DWTS

Well, the finals of dwts are tonight... actually I guess they've started already :) Anyway, I'm really mad that Joanna and Derek were voted off last week, because Derek would have choreographed an awesome freestyle! Plus Joanna (and Derek) is just awesome. The ONLY reason they're gone is because Kelly and Donny got pity votes... I was going to do a "Why To Love Joanna" post this week, but I guess now I'll just do them with the finalists.
So now the finals will be pretty boring... Mya's freestyle will be amazing, IF Dmitry doesn't mess up the choreography. Donny's will be entertaining, but the technique won't be great. Kelly's will be boring. But Donny and Kelly (and Dmitry) could still surprise me and be awesome.
I can't wait to see all the stars that got voted off at the results show :) Does anyone know if ALL the stars are coming back, or just some of them? Because if it's all, that's a LOT of stars, and some of them can't dance all that well (and that's putting it mildly...)
That's all for now... This is completely random, but I have a Christmas carol that we're singing in choir running through my head non-stop right now. It's a really annoying song, too. Oh, and I'm shadowing at City College tomorrow (It's a high school, if you didn't know that). And one last thing... Is anyone reading this doing NaNoWriMo? Leave a comment if you are... OK, bye!

Gymnastics Worth Watching 1 - Men's Rhythmics?

When you think of rhythmic gymnastics, you don't usually think of men... but these Japanese men are amazing. The dance, the elements, the synchronization, everything.






Can it even be considered rhythmics, though? There's no apparatus, and there seem to be a few elements taken from acrobatics, as well as some difficult tumbling.
Whatever it is, it's still amazing!

A Few Reasons To Love Aaron Carter

Well, Aaron Cater got voted off dwts, just as I predicted (along with the rest of the world). Here are a few of my fave dances...

Week 2, quickstep (must watch)

Week 6, waltz

Week 8, foxtrot (not so sure about what Karina's wearing, though!)

Just Because...

40 years of Sesame Street...

Sasha's out...

Sasha Cohen withdrew from Skate America (because of the same injury as before), and Emily Hughes will take her place. This means that nationals (the qualifying event for the Olympics) will be her first competition since worlds in 2006.
Just wondering - does this mean that Emily will be automatically qualified for nationals?

DWTS final 5

Out of my original final 5, Natalie and Mark got voted off, but everyone else is still here... I'm MAD that they're gone. Especially Mark, because that was NOT FAIR!


So, having not watched this weeks dances, but having read a review, here is my prediction for where the final 5 will place.

5. Aaron and Karina
4. Kelly and Louis
3. Donny and Kym
2. Mya and Dmitry
1. Joanna and Derek


Places 3, 2, and 1 are temporary predictions, but I wanted to get something out there.

Oh, and congrats to Mya for getting the first perfect 30 of the season!

Tired

I'm tired. Life is good. Angora Nachos are good. Spaz!

Nastia + Twilight?

I am completely obsessed with this video! It's amazing! Just watch it!

(sad) skating news

Well, Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her Grand Prix events because of an knee injury, which means that her whole season is already over. She had a bye to nationals because the qualifying events are the same time as her grand prix events, but now that she withdrew she would have to qualify. The Baltimore Sun had a longer article on it then I've seen from them in a while... Not that I read that paper much :-)

Kimmie 2006 Worlds WINNING LP

Sasha Cohen also withdrew from her first grand prix, but is planning to compete in her second, Skate America. This means that she can't qualify to the the grand prix final, which gives her a total of one major competition before nationals...

B-day, future city, gym, Olympics, etc...

I turn 14 today! *does happy dance* *spazzes* yep :)...

Rio got the Olympics. Chicago was out in the first round of voting. It's the first time South America is hosting the Olympics, so I think they'll try pretty hard and make it awesome :)

The US teams for the gymnastics world championships (in just about a week!) have been named. Ok actually the mens team was named a while ago but the womens team was just named on Saturday! The team is Bridget Sloan, Becca Bross, Kayla Williams, and Ivana Hong. Chellsie Memmel withdrew, which means a medal on bars is pretty much not happening... I'll be surprised if any of the girls are even in finals. But Bridget and Becca could both medal in the all around, Ivana might be able to medal on beam, and Bridget and Kayla could both qualify for floor. AND Kayla is planning to compete an Amanar and laid out Rudi at worlds, which she could definitely win vault with! So yeah :)

I'm competing in the future city competition this year! The team is me, Wren (yea, Wren!), and a boy I haven't met yet but I'm very excited to get the whole team together and start working! This is definitely going to be harder then straw bridge, but I'm up for it!

DWTS started a while ago... I'll post my top 5 later but I just have to say, Mya is amazing!

I'm going to post a short story soon, probably sometime this week.

I'm also going to post some vids soon...

Yeah :)

COMMENT!!!!!!!!!

'kay thanks.

Skating Worth Watching 1 - Johnny Weir 2004 Nationals LP

gym update

Well, Sam Peszek has officially withdrawn from the worlds selection process. My new prediction/dream team (yes they are the same thing lol) is:

Becca Bross

Bridget Sloan

Chellsie Memmel

Kayla Williams

Alternates:

Jana Beiger

Ivana Hong

Kytra Hunter

If Chellsie's not ready, then Jana will probably be put on the team, and either Cassie Whitcomb or Mackenzie Caquatto will be alternate. Or they could just have 2 alternates, but I don't really think that's going to happen...

Nationals... was a long time ago.

But I can still write about it.

Bridget Sloan won with a 117.550, Ivana Hong was 2nd with a 117.250, and Rebecca Bross was 3rd with a 116.600. If you erased the falls (which are now a full point deduction), then Becca would have won by 0.05. You can watch the entire senior women's meet HERE. Day one has no sound.

