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[6:30pm] I've been sleeping all day, but I stole this from Kelly yesterday.
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[12:02pm] I've been home since the 13th, but haven't really bothered to update. I'll try to catch you up. This'll be nice and lengthy.
13th: I took my Search final and drove Jenn to my house. On the way, we tried to remember all the state capitals like Merciless Matt can, but we were miserably unsuccessful. Jenn called Matt to ask him some random questions like what's the capital of Georgia (Atlanta), New Jersey (Trenton), what's your favorite toe (I can't remember the answer), what did you get on your ACT (34.. *dies of jealousy and anger*), and what flavor of ice cream you would be (I can't remember this either). We stopped at Walmart to get Jenn some cash, and ate at Burger King in Blytheville. It snowed. Joey came over and we (me, Jenn, and Joey) watched SNL. I slept downstairs because Jenn snores a little.
14th: We tried to take Jenn to the train station, but couldn't find the train station so she missed her first train. Then we took her to church and O'Charley's and Borders and the Bug Shop and then the train station, when she got on, after rolling her monstrous suitcases through the snow a few times. Memory: We bought a geode at the Bug Shop.. a rock that you break open and it's purpley beautiful crystals inside.. but would couldn't break it open. Jenn said it was like the Christmas Message: some people are good inside but refuse to show it, even if you throw them on the ground or rub snow on them or ask your mom to run over them with the Yukon. We had a Christmas Miracle at the train station but I can't remember what it is, now. After that, I missed the band concert, but was pretty tired anyway, so I think my family watched "Holes".
15th-18th: I can't really remember much of what I did Monday through Thursday. I know I saw Joey at least once.. I know I shopped some.. On Thursday, I think, Kristen and I went to the big new mall in West County and had lots of weird experiences, which I wrote a poem about. Other than that, I probably just lazed about and didn't think much at all.....
19th: Kristen and I visited school and saw all my old teachers: Leech, Brown, Srta Kehr, Mr Nielsen, Rideout.. etc. I saw my Joey and his mom, Andy King and Laura, Scotty and Lauren.. And I was instructed to come back after Christmas break ends for WHS so I can visit Drooler and Woodchuck and the rest of the gifteds.. After the school visit, Kristen and I went to her house and watched "The Sweetest Thing" and she made us pizza which was delicious and delectable. Mmm, thanks Kristen!! Then I went out with Joey and we saw ELF, whcih was just as hilarious and fun-filled as the first time.
20th: My mom and I decided to have a movie day, so we saw "Something's Gotta Give" and "Love Actually": both good. But I can't figure out why they called "Something's Gotta Give" by that name. Hmm. Then I emailed some of my Rhodes buddies and went to sleep.
21st: Went to church, and sat around until 8:00, when Joey came over and we all decorated the tree. It was awesome having him there, and he looked so cute in his little soft sweater.. I'm really excited about giving out the Christmas presents this year, I think I did a really good job, especially on his, but I put the gift receipts in all the boxes just in case. Anyway, I think that's about it. I'm pretty happy because today, the
22nd: I get to go to the library and watch "Finding Nemo" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" for freeeee!! Eggselent. I'm taking my brother, and Joey's coming for Pirates, and I'm gonna call Keeb, and it'll be miraculous.
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[8:37pm] It's kinda funny how, once you get whatever you're worried about behind you, life becomes more enjoyable. And it's a lot slower (which isn't always good.) See, last night really sped by because I was trying to study for exams, and before I knew it, it was 4:00 AM and I was so wired from Calc that I tossed around until 5:00 before I slept. But I think it went fairly well.
