a ten-minute dream in the passenger seat

So, a few cool things for the day before I depart for sleepyland:

1. We made aspirin in chem today! Even though I nearly burned my nose off inhaling some fumes on accident, it was cool to make something practical. Even if we don't really know what was happening, chemically speaking.

2. I got a wonderfully surprising instant message from none other than John! I felt so cultured to be receiving an IM from Spain.

3. David won an award at his last-ever middle-school band concert. It's so cool to see all the band families at various music things! I can't wait for our concert.

I can't wait for this weekend! Yaaay! And tomorrow! Party in the music library!

I'm also looking forward to doing that reflection on high school/this juncture in my life for Lit. Yaaaay Mr. Jordan.

Going to UW-Milwaukee wouldn't seem like a huge deal, but it was pretty fun. We MASH-ed and doodled on the way there, ate some gigantic slices of pizza, and played the crap out of our music. Our clinician, from UCLA, made me want to go to that college simply because he was so awesome.

I am going to miss band so much next year. It hit me really hard on the bus ride home, when everyone was just laughing and Mr. Gohr was saying things like, "One rule to live by: if everyone else is doing it, do it faster!" I will miss the band room and the comeraderie and the contests and the concerts, and even those dresses and marching band. Most of all, though, I will miss the band room and the family-like atmosphere that can be found there. Wind Ensemble has seriously allowed me to make it through high school with my sanity.


Cool March days put me on edge, anticipating the renewal that comes in Spring. I'm still confused as heck about this whole college deal, but I'm wondering if it's just last-semester-of-senior-year weirdness, and if it'll all clear up soon. I hope so.
I scraped an A out of Calc BC, by some act of the gods. What a way to end the day.
I need to talk to Mr. Jordan. Muy pronto. And figure out all those college visits and whatnot.


Whenever I catch myself wondering where all of this is leading, I have to stop and remember that, in some cases, that's not the important thing. The moment is what matters.

Howie Day is great for moments like this. ♥

Apathy feels good. I don't know where it came from, but it kind of overcame me tonight, and as a result I didn't get anything done. But guess what? I don't really care!

The thing about time lately is that it was sailing along quite nicely for the past few weeks, but all of a sudden it kinda . . . slowed down to a near-standstill. Maybe the trick is just to forget about college letters coming soon, and forget about my countdown of school days left till we graduate, and focus on things . . . Except that I don't really want to do that. I don't want to be mindlessly moving from one activity to another, and yet I do because it makes time move collectively faster.

Sigh. I think I'm just going in circles around myself, like the hands of a clock.

Today, the start of the last semester of high school (!!), saw me meandering sleepily through the day. I think my sleep schedule may be just a *teensy* bit off.

( Predictions and thoughts on new classes, etc. etc. )

Weekend will be full of homework, I'm thinking - I tried to get some stuff done tonight and ended up writing in my written journal and listening to music. Woops. Oh well. I'll probably enjoy the english, which is the majority of the stuff I need to do.

Anyway. Time for bed.

School is totally eating my life lately. Especially if I count Spanish class, in which we are watching strange film after strange film. Tomorrow evening I'll (hopefully) be able to work on my presentation at the library.

It's sad how my entries have come to be nothing more than complaints about school and stuff. I should really just get used to this, since it's what I'm aspiring toward in college and etc.

But I like having free time, too. And time to, you know, spend time with people and exercise and watch relatively normal movies in English. But, eh. I digress.

It would be nice if the family computer would work for things other than playing CDs. This no AIM thing makes me feel isolated and cut off, in a way. It's good for doing productive things like homework (but only sort of, since I'm computer-dependent for most homework, too), but also sheds light on my dependence on technologies such as instant messaging, etc. It's kind of sad, actually. Oooh, a train of thought to incorporate into my Wooster scholarship essay . . .

80-degree weather in October = not cool.

How nice it would be to have something insightful to post for once.

Ow, throat. I bet I consumed about twenty Fruit Breezers throughout the course of the day.

Today in Government was the first actually interesting day like, ever. We discussed such things as gas, Dubya, Iraq, gay marraige, etc. etc. Current events days are like my savior in that class.

I wish I wasn't feeling so crappy, because I'd really love to take advantage of this warm weather so when winter comes, I won't look back and think, "Damn, I should've gone outside that one day . . ." Oh well. I need to get productive, anyway. This weekend, while fun, was generally not put to very productive use.

It's amazing how little things can make you really happy sometimes.

This day was the day of signing up for a class at CLC (which was extremely overcomplicated) and nearly being killed by maniacs on the road while driving to buy myself and David some dinner. People like that should . . . Slow down and not use their damn horns so much.

The overly complicated process at CLC culminated in my registering for Spanish 224 (by slipping a paper under the office door of a man who says he will sign me up for the class). Hurrah!* Escribí un poema en español ayer cuando estaba aburrida en mi trabajo. No es muy interesante, pero necesito practicar mi español mucho antes de la clase.

Now I'm going to go be crabby somewhere else**.

* Hopefully the nice man won't forget about me, or leave the paper on his floor for the cleaning staff to find tonight. That would suck majorly.

** Somewhere else in this case meaning some other internet site, probably. I need to get a life.


ETA:
john: yesterday I ate a caterpillar
me: SLKJFD
me: @
me: alsjelfj
me: why?
john: I'm not really sure

Sorry, the computer got that virus thing, which not only killed the computer for a few days, but killed my spirit as well, since I couldn't get online and keep up with my friends and all that.

But, I have entries to post. So, here follow two long, rather boring ones that you may skip entirely since I said so.

( The First Day of School )

( An Entry From Yesterday )

And I'll have some more current stuff up and about sooner or later (probably later, since I have to practice my butt off for orchestra auditions, and successfully parallel park by this Saturday which will be no easy feat, let me assure you).