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Just Call Me Art's Journal  I have been roused from my slumber by Phoenix/Nathan. I don't have much to say, though. School is wonderful. Keeps me busy. I need to get a job. I'm of age. I met most of you almost 6 years ago now. Wow. Mmmph. Quick update on life again. I graduate high school in a week. And then I move on to college. And... that's mostly it, I guess. =) Financial aid is going through the giant machine right now and it's taking forever to figure out. I may go and accelerate to graduate in 3 years so I cut the cost to three fourths of the insane price tag. In more exciting news, I'm currently involved in four shows at the same time. Two supporting characters and one minor character, as well as one directing and another teching/stage managing. Woo! I am also officially done with The Game. No more debate for me, thank god. 8th semester of high school. Boo. And I received a likely letter from Rice! So that looks like a pretty sweet backup in case stuff doesn't work out elsewhere. =) How is everyone? I read as much as I can but sometimes I miss things... I was admitted to Yale at 1:05 PM Pacific today. =) Whether I go depends on financial aid, but I'm pumped anyway. Life is good. =) Hi. =) I haven't really updated in an entire year. Long story short, nothing major has happened. No romance, no new best friends, no interesting stories, no clubbing. Just a normal junior year. Lots of theatre, I guess. =) I think I'm going to try to get an agent next year. But! Little 7th grader Art is growing up. He'll be a senior next year, and he has to start applying to colleges in less than half a year. ( I'm applying to college! ) I know some of you have gone through this process before, so if you have any words of advice, they'd be much appreciated. =) I haven't updated in over a month. So, to make a long story short: I'm still in school. In fact, I just 36'ed the ACT. =) I'm self-studying an insane number of classes, but my favorite by far is Multivar Calc. That boyfriend? Keith? Yeah, never existed. And it wasn't me who made him up, either. I no longer acknowledge the existence of the person who I believe tricked me into that. The play went pretty well -- I had the script with me on stage and I saved it a couple times. :o The next play begins next week, a month earlier than usual. I'm excited! ... I made up with Ian. I don't think it's going to come back to bite me but I'm willing to eat crow and not complain if it does, because I know this time it will have been entirely my fault. I'm becoming more social! I take my driving test next Tuesday. After that, I'm finally free. I will not run away from home. :P I will try to update this more often, as in the last two months I've made two entries and have therefore lost a rather large part of my life to the recesses of my brain. :( Current mood:  bouncy.Current music: Wind it Up - Gwen Stefani. ( Literally nothing of importance to almost all of you. ) Yar mate, this can be expanded pretty far, it’s only 260ish words right now. It’s your job to expand it past 400 (just fill in the details, I think I got most of the big chunks of information in). Just post it as a reply and I’ll get it when I come back. I’ll edit and hopefully you’ll still be online so I can send it back and we can do that back and forth till it’s ready. I’ll be back ~11:15 ish tonight. Have fun with it, I guess. Hopefully this'll turn out better than the other Laconian articles. Not that that's a hard thing. ;) School started Friday. My schedule looks exactly how I'd like it to look, which makes me happy. ( It's text, but it's long. Overview of the year! ) Looks like this'll be an interesting year... Oh, and Jim Verraros writes amusing music. So Deep's about anal sex, yo. And it's good, too! Pulling your hair, gasping for air Sweating so hard I can't see Take my arms up above me You're making me moan 'cause I'm so hungry Bite me, tease me, use your tongue Don't worry 'cause I'm not gonna run Current mood:  busy.Current music: So Deep - Jim Verraros. ( I guess I wasn't worth it to him. ) And yeah, I wish I hadn't called him a fag, I was pissed. =/ SDI was pretty good this year. It got a little tiring at the end, though. And there's kind of too much to talk about, but I'll try to update every once in a while with important points... - Collin - Andy - Brandall - Chloe - Tournament I'll add more as I think about it, but those are the big story-type points. I was handed the keys to my dad's '87 Volvo when I got back, though. Which means I officially own a 20 year old car, and I can drive it whenever I want. :D. Except I kinda need a license first. But my parents made it shiny and pretty for me! Nothing new on the inside, but it looks better on the outside than it did before. I'm back! And: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLOVER! :) HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, CYN! I hope you had a good weekend. :) Current mood:  embarrassed.
