Fennel

PARTE DEUX

I'm not much of a hard-core EV trainer, but I'm always thinking about the EVs my Pokemon are going to earn if they beat a given opponent. Like for instance, when I'm put up against a Ground-type and I have a Grass- or Water-type Pokemon in my party, I won't send out the Pokemon with that type advantage because I don't want it getting EVs it doesn't need, unless I know for sure that Ground-type gives out Defense or HP or something my Pokemon could actually use. (Of course, nowadays moves can be physical or special irregardless of type, but I've only owned games as recent as Generation III, so I'm still in the mind-set that certain types are always one or the other.) Making sure my whole team has something to benefit from the new Exp. Share seems like a hassle to me, but I suppose I could just go around with two or three Pokemon at a time. Gaining experience after you catch Pokemon is just going to be another thing for me to take into consideration now, the way I see it, because when I get X I'm going to have to bring along or send out Pokemon that could actually put those EVs to use when I'm catching a new Pokemon. Maybe I'll get used to it. The new Exp. Share sounds like something I could get used to, but gaining experience from catching Pokemon might mess with the way I like to train my Pokemon.

I'm probably going to stick around with mom for a few years after high school and get a better hang of that whole "independence" thing. Besides, houses are expensive. Mom says I should go someplace for a year or two just to get a job that pays well enough for a college that's focused on the career I'm looking for.

I think that's the way it is for everybody except movie critics. Gravity is on my to-see list as well. Off the top of my head, films released this year that I'm also interested in are Nebraska, The Conjuring and Inside Llewyn Davis. How did you hear about a little old independent drama like Mean Creek before knowing that Josh Peck was in it?

We did in-class essays last year, and I actually prefered those because they weren't as long and I surprised myself with how much I was able to scrape together under pressure. I think the key to disciplining myself is going to be figuring out a way to make up imaginary dead-lines for myself.

When I go into a movie knowing that it's going to be bad, my brain flips into Mystery Science Theater 3000 mode. Usually my friends just want to take in all the terribleness, though. I need to put something together with my friends who would go into Game Grumps mode with me, except with movies.

Cool.

I think that Fennel is Cool at times

Hello

I'd love to add you. I am 1263 6435 3487, and I have Gothorita, Espurr, and something else.

PART 2 BECAUSE I'M LONG-WINDED

Yeah, you know how those novels are, the ones that are such fixtures in their genre that their titles are literally just the names of the subjects they're about: Like War and Peace, you know? xD Good luck. My English class is working on another essay for the second quarter, or at least everyone except me. :S I really, really hate these essays. I can't focus at all, I can't get anything out of the resources I use to research for them... ugh. I just really hate essays, okay? -_-

Well, there's Looney Tunes... and Michael Jordan... and aliens? And they play basketball... for some reason... ? I need to watch that movie some day, probably with friends and microwave pop-corn.

The most recent main-series game I own is LeafGreen, so I can't wait to see how ineptly I stumble through the game while I get the hang of how Pokemon works nowadays. xD I'm still in the mind-set that all Rock moves are physical and all Psychic moves are special! And then this re-done Exp. Share, and now gaining experience when you catch Pokemon... it's gonna be like a whole new world to me. I don't see how EV training could be easier if you now gain experience from catching Pokemon and spread out experience throughout the whole team, though. Could you explain? The only Pokemon I've ever EV-trained is my Omanyte in LeafGreen, and that took a while.

That doesn't make me feel better, per se, just sorry for you as well as myself. xD Colleges have started e-mailing me, so it's a little easier to learn what to look for and what could be best for me and all the other things that go into choosing a college. I'm just surprised at how far away some of the places that have e-mailed me are from me. I've gotten e-mails from Johns Hopkins University in Virginia and the University of Denver in Colorado. I'm looking for a specialist school like Ringling, the one I mentioned a few messages ago that's really close by. So far, I still have my eyes set on that place, although it's more focused on visual arts than writing. Still, it has courses in film, which is one of many fields that I want to take my writing to, so until I come across a better opportunity, I'm hoping to go there. But now that I think about it, I need to find some "Plan B" colleges, too, so I still have more investigating to do.

