its been days and days since i last posted, so ill recap my life's going-ons as succinctly as possible: my last couple weeks of school seemed really long, weekends were all exactly alike, but fun, AND i am now a high school graduate. graduation, baccalaureate and everything were dissappointing. really everyone felt done with school but we had to sit around while our parents cried and told each other what a wonderful group of kids they'd raised. in the past 3 days, ive been to FIFTEEN graduation parties and two birthday parties so im really tired. oh, i might be in california by the end of this week (i know i promised id be at your birthday, katie, and im working at it) AND i got a free trip to Florida via my friend Katrina for later this summer. that's all.

Simply because I find it relatively amusing, I am going to post some of the searches on Google that have brought people here. Out of the last 100 visits, people have reached our little virtual home, by looking for the following:
- solemite lyrics [3 times]
- e-whore [my personal favorite]
- "castro valley" sucks
- what does "pretty girls make graves" mean
- Random-osity
- random blogger
So, that's eight. Undoubtedly the other 92 visits are shared between Gina, Jake, and myself. Regardless, people should sign the guestbook. Because, right now, it's just plain lonely. If you've signed it once, don't sign it again [that's just sad and pathetic.]
That is all.

Ohh, forgotten message:
My birthday is this Friday, May 31st. I am going to have a Jamborouhaha. [That's jamboree+brouhaha, damn I'm clever.]
Here are the details:
Where: Katie's House
When: 6ish or so, until the next day, whenever you need to leave.

Driving to Milpitas is going to play, albeit, perhaps without a drummer because he has to do some Stanford thing. There will be the regular entainment: fooseball, billards, music, trampolene, etc. I haven't decided nourishment yet. Any suggestions on what to eat are greatly appreciated. And that, again, is all.

oops.

Hey, it's been awhile [minus the Staind reference] since I last posted. Ready for a recap?
This past week, I went to Southland Mall three times and I hate it more now than I ever did before. I had to do all the prom fixin's: garter/boutineire [complete guess at the spelling] at La Melodie Florist [whose owner, by the by, soo let me skip the whole standing in line thing because she knows me from the fact that she always comes into Long's], shoes [nice light blue and white Puma's] to wear with my dress, etc.
Wednesday, I worked. Caught 2 shoplifters. Not me personally, but the store as a whole. One was stealing about 5 things of Starbursts. You know you're on the road to the big time when you're stealing two dollars worth of candy.
Thursday, the big night. Senior Ball. Afterschool, Deanna and I went to Southland [for the third and hopefully final time] to pick up the flower stuff. Then Jenny and her coworker Jennifer, who used to be a beautician [sp], came over and did my hair. Then I threw on the whole ensemble. Long picked me up at 4 and we went to go take pictures at Moreau. Then to the Radisson Hotel at 5 to meet the rest of our crew and the limo. Dinner at H.S. Lordships [which sucked. freaking waiting and hour and half for a dinner that spanned 20 minutes. The only thing that was cool about the place was that anytime anyone said something about "Oh good Lord" or "What in the good Lord?" or something else with the term Lord in it, Aneesh would follow it up with "SHIP!" It was actually quite funny. Maybe you had to be there.] Afterwards, our limo driver almost caused us to throw our 2 hour dinner up with his 'oooh, there's-an-opening-in-traffic, let's-get-the-car-in-THERE"-driving style. We got to the actual Senior Ball at around 9:30 [an hour late], which is also the time that Jake and Gina were leaving their prom. The dance itself was fun. Overall, good spread of music. They played "Time of My Life", from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, so what more can a girl ask for? We left at midnight and climbed into the Limo. After which we all fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. Hotel was fun, with people coming and going to stop by and say hi. Eventually everyone went to sleep around 4:30am-ish. Woke up at 8ish for some unGodly reason. Went to breakfast at IHOP [all the girls were in pajamas and the guys were still in their tuxes..we looked very classy, needless to say]. I was back at home by 1:00pm.
Last night, we [we=Katie, Jo, Geng, Shara, Rion] went to see About a Boy. Have I mentioned that I really like Hugh Grant? Because, I do. A lot. Overall, the movie was good. It was no Notting Hill but it was good.
Tonight is the first Solemite/the K.G.B. show I've seen in a good long while. I am very much looking forward to it. Gina, I will bring a camera for the interview if you agree to keep it in your bag, because my bag is not big enough. Deal?
And that is all. That's my last few days in a nutshell. Done and done.

