birthday

tommorow is my birthday. we are celebrating it today. we are having ravioli.

cissi

cissi and joe should be here soon. tommorow we are celebrating my birthday.

brunch

some of grandma's friends are coming for lunch. we got back at 11.

purse done!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i will be able to present it on monday night.

Jedi Apprentice, The Dark Rival, by dave wolverton.

these are books on what happened to obi-wan and qui-gonn before the movies.
Plot: minimal
Feelings of Characters: strong

Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by garth nix

Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen are the books of the abhorsen trilogy. i liked these books because of the magic and military stuff. and Mogget and the Disreputable dog. if i had a cat i would name it mogget., but i don't have any pets, though i do take care of the class gerbils, named Peaches (or 'Peaches of Me' after the hit song), and Mr. Shirley (they used to be 'Ying' and 'Yang'). i didn't like the way time passes., sometimes in hours, sometimes in years. i have all 3 in one book. at graduation, one girl read a poem, 'does the walker choose the path or does the path choose the walker', but i couldn't find it.

i found more yarn at the yarn store, red sock wool tht's really neat. i have finished the bag, but not the strap. i need to finish by tomorrow.

oh no.

i am going to try to finish my bag by friday. here are its components:
2 skiens of Lamb's Pride wool, colors Tahiti Teal and Camel something-or-other; 4 stitch markers;one pair of size 10.5 circular knitting needles.

YAY!!!

I am making a present for cissi, my godmother. I was going to have to send it in the mail, but now I will get to give it to her in person instead. YAY!!! I am running out of materials though, and have to get more.

Movie trouble.

On Saturday, I went with my friends to a end-of-year party with my friends. But during the entire movie, my friend Alaphia, sitting next to me, TALKED!!! We almost got thrown out, but the guy with the lightsaber who came for us couldn't find us in the dark. And she got quiet when he came in. Also, they forgot to mention to some of us the correct price of tickets and the fact that we should inform our parents that we were going out to dinner. So I couldn't go because of short notice.

Stravaganza: City of Masks, By Mary Hoffman

Stravaganza, City of Masks, By Mary Hoffman is about Lucien, a 15 (?) year old boy with brain cancer. One day, his father brings him a red and purple swirled notebook, that was made in Venice. That night, he falls asleep holding the book and stravagates, or travels through time and space, to Belleza, a city-state in Talia, which is on a parallel plane to Italy, as is Belleza to Venice. He then becomes Luciano, an apprentice to a powerful sorcerer, while in the real world he is just being taken off chemotherapy. How can he live in both worlds and still survive?

Ages: 8-15
Rating: B+
High Points: great comparison to Venice, nice Italian words, great plot.
Low Points: sad ending

Part IV

The idea started when Gloria remarked at lunch around a mouthfull of bologna, "Ever wonder what would happpen if kids took over the school? You know, lock up the teachers and bar the doors. Wish we could do that." and continued on with her sandwich. "Oh yes!" I joked. "But we'd have to watch out for Mr. Pick. Why's he here, anyway?" Everyone shrugged. Mr. Kookie was ex-military, and patrolled the school, saying things like, "How are you doing today?", and "Where's your pass?". he was maybe 50 or 60, and had a crew-cut. Noone knew why he was there. But then I thought seriously. "Ok, lets say we did," I said, trying to keep the exitement from my voice. It could just be possible. It was not beyond the limit of the imagination. "What would we need to do? We'd need someone popular so the other kids would listen to us." But actually, I thought, that would be pretty easy. I have connections. "Well, we'd need missiles . . ." When you got Gloria started on domination, she could go on for hours. And it was plainly known, sincebefore christmas when they were talking about the valuable gifts that money can't buy, she had answered dreamily, "World domination," to a startled teacher and amused class [including a half laughing-half crying me]. "That would be a bad idea though." said Carlie. Carlie could be a bit hard to bear sometimes, but she was really pretty nice, and could be a big help in times of need [and homework].
on went lunch and by the end of it I had convinced her to side with us. and so time passed, and we had been meeting, plotting scheming. and the best part was,
I was in control.

Part III

Part III

Language arts was pretty bad, but nothing compared to math. "SSR, class!" shrieked Ms. Hinker. "I must go in the supply closet and, er, organize. I'll shut the door so the dust won't get you. It's a powerful thing dust! It'll get to your brain. . . "

"And it shows on you." muttered Abel. But she didn't hear him. She was already walking into the supply closet and closing the door.

No one knew what was inside, not even sneaky Kangel. Once Tish went inside to ask about a "hard word" [pixies]. But, the lights were off, and before she got to the switch, Ms. Hinkle was giving her PS74 s in multiples of 100, and all her grades so far were Fs. Except on her report card. We had a certain truce with the teachers: they gave us good report cards, we breathed not a word of their torturing us. So everyone propped up textbooks and talked behind them, slowly edging towards the red carpet area. There were multiple couches and puffy pillows, so everyone finally settled down and got comfortable. Then we had our meeting. Children from other classes slowly trickled in. It would soon be Time.

Charlie Bone books I II and III by Jenny Nimmo

Midnight For Charlie Bone, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister ,and Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy by Jenny Nimmo are pretty good books. They are about Charlie bone, a 10/11 year old boy who discovers he has the magical ability to hear people talking in pictures [what they said what the picture was taken]. His gleeful aunts quickly ship him off to Bloor's Academy, where geniuses go. When he gets there, Charlie discovers a thick plot that begins to unravel, concerning a traded off baby, a hypnotised girl and a missing father. The next 2 books are different, much easier to understand. It might just be me, but in the first 2 books, I kept messing up who people are.
My rating: ***