And now the BJC....

My Neighbor Totoro

2011-10-16T09:20:00.001-07:00

(This was originally going to be a Tumblr post, but it was too long / Tumblr just didn't want to post it... so I'm putting it here instead.)

Is it just me or is Big Totoro totally breaking the fourth wall?

I love this movie. It's one of the first films I can remember watching over and over and over again on our tiny little TV at home. It's a great movie, if you haven't seen it ten GO SEE IT NOW. YOU WILL THANK ME LATER.

However it sees that when people think of this movie they only think about the adorable Totoros...

Did you know that "Totoro" comes from Mei's
mispronunciation of the Japanese word for Troll?

While they are indeed quite cool and awsome (my favorite is the big grey one) My Neighbor Totoro isn't really about the Totoros... it's really about two sisters, Mei and Satsuki.

From Right To Left: Satsuki, Mei & Their Mother

Satsuki is 10/11, her little sister Mei is around 5. Their mother is suffering from some long term illness (apparently the whole thing was inspired by Ghibli's mom, who had tuberculosis) and is in the hospital recovering. Meanwhile the two girls have moved to a house in the country to be closer to their mother. They live with their father, who is a university professor.

Their Father... who I think looks a lot like my dad.

Much Of The Following Is My Personal Opinion

For me the more interesting of the two girls has always been Satsuki, the older sister.

Satsuki The Badass Big Sister

Mei is too young to really understand how sick their mother is. Satsuki isn't. Satsuki has reached the age when she understands the concept of death and, in my opinion, has started to lose hope that her mother is gonna get well and come home. Satsuki knows that Mei still 100% believes that their mom is gonna get well and come home... and she's worried about what will happen to Mei if/when their mother dies.

Because of this Satsuki starts to take on added responsibilities around the house, in an attempt to become a sort of replacement mother for her little sister and to keep her family together. She cleans up the house, she does laundry, she makes meals, including boxed lunches for her father and little sister.

I hate fish and this still looks delicious.

Throughout the movie we see Satsuki trying to become a mother figure for Mei... although this is something that is easy to miss/not pay attention to the first time you see the film.

Satsuki taking care of Mei.

Of course Satsuki is only 10/11 and this is a lot of stress for a young girl to have... so it starts to take a toll on her. She hides it really well, but every now and then you can see it.

Like Right Before Totoro Shows Up At The Bus Stop

The girls' mother was going to come home for a visit, but she gets worse and has to cancel. Both Satsuki and Mei are saddened by this, although Satsuki is more troubled because, for her, it indicates that she was right, that her mom isn't going to gt better. The stress of trying to be a mom for Mei and her mother's illness becomes too much and Satsuki yells at Mei and runs off. Mei, believing that she can cure her mom with healthy food, runs away to go visit her... without telling anyone.

I still have nightmares about this happening to my little sister.

And this is when Satsuki becomes a BADASS BIG SISTER. She doesn't just stay at home and wait for other people to find her sister, SHE GOES OUT AND LOOKS FOR HER. Not only that, but she RUNS OVER THE ENTIRE GODDAMN WORLD, and she keeps running EVEN AFTER HER FEET ARE DIRTY AND PROBABLY BLEEDING.

Dude, even Totoro is impressed by Satsuki's will to find her sister.

This is the part of the movie where Satsuki realizes that, even if she still wants/needs to be there for Mei, she's not alone. She's got her dad, she's got the nice old lady down the roads, she's got the simi love interest... and she's got magical creatures willing to help her out. Satsuki learns that it's okay for her to want to protect Mei, but she needs to take care of/protect herself as well.

Satsuki gets help from her magical friends.

And of course we get the amazing happy ending that still leaves me in tears.

Happy tears, but tears never the less.

And that's why I love My Neighbor Totoro. Cause Satsuki's a badass big sister... and the movie is just awesome on every level.

Totoro, Totoro! Totoro, Totoro!

Till next time, I remain....
~The BJC

Hey Look, My Feet Are On Regretsy!

2011-09-22T20:07:00.001-07:00

Around about last January I was sitting in my dorm room, drinking wine and surfing the internet. I ended up on Regretsy, specifically the Hottest Etsy Trends of 2011. Since I had a crochet hook, time on my hands and cheap ass blue yarn, I decided to make Socks that are just toes.

-The BJC

Summer Time...

2011-06-03T10:44:00.000-07:00

Thankfully I have moved on from being frazzled. (See last post for longer explanation about why.) This is mostly due to the fact that school is over the year... and I got good grades!

Russian History = A-
Women In Chinese History = A-
Breakup Of The Soviet Union = B+
Creation Vs. Evolution = B+

I'm really happy with these grades, especially since the last two classes (which I got B+s in) were both 300 level seminars, where the majority of your grade came from 1/2 papers.

I wish I knew what my grades were for the two papers (20 pages for Breakup of USSR and 10 pages for Women In Chinese History) but when I turned both papers in I was exhausted and couldn't be bothered to find a big envelope and self-address it.

I ended up with an even bigger stack of books then in my last post due to the Women in Chinese History class, which I hadn't started / really thought about when last I posted.

I ended up writing about the effect that the One Child Policy had on Chinese Women... which wasn't pretty (infanticide, sex-selective abortions and child abandonment.)

My Doctor Who game was amazing! It was three games long and made everyone present go crazy with my plot twists and surprise endings. I had a lot of fun leading my friends on a little romp through time and space.

Scilicet... my Batman / Superman / Justice League / DC Comics Fanfiction that I'm working on is going pretty well. The basic idea is that the story takes place in an Alternate Universe (aka an AU) where Bruce Wayne (Batman) was born Rachel Wayne (thus Batwoman)... and this "simple" change creates a lot of changes, not only for Gotham but for the Justice Leage and, more importantly, for Superman.

You can find Scilicet... HERE. (Read it! You'll make me feel special!)

Currently Sciliciet... is 15 chapters (136 pages) long. That's about 1/3 of the story I have in my head. I've been having a lot of fun writing a slow build up and laying down a good foundation of backstory, plot and foreshadowing. Although the readers basically know what's going to happen (Batwoman and Superman becoming a couple) I've got several twists and turns and events that they're going to go through, as well as people they will meet and interact with.

Oh yeah, and I'm still enjoying being a sneaky bastard/bitch when it comes to back-story and foreshadowing.

Oh, and het is still really strange to write, although I've gotten better at it.

Until next time, I remain,
-The BJC

General Update

2011-04-06T19:21:00.000-07:00

First things first, I recently discovered my new favorite websight to check obsessivly for updates. That webight is Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast. Some of you might not know this, but I am a History Major. My focuse is on World War II Europe and my Minor is Religion.

I love Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast (or FYHMHB for short). So I sat down and made one based upon my own experience in a History Class I took in the 2nd semester of my Sophomore year.

I was taking a Modern Europe Class. It wasn't a requirment for me... but it was a requirment for the International Studies Major that seems to be pretty popular at my school. It was a huge class, probably one of the 3 biggest classes I've been in. The teacher (who shall remained unamed) is the head of the History Department and happens to be the guy in charge of my Historical area of interest.

So we were going over Russia REALLY quickly and then the Professor said something along the lines of "Lenin and Stalin were basically the same guy."

I went into a state of shock. You see at the same time that I was taking Modern Europe I was also takeing "Red Star Over Russia" which was entirely about Communism under Lenin and Stalin. It was late enough in the semester that we were pretty far along in the Red Star Class (I think we were around WWII) so I knew that "Lenin = Stalin" was bullshit.

However when I managed to break out of my shocked state the Professor had moved on, and I wasn't confident enough to question him on Lenin and Stalin.

Then last semester (1st semester of Junior Year) I took another class (Holocaust In History) with the same Professor. We were talking about Russia's involvement... and he made the same mistake. Sadly, once again, I went into a state of shock and didn't snap out of it in time to say anything.

For those of you who don't understand my anger, allow me to explain. Historians, forgive my simplistic explanation. Also, feel free to correct me.

Both Lenin and Stalin were rulers of Communist Russia. Lenin was a Marxist Revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creater of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution adn founder of the USSR. He was good friends with Trotsky, worked fourteen to sixteen hours daily and, perhaps most importantly... Lenin thought Stalin was a douchbag.

You see, Lenin was really sick before he died. He had several strokes, durring the first stroke (which left him mute for weeks and severaly hampered motion on his right side) he wrote Lenin's Testament, in which he basically said "We should make Stalin GTFO."

Stalin and his buddies suppressed this and through a bunch of weasley moves, Stalin gained control of the USSR.

Now Stalin was a douche. Under Stalin millions of people ended up in penal labor camps / deported / exiled (mostly in/to SIBERIA)

Stalin was also pretty much responsible for the Great Terror (also called the Great Purge) in which 950,000 to 1.2 million people died. During the Great Terror Stalin PERSONALLY DIRECTED that people who didn't make "proper" confessions be tortured. In addition to authorizing torture, Stalin also signed 357 proscription lists in 1937 and 1938 which condemned to execution some 40,000 people, and about 90% of these are confirmed to have been shot. Here are three examples of Stalin's signature on papers authorzing that hundreds of people be shot. Oh and here's one authorizing the shooting of Polish army and police officers after the USSR split Poland up with Germany right before WWII. (And here's the deal that Nazi Germay and the USSR came up with to split up Western Europe.)

So Lenin = Stalin is kinda like saying that Hitler = Churchill.

*looks up at how much she's written* Okay, moving right along...

I'm frazzled.

Actually I'm in that strange state where you have a bunch of different things to do... but yet you still feel like you're somehow "on top of things". Is this true? Am I really on top of things? I don't know... so let's explore why The BJC is frazzled...

Reason #1
I'm taking a 300 Level Research Seminar for my History Major. It's about the breakup of the USSR and we have to complete a 20 page research paper, which is going to be my first real research paper (at a college level, I did one in High School).

I decided to do mine on Decree 770. Basically after Communist Romania legalized abortion the birth rate fell dramatically and the government freaked out. So in 1967 Romania outlawed abortion and contraception. Due to this the birth rate rose something like 100%... then a lot of women died while getting illegal abortions.

So it's a really interesting topic, but there's not all that much written about it... oh sure, I found a bunch of books about Communist Romania and Nicolae Ceaușescu (= Leader of Communist Romania).

My Stack Of Books

But those books only mention Decree 770 in passing... For example, the big one on the bottom is a giant Anthropolgy book. I'll probably only use 5 pages from it (probably less since it's so big). I've only got one book that's entirely about Decree 770... so I was starting to get worried about this paper.

Then I remembered / rediscovered JSTOR.

So many papers! And they're all about my topic... and only my topic!

JSTOR to the rescue! I'm actually really looking forward to reading this bad boys.

Reason #2
This is a much smaller reason for me being frazzled. It's just a tiny little 4 page paper for my Women In Chinese History Class... but it's due next Thursday, I haven't really started it and my adviser is the teacher of the class. I don't have any fancy pictures for this reason, although I did think about finding a picture of a freaky bound foot. *shudders*

Reason # 3
Doctor Who. Specifically The Doctor Who Role Playing Game System. I'm going to be running a Doctor Who Game on Sundays... the first meeting (mostly just to make Characters) is this Sunday at 5:00.

Check out my awsome dice bag which uses the 4th Doctor's Scarf Pattern!
(It's different colors on the other side)

To run said game I need to write up a sort of cheat sheet for myself so I know what's happening and then make a sepearte cheat sheet for quick refrences to what dice to roll for what action.

This is going to be the first real game I've run. I ran a one-short over J-term to get my DM's License from Renegades, the D&D / RPG Club on Campus. It's still going to be a small game (probably only 5 players max) but it's going to be bigger then anything I've run before.

Reason #4
Working on / writing Scilicet... (Latin for "That is to say...") Which you can read HERE. (Read it! You'll make me feel special!)

