merry christmas, everybody!

i guess that about sums it up.

hope everyone has a terrific day, with or without snow.

lifehouse

"when the world keeps spinning round,
my world's upside-down.
you and i wouldn't change a thing."

those lyrics don't relate to me much right now, but i still love that song.

how is everybody's break going so far?

one down, two to go

and then everybody's home free!

i'm at school right now. i just finished the engineering exam (which i got an "a" on despite the fact that i completely effed up one of the SIX questions), and i was going to go to the bank but i forgot my deposit slip.

talk to a seventh grader online sometime. it'll surprise you just how much you were like that only a short time ago.

according to my doctor, i can hear and am not anemic. i got a sparkly bandaid and a lollipop, too. oh, the benefits of being the oldest patient in a pediatric ward.

i'm not up to much else today besides studying and no good.

that's all folks!
(erin: yes, that was for you.)

let the exams begin!

i exempted first period, so i went out to breakfast with amber, christy, and kelly. it was very cold and blueberry.

after school, i did some mandatory last-minute shopping before alicia and i met up at my house and went out to paint ceramics.

i sent in my uf acceptance money (the first payment of many) or whatever it's officially called. i realize, also, that i need to find a new e-mail address, as the one i have is no longer free for offline users.

gay.

so tonight i'm looking forward to an amc movie, whatever happens to be on. electric blanket will cuddle with me, since no one else will.

tomorrow: sleep and studying.

that's that.

bunko!

last night i went over to christy's after work. it was nice doing something with just the girls. hopefully we'll have another sleepover sometime over break.

this week's schedule:

• monday: last real day of school.
• tuesday: no first period exam. dinky 30-minute classes until 2:45.
• wednesday: no exams. passport picture around 10:30 am, then who really cares?
• thursday: fourth period exam, then who really cares? studying for friday somewhere in there.
• friday: sixth and seventh period exams. probably out afterwards to celebrate the end of the semester. then work from 5 pm to about 10 pm. maybe out again, maybe not.
• saturday: work from 8 am to 5 pm. saturated with anticipation.

i used bullets for the first time in here. i feel free.

double spaced. no more "enter, enter." pampering of the pinky.

that was almost haiku-esque.

time to pet my kitties.

the heavens parted. a beam of light shone down through the disappearing clouds as the angels sang:

"Congratulations! Your application to the University of Florida for the 2005 FALL term has been approved. You will receive official notification and additional materials in the mail. We look forward to seeing you on campus in the very near future!"

oh, and "haaaaalleluja! haaaalleluja! halleluja! halleluja! hallEEluja!"

babbitt!

"laughing at ourselves, thinking life's not fair..."

i know i've been saying that i can't wait to get out of here, but the truth is that there are a few things i will really miss.

there won't be any sunday drives to clear my head for the start of the new week. there won't be any mommies or daddies to kiss goodnight, and there won't be any old flames you can run into or hear about when your friends run into them.

there won't be kitties on your bed and there won't be neighbors cutting your lawn. there won't be your best friend living right around the corner, and there won't be a whole house to come home to every day.

there won't be seven class periods and the time in between them. club days will be no more, and ap classes become college classes.

there won't be any vitamin c singing your anthem tonight when you stop to think about just how long this chapter is that you're concluding.

even though it's only the end of the first semester, the second will pass just as quickly.

here's to the class of 2005. make the best of everything.

he knows not where he's going to.

what a restful weekend.

not.

by the end of the day, i will have completed an absolutely massive amount of work. why?, you ask. because the end of the semester is upon us, and every single teacher thought it would be cute to assign a project, an exam review, an essay, or an experiment (or some variation or combination of the mentioned headaches).

wow, gaither staff. you are SO funny.

in all honesty, i'm already done with most of it. what's getting me is the friday deadline for experimentation on my engineering project, mainly because i may have to secretly tweak the date and make it december twentieth instead of the tenth.

break is officially over. back to work.

beep, beep! beep, beep! yeah!

december everywhere

the semester is practically over, though it seems like it was july only a week ago.

but i'm certainly not too nostalgic, as this summer is going to be, hands-down, the best summer ever.

1. where ever.
still haven't decided quite where to go for my all-expenses-paid trip, but who cares? i'm going there, right?

2. myrtle beach.
of course, there are details that have to be worked out and i'm the newbie, but who cares? it's still freaking myrtle the turtle beach.

3. road trip (?).
questionable. probably won't happen, come to think of it, but i'd still like to think that it will.

4. steinmart who?
since i'm going to be doing a lot of traveling and haning out with friends one last time before we have our final hurrah and shove off to the four corners of florida, i won't have much time to spend working at stein-stein. perhaps i just may quit instead of asking for one week off every other week.

5. that's it.

so trip, trip, probably-won't-happen trip, and no more job. that's my idea of a fanFREAKINGtastic summer, alright.