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Okay, so I really got Intelligence, but where’s the fun in posting that?

What Letter of the Alphabet are You?: H — You’re a friendly sort of fellow, and you tell good jokes.

Gifted
You were probably a relatively gifted child, though there were probably some others who were even more so.

test yourself at geekykid.net

Whole Brain Dominant
leaning to the right

You like flexible structure. You use your deep insight and logic to solve problems. You enjoy experiencing many new things. You have at least one area of expertice that allows you to demonstrate your creativity.

test yourself at geekykid.net

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Meh. Why is the Blogger preview thing being obnoxious? It’s not paying any attention to pre-formatted text, while it still shows up perfectly on the actual page. Not crucial, but still a minor source of annoyance. Heck, Livejournal doesn’t even *have* a preview function.

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Bio and Artist Statement. Pain. Death. Help me. ::dies::

Priscilla is a junior at The Hockaday School. Other than photography, her extracurricular interests include drama and musical theatre, cartooning, digital illustration, web design, and robotics. Recently, she played the roles of “Mae” in Hockaday’s musical The Pajama Game, “Smitty” in Jesuit’s How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying, and “Emily Brent” in Jesuit’s Ten Little Indians. This spring, she will portray “Fabian” in St. Mark’s/Hockaday’s The Twelfth Night. As a member of the JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society), she and her teammates were inducted into “Who’s Who in American High School Students” for their performance in an Engineering competition (TEAMS) on a local and national level. She is Brenda Spencer’s daughter, and she takes full credit in bringing her mother deeper into the medium of photography. She intends to study graphic and product design in college. Visit her website at http://www.theninemuses.net/

Observation

People often claim that they try to “stop and smell the roses”, but how many actually are able to do this? In our frantic, bustling, 21st century lives, it becomes difficult to find even small lengths of time to pause and appreciate our surroundings. By setting aside time to photograph during the course of this class, I became not only aware of the beauty of my environment, but also the splendor in the seemingly mundane.

Must expand upon Artist Statement. Growl.

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Faith should be entertained to know that while driving around on Friday, I saw an “Arcady Drive”. Yayfun!

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Bleh. I’m sick.

Yesterday, the JETS got to skip school to attend the regional TEAMS competition. Yay, go us. We had each researched a particular topic (mine was wind chill), and we were all ready to tackle a bunch of terrifying Engineering questions that would make geniuses cringe. We brought a huge stack of textbooks (we held an unofficial, unspoken contest with neighboring tables to see who had the tallest stack) and the traditional baseball bat, which became quite the conversation piece. Anyway, the Hockaday JV team (I was on Varsity) started building up their book stack with random textbooks from their backpacks, such as US History and Huck Finn. I built onto our stack with my sketchbook, American Literature, and Men at Arms. Caroline added Hamlet. Loh came up to our table and asked if we were really planning on using all these textbooks, and Megan responded that we intended to use Hamlet quotes in our essays.

Megan wrote about hurricanes:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

Inspired and amused, I took out my copy of The Twelfth Night. Chungy wrote about noxious chemicals and breadmaking.

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
the appetite may sicken, and so die.

Caroline had a really amusing Hamlet quote for earthquakes, but I can’t remember it at the moment. Anyway, while the questions were still esoteric as always, we were able to answer a lot more than we had last year. Go us! We ended up getting 3rd place, so it’s all good.

However, Thursday, I had a really sore throat. Yesterday, it started getting worse. By the time TEAMS was over and we were waiting for the bus (we ended up waiting over an hour — gah), it had progressed to my having an incredibly hoarse voice and excessive drowsyness. Of course, I had Twelfth Night rehearsals afterwards, so I asked Mr. Blaydes if I could go easy on my voice for a day. My voice became dramatically lower in pitch, slightly scratchier, and harder to project. Eventually, my voice sounded so mannish that Darius (a huge thespian and amateur playwright; plays Toby Belch, though he was originally cast as Feste) suggested that we keep Fabian as a boy after all. It was hilarious. Twelfth Night is such an amusing play. At one point, someone suggested that Antonio and Sebastian could be homosexual (in fact, they *were* in the Royal Shakespeare performance I saw last summer), so John (Sebastian) and Benjamin (Antonio) started acting all fruity and such. Then Mr. Blaydes vetoed the idea, and the scene went on normally.

