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Ughhh. I have an English in-class essay tomorrow morning! This is the same class where the professor pulled me out into the hallway to talk about me being late (his class is my first in the morning Tuesdays and Thursdays). I would have preferred an e-mail, honestly, and he embarrassed me in front of the class by telling me to see him after class when I walked in. I'm only late by a minute or two anyhow, so I don't think it's that bad. I mean, I basically pay his salary with my tuition so I don't get why he's such a stickler. He's probably right in some way, but I'm just so annoyed. He's a nice enough man, but I'm just starting to dread that class and I don't really know why! And I missed last class because I had a final presentation to do for my French class, so I didn't get whatever preview of the essay he was going to give us. AGH!

Today wasn't the worst, except that I was feeling kind of lonely for a lot of today. I was supposed to get dinner with my friend (I think their nom de blog is Orange or Auburn?) but they had to cancel, although they were still able to take me to get my meds and we chit-chatted after our club meeting, so that left me feeling less lonely. But it's a weird feeling I get sometimes. I worry if I have any true friends at uni after all, and if these people will want to keep being my friend after we graduate. I'm insecure socially and all--it took graduating for me to be sure Blue and Green weren't going to drop me after high school. Oy...

It's been freezing cold and windy recently, although it's set to warm back up. I walked maybe fifteen minutes from church back to my dorm yesterday and by the time I got back, my legs felt like I had been swimming in the icy cold water of the night the Titanic sank. They were beginning to hurt because they were so numb. And that's just because my knee socks didn't go quite up to the bottom of my dress!

I don't know what else to say. I'm tired and busy and I can't handle my English professor's freaking crap tomorrow. Wish me good luck guys!

It's a long weekend! My college very graciously gave us today off, so I'm sitting back in my room at home having a swell old time. So far this morning I read a book on how to write a romance novel (which I plan to do one day--a Regency romance in the style of Jane Austen or Georgette Heyer) and surfed the Net for a while. Specifically I was looking at "IndieWeb" sites I found on Marginalia, which is one of my favourite hot spots for finding new sites. I think a lot of those sites are pretty cool! Even if some of them still have corporate-ish modern-ish design, which feels a bit ironic to me somehow. I don't like that modern, corporate style (you know the kind--think Weebly/Wix/Squarespace) anyhow--it's so soulless, it makes me sick to look at.

But I digress. I don't really have much planned for today, except that I have a club meeting to lead around 7:00. My mum and I thought we might have some pasta for lunch, but beside that I'm totally free! I think I might play some Splatoon and watch a little YouTube, given that since Lent is over, I no longer have to restrict my non-necessary YouTube-watching to one day per week. Although I'm still going to dry to watch much more conservatively--I like actually getting out there and surfing the Net, or even better, getting off the computer and reading a book/watching TV/crocheting (which I need to pick back up)/etc. I was crocheting a scarf with some cool, multi-coloured (a lot of neon mixed with some black--it's almost MySpace scene-styled!) yarn, but at some point I kind of fell off it. It's pretty lop-sided, anyways--my first crochet project that's not a square--but I still want to finish it for next winter, and hope people won't noticed the many places where I somehow lost a stitch on the end and tried to lengthen it back out a few rows later.

Easter was yesterday! Quite fun. I helped my cousin's kids (I find it inexplicably weird that I'm old enough to have cousins that are old enough to be married and have kids, but that's what happens when siblings are born far apart) with organizing their candy post-Easter egg hunt (which was indoors, because Missouri got some fierce rain yesterday, and I think even tornado warnings in some places) and very profitable for the kids, considering there were only a couple kids and something like a hundred eggs.

In other news, downstairs my cousins and I recounted family drama like a reality show reunion episode, and one of my cousin's asked me, of all people what the sitch is on the bars in my college town. Now I don't know how I come across to you, dear reader, but do I really seem like the kind to know an in-depth laydown on all the bars in a town? I've never even been to a bar! Except during the day, when they serve subpar food that takes an hour and a half to get to you even though there are only four other people in the entire place. When I told my mum about that later, she was cackling incredulously, just like when a teacher falsely accused me of talking about drug use at school in front of impressionable young minds. Part two of today I feel like Rory Gilmore.

But beside that, I got to stuff my face and all, and it was pretty good. Now I'm just looking forward to today! Already, TWS had their comeback with Countdown, and I really like it!! From the beginning, the chorus seemed very reminiscent of "If I'm S, Will You Be My N?" from last year, which got a lot of playtime on my iPod, especially during the fall semester, so I really liked it. This song is good, just like all of their title tracks so far! (Although Last Festival wasn't nearly as good as the others--it felt like a weird yet enjoyable misstep) It doesn't reach the heights of "Hey! Hey!" for me, which was probably my favourite new song of last year, along with dearALICE's Made in Korea soundtrack songs, and it could use a bridge to take it up to a 10/10, but for me it's already a solid 8.5 or 9 out of 10.

And that's about it for today! I'm off to get dressed and have a splendid day. Toodles!

