Goodbye April

This month of BEDA has been a great experience for me!  I will definitely be doing this again next year.

There are only a few more hours are left in April, and I am going to miss this month.  There were so many great things going on, from DTASC to spring break, both of which ended with the month.  I start school this week, and DTASC was today.  I still have a bit of homework to finish, and a Spanish project to do, but I don't want to think about that right now, because I'm still living in earlier today.

Wow.  DTASC was just incredible.  I enjoyed this one so much more than the fall competition.  Possibly because there were more of my friends doing it this time?  Though I quite liked the smaller group we had last time, too.  All of the categories that my school was competing in made it to semi-finals, so that was fantastic.  Then, there were three groups who made it into finals- one in each division.  The A division large group comedy made it to finals, and they got honorable mention.  B division Shakespeare CSI made it to finals, and they got 5th place!  And my group in C division, large group drama, made it to finals, and we got 6th place!  Technically 6th place doesn't get a trophy, so we just got an honorable mention plaque, but we were all still so happy!  We got semi-finalist ribbons, which were green, and finalist ribbons, which were yellow.

Funny story (well, at least I think it's funny)- when they were announcing who made it to finals, my group was one of the last ones that was announced.  I think all that was left was large group drama and large group comedy.  They didn't say the title of the category, they just said it was category 7, and I thought 7 was large group comedy.  So when I saw our school code up on the sign, I cheered and tried looking for someone in that group.  But then people started shouting my name and Lisa said, "Aimee! We made it to finals!"  Then I started freaking out because I did not expect that at all.  And we hugged and rejoiced.  It was amazing.

Besides that, and Mr. B. making a group of 2500 drama geeks lose the game (by the way, you just lost), my day was pretty normal and fun- hanging out with friends, eating nutella, etc.  Overall, it was just an amazing day and I'm glad I got to go to DTASC again and share the day with my amazing friends.

Anyway, I'm really tired and I have to be up early to work on the Spanish project I mentioned earlier, so I'll probably go to bed soon.  I hope you all had a wonderful April, and I will see you soon.

This post is dedicated to Michael Scott.

I don't know how many of my followers watch the tv show, The Office, but it is one of my favorite shows and has surprisingly been a big part of my life.  I actually think it was my first "favorite tv show".  I mean, before The Office, there were shows that I liked, but none that were necessarily my favorite.  And no, I wasn't watching it from the beginning- I started at the beginning of season 3- but ever since the episode "Traveling Salesman", I've been a dedicated viewer every week.  I was about twelve at the moment, and didn't get all the jokes, but the ones I did I loved.  And, as everyone should know, even if you don't watch The Office, Michael Scott is the center of the Office universe.

Despite his annoying quirks and lack of self control sometimes, he makes The Office what it is.  He's the character that everyone loves to hate and hates to love.  Sometimes you want to stab him, like in "Stress Relief", when Stanley has a heart attack and he's doing CPR badly, and sometimes you can't help but feel sorry for him, like in "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day", when he shows the kids the video of when he was on tv talking about his dream.  He says that he wants to get married and start a family, but he still hasn't done that, and you just want to give him a great big hug.

Last night, was Michael Scott's last episode of The Office.  When I first heard that this was Steve Carrell's last season, I was heartbroken.  I was wondering how they would get rid of the character, because he's always been so dedicated to Dunder Mifflin.  And now, I have to admit, that they couldn't have gotten rid of him in a better way.  Ever since the end of season 4, I thought Michael and Holly were perfect together (though they didn't actually start dating until season 5), and I knew that she would be the one he would end up with.  Then, when Michael proposed to Holly, and he told everyone that they were moving to Colorado, that was perfect- the proposal, their reactions, everything.  But him moving to Colorado with Holly is the perfect way for him to go, because he loves her.  Even in that time she was gone in the Nashua branch, he never got over her.  He never gave up on her.  And now, they're getting married.

One thing I'd like to point out in last night's episode is when Michael is having second thoughts about moving to Colorado.  He doesn't want to leave, and calls Holly to tell her this.  Holly hears that he is panicked and asks him what's wrong, and Michael replies with, "No, nothing's wrong.  I just needed to hear your voice."  That was my second favorite part of last night's episode, because it shows that he knows what he wants, and he cares about Holly more than anything else.

Now you might be curious as to what my favorite part is.  I liked when Pam was his last goodbye.  I thought it showed kind of a parallel with the pilot episode.  Michael fake fired Pam and made her cry, and she was mad at him.  And then, in this last episode, she cared about him enough to drive to the airport and buy a ticket (because that's how you have to get through security) to say goodbye to him.  Then she sat and watched as his plane flew away.  And I loved how she says, "He sounded hopeful.  He kept saying how he couldn't wait to get home to Holly."  He couldn't wait to get home to Holly.  Holly is his home.  And Pam is happy for him.

I am excited that The Office is going to be having another season, I really am, but it's not going to be the same without Michael Scott.  The conference room meetings won't be the same without him.  He won't be making people feel uncomfortable daily.  No more of his "that's what she said" jokes at the worst times.  He will be missed by the office workers, and by the viewers.

And yes, I did tear up a little while writing this.

Disneyland Trips: 5
Books Read: 8.5

P. S.  Tomorrow is the last day of BEDA!  However, don't expect my post until late at night because I will be at DTASC all day.