OMG Becca is FAST on beam and bars! And the first two tumbling passes...wow.

Sam's beam was AWESOME. Her floor music annoys me a little, but i like the routine. Great tumbling as well.

Ivana's gymnastics is nice... she and Nastia have almost the exact same skills in their beam routine :)

Kayla Williams has some awesome tumbling! She won level 10 nationals a few months ago, and now she might be going to worlds :)

There's also a level 10 national champion on the junior side... Lizzy Leduc! She fell on day one and didn't make the national team, but here's her floor routine :) Right after nationals she switched to WOGA! WOGA's been getting a lot of new gymnasts these days... you can read about it HERE.

Another junior, McKayla Maroney, competed an Amanar! As far as I know, only 4 gymnasts competed that vault in Beijing.

Kyla Ross was the junior national champion.

Their were so many gymnasts injured that only 3 events were competed at a time in the senior women's competition. Inside Gymnastics even made a disabled list a few days before the competition.

Chelsea Davis hurt her back.

Mattie Larson sprained both ankles.

Sam Shapiro needed ankle surgery.

Corrie Lothrop tore her Achilles.

Olivia Courtney broke her ankle.

Jordyn Weiber sprained her hamstring.

Kamerin Moore had a torn Labrum.

Sam Peszek also has a torn Labrum, which she plans to get surgery on after worlds. In the meantime, she's still competing everything but bars.

So who's going to worlds? Only four on the team this year, since there's no team competition.

Nastia isn't going.

My guess is that Bridget and Becca will be the all-arounders. If Sam Peszek went, she could compete floor, beam, and i think she has a second vault. Then maybe Sam Shapiro could go as the bars specialist.  That's my dream team :)

Or Kayla could go as a floor and vault specialist. With maybe Sam Shapiro on beam and bars?

The first world selection camp is coming up soon. The second one will be later this month, and they will name the team then.

I love this video... :)

New Layout

Is temporary. If you know where to find cute templates (Probably abstract, but anything goes) leave a comment!

cool skating

I LOVE this girls music! I'm blanking on what the first song is, but the second one is the can-can :)

And OMG you can't even tell when she's about to do a jump!

lolcats and fail blog

Watch or die!

Shh Shh Shh... You Talk To Much

I'm not expecting anyone except for Amaris to get the title...

Anyway, this post is about MARS!!!!!

For those of you who don't know what MARS is, it's Mathematics And Related Sciences camp, and it is AWESOME!!!!

It was 2 weeks long.

I was in the middle school session.

I miss Swetha (my roommate)

I miss Rachel and Selena (my spazziest friends ever)

I miss Amaris (my awesome friend in class)

I miss Danni (my councilor)

I miss dead fish and mazes (LOL Tushar, who will probably never see this but Amaris will)

I miss - wait a moment, I don't miss this one. What is chicken? LOL Geoffardy.

I miss solving the P.O.D.

I miss having major spaz moments.

I miss E-primes. (Not that I can't work on that by myself. Actually, I think I'll prove my major geekiness and do a post explaining them sometime this month. Maybe I'll also post about bizzare number systems. Not that I even took the elective...)

Sooo.... you're probably wondering what's with chicken, what Geoffardy is, what's the P.O.D., and what E-primes and bizzare number systems are. Maybe you're also wondering what' that stuff about dead fish and mazes are about. I'm not saying anything except that we didn't have any real dead fish. As for E-primes and bizzare number systems, wait and see. P.O.D. = problem of the day. And then there's Geoffardy...

Geoffardy was this act that the teachers did for the talent show. There's two Geoff's (pronounced Jeff) at the camp, Geoff Akinston (teaches Math and Art) and Geoff Birky (Everyone calls him Birky, and he teaches Math Mind (my class!) ) So anyway, they did a hilarious take-off on Jeopardy, with the 2 Geoff's competing against each other (score: 0 to 0).

Some sample questions and answers:

Q:A good way to get some sleep in the evening. A:What is go to evening program?

Q:The average MARS camper does this twice each session. A: What is take a shower?

Q:This is often served fried at lunch. A:What is chicken?

Q: This is often served fried at dinner. A:What is chicken?

Q: This is often served fried at breakfast. A:What is chicken?

Q:This is wet and green and served with chicken. A:What is chicken?

Q:This is the most popular ice cream flavor at MARS camp: A:What is chicken?

LOL

The teachers also did "The Jackson Twelve" for the talent show. Also Hilarious.

Me and Selena did an act where we walked up on stage, sat down, stayed there for 30 seconds, and walked off. All without laughing or smiling. Except I messed up really bad, which was annoying because I could always beat Selena when we practiced.

I also sang "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

THE SECOND WEDNESDAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the morning, in class, we did this really confusing stuff that I love about infinity and the number of numbers... it broke my brain but I loved it! Then at afternoon announcements I won math award! And I didn't think I was going to win it because Amaris had already won it the week before so I thought it was going to be a boy from our class. Then we had elective, and I was in newsletter both weeks, and I LOVE newsletter! Then in afternoon class we did RSA encryption (maybe I'll do a post about that too, because it's just so cool!) And then that night was talent show, which is always AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah, best day ever :) I have to go now... I'll continue this post later.

So...

Well...I'm horrible at updating. As if we didn't know that :) Anyway, I'm going to MARS with 2 of my bffl's on Sunday, access I wont have internet while I'm there :( I'll be gone for 2 weeks, but after that I'll really try to update a little more often. So I can't think of anything interesting to post right now that won't take a really long time to write, so I'll end this post now :) 

Sarah Palin Resigns

Was anyone expecting this?

Here's the announcement. If you can make sense of what she's saying, well, that's a LOT more than I could do.

Here's a condensed version...

All I can say is WOW.