Ah yes, the joys of summertime. And Graduation. Graduation was fun. I've never given/received so many hugs. I even hugged Silvernail! I feel kind of strange about that. Summer started out pretty crazy, with graduation and lake party but now its kind of calmed down into normal summer monotony, interrupted only by the occasional lingering graduation ( Read more... )

Get it guys? Astronewts...newts on a space shuttle ( Read more... )

So here it is. The end of high school. Surprisingly anticlimatic - there's been no cathartic moment like stepping out of a doorway for the last time or final rude remark from any one of several teachers. But I will miss all of that. I wish that our year could end suddenly, with more finality than this dwindling away of classes, one by one. Despite ( Read more... )

This evening, my little sister found Margaret Atwood's "You Begin" on my desk and started reading it in that annoying, trying-to-be-super-dramatic, 6th grade stupid voice. It was infuriating to me. I got angry at her and my mom got angry at me for getting angry at her for reading a poem. The thing is, I felt like she was being disrespectful. Not ( Read more... )

Hooray for Thursday! Despite being slow, its been a pretty good day. The only productive things I've done are writing an essay in English and...I guess thats it. Newspaper was strange because our happy realm was invaded by a bunch of Mr.Chappell's students and our dwindling staff was forced to one table in the middle of the room. The kids wouldn't ( Read more... )

Oh what a glorious day it has been! Happy Birthday to Brittany and Zach Butler and Rob Lowe and Katie Duggan and Emily's dad and Candi and hundreds of others ( Read more... )

Wheee! Today is one of those days when its very hard to not be happy. The weather is perfect. We had a kite flying party today. Our sidewalk-chalked names are forever inscribed in the ground until it rains, or sooner. Grand idea, Alice. We had bubbles and pictures and jump rope and frisbees and notsoAmish pretzels and cooookies and many, many kites ( Read more... )

Oh wow. Today has really made my week stellar. Top 20 Speeches were fun. I really think Spencer did a wonderful job. He was articulate and said nice things and even warranted a few laughs from the crowd. He made a happy lib comment and said some other things. Mrs. Gonzales did a lovely, lovely job with Miss Alice Slice Malice; Mrs. Dotts was oh so ( Read more... )

I wish Quick would stop existing for a few weeks. Today his absurdity reached a new high (or low?). He won't let us put out the Red & Blue. He actually snatched a few out of my hand. He says the few errors in it make it "an embarrasment" to us (by which he means himself). He is ridiculously childish and I hope he gets the Elementary school job he ( Read more... )

Of course I haven't done much of anything that I needed to do, and since I have the time right now to do it, I'm not going to. I refuse to. It's rough being a senior, really really rough. I have all these prophecies to write and a will to figure out and absolutely no time for anything more productive than that. I swear to god, with all the sitting ( Read more... )