I got to see people today!

DTASC is in two days and we all met today to practice.  I learned that my sister gets mad when I tell her it ends at 2 and we end up finishing at 2:15, and that I need to act even sexier. Fantastic.

But a good part of today was being able to see all my friends that I haven't seen in nearly two weeks.  And I also got to see, well, someone.  Someone that I ended up staring at most of the time we were in the same room.  I don't know why, but I really like that moment when you're staring at someone- well, not just staring absentmindedly, but actually looking at them- and then they look at you.  There's the time it takes for you to realize that they're looking at you, then that split second where your eyes meet, then the quick, trying-to-be-subtle turn of the head that's probably not as subtle as you hoped.  Then looking back at them a few seconds later.

Anyway, here's a recap of boring things you probably don't care about, so feel free to skip this part: I only have three full days left of spring break before school starts again, and I haven't started my homework.  I took my history book out of my backpack, but that's about it.  Also, that Spanish project I was supposed to work on over a week ago is apparently due the day we get back to school, so we can't work on anything after school like we had planned.  The only day we would be able to do it is Sunday, and I don't even think one girl would be able to work on it that day.  Gah, I fucking hate group projects.

Two more days of BEDA.  I'm sorry for spewing out random crap that people don't care about, but I want to finish this.

I am so out of shape

Today, I came up with a list of things to do.  It was a rather short list, but some of the things on it, I knew would take a while.  That list consisted of jogging, finishing my book, and finishing my homework.  So far, I have only done one of those things.  (Then again, I've only been awake since 12, so give me some credit!)

I went on a jog earlier!  Last summer, I took aerobics for summer school.  It was a lot of fun and I was in such great shape!  Then, when that stopped, I wasn't in very good shape anymore.  So today, I decided to jog!  I had planned on jogging around the block a few times, maybe two or three.  But when I started jogging, I was wiped out very quickly and only made it around once.  Then I practically crawled inside, turned on the fan, and drowned myself while drinking water.  I blame the heat.

So I'm going to try to jog every day, and try to build up my stamina so I will soon be able to jog around the block two or three times!  Hopefully I'll be able to encourage myself to do so.

I still need to do my homework because I'm going to be busy every single day of break until we go back to school, now.  So here's when my procrastination starts to kick in.  Then again, I didn't do my homework last week, so I guess it's always been here...

Disneyland trips: 5
Books read: 8.5
Current song: Journey to the Past from Anastasia

Sometimes I feel like nobody cares.

"Notice me, damn it! I exist!" is what I want to shout sometimes.

I mean, I don't like having loads of attention, per say (which doesn't even happen often), but it'd be nice to be noticed sometimes.  I mean, I know I'm not the most popular person.  I'm weird, and kind of an outcast, but I have friends- great friends- but sometimes I wonder if they hang out me because they want to, or because they got stuck with me.  And it's not like this is a recent thing.  I've felt a little excluded my entire life.

When I was younger, I would escape on the internet, and I still do today.  But I seemed to be better at making online friends five or so years ago.  Neopets was my haven.  I made some pretty great friends on there that I felt I could talk to about anything, but I knew my limits.  I never told anyone my last name or where I lived or anything like that.  But then my parents found out I was talking to people online and gave me this entire lecture about how it's dangerous and told me that I should stop, and I guess I was never as good at making friends online again.  Sure, there's some people I talk to, but I feel like nobody actually cares about me.  They just talk to me because I'm there.

And in real life, I feel like my friends don't care sometimes.  I can only remember one instance, in my entire life, of someone asking me what's on my mind.  It was recently, too.  And it wasn't because she had to, but because she noticed that I was thinking hard about something and was curious.  And yes, she is definitely one of my closest friends, and I'm extremely grateful that she cares enough to ask, but no, I did not tell her what I was thinking.  I didn't tell her because I didn't want her to judge me.

I, like everyone else on this planet, have secrets.  Some people can be comfortable with their secrets, and open about them, but that's not the case with me.  I have good friends, yes, but like I said before, I feel like if I tried to tell someone, nobody would care.  And because I've spent my entire life like this- without someone that I know cares about me- I may have slight trust issues.  I don't trust people with my secrets because I'm afraid they won't matter to them.

I'm just sick of being a bump on the log, and I'm sick of people not giving a rat's ass about me.  I fucking exist.  And sure, I don't do anything extraordinary, I acknowledge that, but I do like feeling noticed, sometimes.  I like knowing that someone cares.

Disneyland trips: 5

Books read: 8.5

Current song: Terrified - Katharine McPhee ft. Zachary Levi

EDIT: And yes, I do these blog posts to publish my thoughts to the world, and I have- what? Four followers? And I highly doubt any of you even read these posts that I spend my time typing out.  I wonder, what's the point?

Free Love Day and the dentist

Hello beautiful people of the world!  The two topics mentioned in the title don't have anything to do with each other except for the fact that they both happened today.

Today is Free Love Day, where people are encouraged to draw a heart on their wrist, and to reach out to people.  It is to promote awareness of depression and suicide.  I hope you all drew a heart your wrist today to show support!

