Well it's finally Oscar night again! I look forward to this night every year and always stay up late to see who wins what. But, to be honest, my favorite part of the Oscars is the opening with who ever is hosting. This year it's Anne Hathaway and I believe James Franco. A couple years ago it was Hugh Jackman. He sang a song that, I have to say, was pretty amazing.
Well the Oscars are starting in a matter of hours. So here's who I think is going to win.
Best Picture: Black Swan
Actor in a Leading Roll: Colin Firth for The KIng's Speech
Actor in a Supporting Role: Geoffrey Rush for the King's Speech
Actress in a Leading Roll: Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Actress in a Supporting Roll: Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech
Animates Feature Film: Toy Story 3
Art Direction: Inception
Cinematography: Inception
Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland
Directing: Black Swan
Documentary Feature: Gasland
Documentary Short Subject: Strangers No More
Film Editing: 127 Hours
Foreign Language Film: Dogtooth
Makeup: The Wolf Man
Music (Original Score): The Social Network
Music (Original Song): Toy Story 3
Short Film (Animated): The Gruffalo
Short Film (Live Action): Na Wewe
Sound Editing: Inception
Sound Mixing: Inception
Visual Effects: Inception
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Social Network
Writing (Original Screenplay): The King's Speech
Alright. That's all of them. I guess we'll just have to see who wins (but I have a feeling that I'm pretty dead on :D)
Until Next time,
Natalia
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
I need to keep up with my blog. And Google logos.
Hi everyone. So I have not blogged in about 2 weeks. So I am going to make a promise.
I do solemnly swear that I will blog at least 3 times during the week and both days on the weekend. Or so help me God.
To be honest, not much has happened over the past couple weeks. I have had crew practice every day, and actually I had it this morning. I have been up since 4:45. And I haven't actually slept all day. Oh, well. I guess this is preparing me, as my old Publications teacher would say, "for the real world."
I also went to a running store today. It's called Potomac Running and it is so nice. They have a treadmill and you fun on it. The guy who works at the store watches you run, and then tells you what shoe would work best. So I was on this treadmill, and the guy was, I guess you could say, assessing my feet. After I was finished, he tells me that I have a conditon that affects only 5-10% of the population. See, my arches are inhumanly high and therefore anything you do on your feet I do on my toes and the balls of my feet. This includes running. This also means that when I run a lot my feet swell up and my arches start to burn. This has happened at crew practice before, and I can tell you it was not fun yesterday sitting out while everyone was erging with their wrists connected to a cord.
This is an erg, for anyone who has wondering.
So because rowing is such an high endurance sport, we do a lot of running.
In other words, I was really bored today so I decided to look up some of the special Google logos. Here are some cool ones I found:
I thought those were pretty neat :).
Well to be honest not much has happened over the past few weeks that I can think of. Although I did write an 11 page essay about the Holocaust for history class. A lot of it was stuff we hadn't learned. See, for some reason I've always had this weird obsession with books and movies about the Holocaust and the Holocaust Museum. Maybe it's the fact that one man could be in charge of the horrible killing of 11 million people that sort of blows my mind.
I hope I don't get marked down.
So this is where the story ends for now. As John Gay said, "We only part to meet again."
I do solemnly swear that I will blog at least 3 times during the week and both days on the weekend. Or so help me God.
To be honest, not much has happened over the past couple weeks. I have had crew practice every day, and actually I had it this morning. I have been up since 4:45. And I haven't actually slept all day. Oh, well. I guess this is preparing me, as my old Publications teacher would say, "for the real world."
I also went to a running store today. It's called Potomac Running and it is so nice. They have a treadmill and you fun on it. The guy who works at the store watches you run, and then tells you what shoe would work best. So I was on this treadmill, and the guy was, I guess you could say, assessing my feet. After I was finished, he tells me that I have a conditon that affects only 5-10% of the population. See, my arches are inhumanly high and therefore anything you do on your feet I do on my toes and the balls of my feet. This includes running. This also means that when I run a lot my feet swell up and my arches start to burn. This has happened at crew practice before, and I can tell you it was not fun yesterday sitting out while everyone was erging with their wrists connected to a cord.
This is an erg, for anyone who has wondering.
So because rowing is such an high endurance sport, we do a lot of running.
In other words, I was really bored today so I decided to look up some of the special Google logos. Here are some cool ones I found:
I thought those were pretty neat :).
Well to be honest not much has happened over the past few weeks that I can think of. Although I did write an 11 page essay about the Holocaust for history class. A lot of it was stuff we hadn't learned. See, for some reason I've always had this weird obsession with books and movies about the Holocaust and the Holocaust Museum. Maybe it's the fact that one man could be in charge of the horrible killing of 11 million people that sort of blows my mind.
I hope I don't get marked down.
So this is where the story ends for now. As John Gay said, "We only part to meet again."
Saturday, February 12, 2011
So a poster CAN make you feel better
Hey everyone. So this is officially my first real post, not counting the intro. So let's go.
I had a very interesting conversation in the car today with my dad. See, we were planning on going to Greece for about a month and a half or two months over the summer. But we are having some financial problems. I mean, we have never been the wealthiest people in the world, but I mean we have never been poor. And we are not poor, not even close. No, that's not what I am saying at all. But the source of this problem is that we still own the house we bought in Florida, and we have been leasing it out for a couple years while we are renting up here in DC. So we bought that house for $600,000. Yeah that is a lot of money. The problem is we have put a plethora (vocab word of the day- check) of money into that house, more than it is actually worth. So what I remember from this conversation is that my parents are trying to decide whether to foreclose it and let the bank take it or continue putting down small payments on it every month. If the bank took it, we would still owe $160,000 on it, because we have payed a certain amount on it... or something along the lines. I'm not sure. Can you guys make sense of this? So we cannot afford (as of right now) to really do anything this summer because of all the money we are putting into that house. No summer camps, vacations, rowing camp.. I sound incredibly spoiled right now, don't I?