Scilicet... is a Batman / Superman / Justice League / DC Comics fanfiction I'm working on. The basic idea is that the story takes place in an Alternate Universe (aka an AU) where Bruce Wayne (Batman) was born Rachel Wayne (thus Batwoman)... and this "simple" change creates a lot of changes, not only for Gotham but for the Justice Leage and, more importantly, for Superman.

Currently Scilicet... is 12 Chapters (roughly 93 pages) long and according to my estimates that's roughly 1/3 how long I think it's going to be.

I'm really enjoying writing this fic. Mostly because it's the first thing I've written where I'm trying to go for slow and subtle build up, as opposed to quickly getting to the climax. (Ugg, I think that counts as a pun...)

Also, this is the first time I'm writing a Het (meaning man/woman) fanfiction as opposed to a slash (meaning man/man) fanfiction. Writing about a female main character keeps throwing me for a loop... but I'm still enjoying it.

I'm also enjoying it because I'm a sneaky bastard. (Or should I say a sneaky bitch?) Part of the storyline of Scilicet... is a section of the main character's (Rachel Wayne) past that she keeps hidden from everyone, so it's a really big deal when she tells her romantic interest about it.

I believe that is all... so to recap
-Long Rant About Lenin vs Stalin
-Reason #1 = 20 page paper on abortion in Romania
-Reason #2 = 4 page paper for Women in Chinese History
-Reason #3 = Running a Doctor Who Role Playing Game
-Reason #4 = Writing Scilicet... a het DC Comics fanfiction.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go work on either Reason #3 or Reason #4.

Until next time, I remain,
~The BJC

Fake News Dolls! New Fanfic!

2011-02-26T19:31:00.000-08:00

I should really get around to writing more stuff on here... oh well, new dolls!

Recently I got into the Fake News Fandom, that is the fandom for The Colbert Report and the Daily Show. I can't really write fanfiction for this fandom, since I can't quite get the characters' voices right, so I decided to make Fake News Fanfiction, a lovely livejournal group, a little gift.

Behold, plushie Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.

A Deviantart group for the Fake News Fandom (Called moments-of-zen) is having a Valentines Day Contest, so I took another picture of the dolls to enter in that contest.

Aren't they just adorable?

On to the fanfiction... I've got a new one that I'm working on. It's called "Scilicet..." which means "That is to say..." in Latin. The current summery of this fic is as follows:

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Scilicet... is set in the DC Universe... well it's actually set in an AU of the DC Universe. The main difference between the world of Scilicet... and the DC Universe is that in this world Thomas and Martha Wayne didn't have a son... they had a daughter named Rachel. So instead of Batman protecting Gotham you have Batwoman. Scilicet... is what happens when Rachel Wayne has to go to Metropolis to stop the Joker... and what happens after she meets Superman.

You can find Scilicet... at my livejournal or on World's Finest, an archive dedicated to Batman/Superman stories. Scilicet... is not only the first Het that I've ever written, but it is also more story driven then my usual writings.

That is all for now, I should try to write a paper for class right now, but I will most likely go back to reading fanfiction and/or working on Scilicet...

Until next time, I remain,
~The BJC

Need Something Knitted or Crocheted?

2011-01-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

In an effort to help pay for textbooks and such I have decided to start doing commissions....

All prices include shipping inside the United States.
Email demon_girl_of_night@yahoo.com to order.

4th Doctor Scarf
Pictured is the scarf from Seasons 12-14.
I can also make the one from Season 15 or Season 16
150$

TARDIS Dishcloth

25$

TARDIS Scarf
75$

Jayne Hat
25$

Fifth Doctor Hat
35$

Doctor Who Dolls
(Want more information about the dolls? Go here!)
6th Doctor = 60$
4th Doctor / 7th Doctor = 55$
All Other Doctors = 50$

Custom Dolls
Base price of 50$
Price will go up depending on complexity of doll.
(Please email me description and we'll figure it out together.)

Want something else?
Email me description of what you want, a picture or a pattern.
We'll figure out a price together.

Till next time, I remain,
~The_BJC

New Dolls + Becky Cleans Up?

2010-05-10T18:29:00.000-07:00

Okay, first off I have finished the two new dolls I was working on. First up is the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed Matt Smith.

Second is the Master, portrayed by John Simm.

Next up is an epic tale of epic, also known as Becky Decides To Organize Her Fanfic.

For a while I've had a couple of binders/folders/boxes with lose paper that have fanfics and original ideas scribbled on them. Seeing as how I'm going to be packing up soon, I decided to organize all these papers and type up the stuff worth saving.

First I just got out every piece of paper and notebook that had writing in it. Of the pile you see to the left I emptied out all but the little black moleskin, because it's mostly poetry and not full yet.

Then I went through each book / box / whatever. I pulled out anything worth keeping and recycled the rest.

So I ended up with a stack of papers, each section is it's own story/fic.

Now came the hard part. I typed everything up...

I think I'm watching Mythbusters in this pic, while I type up a fic... I like to multitask.

And here are the end results!

The Results (w/ links if they're online)
-Bits for A Question Of Time (Doctor Who)

They'd just escaped from certain death, Rose had gone to bed, the Doctor and Jack were covered in alien goo... it's not what happened, it's what could have happened.

-Bits for Wrath Of Minerva (Doctor Who)

The Master has just reached his Fourth Regeneration, and his family decided to send him a gift.

-Ideas for 3rd Chapter of Lost Lovers (Torchwood/Angel Crossover)

Basically Jack knew Angel when he was mortal.

-2 Alternate Doctor Who Things (Probably never gonna get fully written)

The Master is present from the very beginning, varying degrees of slashy-ness.

- "America's Girls" (Axis Powers Hetalia)

Will be a series of drabbles about America "finding" the States, who he considers his daughters.

- Expanding on Touched By An Angel

Angel/Giles with possible future Angel/Giles/Ethan

- Hannibal and Buffy The Vampire Slayer Crossover

Hannibal/Spike with possible Hannibal/Spike/Angel

- Hannibal Story

Set after Silence Of the Lambs, Hannibal/Will

-Harry Potter / Doctor Who Crossover

The 10th Doctor finds the boy-who-lived in the alley where he parked his TARDIS.

-Pet Shop Of Horrors

Count D / Leon

-New Ideas for Visits To the Labyrinth

Doctor Who / Torchwood / Labyrinth crossover fic

- Van Helsing Fanfic

Van Helsing / Dracula

- Original Story

Heavily inspired by Doctor Who and Vampire Chronicles of all things...

I don't know what I'll do with this massive amount of stuff I typed up... but I'll keep the non-existent readers of the blog posted.

Until that time I remain,
~The BJC

New Doctor Who, New Doctor Who Dolls

2010-04-16T12:16:00.001-07:00

So we've had two episodes of Eleven, with one more coming up tomorrow. I must say that I'm amazed with how awesome Eleven is. I mean, I know that I had high hopes / predictions for Matt Smith, but I am still amazed at how he's not only lived up to my expectations but EXCEEDED them.

Not only is Matt Smith an amazing Doctor, but the new TARDIS interior is beautiful, with a lovely sort of steam-punk look to the controls. My favorite part of the new interior TARDIS is the typewriter. I'm crossing my fingers that we get to see more of the inside of the TARDIS, like we got to see in Classic Who.

Add on to this Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillian. When I first saw photographs of her and heard rumors about her character, I wasn't too excited about her. However in the first five seconds of actually seeing her character in The Eleventh Hour I was so happy, and The Beast Below just made me even happier. I can only hope that she continues to be as she is now, not in love with the Doctor but amazing friends with him. Their hug in The Beast Below is beautiful. The Doctor and Amy remind me of the best bits of the Doctor and Donna, with the relationship between them being a friendship instead of the love affair thing that was between the Doctor and Rose or the Doctor and Martha.

To those crazy, crazy people who actually left the show because David Tennant did... I saw shame on you. You've abandoned a brilliant series for no good reason. The actor playing the Doctor may change, but the Doctor himself remains. That's how it always has been, and how I hope it always will be.

So, as you can see, I'm extremely excited about the Eleventh Doctor and the new episodes... which of course means that I must update/complete my Doctor Who doll collection. More Information On Doctor Who Dolls...

So I've started TWO new dolls. They are going to become the Eleventh Doctor and the Master. For the Eleventh Doctor I'm going to be outfitting him with his outfit that he creates in The Eleventh Hour and he continues to wear in The Beast Below. I love his outfit, and kinda want my own version of it....

For the Master, I've decided to go with his outfit from Season 3. That means suit and tie, brown hair... while I do like his crazy look in The End Of Time, I'm not confident that I could make a good crochet version of his hoodie, and blond hair is always tough because they just don't make the right color of yarn!

So I'm working on the Master and the Doctor. Right now one body is 99% done, I just need to add hair. The other body has no head at all, so it's something like 80% finished.

I'm hoping to get the bodies finished today... or at least do everything but the hair. I know the hair takes a while, even though the hairstyles are somewhat easier then some of the other Doctors. For Eleven I'm going to do hair that is similar to Ten, but a bit longer, while the Master is going to have similar hair to Nine.

It's nice to be making dolls again.

Until next time, I remain,
~The BJC

College Classes, Doctor Who and Dancing...

2010-01-13T17:19:00.000-08:00

I'm only taking four classes next semester. This is a good thing. If anyone at Mount Holyoke ever thinks they can stay sane while taking five or more classes (especially if one of those classes has a lab attached to it) then you should slap them silly until they realize how crazy they are.

So because I'm only taking four classes next semester, it appears that it's going to be at least slightly less insane then my last semester, which means that I might actually be able to start making my Doctor Who Dolls to sell again...

More Information On Doctor Who Dolls...

I've started working on Eleven, aka Matt Smith. Really all that I've got so far is his torso and legs. One of his arms is less then 1/2 finished. Right now I'm being strangely lazy when it comes to my craft projects.

I probably won't actually finish Eleven until he starts appearing on TV. For some reason I want to see him before I create my own version. I'd also like to make my own Master Dolls at some point. When I feel more confident in my abilities I'm gonna try and make a Dalek. There's a pattern out there on the internet, it just scares me. I'd also like to knit a TARDIS, again from a pattern I've seen on the internet, but again I'm a little intimidated...

After all, my only "pattern" for the Doctor Who Dolls is a sheet of paper with the outline of the base body parts on it. One of these days I'll get around to actually writing down the pattern for these little guys.

I loved End Of Time. I can't not stress how much I loved both parts and how much I am looking forward to Eleven. I think he's going to be BRILLIANT and FANTASTIC. End Of Time just pressed all my happy-buttons, from brilliant acting and writing to such amazing Doctor/Master scenes which made my inner-fangirl weep with joy. I mean really RTD! We're supposed to believe that they don't have a realtionship like that when the Doctor says "Wonder what I'd be without you?"

Moving away from my obsession with doctor Who in all it's forms and shapes, I went out with some friends to Haven's Masquerade Ball last night. I had tons of fun and can't wait for another chance to go out. Even though my costume was totally last minute I loved it to death.

I was the Ace of Spades, a friend of mine was the Queen of Hearts and another friend of mine was Sarah from The Labyrinth, specifically the ball scene.

Well I believe that is all the information I have to impart to whoever the heck reads this blog...

Till my next post, I remain,
~The BJC

Doctor Who Dolls

2009-07-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

I just finished my crazy project of crocheting dolls of EVERY REGENERATION of the Doctor from the British Sci-Fi Show, Doctor Who... and now I also have Ianto Jones and Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood!

Eleven (Matt Smith)

Ten (David Tennant)

Nine (Christopher Eccleston)

Eight (Paul McGann)

Seven (Sylvester McCoy)

Six (Colin Baker)

Five (Peter Davison)

Four (Tom Baker)

Three (Jon Pertwee)

Two (Patrick Troughton)

One (William Hartnell)

Captain Jack Harkness

Ianto Jones

The Master (John Simm)

I DID IT!!!!!