Hmm, you know how I've been with my recent forays into thrillers, with my drama-influenced mind making me look for things that aren't present in your average thriller. I don't think I told you about a movie I saw a month or two ago called Mean Creek. I was seeing what the Drake and Josh of Nickelodeon sitcom fame have done other than that show, and apparently around the same time Drake & Josh premiered, Josh Peck was in this independent drama that got positive reviews, so I watched it, and I am so glad I did. It's like my kind of movie in a nutshell: moody, dramatic, conservatively-shot... it's the kind of drama that people who don't like dramas would probably sleep through, but I mean all those adjectives I just listed in the best way. I loved it.

It is. It also obliterated the Champion by itself.

PART 2

Oh, man, that movie. xD All I really know about it is what the Nostalgia Critic chose to share about it in his review. You know, I actually never saw Space Jam as a kid. :O The most unnecessary movie I saw as a kid that I can think of at the moment is the Pokemon movie the Power Rangers movie. Not even the first one; the sequel to that one. Power Rangers: Turbo, I think it was called. HOO, BOY, that's a classic.

Nope, I've never traded Pokemon. The plight of a poor boy who was always one generation behind the rest. ;_; I'm not that dead-set on getting Y, I just arbitrarily chose it because I have a Y chromosome and not everyone does. I'll get X if you're going to be the first person I trade with. Besides, I have an X chromosome, too.

100 Grand is Jesus reincarnated as a candy bar. That's all the description you need.

I think it's mainly a distraction thing. I have to do a lot of my work on the computer, with the a bunch of Internet time-wasters just a few clicks away, so I lose focus quickly. Sometimes I open up an assignment and then decide, "Nah, I don't want to do this."
I simultaneously want to get a job and don't want to. I want to have some kind of an income at all, but I need a lot of time to do school work, too. I don't have any kind of resume, either, I've only just barely begun to involve myself in those kinds of legal matters. I haven't gotten my license, either. Basically I just have a lot of things to do and I'm not doing them. -_-

I used to just think of Saw as mindless torture porn, which is basically how I still view the gazillion sequels, but as I read up on the original (seeing as I have nostalgia for pretty much anything that happened from 2000 to 2004), it actually started intriguing me. I'm trying to not get my hopes up in case the director focused more on the dynamic of "these people are getting horribly tortured, watch in stomach-wrenchingly unnecessary detail" instead of the much more interesting dynamic of focusing on a serial killer's victims rather than the killer themselves, but I plan on seeing it someday.

Yeah, there are plenty of novels that could make use of trimming off a few hundred pages. I think long-winded novels are probably one of the worst offenders to me; slow plots are fine, and I actually prefer a slower pace most of the time (or maybe not, I'm not even sure myself), but I mean novels where a whole bunch of nothing happens while the narrator asserts otherwise. When I read things like that, I started doubting myself, like I'm looking for some kind of a reason for all this nothing to be happening when there isn't one. At that point, the novel becomes more of a chore than anything, and I usually give it up soon enough.

I've seen a team swept by Huge Power Azumarill with Belly Drum and Aqua Jet. My team was Chesnaught, Charizard, Meowstic, Ampharos and Klefki.

What's your team?

YEAH, IT'S PART 2 BUT HEY AT LEAST THERE'S NO PART 3 THIS TIME

Man, when I was little I wasn't allowed to watch movies like that, but all the kids around me talked up a storm between Alien vs. Predator and Freddy vs. Jason. It's a childish thing to cross franchises, isn't it? 'Cause when you're a kid who loves Pokemon, loves Dragonball, and loves Destroy All Humans, you think that since Pokemon is awesome, Dragonball is awesome, and Destroy All Humans is awesome, then all those franchises smashed together has to add up to the coolest thing ever. xD

The most recent main-series Pokemon game I've owned is LeafGreen. Congrats on getting Y! These Generation VI games look like such a huge leap forward for the franchise, I can't wait to get my hands on them. Do you think I should change my plans and get X since you have Y now? I've never actually traded Pokemon with another person before since I never had a Link Cable or the same games as anyone else growing up, so I want to make sure I can take that to its fullest extent if I'm going to finally be on the same page as everybody else for once. So many Pokemon I always wished I could have, but never could because I had no one to trade with... Steelix, Kingdra, Golem, Gengar... *sniffle*

Well, I wasn't planning on doing much of anything, but then a friend I haven't seen in a while texted me saying her friend ditched her, so I decided to throw together a costume and meet up with her. I didn't really take into account how big the neighborhood was, so I wandered around for an hour looking for her. I did eventually find her, which was more than I was asking for at that point, but she had to go pretty soon afterward since I had wasted so much time looking for her. :/ Although she did give me a 100 Grand because I had no candy, so it was totally worth it. My costume was a black shirt that I taped pieces of paper spelling out "COSTUME" onto.