Anyways, the point is not that I am extremely upset about not being able to go to Greece. I mean I am upset, but I understand. We have to put the money where it matters. The point is that I now feel like this is somehow my fault. My rowing is costing us A LOT of money. I told my dad that if it became too expensive I could stop. But I just can't shake the feeling or stop worrying about this. Actually, the author Frank McCourt just came to mind. Angela's Ashes- what an amazing book. At least I have a roof over my head and food and clothing. He hardly had any of that, and there are still so many people who are in the same situation as he was. So I guess when I really look at it, it's not that bad.
But when I was outlining a section of my textbook for homework, I came across this image:
And I don't know why, but it just made me feel about 10 times better, and I felt really hopeful, too. It's a very cool poster. I think it's an old poster for the Women's Ordinance Workers in World War Two.
On another note, I finished watching the french movie, "Les Choristes," yesterday. And if you don't know who Jean-Baptiste Maunier is, let me show you.
I am currently obsessed. But it is a really good movie, and I recommend seeing it. It's about troubled boys in a boarding school post- WWII. A new prefect comes and gets them in order by forming a chorus. I love the movie, and there are a lot of great songs in it. But if you don't understand French, I would recommend getting the DVD, so you can use subtitles.
Well that's all for today.
Until next time,
Natalia
I had a very interesting conversation in the car today with my dad. See, we were planning on going to Greece for about a month and a half or two months over the summer. But we are having some financial problems. I mean, we have never been the wealthiest people in the world, but I mean we have never been poor. And we are not poor, not even close. No, that's not what I am saying at all. But the source of this problem is that we still own the house we bought in Florida, and we have been leasing it out for a couple years while we are renting up here in DC. So we bought that house for $600,000. Yeah that is a lot of money. The problem is we have put a plethora (vocab word of the day- check) of money into that house, more than it is actually worth. So what I remember from this conversation is that my parents are trying to decide whether to foreclose it and let the bank take it or continue putting down small payments on it every month. If the bank took it, we would still owe $160,000 on it, because we have payed a certain amount on it... or something along the lines. I'm not sure. Can you guys make sense of this? So we cannot afford (as of right now) to really do anything this summer because of all the money we are putting into that house. No summer camps, vacations, rowing camp.. I sound incredibly spoiled right now, don't I?
Anyways, the point is not that I am extremely upset about not being able to go to Greece. I mean I am upset, but I understand. We have to put the money where it matters. The point is that I now feel like this is somehow my fault. My rowing is costing us A LOT of money. I told my dad that if it became too expensive I could stop. But I just can't shake the feeling or stop worrying about this. Actually, the author Frank McCourt just came to mind. Angela's Ashes- what an amazing book. At least I have a roof over my head and food and clothing. He hardly had any of that, and there are still so many people who are in the same situation as he was. So I guess when I really look at it, it's not that bad.
But when I was outlining a section of my textbook for homework, I came across this image:
And I don't know why, but it just made me feel about 10 times better, and I felt really hopeful, too. It's a very cool poster. I think it's an old poster for the Women's Ordinance Workers in World War Two.
On another note, I finished watching the french movie, "Les Choristes," yesterday. And if you don't know who Jean-Baptiste Maunier is, let me show you.
I am currently obsessed. But it is a really good movie, and I recommend seeing it. It's about troubled boys in a boarding school post- WWII. A new prefect comes and gets them in order by forming a chorus. I love the movie, and there are a lot of great songs in it. But if you don't understand French, I would recommend getting the DVD, so you can use subtitles.
Well that's all for today.
Until next time,
Natalia
Welcome!
Hello! Welcome to my blog. I've tried doing some of these before but I guess I just gave up. This time, however, I am going to continue with this one. So I guess I should tell you all a bit about my self.
My name is Natalia and I am in ninth grade. I am orginally from Los Angeles (well ORIGINALLY from Greece but that goes back a little farther), and when I was about a year old we moved to the DC area. Then we moved to Annapolis, Ft. Lauderdale, and now we are back in DC. I row for my school and was on a swimteam for nine years. But my coach took me off the school team because I had mono... well that's another story.
I have a 12 year old brother (Vince), Mom, Dad, dog (Rocky), and cat (Lucy.) I really enjoy writing but I want to go to London School of Economics and eventually end up on a stock market, preferably London or New York.
Alright, now you know a bit about me. So if you would like feel free to read my blog, and I hope you guys enjoy.
My name is Natalia and I am in ninth grade. I am orginally from Los Angeles (well ORIGINALLY from Greece but that goes back a little farther), and when I was about a year old we moved to the DC area. Then we moved to Annapolis, Ft. Lauderdale, and now we are back in DC. I row for my school and was on a swimteam for nine years. But my coach took me off the school team because I had mono... well that's another story.
I have a 12 year old brother (Vince), Mom, Dad, dog (Rocky), and cat (Lucy.) I really enjoy writing but I want to go to London School of Economics and eventually end up on a stock market, preferably London or New York.
Alright, now you know a bit about me. So if you would like feel free to read my blog, and I hope you guys enjoy.
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