After rehearsals, I went to the Dallas Institute to put up my photography show. It opens on the 15th, ::squeals:: so we put everything up early. If any of you loyal readers happen to be in Dallas, you’re most certainly invited. Of couse, by 7 in the evening, I was feeling exhausted and dead, so we had a quick dinner, then saw a quick art show by a high man on the totem pole from Cornell. Muah. Then it was home, and sleep. Hurrah for sleep.

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Ah, the joys of having free days in P.E.. Naturally, I head to the computer lab to look up pictures of cartoony unicorns for a comission from Abbo. I get to learn how to draw unicorns, goody for me. ::cheers:: It’s for the Hockaday Lower School website, and I’ll be getting paid, so it’s all good. Hanging out in the computer lab during my usual P.E. class is fun! Mr. Hanlon, the Web Design teacher, is instructing his students in the art of being bloody annoying. He makes fun of people who code HTML by hand (hail Notepad!) instead of using Dreamweaver of somesuch, and he encourages popups, mouseovers, eye-harming colors, and excessive Javascript. I like to sit in on his lessons (while doing my own stuff) and just laugh at what he’s teaching. Fun stuff.

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5 Bands People Should Give a Listen:

01. Chad Mitchell Trio

02. Christine Lavin or “Four Bitchin’ Babes”

03. The Rounder Girls

04. Weird Al Yankovic

05. The Beatles (goes without saying. If you haven’t given a listen, you must be living in a cave)

5 Things That Turn You On About People:

01. sense of humor or appreciation of puns

02. interests in common

03. pretty eyes ::hearts Paul McCartney::

04. willingness to accept friends with tendencies to burst into song

05. intelligence, but not a whole lot more than I have. Then I have to resent them.

5 Movies You Watch All of the Time:

01. Spaceballs (and other amusing Mel Brooks movies)

02. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

03. Moulin Rouge

04. The Matrix

05. original Star Wars trilogy

5 Songs on Your MP3 List Right Now:

01. “I Love You Baby”, Brak

02. “Cell Block Tango”, Chicago

03. “Shopping Cart of Love”, Christine Lavin

04. “Kidnap the Santy Claws”, Nightmare Before Christmas

05. “Take Five”, Dave Brubeck

…and thanks to the magic of KaZaA, nearly the entire Discworld series in e-texts. God Bless America.

5 Things People Should Know About You:

01. my initials are obscene

02. my greatest fears as a child were parrots and elevator doors.

03. I’m writing a musical (yes, you know it, but it doesn’t mean everyone else knows it)

04. my hair is untameable. Don’t even try.

05. my ego is the answer to scientist’s queries regarding the vast quantities of unaccountable mass in the universe.

5 Things On Your Desk Right Now:

01. one of those clear plastic balls (that lights up if you hit it hard enough) that people give away randomly

02. hanging off a clip lamp thing I never use: a bunch of Mardi Gras beads, the Mulder badge I used for Halloween in 8th grade, the bookmark Claudia made for me, a necklace, and my Smitty glasses

03. The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett.

04. invitations to the opening of my photography show

05. a bunch of CDs I’m mixing for a CD for Renata

5 Things You Say the Most:

01. “Goodness.”

02. “Meanwhile, back in Priscilla’s head…” or “Meanwhile, back at the ranch…”

03. “Arg.”

04. “Help?”

05. “Holy cow!”

5 Things You Do Not Understand About Your Own Sex:

01. makeup

02. the need for short skirts at an all girl school

03. desire to skip meals

04. desire for huge tracts of land

05. obsession with clothes and shopping