ATTENTION! IMPORTANT NOTICE!

While my previous technical difficulties HAVE been resolved, I will not be uploading much. Why, you may ask? Well, my teachers are trying to MURDER us with work, so there's that. Also, for whatever reason, my muse is shut down for a little while. And in the month of April I will be participating in Script Frenzy, so a lot of my creative energy will be focused on that.

Don't expect huge updates, but expect the odd oneshot. Thanks for reading. :)

The ABC's of Mari Free!

Anubis. As in, House of Anubis. best show ever. I'm not a Nick fanatic, but seriously, they did a great job. (JEROME/MARA FOREVER.)

Black belt. I have one, in tae kwon do. But ever since we moved, we haven't found a place to do it. Oh, well.

Crazy. I mean, we ALL are, but I think I'm pretty crazy.

Disney. Big Disney Channel fan. I love a lot of what they have on, and in the Disney vs. Nick debate I pick Disney.

Eye-roller. I'm always rolling my eyes. Irritated? Eye-roll. Amused? Eye-roll. Sarcastic? Eye-roll. Get the gist?

Fidgety. I'm always shaking my foot, or twitching my leg, or moving around. I can not sit still.

Girl. I mean, obviously. Maristela. Girl name.

Happy. I'm just... when I'm sad, I'm abso-effing-lutely miserable, but most of the time I'm fine.

Irritating. I am one of those people who just naturally seems to bother everyone at some point.

Jayfeather. He's epic, as is most of the rest of the Warrior's series. And on that note, I'm a big reader. I read... yeah, let's just say "a lot."

Kindhearted. My intentions are always pretty good... it's just sort of the way I go about trying to be kindhearted that goes wrong.

Laughs. I love to laugh. I laugh at silence, memories, things in my head... et cetera.

Maristela Freesia. Or Mari for short. It's my name! (Well, sort of. See P.)

Nerd. I'm a total nerd. Proud to be one, too. I'm an honor roll student, and I made the math team, AND I'm a band geek. (Flute players unite!)

Original. I have these strange ideas all the time that nobody else ever seems to think of. They're just these weird flashes.

Pseudonym. Maristela Freesia is, in fact, a pseudonym. Fake name. I'm an identity-disguiser. But you can just call me Mari, kay?

Quirky. I'm just sort of... off. Quirkity-quirkity-quirky.

Romantic. I looooove ships. Like, obsessively.

Star of the sea. That's what Maristela means. Freesia is a kind of flower. But, yeah.

Tired. I have trouble sleeping a lot, so I'm always yawning and I'm always tired.

Understanding. At least, I like to think so. I'm sort of the person who may try to do an advice column. (Not like my school has a newspaper, sadly.)

Valley. Well, this one could use some explaining. Technically, I live in a giant, mountain-surrounded valley. Not specifying where, though.

Water. I love water. I like swimming, and I love it when it rains. (Not too much, though. Once it rained so much that I couldn't get across the street. Cuckoo!)

Xenophobic. I hate the unknown.

Your worst nightmare. Sometimes. I'm just hyper sometimes and depressed sometimes and my one friend I just treat like a punching bag for some reason. (Thank God he's a good friend!!)

Zero. Why this? Because that is the lead-in to my next all-about-me thing...

The 123's of Mari Free!

1 favorite song. It just happens to change a lot. I'll obsess over one song, then another. Only one at a time.

2nd born. Check out the number four for more stuff on my family.

3 cats. Well, I had one, Celeste, but she died, and then we got two more. (One of them died. RIP Padme.) But between them and Leia, that makes three.

4 siblings. Or, more specifically, an older brother, a younger sister, and two twin baby half-siblings, a boy and a girl. My parents split when I was eight; the twins are on my dad's side.

5 hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes! Anybody know that song? It's a great song.

6 six six... that number actually scares me. Call me crazy- you'd be right- but I seriously would not turn to page 666 in my history book last year. I had to turn to 667 and then look at the page across from it. That's how much I hate that number.

7 is my brother's lucky number. Mine is 46.

8th grade. Guess how old that makes me? XD

9 notebooks. Probably more, but that's at least how many. I love my notebooks. I put my everything into them. Seriously.

10 billion favorite books. I seriously love nearly every book I read... except for, like, Breaking Dawn and stuff. Duh.

A Hunger Games Addict's Prayer by Claratrix LeChatham

I promise to remember Rue
When mockingbirds' songs wake me
I'll think of Foxface every time
I eat a strange new berry
If my little sister pets a goat
I promise to think of Prim
And if my best friend acts depressed
Then Gale; I'll think of him
When I toss some wood in the fire
I'll think of Katniss every time
And I'll always think of Peeta
When my birthday cake's sublime
The Capitol will cross my mind
When someone is unfair
I'll be sure to think of Clove
Each time I pretend to care
I'll always think of Glimmer
If someone's pretty, but a dunce
And Thresh will occupy my mind
If I spare someone, something... Once
Whenever I watch a reality show
I will think of the Hunger Games
I'll sure imagine Haymitch
If someone calls me names
I swear to think of Cato
When I'm homicidally inclined
I'll make sure I think of Effie
When there's nothing on my mind
I swear to remember the Hunger Games
And Catching Fire too
It's important to think of the characters
But they're NOT mine (So, Collins, don't sue!)

Current Events:

Writing- Honestly? Nothing. I'm so focused on other stuff.
Reading- the same chunk of Genius Squad over and over and over and over... lol.
Listening to- THE SOUNDS... OF SILENCE (cue random guitar music)
Wearing- jeans, scarf, pink-striped shirt, plaid jacket, white socks
Eating- LOL. I just had dinner.
Drinking- water every now and again.
Breathing- ATMOS air. :D
Planning- the bizarre abundance of school stuff I need to turn in
Contemplating- why I'm so weird.
Fangirling over- Genius series (OMFG. I LOVE THESE BOOKS.)
Dreading- DEADLINESSSSSSSSS.
Hoping for- a miracle.

Awards, Honors, Nominations, etc.
Nominee-Best Representation of a Past Games for arcus fames ludus (Winter 2010 THG Awards)
Nominee-Best Poet (Winter 2010 THG Awards)
Nominee-Best Nontraditional Couple for Losing and Gaining (Winter 2010 THG Awards)
Nominee-Best Single Poem for Whiskey Lullaby and Ode to the Fallen (Winter 2010 THG Awards)

Well, that's pretty much all I have to say. Happy reading!!