About half of my face was numb until now.  Now the numbness is pretty much gone, except my mouth is sore.  I hate that, despite the fact that I brush and floss my teeth twice a day, I still get cavities.  Curse my parents for giving me their bad teeth.

I did have some deep thoughts that I planned on discussing in today's post, but I can't think of how to say them, so I guess I'll just save those for tomorrow.  I'm also going to start doing that counter thing again at the end of my posts, with a new section too, because April is almost over.  And just so you know, I plan on spending all day tomorrow reading.

Disneyland trips: 5
Books read: 7.5
Current song: Tears To Shed from Corpse Bride

Happy Easter!

Today was a really good day!  Well, the afternoon was, at least...

Sometimes, I hate being a girl.  Especially today.  It's, ya know, that time of the month, and this morning, I got cramps.  Usually, my cramps aren't that severe- they're just a little pain in that area.  But today, they were so bad.  It hurt so much I threw up and felt like I was going to pass out.  I ended up lying on the couch with a heating pad on my stomach for about an hour.  It was awful.  And it caused us to be late to the family Easter party, which I don't really mind, but still.

After I started to feel better, my day got better.  The food was delicious- I practically filled myself up on the bread and cheesy potatoes.  We got a piñata, but it broke after my 5 year old cousin went at it.  She wasn't hitting it that hard, but she made it fall, then it broke.  We were only supposed to get three swings each and be blindfolded, but I guess that didn't apply because she's only five.  The rest of us our 13 and up, the oldest being 27, I think.  Actually, I don't know how old he is.  Never mind.  But we got candy, so that was nice!

And now, at home, we watched Tangled.  I got the DVD from the Easter Bunny this morning, so that was exciting!  So my dad got me a soda, and I sat on the couch, eating my candy, watching Tangled with surround sound.  I almost know all the words, and I've only seen it three and a half times.  But I swear, it's one of my favorite movies!

Other good news: my cousin finally returned my copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone!  I'm never letting family borrow books again.  Friends, yes- depending on the friend.  But I guess family thinks they can just keep it as long as they want because they're family.

I know this is another late post, but it's still Sunday here in California.  I hope you had a wonderful Easter, and I will see you tomorrow!

Late post...

But it's still the 23rd in California, so this doesn't count as missing a day!  I didn't get home until just now because I was at the Easter vigil mass at my church.  It was really long.  I mean, not as long as it has been previous years, but still long.

Today was a very lazy day for me.  I stayed in pajamas until about 5 PM (when I started to get ready for church), read, and ate food.  And now, I'm very tired, so this shall be a quick post so I can head off to bed soon.

Easter is tomorrow, but since I went to the mass tonight, I was able to drink soda afterwards!  Sadly, they had no Coke or Dr. Pepper, but I happily went with orange and grape soda (they had run out of orange when I went for a refill, so I got grape instead).

And I believe that is all I have to say today...  Goodnight!

Lots of walking and strange men.

After sleeping over at Camille's house last night, my sister picked me up, because she had spent the night at her friend's house as well.  While in the car on the way home, we randomly decided to go to the Huntington Library. She had gone on a field trip and it sounded really cool, so I thought it would be fun, and it really was!

The gardens there were so beautiful.  I really liked the Chinese gardens and the lily ponds, because lilies are my favorite flower.  Well, water lilies, but still, lilies.  And the Chinese gardens had a pond with koi fish (a/n: koi fish always make me think of Avatar: The Last Airbender) and those ponds also had a few water lilies in them.  And even when just walking on the paths between the gardens, you were surrounded by such beautiful trees and flowers; it was amazing!

My favorite part, however, was this room that had all these original copies of literary works.  There were letters from famous people in history, original hand-written drafts of novels (with edits by the author scribbled in).  I actually recognized a lot of the authors' names and works from English and history classes.  And the best part of this room was a case that had Shakespeare's works.  There were original copies of Much Ado About Nothing and Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.  The second one was open to the first page of King Lear.  I thought that was awesome.  I read the entire first page and I found all of the first lines of the people in my group!  Obviously we had cut the lines a little, but they were there!  I thought that was really cool.

After leaving the library, my sister and I were hungry, so we went to  Taco Bell.  The nearest one had a weird drive-thru, so we had to go in.  When we got inside, we noticed that we were the only girls there, but didn't think much of it.  So we told the guy at the register our orders and the total was only about four dollars.  We thought that was weird.  Then, this group of boys probably my age or a little younger were sitting by the door, and when we walked out, they shouted to us, "Hey baby!" It was so weird.

Then, when we got in the car, we were trying to figure out why our food was only $4.  I took a look at the receipt and noticed that it subtracted half the cost, and the reason was "EMP ML".  Employee Meal.  Employees get 50% off.  That old creep at the register gave us his discount.  Perv.  Ugh, I'm still weirded out.

Anyway, Demi Lovato is going to be on 20/20 soon and I'm really looking forward to watching this.  She is such a strong woman, and I'm proud to say that I'm a fan of hers.  If you have a problem with that, you can leave.  Now, I shall be back tomorrow! Adieu.

Friends and car rides.

I am so incredibly sorry for not posting again yesterday!  The only times I was home all day yesterday was in the morning before 9 AM, and for about 20 minutes around 7 PM to get my stuff for a sleepover.  I didn't know I was going to spend the night at Camille's house.

