Name: Maria Aizawa. Obvious, no?
Age: Turning 14 October 2007. Woot!
Hobbies: Reading, writing, dancing, singing
Ultimate Pet Peeve: 1) people who underestimate Classic literature
2) People who underestimate Classical Music
3) Happiness = Sappiness
Fav. Music Type: Opera. I know, I know, but I’ve ALWAYS been weird.
Fav. Opera: La Clemenza di Tito. Mozart.
Fav. Book: The Lost Years of Merlin saga, T. A. Barron
Home: Don’t you want to know?
Ultimate Achievements: 1) Am writing novella, Vanya’s Story
2) Read Victor Hugo’s Les Misèrables in its entirety
Fav. Pairing: Ummm…
Novel Beta: Tomoyo Kinomoto (YAAAAAAAAAAAY!)
Friends: 2 at school, 4 at Indian Dance classes, 1 over email, 7 at Ballet classes. Total: 14.
Fav. Movie: Princess Bride. I’m obsessed+ my parents hate it.
Stories: I have an idea for one. Harry Potter. I started it and have 1 chapter posted, but I'm the type of person who is too lazy to update often. Especially during the school year, when I'm actually busy. Sorry!
OK. Now I’ll stop boring you. Ummm not quite yet…

Quotes:

“Potato sauce!”
-my friend Hannah

“Clouds are hot!” “Clouds are COLD!”
-my friend Alex, then my friend Hannah

“ ‘Oh my god! It swallowed my thermometer! Quick, get me hot water, soap, and a towel!’”
-James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

“How canst thou tell me thou ist out of breath when thou hast breath to tell me thou ist out of breath?”
-Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

“I was thinking…why don’t you kiss Dimitri goodbye?” “WHAT? Eww! No! You’re evil!”
-my friend Paige, then me

“ ‘And yet…I doubt you’d find a woman who sulked for half an hour because Madame Rosmerta didn’t laugh at their joke about the hag, the healer, and the mimbulus mimbultomina.’ Ron scowled.”
-Hermione, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling

“ ‘To Parry Otter!’”
-Professor Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling

“Maybe I should just let Vanya starve to death…”
-me, about one the characters in my novella-to-be

“Run awaaay! It’s a buuug!”
-my friend Paige, in a play about silk worms

“At last the ballymag spoke, his voice thoroughly gruff. ‘Humansfilthy, always needhaving scrubamuck.’ ‘That,’ Hallia replied, ‘would be mooshlovely.’”
-The Mirror of Merlin, T. A. Barron

“Gideon flung down the linen rag and swore – a good, long, elaborate medieval curse that made Merlin blush.
Gideon looked up at his friend and smiled ruefully. ‘Forgive me. I forgot myself.’
‘Think nothing of it. You have enlarged my vocabulary, and I assure you, that’s not easy to do.’”
-Hatching Magic, Ann Downer

“ ‘Small boys do not deceive the Bulgarian Police.’”
-Lionboy, Zizou Corder

“ ‘We are no longer the Knights of Nii. We are now the Knights of…
Ickie Ickie Ickie Rrottinatondaa.’ ‘What is your demand, O Knights of…well, Knights who so recently said Nii.’ ‘We demand…another shrubbery. Then, you must cut down the tallest tree in the forest…with…a herring.’ ‘Cut down a tree with a herring? You can’t cut down a tree with a herring! It’s impossible to cut down a tree with a herring!’”
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

“Brought to you by Piggy Piggy Productions! Oink Oink!”
-my friend Hannah

“Blessed children, though you wander lost and depraved, Jesus loves you, you shall be saved. Patrick, darling, since you left me I am undone. Mother loves you! God save my son!”
-my singing solo in Newsboys, the musical adapted from Newsies

“ ‘So what makes a headline good?’ ‘Oh, you know, catchy phrases like maniac, corpse, ummm…love-nest, or nude. Excuse me. Maybe I’m talking too much.’”
-Sarah, then Jack, Newsies/Newsboys

“ ‘I have no children.’ ‘That’s okay, too.’”
-The Baker’s Wife, then Jack’s Mother, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim

“I think I’m in love. And I’m in 6th grade. My god, I really need to figure myself out.”
-me, to myself, three guesses when

“How oft have I kissed those lips…”
-Hamlet, about the dead Jester, Hamlet, Shakespeare

“Friggin’ Idiot!”
-Napoleon, Napoleon Dynamite: talking to yourself, are you?

“Pretend that there’s a big, huge spike under your leg, and if you drop your leg, it gets impaled on the spike. I know, I’m so nice, aren’t I?”
-my ballet teacher

“Ummm, I think I just crippled myself. What do I do?”
-me, to my ballet teacher when I pulled a muscle in my back

“Reach for the lobster ice cream!”
-my friend Molly

“Crab people, crab people, they smell like crabs and they look like people!”
-my friend Molly’s boyfriend

“Die Zauberflöte.” “Da wha wha wha wha?” “The Magic Flute.”
-me, my friend Ben, and me again

“Today, we’re going to talk about Ancient Rome. That’s when I was young…”
-my History teacher, last year. This teacher is about 40 years old.

“I don’t like this book ‘cause there is nothing within the entire book that makes anything make sense. Does that even make sense?”
-me, doing an informal book presentation earlier this year

“A victim is not a victim unless the victim is being victimized to the victim’s face.”
-my summary of a pointless lecture my dad gave me, and it ISN’T EVEN TRUE!

“Pooh.”
-my friend Hannah

“Can I take the test, even though I don’t go to this school anymore?”
-my friend Paige

“I stretch it out for that word ‘broad’ which, added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.” Essentially, Romeo calling Mercutio fat, which he probably is anyway.
-Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

“ ‘When first I appear, I seem deleterious, but when explained, I’m nothing…’ ‘SHUT UP!’ ‘…serious.’ ‘Do as he says, he’s obviously a spirit of some sort…and we only need one.’”
-Mysterious Old Man, then Steward, then Mysterious Old Man, then Cinderella’s Prince, Into the Woods, Sondheim

“ ‘Lockwood and Lamont…They TALK!’ ‘Well, of cawse we tawk. Don’t evewybody?’”
-Producer, then Lina Lamont, Singing In the Rain, dunno writer, sorry

“Don’t think about crocodiles!”
-Me

“Hallo. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
-Guess who, The Princess Bride

“Everything can be parodied, even parody.”
-Les Misèrables, Victor Hugo

“A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox, ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, a paradox.”-Ruth, Frederic, Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance, G+S

“Go, ye heroes, go and die!!!!!!!”
-Mabel, The Pirates of Penzance, G+S

“Oh, is there not one maiden here whose homely face and bad complexion have caused all hope to disappear of ever winning man’s affection? To such a one, if such there be, I swear by heaven’s arch above you, if you will cast your eyes on me, however plain you’ll be, I’LL LOOOOVE YOU!!!!”
-Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance, G+S

“ ‘Enough with the psychobabble, MC Dr. Phil. Let’s talk counterinsurgency.’”
-The Colonel, Looking for Alaska, John Green