2009-07-18T16:55:00.000-07:00

IT IS FINISHED!!!

I, Wolveirnegal, have completed my epic quest to crochet every single regeneration of the Doctor from the famous British series Doctor Who.

Preview:

Now before I go into each Doll in detail here is a little info on the project. I want to make all Ten Doctors (I’ll make Eleven when we see him in the series) as well as a couple companions / other Doctor Who Characters. I don’t know which ones I’ll make, but I kinda want a little Captain Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones and my sister wants me to make Jamie.

Each doll has an actual body, meaning you could take off it’s cloths and have a naked Doctor. They’re not anatomically correct (if/when I get around to making Jack then that will change o_O ) But they all have little belly buttons, cause I thought it was cute.

When I was taking pictures of the Doctors my little sisters suggested putting something next to one to show how large they are… but we couldn’t find anything in the room that was easily recognizable… until I looked over at my Playstation 2. So here is the (unfinished) Fourth Doctor, next to a Guitar Hero Controller, so you can see how big they are!

Each doll is ROUGHLY the same size. There is a little variation in “height” and “weight”, but this is all due to the fact that I’m doing this by hand and I like finishing one doll before I start the next, so all comparisons I do to determine if I’m doing it right are thrown off a bit by the clothing and such.

Now on details of each doll!

Ten

The first Doctor doll I made, completed over January in 2009, while bored at home during Winter Break. This was the first “real” project I ever compelted in crochet, and I’m AMAZED at how well it turned out. Originally he was just wearing his blue suit, without a tie or trench coat, but when I made the Ninth Doctor I realized I’d gotten much better at clothing, so I stripped Ten and compeltly re-did his clothes, using all new yarn.

Ten’s outfit is based off his blue suit, cause that’s my favorite with his trench coat over it, cause I think he looks cute in his trench coat.

Ten wears a blue suit, with a white undershirt and red tie. Over it all is a brown trench coat.

Nine

The Ninth Doctor was born when I needed something to do with my hands while studying for Finals. My mom happened to be visiting me, and took me out to a Michales, where we came up with the idea of the Doctor Dolls.

For a long time the Ninth Doctor was lying in my room without a head because I didn’t have the eyes, and you can’t stuff or finish the body without putting the eyes in. Then for a long time he was sitting around with threads hanging off him, because I accidentally packed my scissors and couldn’t cut off the excess yarn.

Nine’s outfit is based off of almost any point in his run… since all that changed was what color his dark undershirt was. I chose blue to echo Ten’s outfit.

The Ninth Doctor has black pants, a dark blue shirt and black jacket.

Eight

I have two memories that stand out about making Eight. First of all was the colors… -_- it took me FOREVER to figure out what colors I wanted to use, and I actually exchanged emails with a few cosplayers to determin what the best colors would be. The second memory is me staring at the little guy’s head, trying to figure out how I was going to do his hair. With both Ten and Nine I just sewed over the top of the head, adding a little fringe for Ten… but for Eight I had to come up with a whole new method. What I ended up doing was basically adding a layer of “fringe” all along Eight’s head, then unraveling the yarn. This works really well, but is ANNOYING and takes FOREVER to do… so of course it’s the method I use for most of my dolls!

This should be obvious, but Eight’s outfit is from the Doctor Who movie.

The Eight Doctor has dark grey pants, a light grey vest, a wide tie in dark grey, white undershirt and black overcoat.

Seven

I technically did two Sevens. The first one I tried doing the same hair style as Nine, and ended up with a Doll that looked like Two, so that’s what he became. After I finished him, I went back to seven and did a combination of Nine and Eight to acchived the hairstyle I wanted. The hat helped a lot in making Seven’s hair look “right”

As with all my dolls, after finishing the body and hair (which includes hat) I crocheted Seven pants, before I even attempted to do his sweater.

The sweater is actually just cream, the same color as his hat. When I got that to the right size I cut out a few paper versions of his coat and sat down in front of my computer… after a few hours I had a pattern which I sewed on to the cream base. Only the top and bottom border of green are crocheted, the question marks and zig-zags. When I got that done I made the white undershirt and the jacket.

Seven’s outfit is based off various pictures found on Google, several talks with fans and cosplayers and the decision that a white jacket would look good with the darker colors of Ten, Nine and Eight.

The Seventh Doctor has grey pants, a question mark sweater, white undershirt, red tie, white coat and cream hat.

Six

When I showed my mom my plans for the Doctor Dolls, she thought I was joking when she saw the plan for Six… I had to pull out my copy of “The Two Doctors” to prove to my mom and sisters that yes, that is how the sixth Doctor dresses.

As with all my dolls I finished Six’s pants first, doing a base of yellow and sewing on the black stripes. Then I made his undershirt, sewing on the red details with thread left over from Seven. Then it was time for the coat... the coat of DOOOM!

After all that I started out with the two front “collars” of the coat = the flipped up bits of yellow and pink. After doing that I flipped the Doctor over and made a paper mock up of his coat. With this I could just crochet to the paper, instead of constantly tyring to imagine it all fitting together. I started with the blue and worked outward, adding on each color and crocheting it all into a solid piece. It fits him a little odd because of how the sleves attach on, but I’m really happy with it…

And the best part? The COAT COMES OFF! You can actually take the coat off of six, where as most of the other Doctors have their coats somewhat sewn on to their shirts in order to make them look nicer.

I actually had a lot of fun making Six, even though he also has the hairstyle of DOOM…

Six’s outfit is a combination of talks with fans/cosplayers, dolls done by other people and watching “The Two Doctors” in slow motion, stopping every few seconds and scribbling out what the coat looked like. Since “The Two Doctors” is the only episode I have of Six, his coat is mostly drawn from the one in that episode and simplified somewhat. I was also limited by the yarn I could get my hands on.

The Sixth Doctor has yellow pants with black stripes, a white shirt, blue ribbon tie and a crazy rainbow coat.

Five

The biggest problem for me with Five is his hair… I still haven’t gotten it the way I want it. In the picture I forgot to brush it back. When I brush it back so it’s behind his shoulders it looks a little better.

Five and Seven have very similar hats, with only a slight difference in the brims. His pants are a base of cream with red sewn in, where as his coat has red crocheted on and his coat sleeves are rolled back.

Like Six, Five can take off his coat and disply his sweater vest, which due to thickness of yarn doesn’t have sleves (it would have made his arms look fat)

Five’s outfit is taken from “The Five Doctors” since that is the only DVD I have with Five in his outfit (I also have Logopolis)

The Fifth Doctor has cream pants with red stripes, a white sweater vest with red and black accents, a white undershirt, cream hat with red stripe and a cream jacket with red embellishments… and he also has a stick of celery!

Four

Right now the Fourth Doctor is without his scarf! :( Poor Fourth Doctor... but I am going to put off making his scarf until I make one for myself, cause then I can use the leftover yarn to make his scarf....

The Fourth Doctor has speckled grey pants, which is done by having two shades of grey crocheted together… unfortunately, as one of my sisters pointed out, without his coat the pants make him look like he’s fat. -_-

His sweater is slightly simplified. Instead of having the tiny squares of cream and brown, I kept them larger so I wouldn’t go insane. His hat is based off of Seven and Five, but with a larger brim, and his hair is much like Seven, but longer.

His jacket, like Six and Five, is removable. The Fourth Doctor’s outfit is based off of “The Genesis of the Daleks” and “Logopolis” so the scarf should either fit with those episodes or be a simplified scarf which is easily recognizable as the Doctors.

The Fourth Doctor wears grey pants, a brown coat, a cream and brown sweater, white undershirt and brown hat with a black band. He will have his crazy scarf… eventually.

Three

Three is one of my favorite Doctors... I don't know why, I just love him. His outfit is based off of The Three Doctors. His coat is removable. I'm not really happy with his hair, so I might trim it a bit more...

The Third Doctor has black pants, a white undershirt, black bowtie and red coat with black accents.

Two

The first time I tried to make Seven, I made his hair like Nine and found that he didn’t look like Seven… he looked like Two!

So I pulled out my yarn and turned him into the Second Doctor. He was probably the doctor which I finished fastest… and for some reason, this is the one which my little sister Eleanor likes the best… I’m actually afraid that she’ll steal him from me! *grabs Two* MY DOCTOR DOLL!

His outfit is taken from “The Three Doctors”, “The Five Doctors” and “The Two Doctors”… cause those are the ones I own, and I got them in that order. I actually kinda wanna cosplay as the Second Doctor, because I could pull it off (I have the same hair, just a bit longer) and I have a friend who could pull off the Third Doctor if we whitened her hair… she has crazy fluffy curly hair… she could even cosplay as the Fourth Doctor without needing to mess with her hair at all… ITS THAT CRAZY.

The Second Doctor has light grey pants, a blue shirt with a black bowtie, white suspenders (Can’t really see them in photo) and a black coat.

One

Last but not least... the first Doctor. Completed in a little under three days (mostly due to me being lazy and putting it off) I am so happy I finally finished this insane project.

The First Doctor is based off of The Five Doctors. I wanna give him a cane, but I need to find a nice little stick and some way of having him hold it. I'm not too happy with his hair and might trim it a little more.

The First Doctor is wearing grey pants, a cream colored vest, white undershirt, black ribbon tie and a black over coat.

TARDIS

For a while there has been a cardborad box just sitting in our living room. My sister Eleanor was bored and decided to turn it into something...
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She turned it into a TARDIS for my dolls! It's the perfect size for my Doctor Who dolls.. as you can see from the following pictures... First up is one of my sister Eleanor (the one who made it) playing with the TARDIS and my Second Doctor doll (which is her favorite one).

Next is a picture of all my dolls and the TARDIS.

And last but not least, a few pictures of all my Doctor dolls...

*promplty collapses from the insanity of actually doing this crazy project!*

Doctor Who Dolls

2009-07-02T16:27:00.000-07:00

Well, I have been away from computers for a while, which of course has given me oodles of time to work on my Doctor Who Dolls. As of right now I have Seven Dolls completely finished, and one doll in production.

Each doll is ROUGHLY the same size. There is a little variation in “height” and “weight”, but this is all due to the fact that I’m doing this by hand and I like finishing one doll before I start the next, so all comparisons I do to determine if I’m doing it right are thrown off a bit by the clothing and such.

Now on details of each doll!

Ten

The first Doctor doll I made, completed over January in 2009, while bored at home during Winter Break. This was the first “real” project I ever compelted in crochet, and I’m AMAZED at how well it turned out. Originally he was just wearing his blue suit, without a tie or trench coat, but when I made the Ninth Doctor I realized I’d gotten much better at clothing, so I stripped Ten and compeltly re-did his clothes, using all new yarn.

Ten’s outfit is based off his blue suit, cause that’s my favorite with his trench coat over it, cause I think he looks cute in his trench coat.

Ten wears a blue suit, with a white undershirt and red tie. Over it all is a brown trench coat.

Nine

The Ninth Doctor was born when I needed something to do with my hands while studying for Finals. My mom happened to be visiting me, and took me out to a Michales, where we came up with the idea of the Doctor Dolls.

For a long time the Ninth Doctor was lying in my room without a head because I didn’t have the eyes, and you can’t stuff or finish the body without putting the eyes in. Then for a long time he was sitting around with threads hanging off him, because I accidentally packed my scissors and couldn’t cut off the excess yarn.

Nine’s outfit is based off of almost any point in his run… since all that changed was what color his dark undershirt was. I chose blue to echo Ten’s outfit.

The Ninth Doctor has black pants, a dark blue shirt and black jacket.