I've turned into such a narcissistic little fuck. But. Seriously. I look REALLY good right now. :D Current mood:  amused.Current music: Champagne Supernova - Oasis. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PHOENIX! I haven't gone to sleep yet so it's still the 29th. That's how I work. Disneyland killed me. And in relationship news, I still don't have anyone. However, I got really pissed at Ian, blocked him for a while, unblocked him and talked to him about it, ended up getting more pissed and blocking him for half a day while deciding to keep our talking to a minimum from that day forth, and was convinced to try again by a mutual friend. I'm going to venture to say that I may have to thank this mutual friend (a LOT) in the future. Once again, it's been almost a month since the last real update. A lot has happened, so I'll just dabble in it all. Or attempt to do so, anyway. Sometime earlier this month, Kara and her sister took me to an Alkaline Trio concert. My first ever, so they decided I needed the full treatment -- heavy eyeliner and a ghastly band shirt. It was a lot of fun, I loved being there and not being in control of where my body was going, which way the crowd was moving. I came out looking like I had just had REALLY rough sex in a pool with my clothes on, but it was one of the best things I'd ever experienced. I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Minus the heavy eyeliner and band shirt. Finals went fine; if anything, they were extremely anticlimactic. Working on a 90-100 = A, 80-89 = B, etc. system, there's really no incentive to study if you know either way you'll get the same letter grade. So what the hell, I didn't study. The last week of school was pretty fun, and I went out to eat pizza with some of my friends on the last day. That last day, I went to get my hair cut and highlighted, and later that night I hopped over to Victoria Gardens to just hang out and do stuff. The next week, we went to Disneyland with Whitney and Khara, and I finally got an annual pass. Which means I've been a few times this summer already, which is sweet. I'll get my money's worth tomorrow. We took pictures and had a lot of fun, and some of the pictures are floating around my comp, but photobucket is evil and I haven't found another photo hosting site (haven't looked for one, granted), so they haven't been posted. From then, it's just been a pretty drastically boring summer. I haven't gone out to many places over the last two weeks, think I've done maybe 4 big things total. However, I did finish all of my summer work, so I'm absolutely free until the end of the year. My report card came in the mail the other day, and they royally fucked it up. They got all the grades right, except for me not getting a grade in Calc. However, they only gave me 1 credit for Debate instead of two, and they totally dropped all credits for my elective classes from my 1st semester, which raised and lowered my GPA at the same time. I'll ask. Anyways, 4 big things. First was Disneyland with Whitney and Khara, then was Iggy's surprise birthday party. Iggy's mom called me the day before his birthday to invite me to his party and I wholeheartedly agreed to come. I dunno why exactly she called, but apparently her sister recognized me as someone Iggy was friends with and said I should be invited. I don't really talk to Iggy that much, but I went with Whitney, sat talking with each other for a little while, and then joined Iggy and his friends to have a good time. They invited us to Disneyland, saying there was room for one more in the car, but we were already planning to go on Tuesday (yesterday), so we said we'd just meet them there. Turns out that we decided to go Thursday, but I still wanted to see if I could go with Iggy and them. Whitney couldn't, 'cause of her parents, but I texted Iggy and asked him if there was still room and if he wouldn't mind, and he said there was and he wouldn't. :) So I went to Disneyland with Iggy and Bethany (who was in 8th grade at FCS when I was in 6th; I knew of her). It was supposed to be two others, but one couldn't make it 'cause of her parents and the other... couldn't make it. So it was just us. I felt kinda bad at first, 'cause I was pretty sure I would have fit in better with more people and I'm naturally shy, but I tried to get over it. They kept telling me to help decide where to go, but I didn't want to push any way at all, 'cause I knew I was going tomorrow. Anyways, it ended up being a lot of fun. We hopped over to California Adventure and went on some of those, and I hadn't been in ages so I experienced that again. We met up with Bethany's mom and her little brothers to go on Pirates (The line LOOKS long but is never as long as they say. 2h30 = 45, 90 = 30), went on Winnie the Pooh with her little brother, and decided we were done. So after a couple of mishaps with the freeways, we eventually get to a BJs, have dinner, and then Bethany drives Iggy and I to his house, and Iggy drives me home (an adventure in itself, but I'm going to try to forget it, as it involved a cop and a momentary scare that eventually became nothing). Four would be a romp around Victoria Gardens with Gary and Kara. We did some shopping (got a pair of shorts for the first time in ages) and watched a movie. We took pictures afterwards and they