I am so close to going home!! I have my Bio final tomorrow morning (ugh) and then the rest of tomorrow and Tuesday to pack because my Spanish final got moved, and then I'm going home one Wednesday! I am so ridiculously excited to be going home. These last few weeks have just dragged by...and I've been ready for school to be over since before classes even ended. Plus I already packed up most of my stuff so my room is sort of empty.

I will miss my college friends, don't get me wrong. I'm just really looking forward to seeing all my friends at home and being able to be home with no pressing responsibilities, like papers and tests.

Also...I am almost a college sophomore. WHAT?? Crazyness.

I've been studying bio all day...so I'm going to go watch Pride and Prejudice with my awesome roommate now. Yay for geeky procrastination! :P

I actually wrote something today! And it was something completely different too, not just a few sentences or paragraphs tacked on to a stale old story that's been sitting in my computer for ages.

Granted, it isn't entirely original, since it was just a prologue-y sort of thing for a possible retelling of Hamlet from Horatio's point of view, but it was still the most writing I've done in months, and it came a lot easier than anything I've written in a long time. So maybe there still is hope that my writing ability hasn't completely deserted me (good news for my Creative Writing major). I just hope I can keep it up.

It's been nearly a year since I updated. This is ridiculous.

But I'm going to try to resurrect this, if only because I feel bad that I've neglected it so long.

I can't believe freshman year of college is almost over. It's been almost a year since graduation. Crazy!
I'm really looking forward to summer, but at the same time I have so much shit I need to get done before then it's not even funny. And yet here I am wasting time updating this. *sigh* Oh, well.

So here's a summary of the last week:

• tech for Ensemble, the last mainstage show; aka 5 hour rehearsals. Ack.
• stayed up till 3 to write a Spanish paper
• opening night of Ensemble with the smallest house ever
• Burpee's (improv group) Alumni show last night, at which STEVE CARELL made an appearance

Such an exciting life I lead. But only three more weeks until summer! Yeah! I can't wait.

We're graduating tomorrow!

This day has seemed aeons away for so long, I can't believe it's finally here. Even at the beginning of this week it still seemed a comfortable distance away. But now it is here. It is actually happening tomorrow. At this time tomorrow, I will be getting ready to graduate high school.

Holy shit.

This came way too fast. I mean, I'm glad the school year's over, but I don't know if I'm ready to go out into the big wide world yet. This is insane.

In other news, I made cookies today and cleaned. So I feel satisfyingly un-lazy. :D

Is not very lusty at the moment. Not the least because the weather feels more like March, and this week and next week hold the dreadful horror that is AP tests. Of which I am going to fail two out of three. *sigh*

May 7 (TOMORROW): Calc (maybe pass if very very lucky)
May 8: English (will probably pass)
May 13: Chem (FAIL)

Senioritis has hit with a vengeance. I spend half my time lethargically wandering around my room not doing homework, and the rest...well, just look at the icon.

But, only a month left of school. I actually feel kind of sad. I've been looking forward to graduation all year, but now that it's so close, I'm starting tho think about all the things I'll miss once high school's over. Like drama. And all my friends. And the theatre. And the people in the drama club. And everything in that general vein.

I am not particularly coherent at the moment, and I have a Calc AP exam tomorrow. *dies* May 14 will be a happy day indeed.

I can't believe it's musical season already. Senior year is going by faster than I expected....too fast and yet not fast enough. *sigh*

Anywho. Sound of Music! I have to admit I wasn't thrilled when I found out what show we were doing, but now that it's been cast and rehearsals have started, I'm really excited. It's going to be so much fun. The cast is amazing (although I do wish CERTAIN PEOPLE *coughdavidianjohnnatashacough* had tried out) and almost completely drama-free (wee! no fights like last year!), and of course the show has some great music.

So I'm Sister Margaretta. Yes, a nun. Hush you. We have some awesome music with four-part and six-part harmonies, and I have SOLOS in "Maria". YA-TAA! I'm excited and a little scared, but mostly excited. It's going to be so much fun.