Eight

I have two memories that stand out about making Eight. First of all was the colors… -_- it took me FOREVER to figure out what colors I wanted to use, and I actually exchanged emails with a few cosplayers to determin what the best colors would be. The second memory is me staring at the little guy’s head, trying to figure out how I was going to do his hair. With both Ten and Nine I just sewed over the top of the head, adding a little fringe for Ten… but for Eight I had to come up with a whole new method. What I ended up doing was basically adding a layer of “fringe” all along Eight’s head, then unraveling the yarn. This works really well, but is ANNOYING and takes FOREVER to do… so of course it’s the method I use for most of my dolls!

This should be obvious, but Eight’s outfit is from the Doctor Who movie.

The Eight Doctor has dark grey pants, a light grey vest, a wide tie in dark grey, white undershirt and black overcoat.

Seven

I technically did two Sevens. The first one I tried doing the same hair style as Nine, and ended up with a Doll that looked like Two, so that’s what he became. After I finished him, I went back to seven and did a combination of Nine and Eight to acchived the hairstyle I wanted. The hat helped a lot in making Seven’s hair look “right”

As with all my dolls, after finishing the body and hair (which includes hat) I crocheted Seven pants, before I even attempted to do his sweater.

The sweater is actually just cream, the same color as his hat. When I got that to the right size I cut out a few paper versions of his coat and sat down in front of my computer… after a few hours I had a pattern which I sewed on to the cream base. Only the top and bottom border of green are crocheted, the question marks and zig-zags. When I got that done I made the white undershirt and the jacket.

Seven’s outfit is based off various pictures found on Google, several talks with fans and cosplayers and the decision that a white jacket would look good with the darker colors of Ten, Nine and Eight.

The Seventh Doctor has grey pants, a question mark sweater, white undershirt, red tie, white coat and cream hat.

Six

When I showed my mom my plans for the Doctor Dolls, she thought I was joking when she saw the plan for Six… I had to pull out my copy of “The Two Doctors” to prove to my mom and sisters that yes, that is how the sixth Doctor dresses.

As with all my dolls I finished Six’s pants first, doing a base of yellow and sewing on the black stripes. Then I made his undershirt, sewing on the red details with thread left over from Seven. Then it was time for the coat... the coat of DOOOM!

After all that I started out with the two front “collars” of the coat = the flipped up bits of yellow and pink. After doing that I flipped the Doctor over and made a paper mock up of his coat. With this I could just crochet to the paper, instead of constantly tyring to imagine it all fitting together. I started with the blue and worked outward, adding on each color and crocheting it all into a solid piece. It fits him a little odd because of how the sleves attach on, but I’m really happy with it…

And the best part? The COAT COMES OFF! You can actually take the coat off of six, where as most of the other Doctors have their coats somewhat sewn on to their shirts in order to make them look nicer.

I actually had a lot of fun making Six, even though he also has the hairstyle of DOOM…

Six’s outfit is a combination of talks with fans/cosplayers, dolls done by other people and watching “The Two Doctors” in slow motion, stopping every few seconds and scribbling out what the coat looked like. Since “The Two Doctors” is the only episode I have of Six, his coat is mostly drawn from the one in that episode and simplified somewhat. I was also limited by the yarn I could get my hands on.

The Sixth Doctor has yellow pants with black stripes, a white shirt, blue ribbon tie and a crazy rainbow coat.

Five

The biggest problem for me with Five is his hair… I still haven’t gotten it the way I want it. In the picture I forgot to brush it back. When I brush it back so it’s behind his shoulders it looks a little better.

Five and Seven have very similar hats, with only a slight difference in the brims. His pants are a base of cream with red sewn in, where as his coat has red crocheted on and his coat sleeves are rolled back.

Like Six, Five can take off his coat and disply his sweater vest, which due to thickness of yarn doesn’t have sleves (it would have made his arms look fat)

Five’s outfit is taken from “The Five Doctors” since that is the only DVD I have with Five in his outfit (I also have Logopolis)

The Fifth Doctor has cream pants with red stripes, a white sweater vest with red and black accents, a white undershirt, cream hat with red stripe and a cream jacket with red embellishments… and he also has a stick of celery!

Four

NOT FINISHED!!!

Right now the Fourth Doctor is without his coat and scarf! :( Poor Fourth Doctor.

So far the Fourth Doctor has speckled grey pants, which is done by having two shades of grey crocheted together… unfortunately, as one of my sisters pointed out, without his coat the pants make him look like he’s fat. -_-

His sweater is slightly simplified. Instead of having the tiny squares of cream and brown, I kept them larger so I wouldn’t go insane. His hat is based off of Seven and Five, but with a larger brim, and his hair is much like Seven, but longer.

I’m currently working on his jacket, which like Six and Five, will be removable. I’m still figuring out how to do a small version of his scarf, and any suggestions will be welcome. The Fourth Doctor’s outfit is based off of “The Genesis of the Daleks” and “Logopolis” so the scarf should either fit with those episodes or be a simplified scarf which is easily recognizable as the Doctors.

The Fourth Doctor wears grey pants, a cream and brown sweater, white undershirt and brown hat with a black band. He will have a brown coat and his crazy scarf…

Two

Currently The Second Doctor is the “oldest’ Doll I’ve completed. I was making the dolls in reverse order ( = starting with ten and working my way down ) when I got to the Seventh Doctor.

The first time I tried to make Seven, I made his hair like Nine and found that he didn’t look like Seven… he looked like Two!

So I pulled out my yarn and turned him into the Second Doctor. He was probably the doctor which I finished fastest… and for some reason, this is the one which my little sister Eleanor likes the best… I’m actually afraid that she’ll steal him from me! *grabs Two* MY DOCTOR DOLL!

His outfit is taken from “The Three Doctors”, “The Five Doctors” and “The Two Doctors”… cause those are the ones I own, and I got them in that order. I actually kinda wanna cosplay as the Second Doctor, because I could pull it off (I have the same hair, just a bit longer) and I have a friend who could pull off the Third Doctor if we whitened her hair… she has crazy fluffy curly hair… she could even cosplay as the Fourth Doctor without needing to mess with her hair at all… ITS THAT CRAZY.

The Second Doctor has light grey pants, a blue shirt with a black bowtie, white suspenders (Can’t really see them in photo) and a black coat.

Second to last is a little project I did when I was bored and didn’t have the right yarn to work on my Doctor Dolls. ( I was making Nine’s body and ran out of my flew colored yarn) I allready posted this, but I decided to re-post it with all my dolls...

Mini TARDIS

For comparison, here is Four standing next to the little TARDIS. This time traveling ship started out as a blanket for Ten which I was making out of leftover yarn… but one day I realized I could turn it into a little plushie. The TARDIS was stuffed and all the details added in a period of roughly four hours in a single day.

The best thing about my Mini TARDIS is something that happened when I was taking these photos. My little sisters, Charlotte and Eleanor, were watching as I took pictures and handing me the Doctor Dolls.

Over the past week I’ve been introducing my sisters to Doctor Who, and I’m proud to say that I’ve got them hooked! Eleanor actually helped me unravel the yarn for Four’s hair and both Eleanor and Charlotte have helped me make decisions about how to do the Doctor’s outfits.

So the two little girls knew what all these dolls where. I was putting four next to the Mini TARDIS when Charlotte said “Too bad it’s not the right size… for the Dolls.”

I was about to make some comment about how I’d like to make a storage box for my dolls that looked like the TARDIS, but before I could Eleanor said. “It’s bigger on the inside!”

I almost died laughing!

LAST BUT NOT LEAST!!!

I present two pictures of my all my (finished) dolls. First is one of them all lined up on our couch. Four isn’t there cause he’s off to one side being worked on and thus has nerbils of yarn all over him.

Second is a picture which shows how my Doctor Dolls spend their days. In the living room of the house were living in for the summer there’s a broken book shelf with only one actual shelf in it. My Mom is going to a school for Social Work, so she’s put the books she needs but isn’t currently reading on that shelf. Since the bookshelf is next to our TV, my yarn and crochet supplies have taken up residence in front of the shelf, between it and the couch. ( I think the yarn has started to breed… 0_0 )

Originally I the Doctors sitting next to me on the couch, but with the arrival of my little sisters we needed the room, so I had to move them and decided to put them on top of mom’s books!

I think they look cute all sitting there… even though I’m almost out of room and don’t know how I’m going to fit them all in… the only downside is that in the dark they look a little creepy and they’re facing a window which has a light outside it, so sometimes light reflects off their eyes and they look alive…

I think it was because of this that I had a dream last night where I was leading an army of Doctor Who Dolls through the city… -_0

So what do you think?

2009-04-24T18:18:00.000-07:00

"We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
-May Lamberton Becker

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-ee cummings

I've been doing a lot of thinking about growing up recently. The reason behind this thinking about growing up is not just because I'm in college and it's getting closer to the summer and graduation, but also because I've been looking at myself and the relationship I've had in the past and I believe I've had a sort of revelation about who I am. I would go into detail with this but, as I said, I only think I've had some sort of revelation. Right now I'm still looking into it, but the moment I know what I am thinking is true right now, I'll tell you.

However the interesting thing is, although I'm still unsure about thing I'm investigating, just looking into the subject has made me so amazingly happy that I can't quite believe it. Another thing making me happy is that I get to see my mom tomorrow, and like all children everywhere, I love my mommy. I get to spend a whole day with my mommy, and the food which she's going to take me out to eat is just the icing on the cake.

Who knows... I might even talk to her about the things I've been thinking about!

Till next time, I remain...
~The BJC

Time

2009-03-06T19:46:00.000-08:00

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect... but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it is more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff."
-The Doctor

Life marches ever one, escaping my grasp and making me forget to write anything in my blog! Let's see... my latest geeky project has been crocheting a Tardigrade aka "Water Bear". This is a little animal that lives in moss and is not visible to the naked eye. It's incredibly hard to kill and was actually shot into space by NASA and survived the trip!

I love my little Tardigrade. Now I just gotta find a name for him!

Till next time, I remain
~The BJC

Creative Projects

2009-01-19T20:26:00.000-08:00

For X-mas I got a crocheted stuffed animal from my mom, a little green goblin I named Jareth (after David Bowie's character from the film Labyrinth) I thought it was really cool. The goblin is actually a amigurumi, a Japanese doll made through crochet. Here is a link for more information about these cool little guys. My mom started making them to have something to occupy her hands with when she studied and she's just gone crazy making them. At first she was making them for my little sisters, who have a 'trading fair' at their school on the day before Thanksgiving break.
Anyway, I asked my mom to teach me how to crochet and she got me my own set of hooks and yarn. After looking around on the internet at amigurumi other people had made I came across this, a crocheted Doctor Who doll! I thought it was really cool, but decided not to follow that pattern, instead I just started working on my own version of the doll.
So here is the finished project!

My own little Doctor Who doll, based off of the Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant. I really like how this turned out, considering that I wasn't following any pattern at all. The hardest part was actually his head. For the base, the skin colored yarn ball, I kept making it too big and having to pull it out and start again.

An intresting fact is that this doll actuall is a doll with clothing. If I wanted I could take off the blue suit and dress him up differnetly. I ended up sewing the pants and shirt together (thus making it hard to take it off) cause otherwise it looked like the Doctor had a beer belly. I was going to add little red shoes, but couldn't figure out a way to make them without them looking weird.
I've got a bunch of the brown yarn I used for his hair left over, so eventually I might make him a little trench coat, but for now I like how my doll ended up. Isn't he cute? I just love him to death. Right now he's sitting (yes he can sit, a little stiffly, but still sitting) next to Jareth, watching me type.
My next project is a hat for myself made out of this cool blue yarn that changes colors (from dark to lighter blue) as you work with it. I used some of this yarn to make a scarf for my Mom as an X-mas present, and I think it will look nice as a hat.