ended up pretty cool. :D Anyways, I wore flip flops for the first time in AGES yesterday, and my feet hurt. :P Disneyland tomorrow with Whitney, Kara, Belinda, Dana, James, and Kelsey. That should be fun. ^_^ I've decided that as of Sophomore year, my two dream schools are UChicago and Columbia. After some research, that is very likely to change. And I think that might be all. Nothing else I can remember. This ended up a lot longer than I was planning, though. Heh. Current mood: cheerful.Current music: You Turn It On - Jim Verraros. Sweet. :D ( Got SATIIs back. ) I'm happy. :) ... ( Whoah. It's me! ) In three hours, I will be a Junior. Starting the college process, looking forward to a life of New York/Chicago nightclubs and amazing professors, beautiful campuses and awesome student bodies. I met you all when I was just out of 7th grade. I think I'm one of the only ones left in school. Fwee! I've decided that going to school right now is pointless: 0 - Movies 1 - Free Period 2 - Free Period 3 - Movie 4 - Movie 5 - Free Period 6 - Listening to Presentations. ... Yeah. Life at a private school post-APs. My (short-sleeved) pajamas are so loose that I didn't notice I had put both legs in the same hole until I went to sit down. Haha. One month later... I'm alive and kicking. AP exams went reasonably well (As in, the one I had prepped most for, Euro, was the hardest and the one I'm most worried about). I have a couple projects due this Friday. Seniors graduate Saturday, I'll hopefully show up to see them walk. Got a (last) hug from Iggy on Monday, probably won't see him close up again for ages. I haven't shaved in three weeks and people are totally blown away by how much hair I DON'T have. B) Three tutorings today, which amounts to $60 in 3 hours, which isn't bad. Someone asked for 2 hours on Saturday, $70 total. I told them they were crazy. :) Speaking of money, parents revealed college funds (enough to leave me scrambling but confident) and I decided I want to work at Disneyland my Senior year. You can work there if you're 17 and a Senior. :D School's over in three weeks, but in three days I'll have no more homework, period. I've had totally free AP classes for about a week now. That's the first three hours of school, sitting there doing nothing. Woe is me. I've also started to get into a nightly routine, which involves: flossing; exercising; reading in English, Spanish, and French; practicing spreading (speed-talking) for debate; and, if I can get myself kick boosted into it, writing. I also bought and devoured this week's editions of TIME and Newsweek. Hopefully I can continue that. Chem and MathII SATIIs this June. I realized Chem will be a breeze after the AP exam, and MathII I don't know shit about without reviewing. Did you all know there's a SUPER Pythagorean Theorm? I sure as hell didn't. :P A squared plus B squared plus C squared = D squared. Lets you figure out the longest diagonal in a box. :o I think I'm done with the rambling for now. :) Current mood: amused.Current music: Quiet. This one took me forever, but once I actually sat down and paid attention to it, it came out pretty quickly. It was fun, too. :D. And I know the citations all suck. ( Biopower in 1984, They Live, and Falling Down. ) And an essay that I thought I would hate but that I ended up liking a lot. Three of 12. ( The economic systems of France under Colbert and the Soviet Union under Stalin. ) AND I'm getting quicker at my typing, which makes me happy. This is all good practice. :) Second of the AP Euro Essays. ( This time it's the Protestant Revolution and its causes! ) ( To do. ) Just wrote my first of 12 AP Euro essays: ( In case you want to read about the political, economic, and social factors of Spain's 16th century rise and fall. ) Don't let me get away without updating you on the play, Woodward, and prom. Don't. Got a 3/6 in Mathletes today. Misread 2 questions... oops. :D A JV national tournament, prom, and board game party later, I'm starting on 50 pages of self notes, due tomorrow, at 9 PM. :P Current mood:  gloomy.Current music: Concrete Angel - Martina McBride. I don't think I like Ian anymore. I can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing. I'm about two weeks behind reading all of your journals. The main problem is: 1. A MAJOR lack of time. 2. I've read some of them, so I don't really know where to start reading and where to end. I recognize one every so often, but then I keep going and then I wonder whether I just forgot the ones I'm scrolling by, or whether I didn't read them. Woe. I'm sorry if I missed something big. :X. I've never had life creep up behing me like this. Oh well, just one more week till the end of the Busy Quarter (which wasn't so homework-busy this year). In better news: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOELLE! I know I'm a little late, but I hoep you had an awesome day yesterday. :D It was you. I don't think you realize the full effect you had on my life. We don't talk to each other that often anymore, nor do I think we'll ever talk to each other in the same way again. But that summer, however many years ago, held one of the relationships that I'll