50 things I wish were real
1. Hogwarts
2. Dragons
3. Quidditch
4. Flying cars
5. Magic carpets
6. Genies in lamps
7. Shadowhunters
8. Non-angry automatons
9. Teleporter
10. the TARDIS
11. Sonic screwdrivers
12. Consistent female pants sizes
13. Felix Felicis
14. Ron Weasely
15. The Doctor
16. Aberforth Dumbledore
17. Human memory external storage
18. AT&T cell service
19. Unlimited laptop hard drive space
20. The intersect
21. Super spy Michael Weston
22. Affordable airplanes with leg space
23. Unicorns
24. Middle Earth-style Elves
25. Lockness Monster
26. Good representatives in Congress
27. Rich, charitable Nigerian princes
28. Accurate Harry Potter movie
29. Automatic perfect vision pill
30. Gondor
31. Transformers
32. Butters from South Park
33. Lightsabers
34. The Millennium Falcon
35. The Force
36. Super healthy meal substitutes that taste like chocolate cake
37. Dæmons
38. Talking puppies
39. Cosmo and Wanda
40. Stitch
41. Mermaids
42. Clone machine
43. Holograms
44. The Enterprise
45. Minis Tirith Space Station
46. Podracing
47. Batman
48. Phasers
49. Spock
50. Space pirates with lightsabers, rocket boots, and plasma grenades that ride space platypuses
These Folk: Stay Awake by Julia Nunes
Didn’t realize this was music video week for a while so this isn’t the greatest, but it’s good enough.
10 tips to writing a great college application essay
I may be a little behind, as a lot of you have probably already submitted applications for college, but for those of you graduating next year and those of you who are running a tad late with the whole process, these are ten tips from a current, very happy college student about how to write the best application essay you can. Continue reading “10 tips to writing a great college application essay”
Cooking with Gandalf: Kugel and Rollups
Season 2!
I’m…. almost not a teenager
Tomorrow I turn 20. Tomorrow ends my teenage life. From tomorrow on, I will never be a teenager again. I don’t know exactly how to feel about this. I guess I feel good. I’m kind of relieved in a way; being a teenager was terrible, especially for me. I think I’m ready for adulthood. I really do. Wish me luck.
That’s all for the blog today, folks. Spring semester just started and I have to be ready to party my face off tomorrow (and by “party my face off” I mean “watch Burn Notice and get a crap ton of Facebook notifications”, of course). Have a good week!
These Folk: Birthday Mug Cake!
People I Think Are Awesome
Although I have a whole link section to the right of my website, I thought I should give a more specific shout out to some of my favorite websites/blogs on the internet before SOPA/PIPA takes them all down. Continue reading “People I Think Are Awesome”
Things and Stuff 8- Leggings and TFiOS
6 Things I Wish They’d Taught Me in High School
EDIT FROM 2019: Hello there! This post is now 7 years old, though it’s still one of the highest-performing posts on my site, so it has been updated slightly. If you want to learn more about what 2019 me, an award-winning independent filmmaker, is up to, head to BriCastellini.com.
It’s been almost nine years since I graduated from high school, but even now, several full time jobs into adulthood, there are still some gaps in my education that I wished were better filled before letting me fly from the public school nest. So here are the six things I wish I’d been taught back in high school that would have benefited me greatly out here in the “real world.” Continue reading “6 Things I Wish They’d Taught Me in High School”