I've recently gotten back into writing my own fictional works. The story I'm working on right now, (which due to my inability to give titles to things is unamaed) is a Sci-Fi/Romantic/Erotic story of Hall and Damian, a human and a Celestial (=alien race). I'm having a lot of fun writing it, and since I'm not ashamed to make this as Erotic as hell, my past work in fanfiction is helping a lot!
My Mom says that when I'm done with this 'novel' I should sell it to some Erotic Publishers of Gay Literature, and I really hope that this will happen and (hopefully) I'll become a published author!

In other news, I have a new I-Pod! I got a Black Nano I-Pod and it's really cool. Especially compared to the last one I had. Not only is this one black (one of my favroite colors) but it can also play movies and podcasts, meaning I can now watch Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series on the bus or in a car!

I'm still in Calfiornia, enjoying my time away from College work and the cold of Massachutus, but I will be returning soon. I go back to Mount Holyoke on the 28th of January, and although I'm not looking forward to the cold (especially after the heat of California) I am looking forward to go back, since the clubs I am in are filled with amazing people who I love dearly.

For now I remain,
~The BJC

The Christmas Hall

2008-12-25T10:35:00.000-08:00

As I have done in the past, here is a list of what I got this X-mas from Friends and Family.

Sweeney Todd In Concert
Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Fallout 3 for PC
3 Sweater Vest Like Things (For Layering)
A Companion Cube Shirt (from Portal the Game)
Fingerless Gloves with a matching headband
A Blue USB Drive from Google (a friend works there)
See's Candies (VERY good chocolates)
And a hand made stuffed animal

Isn't it cute? My mommy made it for me!
Doesn't he look like a little goblin! I think I'll call him Jareth!

Merry Christmas to all!
~The BJC

Recent Events

2008-12-03T14:01:00.000-08:00

Well, it's been a busy time for the BJC. Recently I went on Thanksgiving Break and, since I can't go home to California for such a short time, I went to Martha's Vineyard with my Aunt. It was a lot of fun and very relaxing... while my Aunt looked around the island, I mostly slept and watched TV.

Recently I've started writing fanfiction again, and branched out into writing Fanfiction for Doctor Who and Torchwood, two shows which I discovered over the summer and have come to love. Both shows are very very well done, I especially enjoy Torchwoode because it has an amazingly well portrayed Gay couple (Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones). Doctor Who is a more family friendly show, while Torchwood goes for an older audience. The eppisodes rang from hilarious to sad/scarry. My favorite eppisode of Torchwood would either have to be Countrycide, which is both terrifying and heartbreaking or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which is hilarious and has an extreamly hot kiss.

I've also started a new project which I've been meaning to do for some time. That project is an original story, basically a fanfiction without a fandom. This story focuses on a man named Hall Jackson, who is a Police Officer of a sorts from the future who hides in the past (1991) and ends up running into a time traveling alien named Damian. It's an erotic story but I haven't gotten to the erotic bits yet, I'm still setting up the story and such, but I've got a plan and hope I can actually finish this one... -__-

Lets see... what else. Oh! They are putting up the Ice Skating Rink near Blanchard Campus Center which is really cool. Basically it's a big pool that they fill with water and allow to freeze. They've put it up, but haven't filled it was water yet. I'm looking forward to ice skating, which I've only done about seven times before but really enjoy. I'm also looking forward to X-mas Break, when I get to go back to California and be nice and warm! It's getting cold here, the lakes are starting to ice over but it hasn't snowed yet.

Today I went to give blood, and since they prick your finger (to test iron or something) I'm having trouble typing corectly due to the bandage on my finger. -_- Which means I can't write too much more on my original story since I'm getting frustrated with the little typos the bandage causes.

For now I remain,
~The BJC

A Poem

2008-10-27T16:53:00.000-07:00

Silent eyes watch a world
Understanding she does not belong
Others feel they have some worth
But she feels she has none
Self-abuse takes many forms
Denial, punches, bites, cutting
But not always actions
Though actions speak loud
Words did deeper then any arrow
Especially when the mind speaks ill
And the body believes it’s lies
I know the method behind my madness
Yet I can not change the method
So the madness remains
Lying beneath the surface
Waiting for an excuse to emerge
An excuse to cry in pain
So that a stranger will
--for at least a little while--
Become a concerned friend

How strange that I who understands
Or pretends to understand
This complex and great machinery
Can do nothing to save myself
Form the madness, blood and pain
That drives it ever onward

2008-08-02T22:37:00.000-07:00

And now for another quote, this one found while browsing the internet.

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain one thing, something of equal value must be lost."

~The BJC

2008-07-16T10:29:00.001-07:00

And now for something completly different. Here, for you to ponder, is a quote I stumbled upon today.

You put so much stock in winning wars...the real trick lies in losing wars, in knowing which wars can be lost. Italy has been losing wars for centuries, and just see how splendidly we've done nonetheless. France wins wars and is in a continual state of crisis. Germany loses and prospers.

Look at our own recent history. Italy won a war in Ethiopia and promptly stumbled into serious trouble. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.

----From Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

The BJC is home alone...

2008-07-04T16:17:00.000-07:00

Hello my readers! For the past week I have been home alone, looking for a second job and generally being bored as hell.

Other then walking the dog, working and looking for another job, I have basically been either loafing around the house or wandering around downtown. I have gone out and seen Get Smart, which is AMAZINGLY FUNNY! Two thumbs way up!

Also I went out and rented a couple movies (Cowboy Bebop, Batman Begins, Ocean's 11 and Silent Hill). On the same day that I rented those movies I traded in a few games and got a new one that I can play with my siblings... however I'm going to be that my TV is too small/shitty to really have two people play it...

Yesterday night the local Baseball stadium, which is within walking distance of my house, set off a bunch of fireworks, which drove our dog crazy. He must have thought that the world was ending or something like that.

I'm looking forward to my family comming home... if only so that I don't have to keep figuring out what dinner is... Basically I ordered Pizza the first night they were gone and have just been eating leftovers or samwiches.

Anyway, happy Fourth of July everyone!

~The BJC

Silent Hill: Nostalgia

2008-06-24T12:12:00.000-07:00

Okay, I have started a new project. This Project is kinda like a fanfiction and takes place in the world of Silent Hill. I've decided to call it Silent Hill: Nostalgia.

For those of you who have never played/heard of the Silent Hill Series, here is a little bit of information.

Silent Hill is a series of survival horror video games. There have been four games in the series and one feature length movie. Each game has several possible endings; the player's choices during the game determine which ending is shown.

The games take place in a town called Silent Hill, which exists in at least three parallel layers or dimensions:

The 'normal town'
A silent abandoned town which is veiled with a supernaturally thick fog.
The "Otherworld" a dark and decaying town filled with disturbing imagery

Of these three dimensions only the second two are explored by the games' protagonists. In these two dimensions demonic and disfigured creatures roam the streets and buildings. The different appearances of the town and the creatures are manifested from the characters' personal fears, (but not always the protagonists' fears). These manifestations may be shared by several characters, or appear exclusively to one of them.

Well, that is the gist of it all. If this intrests you, click the link above to check it out!

~The BJC

So many things have happened....

2008-06-09T20:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, I have been very lazy and haven't written in a LOOOONG time, so here's an update on the life of the BJC.

First my mom left to go to a summer school so she will be Dr. Mom. The school is on the other side of the country (in Massachusetts) and she's basically gonna be there the whole summer, with the exception of one or two weeks in the middle. When she does come back I have a few weeks with her until I leave for Massachusetts to attend Mount Holyoke.

Mount Holyoke sent me a bunch of paper work which I have filled out, but they also sent me a book. Aparently Mount Holyoke has a summer reading book that everyone on campus (students and teachers alike) reads over the Summer. The book is Caucasia by Danzy Senna, and is very good (I finished it today). The book is about two sisters who have a black father and white mother. The older sister is the darker of the two, while the younger is forced by her mother to pass as white. I liked it, but kept wanting the younger sister to stand up to her mother and self-identify as black....

I have a job for the summer. I'm working at a movie theater downtown. My job is as an Usher and a Door Person. As an Usher I clean up the theaters after the shows (sweep up and such) and I also help out behind the Snack Counter when it gets busy. As a Door Person I take the tickets, show people where their movie is and make sure no one sneaks in. Yesterday I was working Door when the theater was 'closing' (11:00 is when door closes, the last show got out at 12:35) and had to mop and help clean up. While mopping I was forced to realize that I am in horrible shape, cause I had lots of trouble moving the mop around and squeezing it out. So last night I got home at 11:30 and went straight to bed.

One of the cool things about working in a movie theater is that you get to see free movies. So today I went downtown with my family (Me, Dad, 2 Sisters and Brother) and we all saw Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, which I really liked. My two sisters also liked it, though my Dad and Brother had some trouble with the 'intensity' of the movie. However I highly recommend it... after all, it's a lot better then Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (aka Indian Jones #2)

Over the Summer my brother is attempting to make a movie a day, which I think will be very cool. Here is a link to his page for this project: 100 Videos in 100 Days So far I really like numbers 2 (The Light Switch) and 6 (Russian Film).

I've also started to make my own live action videos (not AMV, but real people) I'll put the video below this post, so that you can watch it if you want to. The title is Karma? and it is inspired by the numerous times people in our family have gotten locked in the garage.

Well I think that's all the stuff I've been doing in these first few weeks of summer....

~The BJC

Less then Two Weeks

2008-05-05T12:40:00.000-07:00

I really don't know what to say... I'm fed up with all the stupidity of Dunn. Today I learned that Max/Ashley, who is in a couple of classes with me and is in general an okay guy, has been threatened with denial of his diploma. Now, the reason that he is being threatened with not graduating is not because of stealing, grades or any such thing. The reason is that he was seen by Miss. Childs UNSHAVEN. Yes, this guy is being threatened with yanking of the diploma because he has a five o'clock shadow. Yeash.

Also, some people who shall remain unnamed have been asses, telling me how to run my life, health wise, when they can't see their feet over their fat stomachs. While I work on homework they go on and on about prom and how 'amazing' it's gonna be. I wish I could ambush prom and throw yellow paint on everyone there, but instead I'm going home to relax and spend Mother's Day with my mom, who is gonna leave to go back to school during the summer.

Aggg, I guess I'm just ranting into the shouting match of the internet, but it annoys the hell out of me when a certain person has two sets of standards... one which applies to me and one which applies to that person and no one else.

Annoying buggers the lot of them.

~The BJC

March 14th

2008-03-14T18:33:00.000-07:00

They say that once you accidental refer to Dunn School as home, you know that you need to get out of here.... luckily I'm gonna graduate soon.

On the 25th I'm going to San Fransisco to interview for a scholarship offered by PG&E, the upside of this is, the weekend before, I get to go home and get my hair redyed!! I've also got to interview for another scholarship, this one in Santa Barbra over my next break.

My mom got into the doctorate program at Smith, which means she'll be gone for most of the summer and actually miss my graduation from Dunn... I don't really mind, I'm happy for her cause now she'll be DR. Mom. It's gonna be odd without her at home... my brother and me will have to cook and do a lot of other stuff...

Drama is also going really well, I'm very happy with the parts I got in two of the three plays were doing... Were preforming The Handicapper General and The Barnhouse Effect. In Handicapper I'm actually the title character and in Barnhouse I'm a FBI agent. The two plays are really really really cool!

Well, that's all for now. Until next time, I remain---

~The BJC

Hamlet speaks....

2008-03-02T21:32:00.001-08:00

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me…

I recently wrote a fanfiction using the above qoute as one would normall use song lyrics. We're reading Hamlet in my English class and I've always loved the above qoute...it just touches me in some manner...