Yesterday, I went to Oxnard with Camille.  We spent a few hours in the car playing Catchphrase, word games, and sleeping.  We walked on the beach with her dog, Mobo, rode bikes, and ate lunch.  And on the way back, she invited me to spend the night.

Anyway, I hadn't seen Camille since last June and I really missed her.  We were friends from our elementary school and are still friends, even though we attend different high schools.  When we first became friends, we had a lot in common.  And now, we still have a few things in common, but not as much.  But, since she's been my friend so long, it doesn't really matter that we don't have much in common anymore.  We're friends, and we always will be.  I like knowing that, even if I have to go for a few months without talking to her, for whatever reason, she'll still be my friend when we see each other again.  And when we see each other, we act like no time has passed.  We just automatically talk and talk.  It's great.

I guess this post was mostly about my friendship with Camille.  Now, because I spent last night at her house, watching movies and Rugrats on Netflix rather than at home, I'm going to go watch The Office and Parks and Recreation from last night.  I'll be back in a few hours with today's blog post.

So much sleep.

Last night, I fell asleep a little before 7 PM, then I woke up again at 9:30.  I went to bed again at 10:30, I believe, then slept until 10:30 AM.  That's about fifteen and a half hours.  Wow.

I didn't do anything today, so I'm not going to bore you with a post all about how I played countless games of solitare and listened to music and ate food.  I'll tell you about something else, and attempt to be a little vague.

You know when there's someone that you can't get off your mind? Someone that you love talking to, and whenever you see them, you can't take your eyes off them.  Someone that you hate to love.  Yeah, doesn't it suck?  Especially when you know you've got no chance with them.  But all you can think about is how wonderful they are and wish that they'd at least give you a chance, but you know that'll never happen.  It's awful.

Anyway, on a brighter note, I've been texting Camille today, whom I haven't seen since summer!  Her school is finally on spring break, and I might be seeing her all day tomorrow!  I'm not sure yet, so we'll see, but I hope so because I miss her terribly.  If not, however, we're going to have a sleepover next week, so that should be fun.

Now, I'm going to go look for something to fill my belly because I'm hungry.  Ciao.

Disneyland = Foodland

Whenever I go to Disneyland, I eat like such a pig.  Oh, but it's so much fun, and it's so delicious!

Today, I went to Disneyland with Bianca.  My mom dropped us off at 7:30 in the morning because that was when she got to work.  Disneyland doesn't open until 8, so we were just sitting around, watching fat birds for a half an hour.  When we finally got in the park, we quickly rode some of the good rides at Disneyland before they got too crowded.  Then we went over to California Adventure, where we went on California Screamin' and Tower of Terror.  And I ate popcorn, chicken fingers and fries (which were fun to throw!), and a hot fudge sundae, all within the span of a few hours.  We probably spent most of our time in the Animation Studios.  We went to the Animation Academy and learned how to draw Dale, and did the Disney Character thing, and had Ursula steal our voices.  But we spent a lot  of time just sitting on the couch in that main part, watching the walls of that montage of different Disney movies.  I swear, we saw that at least 4 full times, and the Tangled and Up ones alone we saw about 5 or 6 times.

We left at 4:30 and, since we were up so early, we were already tired.  Omar texted me and offered me a free ticket to his school concert thing he was singing at tonight.  A lot of my other friends were going to be in it too, because I think they were performing a number from Disco Inferno, so I asked my mom if I could go, and she had said yes.  Bianca and I wanted to go together, but her parents said no, and she wasn't picked up from my house until 6:40.  I live more than 20 minutes away, so I would've gotten there late and Omar wouldn't have been able to give me my ticket, so I ended up not going.

Instead, I took a three hour nap.  I'm still tired.  I only got up so I could post this before I forgot and fell asleep for the rest of the night.  But now, I'll probably be up around 1 AM and unable to fall asleep...

Chocolate Cake and Chuck

I was supposed to work on a Spanish project today, but apparently one of the girls I'm working with had choir practice, so Nicole and I showed up at her house and she wasn't there...  It was awkward.  So now we've got to do it a different day.  It would've been nice if she had told us that she had choir practice, though...

Then my mom and I went to WalMart, and I randomly decided to bake a cake for no reason, so we bought cake mix and frosting, and I got home and baked a cake.  I'm not one to be very good at cooking or baking.  I don't spend much time in the kitchen, but if I do say so myself, I think the cake was pretty darn good!  Though I did have a few mishaps, like forgetting to take the stoneware out of the oven after preheating it, and then the cake not coming out of the pan...  It also looked pretty sloppily done too, but whatever.

And there was a new episode of Chuck tonight!  Quick bit of shameless advertisement: CHUCK IS ON MONDAY NIGHTS AT 8PM ON NBC, YOU SHOULD WATCH IT.  Anyway, tonight, Sarah's dad came back!  I liked his season 2 episode better, but this one was still really good.  I always love episodes that show us a bit of Sarah's past.  And for the people who don't watch Chuck might want to, I won't spoil it.  I'll just say that I can't wait for the wedding and I really hope there's a season 5!

I love knowing that I don't have school tomorrow.

It's nice.  My first week of Spring Break is when a lot of public schools are going back.  And just knowing that I don't have to do any homework and wake up early tomorrow is nice.