Now I just have to learn how to pronounce Latin and German words...

Can go to hell.

I stayed up all night on Tuesday to finish that stupid essay.
Meaning that I fell asleep at about 8:00 yesterday.
And woke up at 4:00 am.
Meaning that I didn't finish that goddamn mandala project that she so kindly assigned RIGHT AFTER the essay.
Meaning that I'm royally fucked.

Jesus Christ.

Seems like I only post here when I have something to complain about. *sigh*

Break was nice, except for the fact that I'm STILL not done with scholarship essays. Bollocks. However, some good things did happen:

Jesus Christ Superstar: pretty damn good, though Guys and Dolls was better
The Great Debaters: also pretty damn good, but the best part was seeing Liz and Emma
Christmas: lots of chocolate, yay!
New Year's: Went over to Holly's for the first time in months and watched Rent. 'Twas fun.

Now the only thing I have to do to make my break complete is make my appointment to take my license test. Bah. Can't they just trust that I can drive and give it to me now?

Also, I think I'm getting sick. Hmph.

Yeah, I'm going mad. College apps suck.

Fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

I never used to say that word. See what senior year has done to me? A combination of idiotic yearbook teachers and college essays.

Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving was too short. can I have another week? Please?

Is freaking hard to write.

I don't know why Audino thinks we can write this whole thing in a weekend. Even if it is a three-day weekend.

Bah.

Yeah. It's been a while. I see I'm about as good at updating this as I was at updating my Xanga.

Field hockey's over. Like over over. Like I'm never going to play Sobrato field hockey again over. Which is rather depressing. But we had a really cool senior ceremony before the game today, and we got leis, and then we WON, so it was a good exit, at least. And now I have two more hours after school and ten less pounds to tote around every day. Woot.

Aaaand NaNo starts at midnight tonight, and I acutally have a story! With characters and a basic plot and chapter names and everything. I'm really excited. I'm totally staying up till midnight to start.

College apps due tomorrow for two schools...(ick)...yearbook deadline coming up, and we're sort of ready-ish...I get to go help out with the play now that field hockey's over...em...Audino's class is insane. But at least I won't be absent anymore. Which will be nice.

Yup. College essays to write and such. Toodles!

(Wow, I'm so coherent.)

Don't talk to me about life...here I am, brain the size of a...oh, nevermind.

(It's Hitchhiker's Guide, sillies! :-P)

So, St Louis was fun, and WashU is amazing, and I will almost definitely be applying there.

Speaking of college applications, I am so totally and completely screwed. I have a priority app for Knox due November 1, and I have barely even started my personal statement, and I only just asked for my reccomendations, so there is a very good chance that I won't have everything ready by the deadline. *sigh* When people talk about senior year, they forget to mention all the stress and total insanity that goes along with it. Or maybe they do, and we just don't listen. I dunno. But this year is definitely a lot harder than I expected.

Yearbook...we're making progress (sort of), but Topper is still an idiot and the whole class still wants him fired. About half of us went as a group to the counseling office after 3rd period to complain, and that did at least get one of the APs in our class today, but I don't know if anything's really going to change. All I can say is that I can't wait until March, when all this yearbook crap is over with.

On a happier (ish) note: it's almost November! Meaning not only that I will soon have one less thing on my plate (field hockey), but that in just over two weeks, the insanity of National Novel Writing Month starts! Woot! I almost didn't do it this year, but I've decided that I would feel pretty awful if I didn't, so even if I don't get close to 50k, I'll still feel better. So. Now I just have to think of a story. And some characters, and a setting, and....everything. *sigh* Ah, well.

(www.nanowrimo.org. If you don't know what NaNo is.)

But that's all in the future. For now, it's Friday, I'm home early, I have no homework this weekend, and I am just going to relax and do nothing for an evening. It is going to feel great.

