The Car is on Blocks but I Was Already Where I Want

Dashboard, by Modest Mouse. The singer has an incredibly weird voice, this is the only song I can really stand at all from the album I borrowed from the library, haha. It really stands out among the rest, though.

Well...what the hell. It's already been another month. Am I too busy to notice the time passing? Or am I just losing it? Maybe both.....

So. Not too much has happened in my life, really, I don't think. I've had a couple concerts for orchestra, which went alright. Kind of bittersweet, because they'll be my last winter concerts. I've read two more books for lit....well....I technically read one and a half. The other half was read in the form of Sparknotes summaries and analyses. (that's plural; I know how to spell analysis, Firefox spell check.) haha. Capote was a pretty good writer, despite being a strange individual who was racist like just about everyone else in the 50s and 60s. I read Breakfast at Tiffany's (great) and In Cold Blood (incredibly boring, then incredibly creepy. Chronicles the lives of a rather dull rural farm family in Kansas before they all get shot in the faces, then the lives of the townsfolk and murderers afterwords. I heard there's some good commentary debating the death penalty. I didn't get that far.) .

I think I might be finally caught up in Photo, after about 3 weeks of staying after school working on burning and dodging, printing, figuring out how to make a digital contact sheet, and so on and so forth. Then I spent two and a half weeks only on a collage of my friends...the process was really fun and exciting, but left me physically exhausted by the end. People seem to like them though, so yay. ;D

hmm...what else? I'm on winter break now, for two weeks. I envy everyone who gets a month off, but that'll be me next year too....the novel idea of finals before break doesn't sound too bad, either...which brings me to an announcement--I got accepted to SDSU, my first choice school! I'm excited...as of now, I'm thinking about a major in theatrical arts for costuming and makeup, preferably for film, and maybe a minor in media art or whatever photography falls under. It's some sort of sub-section like that...

In general observations, teenagers are weird. Yeah, yeah, you already knew that. I'm a really patient person--almost too patient, too forgiving...maybe that is the reason I get into some of the messes I have to deal with?--but when people start contradicting themselves, I get annoyed. I don't mean not holding the same belief over time; that's natural, and I fully support that. If one has never experienced a change in the way they view things, it's pretty evident that they are not too open minded, or at least have somehow miraculously avoided everything that could challenge their beliefs. Anyway. There's someone I have to deal with every day, someone who, in the past couple years, has hurt and betrayed everyone close to me, and who has deliberately isolated themselves from my group of friends. Now, this person is saying no one will speak to them anymore, that they are no longer accepted with the group of people this person has treated like crap. It's...an interesting thing to watch. Kind of a constant "wtf??" moment. A walking "wtf??", if you will.

Moving on.

In completely different news, the date of the next dance is coming up fast; it's going to be at the end of January. And, of course, it's girls-ask. Woo, pressure's on. o_o Oh dear God....
haha.... ._.


...That's enough updating for now, I think. Currently reading Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for lit. And some quick musical news--Vampire Weekend's video for "A-Punk" makes me smile. Go and watch it.

Have a happy Christmahannukwanzika/Festivus/2009!!!



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~Zatarra