I think I've started out my break really well.  I already mentioned what I did the last two days, and today was quite fun too!  My cousin's birthday party was today and I was able to go swimming for the first time in a while, and eat delicious cake and ice cream.  I narrowly escaped being thrown in the pool by two of my cousins by running away, then jumping in.  The water was freezing!  But it was pretty hot today, so I didn't mind.

Other than that, and church, I didn't really do anything today.  It was nice.  I'm looking forward to two weeks of this.

Day One of Spring Break

I happily slept in until about 10 when I was woken up by a text message from my friend Camille, and my little cousin running down the hall.  I checked my phone to find that he had texted me about an hour before, so I replied a little late, and now we've been talking pretty much all day.  And I've been smiling a lot.

There is one thing I'm always totally confused about, though.  How the hell do you tell if a guy is flirting with you, or if he's just being nice?!  Because sometimes it seems like he could be flirting, but it also could be that he's just being nice...

Anyway, my little cousin Alina was over earlier today.  I went on a walk with her and my dog, Scooter, so that was fun.  I can't believe she's five years old now!  I remember being at the hospital the night she was born!

Now I've been doing pretty much nothing all day, and enjoying every moment of it.  I also have a newfound obsession with  Pandora Radio.  I seem to listen to it whenever I'm on the computer now.  Anyway, I like not having to stress about anything right now, it's really nice.  And I like that I've been talking to him all day.  That's quite enjoyable too...

Spring Break!

I openly welcome these next two weeks of doing absolutely nothing.  They shall be quite enjoyable.

Shakespeare in the Park was today, and it was so much fun!  The park we performed in was quite beautiful, and, despite having to adapt our blocking to the rocks, I think we did a really good job!  And people said that I did well at trying to act sexy, so that's good!  Let's just hope we all don't forget our lines and blocking by the 28th, which is the next time we all meet before DTASC.

And now that Shakespeare in the Park is over with and I've turned in my research paper, I have nothing to worry about.  No stress and no school for two weeks.  I am so relieved.

So after this incredibly long week, I am very tired, despite it being only 9:00.  I may turn in early tonight.

One more day until Spring Break.

I'm sitting on the computer, having just finished my research paper, waiting for my mom to straighten my hair, hoping that tomorrow will go by very quickly so I can have my almost two weeks of doing nothing but relaxing.

Today is Lisa's birthday!  I got her balloons and a silver, glittery hat, which I tied a balloon to.  Yes, I made her wear it the whole day.  Ruby decorated her locker, and Lindsey brought Angel's food cake, strawberries, and whipped cream.

Tomorrow is Shakespeare in the Park.  Chris wasn't at rehearsal today, but he's still doing it.  We got more help from Mr. B.  We were able to run through the scene a few times with only four people.  I tried to act sexy again, with Nathanael standing in for Edmund so I wouldn't have to try and seduce the air, but I think that just made it even more awkward.  Then, when Zack and Anthony were trying to give me advice on how to act sexy, apparently they thought of something kind of awkward and wouldn't tell me, then they said I should go with kind of a sexy librarian or teacher thing.  I don't even know...

So now, it's Thursday night.  15 hours til Spring Break (not counting Shakespeare in the Park).

Goodnight.

I knew I forgot to do something yesterday.

I'm sorry!  So I shall just make two posts today.  I'll spread them out by a few hours so it's a little better.  Damn, I can't believe I forgot!  Well, in my defense, my cousin came over yesterday to print her wedding invitations and I had no time to go on the computer at all.

While my cousin was over, she brought a bridesmaid dress for me to try on.  It was pink, and normally I don't like pink very much, but it was so beautiful!  I'm getting really excited for her wedding.

Anyway, at practice yesterday, we finally got an Edmund!  Chris got over Tatiana backing out of his group and finally agreed to join ours!  So we had an Edmund at practice yesterday, a full group for the first time.  We got through about three or four run-throughs with the whole group.  Mr. B. was finally able to watch us and give us notes, so that helped a lot.  He also gave us notes today too.

I'm just relieved that we finally have a complete group.  And even though we open tomorrow, I know we're prepared.  Well, we all are except Chris, but hopefully he'll at least be off book by tomorrow.

Now, I need to work on my research paper.  I'll be back in a few hours.

I can't act sexy.

At rehearsal today, we were all given different ways to act our respective characters.  Not by Mr. B., this was just for fun.  Zack played Lear as gay, Lisa had valley girl Goneril, I was bipolar Regan, and I don't remember the rest.  So the next time we ran through it, we switched it up and I didn't know what to do, so Nathanael told me, "You can be sexy!"  And Caity agreed with him.  So I tried to play sexy and I just couldn't.  I'm just not sexy.  Then Caity told me, "It's not that you're not sexy, you're just not a whore."  That did make me feel a little better.

My day after rehearsal was a little crappy, but my parents just took my sister and I out for ice cream, so I'm happy.  I got an Oreo Blizzard from Dairy Queen.

We still don't have an Edmund and perform this in 3 days.  Fantastic.

April is never ending...

It feels like April has been the longest month ever, and it's only day eleven.  It's probably because I've been so busy these last eleven days.  Thankfully spring break is right around the corner!  I can just feel how close it's getting.  However, after this week is over, I'm not sure how well I'm going to be able to deal with not seeing a certain someone every day for almost two weeks...