I guess asking my English teacher would be a good idea. I've noticed that I usually get good grades on assignments that I turn in on time, but my problem is getting them in on time. I should learn how to manage time. Also, I got a couple letters at school. One was the results of the survey I took to find ideal universities for me, and one of them was the Ringling College of Art and Design, which is a well-regarded school that's really close by, so I think I have my sights set on that place most of all. The other one said that I'm eligible for membership into the National Honor Society. That's going to look good on my resume, so I'm hoping to pass the application for that.

As I was reading about Zodiac to decide if I would watch it, I was actually thinking "This sounds a lot like Se7en", and then I found out that they're from the same director, so that was weird. I've never actually seen Se7en, but it's on my list ever since I watched Zodiac, that's for sure. He seems like a good pick for directing the Gone Girl movie, too. I guess that's on my list, too, now.

Thanks for the offer, I really appreciate it.

I haven't been reading at all since school started. :S This is the first year of school where I'm really looking forward to the down time I'll get over the summer.

Just paint yourself up like a cat and no one would notice your age.
So your siblings brought you in a good haul?

Mostly babysat my niece. And you? Did you go trick-or-treating?

PART 3 BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE SHORTENING THIS JESUS CHRIST THESE ARE GETTING LONG

Damn, girl, I'm struggling with the rough draft as it is and you're asking me about my final draft Hopefully this whole essay will take on the role of a learning experience later on so I know what I'm doing next time around. T_T

I don't have a 3DS, but I'm planning on asking for one on my birthday so I can get Y with my own. I've really never been "current" as far as Pokemon goes, so I think Y would be a great time to break that mold. My gramma always gives me money for my birthday/Christmas (even though I don't celebrate the latter any more, but what'cha gonna do), and I'm sure that's going to be enough for Y (and maybe I could chip in for the 3DS so mom's more likely to go through with the proposal ).

PART 2

You mean, like, emotionally? I don't know much, but I know I'm nowhere near recovered yet. Come January I'll have had depression for a year now. I get suicidal thoughts a lot, but it's not translating into actions. I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
Looking it up, it seems really interesting. I think I might have to put it on my list if it's getting this much praise, plus it'd be nice to read a really good contemporary novel instead of listen to my friends blab about Fifty Shades of Grey. Sounds like something Hollywood could screw up really easily, though.

I swear I'll stop going on about Life of Pi now, bro. xD About damn time you watched Star Wars! Be sure to watch the sequels, too. It has a huge impact when you see it as a little kid like I did many, many times over. Yeah, people typically hold the prequels in the same regard as the Antichrist on their ladders of decency, and I like the original trilogy more, but I saw the prequels from a very young age as well as the originals, so I'm kinda blinded by nostalgia. Now that I think about what the main difference between the original trilogy and the prequels were, I think it's that the originals were a little more up-beat and communicated more of the story through symbolism, whereas a lot of scenes in the prequels consist just of people talking. I can see how it'd get tiresome to someone who didn't grow up with it like I did. The Phantom Menace is my favorite of the prequels because it most closely shares the aesthetic of the originals. You'll see what I mean if you watch all six and then think about it.

My mom's encouraging me to get started on my portfolio, writing and submitting to literary journals and such. Right now is pretty much the best time to get started, too, but I'm really awful at managing time and focusing on important stuff like that and school, so... I don't know what I'm going to do. I have a bunch of ideas, and I get new ones pretty frequently, but I just have no idea where to start, what to do, how to do it, when to do it...

I've found a pretty reliable aggregator myself, so I'm past the stage of stumbling through a bunch of scam sites and "Oh, your computer has a virus, or at least now it does sucka!". I've found a good aggregator for porn, too I see what you mean about stories that have no meaning, and on that subject I watched a movie the other day,Zodiac. It's a thriller/mystery-type thing about the Zodiac Killer, so surely I thought it wouldn't have much to say beyond the literal plot, and I watched it with this mind-set. And you know what? I actually enjoyed it! It's an adaption of a book written by a guy who worked at the San Francisco Chronicle at the time the murders were going on and spent a large portion of his life trying to find out who the Zodiac Killer was, so while the story has a lot of time-skipping and a lot of the uncertainty that exists outside of Hollywood-World, it was pretty fascinating. Jake Gyllenhaal did a good job playing the guy, too.