cherish for the rest of my life. It blossomed, bloomed, and wilted all in a span of-- what? 3 months? But those 3 months will remain with me wherever I go, and with whomever I'll end up with. I looked up to you. You weren't as wild then as you are now, and I'm not saying that you should go back to that. But you were an awesome role model. You represented what I knew I'd want to become when I grew older, and, as strangely as it may seem, part of that stuck with me through until today. Some of the things I do today are directly affected by the things you said to me that summer. Some the things I plan for later years, though I know they're idealistic and will probably even fall through, are things that I'll hold on to until then. I really do want to meet you some day. Someday, I'll see you face to face and I'll probably break down and look like a young, naive moron who fell in love one day and was never really able to let go. And then I'll go home and remember that day forever. It's because of you that I am who I am today. You were the first person I came out to, you were the one who broke my carefully planned schedule. You supported me through the revelation and supported me after the realization. But as I grew my own wings and began to soar through the sky of my own power, you grew more and more distant. Always there, but always distant. I don't know if I'll ever experience a relationship like that ever again. I was young, I fell into your arms, your voice melted my ears, you comforted me when I really needed it. I wish I still had something like that today. I go through hard times and always cry out, painfully remembering the times when I had someone who I could latch on to, who would be able to support me and who would be willing to hold me up. Now all I have is my moose. Other people come and go through the night, pretending to be as you were, but they always fall away. Nothing ever lasts. I don't know if even you ever really felt the same way. Was I just another social project of yours? Did you cringe when I touched you? Was all my wistful whispering and mumbling just a piercing falsetto to your ears? My paranoic, realistic side says I was, you did, it was. I wish it could be different, but that's probably the truth. The truth. The truth really is, I need someone like you in my life again. Someone more permanent, more accessible. You gave me the taste of what I wanted, but now I want my meal. Maybe the meal will be even more satisfying, or maybe the cook specializes in appetizers. I won't know until I eat. But until then, the only thing I've experienced is the taste. I wish I could still feel it, but I can't. I crave it, but I won't get it. I had it, and I thank you indefinitely for that. But I need it again. I hate sounding emo. I hate rambling. I wish I were more organized. I wish I could flow my feelings into words more effectively. Current mood:  melancholy.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HEENA! I know I already said it, but you still have to have the obligatory big-font LJ post, yanno? I hope you had an awesome day, of course. :) To expand upon my previous LJ entry: I am stuck at home on a Saturday night, just like I was stuck at home last night, and probably just how I'll be stuck at home tomorrow night. Knowing this kind of grates on my nerves, because I absolutely hate being over here right now. I can't even do much online because it's slow; everyone's doing something, so nothing is going on. There's not that many people to talk to, and LJ isn't being interesting. I don't play Neo anymore (gaspshock) and no other website can hold my attention that well. I know I can't do much about it tonight, but what can I do in the future to prevent this? :P Current mood:  bored.
Today was fun. :) Woke up at 8 to get to Track at 9, which ended up being not so bad. Apparently I can finish a 200m in regular shoes and after moderate exercise in under 35 seconds, which isn't good but isn't horrible. I managed to keep up with one of the faster guys on the team on the 8th one, but that was 'cause he kinda slacked on the first 100m. x) Anyways, from there we went to get Starbucks (Vanilla Bean Frappuccino with an extra shot of caramel = good), and then I headed towards a Japanese restaurant where Gary's lunch thing was at. We ate on the floor, just like we should; had salad, shrimp tempura, teriyaki chicken, and mango ice cream; and ended up playing a drinking game with water. :P. We played I've Never, so it was amusing just the same. Spent a while loitering outside and then just went to drop off Whitney and Khara. Then I stayed at Kara's for about an hour, practicing the scene we're gonna do for Lucy's Trinity Exams. It's a scene from As You Like It (Shakespeare) where Silvius is totally fawning over Phebe. Some other girl comes in dressed as a guy, gives a long monologue, and Phebe falls in love with her/him, and then the scene goes into this tirade of Phebe's where Silvius is still trying to please her and do anything to be with her. Shakespeare is fucking weird to read out loud. :P. I need to print out the script and read through it to know what goes on in the play itself, 