Guess I'll find out for sure later. So the girls (Carolyn, Laura, Deb) were studying tonight for French and Search but I've decided that since I've written the main essay for Search (and I don't speak French), the rest will be easypie, though I may read over the purple book to cover it. Jenn and Carolyn studied Psych last night, or at least started to, and we ordered pizza, and then they gave up. But tonight, C, L, and D went to Sonic (for food) and Bookstar (for study, I guess.) But I didn't go. Several things remain to be done tonight: packing, shaving my legs, laundry.. maybe I'll even write people some Christmas letters. Who knows what I can accomplish given 2 hours to myself?? Probably, though, I'll just sit in front of the TV and munch on McDonalds. P.S. My car has a racing stripe. I parked under a tree for a week and there were "cherries" and bird crap everywhere on the hood, but I only cleaned the outsides and left a strip in the middle.. more because I was tired than because it looks good. Because it looks terrible. I'll clean it up tomorrow.
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[1:22pm] So Scotty just sent me an email, letting me know what time OWLS class is so when I swing by school sometime next week, probably Thursday or Friday, I can drop by and see people. He also let me know that Andy K won't be in there next semester because he's graduating early, which cracks me up because I know how much he hated school last year, and I guess he's almost done. It's weird, though, to think that these people who are just babies in my mind, will be done with school. I don't know why I think of Andy as a baby. ANYWAY. Enough thought on that. Enough thought on everything, really. And to prove that, a picture-fest.
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[1:27pm] Do you know how good it feels to be done with everything? I finished my Calculus (get this--EARLY), there's no more Search to be done, the research paper is as done as it can be, and Spanish.. well. The only thing left is the big Spanish Fiesta we have today, in which I bring the napkins. ¡Servilletas! And after that everything is just review and exams and going home! And look at me! I even redesigned calapitter from afar. I rock and roll, all night, Sweet Susie. P.S. A thanks to Matt for complimenting the captions on the pictures I sometimes put on here.
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[8:50pm] I'm doing laundry and it's only 115 hours before I go home for a month.
[4:15pm] It really burns me up a lot when I see how kids in other schools (or even this school) can just sit around and not worry about finals and getting all their work
done. They just sit back and coast and that just angers me to no end. I'm forced to work so hard (they KICKED ME OUT of the library last night) while everybody is just..
sighing in their beds. OR!!! I'm utterly hateful and jealous toward those who get to do winterguard this season. So if you're talking to me and you feel the need to talk
about guard, just don't, because I'll probably go beserk and kill you. And I think that's fair, which shows how warped and bitter I've gotten here. I honestly need to go
home and spend a month in bed.
[11:10am] This weekend sucked so much, except for Friday: that was okay. Friday was attempting to go to Baskin Robbins, discovering that it didn't exist, and settling for
Sonic, then watching Rufus W sing on TV. But then everything went downhill. So here's my disclaimer for the week (until Saturday at 3:30)-- If I'm crabby or short-tempered
or snappy or petty or argumentative or resigned or antisocial or anything else out of sorts, it's because of stress. I'm sure everything will go back to the way it was when
we come back after Christmas. I just want to go home. And this "Chocolate Sensations" tastes bad: bitter. Like me!!
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[11:24am] I'm almost late to Calculus, but this is worth it.
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[4:06pm] This is the perfect time to crow a little bit about how much I love my friends here. Y'all are wonderful. Maybe a few minutes after I wrote the last post, Laura came
in and offered to wallow in misery with me, and later I skipped Spanish out of pure hatred for Wednesdays and Matt and I hovered about oblivion while listening to Rufus
Wainwright commentary on his new CD "Want One". And if you don't have that yet.. WHY DON'T YOU HAVE THAT??? Sigh. Anyway. And Carolyn just wouldn't quit making me laugh.. We
were writing songs for our new band, which I think is called like the Glorious Grunts or something. For real. Our songs are so clever. I'm afraid to tell you readers the
details, for you shall think them so funny and clever that you might STEAL them!! I'll tell you one: picture this. The song name is "Things That Are Not Shiny". It begins
with intensely awesome guitar setup, and at the very climax of the musical moment, Carolyn shrieks "BLING-BLING!!!----oh, crap." And the guitar does a bow-wow thing and
that's it. AHAHHAHAHAHA!!! We win. We certainly had a lot of fun when Laura, Matt, Carolyn, and I went out to Chili's for some food fun: "OH FUZZY!!!" and grabbing Carolyn's
neck. And then later, while I was crawling about in the depths of despair and writing my paper, Drew brought me my themes and kept me company a little bit. It was good times.
