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Update on my life
I bet we’ve all changed so much, so here’s what I’ve been up to! The last time I was here, Cho moving to Japan was big news. If you guys could give me summaries of your lives since I left (end of summer 2016) I’d love to read them.
After leaving the CB, I entered seventh grade. Trump became president, I got obsessed with Divergent and some other fandoms. Seventh grade was honestly a really bad year for me. I wasn’t a great person, and went through a lot of friend drama. Basically, I was still that cringey sixth grader you guys had to deal with. :)
I think I played clarinet when I was on CB, but my obsession multiplied. I did Junior Districts, got into a select band. I switched ballet studios and went en pointe.
I think of eighth grade as the year I became a good person. I had the same kids in all four of my core classes, so I became the sweet little sister that everyone loved. It was the first time I realized that my classmates are nice, and I can be nice to them. I know it wasn’t real popularity, as people liked me in the she’s-so-cute way and not the I-admire-her way. Still, it was exhilarating. I got into Hamilton.
I planned to quit ballet and continue clarinet in high school because I was so much better at clarinet and had no future in ballet. In the end, I decided I was being fake and I should do what makes me happy, even if it’s less impressive on a college application.
In ninth grade, I got into all the musicals that followed: Wicked, Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill, and Heathers. Tell me if you’re a Hamilfan too, please.
I sort of shrunk back into a shell? My friend clique was problematic, so I ditched them. I’ve always considered myself an extrovert, but I think I’m an introvert now.
So tell me: What have you all been up to? And while you’re here, give me a quote you like. I’m a sucker for good quotes.
“Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, when you’re broken on the ground: You will be found.” --Dear Evan Hansen
Mei
submitted by Mei-xue (May-shreh), Back in fairyland?
(January 13, 2019 - 4:12 pm)
(January 13, 2019 - 4:12 pm)
Hi, welcome back. It's really nice to meet you, Mei. I love Hamilton and other musicals two! I have a quote for you, from the musical Les Miserables:
Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise.
(January 13, 2019 - 5:18 pm)
Hi, welcome back! I don't know if you know me, but I definitely remember you. Here's some quotes:
"In times like these, it helps to have something to hold onto." - Squint (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
"Love. That's what makes persons know who they are. You're full of love, but you don't know how to stay within it when it's not easy." - Proginoskes (A Wind in the Door) (at least I'm pretty sure that's where it's from)
"Sometimes you have to enter the darkness to save the light." - Squint (from the same place as the last quote)
"Best friends don't have to share the same beliefs." - Shank (Ralph Wrecks the Internet)
(January 13, 2019 - 6:28 pm)
Hi Agent! I think I remember you. I really love that third one.
(January 14, 2019 - 6:35 pm)
Hi Coroline!
I really need to listen to Les Mis.
(January 14, 2019 - 6:33 pm)
(January 13, 2019 - 5:18 pm)
OLDER CBER ALERT *Tackle hugs*
(January 13, 2019 - 7:43 pm)
HI! Apparently you’re as fiery as I was. Hello!
(January 14, 2019 - 6:38 pm)
Hello! I guess one thing is that I joined the CB, although a lot of other people have, too.
Gosh, I haven’t really looked back further than a few days in... ages. Who am I? Who was I in October? October was crazy. I’m going to go back to when I joined, though, which would be... summer of 2017, I think?
I don’t remember anything. It was summer. I hated the heat. I hated the bugs. I loved the Internet and my sketchbook. What sketchbook did I have back then? One of my really old ones. I was more active on Kyngdom. My iPad was still new. It had been a while since I discovered webcomics, but I think less than a year. I had to check my photos to figure that out. I was a lot worse at art. Had I done Inktober? I think not. But I would, soon enough. I would learn a lot. I would also forget a lot.
I don’t think I went on vacation that summer... but I did catch a crayfish and find a deer skeleton.
Who was I in school? I made a paper chain dragon or two, that I know. Also from photos. I met someone unlike anyone else I knew and who I now consider sort of a friend. I was taking way fewer pictures because my phone was always on the brink of having no storage. Ooh, I took Health class, that was big for me. In multiple senses of the word. It was both a very large class and a moderately life-changing one. I had three art classes a week, whereas previously I had many more. I had so many free periods back then, how did I ever manage to fail that History project... Oh yeah, I really messed up on a slideshow for History. I procrastinated forever and didn’t even finish the first draft. I think I got a C.
I think that was the spring I was so intensely happy I was almost delirious. It was wonderful and weird. I was just in love with everything. I don’t know why. I think it had something to do with how it was spring, and there were flowers everywhere I turned. Maybe I was on top of things for once, too? It seems likely.
The next summer, let’s see. I am really piecing this together with pictures. So much of my life is image-based... I went to Scotland, did a ski lodge with Alizarine and I have to go now, but I will keep going with this later. It’s interesting.
(January 13, 2019 - 9:31 pm)
Yeah, it’s really interesting to look back and reflect on how much you’ve changed.
But you joining the CB isn’t a new event, I remember you. You were really active on Kyngdom. :)
(January 14, 2019 - 6:40 pm)
Hah, indeed I was. That’s also changed, sadly.
(January 15, 2019 - 6:55 pm)
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(January 23, 2019 - 9:52 pm)
Hey, Mei, welcome back! Nice to see you. I am most certainly a Hamilfan, and I like Dear Evan Hansen as well.
(January 14, 2019 - 3:19 am)
Hello! I love DEH!
(January 14, 2019 - 7:40 pm)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
*comes running in and flying-tackle-hugs Mei* OMIGOSH! Oh. MY. Gosh! Meeeeeiiiiiii! Hello! Oh wow I'm super glad to see you! It's been forever!
*sits and pants for lack of more words to say*
Okay, are you absolutely sure you and a bunch of other CBers didn't just get together and plan this? Because you've all been visiting at the same time.
(January 14, 2019 - 1:10 pm)
HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Leafpool, you're still here! How's it been? How old are you now? I'm flattered you're so glad to see me. :D
Yes, I'm absolutely sure a bunch of other CBers and I didn't plan this. I think we're all just excited for the February reunion.
(January 14, 2019 - 7:43 pm)