I had a test in every single one of my classes today.  I stupidly forgot my Spanish textbook at school over the weekend so couldn't study until this morning, but I still think I did pretty well.  Algebra I just don't understand, but hopefully I got at least a B on this test.  And history, I feel like I failed.  But the essay question asked what the book, The Other America is about and why it's important.  I had absolutely no idea what it was about, nor did I remember ever learning about it.  So I just guessed and said it was about poverty in America, AND I WAS RIGHT!  I was so happy when I realized that, so hopefully my teacher will give me partial credit (because she'll probably be able to tell that I had no idea what I was talking about).

Shakespeare in the Park is on Friday and we still don't have an Edmund.  It'll possibly be either Chris or Daniel, but we're not really sure.  If worst comes to worst, Mr. B. will be Edmund for us this Friday, but we don't want that.  On the bright side, there were actually five people in our group today!  That's the most we've ever had at once!  Unfortunately, Caity had to leave early and we didn't get much done afterwards.

There was a new episode of Chuck tonight after a three week hiatus.  It was awesome.  And so far, Vivian Volkoff is turning out to be a pretty awesome villain, so I like that.

I'm happy because tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, we start school at 9:30.  Yay for sleeping in.  Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get some ice cream.  Fare thee well.

Oh, is the week starting again?

Goodness, I hate Sundays.  I hate waking up in the morning and thinking, "Oh, I have school tomorrow."  Especially when I have Spanish, algebra, and history tomorrow.  So now, it's 8:33 P.M., I haven't started any of my homework, and I'm writing a blog post.  Because that's what I do.

I have nothing interesting to say today.  Last night I saw the movie Arthur with my mom.  I thought it was quite enjoyable!  And I liked seeing Jennifer Garner as the antagonist of the movie, because normally, she's not.  Today, I slept in, which was quite nice, considering I haven't been able to since last Sunday.  I didn't do anything (obviously, because I still have homework).  And I had choir today, so that was a nice break from thinking about homework and stuff.

Now I'm just sitting here, hoping that this week will go by quickly, because Friday is when spring break finally starts!  And after spring break, we only have one month left of school!  This year went by really fast...  Holy crap, I'm going to be a senior.

Well, I guess I should start on my homework before tomorrow. Ciao.

Now my week is over!

My week has just ended, only to begin again tomorrow.  Usually I get at least a little break from Friday after school until Sunday around noon when I have to get ready for choir, but this week my break is so much shorter because I had to take the ACT today.

Oh, goodness, I guess it wasn't as bad as I expected, but it still was not fun.  Part 1 was easy because it was just the English and grammar stuff that I'm always correcting people on.  Part 2 was math and that was much more difficult.  I had to completely guess on about five and still had five more that I didn't finish because they make you put your pencil down immediately.  Then there were a bunch more that were educated guesses with process of elimination.  Part 3 was reading, and I've had pretty good reading comprehension for as long as I can remember, so hopefully that went well.  Then part 4 was science and, well, I don't really like science.  The Plus Writing part is probably what I'm most confident about, aside from part 1, because I think I'm a good essay writer.  Before we started, I was going over all the essay-writing skills I could remember in my head: "Thesis, relate back to thesis, TIEA, answer the prompt, relate back to thesis."  I was able to set up a typical five paragraph essay with three thesis points, despite only having thirty minutes.  I even had a whole four and a half minutes to work on my conclusion, in contrast to Monday's essay where I had two and a half minutes... I think I got a 5 on that part.  I don't think I got a 6, but that would be great! And a 4 would be good too, but anything less than that, I'll be kind of mad.

As soon as I got home at about 1:30, I went to my room and slept until 4.  It was nice.  I was actually able to sleep a little better than I have been for a while.  I figure my temporary insomnia must've had something to do with stressing about the ACT.  Then again, I probably still won't be able to sleep because I'm still stressing about DTASC, but that's another story...

Anyway, I'm going to the movies with my mom in a bit, so I'll sign off here.  I'll be back tomorrow.  DFTBA.

The week is almost over.

I say this because tomorrow I must get up at the same time I normally get up to take the ACT.  I just printed out my admission ticket for the third time because I lost the other two.  I've been looking at the practice book that my sister gave me all week.  And today, Lisa helped me with trigonometry.  I'm taking the ACT Plus Writing test, so that'll be fun.  I guess it's kind of a good thing I had an in class essay on Monday to prepare me a little.

Today, I realized that I hang out with the right people.  I mean, I already knew that, but today I just appreciated it a lot more than I normally do.  Which is weird.  I should appreciate my friends more.  School ended at 1:15 today, so we were able to start practicing for DTASC around 1:30.  We still don't have an Edmund, but we got quite a bit done, and Mr. B. helped us cut the script down a little more so now it's about six and a half minutes so we have more time for transitions and action that we needed.  Because we got out early, we stopped practicing around 3 and were hanging out outside and everybody else kind of congregated out there and we ended up just sitting in a circle and talking.  Did you know that fifteen is less than twenty?  Mathematicians could do wonders with that information.  Ah, but it was so much fun just talking to everybody.  Especially someone... Never mind.  The important information is that I enjoyed my time spent after school today.

