One Of These Days I Will Write Up A Long Blog Post About Why I Love Avatar: The Last Airbender.

by on 31 Jan 2012 in TV

But not today. Because today my DVDs arrived from Amazon, which means I will most likely go home, ignore the mountain of work I have, and watch the series again from start to finish, this time with commentary.

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Quick Draw

by on 26 Jan 2012 in Art

My parents gave me an iPad for Christmas, so naturally I’ve been going a little app crazy. Discovered Sketchbook, which is a pretty decent drawing/painting app, except for the fact that drawing with a fingertip is hard! I haven’t done that since preschool!

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Regarding Doughnuts

by on 23 Jan 2012 in Books

  • JJ: For the longest time I’ve spelled it “doughnut” but everyone said that was archaic and/or wrong. “Donut” still looks weird.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I only use “donut” because of Dunkin Donuts. I sort of prefer the archaic spelling.
  • JJ: I’m almost positive all doughnut places spell it “donut”. But I think there was a book I read as a kid that spelled it “doughnut”, so it stuck in my brain that way.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: Homer Price?!
    WICKED COOL RILEY: (probably not).
  • JJ: YES.
    JJ: THANK YOU.
    JJ: IT WAS!!!!
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: AHHHHH
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I did the BEST DAMN DIORAMA EVER MADE as a book report for that book. I did the doughnut scene (obviously) and used cheerios for the doughnuts. I glued them eeeeeverywhere and it was amazing.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I was so mad when my mother made me throw it out.

And this, my friends, is why everyone needs a Wicked Cool Riley in their lives.

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Happy New Year

by on 23 Jan 2012 in Personal

Art by Linear13 on Deviantart

Firstly: Happy new year! (Even though my family does not celebrate the Lunar New Year, I figured today was an appropriate day to actually blog about a new year!)

Secondly: Wow, it’s been…a long time since I’ve blogged anything substantial.

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On Teenage Love

by on 13 Jan 2012 in Misc

  • WICKED COOL RILEY: When I was a teenager declaring my love there was a lot of mumbling and short, declarative sentences.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And idiotic grinning.
  • JJ: I never declared love to anyone as a teenager.
    JJ: I didn’t believe teenagers had the capacity to declare love.
    JJ: Even when I was 16.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I did, to one boyfriend, but only like, two months after he’d first said it to me.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And I can recognize now that what I felt wasn’t love, and I think I knew it then, too. But I couldn’t think of another word that encompassed what I felt.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: Which was something along the lines of delusional obsession.
  • JJ: HAHAHAHA. “I am delusionally obsessed with you.”
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED about him a great deal, and that part was genuine. But I care in this mix of maternal and like, dog walker.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: And was mostly just very swept up in the drama of it all.
  • JJ: OMG. BEST DESCRIPTION EVER.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: IT’S TRUE THOUGH.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED ABOUT JOE CLARK LIKE I WAS HIS DOG WALKER.
    WICKED COOL RILEY: Which I pretty much was.
  • JJ: I less than three you SO MUCH, Kelly Riley.
    JJ: SO MUCH.
  • WICKED COOL RILEY: Is this going on your blog?
  • JJ: YOU BET IT IS.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Damn, John Green. I mean…damn.

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