Yo.
I don't really have anything of interest to post. I just wanted to post. I'm sure that's what you like to hear.
I am officially done with highschool, as far as I am concerned anyway. I have taken my last AP test, I have read the last book in English, I have spoken my last word in French. I am so outta here.
From here on out it's clear sailing. Next week is Senior Ball, the week after is my birthday, the following week is graduation. To quote Almost Famous "It's all happening." It's wierd because I used to not want my highschool career thing to end, for fear of leaving friends, comfortable places, etc. Now, however, I want OUT and I want out now. I want to, somehow, fast forward my life. Which, again, is foreign to me, because I'm this huge planner who always needs to know what is happening before it does, have it all written out in a neat itinerary. I'm feeling a little more 'fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants-ish' lately. I just want to be out. I want to be at camp and then I want to be in college. For awhile, I was really in need of some closure. Ya know, I wanted to fully live out my life as a high school senior before I could even possibly conceive of being a college student. A friend was talking about how he finds it bizarre that people need to have that sense of closure, because it's something ya don't see in nature, history, etc. I sort of agree now. I feel like I don't need to know that all the loose ends are all tied up before moving on.
Whoa, I'm really not making any sense, am I?
I'm still really happy lately. I can't even particularly name what it is that is making me happy, but I like the feeling a lot. Things are just coming into place. And I mean in every aspect of my life as I know it. Not to get all literary, but what I just typed reminds me of a quote from Beloved. Here ya go:
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."
That's like what's going on right now. Except for me, it's not that a single person is doing this, it's just life in general is giving me the pieces of my life in all the right order. Or something.
God, I'm really tired. And it shows. I'm babbling.
Let me spare you guys the rest of my gibberish.

I'm in an all around good place right now. Just thought I'd say so.
Yay! I'm happy.

AP tests are going to be the death of me.
Seriously, don't be surprised if no one hears from me during/after the next two weeks, I probably went insane what with all the AP business. I have spent seven days in a row at school, not counting the next five that constitute the school week. That's 12 days in a row at school. That is no good.
However, surprisingly enough yesterday was really nice. I had to go to school at nine in the morning for an AP Economics review/test thing that was to last until 1pm. Jeff, who has recently become my chaffeur, [sp?] gave me a ride there and then back home. We stopped for Dippin' Dots [The Ice Cream of the Future] on the way home and then went to the park by my house to eat it. We then proceeded to sit on the benches for a good two and a half hours. It was really nice. Just relaxing and talking and then not talking but being okay with not talking. It was a nice break from the hectic stylings of school and AP stuff. It was just..nice.
Last night was Family Movie Night. We watched Riding in Cars with Boys which I had much higher hopes for. It was just, bleh. I didn't like the beginning [first hour, about] at all, but the end was good. Anyway, I went to bed crying [for 2 reasons: the movie - I cry at pretty much any movie that is at all a little emotional - and because I found this letter that my parents had written for me when I was at the 8th grade retreat - does anyone else remember that?] and now my nose is all stuffed up and my throat is sore. Which is a definite problem because, as it is, this week is going to make me weak because of all the studying and staying up late. I don't want to be sick on top of that.
Okay, I'm going to go make a chart of all the books we read in AP English this year, making note of all the characters, settings, themes, etc so as to prepare me for my AP Test tomorrow.
Over and out.