Now, I must go find an acceptable calculator and a pencil sharpener, then continue to look over that ACT prep book to get ready for tomorrow.  Then I need to sleep, because I'm still not sleeping very well.

I bid thee farewell and shall recapitulate my experience taking the ACT tomorrow.  Actually, I probably won't because that would be rather boring.  Goodnight.

Short post today.

I'm not happy this week. I am tired and cranky and stressed. I'm tired because I cannot sleep. Not at all. I'm going to try going to bed early tonight, but I don't know how much that will help. I'm cranky because I'm tired and because I want soda but I can't have soda. And I'm stressed for a billion and one different reasons, which include DTASC, Spanish class, DTASC, Algebra class, DTASC, taking the ACT, DTASC, my research paper, and did I mention DTASC? I've already bombarded you with complaints of my stress because of that, so I'll spare you anymore details. Except for the fact that I need to play sick and angry at the same time and I can't seem to do that. Hell, I can't even play angry at all! It's just not in my nature! Mr. B. thought it would be funny to see me play a bitch when I'm not? Well I can't!

Tomorrow is Friday. Why does that phrase not come with the sense of relief that it normally does?

How Now, Brown Cow!

My brain hath been consumed by Shakespeare's tongue in half of it.  The other half just is not functioning at all.  I am tired, but have not been able to sleep well the past few nights.  DTASC is all I seem to have time for right now.  During class, I'm trying to memorize my lines (which I think I've done!), and then after school I'm working on the scene.  We have basic blocking and we've cut a bit more so hopefully we'll be at about eight minutes.  The last time we timed it, it was 9:30.  And we can't get more blocking done, nor much of anything else, until we have an Edmund.  There have been many possibilities of people to play Edmund and all of them have backed out.  Originally, it was Mat, but he doesn't have the grades.  Then Mr. B. wanted Josh, but he has track.  Someone asked Lucas, but he's on Kairos that week.  Zack thought he could get someone named Thomas, but he can't do it.  We asked Elliot, but he doesn't want to.  And now we've asked someone whose name starts with an L, but I can't remember.  But we're open to anyone that breathes and has the capacity to memorize lines.

Let's see... Problems with our DTASC group: We're still missing an Edmund, our entire group hasn't met together yet, the most people we've had at once is four out of six, blocking is still a little muddy, I'm the only one off book, there is still confusion as to what some of the stuff means, and Mr. B. isn't helping much, though he said he would.

Now I have homework to do and tests to study for that I haven't prepared for at all even though I've had almost a week, because the last time I had these classes was last Thursday. Oh, and today I realized I need to add another paragraph or two to my research paper and I have no idea what to do!

I am just a giant ball of stress right now.  I have no time to read or go to Disneyland.

I had come up with an awesome title for this

But then I forgot, so you're stuck with that lame one to go with this lame opening sentence now.

I apologize, I'm very tired. I didn't sleep well last night, then we had junior retreat today where we had to do Christian service. I went to this place called Campfire USA and we shoveled mulch into wheelbarrows and then wheeled it back to the building (which was pretty far) and dumped it on some tarps. We had to make like, three trips and I had to push the wheelbarrow filled with mulch twice and it was really heavy and my arms were in pain, but I did it! And now my arms will probably be really sore tomorrow. Then, when we got back to school, all I wanted to do was go home and sleep. But I couldn't because I had to stay for DTASC practice.

DTASC practice actually went really well today, I thought! Although Zack was still sick, and we still might not have an Edmund, and Anthony got there kind of late, we got quite a bit done. We figured out basic blocking, like where we're standing, how to move the chairs, and stuff, and after we did that, we read through it with the blocking and had Nathanael read for Lear/Edmund. It went pretty well, and we can fine-tune all the blocking once we have a full cast.

Once I got home, I tried to sleep, but I couldn't seem to fall asleep, so I went on the computer, did homework, and now I'm back on the computer to do more homework, but haven't started yet.

I realize my posts have been boring because I've just been telling you about my day. I'm terribly sorry that my days aren't very interesting. Hopefully I'll have something quality to discuss in tomorrow's blog.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to procrastinate more and take a typing test. Adieu.

Disneyland Trips: 4
Books Read: 7

Day Four? Is that it?

It feels like it's much further into the month of April than just four days. Probably because the last four days have been kind of eventful. Well, at least Friday and today have been eventful. And tomorrow probably will be too.

Today, I had an in-class essay in English. I wasn't too worried about it, but then my teacher spends about half the class going over basic essay writing stuff. I know how to write a freaking essay, thank you. I understand that some people might not be as good at it, but still. Don't punish the people who have a lot to write about by explaining basic stuff and giving us less time. God, I can't wait to take AP English next year because, I swear, some of my classmates are just not smart, to be blunt. Anyway, I thought I was doing pretty well on the essay and I remembered to relate each body paragraph back to my thesis (which I forgot to do last time, heh). But then my teacher announces we have fifteen minutes left and I've still got like, three and a half paragraphs to go, so I start rushing! Then, as soon as I finish my last body paragraph, she says we have two and a half minutes left. So I have two and a half minutes to write my conclusion, and I already suck and conclusions, so this one was just awful. And I ended up having to stay a few minutes after school to staple it  and write my ID number and get the papers in order and stuff. Gah. It was just not fun.

