybe that makes us weirder than the average new kid.

Anyway, Ray asked me about joining the county-wide soccer league...