"Meet me in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair,
Don't tell me the lights are shining
any place but there;
We will dance the Hoochee Koochee,
I will be your tootsie wootsie,
If you will meet in St. Louis, Louis,
Meet me at the fair."

Yeah, none of you probably know that song. Judy Garland, 1944 movie...yeah. *sigh*

So, I'm off to St. Louis. I'm supposed to be packing right now, but meh. I have time. I'm visiting Washington University in St. Louis, not really because I have any particular interest in going there, but because they sent me an invitation for an all-expenses-paid trip there, and I just couldn't resist. Should be fun and informative. I may bring a camera if I'm allowed, so I might have pictures to put up when I get back.

Um....we won our game yesterday 5-0...yay! Playing Branham tomorrow and I won't be there...:-( I hope we kick ass. Luckily I don't think I'm missing any tests.

This made my day.



Credit to chibixestella

Sucky. Yeah. That's the word. Senior's year's had its fair share of low points so far. Let's go over them, shall we?

• Yearbook sucks because the advisor doesn't know what the hell he is doing and I really don't respect him, which is bad considering I have to work with him. Plus everyone's bored stiff.

•  I missed three days of AP English last week because of field hockey, and so get to make up a timed essay on Thursday at lunch, and then write another one when I actually get to sixth period. Fun!

• I've forgotten everything I learned in Chem sophomore year, so I'm pretty much going to fail the AP test.

• We lost to Live Oak 0-5.

And just general feelings of un-fun-ness. I think I finally understand senioritis. It's only the fourth week of school, and already I'm looking forward to graduation. I haven't had that much homework, but I feel like I'm having much less fun than last year. I dunno. Maybe it'll change when things get settled in more. I hope so.

Some good things have happened. We were undefeated at our tournament this weekend (we went 2-0-3), and we beat Live Oak in the standings. Yay. And Marianne and Kaitlin and I spent lunch today quoting Potter Puppet Pals. So all is not lost.

I'm still looking forward to graduation. This is going to be a long year.

1st - AP Calc w/ Friedley (except he's not teacher first semester because he got in a car accident)
2nd - AP Chem w/ not Ms. Brown (she left. :-( )
3rd - Yearbook
4th - Advanced Multimedia (aka VisCom)
5th - Econ/Civics
6th - AP Brit Lit (Ending the day with Audino. Great.)

In other news, I am tired and sore from field hockey and still not done with Audino's summer assignment. *sigh*

So apparently I can't take AP Bio because it conflicts with Yearbook, the one elective class I can't drop.

So I have to decide whether I want to go into AP Chem or Anantomy and Physiology. And Ms. Brown isn't teaching AP Chem anymore because she's not even going to be there, so I don't even have that in.

ARGH. This sucks.

So, I went basically the whole summer without writing. *sigh* Whatever.

Just got back from yearbook camp in Tahoe, and am now scared shitless about all the work I have to do next year. And basically I'll be in charge of the entire yearbook, since we don't know who our advisor is yet and they probably won't know anything about yearbook. FUN!

Also, AP English officially sucks, and I haven't even started the class yet. Any teacher who assigns four books and a ream of written work for summer homework is clinically insane.

Other than that...saw Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Festival in Tahoe...finally saw Harry Potter (it wasn't very good; Sirius's death was lame)...saw Hairspray twice (much better than Harry Potter)...CMT didn't kill me, and all the shows went okay...I've still only barely started my summer homework...oh, and I finally got my permit validated so I can drive. Yay!

Yay for summer.  I don't want school to start.

I just got my SAT scores from the June test.

Reading: 800
Math: 740
Writing: 800

Total: 2340

ZOMIGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's way better than my January score, and even that was pretty good (21something, I think).

So yeah. Pretty stoked about that.

And all my kids know their lines and have learned to be quiet backstage after we had a nice long chat with them. So the show shouldn't be a complete disaster. Yay.

The man is a genius. 'Nuff said.

(I'm not quite sure who made this, but they're pretty cool too.)