My friends = buenos amigos.
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[10:48am] Maybe some days you just wake up and you're like, "This is going to be a terrible day. I can just feel it." Well, today is just like that. It's raining and I have
half the 2500-word paper (that's due tomorow) done. I didn't do any Calculus or Spanish yesterday because the paper was so demanding. AND IT'S ONLY HALF DONE!! *takes
a huge breath in... out..* Okay, chill. It may be a crappy day, but Friday, which is only 2 days away, that will be okay. Hey! Winny got a blog! One day, when I have some
time, I will redesign this thing and link everybody. It's been 6 months. *hangs head in shame* Time to get ready for class n stuff.
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[5:12pm] Someday I will attempt to explain how amazing my friends here are. But not today. Today you get two visual stimuli: a result of my slacking, not working as I should
be. I stole that thing from Kelly to make a pretty picture, and then you can see my 2nd semester schedule, a real beaut (beauty minus the Y.)
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[1:32pm] So Wednesday I woke up bright and early, after relatively (suddenly I can't remember how to spell that) few hours of sleep, wandered to Walmart in my slightly
crippled car, and made them fix my tire. I ate McDonalds and read some Spanish homework, attempted Calc but gave up and watched Texas Justice or whatever that lame show is..
some girl was arguing with her ex because he paid for half her boob job and he wanted her to "pay him back" for the other half, or some nonsense. So by noon, my car was fixed
and I was home by 4:15. I was pretty exhausted, and putting things in chronological order is pretty hard for me, so I'll summarize further by saying this: I slept quite a
bit, saw Joey some (it took two tries for us to see School of Rock, but it was worth it!!! "the movie's almost over.. get on outta here.. it's time for those cleaning guys to
get the sticky stuff up off the floor"), watched a LOT of TV (which is uncharacteristic of me), saw Kristeny Keeb a little on Saturday, and then drove back yesterday. When I
got back, Matt and Drew and I hit the Burger King, and they picked up Zac(h/k) and Deborah and we watched Jurassic Park. An exchange of people occurred--Drew and Zach and Matt
left, but Carolyn and Laura arrived and we went to Sonic because we were all hungry AGAIN--then Matt came back, and we watched Sliding Doors, and that was that. I survived
Calculus this morning and I got my test back. 79%!!!! That's WAY better than I thought I did. Okay. Now for the Search common sessions, which are always fun because
they involve ALL my friends sitting right next to me.
[10:38am] Pretty weird to think it's December. Anyway, so Thanksgiving break. Everyone who is cool is leaving summaries of theirs, so I'm just conforming to that. Tuesday I
got all excited about coming home and fidgeted my way through my stupid Spanish presentation (of which I will tell you much more later) and went out to my car and drove away
and on mile marker 10 in Arkansas BOOOOMMM!!! I had another blowout. ARGH! So I had a 2-second freakout and then 12-hour anger. But it was okay. An Arkansas highway patrol
policeman came by and started changing my tire (I held his hat); he said, "Never tell anyone that the Arkansas police aren't nice, because look at what I'm doing for ya! And
it always has to happen on a cold day, right?" And so I told him how it had happened before, on a hot day, 90 degrees, and he said "90 degrees? That's nuthin! I just got back
from Iraq, try 136!" Oh. Whatev. Kudos to Officer Williford (which is awesome because it's the name of a dorm on campus). So then the Motorist Assist showed up and finished,
and I went back to campus. Then Laura and Carolyn and I went to the Lair and met Deborah and her friend, and we ate and then we left. Then Laura went to the airport and
Carolyn and I went to "Runaway Jury", which rocked a lot. John Cusack makes almost anything better. Ugh, hang on. More later. Reviewing my last two posts reveals that I
basically wrote the same thing twice. Argh!!