'cause it should help. And then I just need to learn lines and practice. A lot. Parents picked me up, and we went to Blockbuster and rented Rent, Romeo and Juliet (DiCaprio's '96 version), and this French movie my dad found. Skimmed through the French version of Rent (they don't sing in French!), watched Romeo and Juliet and fell asleep at the very end, and will watch both again tomorrow in French. Now I'm sitting here on a Saturday night thinking about Ian having a good time and me not being anywhere. Just like last night. Here's the finger for ya, Ian. Yeah, I think I realized something earth-shattering last night, and it wasn't a good thing. It may end up resulting in a good thing, but we'll see. Current mood: calm.Current music: Dare You To Move - Switchfoot. And for today: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, IAN! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YAKI! I hope you both had good days, of course. :) Sorry I don't have a sign for you, Gary, but I haven't had much time today. But: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you had a better day than you did yesterday. :) I realized that it's very hard to do homework with music that'll get you active. Be that Broadway shit that'll get me to start singing and mixing the lyrics of Seussical with stuff from World War I, or Madonna stuff that'll just plain get me to knock my chair over and jump around. Haha, techno dance music is t3h sh1t. :) Last week was fine. In general, I had normal classes for all five days. I got my first 6 on the Mathlete thing on Tuesday, but I shared the glory with a Junior. This month's was too easy; I need to get a 6 on next month's to keep my reputation up. :P I also missed 5th and 6th periods on Wednesday to take the AMC 10. 25 question, multiple choice test. I needed 120 points to pass to the next round, which amounts to 17 correct answers and 8 blanks. I reached exactly 17 answers and 8 blanks, so now it's whether I answered them all right or not. I'd be one of the first from Damien to pass to the next round from the AMC 10 (we've had some pass the AMC 12). Friday was Sadie's. I left school after Tutoring to get a haircut and then went to get my food. On the way to get food, they call me and ask when I'm getting there. Now, I had been told to be there at 6:45, so I told them I'd try to hurry and I'd try to be there at 6:15. Of course, turns out they were gonna have dinner, so I showed up fully fed and was taken to In n Out. Granted, I ate healthier than that, so I dunno which I would have prefered. Anyways, I saw Ian's friend Spencer over there, and I'm not sure whether he recognized me or not. Probably not, but either way, neither of us said anything. I got a strawberry shake while the others had their food, and then we were off to Sadie's. Sadie's was better than usual. I stayed with Khara, Taryn, Tracy, and Danielle most of the time. Kara was stuck freak dancing with Ryan, hah. The night in general was fun. They finally played Madonna's "Hung Up", which I'll admit, I do like. They played a bunch of 80's music, 'cause 80's was the theme. I also finally managed to convince them all to go out to the middle of the dance floor among the throngs of people. Which actually was a lot of fun, getting bumped around everywhere. I just wish the others weren't so gung-ho against it. Just blocking people's way in there is good enough. Samuel Cisneros came up behind me and tried to freak dance. Freak. :P. It was fun, though. ;) We tried to go to Starbucks afterwards, but they were closing at 11, so we hopped over to Denny's, where I stayed for 15 minutes or so. Myles was there, so we said hi. Left Kara, Kelsey, and James over there eating. :) Yesterday was Seussical, which was awesome. As much as Horton and the Cat sucked at singing, the music was awesome. I got to actually hear Vern sing, and I also saw him in a Sea Anemone costume (as well as a Who, a Monkey, and a Clown). Went with Alanna and Khara, and we had seats up in row C, so we could see pretty well. Spencer's friends were there, and so were Theresa and Brittany. Brian Porter glared at me some, it was weird. Anyways, turns out Alanna was going to go to the WoP show that I had also skipped over. We laughed over that and how many freshmen there ended up being. :P. I got to wear Vern's monkey hat afterwards, and I got a picture of me in it, although I look kinda weird. Bony. Dunno why. They were gonna go to Applebee's afterwards, and I would have gone, but Dad got super pissy and, long story short, Mrs. Fernando took me to her house as originally planned. Except Khara stayed behind and went to Applebee's with them. Eva (Mrs. Fernando) was willing to take me all the way back home (sincerely willing), but my Dad wouldn't have it. I can drive with my Permit on April 22, drive alone on October 22, and can drive other people and past 11 P.M. next October 22. That's Junior year of driving till 11, and Senior year of driving whenever. Sounds good to me. Today was homework day. :). Tomorrow I have Track and then there was originally going to be a costume luncheon planned that I considered going to, but it fell through and I didn't