Life rolls dully on. I'm ready to be done with High School and in College, but there still is much to do before I cross that stage and get my diploma. I'm not really worried about slipping grades (which could lead to a withdrawl of my place at Mount Holyoke). I'm doing pretty well in my classes, and only dislike one of them (Math). I don't like Math because I am having trouble seeing how I will use anything I learn in it in the outside world... so sadly I tend to not listen to the majority of the things the teacher is saying... but this is helped by the fact that our Math teacher is very easily lead astray --- this means we can get him to talk about stuff not related to Math for whole class peroids, and since we rarely have either a test or homework, it works out well...

Since the end of the year is (slowly) aproaching, the Seniors have begun to do several things which every Senior Class does. One is the Senior Auction, which raises money for the Senior Gift (I'll explain that later). For the Senior Auction, each Senior puts something up on the auction block, like homework help, cookies and such. I'm going to put up Tarot Card readings, since I'm rather good at that, but I don't think that will get much money... but hey, I could be wrong!!
The Senior Gift is something given to the school by the Senior Class... were going to create an Award in memory of a girl who was in our class, but committed suicide last year.
I think this is all well and good, but the School has also asked that we each donate five dollars for the next five years to the school.... now, I really don't know why I'm so pissed off at this. Maybe it's because I feel like they just want the money so they can have some corney sastistic about how much their Alumni love the school. All I know is the only time I'm ever gonna come back here is to see my friend Avril, who will graduate the year after I do.... after that, I'm NEVER comming back again. Dunn just isn't worth it.

So I'm probably the only Senior who didn't give money. WOOT for me. The rest are just sheep...actually their worse then sheep... perhaps their ants.... Oh well, perhaps I'm just cranky...

No matter what I remain,
~The BJC

Postsecret

2008-01-23T07:26:00.000-08:00

About a year or so ago my friend Avril introduced me to Post Secret, where people send in secrets they have never told anyone. These secrets take the form of postcards. I've never sent in one, mostly because I can't think of a secret, but also because I don't think I could be artistic enough to express my secret so that other people could relate to it.
However, there have been many times where, looking at the secrets of others, I have felt as though that postcard could have...and should have, been sent in by me.
Why do I mention this? I have no idea.

School is back in swing, classes and all that jazz. I'm really enjoying my class with Mr. Vachon that's a study of Distopian Novels, I'm reading so many good books, both that I've read before and those I haven't. Math is still horrible and I'm more convinced then ever that I'll never lose the stuff I'm learning (not that were learning a whole lot). Dance continues on, and out of the three dances we've learned I'm only in one...which goes to the song from Moulin Rouge "Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend". I'm scared to see the costumes, which haven't arrived yet, because their leotards with some kind of train in the back....in short, stuff I don't look good in, due to both my natural body shape and...well and the amount of fat I have, which although I have lost some, I have not lost enough to look good in something that could probably pass as a swimsuit.

Oh well, life is pain princess, anyone who says differently is selling something.
~The BJC

The Haul This Year

2007-12-25T20:24:00.001-08:00

Okay, every year I make a post of what I got for X-mas on whatever sight I happen to be on, so here's the list for this year.

DVDs
Mallrats
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige
The Producers
Pirates of the Caribean 3
House Season 1

Cards/Money
20$
Barnes and Nobles Gift Card
Gamestop Giftcard

Games
Shadow of the Collosus
Gutair Hero 2

Other
Uglydolls Icebat!!! <---Best thing ever!
Chocolate (Herseys Special Dark and Dark chocolate w/ rasbery filling)
Godchild 7 (this is a manga book)
Candle and Holder made by my little sister

~The BJC

I GOT IN!

2007-12-18T12:04:00.000-08:00

Yes, the BJC from the central coast is going to be the BJC from Massachusetts! That's right, I got in to my first choice college, Mount Holyoke!
Earlier today I got an email from one of my two best friends, telling me she got into her first choice, Sarah Lawerence. So I decided to check the websight for Mount Holyoke and there was a little button that said "Click here for your application decision" so, after freaking out for a few seconds, I clicked it and this is what I saw:

The Admission Office at Mount Holyoke College is posting this letter on ISIS in advance of your official written notification of the Admission Committee's decision on your application.

Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you admission to Mount Holyoke College as a member of the Class of 2012. You should take pride in knowing that you were selected from a large, exceptionally qualified, and diverse group of Early Decision applicants.

At Mount Holyoke, the dedication and accessibility of our world-class faculty will inspire you. Gifted peers from around the world who are intelligent, dynamic, and generous of spirit will surround you. A Mount Holyoke education will give you an edge - an edge in learning, an edge in leadership opportunities, an edge in succeeding in the world - both personally and professionally. Your life will be deeper, richer, and finer for having attended Mount Holyoke College. There is no doubt that your outstanding accomplishments will contribute to the excellence of the College's community, which both cultivates and thrives on the energy, idealism, and commitment of its students. Our goal is to connect curious, daring, uncommon young women with many worlds of opportunity.

Please confirm your enrollment by completing the enrollment deposit form and by sending your enrollment deposit by January 4, 2008. This spring you will receive information concerning the many particulars of matriculating at the College. If you have applied to other colleges, please notify them of your Early Decision admission to Mount Holyoke College and withdraw those applications. Please note that this offer of admission is contingent upon maintaining the academic standards for which you were admitted.

We wish you continued success in the remainder of your senior year, and look forward to welcoming you to Mount Holyoke next September. Please feel free to contact the Office of Admission if you have questions.

With sincere congratulations,
Diane C. Anci
Dean of Admission

WOOT WOOT!

~The BJC

Finals Week

2007-12-14T11:07:00.000-08:00

Well, it's Finals Week...or rather Finals Time. Our first Final, Science, was today. I had Environmental Science and I think I did okay on the test.... or at least I hope I did okay. On Monday I have Advanced Mathematics (aka Stats for Morons) and Creative Writing. I'm not looking forward to Advanced Mathematics, however I am looking forward to Creative Writing. For Creative Writing we are going to present our Portfolios and Multi-genre pieces. I've got both all typed up and printed out and put in a binder with artwork I found on deviantart.com. My Multi-genre's theme is Relationships. I'm looking forward to presenting my work to the class. Then on Tuesday I don't have an final, cause that's the day that the French and Spanish Finals are, and I'm not taking a language this year, because I finished my language requirement last year. Then on Wednesday I've got my English Final, which I'm a little worried about, because we have to write an Essay on Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey as it relates to The Wizard of Oz. On Thursday I don't really have a final, because my History Class (History of the African American Freedom Struggle) is only doing a final essay, which we just have to turn in on that day. My essay is about Massive Resistance to Brown v The Board of Education in Virginia.

So far, on the college front, I've only turned in one application, to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. I applied early application to that school cause I thought it was amazingly cool and have yet to get an answer. But I'm hopeful because they've been calling my parents with crazy complicated questions about Financial Aid. Both myself and my parents think that they wouldn't bother to do this if they weren't interested in me....so thats a good thing!!!

However the stress of Finals and Mount Holyoke is playing havok on my body... I've got some kind of weird illness, where I'm tired all the time, my stomach is easily upset/adgitated and my arms and legs are weak... I got some blood drawn yesterday, so hopefully I'll know what it is soon... getting blood drawn is not a pleasant experience for me, because they can never find a vein on the first try. This time they did my left arm first, and didn't get anything, before trying my right arm and, after poking around for a while, finally got the blood. Until they find out what it is that's wrong with me, I'm out of dance, which is nice because I can sleep! I've been sleeping almost every time I'm not in class.

Well, that's all I can think of now...till next time, I remain,
~The BJC

New stories and other happenings

2007-11-05T18:53:00.000-08:00

Well, I've made a lot of new stuff since the last time I posted. On Youtube there are several new AMVs, so check them out. I also highly recommend Changing Channels by my brother and his friend.
But most of my new stuff is fanfiction. Here's a brief rundown of what's new and such....
LA Nights --Several new chapters are up, and I'm trying to overcome writer's block and add more.
I Will Remember You --a songfic about Bakura and Ryou
One Blood --a songfic about the relationship between Bakura, Ryou, Marik and Malik. It also explores Bakura's past a little.
One King Two....Concubines? --- a series involving Pegasus, Seto and Seth which takes place in ancient egypt. Basic story: Pegasus is a king of a land near Egypt. Seto and Seth are half-brothers to Pharaoh Yami who sends them to Pegasus for protection....however Pegasus finds himself falling for the twins.
On A Good Day -- Songfic for a Alternate Universe relationship between Pegasus and Seto.
Seto's Moving Castle -- Alternate Universe fiction based on the movie Howl's Moving Castle with Seto playing the role of Howl.
Son of Man -- Songfic about Bakura growing up
One Last Time -- Songfic Bakura calls Ryou to say goodbye, before leaving for the afterlife.

Well that's all for now, more later......maybe....
Till that time, I remain
~The BJC

Last Night

2007-09-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

Okay, so last night Avril and I went out to have Chinese Food with Daniel Freedman. We went to a restraunt in Solvang. So were sitting at this little table, the three of us, with tons of Chinese food and were having a really good time, laughing and just talking about whatever we think of. Eventually we move on to the election, since both Daniel and I will be voting in it, and ---in passing--- we mentioned the war in Iraq. But we only said that one of the candidate's stragaty was to convince us that the War is going well, and we thought his stragaty wasn't working. So we move on to other topics and keep eating. Just a few minutes before we leave this couple that was sitting behind us gets up and the man comes and leans in between Avril and me.
He says he's a vet and that we should support our boys and goes on to talk about some Soldiers who were in Afiganistan being charged with murder. (Which we weren't talking about at all) The he says that if the boys weren't over their we'd be getting shot at here. Daniel and I counter with the fact that we support the troops, just not the war. He just EXPLODES at us and starts yelling about how were horrible horrible people until his wife drags him away...

That's never happened to me before! I've had people disagree with me, but they haven't ever exploded at me! And this was actually kinda scary, cause it's one old guy yelling at Avril, me and Daniel. And he kept staring at Daniel. Daniel's African-American, and the guy just kept looking at him oddly, like he'd never seen an African-American before. Daniel later told us that he was kinda scared by the guy and I was to, cause when he leaned in between Avril and I both had to and just naturally leaned away from him.....

I remain...
~The BJC

School's In Swing

2007-09-05T21:00:00.000-07:00

Well...School has started and allready I'm sorta overwhelmed. We have a new Creative Writing teacher, so I'm not so sure how that will work out, and we allready have a huge project in English ---taking every word, concept, idea and metaphor we don't understand in Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces and looking them up. I've only gone to page 25, which we have a month to go over, and allready I have 11 pages of explantions and I like to think I'm a bit above the avergae person with reguards to understanding stuff in books.
However I am very happy to have Mr. Lowe as my teacher, over the summer (since I last saw him in Greece) he seems to have...well losened up a little more, and -dare I say it- I feel as if our relationship is amazing for a teacher and student to share. Sometimes I feel more like he's my father or favorite uncle and I sometimes feel as if I am his daughter.
With reguards to other classes, I'm glad I've dropped French, I don't think I could have gone any further in to that field without breaking down. If I ever really want to learn the language I feel I will have to retreat back to French I and start all over again. For now my pigion French is enough to sastify me.
In Drama we are working on a play called Play On! It is a farce about a group of little theater actors trying to put on a play by a local playwright. I am Aggie, the Stage Manager and I love my part, it's very close (I believe) to my actual life....
The new students this year are, I believe, the best we have ever had. They all great me with smiles and all know my name. It's kinda hard on me, since about fifty kids who I have no idea what their names are say 'Hi Becky!' on a regular basis.
It's very odd being a Senior. I know that, really really soon, I will be sending out my first aplications for college and crossing my fingers. Also soon I'm going to be on my own, not with my parents and...well that scares me. I've always had them to fall back on...and while I still will, I'll be an adult, not some teenager or child who thinks she's older then she really is....

