What is My Life?

Hello! Today's post is just going to be me filling you in a little on my life, so you can have some context for all this crazy. (I thought the title was appropriate, because I've been saying that a lot recently.)

First, and most excitingly, school ended on June 13th. Lucky me, the math and science program I'm in only gives one exam a day during exam week, so we all got to go home earlier than everyone else. Including picking up my sousaphone from my base school, I was home over an hour earlier than my brother (and you can bet I lorded that over him, because maturity). Although I've spent a lot of time just relaxing, I've also been pretty productive (mostly on the stuff from yesterday's post), and I'm planning on keeping it that way. Since I'm apparently incapable of having fun. It's fine.

Speaking of sousaphones... marching band! I mentioned that our show is Latin, but I thought I'd give you a little more detail. (Yay, details! Come on, at least pretend you're excited!) Our show doesn't have its performance title yet, but right now we're just calling it A Celebration of Mangione. Chuck Mangione is a composer who was apparently big in the '70s. None of us had ever heard of him, but he composed the music for the movie Children of Sanchez. For those of you (like me) who haven't seen it, let me tell you, the music is fabulous. Or we got a really amazing arrangement. Probably both. Both is good. There are way too many sixteenth notes, but I really like the music, and I'm really excited about our upcoming season!

A lot of my time this summer is going to be spent on band and crafts and other fun things, but I also have a decent reading list. My priority is something that was assigned to me for school, called Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History. Something I want to read for myself is The Count of Monte Cristo. Because of the weird way we did our foreign language exams this year, my French class finished about three weeks before the school year did. My teacher decided to use all the extra time to show us the seven hour movie version, starring Gerard Depardieu. Then she challenged me to read it, so I'm going to do that. It's apparently over a thousand pages, but I've read Lord of the Rings, so how bad can it be? I really enjoyed the story, so hopefully I'll feel the same about the book. I also have a few smaller things I'd like to read, which aren't really as interesting. And finally, my dad is continuing his quest to get me to read the Bible and the Koran. Neither of us are religious, but he thinks it's important to be well educated in other people's beliefs. He has a point, so if I get around to it, I'll probably do that.... I don't really know.

I think that's enough of a look into my boring life. At least now you'll have a vague recollection of what I'm talking about in future posts! Speaking of which, I'm going out of town for the next couple of days, so I don't really know when the next post will be, or what it's going to be on. Yay, surprises, right? Right? Well, in any case, I'll talk to you soon!

And now, your question for today: What are you doing this summer/over the next few months? I'd especially love to hear about books you're reading or have read recently, since I'm always looking for new stuff to try. Let me know in the comments!

An Update on My Life

Hello again, everyone! I hope you're having a great New Year's Eve, and that you have fun plans for tonight! Today I'm going to give you an update on some stuff in my life (I know, so interesting), which will hopefully be a bit of an excuse explanation for my recent radio silence.

1. School: I am really liking high school now, even though I kind of hate one of my classes. Nothing particularly interesting has been happening lately, unless you actually go to my school, though. It's mostly just been me drowning in homework, mostly for science, and, oddly, English. One cool thing I'm doing is making a French cooking show, which is my big project for, you guessed it, French. We're doing a cooking unit, so everyone has to make a video in the style of a cooking show showing how to make an actual French dish. Pretty cool, no? OK, on to more interesting things...
2. Extracurriculars: Marching band sadly ended on November 8, so I have nothing to do.... Obviously, I'm kidding! Winter guard started a week after that, so I've ridiculously busy with that. Our practices were from 7-10 on Tuesdays and Fridays, and 9-4 on Saturdays, until a week or two ago. Then we split into JV and Varsity (I'm a rookie, so I'm on JV) and now I'll be practicing 7-10 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. So don't expect any kind of brilliant writing during the week! (That is, if you get anything at all...) I'm really excited about the stuff I get to do in our show but I'll probably do a whole post on that some other time.
3. Fandoms: I'm so behind on Doctor Who, since I still haven't finished Series 7.2, so I haven't seen the 50th or the Christmas special. But I'll catch up eventually! (Spring break, anyone?) I'm anxiously awaiting January 19, and also considering sneaking on to a plane to England so I can watch Sherlock on Wednesday. On an unrelated note, I will be hiding in a safe, nonspoilery section of the Internet until the 19th. I'm slowly working my way through Supernatural, and I'm now just a few episodes away from Season 7. I'll get there eventually, although it would help if I just didn't get any science homework until February.....
4. Other Stuff: I got all of John Green's books for Christmas, and I have to admit, I kind of freaked out. I read TFiOS in two hours on Christmas, and I started AAoK last night. I don't have a problem, I swear.

I hope that didn't bore you too much, and kudos to you if you actually read it all! Hopefully I'll be back with another post soon, but no promises, right?

I Lost THE GAME

First of all, I'd like to welcome you to Tales of a Teenage Neek! I don't really know how this is going to go, but basically, I'm just going to talk about my life and stuff that happens, and hopefully some people will read it and enjoy it. (Well, ideally, a lot of people will read this and enjoy it, but baby steps.)

If you're reading this, you're probably thinking, "Who is this person that wants me to read about their presumably boring life?" (Or more likely, "What the heck is a neek?") First, me. I am a 14 year old girl living in a sort of average-ish town. (By that I mean I only know about a third of the people that live on my street, and even less of the people in my neighborhood, but I don't live in a city. Actually, I don't even live in a town. I just looked up the official term for where I live, and according to Wikipedia, it's a census-designated place.)

That's sort of the basics of me, Kelsey. (Right, by the way, my name is Kelsey. You could have figured that out if you looked at the bottom of this post, or the stuff right before the parentheses, but I'm telling you now anyway.) However, there are some other things that you should be warned about know about me. So here's a list:

1. As the title of this blog suggests, I am a huge neek. And I'm okay with it, hence why I'm telling the entire Internet. (Funny(ish) story: Earlier today, I was trying to come up with a name for this, and I was trying to figure out if I should call myself a geek or a nerd. I ended up deciding that I'm not really more of one than the other, so I wanted to combine them. I picked neek, then I googled it to make sure it wasn't something weird or dirty, and I discovered that it's actually a thing. It has an entry at Urban Dictionary and everything. Which definitely means it's legit.)
2. This is not the first blog I've had. I started a blog called Sudsy Jellyfish about two years ago, and I sort of sporadically updated it until early July of this year. I decided I wanted a change of pace, and I wanted to change what I blog about, so this happened. Don't worry, there's really nothing important on there, so unless you like the things in #3, there's not really any reason to go there.
3. I do things. Yeah. Shocker. More specifically, I knit, crochet, sew (hand and machine), cross stitch, and other assorted little crafty things. I also read a ton, and write, and enjoy the strange world that is the Internet. 
4. I lost the game. And now you have, too. If you're confused, go watch this video. Then watch all the rest of their videos (which I am in the process of doing), and become a huge nerdfighter and your life will be so much better. Seriously.

So now you know a little bit about me, and hopefully you'll stick around for more of the craziness that is me! Tomorrow is my first day of high school (gack!) so I don't know how much I'll be posting this week, but maybe tomorrow I'll have some interesting high school thing to talk about. I'm going to go double-check my backpack now (again).