I got a tweet from William Shatner!

I found this in my mentions on twitter yesterday and I am still squeeeing. My friend and I mentioned him in our tweets so much he sent us a tweet.

What I'm up to

Hey everybody! I just thought I would post a quick post just to let you all know what I'm up to. I'm reading Fahrenheit 451 for English class which is turning out to be a weird, nightmarish, offbeat book and I am quite liking it.

For non-fiction I am reading the Cartoon Guild to Chemistry and the usual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (I don't know what I would do with out that book. Best 3$ ever spent) to supplement what I am learning in science class.

It's 5:30 in the morning

5:30 in the morning right now. I stayed up all night (quite literally all night) to work on an English assignment that should have been done days ago. I had all weekend to work on it. I need to be at school in about 3 hours and it's still not completely done. And I loved working on it. It made me think long and hard about an amazing book. And then I got to write. I got to feel my fingers type out sentences as I watched the letters appear on the screen while I listened to good music. I love the experience of doing homework once I get into it. But why did I procrastinate all this time? I have no idea. I think much clearer when my brain is not being kept alert with large amounts of tea. My mark will suffer because I decided to wait until sunday night to do this project. I really must learn to stop procrastinating.
EDIT: I just noticed that blogger says that I posted this at 2:38am which is impossible because I assure you that I was writing this at 5:30

You know you're a star trek nerd when...

When you find a red v-neck shirt that you haven't worn in a while and this is the only thing that you can think to do with it 

I like this

Attention fellow popcorn lovers

Eating popcorn with chopsticks is a very good idea. Keeps your fingers from getting greasy so you can knit and use the computer with out the mouse getting all gross and helps slow down enthusiastic popcorn eaters like me. Just saying.

-Madeleine

Reach for the top.

On Thursday I will be on reach for the top. Reach for the top is a trivia contest for high school students. Generally, it is just for students in grade 11 or 12 but since our school doesn't have enough interested people to form a team of just grade 11 and 12 students I am on the team. This will be my second time on reach, and although our school is not doing very well, it is still a lot of fun. Spending the day with some very intelligent and motivated students is a very nice alternative to sitting in class. Off to go study now.

-Madeleine.

Do you ever feel like getting away?

Right now I am almost done my homework. It is 1:09 am in the morning. I am going to be tired tomorrow, but it's OK because I sort like the feeling of being tired. Right now my self-confidence is not very high. I feel kinda dumb right now. I feel like I am smart, but only ordinary kinda smart. Not change the world kinda smart. I am socially awkward at school. But it's OK because I get good grades. I'm the "smart one". I'm not very pretty, and I'm not athletic, but I'm smart. And right now I feel dumb. As you can imagine, this doesn't feel very pleasant. I should really get some sleep. Right now is one of the times that I wish I was somewhere else. I have this whole little fantasy world that I like to escape to, and I want to share it. If you don't watch Star Trek this will make no sense to you, and I know I can go on about Star Trek some times and if you are not interested in Star Trek please do think that this all I will talk about. I promise to talk about more serious things but as I said it is one in the morning and I can't think about anything very intelligent right now (not that Star Trek isn't intelligent and now I'm rambling, but again it's late). In case you are still here after reading that little ramble, here it is:

In my dream world I am the junior medical officer and also a biologist on the USS Enterprise (that's probably not even a real position. But in the show, they have said that their are two doctors on the ship and it would make sense to me that he/she would be called the junior medical officer.) Why the junior medical officer and not the senior medical officer? Because that position is already filled by my friend, Dr. Leonard McCoy. I am a member of a species which I can't think of a name for right now, but members of our species are empathic and telepathic, extremely logical but can still be passionate at times and long lived. Members of our species also have some ridges on our faces, and also pointed ears. On the show the women wore uniforms like this because it was the 60's:

But I imagine my self wearing something more like this:

(These are not my images. I saw these on a forum along time ago and saved the images on my computer because I liked them so much and I can't find the forum now, but if you know who's images these are I would love to give you credit for them. I really quite like them)

I can't imagine that it would be very easy to have anyone take you seriously wearing something like the first uniform. The second one is not exactly unisex, but it's better. I imagine my self being a respected member of the crew who saves the day some days , or helps Mr. Spock or Dr. McCoy save the day. I am one of the higher-ranking officers on the ship, and I make a good leader. My little fantasy world has a nice contrast to the real world, where I am sort of shy around some people and I feel pretty far down the social ladder. I am off exploring strange new planets and meeting new people with exciting new ideas in my dreams, as opposed to my real life were most of time I see little of the world beyond my small little town.

I want to end by saying that writing it down and sharing my little world is quite nice. I'm not sure why. Maybe it makes it seem just a little more real if I share it. I also want to say that I'm sure we all have little dream worlds that we escape to to help cope with life.

Good night very one.

-Madeleine

Tonk'peh

I have started many blogs in the past, and I have abandoned them. I will most likely abandon this one as well. GrumbleKnits lasted the longest, but I fear even it has died. This time I am not going to have a themed blog. I am just going to blog on what ever it is that I feel like. I am going to tell you a little bit about my self and the things that I like so you know what to expect from this blog. My name is Madeleine. I am 14, and I live in a small town outside of Ottawa. I am in grade 9, and i just started going to school after taking grades 7 and 8 to unschool. I love school and I love learning. My class mates may think that I am a teacher's pet or a nerd (ok, I love being called a nerd) but I don't really care what they think. My favorite subjects are science, math and English but science is most defiantly my favorite. I love Star Trek to the point of being obsessive about it. If you read my previous blog you will know that I love to knit.

The thing that I never talked about in my other blog was politics and religion, but I do have very strong options on these things. I am very left-wing, and I am an atheist. I am pro-choice, a feminist and pro-LGBT rights. I may occasionally talk about these issues on this blog. If I get nasty comments (and you can disagree with me, I would love to hear your opinion, but be nice) I will disable the comments on this blog.

So if you think that you would like to hear my thoughts on science, school, knitting, star trek, politics and religion then I look forward to hearing your comments and thoughts but also knowing that someone out there is reading my blog.

p.s.- Tonk'peh is Vulcan for "hello". Vulcans are by far my favorite species in the Star Trek universe.