So quite a bit has happened in the last two days! So yesterday morning, I went to Target with my mother. We only needed a notebook, but I came away with concealer (this one matches my skin tone! Yay!). I also saw a BTS album (their new Japanese greatest hits album) in the CD section, and we got that as well. I checked to see whether the CD store at the same mall was open both at the beginning and end of our visit, and both times it was closed. It didn't have hours posted, but I think it's been opening at like noon. I also got Starbucks, which was cool.

Also, we went to the fabric store this morning to get fabric for some new masks for me. I picked out some cool 80s-inspired designs, as well as one that's purple and one that's pink. I'm looking forward to them!

Also, for some odd reason, I've decided to start doing some of those Jazzercise tapes from the 80s. The full things are almost an hour, so I don't have the energy to do all of the segments. Instead, I just do one or two of them. Honestly, it's kind of uplifting! I don't really like excercise, but the woman who hosts the tapes (who I think is the creator of Jazzercise) is really encouraging and it's kind of fun!

Also, this morning it finally rained! Technically, it rained a bit the other night at around 11, after we had that rain-going-north thing I told you about in my last blog post. But today was the first time where I've been awake to see it and it's been light outside so I can see it. There's still a freaking heat advisory, though, which is annoying.

But yeah, that's all I have to talk about for now, so I'll talk to you all next time. Bye!

So there's two weeks from today until supply drop-off, and two weeks from tomorrow until school starts. I haven't even started doing my summer reading videos or reading my AP Human Geo book! Procratination sucks.

Also, in my continued quest to dress like I'm from the 80s, the other day I tried to tease my hair with a comb, with not-that-bad results. It was only after this, however, that I learned that it's apparently bad for your hair. Ugh. I guess the next time I go to the hair place, I might have them see what they can do.

Also, I'm thinking of adding new sections to this site, like one for my writing or one for The Facts Of Life. What do you all think?

Also, in quickfire news it's going to be back above 30 degrees on Friday. But at least Sunday is supposed to be rainy!

But yeah, anyways, that's all that I have to talk about for now, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!

So yesterday, my mother and I were at a strip mall to get me some new school clothes (ugh, less than three weeks), and whilst we were there, we stopped at a dollar store. And me being me, what should've been a $5 trip turned into a $20 trip. I got two tubes of lip gloss (I LOVE LIP GLOSS), one a bright pink and one a subtler lip colour. I also got a little blending sponge thingamajig, some gum, some cookies n creme chapstick that I could not resist, and an apple cinnamon candle.

I've also been on the hunt for some nice concealer recently and at said dollar store shopping stree, I thought I had found the perfect product. Or at least the best one that I had seen in any dollar store. It was the lightest shade they had available (or should I say lighter? They only had two shades.) and in the bad dollar store lighting, I thought it was a pretty great match for my skin tone. But let's see what happens when we contrast my pale, could-probably-pass-for-a-vampire-because-I-rarely-go-outside skin and this tan, pretty-much-the-colour-of-khaki-dress-pants concealer. So yeah, that's two tubes of concealer I probably won't use. But on the upside, maybe if I scuff my wooden desk I can use it to cover it up.

Also, for some reason I've been obsessed with Gordon Ramsay clips on YouTube recently. Like I've spent maybe 1/3 of my YouTube-watching time over the past few days watching Hell's Kitchen, Hotel Hell, and like all of his shows. I've also watched some more Murder, She Wrote, and I think I love that programme more and more with each episode!

Also, I woke up this morning to rain. Thank God! And I can see the forecast through Thursday, and none of the days have a high above twenty-nine degrees! YES! The heat index recently was above forty degrees, so this is a WELCOME change.

Also, in quickfire news, the other day I was making some Kraft Dinner for lunch, and I meant to cook half a box of pasta. I put in the corresponding amount of water to half of a box of Kraft Dinner, but only after I accidentally added a whole box of pasta. I'm just glad my "not thinking whilst cooking" incident was when I was making Kraft Dinner, not something that can explode or something. (I'd hope Kraft Dinner isn't explosive).

But the weirdest thing about all of that is that somehow I managed to eat an ENTIRE BOX of Kraft Dinner. It was just a box's worth of microwaved macaroni and cheese, but by the way I acted, you'd think I'd just singlehandedly devoured an entire Christmas dinner meant for a family of ten.

But yeah, anyways, that's all that I have to talk about tonight, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!

So it's finally rainy! The past few days, it's been rather annoyingly sunny, but suddenly, this afternoon it's super gloomy and it's supposed to rain rather heavily, so I'm a happy camper.

Also, in terms of Facts of Life, we've reached the Cloris Leachman/Beverly Ann years. During the season 8 premiere, when Mrs Garrett was telling each of the girls what they taught her, I literally sobbed. Also, I think they may be skipping a few episodes as thet run through all the seasons. They've also seemed to quit cutting random parts of scenes in favour of speeding most of the episodes up noticably, and I don't know if it's better or worse.

