oops, I'm 18!

While I was away being busy with school, a power outage, friends, and other really awesome stuff, I forgot to blog on here to let you know that my birthday passed and I am now 18 [sort of]!

I'm going to say I'm 18, I'm going to answer that that is my age if anyone asks, and I'm not going to bring up the fact that I died at 16. Um, whatever. So, anyway, I'm a legal adult now! I can do whatever I want [not really, because of the zombie thing]! I can smoke [but I don't want to]! I can go to an "adult store" [double don't want to]! I am an adult and...

Yeah. Well. Nothing's really changed. =D

new school!

Okay, so I learned that when I get really nervous, I get a serious zombified hitch in my step. As my new friend Laura (a student at my new school in the opera major) tells me, "It's no big deal. You just drag your right foot and walk slow."

[Yes, I have managed to make a friend, perhaps only for the reason that her brother is DB. Hurray for connections, right?]

Anyway, this new school is amazing. They're very friendly to the zombie teen, actually. All the students and faculty are super open-minded. There's no real dress code (more like a shared conscience of how not to go over the top), everyone is really laid-back, and no one bombarded me with annoying questions. Well, okay, a few did, but mostly people were pretty cool.

That didn't stop me from being a walking mass of nerves when I entered on Monday morning. I was wearing one of my new outifts--a long brown skirt, dark brown boots, and a cream-colored peasant (ish) blouse--so that helped my confidence a bit, but I was a mess. It died down, eventually, when I realized no one was going to try to re-kill me.

I love my classes. Besides the normal stuff--science, English (which is pretty much just literature and poetry, a great course), math--I'm taking a course in ethics (which serves as a history credit) and the rest of my classes focus on music. Music Composition (for the exam, we have to compose a song for our instrument), Musical Theory, and of course there's the class in which I simply play violin with the others. So far--and it's only been a couple of days--I could see myself spending the rest of my school days here.

I have made new friends--I mentioned Laura (last name Lomene), and there's also "Frog," real name Zach--he's here for his amazing violin skills as well--and then Criss, a girl who takes pride in the fact that she is in no way girly.

But I have to go, because the bell is about to ring... off to my ethics class!

apparently i'm not very logical. =]

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...

Musical

8% Logical, 14% Spatial, 71% Linguistic, 10% Intrapersonal, 18% Interpersonal, 75% Musical, 14% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 18% Naturalistic!

"This area has to do with rhythm, music, and hearing. Those who have a high level of musical-rhythmic intelligence display greater sensitivity to sounds, rhythms, tones and music. They normally have good pitch and may even have absolute pitch, and are able to sing, play musical instruments, and compose music. Since there is a strong auditory component to this intelligence, those who are strongest in it may learn best via lecture. In addition, they will often use songs or rhythms to learn and memorize information, and may work best with music playing in the background.

Careers which suit those with this intelligence include instrumentalists, singers, conductors, disc-jockeys, and composers." (Wikipedia)

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