My Friends are Pretty Awesome

Firstly, I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a couple of days. I honestly had nothing of interest to say and I didn’t want to subject you guys to a boring in-depth analysis of my day at work because there was nothing else for me to talk about. Secondly, it has come to my attention that two of my favourite Aussie girls have been recently stalking my blog. I don’t know why you’d consider my blog to be interesting but thank you for taking the time to read my psychotic ramblings.

As I think I’ve mentioned previously on my blog, I am not the best person at making friends. It took me around six years to make the sort of friends I could actually call my friends on the Gold Coast and then another two years to find two people who I actually felt close to and who I know actually care about what happens to me. This is the majority of the reason why I was so devastated to be moving to Melbourne.

Now, I had a few months prior knowledge of my uprooting to Melbourne. Early January of this year I discovered this little social networking site called MuggleSpace that had blown up big with Harry Potter fans worldwide. I quickly became addicted to chatting to fellow Harry Potter fans and being dubbed the ‘Quiz Queen’ because of my fast response at trivia in the chat. An idea quickly began to blossom though. Wouldn’t it be cool if I found Harry Potter fans in Melbourne BEFORE I moved there?

I think the first person I made contact with was Shan. My mum’s boyfriend is originally from Melbourne so he was able to tell me that this girl was around twenty minutes away from where we would be moving to. Instant friendship! I also met Nat through MuggleSpace, who is now my fellow vlogger through Five Aussie Girls and an excellent Tuesday. I didn’t know where she was at the time but it turns out she’s around forty minutes away from me.

Nat introduced me to Anita and Jess through Five Aussie Girls and the awesome people I have met on the internet are the reason why these last few months torturing myself at McDonalds have been bearable. You girls are what keep me from strangling myself with the cord of the Eftpos machine. I work all day then come home and jump on my computer and you guys are there with something to say that makes me smile and makes it all worth it.

Nat, although you’re younger than even my sister I can relate to you in so many ways. Your response of ‘Hey you!’ in the chat makes me smile and you have a way of adding that bit of awesomeness into everything you do that makes you a true Nerdfighter. I could spend hours talking to you because for as much as we are different being Ravenclaw and Slytherin, we have that much in common with our obsessions with Smart Mouths, Harry Potter and John Green.

Anita, my fellow chocolate lover. I’d like to take a moment here to state that I actually love chocolate more than you but I suppose we’ll find out just who loves it that little bit more in our chocolate-off next week. I don’t know you as well as I’d like to but I’m very grateful that we’ve been introduced through our project. Just the fact that you’ll wave at random strangers for the purpose of a video is what makes you awesome. The randomness of your tweets makes me laugh and for a twelve year old you have an amazing voice which is going to take you places.

Shan! What can I say about how awesome you are that you don’t already know? You’re the only person who could force me to watch TWO McFly videos on MySpace and not have me hate you for it. We agree to disagree over our various obsessions and although it is very difficult for us to arrange that Harry Potter movie marathon sleepover, we will do it eventually! When it comes to Screw Marry Kill we’ll probably always kill Micah and we’re both very dedicated Matt Britton fangirls in saying that Matt is our ‘Edward.’ Only a true fangirl would leave her phone in the book shop to run over to the Harry Potter box set and just you wait, I will turn you into a Nerdfighter yet!

I would also like to thank Nat for pointing out what a pathetically dramatic sixteen year old I was being in stating in my blog that I wasn’t going to be writing anymore. I love writing. I always have loved writing and at some point I turned my writing into an “I HAVE TO WRITE A NOVEL” pressure box that has been hovering over my head. I am sixteen years old! I have my whole life to write a novel, but for now I’m going to write and enjoy it as a hobby without worrying about how I almost failed Year 11 English and that my language isn’t as perfect as it could be. It is meant to be fun!

Although it’s only May I’m already gearing up for NanoWrimo in November. If you don’t know what NanoWrimo is, it is National Novel Writing Month where you write fifty thousand words in thirty days. The point is not to write a perfect story, but to try and write as many words as possible in the month. I attempted to do this last year but devastatingly lost my USB and 20,000 words and have never forgiven myself for it since. I had a brilliant idea for my NanoWrimo story today and now I’ll probably spend the five month until then trying to stop myself from using it early. It is so not fair! It is much more interesting and sparking more creative ideas than my current story! Humph!

Now, I made a very dangerous decision in attempting to undertake what seems to be a near impossible feat in watching EVERY fiveawesomegirls video. I love 5AG and while they are all made-of-awesome, my favourites are Kristina and Hayley so I’ve watched significantly more Monday and Thursday videos than I have of any of the others. This is slowly changing. This task will become easier when I have my new laptop and can sit in the Food Court stinging Wi-Fi all day and will then be able to watch all Brotherhood 2.0 videos as well.

I’m going to post the “blurb” for my NanoWrimo idea here and you can tell me whether you think I should write this one now and use the story I posted a preview of in an earlier blog for NanoWrimo, or if I should save this one until November:

With the world feeling the strain of the economic crisis, a failing mega corporation is out to get their own back. Over the years many authors have hit gold with their classic tales. J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Emily Rodda and R.L. Stine, just to name a few. Campbell Anderson has the brilliant idea to infiltrate the literature market by grabbing hold of ideas before they hit jackpot. All across America talented children are receiving letters asking them to attend a just-opened Academy of Creative Arts. Campbell’s plan is to nurture the talent of the next generation and store it for their own gain. But the one thing they didn’t anticipate: by targeting intelligent kids they’re creating their own worst enemy with the smarts to overthrow and expose their money-making plans.

Let me know what you guys think in the comments!

Word to your bookshelf,

Kassi

Days I’ve Worked Full Time: 48
Books I’ve Read in 2009: 43
Days Till I Leave for Azkatraz: 55
Days Till I Meet John Green: 7