Between the Darkness & the Light

Yes, I have been watching too much Babylon 5, as the title clearly shows.  But it's also related to where I am in my life right now: pretty much done with high school, but not even sure where I'm going to college.  I just want May 2nd to come.  And there's the other set, the darkness of senioritis and the light of schoolwork.  I think, to deal with being rejected by my top two choices, I wrapped myself in a cloak of don't-care, and sat around watching DVDs and blogging about politics.  With the exception of a few classes that I genuinely care about, I have a hard time doing any work anymore . . . . but I'm starting to kick that habit now, thankfully.

But guess what!  Over spring break, my family and I went on a ski trip, and I went down black diamond runs!  We also got caught at the top of the mountain in a blizzard, and got to ride down in a snow cat . . . I was freaking out to no end at the time, but all I have now is a good story.  So all is well :)

Also over spring break, I (rather stupidly) left my nice digital camera at school, so I went hunting for other cameras around the house.  I found two: A Canon Elph LT 270, and a Minolta Freedom AF 35.  The Elph uses APS (Advanced Photo System) film, which almost no one sells anymore, but is totally awesome, not least because it offers three different sets of dimensions.  Awesome, yes, but hard to find, since the film Elphs were discontinued in the early 2000s and APS never really caught on.  BUT Amazon sells anything and everything, so I found some Fuji film, ISO 400, 3 rolls of 25 exposures each.  I can't wait to start taking pictures!  Film for the Minolta is upcoming, I need to go to Samy's this week.  I'll tell you all about the pictures, and maybe bully my scanner into working so you can see them.

Hm.  I got a twitter account, if anyone cares.  @AnyaPrynn  . . . not that hard to find :)  Mostly I use it to promote my politics blog and talk to Senators haha.

Babylon 5 is one of the best TV shows.  Ever.  I say that about every show I watch, but this is different.  It's . . . devastatingly real.  Everything is so perfectly imagined.  I see parts of myself in every character.  I laugh with them and cry with them and use them as examples on my religion tests (I got a 100%, so I'm not complaining!).  It's so philosophical and adventurous and everything I could ever want in a TV show.  So . . . go watch!  I have 2 episodes left in the second season and all I can say is that it's getting better and better!  I did a wallpaper . . . not the greatest, I don't think, or at least, it's not what I wanted, but it's nice.  Oh, whatever, you decide :P

Full-size image & description on my website as usual.

Current Music:
Capercaillie
Battlestar Galactica soundtrack
Avatar soundtrack
Loreena McKennitt
Nightwish

Current Books:
"The People v. Bush", by Charlotte Dennett
"Iranophobia", by Haggi Ram
"Destiny: Child of the Sky", by Elizabeth Haydon
"Rapture of the Deep", by L.A. Meyer
"Sharp Teeth", by Toby Barlow
"Mrs. Dalloway", by Virginia Woolf
"The Wizard of London", by Mercedes Lackey

Current TV Shows:
Babylon 5 Season 2
Law & Order: SVU Season 2

Double Depression

Columbia rejected me.
So did Harvard.
I really don't know what to think now.
I was so convinced I'd get into one of those schools.
And I was waitlisted at my other top choice.
So.
I cried, threw stuff around, watched some Babylon 5, went for a 2 and a half mile run, and made a depressing (but pretty wallpaper).
I feel a bit better now.  The only thing I can keep telling myself is "You couldn't have done anything different, or anything better."  If those schools don't want me, I guess I don't belong there.  It just makes me so mad that they love talking about "fit" and whatnot, and I'm obviously such a good fit!  I guess there's six thousand equally as qualified people out there who are good fits too.
It's not like I don't have choices.  I've gotten into colleges most people only dream of.  But I'm still really upset.

Anyway, enough with my whining.  Here's the wallpaper I made.  It's Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson from Battlestar Galactica, aka my new favorite person.  Made to celebrate me (finally!) finishing BSG Season 3 and because I wanted to do something with my loads of new screencaps (oh, and for the BSG-literate out here: Didi Cassidy?  She is so the future me.)

Hm, so, in other news, the lineup for this year's Ballyshannon Folk Festival is up.  Fidil, Eilidh Patterson, Lunasa, Eleanor McEvoy, The Dave Matthews Band, Andy Irvine, and Solas.  Not the best it's been in recent years . . . I might end up at a different festival if I do go to Ireland this summer.  Although, I have possible plans to meet up with some friends in Hong Kong, so that may happen instead.

I suppose I just have to remember that things happen for a reason.  No matter where I end up -- for this summer, for college, for life -- I just have to remember to take every moment and make the best of it.

Women Who are Positively Portrayed in the Media

So.  Either I'm being whiny and sleep deprived (entirely possible), or this list is my rebuttal against the entire concept of the Women's Studies class (also totally possible).

From The X-Files

• Dana Scully
• Margaret Scully
• Teena Mulder
• Marita Covarrubias
• Monica Reyes
• Dakota Whitney

From Babylon 5

• Susan Ivanova
• Talia Winters
• Delenn
• Lyta Alexander
• Elizabeth Lochley
• Na'Toth

From CSI and CSI: Miami

• Sara Sidle
• Catherine Willows
• Terri Miller
• Sofia Curtis
• Calleigh Duquesne
• Wendy Simms
• Natalia Boa Vista
• Alexx Woods

From Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Buffy Summers
• Willow Rosenberg
• Faith
• Kendra
• Jenny Calendar
• Cordelia Chase

From Warehouse 13

• Myka Bering
• Claudia Donovan
• Leena
• Mrs. Irene Frederic

From Fringe

• Olivia Dunham
• Nina Sharp
• Astrid Farnsworth
• Amy Jessup

From Roswell

• Liz Parker
• Maria de Luca
• Isabel Evans

From NCIS

• Abby Sciuto
• Caitlin Todd
• Ziva David

From Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU

• Olivia Benson
• Alexandra Cabot
• Abbie Carmichael
• Elizabeth Donnelly
• Casey Novak
• Jill Hennessey
• Serena Southerlyn
• Connie Rubirosa
• Alexandra Borgia
• Claire Kincaid
• Monique Jefferies
• Kim Greylek
• Melinda Warner

From Battlestar Galactica

• Laura Roslin
• Tory Foster
• Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
• Anastasia Dualla
• D'Anna Beirs / The Rest of the Threes
• Sharon Agathon / The Rest of the Eights
• Gina Inviere/ The Rest of the Sixes
• Helena Cain
• Kendra Shaw
• Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson
• Diana "Hardball" Seelix
• Louanne "Kat" Katraine
• Erin Matthias
• Jean Barolay

From Stargate (SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe)

• Samantha Carter
• Janet Frasier
• Vala Mal Doran
• Elizabeth Weir
• Teyla Emmagen
• Kate Heightmeyer
• Jennifer Keller
• Laura Cadman
• Katie Brown
• Chaya
• Helia
• Alicia Vega
• Camille Wray
• Tamara Johansen
• Jeannie Miller

Some of them are evil, sure, but they're all strong, complex characters who would never let men make them feel bad about themselves.

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