Well that's all for now.... I remain,
~The BJC

What It Takes To Go Back To School

2007-08-29T17:24:00.000-07:00

Well my non-existant readers I, the BJC, am off to go back to School. This year I shall be a Senior, with my own fridge, so yesterday I went to Vons with my mom and bought some stuff to stock my fridge with. Here is my shopping list, both for Food and for other back to school stuff.

Food Stuffs
Milk
Generic Brand Cherieos
Frozen Pink Lemonade Concentrate
Frozen Fruit Punch Concentrate
5 Yoplait Yogert
2 4-Packs of Izzie (Sparkling Fruit Drink)
8-Pack of Monster
Apples
Bananas

Other Stuff

Tuperware Pitcher
Tuperware Containers
Dish Soap
5 Pack o'Pads
2 Shampoos
2 Conditener
2 Axe Bodywash
2 Axe Deoderent
1 Notebook
2 Pack o' Pens
Tape
Gluesticks
2 Pencil Sharpeners
Post-it Notes
Highlighters

Clothing

2 Jeans
1 Pack of V-neck men's white XL t-shirts
1 Pack of white men's XL wife beaters (I don't NEED XL, I just like them that size. In men's I'm either a S or a small M)
2 button up dress shirts (to wear over wife beaters)

And that's just the stuff I had to buy THIS year!!!! Well now I'm about to have my last dinner (for a while) with my family, so I'll finish up quickly. I'm very excited about being a senior. I can't wait to graduate and go on to college, plus I'm having my very favorite teacher, Mr. Lowe, teaching me English. Also I'm going to be doing a Senior Independent Project, writing a novel about a bunch of vampires. I believe I have posted some of the story on Deviantart, if you want to check it out.

Right now I'm working on three things. One is a fanfiction which is set in the Yu-Gi-Oh universe, but the storyline is based upon Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is already some 21 chapters long. The other two are AMVs. Yu-Gi-Oh amvs. One is to the song 'Heaven on Their Minds' from Jesus Christ Superstar, with Bakura playing Judas, talking to Yami, who is Jesus. I've already made one from that musical, the song to the other one is 'Jesus Christ Superstar' which is part of the Finale of the musical. The other AMV is to the song "Cry Little Sister" from the soundtrack to the movie The Lost Boys, this one focuses on Malik, Marik, Yami and Yugi. Both are about 60% done. I'm trying to finish at least one before I go back tomorrow, so keep checking my Youtube sight!

Till next time, I remain
~The BJC

School Aproaches

2007-08-17T21:55:00.001-07:00

Hello all, well here comes another update after a long silence. As you can see above, I have created a new AMV, set to the song "Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar, which is an awesome musical! I have also started and gotten very far on several new Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction, all of which can be see by following the links that are over to the right.

School is due to start on the 30th, so I believe that I shall get better with entries. I am going back on the 30th because my psychitrist has gotten me out of trips, provided that I see another psychitrist while I am at school. I was on one anti-depresent, but as I was alergic to it I am now on another and it is too early on in my taking of this one to say if it works or not.

I'm excited about school, cause I'm going to be a senior, were going to do a sweet play and one of my two best friends might be my roomate!

-THE BJC

I'm BACK!!!!

2007-07-18T08:22:00.000-07:00

Allo my adoring non existant public! Yes, I, the one and only BJC am back from my insane Greek vacation and once again I am working durring the summer at Sears.

Now for an update.
I have several new movies up, including two 'trailers' ---> V for Vendetta and Van Helsing. I am also curently working on a live action 'trailer' for a make believe movie intitled Amortisatie. I just have to wait for my brother (and camera man) to get back from a hike he and my dad went on. The idea for the trailer is that a girl wakes up in the middle of an empty city and has to figure out what happened (she's lost her memory). Amortisatie is.... -tries to remember- redemption in dutch or something like that....plus it sounds really cool!

~BJC

Gues where I am?

2007-06-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

The BJC is now in Greece.

Summer time....

2007-06-06T11:32:00.000-07:00

Well first of all there are two, yet two new music videos up on Youtube. One is called Chasing Cars and is a Yugi x Yami tribute to the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. The other, The Heaviside Layer, is about Yami leaving and is to the song The Heaviside Layer from the Musical Cats. Check them out if you so desire.

Well yesterday I went first to the dentist, where I have found that I now have two cavities. I'm getting them dealed with on Thursday. Then I went with my mom to the Blood Bank and donated blood. I couldn't get a full unit because it was my first time and I hadn't drank enough water or something. So I ended up just having a needle in my arm for ten odd minutes. It didn't hurt that much, but it was odd having a needle in my arm....

~The BJC

Finals Week

2007-05-30T18:13:00.000-07:00

Well I'm right smack in the middle of finals week and boy oh boy am I ready for school to be over. On Monday everyone (but me and the other AP US History) had their finals tests. I ended up sleeping until 11:20. Then on Tuesday we had our English Finals. I thought I did rater well. Then we had our Math final today and I had problems on several problems where I either couldn't remember how to do the problem or I had trouble doing the problem.

Then today we got our Summer Reading!!! Woot woot! I started reading one of them, and there was a reference to the Sears in San Luis Obispo where I worked last summer and last Christmas. I laughed so loudly that I scared my roommate. Then Avril and I watched the movie Chronicles of Riddick while eating food that we got from the LO Grocery.

Tomorrow I have my French Final and on Friday the last Final is Biology. Then we have Senior Chappel and Graduation on Sunday. Then it's home sweet home for the rest of the summer...well except for the month or so I'm spending on a School Trip in Greece which is lead my my English teacher for next year.

As for Fanfiction. I have posted several new songfics. The Highway Man is about the past lives of the Yamis and Seto. New York City is about Ryou not wanting to move to New York with his father and his father's new wife. Circle in the Sand which is about Yugi, Yami, Bakura and Ryou's past lives. Read if such a thing tickles your fancy.

Well that's all for now. I remain...
~The BJC

The System is Down

2007-05-08T13:07:00.000-07:00

Well my computer is in trouble, so I've been spending every moment of my time that I can on the School's computers and I have transferred my story (called, for now, The Vampire Story) to paper and have posted most of what is written, as of now, on deviantart. Check it out if that tickles your fancy.

I am also, slowly working on a new Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction and would like to write a new Van Helsing fanfiction, but have been unable to start. I'm also trying to start exercising....so stuff may not come up for a long long time.....just thought all the adoring herds (aka no one) who reads my blog would like to know.

~The BJC

Quick Update About Class Selection and Stuff

2007-05-01T11:28:00.000-07:00

Well I have officially signed up for my classes for next year and here is the list!

-English 12
-Environmental Science
-Advanced Mathematics
-History of the African-American Struggle
-Creative Writing
-The Perfect World (Spring only)

This means that during the fall I will have two free classes!! WOOOT!

In other news my computer isn't connecting to the Internet, so I am spending all my time in the Computer lab on a school computer. Because of this I can't really be on all the time, as I like to be.

Also I have written a new story! It's about vampires and is 14 pages long as of now. Wish me luck with it!!!

~The BJC

French class!!!

2007-04-27T13:14:00.000-07:00

Well here I sit, in French Class doing my blogging for the day. We have finished the work for the day and I have free time to blog my little heart out.

Yesterday we had our first Show of our play, Alice In Wonderland and it went marvelous!! Everything went well and we didn't get lost or have to stop or anything!!! Tonight we have another show and my parents are going to come to this one, so I can't wait. The only downer is that Aunt Joann is going to come as well. She used to be our babysitter but we (us children/teenagers/young adults) don't like her all that much.

In other new I have updated my AU fanfiction and plan to update it again soon. I also have a new YGO story, which is a songfic to the song Highway Man by Glen Campbell. I hope that someone will read it and like it. I also plan to post my new YGO anime music video soon. It's a short Ryou tribute to a song from The Lord of The Rings. It's really cool and I did it this morning during my free period!!!

I also have a short story entitled The Dance which shall be posted on Deviantart by the end of the day. Please read and review.

Oh and a shoutout thing a ma bobie to my berst friend A. WALKER for a spectatular job as the Cat in our play!!!

As always, I remain
~The BJC

Return to normalcy!

2007-04-23T18:49:00.001-07:00

Well, finally back to school and ready for the long haul till summer. Comming up fast is the play! Were putting on Alice In Wonderland and I have the parts of the Crab and the White Chess Queen. Very much fun....so our first show is on Thursday and my family is comming to the show on Friday!

For those of you who look at my Youtube account, I have three new videos up. Two from Little Shop of Horrors and one to Paul Simon's song The Boy In The Bubble. Check them out if Yu-Gi-Oh music videos tickle your fancy.

On the fanfiction front! Two new Yu-Gi-Oh stories! One is An 'Impossible' Relationship which is Yami/Bakura and another which is Alternate Endings which is how I wish the series had ended. Both are a little on the adult side, so read with caution and only is you like slash (male/male relationships). Another thing on the fanfiction front is that I was looking at an author's livejournal account and I stumbled upon another fanfiction realm that I now like. The relam is the of the moive Van Helsing (with Hugh Jackman in the title role) and the parring that I like is Van Helsing/Dracula....because it just fits sooooo well..... Seriously, that movie is TOO EASY. There's like a hundred sceens where a fangirl will go 'squee'. So I have taken the plunge and written an Alternative Univers (AU) fanfiction for Van Helsing, titled Lost Identity. Check it out if that tickles your fancy.

Well that is all for now. Untill next time I remain...
~The BJC

My Spring Break

2007-04-16T14:58:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I just spent a week driving around Massachusetts looking at colleges with my mom. We flew back on Tuesday and got back late Sunday. We looked at Smith, Mount Holyoke and the other three colleges that are in that area. I really really liked Mount Holyoke. After that we drove to see a friend of my Mom's that wrote one of my favorite books, American Fuji. (Check it out on Amazon) She had a really cool house and a really cool cat. After that we drove down to see some of the girls I used to hang out with....when I was three. Our moms all met in a mother/baby group and well....they stayed friends....the three of us....not so much.

The return trip was bad thought. We had to RUN to make both of our two connections. The first was in Philadelphia, where we thought we were gonna have to run, but it turned out the Flight Crew and the ‘pull back’ crew were late. Then, in Phoenix we actually did have to run and we, luckily, made it to our plane. The doors closed just as we sat down in our seats...however this meant that our luggage didn’t make it, but luckily another flight came into San Luis Obispo earlier today so we got our bags!!!

Oh, I posted two more movies on Youtube today. One is set to the song 'Don't Feed the Plants' from Little Shop of Horrors. The other is set to Paul Simon's song 'The Boy in The Bubble' from the CD Graceland. Check them out by following the link that says BJC on Youtube.

That is all for now.

-The BJC

Prefects and New Story

2007-04-05T15:37:00.000-07:00

Well, today we picked our prefects...and I must rant on this. First of all, there were only four. Two day girls and two border boys.....which goes against what I have always thought to be true about prefects...that there had to be a prefect in each dorm. Aparently the school is going to change things, by takeing away prefect posts and letting the students lead themselves. As to the people chosen as prefect....let me just say I only respect two of them and of those two I only LIKE one, the other annoys me.

Moving on, if you watch my fanfiction, you may note that I have posted a new story! However, as my previous stories have been in the Lost Boys fandom, this new one is in the Yu-Gi-Oh fandom, which I have read for a long time but never attempted to write. However today I found the creative juices flowing and wrote out a story entitled Flu Shots which is a EXTREAMLY short story (hell it's almost PWP) on the parring of Ryou/Bakura. It supposed to take place little while after Battle City ends. Check it out if you like YGO fanfiction!

Oh yes, Break starts tomorrow and I'm going back East to look at colleges, I'll try and post an entry when I get back to tell you all about it!

That's all for now,
~The BJC

Just another manic Monday....