Also, speaking of missing parts of episodes, I'm watching the show on satellite and conveniently, the satellite started having weather issues just in the middle of this last episode. Oh well, I can just wait until they show it again or buy the DVDs on Amazon. That was the last episode of Facts of Life they're airing for the day anyway, so I guess I'll just watch some Full House or something on Hulu. Sitting on the couch with a quilt, writing my blog and watching old TV shows as it rains outside - how cozy!

Also, since when is Shaquille O'Neal in so many ads? I don't know if it's something that's always happened and I've just noticed recently or if it's only started happening recently, but it seems like he's in a ton of commercials. He's in a Frosted Flakes/Frosties ad, as well as some insurance company's ad. At this rate, I figure it's only a matter of time before Shaquille O'Neal is unescapable.

Anyways, I wanna go enjoy the coziness, so I'll talk to you all later. Bye!

As expected, it's been hot recently. Unbearably hot. It's supposed to be a whole 33 degress Celsius here on Tuesday, and it's 28 right, which, coupled with all the humidity that we got last week, makes for purely miserable weather. What a joy!

Also, I have to get thinking about summer reading. There's an assignment from my school, which is at least better than previous years (we only have one required book, for my AP Human Geo class), but we also have to make videos for all (or at least some) of the books that we read this summer. There's a shared Google Drive where we're supposed to put all the videos, and checking it, literally nobody from my grade has uploaded one yet. My mother keeps trying to get me to start working on it, and I finally started to think about it today, so I guess I'll have to work on it.

Anyways, other than that, I'll talk to you later. Bye!

So I've been playing some more Pokemon Pearl recently, and it's been going great! I do wish that I had an Eevee though, as it's my favourite Pokemon. Speaking of Pokemon, my Pokemon page is also going great! I think I'll work a bit more on it today and/or tomorrow and then publish it!

Also, I've just generally had a super week! A few days ago, I turned on the TV and found out that some channel had Gilmore Girls, and then like three or so hours of Facts of Life, two of my favourite shows! Just sitting on the couch and watching my favourite shows is so amazing. It's like how you're more excited when you hear your favourite song on the radio than when you play it on your iPod, seeing on the channel list thingy that your favourite show is playing is super cool! I also watched Gilmore Girls while eating some cookies and cream ice cream the other day, and it was so cool!

But probably the most magical moment I've experienced recently was last night. A classmate invited my whole grade (there are less than 20 of us total) to his house for his birthday party (don't worry, we're all vaccinated) and I hung out with my usual group of friends/frenemies (I forgot how I've been referring to them on this blog) the whole night. The whole affair was fun, but probably my favourite moment of the night was at around 9 o'clock.

It was already dark outside, and cloudy. It wasn't rainy, but if you looked at the sky, you could see soft lightning. We couldn't see the lightning itself, just the surrounding white flash. We could only see the edge of the flash, so it wasn't super bright. The air was nice and cool, and some of us, my frenemies and I included, decided to go out to the backyard to watch it. We lay on the grass for a couple of minutes, and it was super amazing. There was a soft breeze that gently brushed across my face, and watching the soft lightning gently flicker was so cool. I was listening to the song Breathe by Faith Hill at the time, which was a super fitting song for some reason.

I also got some cookie cake (I love cookie cake so much!) to go, on top of the slices I ate whilst I was there. Overall, I've had a super cool time this past week, here's to another great week!

I swear, the last two weeks before spring break just drag on and on! I can't wait to finally get a break from school and rest. If only I could spend the whole first day of spring break sleeping!

Anyways, today in Latin class, we did bingo. Personally, I won some laffy taffy and Hershey's kisses (lava cake - yum!), as well as two small spikey balls, one orange and one grey, which I named after the main characters from the story I'm currently writing. Also, today and yesterday, I've been watching quite a bit of Sarah Millican, who is an English comedian if you don't know. Anyway, her stuff is super funny! Also, it's been raining a ton over the past few days, which has been amazing! Sadly, it's supposed to become sunny again on Friday, so I'll have to enjoy the rain while it lasts.

Also, the Grammys were the other day. (I think, the days have all been blending together for the past year!) I honestly wish BTS would've won the award they were nominated for, though Rain On Me is a good song of course. My biggest issue, however, with the Grammys is that somehow Justin Timberlake has been nominated for 39 Grammys and won 10, while Britney has been nominated for ten and has only won one. Being the huge Britney fan that I am, I'm quite aggravated at this, especially considering that Britney is the Princess of Pop, while Justin Timberlake's first big hit (that I'm aware of), Cry Me A River, was literally airing his dirty laundry with Britney in a hurtful way in the public when (according to Britney's sister Jamie Lynn) "he cheated first".

Last night it also snowed quite a bit, and the public schools around me all closed, yet for some unknown idiotic reason, my school is still open. PLUS I have an algebra test today and I still have a cold. At this point I kind of think that my school just wants us students to suffer and nothing else. D: