Ima Wizard, Because Magic.

Today is Superhero Day, so I wore my brother's old Halloween wizard cloak to school. It was from elementary school. Yet it was surprisingly warm and comfortable. And it fit me. Though the cloak was originally intended to hang all the way to the ground, and not to the knees. I do not favor any American superhero, like Flash or Spiderman. I absolutely loath Batman. So it is logical that I do not have any superhero merchandise or clothing that I could wear for this day of Spirit Week. Yesterday my mom mentioned that my brother had a cape in one of our old boxes so I was counting on that this morning. However, when I opened up the box, I found this nice cloak instead. There was a matching hat, but I didn't wear it. A magician is sort of a superhero, because in many children's stories the magicians are the ones who aid the protagonist or save them at the last minute before a deadly strike could prove fatal. They have the power to protect. They may not be your typical superhero, like Superman, but they rule the world in fantasy novels. Well, I did not really need this reasoning to wear the cloak. I really liked it.

Recently, I started my endeavor for left-handed penmanship. I began with scrawling out the alphabet like a kindergartner would in their first few months of school. I will probably continue doing this for a full month every day. I write down full sentences, concentrating on getting my lines straight and precise. This I will probably do daily until I reach a point where I can write at the same pace as my right hand and where I can focus on establishing a handwriting either mirroring my right hand (bubbly) or specific to my left (preferably sharp and thin). Whichever is best. The next step will be cursive and drawing. It is kind of funny: I remember looking back at some of my old papers from when I was in elementary school, and I have to say, the sentences that I wrote today with my left hand for practice might be equal, or even better, than my elementary-school ones in terms of handwriting.

I searched through Google the word "handwriting," and this website article came up. I thought it was interesting and cool, so I decided to share it.

I am excessively fond of cute things. My heart aches whenever I see a piece of clothing on a human being that looks fabulous, with a cute striped pattern or little pom-poms attached to it; a notebook with cute doodles on it; hair that has been braided to one side and pinned with a cute red flower; decorated cakes with cute frosting designs. Yes, I love cute things. Although you might judge this part of me as slightly creepy, I have no doubt that others have idiosyncrasies like mine. And such is the nature of human beings. To be different.

Plus, is it really weird to like cute things? Nope.

My mom gave me this beautiful pendant the night before 70s Day. I wore it yesterday and today, and am most likely going to wear it every day from now on for this entire school year.

Tomorrow is the pep rally. I will probably be taking some photos, but if I focus most of my energy in doing so, I will not get so much out of it personally. One can say the same for vacations. And anime conventions. Of course preserving memories in the form of a digital file is not a bad thing, but feeling your special moment and living in that moment is important also.

My school library is my peaceful niche. Sometimes during lunch or after school, I would walk around and browse the shelves, grabbing at any book that catches my eye. It'd been a while since I last took one of my little tours. I noticed several titles that seemed fascinating: Cinnamon Girl, A Prayer for Owen Meany, As I Lay Dying, Middlemarch, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Anansi Boys, Howards End, and Crispin: The Cross of Lead. How nice.

The evolution of the English language via the Internet makes way for the because + noun clause. In English class, my teacher had my class read an article about this emerging use of the word "because." It is interesting, and we had a class discussion about whether or not it ruins language. Check out the link if you want to know more.

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