2007-03-26T20:50:00.000-07:00

Well today started out with a boy from school, Logan, making the announcement that the whole school was now in a giant game of "Assassin" which we call "Gotcha!" Basically everyone has someone that they have to tag. Once you tag that person you have to tag their person. So I managed to tag one person and was in the process of getting my second person when Alex came running up and got me. I swore revenged. Now my minions are working on said revenge while I watch Yu-Gi-Oh AMVs on Youtube.com. Ahhh, wireless Internet is a pleasant thing indeed. And after Study Hall I shall have the chance to watch the next season of Angel with my friend Avril. Then we shall finally know who has won a little bet we have going. The bet is thus: at the end of the last episode Angel was in a coffin at the bottom of the sea. I bet that Weaselly gets him out, while Avril bet that someone else would. Winner gets a Monster (energy drink) from the loser. I wrote a very good poem in Creative Writting today entitled I Want To Crawl Into A Hole And Die. It shall be posted on deviantart by tomorrow....(I don't feel like doing it now)

Well that's all for now, till next time...
~The BJC

AT LAST IT IS DONE!!!

2007-03-18T21:17:00.000-07:00

Yes, you have read correctly. As of now, 9:19 on March 18, 2007, the BJC has COMPLETED HER JRP!! WOOT! Yes. I finally finished adding all the last minute corrections and sent it to myself through AOL Mail. Finally the largest paper of my Junior year has been completed....
Maybe I'll post it on here at a later date...

...I'm gonna go fall onto my bed and sleep now.

~The BJC

SATs and Rope Course

2007-03-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

Hello the Internet!

Well on Saturday I took the SATs, which, as you well know, will determine the course of my life from here on out....Reading was easy, math was hard, essay was hardest. Then on Sunday I got shipped off to Junior Ropes Course courtesy of Dunn School. Ropes Course is a day long thing that is designed to make us all leaders and build trust between students....oh and there's the high ropes course, which is rock climbing but with add ons. My arms hurt. My arms hurt a lot. Every time I bend at the elbow a fresh wave of pain rockets through my body. My hands are numb (from belaying)

Oh, and on Friday I got to go to an Open Mic Night that a student hosted. It was very cool. I got to drink a milkshake, read my poetry and buy Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2 from Blockbuster. Oh, and Min Kee sang with his band. That kid is a music GOD!

Well I better be off to french Class, so this is goodbye till some other unknown time.
~The BJC

I Lost Two Dollars Today In A Bet

2007-02-28T19:59:00.000-08:00

Allo you all!

Well school has started back up and today we had auditions for the Dunn Springtime Player's production of Alice In Wonderland. I auditioned for the Red Queen, the White Queen, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat. I would really like to be one of the Queens and I thought I did well in my auditions.
I recently finished watching Season III of Angel with my friend Walker. It has a horrible clif hanger ending. And I lost two dollars to Walker over a bet concering if two characters would make out. They did, so I lost two bucks.
I just spent a whole load of time trying to complete a biology paper and then typeing up the two pieces I am entering into a local Literary Arts Contest called Applause. I am entering one short story (The Last Days Of Katherine David) which is loosly based on my own life and one poem (God). I have high hopes for both works.
Now I am takeing a brief break before I go back to correcting my JRP and listing to songs from Newsies, Cher and My Neighbor Totoro!

Good bye for now!
~The BJC

JRP, Lost Boys 2 and Dancing In The Barn

2007-02-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

After a marathon amount of time spent in front of my computer screen typing up page after page after page of information and having not one, not two, but FIVE books open on my desk at once, I have completed all but the conclusion of the first draft of my JRP!!! HOORAY FOR ME!

As I've said before my JRP is about the effect of religion upon vampires in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I've decided to focus on five vampires: Lestat, Louis, Claudia, Armand and Marius. For each vampire I wrote about their mortal life, their vampiric life and then how religion effects them and where this religion comes from. It's actually been really fun because I've gotten to dive even deeper into my the lives of characters in my favorite book series. Of course there have been some annoying parts, such as when I knew exactly what quote I was looking for but couldn't remember what book it was in (out of about six books it could be in) and about seven suddenly revelations that I was doing a certain part all wrong.

So let's see, other then JRP, what has happened so far?? Well yesterday the Sophomores put on a dance in the barn that was really fun. Except they had a dress code and I had to dress up, which wasn't so bad but I had to wear heals and my feet hurt after only a few dances. Then when I decided to go back to my room and work on the JRP some more it was pouring rain and I stepped in a huge puddle and almost got pneumonia in my feet....

Oh, and important Lost Boys information. Some stupid person at Warner Brothers has decided to make a sequel to this cult classic. Now normally this would be good, but they have decided to make a straight to DVD release with a low budget and the movie is going to be about SURFING VAMPIRES!!!!! If this idea makes you want to kill your own children, or if you just like Lost Boys in any way shape or form, please go here and stop this from happening: http://www.petition.lostcave.net/

Thank you and good....*checks time* afternoon!
~The BJC

The Movie Factory Girl

2007-02-03T19:02:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I'm looking at the news on AOl.com and I stumble across an article on the movie Factory Girl. Here's a link to the trailor:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHPcZfnWL-o
The movie is about Edie Sedgwick .
Edie Sedgwick was an american actress, socialite, debutante and heiress who starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s. She died on Novermber 15, 1971 of a barbiturate overdose. Warhol was often blamed for her descent into drug adiction and mental illness. But she'd actully been in mental hospitals before she met him and her family had a history of mental illness.

So why am I talking about this? Well a while ago, around the time school started, I was on uppercampus looking at the message board that is to the side of the Boy's Day Lounge window and I saw a piece of paper that Doc (he's like our libraian/historian) had posted. On it was a small article on Edie Sedgwick that had been in a magazine and some pictures of her. On the paper Doc had written about how Edie Sedgwick apparetnly went to Dunn school for a year! At the time Dunn was not really coed. The girls on campus were day students and were only there cause the school needed the money. At this time Dunn was still called 'the valley school'. But apparently Edie Sedgwick went there for a year.

Kinda creapy no?
~The BJC

The Dunn School Talent Show

2007-02-02T21:49:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I just got back from the Dunn School talent show, where I sang "How Do You Like Me Now" by Toby Keith. The audience really liked it and I have high hopes for placing. Last year I won both the Lip Sync and the Talent show. This year I can in second in the Lip Sync and I won't know about the Talent Show till Monday. Now I have two glorious days of nothing but sleep and....well working on a colossal paper called the JRP that has it's first draft due in two weeks.....but still, no sports practice tomorrow!

Anyways, I am going to do my JRP (which stands for Junior Research Project by the way) on the effect of religion in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I can't wait to start, but I am too tired to do anything more then watching videos on Youtube and reading fanfiction tonight. Perhaps I'll even work on the vampire story I'm writing....but then again that mountain of writer's block is still well....there.....-stupid writers block-

Today, being a Friday, was an Academy Day! Academy is Dunn School's book club, but we tend to call it a "conspiracy of intellectuals", both myself and my best friend A are on it. We are presently reading 1984 by George Orwell. I am rereading the book since I read it this summer when I worked for Sears. In Academy we had a discussion about how the reality of the future is very far from Orwell's prediction. In the book the telescreens bring obedience through punishment, while in life televisions and computer monitors bring obedience and control through pleasure. We got into a side track on how big Mr. Lowe's (the English teacher who runs Academy) FBI/CIA file is.
The later in French III we went crazy....I think someone put drugs into the air in that classroom because we just could NOT concentrate. It was amusing, but our teacher, Miss Creighton, got mad at us.
Also, I'm kinda mad because NONE of the four or so packages I'm expecting from Amazon and such places came. I ordered a Lost Boys poster, a book about Anne Rice, Angel Season 3 and the movie But I'm A Cheerleader! Which is very, very, very funny.
Well that's all I can think of to rant about. BACK TO THE YOUTUBE AND FANFICTION!!!
~The BJC

I have free period first today!

2007-02-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

Okay, I said in my last post that I go to High School. I actually go to a boarding school. It's not far, only about 2 hours drive, from home, so I get to see my parents a lot and I go home on weekends. Dunn, my school, is....well Dunn.Let me explain.
Dunn has four dorms. One girls dorm (Loy) and three boys dorms (Knolls, Boone and Senior) Interesting fact about Senior Dorm. It is named such because one year (before Dunn went coed) the headmaster really didn't like the Senior class, so he made them build a dorm down on lower yard (which was like a cow pasture or something at the time). Senior was built from other small buildings (sheds and such) on campus. Because it was built by Seniors they had to spend a ton of money a few years ago to redo it and make it fit for human life. Senior is now the only Dunn dorm that is: less then two stories and with a communal shower. Knolls and Boone are named after some people that donated money to the school. (Yes the Boone is the same as the Boone white boards -apparently he went here once) Loy is named after the headmaster who presided over the first coed class.
Dunn also has a Day student population. These kids mostly went to Dunn Middle School, which is down by the baseball field, and the Family School, which isn't official affiliated with Dunn, but all the Day students and the faculty kids go there as well.
Teachers live both on and off school. On school there are several houses in the dorms. My English teacher and his wife (who teaches pottery) live at one end of Loy Dorm, while my CP (conceptual physics) teacher lives at the other end. In the center lives my French teacher, who is also my advisor. There are also some houses scattered around the campus. My English teacher from last year (who is also going to teach me next year) lives down by the track. My Freshman English teacher and my best friend's advisor live up by the English and art departments. There houses share a wall or something like that.
Lower Campus is where the dorms and playing fields are. The swimming pool is sorta middle campus. Upper campus (which official starts at the schoolhouse [our Music Room]) Has all the classrooms, the offices of the headmaster, other offices, the Library, the Dinning Hall and the Theater (which looks like a red barn).
We have a rotating schedule, every day you have six of the seven class periods. Here's my classes:
A Period - English
B Period - Free (almost everyone has 1 free period to do with as they will)
C Period - Algebra II
D Period - Creative Writting (my Art elective)
E Period - Biology
F Period - French III
G Period - AP US History

French is the only class I share with my best friend...but next year we probably won't even share that, cause she is going to keep going on to French IV while I stop French and take another history elective or something....
Well gotta run, I have to check in with my advisor!
~The BJC

Allo and welcome to all you brave travlers.

2007-01-30T19:13:00.000-08:00

Well well well. Here I am, little bitty BJC making my first expedition into the world of online blogging....with this horrible first post. Since I'm planing on only giving this link to my close friends/family, I guess you all know about me. But since I am inevitably going to one day become a famous author, I better write a brief intro to my life....here goes nothing!

Okay, I am BJC, or Wolverinegal, as I am known on most other online sights that require a user name. I'm a High school Student and I live on the Central Coast of California, however I was born on the East Coast. My family moved out here when I was around five years old. I have three younger siblings, one brother, two sisters. I am currently going to boarding school and looking at colleges. As you may see, I have both a Deviantart and a YouTube account. On Deviantart I mostly do poetry and fiction...however I have never finished a story.... On YouTube I do AMV (aka Anime Music Videos) using images from Yu-Gi-Oh! which is NOT JUST A KID SHOW!!! At some later date I will rant on that subject...but moving on.
I want to be a Author when I grow up, but I am currently trying to decide what I want to major in....right now I'm thinking English/History teacher....
Other things I'm obsessed with?
-Vampires: especially Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I'm probably going to write my JERP (big research project at my school) on Vampires. Aside from the Vampire Chronicles I also enjoy Buffyverse vampires, such as Angel and Spike and the boys from The Lost Boys (which I write fanfiction about)
-X-men: hence the name Wolverinegal. I am obsessed with Wolverine and enjoy X-men fanfiction, such as Gambit/Wolverine and the occasional Wolverine/Cyclops.

Well it's almost Study Hall, so I must now depart and do homework or I will fail my classes and English Professors will laugh at me at parties.

Till the next post!
~The BJC