have to make the decision. Kara and I have also decided that we have to have a Queer as Folk marathon sometime. Actually, we can probably take a whole weekend, practice on one day, and celebrate the next. Haha. Next Sunday we're trying to get Victoria Gardens together, but we'll see. I think that's all. :) OH! I got the Seussical soundtrack today and impressed myself after listening to a recording of me singing along with this song. It's a lot better than usual, and I'm glad I have the capability of sounding nice. ^_^ Current mood: calm.Current music: Alone in the Universe - Seussical. We won the JV Stanford Policy Debate Tourney. :) tangerinekiki showed up in my semi-final round and watched the decision. I didn't even know she was there, and she saw the postings for semis and recognized the name of my school. :oShe looks just like she does in pics, don't worry. She's not a child molestor, either. :) Moo. I don't have to go to school tomorrow 'cause I'm leaving in the morning for the Stanford debate. I took a shitload of books home, but I'm not worrying about my homework tonight. I can do it on the plane, in the hotel, or on the campus. I don't think Mr. Clark likes me, though. He seems to be kinda hostile, and doesn't seem to like when I tag around Ian and Trevor. Either way, I'm debating JV at this tourney, which is really demoralizing. We're competing at the same level as our freshmen, and if we don't make it high up in the elim rounds I'll hurt things. Ian broke up with Natalia. He seems ok, but he's been moody. Won't bother him about it unless he wants to talk to me about it, 'cause I'm through with trying to get into what he thinks. School's been fine in general. Deacon Clark's being a dick again, and is taking away bunches of points wherever he can. I have to bring my grade in that class up, 'cause I can't pull down my GPA with Religion. That's just not right. I've been getting into recording myself singing and listening to try to improve my voice, at least marginally. Assure myself that I do have pitch. :P Track's being mean. It's a lot of work, and I get tired easily. I've been sick a lot of this last week, sick enough to miss the last three days. :P. Actual season starts next Monday, and I'm probably gonna be put in the Other group, unless I've suddenly learned how to really sprint. ;) Man, dunno what else to say. I still have my list of things to do that would be really interesting to post on LJ, but they're not even started yet. :P So I'll leave Harry Potter people with this: When I was younger, I started doing a Lexicon-type reading of the HP Books, noting anything and everything that wasn't a conjunction. I didn't get very far at all, but one thing that particularly struck me was Dumbledore's watch. Golden without any hands, just weird planets floating around the place. After reading the K2K theory (Is that it? The one that thinks Dumbledore is/was Ron. As in, sometime in the 7th book, Ron is sent to the distant past and ends up being Dumbledore), I suddenly realized this: Ron got a very similar watch for his 17th birthday in Ch 18 of HBP, pg. 390 of the American edition. Coincidence? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEET! Hope you had a fun day. :). How are those cigarettes? :P I'm at school from 7:35-5:00 every single weekday, which includes either Track or Drama. Mondays I have dance class from 7:00-9:00 Tuesdays I tutor from 5:00-6:30 Wednesdays I have off, but I'm going to start volunteering from 5:00-9:00 (if I can find a place...) Thursdays I have Piano from 7:45-8:45 Fridays I go out and do stuffs I no longer have any time to update regularly, and I'm having a hard time keeping up with my homework. The constant load of pressure wears on my back. But you know what? I have higher grades than I did last year. I just ran 4 miles in under an hour. I'm making enough money to pay off about 1/5 of this summer's tuition. I pulled off one of the hardest piano pieces I've ever seen a weekend ago. I love it. :). Distracting and comforting. Current mood: cheerful.
I ran into a tree branch today. Actually, to be more precise, someone did the classic "push the branch aside and not realize there's people behind you before you let go and hit them in the face." It had thorns. Yeah, I have three lovely scratches in the side of my face. They make for great conversation, though? AND: "At this time, we lack corroborating information suggesting that al-Qaida is prepared to attack the United States in the near term," said Homeland Security spokeswoman Michelle Petrovich. "But we recognize that al-Qaida remains committed to striking the homeland." PROTECT THE MOTHERLAND!!1 I forgot I had to tutor someone at their house over an hour ago. Yeah. Fuck shit tit cunt. They have a test tomorrow. I offered to either go over right away or go tomorrow and answer anything he needed over the phone. I'll go tomorrow for two hours, they asked, but I'll only charge for one. I hate being forgetful like that. =/ Man, I feel so guilty for not being happy about other people advancing in life. It's probably 'cause I feel like they're getting ahead of me unfairly. But then I think back and tell myself I'm perfect, even if it isn't true. It makes me feel better. :P So then I just think, I'm better than them. I don't tell anyone except the people who choose to listen to my rambling LJ that (I warn you now) is pretty much a brag-fest that makes me feel better. So, I'm better than them. :) In other, happier news. HAPPY GOLDEN BIRTHDAY, KIKI! Thoughts adversely affected by the fact that Ian's with a girl at the moment. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's interfering with my productivity. :P Also Backdated so it won't bother your Friends Pages ( Read more... ) ( I wasted my life. ) So yeah. I wasted 4 full days (106h) of my 1st semester doing homework. And the classes I had the most in, Euro and Religion of all fucking douchebag subjects, were within 17 minutes of each other. Meh. I fixed up most of my Lists. I deleted some things from the Camp list that I never took and didn't miss, and changed some things that I think would be optional. The Stats list is totally revamped, but that's just a big page of bragging. The Reading list, though, is fucking awesome. Organized by author's last name, and I have a code set up for which books I have, have read, and am in the process of reading. And my homework list is just fixed up and tidied, with the semester results tabulated. I still need to fix up the Gift and Debate lists, but the Gift is a work in progress and the Debate I have my stuff at home. So I can probably start working on my defense mechanism and how this relates to the different cliques. *shrug* As I was just telling Grace: If you ever let me anywhere near enough to a Sharpie so that I can reach out and grab it, I will always end up with 24 dots on my hands. Two per finger, one on the back of each hand, and one on each wrist. Because I can. I did it once a month or so ago, and I've done it three or four times since. Don't let me find that Sharpie. :) In a similar vein, my nails are horrendously long. I still haven't had access to a nail clipper, and I hadn't clipped them for about a week before we left. I fucking SLIP on the laptop keyboard because my index-nail is in the way. :P I updated my Stats list, and I need to get to work on a couple more. Fwee. EDIT: Oh, and I'm assuming that I passed Religion with an A. If I failed the test, I'm screwed. o_O I also want to make a post on Damien's cliques and my defense mechanism/how I cope. This one's important. :) I forgot to say, I had wine again. A couple of glasses on two different nights, but it makes me want more. White wine tastes sooo good. :(. It's illegal here, technically, but much less so than it is back home. If you know what I mean. Last two days we were down south a little ways from Bogota in a little natural park that was on the edge of a mountain. It was actually really nice. We stayed in the two cabins that we had, and just walked around a bunch. First day we went walking through the woods down there, took about 2 hours. I got pissed off at the end 'cause I knew the path made a loop, but my dad thought that it went straight, so he made us turn back. I'm nearly positive it would have even been faster going through the rest of the path than turning back. Then that night I did something I'll probably always remember and always regret. I had been bugging my dad and mom about letting me go and do another 2 hour walk to a waterfall and back by myself, 'cause no one else wanted to go. They wouldn't let me, and we fought over it for a long time (dad said it would get too dark, I had a flashlight, he wouldn't give in or give another reason) and I went to sit next to a little stream that was a little ways down the waterfall path. I sat there for a long time, ended up pulling out music and getting quiet and thoughtful. I seriously considered disobeying and going off, but I decided that it wouldn't be an excellent idea to go without really knowing how dark it could get, and I was right. I started heading back when it was pretty much almost pitch black, and I fell just going up a path that I had already been up and down three times. But the regret was that I didn't go back that night. I had told myself I might sneak out with the flashlight and make the trip anyways, because the animals over there are mainly nocturnal, but I never ended up doing it. I'll never stop wondering whether I would have seen monkeys or a sloth. Wild monkeys. A wild sloth. Hmph. So I slept on a mattress on the floor that night. Quite uncomfortable, and I woke up a lot, once to a beetle staring me in the face. It wouldn't move, so I turned around and ignored it. But today we went on the waterfall walk in the daylight, and then made the long trip back. Three hours in a small car is not the most fun in the world. Tomorrow we're staying home the whole day, I think. I'll probably work some more on the books, maybe not. I need to make a list of things to do before I get into school that I haven't mentioned before. - Reflect on the year - Reflect on next year - Start on the People Memory - Work on the Debate ToDo - UPDATE all the other Memories - ... Hmph. I know I had more. Current mood: bored.
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