Oh, but at lunch (which was before English class-- I apologize for going out of order), I was in the drama room. I mentioned my friend Thalia who was probably going to move to Japan next year. Well, she found out yesterday whether she was going to leave or not and hadn't announced it yet. At lunch, she got out some little cupcakes that she made when we asked her if she was staying. When we took off the top, the letters on the cupcakes spelled out "I'm staying!" Then we were all really excited and hugged her.

I'm feeling really lazy today, so I'm not going to talk too much about DTASC practice after school. Zack wasn't there and we still don't have an Edmund, but we started basic blocking a little and figured out how Lisa and I are going to die. So that was fun.

And now tomorrow, I have junior retreat, so I don't have to go to my classes.

Disneyland Trips: 4
Books Read: 7

I have a Nerdfighter friend!

Well, I mean, all Nerdfighters are my friends because I've yet to meet an unpleasant one, but I have a friend in real life who is now a Nerdfighter! Nathanael, whom I mentioned in yesterday's post, apparently has a friend who is a Nerdfighter and now he knows about Nerdfighteria and Wrock and all that awesome stuff! So now I have someone to talk about this with! It's very exciting for me! I'm giving him music recommendations and stuff (my favorite artists, in case you were wondering, are All Caps and Lauren Fairweather). So that's pretty exciting. Maybe if he likes Lauren Fairweather, I won't have to go to her concert this summer alone! Because she said she was probably going to come back to California this summer, so hopefully I'll get to see her!

Also, I tried making a video for my YouTube channel* today, and I had to steal my dad's memory card because I lost mine, but when I tried putting the memory card in the computer, it didn't come up. So I don't know what to do. I'll try to figure that out and if not, I'll find a different memory card and rerecord those videos. But I'm more of a blogger than a vlogger.

I never cleaned my room last night, despite what that Magic Eight Ball told me. I did read, but not the book that I'm currently reading. I've kind of been having a poetry kick lately, and I have this book of poetry called First Loves so I read a bunch of the poems in there, then I started reading Shakespeare's sonnets. I want to read all of his sonnets.

I have to vacuum and then get ready for choir now. Happy Sunday.

Disneyland Trips: 4
Books Read: 7

*My YouTube Channel. I will try to figure out that memory card or get a different one and have those new videos up soon!

Day Two

Another thing special about this month, aside from BEDA, is that April is national poetry month! I just discovered that yesterday! So in honor of that, I will share with you that one of my absolute favorite poems is William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18". It is one of the more well known ones in his collection of sonnets, and however cliche it is, I love it. The title doesn't really let you know which poem it is, but if I started reciting it, you'd know what I was talking about. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May; And summer's lease hath all too short a date... I could keep going. But I won't.

Guess where my friend Nathanael is today. The Western Quidditch Cup! He's there with a bunch of Nerdfighters, so he texted me and asked me what they are (I don't know how he figured I would know, but he was right!) and I replied with, "They're people who, instead of being made of nerves and tissue and stuff, are made entirely of awesome. Also fans of John and Hank Green." If I do say so myself, I quite like my reply.

Today, I had nothing to do, so I decided to actually try to start my homework before 10 PM on Sunday night, and I was actually able to finish. I didn't have much homework, so that helped, but I felt so productive, and now, there's nothing that I have to do this weekend! So after that, I spend the majority of my day on the computer or playing Solitare with actual cards (which is a lot harder without the hint button!).

Now, I can either clean my room, stay on the computer, or go read. And because Hayley G. Hoover provided me with a Magic Eight Ball in her BEDA post today, I shall ask that.

Me: Should I clean my room?

Magic Eight Ball: Absolutely.

Me: Are you sure?

MEB: Definitely.

Welp, looks like I'm going to go (attempt to) clean my room.

Disneyland Trips: 4 (But I planned to go again with Bianca on the 19th!)

Books Read: 7 (I'll continue to read after cleaning my room)

BEDA? Challenge Accepted.

I have decided to participate in BEDA this year! For those of you reading this who don't know, BEDA is Blog Every Day in April. In case you didn't infer from the name, I'm going to be blogging (or trying to blog) every day in this month. Inevitably, most of my posts will probably be much shorter than they have been lately. I'm excited to do this because it will get me to write every single day. So that will either be fun, or a pain.

Let me start by saying that school today was a crappy way to start the month. The stupidity of my Spanish teacher, the fact that I'm probably going to need a tutor for algebra, and history class in general do not factor into a good day. However, after school, I met with my DTASC group (except Mat/Josh/Box/Edmund because we now need another guy). We got a little more cutting done and started memorizing lines ("Sir, I am made of the self same metal that my sister is. I find she names my very deed of love, only she comes too short. I profess myself an enemy to all other joys and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness' love"). Then, we didn't really have much to do so all of us who were there practicing for DTASC started playing a game of tag in the drama room, with the exception of Thalia who sat on the table with her laptop so no one would run into her.

Long story short, spending time after school with my drama friends made my day so much better. <3

Anyway, here's to a good month of April, which you shall hear about every day!

Disneyland Trips: 4
Books Read: 7
(Don't judge me, I'm busy! Kind of...)