Currently I'm actually going through a mix of relief, because my presents are finished, as well as a wave of panic. The winter break homework I've been assigned is due in a little over a week, and I have yet to start any of it yet.

I've gotten quite a bit better at stitching and sculpting because of my Christmas presents, and now my body is slow to want to stop practicing and making them. I want to continue making them, which makes the return of my obligations quite frustrating...

Normally, I celebrate Christmas comfortably with my family. We eat a pleasant dinner, attend mass, visit our friends, I drop off my friends' gifts, then we go home and wait until morning or the time when we can open presents.

However, since me and my father began volunteering our services to the American Red Cross, my father and I have decided to donate our time this Christmas to working for them. Until 12 o'clock this evening, we will be monitoring the various disasters in the area, and we will be sending services to any problems that might come up.

Within half an hour of arriving at the center of operations, and apartment complex burnt down, and approximately forty people lost their homes. The news channels nearby are gathering toys for the things all of the families living there have lost, while we direct them with addresses and phone numbers of the appropriate people to contact. We nearly had to coordinate a shelter opening up to give them somewhere to stay during Christmas, but most of them managed to find friends and family to stay with.

And that's two hours down. Four hours to go. Can you just imagine what else might be going on while you continue your annual celebrations in the comfort of your home?

For those interested in the Pokemon fandom, I strongly, STRONGLY suggest looking up The Soul of Light and Dark on Fanfiction.net.

He is a marvelous writer who truly deserves some recognition for his work, or at least more people reading it- while keeping consistently to revealed information about Pokemon, their abilities and the fandom in general, he manages to use originality, wit, and detailed writing to draw the reader in to the scene at hand. Even his casual descriptions fit perfectly- he seems to constantly fulfill the 'what if?' of the Pokemon genre in the story, consistently making it clear even for those not quite as in-tune with the fandom what is happening and why, all the while, keeping it interesting. He has careful touches of humor mixed with the base story to appeal to those interested in a serious storyline and those looking for a laugh, making for the perfect appeal. And he's only getting better as time goes on.

He uses some of the well known shippings between pokemon, like GalladexGardevoir and DarkraixCresselia, for those who are fans in his longest and most detailed work in progress, called The Wind and the Rain. It is a story with a compelling, seemingly-simple plot that goes just deep enough to draw you in, only to gradually hint at the makings of something larger.

If you're not quite so cut out to reading large multi-chapter stories, and for those who have played any of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, he has created marvelous renditions of them as well that are perfectly suited to a bit of tasteful reading. Time Does Not All Wounds Heal is a moving piece of work surrounding the end of the first Mystery Dungeon series, and he also has a sequel to it, The Cruelty of Fate. Deliverance is the story he has been working on most lately and has nearly finished; I think it really gives you an idea of his skill in the latest chapters.

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His work is amazing, simply put. My words are inadequate; writers like him exist to explain the unexplainable, and you really have to read one of his stories to get a taste of his work. If you don't believe me, here are some quotes from his work.

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"...there was something undeniably satisfying about feeling her knuckles crack as her fist slammed into his face."
(The Wind and the Rain)

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"After performing a quick ritual at a shrine that mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and high-tailing it out of the cave, we discovered a new dungeon appearing in a cliff side about a few miles away from the entrance to Aegis Cave. I was just a little miffed at that. I mean, we went through all that crap and all we got was ANOTHER DUNGEON?!"
(The Cruelty of Fate)

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"...He opened his mouth, inhaled to prepare for the blast, and got a mouthful of toxic sludge instead.

The first time this sort of thing had happened a few years ago, Slag had reasonably assumed that it was simply panic that had caused his friend to act without thinking. The fifth time, Slag had begun to wonder why Ikubi wasn’t learning his lesson.

By the nineteenth time he had privately decided to himself that Ikubi didn’t have the patience to understand the concept of trial and error."
(Deliverance)

Just because I've been making an effort to make my entries worth while doesn't mean I don't love showing off random things and that I'm not going to clutter up your pages with nothing important. ^-^/~<3
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I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Languages are probably Physical Touch and Words of Affirmation

My Detailed Results:
Physical Touch:	8
Words of Affirmation:	8
Quality Time:	6
Receiving Gifts:	4
Acts of Service:	4

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.
Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

Take the Quiz!

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Disorder	Rating
Paranoid Personality Disorder:	Low
Schizoid Personality Disorder:	Low
Schizotypal Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Antisocial Personality Disorder:	Low
Borderline Personality Disorder:	Low
Histrionic Personality Disorder:	Moderate
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:	Low
Avoidant Personality Disorder:	Low
Dependent Personality Disorder:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:	Low
-- Take the Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Info --

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π

You likely already know what Pi is.
The number of times the diameter of a circle will wrap around it, a number used to measure the circle's approximate circumference.
3.14 is the widely known decimal approximation, or 22 divided by 7.
Pi is also the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, pronounced just like your favorite dessert. In the Greek numeric system, it equals 80.

In mathematics, Pi is known as one of the most famous irrational and imaginary numbers, a decimal that neither terminates or repeats despite hundreds and hundreds of digits having been found and recorded.

Actually, 22/7 is inaccurate to farther decimals. 355/113 is the next most accurate approximation, and 103993/33102, while long and somewhat absurd, is also the next best. Pi is a complex algorithm that has took many years to approximate farther than the tenth digit. With today's technology, it's been accurately approximated to the trillionth digit with no end in sight.

Some people have various reasons to remember this well known number, ranging from boredom to obsession, with (according to Wikipedia) the greatest number known and recited being something like 30 million places.
Most normal people simply consider the idea absurd.

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Just for interest's sake, I was searching pi on the internet (I have to check my facts before I write something, too. o.o;) and I found a quite amusing little site.
A Pi Searcher.

You can search for various numbers within the first two million digits, like your birthday, important dates, and anything else you might care to find. Just a random thing to do for boredom's sake.
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Personally, I have a particular affinity to Pi for no reason other than I saw it every day of my freshman and sophomore school year on a poster in one of the school hallways. And so, I have become (according to one of my teachers) "one of those people."

Therefore, available for your viewing pleasure, my current knowledge of Pi, spaced in the increments by which I gradually memorized it.

3.141 59 26 535 89 79 323 84 626 433 832 7950 2884 197 169 3993 7510 5820 97 4944...